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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai Stevenson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't believe in mathematics. - Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Memory feeds imagination. - Amy Tan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov

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

Mozart is sweet sunshine. - Antonin Dvorak

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. - Aristotle

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

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

The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle

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

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. - Aristotle

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald

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

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

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

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

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

Enthusiasm moves the world. - Arthur James Balfour

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

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

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

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

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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

Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini to his orchestra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The loving are the daring. - Bayard Taylor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health food makes me sick. - Calvin Trillin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. - Caskie Stinnett

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

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

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

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

The sunrise has never failed us yet. - Celia Baxter

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The plural of spouse is spice. - Christopher Morley

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

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

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. - Christopher Reeve

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

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

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee,

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. - Clarice Lispector

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is difficult to endure is sweet to recall.  - Continental Proverb

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people. - Cornel West

None of us alone can save the nation or the world. But each of us can make a positive difference if we commit ourselves to do so. - Cornel West

We are not a post-war generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. (1892-1983) - Corrie ten Boom

Every moment in planning saves 3 or 4 in execution. (Greenwalt is the former president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours) - Crawford Greenwalt

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there. - Cullen Hightower

Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos. - Cullen Hightower

There are two kinds of people who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.  - Cyrus Curtis

If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but only the second half. He helps those who help themselves. - Cyrus H.K. Curtis

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man? - Dame Edith Evans

An egotist is a person who plays too big a part in his own life. - Dan Bennett

A lot of guilt comes from the feeling that we have more influence than we really do. - Dan Gottlieb

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J Boorstin

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. - Danny McGoorty

A race track is a place where WINDOWS clean people...  - Danny Thomas

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven. - Dante Alighieri

How could I have been anyone other than me? - Dave Matthews

I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.  - Dave Matthews Band

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding colour and suspense to all our lives. - David Boorstin

Strive to be like a well-regulated watch, of pure gold, with open face, busy hands, and full of good works.  - David C. Newquist

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.  - David Starr Jordan

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. - David Starr Jordan

The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for one another's little lapses. - David Storey

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - De Lamartine

The horse is a companion like a dog or cat and can go places a car cannot. - Debbie Britt-Hay

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

A treaty, in the minds of our people, is an eternal word. Events often make it seem expedient to depart from the pledged word, but we are conscious that the first departure creates a logic for the second departure, until there is nothing left of the word. {1961 - American Indian Chicago Conference}  - Declaration of Indian Purpose

If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, "Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.  - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

Life unexamined, is not worth living. - Democritus

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Denis Diderot

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together. - Desmond Tutu

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. - Desmond Tutu

Be strong! Be courageous!...Don't be afraid, for the Lord will go before you and will be with you; he will not fail nor forsake you. - Deuteronomy 31:6,8

When I played pro-football, I never set out to hurt anybody deliberately unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. - Dick Butkus

Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. - Diderot

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. - Dionysius the Elder

I'll have Belle for my wife. Make no mistake about that! - Gaston, the bullheaded villain - Disney - Beauty and the Beast, 1991

He was a bright young lad, very anxious to learn the business. As a matter of fact, he was a little bit too bright, because he started practicing some of the boss's best magic tricks before learning how to control them. (Narrator Deems Taylor, of the Sorcerer's Apprentice) - Disney - Fantasia, 1940

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy... to wit... the wag of a dog's tail. (quotation by Josh Billings) - Disney - Lady and the Tramp, 1955

Well, now, that's more like it! The most beautiful creature on four legs. (Pongo, on first seeing Perdita) - Disney - One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961

My only true love, darling - I live for furs. I worship furs. After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn't? (The detestable Cruella De Vil) - Disney - One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961

Hey Horace! They're fighting dirty! (Jasper Badun, who doesn't know any other way to fight) - Disney - One Hundred and One Dalmations, 1961

There it is, Wendy! Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning! (Peter Pan, showing Wendy the way to Never Land) - Disney - Peter Pan, 1953

She is basically a jealous woman, and that is what motivates all her action. (Animator Marc Davis, of Tinker Bell) - Disney - Peter Pan, 1963

No actor ever identified with the part he was playing more than I. (Walt Disney, on playing Pan as a child) - Disney - Peter Pan, 1963

I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. (John Smith, to Pocahontas) - Disney - Pocahnotas, 1995

You poor, simple fools, thinking you could defeat me. Me, the mistress of evil! (Maleficent) - Disney - Sleeping Beauty, 1959

Next thing ya know, she'll be tyin' your beards up in pink ribbons and smellin' ya up with stuff called 'perfoom'! - spoken by Grumpy - Disney - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 1937

What's a little swinger like you doing on our side of town? {Scat Cat} - Disney - The Aristocats (1970)

Why monsieur, your name seems to cover all of Europe. (Duchess, to Abraham DeLacy Guiseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley) - Disney - The Aristocats, 1970

Why should you be first? Because I'm a lady, that's why. (Toulouse and Marie) - Disney - The Aristocats, 1970

Adelaide! What's that music? Sounds like a gang of swinging hepcats! (Georges Hautecourt, on first hearing the Scat Cats play) - Disney - The Aristocrats, 1970

Well, how's this for a hunting dog? He's just a little runt now, but he'll grow. - Disney - The Fox and The Hound, 1981 - Amos

Oh, Felicia, my precious, my baby. Did daddy's little honey bun enjoy her tasty treat? (Ratigan) - Disney - The Great Mouse Detective, 1986

You're the most wonderful father in the whole world. (spoken by Olivia) - Disney - The Great Mouse Detective, 1986

Remember, Quasimodo,... this is your sanctuary. (Frollo) - Disney - The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1996

Many strange stories are told about the jungles of India, but none so strange as the story of a small boy named Mowgli. (Bagheera) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Come on, Baggy, get with the beat! (Baloo, to Bagheera) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you, please. Both eyes, if you please. (Kaa, hypnotizing Bagheera) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Man, that's what I call a swinging party. (Baloo, seeing King Louie's gathering) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

I love that kid. I love him like he was my own cub. (spoken by Baloo) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

You have spirit for one so small. And such spirit is deserving of a sporting chance. (Shere Khan) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

A dusty muzzle. Soldier, remember: In battle that trunk could save your life. Take care of it, my man. (Colonel Hathi, inspecting the troops) - Disney - The Jungle Book, 1967

Here kitty, kitty, kitty. (Banzai,to Simba) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. (Rafiki) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

These are rare delicacies. (Timon, of the bugs he serves up for Simba to eat) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom. (Mufasa) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

Kid, what's eating you? Nothing. He's at the top of the food chain. (Pumbaa and Timon, talking to (and about) Simba) - Disney - The Lion King, 1994

As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules. (King Triton) - Disney - The Little Mermaid, 1989

Oh, I never fight. I never did. It doesn't agree with me. (The dragon) - Disney - The Reluctant Dragon, 1941

Has anyone considered trying 'Open Sesame'? (Jake, just before the door they're digging under opens) - Disney - The Rescuers Down Under, 1990

I'm lost! I'm a lost toy! (Woody, left behind at the gas station) - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

Do you people still use fossil fuels, or have you discovered crystallic fusion? Well, we have double A's. (Buzz and Woody, discussing power sources) - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

Now, let's all be polite and give whatever is up there a nice, big Andy's room welcome. (Woody, about the new toy on Andy's bed) - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

Blast! This will take weeks to repair. (Buzz, inspecting the damage to his "crashed spaceship") - Disney - Toy Story, 1995

It's awfully hard to be brave when you're such a small animal. - Disney - Winnie the Pooh (Blustery Day), 1968

Why did I ever invite that bear to lunch? Why, oh why, oh why. (Rabbit) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966

The first thing to be done is to get rid of that bear; he's gumming up the whole project. (Gopher, unaware that getting rid of Pooh is the whole project) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966

I like Rabbit because he uses short, easy words like "How about lunch?" and "Help yourself, Pooh." (Winnie the Pooh, looking for a free lunch) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966

Pooh, for a bear of little brain, you sure are a smart one. (Piglet) - Disney - Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too, 1974

The person who has no enemies has no followers. - Don Piatt

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. - Donald Trump

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.  - Dorothy Day

The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth, One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. {from 'God's Garden'} - Dorothy Frances Gurney

The best way to keep children home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.  - Dorothy Parker

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. - Dorothy Parker

You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think. - Dorothy Parker

The good thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people. - Dorothy S Harper

Inventors and men of genius have almost always been regarded as fools at the beginning - and very often at the end - of their careers. - Dostoevsky

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Trust your hunches. They are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces; marriage is also three meals a day, sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash. - Dr. Joyce Brothers

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.  - Dr. Laurence J. Peter

A child starts from nothing and advances alone. It is the child's reason about which the sensitive periods revolve. The reason provides the initial force and energy, and a child absorbs his first images to assist the reason and act on it. (from 'The Secret of Childhood') - Dr. Maria Montessori

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. - Dr. Martin Luther King

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.  - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to be important - that's wonderful. If you want to be great - that's wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's your new definition of greatness - it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don't have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love...  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.  - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

The only way for a rich man to be healthy is, by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor. - Dr. Paul Dudley White

Flowers are my music. {quoted by Arthur Stanley, 'Life of Dr. Arnold'} - Dr. Thomas Arnold

Publish and be damned. - Duke of Wellington

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

For any American who had the great and priceless privilege of being raised in a small town there always remains with him nostalgic memories… And the older he grows the more he senses what he owed to the simple honesty and neighborliness, the integrity that he saw all around him in those days. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is what I found out about religion: it gives you the courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only by trusting in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.  - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

The quest for peace is the statesman's most exacting duty... Practical progress to lasting peace is his fondest hope. - Geneva Conference Address, 1955 - Dwight David Eisenhower

An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. - Dwight Eisenhower

If all that Americans want is security they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. - Dwight Eisenhower

Conversation means being able to disagree and still continue the discussion. - Dwight Macdonald

The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.  - Dwight Morrow

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. - E. L. Doctorow

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.  - E. M. Forster

It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid. - E.M. Forster

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale

There are roughly three New Yorks... the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable... the New York of the commuter, the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night... the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. - EB White

The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. - Ecclesiastes 10:12

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. - Ecclesiastes 2:14

The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner, destroyeth much good. - Ecclesiastes 9:17,18

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing -- but we all do, and call it Hope. - Edgar Watson Howe

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer. - Edith Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. - Edith Wharton

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. - Edmond and Jules De Goncourt

A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the "i" in loving. - Edmond Rostand

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsgar Dijkstra

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life. - Edward B. Butler

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of lfie before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three -- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. - Edward Everett Hale

Writers are the main landmarks of the past. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of spring! - Edwin Way Teale

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. - Elbert Hubbard

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much. - Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. - Elbert Hubbard

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes. - Elbert Hubbard

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. - Elbert Hubbard

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. - Elbert Hubbard

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. - Elbert Hubbard

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. - Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book o

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Action that is clearly right needs no justification. - Elisabeth Elliot

Women know The way to rear up children (to be just), They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.  - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light tomorrow with today.  - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two human loves make one divine. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco

My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint. - Elizabeth Kenny

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The most wonderfully complex fictional character is much less complicated than the most boring actual person. (in Elle) - Elizabeth McCracken

The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and man. - Ellen G. White

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.  - Elliot Masie

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided. - Elliott Jaques

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.  - Elton John, The Lion King Soundtrack

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has not taste. - Emily Bronte

There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal, no door that enough love will not bridge, no wall that enough love will not throw down, no sin that enough love will not redeem... It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough, you could be the happiest and most powerful being in the world... (Emmet Fox, 1886-1951, Irish-born Metaphysician) - Emmet Fox

No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epicetus

Men are not worried by things that happen, but by their thoughts about those things. - Epictetus

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them. - Epictetus

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. - Epictetus

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. - Epictetus

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. - Epictetus

There is only one way to happiness, and that is cease worrying about the things which are beyond the power of our will. - Epictetus

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope. - Epictetus

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.  - Epictetus

We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.  - Epictetus, Discourses

It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. - Ernest Becker

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. - Ernest Hemingway

Never confuse motion with action. - Ernest Hemingway

Paradise: a beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. - Ernest Hemingway

Courage is grace under pressure. - Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. - Ernest Hemingway

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. - Ernest Hemingway

To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. - Ernest Hemingway

There is no friend as loyal as a book. - Ernest Hemingway

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

There, ahead, all he could see, as wide as all the world, great, high, and unbelieveably white in the sun, was the square top of Kilimanjaro. (from The Snows of Kilimanjaro) - Ernest Hemingway

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. - Ernest Hemingway

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention. - Ernest Hemingway

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. - Ernest Hemingway

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. - Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true. - Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. - Ernest Hemingway

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris when you are young, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. - Ernest Hemingway

He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. {from 'The Old Man and The Sea'} - Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.  - Ernest Hemingway

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock." - Ernest Hemingway

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved. - Ernest Hemingway

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. - Ernest Hemingway

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings. - Ernest Hemingway

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy. - Ernest Hemingway

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out. - Ernest Newman

The simplest schoolboy is not familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed this life. - Ernest Renan

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford

Silence is argument carried out by other means. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. - Ernst Fischer

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars. - Esther Hicks

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'these things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say 'these things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us. - Ethel Merman

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.  - Etienne de Grellet

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity. - Eva Moskowitz

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. - F. Forrester Church

Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement. - F. G. "Buck" Rogers (IBM Corporation)

An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels. - Faith Whittlesey

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.  - Father James Keller

The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.  - Felix Adler, "The Ethical Philosophy of Life"

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  - Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Find a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and you've found a man about to make a difficult putt. - Fletcher Knebel

I use the word "Nursing" for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of medicines and the application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet - all at the least expense of vital power to the patient. (from Notes on Nursing (1860)) - Florence Nightingale

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. (from 'The Measure of My Days') - Florida Scott-Maxwell

If you can't sing good, sing loud. - Forest Gump

Good things come to those who wait But not for those who wait too late.  - Forest Sprague

Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian. - Fran Lebowitz

Food is an important part of a balanced diet. - Fran Lebowitz

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you. - Fran Leibowitz

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. - Francis Galton

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. - Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Space is the breath of art. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now. - Frank Lloyd Wright

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.  - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a capitalist system; I only wish that someone would try it. - Frank Lloyd Wright

We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance. - Frank Swinnerton

Many people have known happiness, but didn't know it when they had it. - Frank Tyger

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth. - Frank Tyger

Happiness comes and goes and is short on staying power. - Frank Tyger

Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. - Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember, remember always that all of us… are descended from immigrants and revolutionists. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace, like charity, begins at home. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and find no one there. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind - men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others - men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. - Four Freedoms Address, 1941 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Life, liberty and property do not exist because men made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frederick Bastiat

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.  - Frederick the Great

Among all human constructions the only ones that avoid the dissolving hands of time are castles in the air. - Frederico de Roberto

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer. - Fridtjof Nansen

What matters is not that you have lied to me. What matters is that now I can no longer believe anything you say.  - Friedrich Nietzche

What does not destroy me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs. - Friedrich Nietzsche

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible... - Friedrich Nietzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Women was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. - Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Plato was a bore. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any realized joy could be. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The dog is the only being that loves you more than you love yourself. - Fritz von Unruh

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, That myth is more potent than history, That dreams are more powerful than facts, That hope always triumphs over experience, That laughter is the only cure for grief, And I believe that love is stronger than death.  - Fulghum, Robert

The way not to live a monotonous life is to live for others.  - Fulton J. Sheen

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it. - Fulton Sheen

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

No man knows he is young while he is young. - G.K. Chesterton

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. - G.K. Chesterton

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. - G.K. Chesterton

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life in order to keep it. - G.K. Chesterton

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. - G.K. Chesterton

The only tools one needs in life are WD-40 to make things go and duct tape to make them stop.  - Gareth Mark

Too many times we stand aside And let the waters slip away 'Til what we put off 'til tomorrow Has now become today So don't you sit upon the shoreline And say you're satisfied Choose to chance the rapids And dare to dance the tides - Garth Brooks

You've got to be tough when consumed by desire, 'cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.  - Garth Brooks

[The Circle] will not be mended as long as the People war among themselves. It will not be mended as long as we try to mend the Sacred Circle with broken Circles. We all need to pray on this...  - Gary Armstrong

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.  - Gaston Bachelard

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness. - Gelett Burgess

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction. - General Douglas MacArthur

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. - General Douglas MacArthur

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. Unhappily, I possess neither that eloquence of diction, that poetry of imagination, nor that brillance of metaphor to tell you all what they mean.... You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words - Duty - Honor - Country. This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of philosophers: 'Only the dead have seen the end of war.' The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished tone and tint; they have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. But in the evening of my memory always I come back to West Point. Always there echoes and re-echoes Duty - Honor - Country. Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps. (speech, May 12, 1962, United States Military Academy at West Point) - General Douglas MacArthur

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. - General Douglas MacArthur

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. - General Douglas MacArthur

It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. - General Douglas MacArthur

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. - General Douglas MacArthur

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton

Always do more than is required of you. - General George S. Patton

If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton

The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on. - General George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. - General George S. Patton

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. - General George S. Patton

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. - General George S. Patton

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. - General George S. Patton

Retreat, Hell! We're just advancing in another direction. - General O.P. Smith

Music is the vernacular of the human soul. - Geoffrey Latham

There is no disease that you either have or don't have - except perhaps sudden death and rabies. All other diseases you either have a little or a lot of. - Geoffrey Rose (epidemiologist)

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. - George Bancroft

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word. - George C. Lichtenberg

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. - George Eliot

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt. - George Eliot

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.  - George Eliot

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. - George Eliot

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. {from "Felix Holt, The Radical," ch. 48, 1866} - George Eliot

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. - George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. - George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot

There is great force hidden in a gentle command. - George Herbert

He that talks much of his happiness summons grief. - George Herbert

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. - George Herbert

All is well with him who is beloved by his neighbors. - George Herbert

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. - Inaugural Address, 1989 - George Herbert Walker Bush

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women. - George Jean Nathan

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.  - George Jean Nathan

If you have nothing else to do, look about you and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve! It may make you wealthy, though it is more likely that it will make you happy. - George Matthew Adams

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.  - George Matthew Adams

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. (from A Game of Thrones) - George R.R. Martin

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - George S. Patton

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.  - George Santayana

The family is one of nature's masterpieces. - George Santayana

I believe in the possibility of happiness, if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions, including optimism. - George Santayana

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana

Sanity is a madness put to good uses. - George Santayana

The profoundest affinities are the most readily felt; they remain a background and standard for all happiness and if we trace them out we succeed. - George Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. - George Santayana, Scepticism and Animal Faith, 192

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. - George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905-1906

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (War as I Knew It, 1947) - George Smith Patton

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington

Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive. - George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man. - George Washington

The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American Army, is growing into fashion. He hopes that the Officers by example as well as influence will endeavor to check it. That both they and the men will know that we can not hope to have the blessings of heaven on our arms if we continue to insult it with our impiety and folly. - George Washington

I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education which I received from my mother. - George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. {Letter 3/2/1788 to James Madison}  - George Washington

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people. - George Washington (1st inaugural address)

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver

Imagination is as good as many voyages - - and how much cheaper. - George William Curtis

The farther a man knows himself to be from perfection, the nearer he is to it. - Gerard Groote

If I knew how you did it to me then I'd do it to you. - Gerry and the Pacemakers

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it. - Gertrude Stein

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.  - Gertrude Stein

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Gill Atkinson

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be. - Gladys Taber

A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.  - Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Sampler

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.  - Gloria Gaither

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again. - Gloria Gaither

We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. - Gloria Gaither

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. - Gloria Stein

Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. - Goethe

Nothing is as frightening as ignorance in action. {this quote is above the entrance to the Naval Academy}  - Goethe

Before you can do something you must first be something. - Goethe

Without haste, but without rest. - Goethe

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. - Goethe

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. - Goethe

Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image. - Goethe

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.  - Goethe

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. - Goethe

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. - Goethe

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von - Goethe

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life. - Goethe

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now. - Goethe

Architecture is frozen music. - Goethe

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. - Goethe

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Goethe

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. - Goethe

Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Goethe

Who ever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society. - Goethe

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them. - Goethe

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. - Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory is naught. - Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. - Goethe

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist. - Governor Jesse Ventura

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 percent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness, and conversation. - Grantland Rice

Cal quarterback, Joe Knapp, used to call them audibles -- obscenities directed at the other team. I like that. - Greg Ennis (Stanford Quarterback)

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. - Gunther Grass

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. - Gustave Le Bon

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. - Guy Davenport

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.  - Gweneth Paltrow

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - H.H. the Dalai Lama

Genius, the power which dazzles human eyes, is oft but perserverance in disguise. - H.W. Austin

The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. (American Minister and Reformer - 1832-1911) - Hannah Whitall Smith

Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers. - Hans Christian Anderson

Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. - Harlan F. Stone

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. - Harriet Martineau

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. - Harriet Martineau

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. - Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Living of These Days, 1

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. - Harry S. Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S. Truman

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, "The country is safe. Jefferson still lives." And the last words of the other was, "John Adams will see that things go forward." - Harry S. Truman

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S. Truman

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. - Harvey Cox, The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973

I'll moider da bum. - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he

Love or music- which power can uplift man to the sublimest heights? It is a large question; yet it seems to me one should answer it in this way: Love cannot give an idea of music; music can give an idea of love. But why seperate them? They are the two wings of the soul.  - Hector Berlioz

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.  - Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason, 1988

College life was born in revolt. Not just the insubordination inherent in youth, but a wave of violent, collective uprisings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the combined authority of college professors and presidents. (from her book, 'Campus Life') - Helen Horowitz

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. - Henri B. Stendhal

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. - Henri Matisse

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

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power and influence.  - Henry Chester

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau

I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.  - Henry David Thoreau

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid. - Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.  - Henry David Thoreau

We were born to succeed, not to fail. - Henry David Thoreau

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. - Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. - Henry David Thoreau

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. - Henry David Thoreau

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love. - Henry David Thoreau

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. {from "Reading" in Waldon (1854)} - Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. - Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.  - Henry David Thoreau

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. - Henry David Thoreau

Absolutely speaking, do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case. - Henry David Thoreau

You must not only aim aright, but draw the bow with all your might.  - Henry David Thoreau

When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. - Henry David Thoreau

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of arts. - Henry David Thoreau

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another’s. We see so much only as we possess. - Henry David Thoreau

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them. - Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. - Henry David Thoreau

When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived. - Henry David Thoreau

To enhance the quality of the day... That is the highest of the arts. - Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. - Henry David Thoreau

Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world. - Henry David Thoreau

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.  - Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. - Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. - Henry David Thoreau

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. - Henry David Thoreau

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Henry David Thoreau

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. - Henry David Thoreau

Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. - Henry David Thoreau

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. - Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.  - Henry David Thoreau

That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. - Henry David Thoreau

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. - Henry David Thoreau

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another. - Henry David Thoreau

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. - Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. - Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. - Henry David Thoreau

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books. - Henry David Thoreau

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? - Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

The heart is forever inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. - Henry David Thoreau

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. - Henry David Thoreau

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder? - Henry David Thoreau

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. - Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. - Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. - Henry David Thoreau

The only wealth is life. - Henry David Thoreau

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. - Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. - Henry David Thoreau

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. - Henry David Thoreau

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. - Henry David Thoreau

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. - Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. - Henry David Thoreau

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. - Henry David Thoreau

Things do not change, we change. - Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.  - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. - Henry G. Strauss

When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. - Henry Stack Sullivan

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. - Henry Steele Commager

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

This memory brightens o'er the past; as when the sun, concealed; behind some cloud that near us hangs; shines on a distant field. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Three Kings came riding from far away: Melchior and Gaspar and Balthazar. Three Wise Men out of the East were they, And they travelled by night and they slept by day; For their guide was a beautiful, wonderful star. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Consult the dead upon things that were, but the living only on things that are. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman? Where is the thatch-roofed village, the home of Acadian farmers -- - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. - Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change. (observation made in 513 B.C.) - Heraclitus of Greece

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield

The greatness of America has grown out of a political and social system and a method of control of economic forces distinctly its own - our American system... - Rugged Individualism, 1928 - Herbert Clark Hoover

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited. - Herbert Clark Hoover

Children are our most valuable natural resource. - Herbert Hoover

If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor- poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. - Herbert N. Casson

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.  - Herbert Simon

To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth. - Herbert Spencer

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. - Herbert Spencer

A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.  - Herbert V. Prochnow

We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees.  - Hereditary Chief Edward Moody

Great things are won by great dangers. - Herodotus

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. - Herodotus

The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. - Hilton Kramer

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them. - Hippocrates

The art has three factors: the disease, the patient, the physician. The physician is the servant of the art. - Hippocrates

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. - Hobart Brow

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. - Hodding Carter

Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. - Howard Dietz

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. - Howard W. Newton

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. - Hubert H. Humphrey

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. - Hubert H. Humphrey

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert Humphrey

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. - Hudson Taylor

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse. - Humphrey Bogart

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. - I Corinthians 13:11

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky

A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. - Igor Stravinsky

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline. - II Timothy 1:7

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. - Immanuel Kant

We are new every day.  - Irene Claremont de Castillego

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on Molly Malone. - Irish ditty

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.  - Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times, December 3,

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not. - Italian Proverb

Love rules without rules. (Amore regge senza legge.) - Italian proverb

By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.  - Italian Proverb

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. - Ivy Baker Priest

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience, for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of - a blessing that money cannot buy. - Izaak Walton

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them...they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.  - J. Marriott Jr.

Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing. - J. Paul Getty

True courage is like a kite; a big wind raises it higher.  - J. Petit-Senn

Part of a teacher's success depends on personality, and the common denominator in the personality of good teachers is their ability to stimulate students to work on problems when the teacher is not there. The teacher then checks the ability of the student to think rather than regurgitate facts. - J. Willis Hurst

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. (Indian Philosopher (1895-1986)) - J.Krishnamurti

Not all those who wander are lost. (from The Fellowship of the Ring) - J.R.R. Tolkein

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. (Imparted from the wizard Gandalf to the young hobbit Frodo) - J.R.R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost. The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.  - J.R.R. Tolkien

Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall. - J.R.R. Tolkien {Lord of the Rings}

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one. - Jack Kornfield {Seeking the Heart of Wisdom}

One thought left home is better than 3 left on base. - Jack Liter

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore. - Jacques Attali

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. - Jacques Cousteau

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. {Swiss historian (1818-1897)} - Jakob Burckhardt

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant

You don't have to invent the airplane or create an empire to pursue a big dream of your own. Audacity is an equal opportunity trait. - James Champy and Nitin Nohria

Two centuries ago our nation's birth was a milestone in the long quest for freedom, but the bold and brilliant dream which excited the founders of our nation still awaits its consummation. I have no new dream to set forth today, but rather urge a fresh faith in the old dream. - Inaugural address, 1977 - James Earl Carter, Jr.

Originality does not consist is saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. - James Stephens

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. - James Taylor

Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest clothes dressed. {from "On May"} - James Thomson

Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?  - James Thurber

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober. - James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber

Perhaps it would be a good idea, fantastic as it sounds, to muffle every telephone, stop every motor, and halt all activity for an hour some day, to give people a chance to ponder for a few minutes on what it is all about, why they are living and what they really want. - James Truslow Adams

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed. - Jan De Hartog

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. - Jane Austen

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Maveri

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?  - Jean Cocteau

Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau

I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality. - Jean Paul Richter

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe. - Jean Paul Richter

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him. - Jean Paul Richter

The principal goal of education... should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things... men and women who are creative, inventive, and discoverers. - Jean Piaget

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program. {died laughing (we suppose) in 1997 at age 122} - Jeanne Calment

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.  - Jean-Paul Sartre

Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.  - Jean-Paul Sartre

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre

La vie humaine commence de l'autre côté du désespoir. {Human life begins on the other side of despair}. - Jean-Paul Sartre ["Les Mouches", III:2}

If men have a smell it's usually an accident. - Jeff Foxsworthy

You might be a redneck if you've been too drunk to fish. - Jeff Foxworthy

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. - Jeffrey Tate

Always do what you say you are going to do. It is the glue and fiber that binds successful relationships. - Jeffry A. Timmons

The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people's differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience. - Jerome Nathanson

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.  - Jessamyn West, The Quaker Reader, 1962

If you wish to study men you must not neglect to mix with the society of children. - Jesse Torrey

The friends you make on the golf course are the friends you make for life. - Jessica Anderson Valentine

More business is lost every year through neglect, than through any other cause. - Jim Cathcart

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot

If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.  - Jimmy Buffett

Where it all ends, I can't fathom, my friends.  - Jimmy Buffett

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. - Jimmy Carter

Before you criticize people, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away. And you have their shoes. - JK Lambert

Jesus'ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control?  - Joan B. Campbell, Sojourners, August-September, 19

Doubt your doubts.  - Joe Batten

The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive. - Joe Batten

Football is an honest game. It’s true to life. It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. - Joe Namath

The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. - Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports

I know what I can know, and am not troubled about what I cannot know. - Johann Fichte

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.  - Johann W. von Goethe

The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The right man is the one who seizes the moment. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on! - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.  - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite so

The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world. - Inaugural Address, 1961 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing. - John Fletcher

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John Gunther

A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. - John K. Hutchens

'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats

When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain... (from the poem: "When I Have Fears") - John Keats

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.  - John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause change. They motivate and inspire others to go in the right direction and they, along with everyone else, sacrifice to get there. - John Kotter

Lovely Rita, meter maid. - John Lennon and Paul McCartney

I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love. (The Beatles) - John Lennon and Paul McCartney

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun. - John Milton

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. - John Milton

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. - John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. - John Milton

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (from 'Paradise Lost') - John Milton

Our country is where ever we are well off. - John Milton

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. - John Milton

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. - John Milton

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!  - John Milton

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. - John Milton

Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine! (from Paradise Lost) - John Milton

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt. - John Mortimer

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it. - John Naisbitt

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many. - John Naisbitt

Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend. - John Sargent

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day's work. That's the way it comes out. - John Steinbeck

A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. {from 'Of Mice and Men'} - John Steinbeck

Toil, feel, think hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. - John Sterling

There are many truths the full meaning of which cannot be recognised until personal experience has brought it home. - John Stuart Mill

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. - John Stuart Mill

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity. - John Templeton

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. - Inaugural Address, 1841 - John Tyler

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten. - John W. Turk

Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. - John Weitz

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. - John Wilmot

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand. - Jonathan Carroll

Resolved - never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. - Jonathan Edwards

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol, On Being a Teacher, 1981

There's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. - Jonathan Larson

May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.  - Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.  - Jonathon Swift

Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. - Jose Ortega Y Gasset

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. - Josef Stalin

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. - Joseph Fort Newton

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness. - Joseph Fort Newton

Children need models more than they need critics. - Joseph Joubert

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. - Joseph Joubert

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too. - Joseph Storey

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch

Sometimes the best way to deal with everyday life, is to lay down on your mat and take a nap. - Joyce Bartels

It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.  - Joyce Carol Oates

Don't let anything throw you off the goal you set for yourself. - Judge George N. Leighton

Never frown beacuse you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. - Justine Milton

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character. - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world. - Kate Douglas Wiggin

They talk about a woman's sphere, as though it had a limit. There's not a place in earth or heaven. There's not a task to mankind given... without a woman in it. - Kate Field

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young. - Kate Millet

A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. - Katharine Butler Hathaway

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The possibilities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.  - Katherine Anne Porter

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katherine Hepburn

There is always hope for an individual who stops to do some serious thinking about life. - Katherine Logan

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is a learned behavior. - Katie Couric

Falling in love with someone isn't always going to be easy... Anger... tears... laughter.. It's when you want to be together despite it all. That's when you truly love another. I'm sure of it. - Keiichi Morisata

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digi

The clever men of Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed but they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad. - Kenneth Grahame

You need three things in theatre - the play, the actors, and the audience, and each must give something. - Kenneth Haigh

Time was present for learners and teachers alike. - Kenneth Ludmerer

More than any other reason, quality in clinical education had depended on the presence of sufficient time in medical practice to allow learners to learn and teachers to teach. - Kenneth Ludmerer

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can. - Kevin Garnett

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes

By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever. (Chinese Philosopher and author of 'Tao Te Ching')  - Lao Tsu

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves. - Lao-Tzu

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao-Tzu

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. - last words of Pancho Villa

Natura genetrix. (Nature is our mother.) - Latin Proverb

He who restrains his anger overcomes his greatest enemy. - Latin proverb

Hollywood -- a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.  - Laurence Stallings

Critics are by no means the end of the law. Do not think all is over with you because you articles are rejected. It may be that the editor has his drawer full, or that he does not know enough to appreciate you, or you have not gained a reputation, or he is not in a mood to be pleased. A critic's judgment is like that of any intelligent person. If he has experience, he is capable of judging whether a book will sell. That is all.  - Lavina Goodell, junior editor, Harper's Bazaar, 18

There are worse occupations in the world than feeling a woman's pulse. - Lawrence Sterne

If you are caught on the golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightening, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron. - Lee Trevino

There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination. - Leigh Hunt

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. - Leo Rosten

The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all.  - Leo Rosten

A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. - Leo Rosten

Courage is capacity to confront what cannot be imagined. - Leo Rosten

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.  - Leo Tolstoy

A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. - Leo Tolstoy

Faith is the force of life. - Leo Tolstoy

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. (from the novel 'Anna Karenina') - Leo Tolstoy

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.  - Leo Tolstoy

I find the question "WHY ARE WE HERE?" typically human. I'd suggest "ARE WE HERE?" would be the more logical choice. - Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock on Star Trek)

[D]on't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Leroy [Satchel] Paige, New York Post, October 4, 1

Not for the money, not for the money. But so our people can once again find out who they are. And that it's something to be proud of, and we will have our identity back; our children will know who they are.  - Les Decheneaux, CRST

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. - Lester Bangs

What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. - Lewis L. Dunnington

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin

Eternity is just Time on an ego trip.  - Lily Tomlin

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them. - Lily Tomlin

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.  - Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. - Lin Yutang

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to him who does his work well, followed by a relaxing and refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day. - Lin Yutang

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother. - Lin Yü-tang

It is not a weakness, but a courageous thing to ask for help. A coward wallows in his own sorrow. - Linda Castor

There will always be dreams grander or humbler than your own, but there will never be a dream exactly like your own...for you are unique and more wondrous than you know!  - Linda Staten

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. - Lionel Trilling

There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. - Logan Pearsall Smith

What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say? {1865-1946} - Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. - Logan Pearsall Smith

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord Acton

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. - Lord Chesterfield

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. - Lord Robert Baden-Powell

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. - Lord Robert Baden-Powell

We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude. - Lord Robert Baden-Powell

I am a part of all that I have met. - Lord Tennyson

Don’t let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times. - Lou Holtz

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!  - Lou Holtz

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. - Lou Holtz

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holtz

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. - Lou Holtz

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. - Lou Holtz

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. - Lou Holtz

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. - Lou Holtz

The great strength of a country lies in the true sense of loyalty it can arouse in the hearts of its people.  - Louis C. Gerstein

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. - Louis Kossuth

To the individual who devotes his or her life to science, nothing can give more happiness than when the results immediately find practical applications. There are not two sciences. There is science and the application of science and these two are linked as the fruit is to the tree (1871). - Louis Pasteur

Chance favors the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

Science belongs to no one country. - Louis Pasteur

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.  - Lowell Thomas

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from. - Lucretius

A falling drop at last will carve a stone.  - Lucretius

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.  - Lucretius

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. - Lucretius

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven. - Lucretius

The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly like pearls slipping off a string. - Lucy M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine. - Ludwig van Beethoven

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.  - M. Scott Peck

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts. - Madame de Stael

Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. - Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them. - Mae West

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful. - Mae West

I never loved another person the way I loved myself. - Mae West

He who hesitates is a damned fool. - Mae West

Men? Sure, I've known lots of them. But I never found one I liked well enough to marry. Besides, I've always been busy with my work. Marriage is a career in itself and to make a success of it you've got to keep working at it. So until I can give the proper amount of time to marriage, I'll stay single. - Mae West

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West

Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. - Mae West

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West

Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache. - Mae West

To err is human, but it feels divine. - Mae West

It is better to be looked over than overlooked. - Mae West

A man in the house is worth two in the street. - Mae West

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for. - Mae West

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it. - Mae West

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

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems. - Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi

Let then our first act every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: I shall not fear anyone on earth. I shall fear only God. I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth I shall put up with all suffering. - Mahatma Gandhi

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it... always. - Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.  - Mahatma Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world... as in being able to remake ourselves. - Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi

Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. - Mahatma Gandhi

A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi

I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of West

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man. - Maimonides, Mishneh Torah

One day we will realize that big hearts will bring us more peace than big weapons. - Malathy Drew

The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. - Maltbie D. Babcock

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains. - Marcel Proust

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. - Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes... {1871-1922 - French Novelist}  - Marcel Proust

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart. - Marcel Proust

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.  - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong as its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The happiness of you life depends on the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notion unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. - Marcus Aurelius Antonnus

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.  - Marden, Orison Swett

There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. - Margaret Bottome

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young/Who loved thee so fondly as he/He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue/And joined in thy innocent glee. - Margaret Courtney

I accept the universe! - Margaret Fuller

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. - Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.  - Margaret Mead

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. - Margaret Mitchell

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.  - Margaret Sanger

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. - Margaret Thatcher

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. - Margaret Thatcher

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions.  - Margaret Thatcher

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama. - Marguerite Blessington

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. - Marguerite Duras

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.  - Marguerite Gardiner Blessington

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him. - Maria Montessori

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

And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving...  - Marilyn Thomsen

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. - Marilyn vos Savant

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the 15 others which we do possess. - Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain

Behold, the fool saith 'Put not all thine eggs in the one basket' - which is but a manner of saying, 'Scatter your money and your attention;' but the wise man saith, 'Put all your eggs in the one basket and - watch that basket.'" - Mark Twain

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. - Mark Twain

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. - Mark Twain

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest. - Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. - Mark Twain

If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.  - Mark Twain

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain

My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got. - Mark Twain

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself. - Mark Twain

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful. - Mark Twain

The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.  - Mark Twain

It's not the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go. - Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - and then success is sure. - Mark Twain

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. - Mark Twain

Buy land. They've stopped making it. - Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain

October is one of those dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, and December. - Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. - Mark Twain

Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. - Mark Twain

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. - Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. - Mark Twain

Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon. - Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. - Mark Twain

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.  - Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. - Mark Twain

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.  - Mark Twain

No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been married a quarter of a century. - Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. - Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horseraces. (from "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," 1894)  - Mark Twain

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave. - Mark Twain

Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too. - Mark Twain

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959

A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? - Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. - Mark Victor Hansen

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. - Marlene Dietrich

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Faith always shows itself in the whole personality. - Martin Lloyd-Jones

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. - Martin Luther

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. - Martin Luther King

If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools. - Martin Luther King

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.  - Martin Luther King Jr.

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship.  - Martin Luther King Jr.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verbs agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life’s most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others? - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr., speech, Detroit, Michigan

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. - Martin Niemoeller

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.  - Martin Niemoeller

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. - Martin Van Buren

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. - Mary Antin, 1912

It's a marvelous feeling when someone says "I want to do this song of yours" because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after. - Mary Chapin Carpenter

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. - Mary Heaton Vorse

'Will you walk into my parlour?' said a spider to a fly. - Mary Howitt

God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. - Mary Howitt

America's future walks through the doors of our schools every day. - Mary Jean LeTendre

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

Most people exist rather than choosing to live. Most people are too busy with life to live. - Matt Bunning

If people only knew how much I secretly hated them, they'd love me for holding it in.  - Matt Groening

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. - Matthew 15:14

Judge not, that ye be not judged. - Matthew 7:1

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.  - Matthew Arnold

In reality, those who repudiate a theory that they had once proposed, or a theory that they had accepted enthusiastically and with which they had identified themselves, are very rare. The great majority of them shut their ears so as not to hear the crying facts, and shut their eyes so as not to see the glaring facts, in order to remain faithful to their theories in spite of all and everything. - Maurice Arthus

To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence. - Maurice Blanchot

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.  - Maurice Maeterlinck

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. - Max Eastman

...we live in a culture of relentless, round-the-clock boosterism for science and technology. With each new discovery and invention, the virtues are always oversold, the drawbacks understated. Who can forget the freely mobile society of the automobile, the friendly atom, the paperless office, the impending crisis of too much leisure time, or the era of universal education ushered in by television? We now hear the same utopian claims about the Internet. But everyone knows science and technology are inevitably a mixed blessing. (from Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities SCIENCE 5 March 1999; 283 (5407): 1461) - Michael Crichton

When two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as he wants to be seen, and each man as he really is. - Michael De Saintamo

he thing is, continuity of strategic direction and continuous improvement in how you do things are absolutely consistent with each other. In fact, they're mutually reinforcing. - Michael Porter

Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung... It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter, when half spent was the night. Isaiah 'twas foretold it, the Rose I have in mind; with Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind. To show God's love aright, she bore to us a Saviour, when half spent was the night. - Michael Praetorius (attributed to)

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. - Michel de Montaigne

I quote others in order to better express myself. - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. - Miguel de Cervantes

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual. - Millicent Carey McIntosh

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. - Milton Berle

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. - Milton Friedman

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. - Milton Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation. - Milton Friedman

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind. - Mister Rogers

One advantage is growing older is that you can stand for more and fall for less. (from Sunshine Magazine) - Monta Crane

I want death to find me planting my cabbages. - Montaigne

The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness.  - Montaigne

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. - Montesquieu

GALAHAD: Is there someone else up there we could talk to? FRENCH GUARD: No! Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time! - Monty Python

Inspire me with love for my art and for thy creatures. In the sufferer let me see only the human being. - Moses Maimonides (The Physician's Oath)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.  - Mother Teresa

The only thing that can remove poverty is sharing. Jesus came among the poorest, to teach people to love one another, which is to share-to use the gifts that God has given to people who have, so share with those who have not. - Mother Teresa

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. - Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. - Mother Teresa

Let us always greet each other with a smile for the smile is the beginning of love. - Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa

I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. - Mother Teresa

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything. - Mother Teresa

We are pencils in God's hand. - Mother Teresa

We are all pencils in the hand of God.  - Mother Theresa

If I am asked "what is the use of climbing this highest mountain?" I reply: No use at all - no more use than kicking a football about, or dancing, or playing the piano, or writing a poem, or painting a picture (1913) - Mountaineer Francis Younghusband

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy. - Mozart

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mrs. Ernest Hemingway

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Multiple attributions

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women. - Nancy Astor

Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. - Nancy Banks Smith

Bloom where you are planted. - Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte

All religions have been made by men. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Why and How are words so important that they cannot be too often used. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The human race is governed by its imagination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A Constitution should be short and obscure. - Napoleon Bonaparte

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house like a lot of other houses. A yard like a lot of other yards, on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back...with wonder." - Narrator from 'The Wonder Years'

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. - Nathan Hale

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.  - Native American proverb

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.  - Native American Proverb

That's one small step for a man, one great leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong, first words spoken on the moon

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. - Neils Bohr to Albert Einstein

It is not the strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men. - Nietzsche

Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself. - Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Nietzsche

One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear. (originator of statement was Yamamoto Tsunetomo, a samurai who retired to life as a Buddhist monk after the death of his feudal lord Nabeshima Naoshige). - Nietzsche

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Nietzsche

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary. - Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently . - Nietzsche

I know what I say at times is not very diplomatic. - Nikita Khrushchev

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

For a long time I have been walking and seeing nothing. Now I find this song and it cheers me.  - Nitanat

Why don't you write books people can read? - Nora Joyce to her husband James

The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities. - Norman Vincent Peale

If God is with us, who can be against us? - (in The Power of Positive Thinking) - Norman Vincent Peale

Think positively about yourself, keep your thoughts and your actions clean, ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. - Norman Vincent Peele

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. - Northrop Frye

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. (written in 1555) - Nostradamus

We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy, than in endeavoring to be so ourselves. - Oliver Goldsmith

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.  - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place."  - Orison Swett Marden

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul. - Orway Tead

Schizophrenia beats dining alone. - Oscar Lavant

Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember. - Oscar Levant

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.  - Otto Von Bismarck

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. - Otto Von Bismarck

Hope can always cope. - P.K. Thomajan

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little left of it. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life. - P.W. Litchfield

Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy

We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play. (In 1992, Orlando Magic general manager, said this about his team's 7‑27 record) - Pat Williams

The work will wait while you show your child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.  - Patricia Clafford

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging. - Patrick Dennis

I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.  - Patrick Henry

The battle is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. - Patrick Henry

When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. (quoted by Barbara J. Winter in her book)  - Patrick Overton

When you get to be a certain age, you come to realize that the real Santa Claus is not the guy who comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve. The real spirit of Santa becomes what you can give rather than what you get. The magic comes from you when Santa lives in your heart. - Patty Hansen

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. - Paul Beatty

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that. - Paul McCartney

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. - Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen. - Paul Tillich

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. - Paul Tillich, Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1958

Faith is not a shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions. - Paul Tournier

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. - Paul Whiteman

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. - Penn Jillette

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. - Percy H. Johnston

The ability to manage the unexpected consequences of our choices and decisions is the real secret in investment success...On the basis of my experience, greater danger lurks in the temptation to chicken out when the going is rough and your precious wealth seems to be going down the tubes. (A forward from the book, Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, June 21, 2002) - Peter Bernstein

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained ... I don't want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction ... I can get all that at home. - Peter Cook

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter De Vries

I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter De Vries

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.  - Peter De Vries

Life is a zoo in a jungle.  - Peter DeVries

The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit…. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done. - Peter Drucker

Teamwork is neither "good" nor "desirable." It is a fact. Wherever people work together or play together they do so as a team. Which team to use for what purpose is a crucial, difficult and risky decision that is even harder to unmake. Managements have yet to learn how to make it. - Peter F. Drucker

Often, the greatest challenge facing an organization is recognizing and acting on opportunity rather than solving a problem. - Peter Ginter

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity, shoots up through the earth, puts forth branches, leaves, and finally blossoms.  - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Peter Marshall

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for. - Peter Marshall

I have no intention of uttering my last words on the stage. Room service and a couple of depraved young women will do me quite nicely for an exit. - Peter O'Toole

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. (from 'The Fifth Discipline') - Peter Senge

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.  - Peter Singer

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. - Peter T. Mcintyre

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. - Peter Ustinov

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life happiness, freedom and peace of mind - are always attained by giving them to someone else. - Peyton Conway March

The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration. - Philip Hamerton

Do not wait for great strength before setting out, for immobility will weaken you further. Do not wait to see very clearly before starting: One has to walk toward the light. Have you strength enough to take this first step? Courage enough to accomplish this small act... The necessity of which is apparent to you? Take this step! Perform this act! You will be astonished to feel that the effort accomplished, Instead of having exhausted your strength, has doubled it. And that you already see more clearly what you have to do next.  - Phillipe Vernier (French Protestant Minister)

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Bottome

He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] - Pierre Auguste Renoir

I keep my friends as misers do their treasures, because, of all things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. - Pietro Aretino

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics. - Pietro Mascagni

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato

He whom love touches not walks in darkness. - Plato

Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder. - Plato

Courage is knowing what to fear. - Plato

The life that is unexamined is not worth living.  - Plato

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. - Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. - Plato

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato

That's courage - to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. - Plautus

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. - Plutarch

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears. - Plutarch

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause. - Plutarch

The state of life is most happy when superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. - Plutarch

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch

Never tell all that you know, or do all that you can, or believe all that you hear. - Portuguese proverb

I asked for strength that I might achieve; I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey. I asked for health that I might do greather things; I was given infirmity that I might do better things. I asked for riches that I might be happy; I was given poverty that I might be wise. I asked for power that I might have the praise of men; I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God. I asked for all things that I might enjoy life; I was given life that I might enjoy all things. I got nothing that I had asked for, but everything that I had hoped for. Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered; I am, among all men, most richly blessed.  - Prayer of an Unknown Confederate Soldier

The advance of human freedom - the great achievement of our time, and the great hope of every time - now depends on us. Our nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail. (September 20, 2001)  - President George W. Bush

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.  - President Lyndon B. Johnson

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cor

Let's give the historians something to write about.  - Propertius

Man is the measure of all things. - Protagoras

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus

"!Ama Sua, Ama Kjella, Ama Lllulla! - Don't lie, don't cheat, don't be lazy."  - Quechua greeting during Inca times

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the peebles into perfection. - Rabindranath Tagore

The human doesn't see things as they are, but as he is. - Racter

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows. - Ralph Marston

Life is what happens, after you make other plans. - Ralph Marston

Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication. - Rebecca West

We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.  - Rene Descartes

I think therefore I am. (Cogito ergo sum) - Rene Descartes

Cogito, ergo sum (I think; therefore I am) - René Descartes

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. - René Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.  - Rene Descartes, "Discours de la Methode"

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. - Rene Dubos, Celebrations of Life, 1981

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. - Revelation 21:6

Perhaps the greatest blessing in marriage is that it lasts so long. The years, like the varying interests of each year, combine to buttress and enrich each other. Out of many shared years, one life. In a series of temporary relationships, one misses the ripening, gathering, harvesting joys, the deep, hard-won truths of marriage. - Richard C. Cabot

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. - Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

It is in the everyday and the commonplace that we learn patience, acceptance, and contentment. - Richard J. Foster

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. - Richard J. Foster

Our assurance... is built upon a confident assurance in the faithfulness of God. - Richard J. Foster

We can go through all the activities of our days in joyful awareness of God's presence. - Richard J. Foster

Love is narcissism shared by two. - Rita Mae Brown

To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior. - Rita Rudner

Music should never be harmless. - Robbie Robertson

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy. - Robert A. Heinlein

We have come from somewhere and are going somewhere. The great architect of the universe never built a stairway that leads to nowhere. - Robert A. Millikan

As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. - Robert Benchley

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

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps. - Robert Benchley

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without. - Robert Browning

Truth lies within ourselves. - Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew. - Robert Browning

Oh my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune. (from Red, Red Rose) - Robert Burns

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. - Robert Burns

The best-laid schemes o mice and men Gang aft agley... - Robert Burns, "To a Mouse"

Let the burden never be so heavy; love makes it light. - Robert Burton

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore, to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy; it expels cares, alters their grieved minds, and easeth in an instant. (from the 1621 edition of 'The Anatomy of Melancholy') - Robert Burton

Nobody ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.  - Robert Byne

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins, you can't imagine the smell. - Robert Byrne

A man's best friends are his ten fingers. - Robert Collyer

Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? (quoted by Priit J. Vesilind in National Geographic) - Robert D. Ballard

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. - Robert F. Kennedy

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. - Robert Frost

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost

A true sonnet goes eight lines and then takes a turn for better or worse and goes six or eight lines more. - Robert Frost

Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. - Robert Frost

I cut my own hair. I got sick of barbers because they talk too much. And too much of their talk was about my hair coming out. - Robert Frost

The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost

Of course there is matter for remark in poems. Nobody denies that. But it must be solemnly laid on everybody in this world to make his own observations and remarks. That’s what we mean by thinking, and that’s about all we mean. A teacher says to a pupil “Watch me notice a few things in the next few months: let’s see you notice a few things too.” (from letter to Louis Untermeyer, from Ann Arbor, MI, dated May 17, 1926) - Robert Frost

All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.  - Robert Fulghum

The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own. - Robert Fulghum

The greatest courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. - Robert G. Ingersoll

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing; I owe them to my relations with other people. - Robert Graves

Education should be a lifelong process, the formal period serving as a foundation on which life's structure may rest and rise. - Robert H. Jackson

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved. - Robert H. Lauer

Commit yourself to a dream . . . Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle-he defeated the fear of trying. - Robert H. Schuller

Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens. - Robert Half

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too. - Robert Half

Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. - Robert Heinlein

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.  - Robert Ingersoll

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. - Robert J. Havighurst

I am become death, shatterer of worlds. - Robert J. Oppenheimer(citing from the Bhagavadgita

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert L. Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry.  - Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind. - Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Fifteen men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum. (from 'Treasure Island') - Robert Louis Stevenson

Experiment is necessary in establishing an academy, but certain principles must apply to this business of art as to any other business which affects the artistic tic sense of the community. Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language. - Robert Menzies

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. - Robert Motherwell

Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities. - Robert Murray McCheyne

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. (b. 1916, American Writer-Author)  - Robert Newton Anthony

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success. - Robert Orben

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. - Robert Schumann

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place. - Robert Schumann

If words could say all that we feel, there would be no need for an embrace. But language has its limitations, and the heart has none. It expresses itself spontaneously in even the smallest things we do.  - Robert Sexton

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. - Robert Wilson

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this earth. - Roberto Clemente

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies

Much may be learned about any society by studying the behavior and accepted ideas of its children, for children - and sometimes adults - are shadows of their parents, and what they believe and what they do are often what their parents believe in their hearts and would do if society would put up with it. - Robertson Davies (from 'What's Bred in the Bone')

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. - Roger L'Estrange

After mutual respect and understanding are achieved, it is possible to establish real, sincere relationships, which is the foundation of a solid long-term collaboration. - Ron Garan, Astronaut

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul. - Rona Barrett

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

Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey. - Roy Bennett

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.  - Roy L Smith (American Clergyman)

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. - Ruth Benedict

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. - Ruth McKenney

The secret to life is finding joy in ordinary things. I'm interested in happiness. - Ruth Reichl

Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. {German-born Author, Psychiatrist}  - Ruth Westheimer

He serves his party best who serves his country best. - Inaugural Address, 1877 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes

We are drowning in information, but starving for knowledge.  - Rutherford D. Rogers

Assessment is arguably the most important stimulus for learning. - Ruth-Marie Fincher, MD

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. {in H Eves, An introduction to the history of mathematics, Philadelphia 1983} - said about the chemist Lavoisier

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.  - Saint Francis De Sales

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.  - Saint Jerome

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.  - Sam Lefkowitz

The only thing I truly know for a sure is that I don't know everything.  - Sam Lefkowitz

The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song. - Sam Walter Foss

There is only one boss - the Customer. And he can fire anybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton

I had no vision of the scope of what I would start. But I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us. - Sam Walton

If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. - Sam Walton

Estragon(E): Why don't we hang ourselves? Vladimir(V): With what? E: You haven't got a bit of rope? V: No. E: Then we can't. V: Let's go. {from the play, 'Waiting for Godot.'} - Samuel Beckett

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. - Samuel Butler

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. - Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. - Samuel Butler

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.  - Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. (1600-1661 - Scottish Author and Minister) - Samuel Rutherford

Poetry: the best words in the best order. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally. - Santha Rama Rau

Grey matter abounds in countries with grey skies. (1920) - Santiago Ramon y Cajal

No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. - Sara Teasdale

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.  - Sarah Ban Breathnach

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. - Sarah Bolton

Don't look back; something might be gaining on you. - Satchel Paige

This life is yours: Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.  - Schutz, Susan Polis

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight. - Scott Caan

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life. - Scott Murray

George Steinbrenner is the salt of the earth, and the Yankee players are open wounds. - Scott Osler

You can delegate authority, but you can't delegate responsibility! - Scott Wojciechowski

When the heart is full the tongue will speak. - Scottish proverb

Be slow in choosing a friend but slower in changing him. - Scottish proverb

Never let your feet run faster than your shoes. - Scottish proverb

If you don't see the bottom, don't wade. - Scottish proverb

Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich. - Scottish proverb

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. - Senator Russell Long

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things. - Senator Theodore Francis Green

Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples. - Sheri S. Tepper

I stopped believing in Santa Clause when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple

Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.  - Sidney Lovett

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. - Simon Rattle

A lot of writers complain that they are exhausted after writing a book. I don't understand this; you can sit down while doing it, can't you? - Simon Vestdijk

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.  - Simone Signoret

People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament. (Uncommon Law, p. 33) - Sir A. P. Herbert

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth. - Sir Arthur Keith

If I have seen a little farther it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. (paraphrasing of Bernard of Chartres) - Sir Isaac Newton

It’s the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

The real way to gain happiness is to give it to others. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. - Sir Robert Baden-Powell

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing. - Sir Thomas Beecham

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing. - Sir Thomas Beecham

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.  - Sir Thomas Beecham

It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. - Sir Thomas Browne

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender. - Sir Thomas Browne

Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!  - Sir Walter Scott

Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it. - Sir Walter Scott

A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to stand and show themselves, and you presently assert the power of reason over imagination. - Sir Walter Scott

The wretch, concentered all in self / living show forth but fair renown / and doubly dying shall go down / to the vile dust from whence he sprung / unwept, unhonoured, unsung. - Sir Walter Scott

Life without companionship is a life without purpose. (from Arabian Sands) - Sir Wilfred Thesiger

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill

Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all? (from But for the Grace of God)  - Sister Miriam Godwinson

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for. - Socrates

I am a citizen not of Athens or Greece, but of the world. - Socrates

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. - Socrates

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. - Socrates

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward be at one. - Socrates

The shortest and best way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.  - Socrates

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates - 420 B.C.

Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize. Your words are the greatest power you have. The words you choose and the use establish the life you experience. - Sonia Croquette

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what he is. - St Augustine

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.  - St. Augustine

Hear the other side. - St. Augustine

Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of faith is to see what we believe. - St. Augustine

Why don't I have a hundred arms to aid these poor ones calling for help? (16th century) - St. Camillus de Lellis

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving. Begin as a mere apprentice and the very power of love will lead you on to become a master of the art. - St. Francis De Sales

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. - St. Francis Of Assisi

Start by doing what is necessary then do what is possible. And suddenly, you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. - St. Francis Xavier

And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was 'suffering'... And then I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was 'love.' (1542-1591 - Spanish Mystic, Theologian) - St. John Of The Cross

Christ shield me this day: Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I arise, Christ in the heart of every person who thinks of me, Christ in the eye that sees me, Christ in the ear that hears me” (from “The Breastplate of St. Patrick”) - St. Patrick

When you have lived longer in this world and have outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increased tenfold; your admiration and attachment to any particular party or opinion fall away altogether. - Stanley Baldwin

He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings. - Stanley Goldstein

Nothing levels a playing field like a better idea. (in The Freeman) - Stanley I. Mason Jr.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation. - Stella Adler

Something nasty in the woodshed. (from the novel, 'Cold Comfort Farm') - Stella Gibbons

To describe happiness is to diminish it. - Stendhal

If you don't succeed at first, don't despair. Remember, it takes time to learn to play golf; most players spend their entire lifetime finding out about the game before they give up. - Stephen Baker

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn’t will find an excuse. - Stephen Dolley Jr.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. (1773-1855 - French-born Quaker Minister) - Stephen Grellet

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question. - Stephen Jay Gould

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.  - Stephen King

He didn't have to worry about jagged bottle-necks after all, or the microbes which might have been in the cheeseburgers from the Burger Ranch, for that matter. One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred-pound Coke machine, one need worry about nothing else. {The Tommyknockers} - Stephen King

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. - Stephen Leacock

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better and the other could count better. - Stephen Leacock

There is always a choice about the way you do your work, even if there is not a choice about the work itself. - Stephen Lundin

The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself.  - Stephen R. Covey

To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.  - Stephen R. Covey

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.  - Stephen Wright

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share. - Steve Harvey

Don't let the noise of other peoples opinions drown out your inner voice. - Steve Jobs

Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Steve Jobs

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (In 1991, the Florida football coach said this after telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books) - Steve Spurrier

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. - Steven Covey

The more I know, the more I realize how little I know. - Steven Devoe Harris

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks? - Steven Wright

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the OTHERS here for? - Steven Wright

If you're sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in? - Steven Wright

So what's the speed of dark? - Steven Wright

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation? - Steven Wright

Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag? - Steven Wright

If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. - Steven Wright

How come abbreviated is such a long word? - Steven Wright

Clones are people two. - Steven Wright

How much deeper would oceans be if sponges didn't live there? - Steven Wright

Black holes are where God divided by zero. - Steven Wright

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans. - Steven Wright

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do . . . write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they delivered the mail?  - Steven Wright

What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men? - Steven Wright

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it? - Steven Wright

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. (from 'Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir' - Philadelphia: JB Lippincott; 1973) - Stewart Alsop

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. - Stone Temple Pilots

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. - Stonewall Jackson

Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, 'Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?'... God said, 'I did do something. I made you.' - Sufi Teaching

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu

It is later than you think. - Sundial inscription

Failure is impossible. - Susan B. Anthony

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less. - Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain. - Susan B. Anthony

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. - Sydney Smith

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt. - Sylvia Plath

You are the music while the music lasts. - T. S. Eliot

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T. S. Eliot

When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way. - T.S. Eliot

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them. - T.S. Eliot

Time past and time future, what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present. - T.S. Eliot

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. - T.S. Eliot

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T.S. Eliot

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. - T.S. Eliot

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism. - T.S. Eliot

For I have known them all already, know them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons; I have measured out my life with coffee spoons... {from the poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"}  - T.S. Eliot

Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground. - T.S. Eliot

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T.S. Eliot

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. - T.S. Eliot

This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper. {from the poem "The Hollow Men"} - T.S. Eliot

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. (written by Eliot appearing in a book of poems by Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus, Black Sun Press, Paris: 1931)  - T.S. Eliot

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot

Any religion...is for ever in danger of putrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.  - T.S. Eliot

In valor there is hope. - Tacitus

Reason and judgement are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.  - Tagore

It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman. - Tallulah Bankhead

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.  - Tao Te Ching

When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home. {Shawnee}  - Tecumseh

He made you so you could share in His creation, could love and laugh and know Him. - Ted Griffen

Each of us has the same quantity of the most precious commodity in the world -- time. - Ted Janusz

If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away. - Ted Trueblood

Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made. (from speech delivered 14 April 1906) - Teddy Roosevelt

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Teilhard de Chardin

I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. (from "The Brook") - Tennyson

It is love alone that gives worth to all things. - Teresa of Avila

God aids the valiant.... Both to you and to me He will give the help needed. - Teresa of Avila

What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the difference between romantic love and an arranged marriage. - Terrence Rafferty

We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to the world outside, and the room is filled with light and noise. We close some of the doors deliberately, sometimes with fear, sometimes with calm certainty. Others seem to close by themselves, some so quietly that we do not even notice. (from City Limits) - Terry Teachout

If you want to destroy your enemy, give him an elephant. - Thai proverb

In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer. - The Beatles

All you need is love, Love is all you need. - The Beatles

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritable; it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about in justice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always faithful, and endures through every circumstance. - The Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action. - The Bible, 1 John 3:18 NRSV

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear. - The Bible, 1 John 4:18 NIV

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. - The Bible, 1 Peter 3:15-16

In every thing give thanks. - The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded. - The Bible, 2 Chronicles 15:7 NRSV

This battle is not for you to fight; take your position, stand still, and see the victory of the Lord on your behalf. - The Bible, 2 Chronicles 20:17 NRSV

It is by faith you stand firm. - The Bible, 2 Corinthians 1:24 NIV

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. - The Bible, 2 Corinthians 9:7

Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. - The Bible, Acts 10:4

I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. - The Bible, Acts 20:35

Take courage! For I believe God! It will be just as he said! - The Bible, Acts 27:25

Act with courage, and may the Lord be with those who do well. - The Bible, Chronicles 19:11

David said further to his son Solomon, "Be strong and of good courage, and act. Do not be afraid or dismayed; for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you." - The Bible, Chronicles 28:20 NRSV

May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from [God's] glorious power; and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience. - The Bible, Colossians 1:11 NRSV

Don't be weary in prayer; keep at it; watch for God's answers and remember to be thankful when they come. - The Bible, Colossians 4:2 TLB

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. - The Bible, Colossians 4:6

Be steadfast, immovable, always excelling. - The Bible, Corinthians 15:58 NRSV

Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. - The Bible, Corinthians 16:13 NIV

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. - The Bible, Deuteronomy 6:5

The Lord you God is the faithful God who for a thousand generations keeps his promises and constantly loves those who love him and who obey his commands. - The Bible, Deuteronomy 7:9 TLB

But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth.  - The Bible, Deuteronomy 8:18

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. - The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1

Better is a handful of quietness than both hands full, together with toil and grasping for the wind. - The Bible, Ecclesiastes 4:6

Be kind to one another; tenderhearted, forgiving one another; even as in Christ God forgave you. - The Bible, Ephesians 4:32

Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. - The Bible, Ephesians 5:15,16 NIV

Make the most of every opportunity you have for doing good. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to find out and do whatever the Lord wants you to. - The Bible, Ephesians 5:16,17 TLB

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. - The Bible, Ephesians 6:10 NRSV

Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. - The Bible, Exodus 14:13

As is the mother, so is her daughter. - The Bible, Ezekiel 16:44

Because the hand of the Lord my God was on me, I took courage. - The Bible, Ezra 7:28 NIV

The entire law is summed up in a single command, "Love your neighbor as yourself."  - The Bible, Galatians 5:14 (NIV)

Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people. - The Bible, Galatians 6:10 NIV

Is anything too hard for the Lord? - The Bible, Genesis 18:14

A man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and the two become one flesh. - The Bible, Genesis 2:24 NEB

Faith is the substance of things hoped for; the evidence of things not seen. - The Bible, Hebrews 11:1 NKJV

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - The Bible, Hebrews 13:2

He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we may boldly say: "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"  - The Bible, Hebrews 13:5-6

This certain hope of being saved is a strong and trust-worthy anchor for our souls, connecting us with God. - The Bible, Hebrews 6:19 TLB

Do not fear; for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand. - The Bible, Isaiah 41:10 NRSV

I will see that right prevails... My salvation lasts forever; my righteous rule will never die. - The Bible, Isaiah 51:4,6 TLB

The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail. - The Bible, Isaiah 58:11 NRSV

Don't fear anything except the Lord of the armies of heaven! If you fear him, you need fear nothing else. - The Bible, Isaiah 8:13 TLB

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given... his name will be called Wonderful Counselor; Mighty God, Everlasting Father; Prince of Peace. - The Bible, Isaiah 9:6 NIV

Brothers, don't forget that it is best to listen much, speak little, and not become angry. - The Bible, James 1:19

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."  - The Bible, James 4:13-15

We consider blessed those who have persevered... The Lord is full of compassion and mercy. - The Bible, James 5:11 NIV

Yes, be patient. And take courage, for the coming of the Lord is near. - the Bible, James 5:8 TLB

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to the fruit of their doings. - The Bible, Jeremiah 17:10 NRSV

Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. - The Bible, Jeremiah 17:7,8 NIV

You will have courage because you will have hope. You will take your time, and rest in safety. - The Bible, Job 11:18 TLB

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. - The Bible, Job 12:8

The ear test words as the tongue tastes food. - The Bible, Job 34:3 NIV

Happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. - The Bible, Job 5:17

Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. - The Bible, John 14:1-3

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life." - The Bible, John 14:6 NIV

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. - The Bible, John 15:12,13

Jesus answered... "In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." - The Bible, John 16:33 NIV

The truth shall make you free.  - The Bible, John 8:32

Yes, be bold and strong! Banish fear and doubt! For remember, the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. - The Bible, Joshua 1:9 TLB

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. - The Bible, Joshua 24:15

May they who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength. - The Bible, Judges 5:31

Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. - The Bible, Lamentations 3:22,23

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. - The Bible, Lamentations 3:27

Come, for all things are now ready. - The Bible, Luke 14:17

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger. - The Bible, Luke 2:7

Make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. - The Bible, Luke 21:14,15

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed. - The Bible, Luke 4:18

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. - The Bible, Luke 5:32

Give, and it shall be given unto you good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. - The Bible, Luke 6:38

You were united to your wife by the Lord. In God's wise plan, when you married, the two of you became one person in his sight. - The Bible, Malachi 2:15

[Jesus said,] "'You are the light of the world. Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.'" - The Bible, Mathew 5:14-16

And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. - The Bible, Matthew 1:21 NKJV

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. - The Bible, Matthew 11:28

Jesus immediately said to them, "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." - The Bible, Matthew 14:27 NIV

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move.  - The Bible, Matthew 17:20

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.  - The Bible, Matthew 25:40

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth... But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - The Bible, Matthew 6:19-21 NIV

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. - The Bible, Matthew 6:28,29

He has showed you... what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. - The Bible, Micah 6:8 NIV

Wise warriors are mightier than strong ones, and those who have knowledge than those who have strength. - The Bible, NRSV, Proverbs 24:5

I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have sufficient courage so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death. - The Bible, Philippians 1:20 NIV

Whatsoever things are true,... honest, ... just, ... pure, ... of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. - The Bible, Philippians 4:8

Reverence for God gives a man deep strength; his children have a place of refuge and security. - The Bible, Proverbs 14:26

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. - The Bible, Proverbs 17:28

The Lord is a strong fortress. The godly run to him and are safe. - The Bible, Proverbs 18:10 TLB

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.  - The Bible, Proverbs 18:16

Find a wife and you find a good thing; so you will earn the favour of the Lord. - The Bible, Proverbs 18:22 NEB

Reverence for God gives life, happiness, and protection from harm. - The Bible, Proverbs 19:23 TLB

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. - The Bible, Proverbs 21:3

Make no friendships with an angry man. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:24

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:6

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:9

Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path. - The Bible, Proverbs 23:19 NIV

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. - The Bible, Proverbs 24:10

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.  - The Bible, Proverbs 28:27

A fool uttereth all his mind. - The Bible, Proverbs 29:11

Fear of man is a dangerous trap, but to trust in God means safety. - the Bible, Proverbs 29:25 TLB

Earn a reputation for living well in God's eyes and the eyes of the people. - The Bible, Proverbs 3:1 MSG

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.  - The Bible, Proverbs 3:27

Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. - The Bible, Proverbs 4:23 NIV

Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right. - The Bible, Psalm 106:3

Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from Him. - The Bible, Psalm 127:3 NIV

If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. - The Bible, Psalm 139:9,10 NIV

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul. The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes. - The Bible, Psalm 19:7-8

The Lord is my light and salvation; he protects me from danger - whom shall I fear? - The Bible, Psalm 27:1

Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. - The Bible, Psalm 27:14 NIV

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war rise up against me, yet I will be confident. - The Bible, Psalm 27:3 NRSV

Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. - The Bible, Psalm 31:24 NIV

I will praise the Lord no matter what happens... Let all who are discouraged take heart... For I cried to him and he answered me! He freed me from all my fears. - The Bible, Psalm 34:1-4 TLB

All who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace. - The Bible, Psalm 37:11 TLB

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. - The Bible, Psalm 37:5,6 NIV

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. - The Bible, Psalm 41:1

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. - The Bible, Psalm 42:1,2 NIV

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in times of trouble. Therefore we will not fear. - The Bible, Psalm 46:1,2 NRSV

Be still and know that I am God! - The Bible, Psalm 46:10 NRSV

Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you. - The Bible, Psalm 55:22 NIV

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne... Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, O Lord. - The Bible, Psalm 89:14,15 NIV

Who is as mighty as you, O Lord? Your faithfulness surrounds you... Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you. - the Bible, Psalm 89:8,9,13,14 NRSV

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. - The Bible, Romans 1:16

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. - The Bible, Romans 12:2 NKJV

By the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. - The Bible, Romans 12:3

Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. - The Bible, Romans 12:4-5

We are more than conquerors through him who loved us... I am convinced that neither death nor life... will be able to separate us from the love of God. - The Bible, Romans 8:37-39

How beautiful you are, my dearest, O how beautiful, your eyes are like doves. - The Bible, Song of Songs 1:15

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for his love is more delightful then wine. - The Bible, Song of Songs 1:2

The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come.... Arise, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me. - The Bible, Song of Songs 2:11-13 NIV

Brothers and sisters, do not weary in doing what is right. - The Bible, Thessalonians 3:13

May the Lord bring you into an even deeper understanding of the love of God and the patience that comes from Christ. - The Bible, Thessalonians 3:5

Courage! We must really act like men today if we are going to save our people. - The Bible, TLB, 2 Samuel 10:12

Don't over-analyze your marriage; it's like yanking up a fragile indoor plant every 20 minutes to see how its roots are growing. - The Bill Balance Hip Handbook

Those who fear what they should not, and who do not fear what they should…go the downward path. (from The Path of Perfection) - The DHAMMAPADA

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the sec

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or outside my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. - The Hippocratic Oath

I don't feel good. - The last words of Luther Burbank

A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home. - The Talmud

He who commands the sea has command of everything. (Athenian Politician and Naval Strategist - c 500 BC) - Themistocles

The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Hesburgh

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought. - Theodore Mungers

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. - Theodore N. Vail

Government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. - Theodore Parker

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am."  - Theodore Parker

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.  - Theodore Roethke

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. (From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910) - Theodore Roosevelt

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918) - Theodore Roosevelt

Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day affairs of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal. - Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt

Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense."... "We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.""The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us. (New York State Fair, Syracuse, September 7, 1903) - Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, The best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground. - Theodore Roosevelt

It is well indeed for our land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. - Builders of the State - Theodore Roosevelt

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have. (Speech to veterans, Springfield, IL, July 4, 1903) - Theodore Roosevelt

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it. - Theodore Roosevelt

The whole subject of trusts is of vital concern to us, because it presents one, and perhaps the most conspicuous, of the many problems forced upon our attention by the tremendous industrial development which has taken place during the last century, a development which is occurring in all civilized countries, notably in our own. (from speech at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1902) - Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.  - Theodore Roosevelt

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal. (Letter to Sir Edward Gray, November 15, 1913) - Theodore Roosevelt

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader works in the open, and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives. - Theodore Roosevelt

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Theodore Rubin

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.  - Theodore Rubin

Youth is the opportunity to do something and to become somebody. - Theodore T. Munger

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.  - Thich Nhat Hanh

I can't make people like me, but if I wasn't me, I would like me. - Third-grader

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.  - Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Thomas Alva Edison

Art is simply a right method of doing things. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.  - Thomas Aquinas

What is art but a way of seeing? - Thomas Berger

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. - Thomas Carlyle

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. - Thomas Carlyle

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.  - Thomas Carlyle

Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. - Thomas Carlyle

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze. - Thomas Carlyle

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! - Thomas Carlyle

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully, to be right; he will grow daily more and more right. - Thomas Carlyle

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.  - Thomas Carlyle

The king is the man who can. - Thomas Carlyle

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. - Thomas Crum

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. - Thomas De Quincey

Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker

Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose. - Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.  - Thomas Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. - Thomas Edison

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait. - Thomas Edison

There is time for everything. - Thomas Edison

Courage and resolution are the spirit and soul of virtue. - Thomas Fuller

Bacchus (Greek god of wine) hath drowned more men than Neptune. - Thomas Fuller

Seeing's believing, but the feeling's the truth.  - Thomas Fuller

He that would have fruit must climb the tree. - Thomas Fuller

He that wants hope is the poorest man alive. - Thomas Fuller

Great hopes make great men. - Thomas Fuller

That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. - Thomas Fuller

The suspicious parent makes an artful child. - Thomas G. Halliburton

A mother can take care of 100 children but 100 children cannot take care of one mother. - Thomas Guarino

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas H. Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.  - Thomas H. Huxley

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.  - Thomas H. Huxley

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. - Thomas Hardy

The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. - Thomas Huxley

It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. - Thomas Huxley

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Huxley

The chessboard is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call laws of nature. - Thomas Huxley

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley

No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value. - Thomas Huxley

There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued. - Thomas Huxley

Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. - Thomas J. Watson

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. - Thomas Jefferson

...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.  - Thomas Jefferson

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best. - Thomas Jefferson

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. - Thomas Jefferson

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. - Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. - Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. - Thomas Jefferson

I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of men in every government that has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating of all cares and powers into one body. - Thomas Jefferson

Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread. - Thomas Jefferson

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.  - Thomas Jefferson

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson

But though I am an old man, I am but a young gardener. {letter to Charles Willson Peale, Aug. 20, 1811} - Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government... shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned... - Thomas Jefferson

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson

If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. - Thomas Jefferson

No person will have the occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. - Thomas Jefferson

Man is a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. - Thomas Jefferson

I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friendship. - Thomas Jefferson

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe! (letter to John Adams, August 1, 1816) - Thomas Jefferson

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson

The most valuable of talents is that of never using two words when one will do. - Thomas Jefferson

If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.  - Thomas Jefferson

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.  - Thomas Jefferson

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Connecticut Baptists

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones

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

If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy! - Thomas Lovell Beddoes

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Macaulay

A tall young girl in a green sweater, with untidy hair and foolish, half-opened eyes, brushed past Hans Castorp, nearly touching him with her arm. And as she did so, she whistled - oh, impossible! Yes, she did though; not with her mouth, indeed, for she did not pucker the lips, but held them firmly closed. She whistled from somewhere inside, and looked at him with her silly, half-shut eyes - it was an extraordinarily unpleasant whistle, harsh and penetrating, yet hollow-sounding; a long-drawn-out note, falling at the end, like the sound made by those rubber pigs one buys at fairs, that give out the air in a wailing key as they collapse. The sound issued, inexplicably from her breast - and then, with her troop, she had passed on. (from 'The Magic Mountain') - Thomas Mann

It was coughing, obviously a man coughing; but coughing like to no other Hans Castorp had ever heard, and compared with which any other had been a magnificent and healthy manifestation of life: a coughing that had no conviction and gave no relief, that did not even come out in paroxysms, but was just a feeble, dreadful welling up of the juices of organic dissolution. (from 'The Magic Mountain', Chapter 1) - Thomas Mann

I emphasize this because it is to my mind just a passing virtue. Medicine and writing go well together, they shed light on each other and both do better by going hand in hand. A doctor possessed of the writer's art will be the better consoler to anyone rolling in agony; conversely, a writer who understands the life of the body, its powers and its pains, its fluids and functions, its blessings and banes, has a great advantage over him who knows nothing of such things. (from Joseph the Provider; New York; Alfred Knopf, 1944) - Thomas Mann

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. - Thomas More

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. - Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. - Thomas Paine

If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.  - Thomas Paine

That government is best which governs least. - Thomas Paine

He whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.  - Thomas Paine

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder. - Thomas R. Kelly

No man is happy but by comparison. - Thomas Shadwell

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile on an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world. - (from the novel, 'Look Homeward, Angel') - Thomas Wolfe

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. - Thomas Wolfe

Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. - Thompson

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.  - Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth, 1942.

Unlike with Reagan and Bush, who seemed groomed for this kind of thing, you get the feeling with Clinton that every now and then, he closes the shades of the Oval Office, locks the door, and screams, 'Whoa! This is really cool!'  - Tilford, Mike

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.  - Tim McGraw

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. - Tim Robbins

What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves, and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling proud of what you have accomplished. - Tim Tweedie

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music. - Tipper Gore

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. {99-55 B.C} - Titus Lucretius Carus

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are. (from 'In Pharaoh's Army' - Knopf) - Tobias Wolff

It takes a lot of character and mental toughness to go out there and play everyday no matter how you feel. - Todd Benzinger of the Cincinnati Reds on Cal Ripke

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw

If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!" "We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.  - Tom Brown, Jr., The Tracker

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. - Tom Clancy

Because I seen something that had to be done and I did it. (Tom Lee became a local hero in 1925 after saving 32 people from drowning, using his small fishing boat, during a Mississippi River disaster south of Memphis TN: Mr. Lee could not swim.)  - Tom Lee

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. - Tom Stoppard

Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!! - Tom Wilson

In other games you get another chance. In baseball you get three cracks at it; in tennis you lose only one point. But in golf the loss of one shot has been responsible for the loss of heart. - Tommy Armour

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away. - Tommy Lasorda (American baseball manager)

Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football. [When asked if making movies is fun] - Tommy Lee Jones

The Promised Land belongs to the person who takes the risks, whose face is marred by dust and sweat, who strives valiantly while daring everything. - Tony Campolo

There are many things to be shared with the Four Colors of humanity in our common destiny as one with our Mother the Earth. It is this sharing that must be considered with great care by the Elders and the medicine people who carry the Sacred Trusts, so that no harm may come to people through ignorance and misuse of these powerful forces. {Resolution of the Fifth Annual Meetings of the Traditional Elders Circle, 1980}  - Traditional Elders Circle

Beside every good man, there is an extra-ordinarily virtuous women. - Treasured Blessings

May the sun never set on American baseball. (1951) - Truman, Harry S.

To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. ~ ~  - Tryon Edwards

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. ~ ~ - Tuckerman

The greatest thing about man is his ability to transcend himself, his ancestry and his environment and to become what he dreams of being. - Tully C. Knoles

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. - Turkish proverb

Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone, and more fragile than a rose. - Turkish proverb

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. - Tyron Edwards

Everyone has superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the things intended was accomplished. - Ulysses Grant

My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate. - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court

I’m not clumsy. It’s just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies, and the wall gets in the way - Unknown Author

The greatest challenge in life is discovering who you are. The second greatest is being happy with what you find. - Unknown Author

He, therefore, who desires peace should prepare for war. He who aspires to victory should spare no pains to form his soldiers. And he who hopes for success should fight on principle, not chance. (from De rei Militari)  - Vegetius

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. - Vi Putnam

Love decreases when it ceases to increase. - Vicomte De Chateaubriand

If you would civilize a man, begin with his grandmother. - Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself. - Victor Hugo

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.  - Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo

The delight we inspire in others, has this enchanting peculiarity. That, unlike any other reflection, returns to us more radiant than ever. (from Les Miserables) - Victor Hugo

Jean Valjean went out of the city as if he were escaping. He made all haste to get into the open country, taking the first lanes and bypaths that offered, without noticing that he was every moment retracing his steps. He wandered thus all the morning. (from the novel, 'Les Miserables') - Victor Hugo

Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. - Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. - Victor Hugo

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal. - Victoria, Queen of England

One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress. - Viggo Mortensen

If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent Van Gogh

As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see. - Vincent van Gogh

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. - Vincent Van Gogh

I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. - Vincent van Gogh

I am always in hope of making a discovery by a wedding of two complementary colors, their mingling and opposition, the mysterious vibration of kindred spirits. - Vincent van Gogh

There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is! - Vincent van Gogh

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me. - Vincent van Gogh

It is the painting that makes me so happy these days. - Vincent van Gogh

Painting as it is now promises to become more subtle - more like music and less like sculpture - and above all it promises color. If only it keeps this promise. - Vincent van Gogh

If lawyers are debarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted; musicians denoted; cowboys deranged; models deposed; and dry cleaners depressed. - Virginia Ostman

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.  - Voltaire

I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.  - Voltaire

If God made us in his image, we have more than repaid the compliment. - Voltaire

A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire

Nature has always had more force than education. (from Life of Moliere) - Voltaire

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. - Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. - Voltaire

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, the amphitheatres, for wild beasts to fight in. - Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. - Voltaire

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz

The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. - W. Somerset Maugham

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound. - W.S. Gilbert

It is a reduction of our Humanity to hide from pain, our own or others'... Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones. - Wallace Stegner

All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do. - Walt Disney

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. - Walt Disney

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. - Walt Disney

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. - Walt Disney

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time. - Walt Disney

Many hands, heart and minds generally contribute to notable achievement. - Walt Disney

I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. - Walt Disney

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney

Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children. - Walt Disney

Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right. - Walt Disney

There is a natural hootchy-kootchy to a goldfish. - Walt Disney

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney

If you can DREAM it, you can DO it. - Walt Disney

Mickey was the first cartoon to stress personality. I thought of him from the first as a distinct individual, not just a cartoon-type symbol going through comedy routines. - Walt Disney

Our heritage and ideals, our codes and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. - Walt Disney

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney

Courage is the main quality of leadership, in our opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk—especially in new undertakings. Courage is to initiate something and to keep it going—to have a pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways in our land of opportunity. - Walt Disney

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral. - Walt Disney

Answer that you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. - Walt Whitman

A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child?. . . .I do not know what it is any more than he.  - Walt Whitman

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.  - Walt Whitman

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up - for you the flag is flung - for you the bugle trills... {from the poem, "O Captain! My Captain!"} - Walt Whitman

As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?  - Walt Whitman

It is only when we take chances, when our lives improve. The initial and the most difficult risk that we need to take is to become honest. - Walter Anderson

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  - Walter Bagehot

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. - Walter Bagehot

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowin' the 60-40 end of a proposition, money management, and knowin' yourself. - Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Dwight

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing. - Walter H. Judd

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconceivable, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. - Walter Lippmann

Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. - Walter R. Rutherford

What is reading but silent conversation? - Walter Savage Landor

Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it. - Walter Savage Landor

What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.  - Warren Buffett

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for. - Warren Buffett

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. - Warren Buffett

Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. - Warren Buffett

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. - Warren Buffett

When you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. I know people who have a lot of money, and they get testimonial dinners and they get hospital wings named after them. But the truth is that nobody in the world loves them. If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster. - Warren Buffett

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever. (written in a report to company shareholders) - Warren Buffett

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. - Washington Irving

You'll always miss 100 percent of the shots you do not take. - Wayne Gretzky

We give up believing that we design the world into existence, and instead take up roles in support of its flourishing. We work with what is available and encourage forms to come forth. We foster tinkering and discovery. We help create connections. We nourish with information. We stay clear about what we want to accomplish. We remember that people self-organize and trust them to do so. (from 'A Simpler Way' - 1996) - Wheatley and Kellner-Rogers

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. - Wilferd A. Peterson

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. - Wilfred Peterson

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. - Will Durant

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations. - Will Durant

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump. - Will Durst

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. - Willa Cather

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. - Willa Cather

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. - Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927

All dressed up and nowhere to go. (1916) - William Allen White

No matter how important new discoveries and methods, they cannot be considered to have reached fulfillment until generally applied to the sick. (1939, Harvard Medical School) - William B. Castle

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. - William Butler Yeats

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.  - William Cobbett

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.  - William Ernest Henley

Unless a man is kicked around a little, you can't really depend on him to amount to anything. - William Feather

I wish she was smart enough to teach second grade, too, next year. - William Goumas - first-grade pupil

The most sensible people to be met within society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. - William Hazlitt

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. - William Hazlitt

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything. - William Hazlitt

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. - William Hazlitt

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character. - William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. - William Hazlitt

A government is for the benefit of all the people... - Veto of Arizona Enabling Act, 1911 - William Howard Taft

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world. - William J.H. Boetcker

You can't fly a kite unless you go against the wind and have a weight to keep it from turning a somersault. The same with man. No man will succeed unless he is ready to face and overcome difficulties and is prepared to assume responsibilities. - William J.H. Boetcker

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success. - William J.H. Boetcker

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.  - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experien

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. - Inaugural Address, 1997 - William Jefferson Clinton

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. - William O. Douglas, opinion, United States v. Ball

What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare, "MacBeth"

In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. - William T. Tilden II

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. - William Thackeray

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. - William Thackeray

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland

Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. (from "Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey") - William Wordsworth

Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? - William Wordsworth

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.  - William Yeats

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.  - Winnie the Pooh

Isn't it funny, How a bear makes honey? Buzz! Buzz! Buzz! I wonder why he does. - Winnie-the-Pooh

A nation that tries to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. - Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give! - Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill

Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing - after all other possibilities have been exhausted. - Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival. - Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Winston Churchill

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work. - Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. - Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.  - Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous shock. - Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills;we shall never surrender. - Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. - Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others. - Winston Churchill

Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. - Winston Churchill

Those whose work and pleasures are one are fortune's favorite children.  - Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. - Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion. - Winston Churchill

Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together. - Winston Churchill

When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up. When we dig roots, we make little holes. When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pine nuts. We don't chop down the trees. We only use dead wood. But the white people plow up the ground, pull down the trees, kill everything. ... the White people pay no attention. ...How can the spirit of the earth like the White man? ... everywhere the White man has touched it, it is sore.  - Wintu Woman, 19th Century

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line... and that its direction changes constantly. - Wittgenstein

This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist's p

We who lie here now pass on to you the torch of freedom. - World War II cemetery in Magraten, Netherlands

There is something to be learned from a rain storm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet, and run quickly along the road. By doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. If one is resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, but will still receive the same soaking. This understanding extends to all. - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and maintain it in its integrity to the full extent of the obligations imposed and the powers conferred upon me by the Constitution. - Message to Congress, 1849 - Zachary Taylor

A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.  - Zitkala-Sa

Have a dream. Make a plan. Go for it. You'll get there, I promise. (A woman with multiple sclerosis who required 24 hours on crutches but finished the 1993 New York City Marathon - 26.2 miles) - Zoe Koplowitz

You got to go there to know there. - Zora Neale Hurston

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.  - Zora Neale Hurston

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.  - Zora Neale Hurston