Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.[Winston Churchill] Quote:My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The more I study science, the more I believe in God.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.[Albert Einstein] Quote: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] Quote:How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?[Albert Einstein] Quote:Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Whenever you find a man who says he doesn't believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:No, no, no, Lisa. If adults don't like their jobs, they don't go on strike. They just go in every day and do it really half-assed.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If a man is called to be 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 host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I have a microwave fireplace. I can lay down in front of the fire for the evening in eight minutes.[Steven Wright] Quote:Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.[Mario Andretti] Quote: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] Quote:In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.[Paul Dirac] Quote:I am not young enough to know everything.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.[Mark Twain] Quote:I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.[Woody Allen] Quote:Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:How can those who scorn God revere men?[Sun Tzu] Quote:I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.[Barbara Bush] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Real love stories never have endings.[Richard Bach] Quote:...I hope that we will hear no more of all ways of life and all cultures being equally valid, which none of us truly believes but which many people mouth in order to appear broad-minded and generous of spirit.[Armand Nicholi Jr.] Quote:English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.[Homer Simpson] Quote:To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.[Mark Twain] Quote:A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.[Mark Twain] Quote:Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.[Henry Mencken] Quote:A book of quotations...can never be complete.[Robert M. Hamilton] Quote:Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.[Victor Hugo] Quote:A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.[Victor Hugo] Quote:No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.[John Donne] Quote:Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?[Victor Hugo] Quote:To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.[Victor Hugo] Quote:You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.[Victor Hugo] Quote:No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles.[Author Unknown] Quote:Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Victory belongs to the most persevering.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I never cared but for one thing, and that is simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day, doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.[Brigham Young] Quote:Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when He catches us, as it were, off our guard.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.[Andr Maurois] Quote:Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Never confuse motion with action.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it;[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:America is the only country ever founded on a creed.[GK Chesterton] Quote:When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.[GK Chesterton] Quote:These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.[GK Chesterton] Quote:All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.[Dudley Malone] Quote:Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.[Dave Barry] Quote:Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger brothers or the dog - to get myself checkmated in under three minutes. I challenge any computer to do it faster.[Dave Barry] Quote:Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.[Dave Barry] Quote:Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true![Dave Barry] Quote:Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?[Dave Barry] Quote:I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.[Dave Barry] Quote:If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.[Dave Barry] Quote:If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.[Dave Barry] Quote:Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes.[Dave Barry] Quote:My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.[Dave Barry] Quote:Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead.[Dave Barry] Quote:People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.[Dave Barry] Quote:We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings![Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.[Konrad von Gesner] Quote:Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?[Philip Hamerton] Quote:Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:I believe one of the reasons so many do not get a higher education is the fear of their parents that they will lose more morally than they will receive mentally.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.[Author Unknown] Quote:Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author?s explanations, it never should have been published.[Archibald MacLeish] Quote:A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.[Christopher Morley] Quote:If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.[Christopher Morley] Quote:In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.[Christopher Morley] Quote:A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.[Robert Frost] Quote:A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.[Robert Frost] Quote:I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.[Robert Frost] Quote:In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.[Robert Frost] Quote:Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.[John Donne] Quote:You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:I figured out why I'm not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.[Dave Barry] Quote:If God had wanted us to spend our time fretting about the problems of home ownership, He would never have invented beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:The reason gas stations sell food, of course, is that the supermarkets are busy cashing checks. The supermarkets have to cash checks because the banks are busy mailing unsolicited credit cards to everybody in the Western Hemisphere. The result is that very few people fix cars.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.[Dave Barry] Quote:Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are many silly superstitions about lightning, and as a result many people - maybe even you - are terrified of it. You shouldn't worry. Thanks to modern science we now know that lightning is nothing more than huge chunks of electricity that can come out of the sky, anytime, anywhere, and kill you.[Dave Barry] Quote:Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians.[Dave Barry] Quote:I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.[Dave Barry] Quote:On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.[Dave Barry] Quote:I'm a middle age white guy, which means I'm constantly reminded that my particular group is responsible for the oppression of every known minority PLUS most wars PLUS government corruption PLUS pollution of the environment, not to mention that it was middle-age white guys who killed Bambi's mom.[Dave Barry] Quote:You should never pick up a newspaper when you're feeling good, because every newspaper has a special department, called the Bummer Desk, which is responsible for digging up depressing front-page stories with headlines like DOORBELL USE LINKED TO LEUKEMIA and OZONE LAYER COMPLETELY GONE DIRECTLY OVER YOUR HOUSE.[Dave Barry] Quote:I don't know what the new Ford will be called. Probably something like the 'Ford Untamed Wilderness Adventure.' In the TV commercials, it will be shown splashing through rivers, charging up rocky mountainsides, swinging on vines, diving off cliffs, racing through the surf, and fighting giant sharks hundreds of feet beneath the ocean surface -- all the daredevil things that cars do in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, where nobody ever drives on an actual world. In fact, the interstate highways in Sport Utility Vehicle Commercial World, having been abandoned by humans, are teeming with deer, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife species that have fled from the forests to avoid being run over by nature-seekers in multi-ton vehicles barreling through the underbrush at 50 miles per hour.[Dave Barry] Quote:I probably should never have been there anyway, and it served me right when the two alert police officers fired up their siren, pulled me over, and pointed out that my car's registration had expired. I had not realized this, and as you can imagine I felt like quite the renegade outlaw as one of the officers painstakingly wrote out my ticket, standing well to the side of the road so as to avoid getting hit by the steady stream of passing unlicensed and uninsured motorists driving their stolen cars with their left hands so that their right hands would be free to keep their pit bulls from spilling their cocaine all over their machine guns. Not that I am bitter.[Dave Barry] Quote:Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.[Mark Twain] Quote:I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.[Adelle Davis] Quote:There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Have you ever heard people say 'don't sweat the details'? Well, they're wrong: sweat the details. They have a name for people who sweat the details: millionaires.[Jerry Bowyer] Quote:Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.[Edmund Burke] Quote:The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.[Edmund Burke] Quote:The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.[Aristotle] Quote:Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.[Aristotle] Quote:No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.[Aristotle] Quote:The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.[Aristotle] Quote:A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions -- everyone but a school bus driver.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.[Laurence Peter] Quote:The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.[Yoko Ono] Quote:Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?[Wayne Dyer] Quote:As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Lost time is never found again.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The doors of wisdom are never shut.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:So convienent a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.[Colin Powell] Quote:I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.[Mark Twain] Quote:George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is by the goodness of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.[Mark Twain] Quote:Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.[Mark Twain] Quote:The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead.[George Patton] Quote:It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.[Stephen King] Quote:The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.[Stephen King] Quote:Unless you believe, you will not understand.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.[Frank Tyger] Quote:The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.[Frank Tyger] Quote:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something - something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance - did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.[Bill Cosby] Quote:If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.[Bill Cosby] Quote:You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.[Colin Powell] Quote:Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.[Thomas Paine] Quote:He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.[Thomas Paine] Quote: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] Quote:Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft![Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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] Quote:Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Our country offers the most wonderful example of democratic government on a giant scale that the world has ever seen; and the peoples of the world are watching to see whether we succeed or fail.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty... I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.[George Washington] Quote:My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty. Iit is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.[George Washington] Quote:Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.[Saint Augustine] Quote:A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.[Edward A. Murphy] Quote:I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah![Mike Tyson] Quote:Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.[Mike Tyson] Quote:Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.[Matthew J. Clayfield] Quote:It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.[Yogi Berra] Quote:I didn't really say everything I said.[Yogi Berra] Quote: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] Quote:As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.[George Carlin] Quote:Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?[George Carlin] Quote:When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.[Mark Twain] Quote:Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.[Albert Einstein] Quote:It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Never mistake motion for action.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:There is time for everything.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:We need men who can dream of things that never were.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.[Xenocrates] Quote:The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.[Martin Farquhar Tupper] Quote:It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.[Confucius] Quote:Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.[Confucius] Quote:Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.[Confucius] Quote:Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If you wanna be free, you've gotta accept everything.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.[Steve Martin] Quote:Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything![Steve Martin] Quote:All I've ever wanted was an honest week's pay for an honest day's work.[Steve Martin] Quote:I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.[William F. Buckley] Quote:I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.[William F. Buckley] Quote:If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.[Socrates] Quote:Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:God is clever, but not dishonest.[Albert Einstein] Quote:God enters by a private door into every individual.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.[Winston Churchill] Quote:We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.[Author Unknown] Quote:When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.[Abraham Maslow] Quote:I broke a mirror the other day. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.[Steven Wright] Quote:Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.[Colin Powell] Quote:I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.[Aristotle] Quote:Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.[Woody Allen] Quote:True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to an evil power...it is rather a courageous confrontation with evil by the power of love, in the faith that it is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.[Rita Mae Brown] Quote:Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution.[Robert Zend] Quote:The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.[Henry Mencken] Quote:He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?[Leo Tolstoy] Quote:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.[Margaret Mead] Quote:I figure wherever I am, that's the place to be.[Tommy Lasorda] Quote:Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.[Karl Marx] Quote:The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.[Doug Larson] Quote:If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.[Erica Jong] Quote:The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:We firmly believe there is more to life than money, beer, and sex. We just don't know what it is.[Aaron Shapiro] Quote:Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.[Mark Twain] Quote:One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:What a man believes upon grossly insufficient evidence is an index into his desires -- desires of which he himself is often unconscious. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.[Robert Frost] Quote:You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.[Albert Camus] Quote:You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.[Albert Camus] Quote:If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given tous fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth.[Albert Camus] Quote:I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.[Albert Camus] Quote:Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.[James Dean] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.[Albert Einstein] Quote:'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'[GK Chesterton] Quote:Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Being with a woman never hurt no professional ball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.[Casey Stengel] Quote:If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a Nation gone under.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.[Thomas Paine] Quote:We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide.[Kurt Vonnegut] Quote:It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.[Anne Frank] Quote:Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.[Niels Bohr] Quote:Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.[Saul Bellow] Quote:You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.[Henry Ford] Quote:Nothing you can't spell will ever work.[Will Rogers] Quote:The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.[Adolf Hitler] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote: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] Quote:The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.[George Orwell] Quote:Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions.[Daniel Webster] Quote:I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.[Daniel Webster] Quote:It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.[Daniel Webster] Quote:A man who never made a mistake never made anything.[David Gemmell] Quote:Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.[Antoine de Saint-Exuper] Quote: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] Quote:If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.[Thomas Wolfe] Quote:The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.[Helen Keller] Quote:No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday -- the longer, the better -- from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect. This is because the primary function of the government is -- and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution -- 'to spew out paper.'[Dave Barry] Quote:Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.[Richard Nixon] Quote:Whoso loves believes the impossible.[Elizabeth Barrett Browning] Quote:Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.[Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:Christmas is a time when you get homesick, even when you're home.[Carol Nelson] Quote:He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.[Roy L. Smith] Quote:Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.[Larry Wilde] Quote:There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.[Adam Smith] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.[Adam Smith] Quote:If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.[Adam Smith] Quote:I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.[Francis Bacon] Quote:Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?[George Carlin] Quote:I don't know how old I am because the goat ate the Bible that had my birth certificate in it. The goat lived to be twenty-seven.[Satchel Paige] Quote:There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.[W.C. Fields] Quote:Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth.[Mark Twain] Quote:I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.[Mark Twain] Quote:Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.[Albert Einstein] Quote:No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets.[Ogden Nash] Quote: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] Quote:Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.[Margaret Mitchell] Quote:A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?[GK Chesterton] Quote:If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?[Vince Lombardi] Quote:Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.[Vince Lombardi] Quote:In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote: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] Quote:The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:Work is something you can count on, a trusted, lifelong friend who never deserts you.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.[Mother Teresa] Quote:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.[Daniel Webster] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.[Patrick Henry] Quote:Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.[E.B. White] Quote:To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.[George MacDonald] Quote:There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.[George MacDonald] Quote:A few hours of mountain climbing turn a villain and a saint into two rather equal creature. Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity, and liberty is added eventually by sleep.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not.[Niels Bohr] Quote:Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason.[Douglas Adams] Quote:Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.[Joseph Addison] Quote:How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now.[Jack Handey] Quote:Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books.[Jack Handey] Quote:I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.[Jack Handey] Quote:I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.[Jack Handey] Quote:Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.[Jack Handey] Quote:If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.[Jack Handey] Quote:What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.[Jack Handey] Quote:Whenever someone asks me to define love, I usually think for a minute, then I spin around and pin the guy's arm behind his back. NOW who's asking the questions?[Jack Handey] Quote: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.[Jack Handey] Quote:Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.[Jack Handey] Quote:Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote: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.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.[William Blake] Quote:Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.[Thomas Aquinas] Quote:Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes.[John Lennon] Quote:All malice has injustice at it's end, an end achieved by violence or by fraud; while both are sins that earn the hate of heaven, since fraud belongs exclusively to man, God hates it more and, therefore, far below, the fraudulent are placed and suffer most.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything.[Harry Truman] Quote:I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.[Harry Truman] Quote:You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.[James Madison] Quote:Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.[Robert Kennedy] Quote:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.[Omar Bradley] Quote:Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.[Sam Brown] Quote:There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.[Robert Alden] Quote:Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair. After that, you may crush him.[Sun Tzu] Quote:A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., of Materialism and Astronomy - are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true?I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents.It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.[John Adams] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:To succeed, we must first believe that we can.[Michael Korda] Quote:Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.[Anais Nin] Quote:Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.[William Rotsler] Quote:When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.[Armand Hammer] Quote:I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.[Max Kaufman] Quote:All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'[Ted Williams] Quote:A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.[James Feibleman] Quote:Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.[Harvey Fierstein] Quote:The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:What once was thought can never be unthought.[Friedrich D?rrenmatt] Quote:We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.[John Updike] Quote:Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:Every woman knows all about everything.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.[Henny Youngman] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.[Art Spander] Quote:In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.[Plato] Quote:Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.[Plato] Quote:Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.[Plato] Quote:You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.[Plato] Quote:When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.[Robert Wilensky] Quote:I think that much of the advice given to young men about saving money is wrong. I never saved a cent until I was forty years old. I invested in myself - in study, in mastering my tools, in preparation. Many a man who is putting a few dollars a week into the bank would do much better to put it into himself.[Henry Ford] Quote:Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:One should never know too precisely whom one has married.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. [Herb Caen] Quote:Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success. [Cato the Elder] Quote:They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. [Sir Philip Sidney] Quote:Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. [Evan Esar] Quote:He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it?s magical. [Pamela Ribon] Quote:People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. [Bill Watterson] Quote:That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:What is it about genus arboretum that socks us in the figurative solar plexus? We see a logging truck go cruising down the road, stacked with a bunch of those fresh-cut giants, we feel like we lost a brother. Next thing you know, we're in The Brick, we're flopping money down on the bar. Wood. We're under a roof. Wood. We're walking the floors. Wood. Grabbing a pool cue. That's wood. Our friends in the forest carry a set of luggage from the mythical baggage carousel. Tree of life, tree of knowledge, family tree, Buddha's Bodhi tree. Page one of life, in the beginning. Genesis 3:22. Adam and Eve. They're kicking back in the garden of Eden and boom, they get an eviction notice. Why is that? "Lest they should also take of the tree of life, eat and live forever." A definitive Yahweh no-no. Be good to yourself, go out and plant a wet one on a tree. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. [Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. [Edith Sitwell] Quote:The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. [Edith Sitwell] Quote:I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:This England never did, nor never shall, <br>Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Americans never quit. [General Douglas Macarthur] Quote:Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. [Aesop] Quote:No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. [Aesop] Quote:Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter. [William Ralph Inge] Quote:Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. [Aeschylus] Quote:None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. [Ferdinand Foch] Quote:If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. [Frank Tyger] Quote:Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. [Earl Warren] Quote:Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. [Pearl Buck] Quote:No man ever listened himself out of a job. [Calvin Coolidge] Quote:Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Agatha Christie] Quote:The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. [E. B. White] Quote:Write a wise saying and your name will live forever [Anonymous] Quote:There's never a new fashion but it's old. [Geoffrey Chaucer] Quote:A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh] Quote:In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. [Jane Austen] Quote:So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. [Meister Eckhart] Quote:You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. [Demosthenes] Quote:There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it, it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right? Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Marriage. It's a hard term to define. Especially for me--I've ducked it like root canal. Still there's no denying the fact that marriage ranks right up there with birth and death as one of the three biggies in the human safari. It's the only one though that we'll celebrate with a conscious awareness. Very few of you remember your arrival and even fewer of you will attend your own funeral. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Let's not kid ourselves. Whatever we diagnose, most patients, if they don't die, get well by themselves. Our job is mainly to try to make them feel better; do no harm. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Weird, isn't it? Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of rose and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:For certain is death for the born<br>And certain is birth for the dead;<br>Therefore over the inevitable<br>Thou shouldst not grieve. [Bhagavad Gita] Quote:I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. [Terence] Quote:I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy [Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. [Harrison Ford] Quote:They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a quack. [Sir William Osler] Quote:To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. [Mark Twain] Quote:I think that I shall never see<br>A poem lovely as a tree. [Moliere] Quote:Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed. [Douglas Adams] Quote:I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. [Herbert Hoover] Quote:Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. [Harriet Lerner] Quote:Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. [William Jennings Bryan] Quote:We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. [Cicero] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. [Franklin P. Adams] Quote:If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. [Isaac Newton] Quote:In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. [Tallulah Bankhead] Quote:There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' [Andre Gide] Quote:Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. [Andre Gide] Quote:We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. [Marie Ebner von Eschenbach] Quote:If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] Quote:For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. [Bob Wells] Quote:Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. [Robert Anton Wilson] Quote:The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. [Robert Ingersoll] Quote:There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. [Bette Davis] Quote:It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. [Charles Baudelaire] Quote:Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. [Aristophanes] Quote:Under every stone lurks a politician. [Aristophanes] Quote:Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. [David Frost] Quote:The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time. [Colette] Quote:I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, ""I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here."" [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Not even the gods fight against necessity. [Simonides] Quote:It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. [Frank Herbert] Quote:A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. [Barbara Hall] Quote:LEONARD: I've failed, Chris. I can't locate the white collective unconscious.<br>CHRIS: I wouldn't feel too bad about that. You know, western culture hasn't really carried the baton on folklore and mythology. The rise of Christianity put the kibosh on it--the gospel hits the number one best-seller list and everything else gets remaindered. [Barbara Hall] Quote:I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. [Marshall McLuhan] Quote:They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers. [David Assael] Quote:Wildness. We're running out of it, even up in Alaska. People need to be reminded that the world is unsafe and unpredictable, and at a moment's notice, they could lose everything, like that. I do it to remind them that chaos is always out there, lurking beyond the horizon. That, plus, sometimes you have to do something bad, just to know you're alive. [David Assael] Quote:If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. [Henry S. Haskins] Quote:Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly. [Joseph Addison] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. [John Burroughs] Quote:The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. [Bill Vaughan] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. [Adelle Davis] Quote:As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself. [Adelle Davis] Quote:If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. [Frank Zappa] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. [Bill Cosby] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Andre Maurois] Quote:Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. [Lillian Hellman] Quote:Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. [Bob Newhart] Quote: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] Quote:The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. [Umberto Eco] Quote:The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. [Ayn Rand] Quote:Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. [Ayn Rand] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. [W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. [Confucius] Quote:Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. [Leo Tolstoy] Quote:My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. [Jean Rostand] Quote:If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. [Epictetus] Quote:When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? [Epictetus] Quote:We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. [Agnes Repplier] Quote:Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. [Francis Quarles] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. [Albert Einstein] Quote:It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. [Albert Einstein] Quote:My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. [Albert Einstein] Quote:You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. [Albert Einstein] Quote:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote:Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. [Hermann Hesse] Quote:Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. [Gore Vidal] Quote:Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. [Gore Vidal] Quote:People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. [Brendan Francis] Quote:If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. [Brendan Francis] Quote:I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. [Charles W. Eliot] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Isn't everyone a part of everyone else? [Budd Schulberg] Quote:Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:Live well. It is the greatest revenge. [The Talmud] Quote:I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. [Sam Levenson] Quote:Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. [Anne-Sophie Swetchine] Quote:While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. [Samuel Johnson] Quote:His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. [J. K. Rowling] Quote:Not every age is fit for childish sports. [Titus Maccius Plautus] Quote:He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,<br>And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. [Aristotle] Quote:Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. [Aristotle] Quote:The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. [Euripides] Quote:Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. [Harry S Truman] Quote:[Spring is] when life's alive in everything. [Christina Rossetti] Quote:Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to 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] Quote: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] Quote:Man is what he believes. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:It is never too late to give up our prejudices. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. [A. J. Liebling] Quote:Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. [Oscar Levant] Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. [Malcolm Forbes] Quote:I think that I shall never see <br> a billboard lovely as a tree. <br> Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, <br> I'll never see a tree at all. [Ogden Nash] Quote:In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. [Julius Caesar] Quote:There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. [Josh Billings] Quote:Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. [Scott Adams] Quote:There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. [David Letterman] Quote:USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. [David Letterman] Quote:USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population. [David Letterman] Quote:Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. [Thomas H. Huxley] Quote:The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. [Robert Frost] Quote:I never dared to be radical when young<br> For fear it would make me conservative when old. [Robert Frost] Quote:I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. [Samuel Butler] Quote:Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. [H. G. Wells] Quote:Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? [Jean Cocteau] Quote:Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. [Woodrow Wilson] Quote:ONE WHO WAITS: There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by.<br> ED: Which one do you think it is?<br> ONE WHO WAITS: Ah. I think that time is just time. [Geoffrey Neighor] Quote:A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [Anatole France] Quote:The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. [Anatole France] Quote:When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page. [Bill Clinton] Quote:I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. [Margaret Cho] Quote:People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [William Pitt] Quote:If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. [Dick Cavett] Quote:If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. [Dick Cavett] Quote:Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, <br> Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is?the higher achievement. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. [Neil Armstrong] Quote:I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. [Carl Sagan] Quote:I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Possession is eleven points in the law. [Colley Cibber] Quote:The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility. [Brooks Atkinson] Quote:I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. [Donald Trump] Quote:The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. [Andre Malraux] Quote:Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. [Socrates] Quote:Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. [Eugene Delacroix] Quote:If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. [Lyndon B. Johnson] Quote:Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by orginality, overcomes everything. [John W. Gardner] Quote:I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. [Plato] Quote:Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. [Plato] Quote:Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. [John Adams] Quote:Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed. [Epicurus] Quote:You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. [Carrie Fisher] Quote:In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. [Andy Warhol] Quote:Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. [Paul Gauguin] Quote:The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade. [Marcel Proust] Quote:There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand. [Charles Rosin] Quote:The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. [Lord Chesterfield] Quote:The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. [Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:This is either a forgery or a damn clever original. [Frank Sullivan] Quote:The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. [Humphrey Davy] Quote:Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60. [Gore Vidal] Quote:I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. [WC Fields] Quote:If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. [Dick Cavett] Quote:He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. [Joseph Heller] Quote:Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. [W. Somerset Maugham. ] Quote:Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box. [Wil Shriner] Quote:Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. [JJ Furnas] Quote:I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay? [Denis Leary] Quote:The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I got some great blow man. I got the stuff that killed Belushi. [Denis Leary] Quote:The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. [Humprey Bogart] Quote:Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time. [Catherine Zandonella] Quote:I can resist everything except temptation. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. [HL Mencken] Quote:I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. [Mark Twain] Quote:You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life. [Emo Philips] Quote:Did you ever notice they never take any fat hostages? You never see a guy coming out of Lebanon going: I was held hostage for seven months and I lost 175 pounds, I feel good and I look good and I learned self-discipline. That's the important thing. [Denis Leary] Quote:Nouvelle Cuisine, roughly translated, means: I can't believe I paid ninety-six dollars and I'm still hungry. [Mike Kalin] Quote:Martin's acting is so inept that even his impersonation of a lush seems unconvincing. [Harry Medved on Dean Martin] Quote:I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. [WC Fields] Quote:All music if folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. [Louis Armstrong] Quote:They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood. [Bob Hope] Quote:Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list. [Yakov Smirnoff] Quote:In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air. [Jonathan Raban] Quote:Boy, those French: They have a different word for everything! [Steve Martin] Quote:My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. [Bill Bryson] Quote:In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. [Dave Thomas] Quote:No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off. [Alan Bennett] Quote:When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. [Emo Philips] Quote:Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. [Mariah Carey] Quote:The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted. [Brendan Behan] Quote:How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? [Woody Allen] Quote:I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear. [Woody Allen] Quote:I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night. [Woody Allen] Quote:Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. [HG Wells] Quote:When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? [Quentin Crisp] Quote:Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. [Oscar Wilde - Lady Windemere's Fan 1892] Quote:I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. [WC Fields] Quote:Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. [Maria Carey] Quote:Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement. [Mark Twain] Quote:I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. [WC Fields] Quote:If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. [Dick Cavett] Quote:Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse. [Richard Sasuly] Quote:Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. [Marion Pearson] Quote:I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. [Marie Corelli ] Quote:I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names. [Zsa Zsa Gabor ] Quote:Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire PR officers. [Daniel J. Boorstin] Quote:Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me. [G.W. Hegel] Quote:I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. [JB Priestley] Quote:To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. [Enoch Powell] Quote:Write something, even if it's just a suicide note. [Gore Vidal] Quote:My reputation grows with every failure. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? [Cicero] Quote:Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine. [Cicero] Definitions of: eveDefinition: Evening.Definition: The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset, not at midnight; as, Christmas eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event. |
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