Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.[Winston Churchill] Quote:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.[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:I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.[Albert Einstein] 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:Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.[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:Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Who will take medicine unless he knows he is in the grip of disease?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.[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:Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It is in their 'good' characters that novelists make, unawares, the most shocking self-revelations.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.[Patrick Henry] Quote:I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.[Douglas Adams] Quote:My son first wanted to go to Stanford, which I thought was O.K. The weather is pretty good, and it's a fairly short drive to the beach. But it wouldn't be as good as let's say, Pepperdine, which is in Malibu. And he said, 'Dad, what about the education?' I said, 'Clearly, I failed as a parent.'[Larry Ellison] Quote:Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] Quote:You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.[Kevin Smith] Quote:As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.[Andrew Carnegie] Quote:You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.[Zig Ziglar] 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:The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.[Emile Zola] Quote:In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.[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:Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[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 want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.[Ian Fleming] Quote:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:I went into a restaurant and the sign said 'Breakfast anytime,[Steven Wright] Quote:Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?[Steven Wright] Quote:I hate it when my leg falls sleep in the middle of the day, because that means it'll be up all night.[Steven Wright] Quote:I have a microwave fireplace. I can lay down in front of the fire for the evening in eight minutes.[Steven Wright] Quote:I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't part anywhere near the place.[Steven Wright] Quote:I bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.[Steven Wright] Quote:People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought, which they avoid.[Soren Aabye Kierkegaard] Quote:I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.[Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.[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:A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Duty is what one expects from others.[Oscar Wilde] 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:If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.[Aristotle Onassis] Quote:The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.[George Patton] Quote:Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.[Mark Twain] Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.[Mark Twain] Quote:Love is a sign from the heavens that you are here for a reason.[J. Ghetto] Quote:Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Love doesn't make the world go round. Love makes the ride worthwhile.[Franklin Jones] Quote:Absence is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.[Roger de Bussy-Rabutin] Quote:To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.[James Matthew Barrie] Quote:Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.[Mark Twain] Quote:I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped - and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.[Tobey Maguire] Quote:Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.[Abraham Lincoln] 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:She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other.[Robin Williams] Quote:I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up DOES rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' I agree with the second part.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:If you judge people, you have no time to love them.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.[Victor Hugo] 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:Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.[Harrison Ford] Quote:A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.[Germaine Greer] Quote:Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman![Homer Simpson] Quote:Old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Let us celebrate our agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Santa Claus.[Bart Simpson] Quote:The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother! I call him Gamblor, and it's time to snatch your mother from his neon claws![Homer Simpson] Quote:Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:When I first heard that Marge was joining the police academy, I thought it would be fun and zany, like that movie Spaceballs. But instead it was dark and disturbing. Like that movie -- Police Academy.[Homer Simpson] Quote:Look, all I'm saying is, if these big stars didn't want people going through their garbage and saying they're gay, then they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively.[Homer Simpson] Quote:When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Put out an APB for a male suspect, driving a... car of some sort, heading in the direction of, uh, you know, that place that sells chili. Suspect is hatless. Repeat, hatless.[Chief Wiggum] Quote:Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police! Now where did I put my badge?...Hey, that duck's got it![Chief Wiggum] Quote:I'm like that guy who single-handedly built the rocket & flew to the moon! What was his name? Apollo Creed?[Homer Simpson] Quote:It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.[George Patton] 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:To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.[Cardinal Bellarmine] Quote:If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.[Lyall Watson] Quote:Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.[Chapman Cohen] Quote:We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] 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:Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.[Robert G. Ingersoll] Quote:To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.[David Brooks] Quote:Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.[Dennis Potter] 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:The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.[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:Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.[Saint Augustine] Quote:God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Patience is the companion of wisdom.[Saint Augustine] Quote:The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.[Saint Augustine] Quote:The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I think that a young state, like a young virgin, should modestly stay at home, and wait the application of suitors for an alliance with her; and not run about offering her amity to all the world; and hazarding their refusal. Our virgin is a jolly one; and tho at present not very rich, will in time be a great fortune, and where she has a favorable predisposition, it seems to me well worth cultivating.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I'm a great housekeeper: I get divorced, I keep the house.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.[John Donne] Quote:No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.[John Donne] Quote:How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.[Victor Hugo] 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:Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.[Victor Hugo] Quote:One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.[Victor Hugo] Quote:The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.[Victor Hugo] Quote:There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Toleration is the best religion.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.[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:A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash, drip, flow...be water my friend.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Victory belongs to the most persevering.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.[Mother Teresa] Quote:I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.[Mother Teresa] Quote:If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.[Mother Teresa] Quote:People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.[Mother Teresa] Quote:There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature -- trees, flowers, grass -- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.[Mother Teresa] Quote:We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.[Mother Teresa] Quote:As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.[Julius Caesar] Quote:It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.[Susan B. Anthony] Quote:The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.[Susan B. Anthony] 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:America is not like a blanket: one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.[Jesse Jackson] 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:When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.[Jedi Master Yoda] Quote:You do what you are...You?re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you?re good at. you don?t take for granted.[Morgan Freeman] Quote:Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.[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:Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers 'Please, will you do the job for me?'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.[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:Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.[C.S. Lewis] 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:If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.[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:Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.[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:Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[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:You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.[Heywood Broun] Quote:To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny.[Joseph Addison] Quote:Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.[Francis Bacon] Quote:The atheist has no hope.[J.F. Clarke] Quote:I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.[Franklin Jones] Quote:God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her.[Benjamin Tillet] Quote:I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.[Will Rogers] Quote:Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.[Sydney Smith] Quote:A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.[Dwight Eisenhower] 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:When you are in any contest you should work as if there were, to the very last minute, a chance to lose it.[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:Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.[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:History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.[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 thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.[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:If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionable integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.[T.S. Eliot] 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:For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby[T.S. Eliot] Quote:It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:We're not all alike but we can all like each other.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least, not until the producers or the public tell you to.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.[Ian Fleming] Quote:My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.[Ian Fleming] Quote:Genius without education is like silver in the mine.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.[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:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.[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:Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.[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:For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.[GK Chesterton] Quote:To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.[GK Chesterton] 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:When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Love means loving the unlovable - or it is no virtue at all.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.[GK Chesterton] Quote:If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.[GK Chesterton] Quote:There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.[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:Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules; it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities.[GK Chesterton] Quote:When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.[GK Chesterton] Quote:By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.[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 do not think that the real reason why people accept religion is anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.[Josh Billings] Quote:The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.[Edgar Watson Howe] Quote:Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.[George Santayana] Quote:The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'[Isaac Asimov] Quote:I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.[Leo Gallagher] Quote:Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.[Andr Gide] Quote:There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.[C.S. Lewis] 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:I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.[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:The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.[Michael Votto] 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:No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.[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:If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot![Dave Barry] 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:Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.[Dave Barry] Quote:Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.[Dave Barry] Quote:Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...[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:Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.[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:I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.[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 God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.[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:In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West -- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford -- were caused by erosion.[Dave Barry] Quote:In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!'[Dave Barry] Quote:It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.[Dave Barry] Quote:Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.[Dave Barry] Quote:Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.[Dave Barry] Quote:Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.[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:Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.[Dave Barry] Quote:Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.[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:Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.)[Dave Barry] Quote:The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.[Dave Barry] Quote:The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.[Dave Barry] Quote:The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today's complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you're a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.[Dave Barry] Quote:The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat.[Dave Barry] Quote:The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.[Dave Barry] Quote:The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.[Dave Barry] Quote:Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.[Dave Barry] Quote:We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.[Dave Barry] Quote:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] Quote:We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere 'opiate of the people' have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.[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:We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.[Author Unknown] Quote:What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?[Erna Bombeck] 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:Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.[WT Purkiser] Quote:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.[Isaac Disraeli] 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:Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:Scientists make a guess and call it a hypothesis. 'Guess' is too short a word for a professor.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:A University of Chicago professor said the greatest day in the world was when a water puppy crawled out on land and decided to stay. The water puppy, he said, went on to become a man. If he proves that, I am willing to give up Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year's Day, and to celebrate Water Puppy Day.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:The Rock of Ages is more important than the age of rocks.[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:The humblest citizen of all the land; when clad in the armour of a righteous cause; is stronger than all the hosts of Error.[William Jennings Bryan] Quote:We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.[Jonathan Swift] Quote:The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.[Lynn Lavner] Quote:The worst moment for the athieist is when he feels thankful and has no one to thank.[Dante Gabriel Rossetti] Quote:If my children wake up on Christmas morning and have someone to thank for putting candy in their stocking, have I no one to thank for putting two feet in mine?[GK Chesterton] 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:No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.[Roger Ebert] Quote:When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Don't look back; they may be gaining on you.[Satchel Paige] Quote:Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.[Satchel Paige] Quote:Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.[Joseph Pulitzer] Quote:The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.[Marianne Moore] 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:Too many poets delude themselves by thinking that the mind is dangerous and must be left out. Well, the mind is dangerous and must be left in.[Robert Frost] Quote:When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.[Anne Sexton] Quote:Someone doing it often interrupts the person saying it cannot be done.[Author Unknown] Quote:Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:...adults are just obsolete children, and the hell with them.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store? What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more?[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try![Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:Courage is the most beautiful kind of madness.[Author Unknown] Quote:When I read about the evils of drinking I gave up reading.[Author Unknown] Quote:There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.[Christopher Morley] Quote:My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Act like you expect to get into the end zone.[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:Only the sinner has the right to preach.[Christopher Morley] Quote:There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.[Christopher Morley] Quote:We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.[Christopher Morley] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.[E.B. White] Quote:Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.[E.B. White] Quote:A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.[Robert Frost] Quote:A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.[Robert Frost] Quote:A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.[Robert Frost] Quote:Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.[Robert Frost] Quote:Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.[Robert Frost] Quote:Humor is the most engaging cowardice.[Robert Frost] Quote:I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.[Robert Frost] Quote:Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.[Robert Frost] Quote:No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.[Robert Frost] Quote:Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.[Robert Frost] Quote:The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.[Robert Frost] Quote:The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.[Robert Frost] Quote:The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.[Robert Frost] Quote:You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.[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:It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.[Luther Sutherland] Quote:Cliches are made because they're true.[Miriam M. Wynn] Quote:It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.[Bruce Willis] Quote:Other than heaven, the only place where one's heart is completely safe from the dangers of love is hell.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I can't think of a better way to spread the message of world peace than by working with the NFL and being part of Super Bowl XXVII.[Michael Jackson] Quote:I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.[Michael Jackson] Quote:Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.[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:In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.[Dave Barry] Quote:You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says,[Dave Barry] 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:'You scratch my back, and I'll suck blood out of yours' - that is the insect motto.[Dave Barry] Quote:There are no seeing eye cats, of course, because the sole function of cats, in the Great Chain of Life, is to cause harm to human beings.[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:Drug testing is very big in football. This is because football players are Role Models for young people. All you young people out there want to grow up and have enormous necks and get knee operations as often as haircuts. That's why the people in charge of football don't want you to associate it with drugs. They want you to associate it with alcohol.[Dave Barry] Quote:To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.[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:Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.[Dave Barry] Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[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:A guy could have one major limb lying on the ground a full ten feet from the rest of his body, and he'd claim it was 'just a sprain'.[Dave Barry] Quote:My mother used to say to me:[Dave Barry] Quote:The ACLU is always yakking about the Constitution, and most of us are getting mighty tired of it. I mean, if the Constitution is so great, how come it was amended so many times? Huh?[Dave Barry] Quote:The only flaw in the Hinckley trial is that it left a lot of people with the impression that psychiatrists are just a bunch of bearded voodoo doctors who espouse confusing and wildly contradictory theories that have nothing to do with common sense. This is totally unfair. Many psychiatrists are clean-shaven.[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:When you get right down to it, the Safety Lecture is a silly idea. I mean, if the passengers really thought the plane was going to crash, they wouldn't get on it in the first place, let alone learn how to get an adequate oxygen supply on the way down.[Dave Barry] Quote:Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.[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:We should enact an 'e' tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary 'e,' such as 'shoppe' or 'olde,' and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per 'e.' We should also consider an additional $50,000 'ye' tax, so that the owner of a store called 'Ye Olde Shoppe' would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as 'Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,' the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.[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:The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read, and they have far more teeth than would be necessary for a strictly seafood diet. Their mouths look like the entire $39.95 set of Ginsu knives, including the handy Arm Slicer.[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:Cooking was invented in prehistoric times, when a primitive tribe had a lucky accident. The tribe had killed an animal and was going to eat it raw, when a tribe member named Woog tripped and dropped it into the fire. At first the other tribe members were angry at Woog, but then, as the aroma of burning meat filled the air, they had an idea. So they ate Woog raw.[Dave Barry] Quote:I assume you are on the Internet. If you are not, then pardon my French, but vous ehzeh un big loser. Today EVERYBODY is on the Internet, including the primitive Mud People of the Amazon rain forest. In the old days, when the Mud People needed food, they had to manually throw spears at wild boars; whereas today they simply get on the Internet, go to www.spear-a-boar.com and click their mouse a few times (the Mud People use actual mice). Within three business days, a large box is delivered to them by a UPS driver, whom they eat.[Dave Barry] Quote:I have not felt remotely cool for a long time, thanks largely to the relentless efforts of my teenage son, whose goal in life is to make me feel 3,500 years old. We'll be in the car, and he'll say, 'You wanna hear my new CD?' And I, flattered that he thinks his old man might like the same music he does, will say 'Sure!' So he increases the sound-system volume setting from '4' to 'Meteor Impact,' and he puts in a CD by a band with a name like 'Pustule,' and the next thing I know gigantic nuclear bass notes have blown out all the car windows and activated both the driver- and passenger-side air bags, and I'm writhing on the floor, screaming for mercy with jets of blood spurting three feet from my ears. My son then ejects the CD, smiling contentedly, knowing he as purchased a winner. On those extremely rare occasions when I like one of his CDs, I imagine he destroys it with a blowtorch.[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:In some versions of my original contest column I had proposed, in a lighthearted manner, that we reduce the deficit by 'selling unnecessary states such as Oklahoma to the Japanese.' This caused a number of Oklahomans to send in letters containing many correctly spelled words and making the central lighthearted point that I am a jerk. They also sent me official literature stating that Oklahoma has enormous quantities of culture in the form of ballet, Oral Roberts, etc., and that the Official State Reptile -- I am not making this up -- is something called the 'Mountain Boomer.' So I apologize to Oklahoma, and as a token of my sincerity I'm willing to sell my state, Florida, to the Japanese, assuming nobody objects to the fact that Japan would suddenly become the most heavily armed nation on Earth.[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:Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.[Leo Burke] Quote:I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.[Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.[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:Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.[Mark Twain] 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:Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.[Socrates] Quote:It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.[George Dennison Prentice] 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:A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.[George Dennison Prentice] Quote:Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.[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:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.[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:You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.[Edmund Burke] Quote:He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.[Edmund Burke] Quote:It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.[Edmund Burke] Quote:No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.[Edmund Burke] Quote:The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.[Edmund Burke] Quote:They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.[Edmund Burke] Quote:When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?[Stephen Hawking] Quote:I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?[Stephen Hawking] 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:We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.[Stephen Hawking] Quote:God does not play dice with the universe.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.[Aristotle] 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:Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.[Aristotle] Quote:Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.[Aristotle] Quote:Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.[Aristotle] Quote:Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.[Aristotle] Quote:Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.[Aristotle] Quote:Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.[Aristotle] Quote:I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.[Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.[Aristotle] Quote:It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.[Aristotle] Quote:It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.[Aristotle] Quote:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.[Aristotle] Quote:Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.[Aristotle] Quote:Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.[Aristotle] Quote:My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.[Aristotle] Quote:No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.[Aristotle] Quote:Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.[Aristotle] Quote:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Aristotle] Quote:The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.[Aristotle] Quote:The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.[Aristotle] Quote:The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.[Aristotle] Quote:The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.[Aristotle] Quote:Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.[Aristotle] Quote:A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.[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:Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Lack of money is the root of all evil.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.[Laurence Peter] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] Quote:An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.[Laurence Peter] 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:Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.[Laurence Peter] Quote:If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?[Laurence Peter] Quote:Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.[Laurence Peter] Quote:A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?[Lauren Bacall] Quote:One of the most responsible things you can do as an adult is to become more of a child.[Wayne Dyer] Quote:My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and I only feel its presence because it keeps me warm. Old coats and old friends are the same thing.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Diligence is the mother of good luck.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.[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:Games lubricate the body and the mind.[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:Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.[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:Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The first mistake in public business is the going into it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.[Bill Maher] Quote:Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.[Michael Korda] Quote:Get mad, then get over it.[Colin Powell] 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:Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.[Colin Powell] Quote:Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'[Colin Powell] Quote:There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.[Colin Powell] Quote:When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I'll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.[Colin Powell] Quote:If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.[Dorothy Parker] 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:The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:They sicken of the calm who know the storm.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.[Mark Twain] Quote:Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.[Mark Twain] Quote:Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.[Mark Twain] Quote:The movies that are the easiest to make are the hardest to watch.[Bruce Campbell] Quote:Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.[Mark Twain] Quote:Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.[Mark Twain] Quote:Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.[Mark Twain] Quote:Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.[Mark Twain] Quote:Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.[Mark Twain] Quote:George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.[Mark Twain] Quote:Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.[Mark Twain] Quote:Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.[Mark Twain] Quote:I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.[Mark Twain] Quote:Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.[Mark Twain] Quote:If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.[Mark Twain] Quote:India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.[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:It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.[Mark Twain] Quote:Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.[Mark Twain] Quote:Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.[Mark Twain] Quote:Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.[Mark Twain] Quote:Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.[Mark Twain] Quote:The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.[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:Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.[Britney Spears] Quote:Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.[Britney Spears] Quote:When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.[Britney Spears] Quote:Life is not a support system for art. It's the other way around.[Stephen King] Quote:If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.[Stephen King] Quote:I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.[Stephen King] Quote:Fiction is the truth inside the lie.[Stephen King] Quote:Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.[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:The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.[Stephen King] Quote:The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.[Stephen King] Quote:Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.[Stephen King] Quote:People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk.[Stephen King] Quote:We're all on the same roller coaster, just in different seats.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.[Saint Augustine] Quote:This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.[Saint Augustine] Quote:What, then, is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.[Frank Tyger] Quote:The biggest bore is the person who is bored by everyone and everything.[Frank Tyger] Quote:There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.[Frank Tyger] Quote:To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.[Frank Tyger] Quote:Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.[Frank Tyger] Quote:In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.[Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty -- excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -- should persist after the beauty was gone.[Mary Arnim] Quote:The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.[Hada Bejar] Quote:No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?[Annie Dillard] Quote:The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.[Fulke Greville] Quote:Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.[Aldous Huxley] 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:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is Music.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Maybe this world is another planet's hell.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Experience teaches only the teachable.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Chastity...the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later, when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.[Jonathan Carroll] Quote:If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.[Olin Miller] Quote:For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.[Bill Cosby] Quote:A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.[Bill Cosby] Quote:I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.[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:Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.[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:Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.[Bill Cosby] Quote:There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.[Bill Cosby] Quote:The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:You do not lead by hitting people over the head ? that's assault, not leadership.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.[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:The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.[Thomas Paine] Quote:There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.[Thomas Paine] Quote:Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.[Thomas Paine] Quote:When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.[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: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:When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The worst of all fears is the fear of living.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:There is quite enough sorrow and shame amd suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.[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:Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.[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:A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.[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:War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Suffrage is the pivotal right.[Susan B. Anthony] Quote:To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.[Erich Fromm] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.[George Washington] Quote:Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.[George Washington] 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:I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.[George Washington] Quote:If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.[George Washington] Quote:It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.[George Washington] Quote:My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.[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:The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.[George Washington] Quote:War - an act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.[George Washington] Quote:Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.[Saint Augustine] Quote:God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.[Saint Augustine] Quote:There may be some things better than sex, and some things worse than sex. But there is nothing exactly like it.[Author Unknown] 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:They (Christians) would throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.[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:I couldn't tell if the streaker was a man or a woman because it had a bag on it's head.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.[Yogi Berra] Quote:When you come to a fork in the road, take it.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.[Yogi Berra] Quote:The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.[Yogi Berra] Quote:You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Little League baseball is a good thing 'cause it keeps the parents off the streets and it keeps the kids out of the house.[Yogi Berra] Quote:Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.[Ernest Hemingway] 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:My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.[George Carlin] Quote:Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.[George Carlin] Quote:Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.[George Carlin] Quote:I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.[George Carlin] Quote:I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.[George Carlin] Quote:There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.[George Carlin] Quote:Weather forecast for tonight: dark.[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:We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Curiousity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.[Steven Wright] Quote:Of course the meek will inherit the earth, what, did you think they'd take it by force?[Author Unknown] Quote:If a man does his best, what else is there?[George Patton] Quote:Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.[Albert Einstein] Quote:I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.[Woody Allen] Quote:If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?[Will Rogers] Quote:It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.[Mark Twain] Quote:Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.[Thomas Edison] Quote:There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.[Thomas Edison] Quote:If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Great ideas originate in the muscles.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.[Thomas Edison] Quote:It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.[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:Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.[Thomas Edison] Quote:I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.[Thomas Edison] Quote:The value of an idea lies in the using of it.[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:Happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:Can't live with 'em. Can't legally torture them to death.[Author Unknown] Quote:Socialism: An attempt to curb the destructive power of monopolies by creating the biggest one of all.[Author Unknown] Quote:Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.[Winston Churchill] 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:Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.[George Eliot] Quote:Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.[Andr Gide] Quote:When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.[Otto von Bismarck] Quote:No side will win the Battle of the Sexes. There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.[Winston Churchill] Quote:You shall be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.[Edward Abbey] Quote:Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:It's not about finding the right man, it's about being the right woman.[Debby Jones] Quote:The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.[Ring Lardner] Quote:When the solution is simple, God is answering.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.[Martin Farquhar Tupper] Quote:Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.[Margaret Thatcher] 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:I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Diplomacy...the art of restraining power.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a heart.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:In crises the most daring course is often safest.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.[Confucius] Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.[Confucius] Quote:Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.[Confucius] Quote:Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.[Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Quote:Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Beware how you take away hope from another human being.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:I don't generally feel anything until noon, then it's time for my nap.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A riot is the language of the unheard.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.[Martin Luther King Jr.] 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:It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'[Martin Luther King Jr.] 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:First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.[Steve Martin] Quote:Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman - it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.[Steve Martin] Quote:Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.[Steve Martin] Quote:Don't have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.[Steve Martin] Quote:There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won't stand for that.[Steve Martin] Quote:Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.[Steve Martin] Quote:You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.[Steve Martin] Quote:I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.[William F. Buckley] Quote:Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.[William F. Buckley] Quote:We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority,let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.[William F. Buckley] Quote:Let him that would move the world first move himself.[Socrates] Quote:Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.[Socrates] 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:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] Quote:True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.[Socrates] Quote:Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.[Socrates] Quote:A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.[Socrates] Quote:He is richest who is content with the least.[Socrates] Quote:To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.[Josh Billings] Quote:True friends stab you in the front.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Men are what their mothers made them.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.[Alexander Hamilton] Quote:My goal is to someday be the person my dog thinks I am.[Author Unknown] Quote:Pulses and impulses both come from the heart.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.[Heywood Broun] Quote:If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.[Edmond and Jules de Goncourt] Quote:I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lords side.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.[Henry Mencken] Quote:If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.[Woody Allen] Quote:Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.[Mark Twain] Quote:Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.[Woody Allen] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.[Douglas Adams] Quote:The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.[Fyodor Dostoevsky] Quote:The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.[Winston Churchill] Quote:There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.[Josh Billings] Quote:Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.[Will Rogers] Quote:I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.[Ed Gardner] Quote:It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.[Henry Mencken] Quote:When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.[Abraham Maslow] Quote:I have a hobby...I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it...[Steven Wright] 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:What's another word for thesaurus?[Steven Wright] Quote:The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.[Mark Twain] Quote:I arrive at the end of this review having done my duty as a critic. I have described the movie accurately and you have a good idea what you are in for if you go to see it. Most of you will not. I cannot argue with you. Some of you will--the brave and the curious. You embody the spirit of the man who first wondered what it would taste like to eat an oyster.[Roger Ebert] 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:It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.[Woody Allen] Quote:Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o'clock.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:Of all lies, art is the least untrue.[Gustave Flaubert] Quote:If investments are keeping you awake at night, sell down to the sleeping point.[Author Unknown] Quote:If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.[Katherine Hepburn] Quote:Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.[George Burns] Quote:In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.[Paul Harvey] Quote:A man only curses because he doesn't know the words to express what is on his mind.[Malcolm X] Quote:My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.[Aristotle] Quote:A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be temped to risk his own destruction.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.[John McCain] Quote:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Stupid people surround themselves with smart people. Smart people surround themselves with smart people who disagree with them.[Author Unknown] Quote:Some men would rather pursue happiness than obtain it.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Principles only mean something when you stick to them when its inconvenient.[Author Unknown] Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).[Ayn Rand] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:Lead, follow, or get out of the way.[Thomas Paine] Quote:The curve is more powerful than the sword.[Mae West] Quote:The crowd makes the ballgame.[Ty Cobb] Quote:Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.[Helen Keller] Quote:At least five times...with the Arian and the Albigensian, with the Humanist sceptic, after Voltaire and after Darwin, the Faith has to all appearance gone to the dogs. In each of these five cases it was the dog that died.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.[GK Chesterton] Quote:A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.[Thomas Sowell] Quote:The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.[Author Unknown] Quote:I'd rather hear an old truth than a new lie.[Chris Bowyer] Quote:As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.[Rita Mae Brown] Quote:The movie's director is the pilot. It's his vision. For an actor, the time to worry about flying is when you're on the ground. If you don't want to fly with the director, don't get on the plane.[Denzel Washington] Quote:More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.[Woody Allen] Quote:Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th's] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.[Tim Blair] Quote:I've occasionally heard that I was kicked out of Harvard for being a Communist, for dealing drugs, for corrupting minors, or for diverse other infractions of local decorum. Unfortunately, none of these rumors are true. The one I've heard more often is that I am dead. That one I encouraged, hoping it would cut down on the junk mail. It didn't.[Tom Lehrer] Quote:I would rather be a failure doing something I love than be a sucess doing something I hate.[George Burns] 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:Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the oposite direction.[George Carlin] Quote:For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all wish to be judged by our peers, by the men 'after our own heart.' Only they really know our mind and only they judge it by standards we fully acknowledge. Theirs is the praise we really covet and the blame we really dread. The little pockets of early Chrstians survived because they cared exclusively for the love of 'the bretheren' and stopped their ears to the opinion of the Pagan society around them. But a circle of criminals, cranks, or perverts survives in just the same way; by becoming deaf to the opinion of the outer world, by discounting it as the chatter of outsiders who 'don't understand,' of the 'conventional,' the 'bourgeois,' the 'Establishment,' of prigs, prudes, and humbugs.[C.S. Lewis] 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:In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.[GK Chesterton] 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:Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.[Edward Abbey] Quote:Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.[Bertrand Russell] Quote:I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.[Woody Allen] 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:There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.[Andr Gide] Quote:He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't![George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.[Woody Allen] Quote:Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.[David Hume] Quote:Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.[Gloria Steinem] Quote:Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.[Rebecca West] Quote:Until you do what you believe in, how do you know whether you believe in it or not?[Leo Tolstoy] Quote:Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.[Jules Renard] Quote:Of course the people dont want war...that is understood. But voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.[Hermann Goering] 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:War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.[Mao Zedong] Quote:Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.'[George Orwell] Quote:If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:I figure wherever I am, that's the place to be.[Tommy Lasorda] Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes] Quote:A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.[Ludwig Wittgenstein] Quote:We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another.[Jerry Bruckheimer] Quote:Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.[Karl Marx] Quote:Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.[Aristotle] Quote:Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.[Sydney Harris] Quote:Calm, lasting beauty comes only in a dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.[H.P. Lovecraft] Quote:Baseball is the belly-button of our society.[Bill Lee] Quote:Love's always a little lonely in the beginning.[Douglas Sirk] Quote:The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.[Doug Larson] Quote:TV is chewing gum for the eyes.[Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Our best thoughts come from others.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:If music be the food of love, play on.[William Shakespeare] Quote:I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.[George Eliot] Quote:He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.[George Eliot] Quote:In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.[H.G. Wells] Quote:There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.[Mark Twain] Quote:A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.[Madonna Ciccone] Quote:I love Thanksgiving. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they've done for me.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:I would rather be governor of California than own Austria.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] Quote:The devil made me do it the first time, and after that I did it on my own.[Robert Fulghum] Quote:I stopped getting the girl about ten years ago. Which is just as well because I'd forgotten what I wanted her for.[John Wayne] 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:In the faces of men and women I see God.[Walt Whitman] Quote:We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and then bid the geldings to be fruitful.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Without losers, where would the winners be?[Casey Stengel] Quote:The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, <b[Mahatma Gandhi] 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:I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.[Mahatma Gandhi] 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:A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Absence makes the heart grow fonder.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Actors are one family over the entire world.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.[Mother Teresa] Quote:You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.[Albert Camus] Quote:Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.[Albert Camus] Quote:A loving heart is the truest wisdom.[Charles Dickens] Quote:Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Life is a festival only to the wise.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sent iment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The path to greatness is along with others.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.[Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.[James Baldwin] Quote:People are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.[Lawrence Diggs] Quote:Life is but a brief moment. The years go by quickly and old age arrives suddenly before we have an inkling. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain. Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives they've lived, they realise they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.[Borje Vahamaki] Quote:Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.[Earl Nightingale] 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:Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.[George Orwell] Quote:The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.[Mark Twain] Quote:Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.[Mark Twain] Quote:The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.[Bill Maher] Quote:Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men. The other 999 follow women.[Groucho Marx] Quote:The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Those whom the gods love grow young.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.[Mark Twain] 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:But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.[Albert Einstein] 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:Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.[Barbara Tober] Quote:Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.[John Barrymore] Quote:Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.[John Lennon] Quote:But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.[Orson Welles] Quote:Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.[Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)] Quote:If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.[Doug Larson] Quote:The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.[Woody Allen] Quote:Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.[Dorothy Parker] 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:Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.[Woody Allen] Quote:Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.[Harry Blackmun] 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:Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.[Niels Bohr] Quote:Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.[Niels Bohr] Quote:Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.[Niels Bohr] Quote:In the long run, you only hit what you aim at.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:You must be the change you wish to see in the world.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton. You may as well make it dance.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.[Anne Frank] Quote:Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words: it is war minus the shooting.[George Orwell] Quote:A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.[Saul Bellow] Quote:You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.[Saul Bellow] Quote:The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.[Saul Bellow] Quote:A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.[Saul Bellow] Quote:California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.[Saul Bellow] Quote:Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.[Saul Bellow] Quote:I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'[Saul Bellow] Quote:Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.[Henry Mencken] Quote:The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.[Mark Twain] Quote:It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.[George Patton] Quote:Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.[Henry Ford] Quote:Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.[Henry Ford] Quote:The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:I have learnt that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.[Booker T. Washington] Quote:I think and think for months and years, ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.[Albert Einstein] Quote:For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.[Carl Sagan] Quote:If devotion to truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking...the alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.[Ayn Rand] Quote:We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.[Henry Mencken] Quote:I went out to the country so i could examine the simple things in life.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.[Erica Jong] Quote:Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.[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:The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.[Margaret Mead] Quote:It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.[Ayn Rand] Quote:The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we often are on the line and do not know it.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.[Author Unknown] Quote:The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:Success is dependent upon the glands; sweat glands.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.[Zig Ziglar] Quote:We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine.[George Washington] 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:It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.[Patrick Henry] Quote:Blood is the ink of our life's story.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:I'm not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.[Woody Allen] Quote:What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?[George Eliot] 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:An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.[Daniel Webster] Quote:There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.[Daniel Webster] 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:Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.[Daniel Webster] Quote:I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.[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:Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.[Daniel Webster] Quote:The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Wisdom begins at the end.[Daniel Webster] Quote:If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.[David Gemmell] Quote:Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.[Author Unknown] Quote:Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:Character is what you are in the dark.[John Whorfin] Quote:A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.[Peter Wimsey] Quote:Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.[Milton Friedman] 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:After 'The Matrix,' I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me.[Carrie-Anne Moss] Quote:Experience has taught me that there is one chief reason why some people succeed and others fail. The difference is not one of knowing, but of doing. The successful man is not so superior in ability as in action. So far as success can be reduced to a formula, it consists of this: doing what you know you should do.[Roger Babson] Quote:Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.[Erna Bombeck] 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:Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.[Truman Capote] Quote:I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.[Tom Hopkins] Quote:I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.[Samuel Goldwyn] 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:If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.[John Rockefeller] Quote:I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot, and I missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is precisely why I succeed.[Michael Jordan] Quote:Chance favors the prepared mind.[Louis Pasteur] Quote:The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.[Vince Lombardi] 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:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I...I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.[Robert Frost] Quote:The leader of genius must have the ability to make differentopponents appear as if they belonged to one category.[Adolf Hitler] Quote:What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.[Phyllis Diller] Quote:Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home![Charles Dickens] 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:I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.[Charles Dickens] Quote:My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.[Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:I just finished my first book. Pretty soon, I'm gonna read another.[Rodney Dangerfield] Quote:I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I am easily satisfied with the very best.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Risk is what separates the good part of life from the tedium.[John Foley (Johnny Zero)] Quote:A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.[William James] Quote:I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.[Fred Allen] Quote:If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.[Katherine Hepburn] Quote:What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.[Gene Roddenberry] Quote:Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:You don't lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.[Winston Churchill] 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:No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.[Reinhold Niebuhr] Quote:A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.[P.J. O'Rourke] Quote:Whoso loves believes the impossible.[Elizabeth Barrett Browning] Quote:Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year. And yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time.[Laura Ingalls Wilder] Quote:There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.[W.J. Cameron] Quote:Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall.[Larry Wilde] Quote:Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.[Richard Lamm] Quote:I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time. A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. The only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.[Charles Dickens] 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:I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth, good-will to men![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.[J.R.R. Tolkien] 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:Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.[Will Rogers] Quote:The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.[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:Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.[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:The wise speak only of what they know.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.[W.C. Fields] 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:Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.[Adam Smith] Quote:Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.[Adam Smith] Quote:Man was made for action, and to promote by the exertion of his faculties such changes in the external circumstances both of himself and others, as may seem most favourable to the happiness of all.[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:Man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.[Adam Smith] Quote:Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.[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:The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.[Adam Smith] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[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'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Art is the lie that tells the truth.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it.[Albert Einstein] Quote:My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.[Winston Churchill] Quote:The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:If you can't convince them, confuse them.[Harry Truman] Quote:It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.[Harry Truman] Quote:The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.[Woody Allen] Quote:The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.[Brian Tracy] Quote:Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.[Indira Gandhi] 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:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace.[Helen Keller] Quote:It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.[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:Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.[Groucho Marx] Quote:Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.[Groucho Marx] Quote:I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.[Gloria Steinem] 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:Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.[Robin Williams] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.[George Santayana] Quote:Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.[Mark Twain] Quote:Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.[George Burns] Quote:There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God![Patrick Henry] Quote:Admiration. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.[Mark Twain] Quote:To be, or not to be: that is the question.[William Shakespeare] Quote:I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.[Blaise Pascal] Quote:None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision?[Marilyn Monroe] Quote:The fight is won or lost far away from the witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road; long before I dance under those lights.[Muhammad Ali] 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:Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.[Amy Bloom] Quote:There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.[Billy Graham] Quote:A friend is able to see you as the wonderful person God created you to be.[Ann D. Parrish] Quote:Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.[Matthew Arnold] Quote:A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Even the poor should give something to charity.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Faith is not only in the heart; it should be put into words.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:I conquered my hostility by putting it away until the day I might need it.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:We each have the kind of children we deserve.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?[Vince Lombardi] Quote:We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.[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:It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.[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:Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.[Fred Allen] Quote:A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.[Winston Churchill] Quote:War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way 'til you can.[Winston Churchill] Quote:It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.[Winston Churchill] 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:Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:The beauty of the past belongs to the past.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.[Ansel Adams] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.[Ansel Adams] Quote:Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.[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:To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.[Ansel Adams] Quote:The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.[Mark Twain] Quote:Of all the animals, man is the only one that lies.[Mark Twain] Quote:There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.[Mark Twain] Quote:In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.[Albert Einstein] Quote:If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts: the less you know the hotter you get.[Bertrand Russell] 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:Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.[C.S. Lewis] 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:Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.[Daniel Webster] 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:Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.[William Shakespeare] Quote:There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.[Joseph Addison] 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:The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.[Amy Bloom] Quote:I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.[Christopher Marlowe] 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:Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:Regarding the debate about faith and works: It?s like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Drive thy business or it will drive thee.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.[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 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:Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.[H.G. Wells] Quote:Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.[E.B. White] Quote:Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man?s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.[Oscar Wilde] 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:It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.[George Washington] Quote:The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.[George Washington] Quote:The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.[George Washington] Quote:It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.[George MacDonald] Quote:Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But this must happen in such a way that no one becomes aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand, to be produced immediately.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances as though they were realities. and are often more influenced by things that seem than by those that are.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:War should be the only study of a prince.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.[George MacDonald] 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:In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.[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:When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.[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:Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character![Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same great adventure.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.[Theodore Roosevelt] 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:A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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:A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.[P.J. O'Rourke] 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:A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.[Fred Allen] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.[Douglas Adams] 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:What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.[Joseph Addison] Quote:Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action![Albert Einstein] Quote:It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.[Albert Einstein] 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:One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your courage.[Ronald Reagan] 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:A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.[Geof Greenleaf] Quote:It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.[Jack Handey] Quote:To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,' you can say, 'Sorry, got these sacks.'[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:If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact.[Jack Handey] Quote:How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.[Jack Handey] Quote:Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again.[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:I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT?!'[Jack Handey] Quote:Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing?![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:I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.[Jack Handey] Quote:To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary. I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.[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:I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him.[Jack Handey] Quote:Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS? It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around.[Jack Handey] Quote:I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.[Jack Handey] Quote:Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.[Jack Handey] Quote:A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.[Jack Handey] Quote:Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.[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:When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.[Jack Handey] Quote:The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.[Jack Handey] Quote:Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Pain is just weakness leaving the body.[Author Unknown] 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:When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.[Douglas Adams] Quote:The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Speed provides the one great modern pleasure.[Aldous Huxley] 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:This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Courage is the first of the virtues, because it makes all others possible.[Aristotle] Quote:Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.[Will Rogers] Quote:The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.[D.H. Lawrence] Quote:I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.[Erica Jong] Quote:To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.[Confucius] Quote:?Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.[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:Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.[Erica Jong] Quote:Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:When real music comes to me - the music of the speres, the music that surpasseth understanding - that has nothing to do with me, cause I'm just the channel. The only joy for me is for it to be given to me, and to transcribe it like a medium...those moments are what I live for.[John Lennon] Quote:America is the first country to have gone from barbarism to decadence without the usual intervening period of civilization.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I think the idea of art kills creativity.[Douglas Adams] Quote:A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.[John F. Kennedy] 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:I think it's insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It's an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you've experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.[Rush Limbaugh] 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:People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:People only see what they are prepared to see.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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 year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.[Henry Ford] Quote:There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.[Martin Luther King Jr.] 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:I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.[Thomas Paine] Quote:'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.[Thomas Paine] 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:Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.[Pat Robertson] Quote:Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.[Cheris Kramerae] Quote:If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.[Alphonse Karr] Quote:The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It?s the age-old struggle?the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.[Omar Bradley] Quote:My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first![Earl Wilson] Quote:There are only two places in the league--first place and no place.[Tom Seaver] Quote:The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much.[Mel Gibson] Quote:Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.[Sam Brown] Quote:The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.[James Madison] Quote:There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.[Robert Alden] Quote:A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.[Fidel Castro] Quote:No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Indeed it is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.[Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear ? kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor ? with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.[Douglas MacArthur] 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:The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:Our industries have expanded to such a point that they will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets of the world. Our domestic markets no longer suffice. We need foreign markets.[Woodrow Wilson] Quote:I have gathered a posie of other men?s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.[John Bartlett] Quote:...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Life is just one grand sweet song, so start the music.[Ronald Reagan] Quote:You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.[Orson Welles] Quote:To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.[Albert Camus] Quote:Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.[Robert Heinlein] 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:What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.[Siddhartha Buddha] 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:I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.[John Adams] Quote:It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.[John Adams] Quote:There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.[John Adams] Quote:The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.[Will Rogers] 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:In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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:The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.[Socrates] Quote:Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.[Robert Louis Stevenson] 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:I heard guys say they got into rock and roll to pick up women. I didn't get into rock to pick up women, but I sure adapted.[Ted Nugent] Quote:Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.[Edward R. Murrow] Quote:The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.[John Powell] Quote:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it.[Henry Ford] Quote:First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'check enclosed.'[Dorothy Parker] Quote:If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred.[George Burns] Quote:The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.[Thomas Carlyle] Quote:A speech is a solemn responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours of the audience's time - more than four days - which should be a hanging offense.[Jenkin Lloyd Jones] Quote:The President of the United States hears a hundred voices telling him that he is the greatest man in the world. He must listen carefully to hear the one voice that tells him he's not.[Harry Truman] Quote:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis] 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:If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.[George Orwell] Quote:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.[Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares.[William Shakespeare] Quote:The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than they do about whether terrorists are killing us.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.[Gene Brown] Quote:A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.[Amanda Grier] Quote:Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.[William Rotsler] Quote:The days you work are the best days.[Georgia O'Keefe] Quote:I never knew what real happiness was until I got married, and by then it was too late.[Max Kaufman] Quote:Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.[John Milton] Quote:We're actors--we're the opposite of people.[Tom Stoppard] Quote:This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.[Dick Vertleib] Quote:Hitting is 50% above the shoulders.[Ted Williams] Quote:You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.[Pete Rose] 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 hot dog at the ball park is better than steak at the Ritz.[Humphrey Bogart] Quote:The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.[Bryant Gumbel] Quote:The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.[Earl Warren] Quote:Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.[George Will] Quote:Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?[Paris Hilton] Quote:What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity.[Friedrich Nietzsche] 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:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.[Karl Marx] Quote:Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.[Jacob Braude] Quote:We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.[John Updike] Quote:Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.[Plato] Quote:He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:Funny how the new things are the old things.[Rudyard Kipling] Quote:All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.[Henny Youngman] Quote:I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.[Henny Youngman] Quote:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.[Henny Youngman] Quote:I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.[Henny Youngman] Quote:My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.[Henny Youngman] Quote:It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.[Erna Bombeck] Quote:The people who cast the votes don?t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.[Joseph Stalin] Quote:A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.[Henry Mencken] Quote:What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:Death is not the worst than can happen to men.[Plato] Quote:If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.[Plato] Quote:Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.[Plato] Quote:Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.[Plato] Quote:No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.[Plato] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?[Plato] Quote:The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.[Plato] Quote:The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.[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:Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.[Plato] Quote:Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.[Plato] Quote:He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.[Plato] Quote:Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.[Plato] Quote:The beginning is the most important part of the work.[Plato] Quote:There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.[Plato] Quote:Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.[Plato] Quote:I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.[Fred Allen] 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:A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.[Ring Lardner] Quote:If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.[Malcolm Forbes] Quote:Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.[P.J. O'Rourke] 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:We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd.[Alexander Pope] Quote:You must do the thing you think you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them![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:Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.[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:The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In heaven all the interesting people are missing.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Man is more ape than many of the apes.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, givne style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.[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:How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else![Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.[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:Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.[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:All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. [Pindar] Quote:In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. [Pliny the Elder] 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:I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. [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:A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. [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:MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's. [Dwight D. Eisenhower] Quote:We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Grasp the subject, the words will follow. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. [Cato the Elder] 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:But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. [E. M. Forster] Quote:Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. [Seneca] Quote:Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. [Aaron Copland] Quote:The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.' [Aaron Copland] 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:Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. [Evan Esar] Quote:Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. [Steven Wright] Quote:I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. [Georgia O'Keeffe] Quote:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. [Henny Youngman] Quote:My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. [Henny Youngman] Quote:When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. [Henny Youngman] Quote:Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Drive thy business or it will drive thee. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. [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:Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. [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:A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. [Arthur Brisbane] Quote:Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [Ovid] Quote:Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. [Ovid] Quote:I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. [Victor Hugo] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] Quote:Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is?...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy. [Jeff Melvoin] 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:In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. [Charles de Montesquieu] Quote:Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. [Bill Watterson] Quote:Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language. [Henry James] Quote:There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart. [Henry James] Quote:Experience teaches only the teachable. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Experience teaches only the teachable. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:The less their ability, the more their conceit. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [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:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. [Erica Jong] Quote:Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. [Erica Jong] Quote:The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. [Henry Miller] Quote:Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. [Peter Ustinov] Quote:There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. [Pliny the Younger] Quote:First weigh the considerations, then take the risks. [Herodotus] Quote:The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:The truth is more important than the facts. [Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. [Charles De Gaulle] Quote:Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. [Amos Bronson Alcott] Quote:A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. [Lisa Alther] Quote:This England never did, nor never shall, <br>Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. [William Shakespeare] Quote:This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, <br>This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, <br>This other Eden, demi-paradise, <br>This fortress built by Nature for herself <br>Against infection and the hand of war, <br>This happy breed of men, this little world, <br>This precious stone set in the silver sea, <br>Which serves it in the office of a wall <br>Or as a moat defensive to a house, <br>Against the envy of less happier lands,-- <br>This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English. [William Shakespeare] Quote:O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!<br>It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock<br>The meat it feeds on. [William Shakespeare] Quote:The quality of mercy is not strain'd, <br>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven <br>Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: <br>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. <br>'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes <br>The throned monarch better than his crown; <br>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, <br>The attribute to awe and majesty, <br>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; <br>But mercy is above this sceptred sway, <br>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, <br>It is an attribute to God himself; <br>And earthly power doth then show likest God's, <br>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, <br>Though justice be thy plea, consider this, <br>That in the course of justice none of us <br>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; <br>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render <br>The deeds of mercy. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, <br>Is the immediate jewel of their souls: <br>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; <br>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; <br>But he that filches from me my good name <br>Robs me of that which not enriches him <br>And makes me poor indeed. [William Shakespeare] Quote:Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future. [Havelock Ellis] Quote:The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. [Havelock Ellis] Quote:What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. [Havelock Ellis] Quote:After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. [George W. Bush] Quote:Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. [George Santayana] Quote:There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. [George Santayana] Quote:Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. [George Santayana] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] Quote:All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [George Santayana] Quote:Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. [George Santayana] Quote:A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. [George Santayana] Quote:Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. [Aesop] Quote:It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. [Aesop] Quote:The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. [Aesop] Quote:The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. [Aesop] Quote:It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. [Aesop] Quote:A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. [Jack London] 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:All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. [Edmund Burke] Quote:No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. [Edmund Burke] Quote:It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. [Aeschylus] Quote:Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. [Aeschylus] Quote:Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. [John Henry Cardinal Newman] Quote:The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. [John Cage] Quote:But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. [Hannah Arendt] Quote:Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due. [Earl Warren] Quote:Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. [Stuart Stevens] Quote:Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. [Horace Walpole] Quote:You signed a contract. But much more important than that, you gave your word. And I intend to hold you to that word within the bounds of the law. If necessary, without the bounds of the law. [Josh Brand and John Falsey] Quote:Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. [Denis Diderot] Quote:Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. [Georges Clemenceau] Quote:One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. [German Proverb] Quote:Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. [Fred Allen] Quote:You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. [Fred Allen] Quote:Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. [Russell Baker] Quote:I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:The chief business of the American people is business. [Calvin Coolidge] Quote:Getting caught is the mother of invention. [Robert Byrne] Quote:I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming?suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. [Agatha Christie] Quote:Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Agatha Christie] Quote:I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. [Agatha Christie] Quote:I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. [Agatha Christie] Quote:One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. [Agatha Christie] Quote:The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. [E. B. White] Quote:May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say. [Anonymous] Quote:To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam) [Anonymous] Quote:Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. [Anonymous] Quote:Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. [Elizabeth Cady Stanton] Quote:Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war? [Jawaharlal Nehru] Quote:The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. [Jawaharlal Nehru] 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:If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh] Quote:In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. [Jane Austen] Quote:One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. [Jane Austen] Quote:Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. [Elizabeth I] Quote:In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:Safeguard the health both of body and soul. [Cleobulus] Quote:Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous. [Sir Thomas Browne] 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:If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. [Dale Carnegie] Quote:With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. [Henry Kissinger] Quote:If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. [Meister Eckhart] Quote:Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. [Demosthenes] Quote:I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. [Arnold Bennett] Quote:In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. [Virgil] Quote:The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] 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:Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken on its own merits. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here? Electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum? It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical. [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 is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [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:Marriage. It's like a cultural hand-rail. It links folks to the past and guides them to the future. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. [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:Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [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:Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. [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:Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. [Anne Frank] Quote:Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. [Marcus Valerius Martialis] Quote:The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. [Hasidic Saying] Quote:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. [Carl Jung] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. [Abigail Adams] Quote:History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind. [Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The only joy in the world is to begin. [Chuck] Quote:A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. [Emily Dickinson] Quote:There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. [James Branch Cabell] Quote:The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel. [James Thurber] Quote:I hate women because they always know where things are. [James Thurber] Quote:Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at. [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you? [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is... [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] Quote:You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube? Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass? [Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess] 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:I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. [Craig Volk] Quote:The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take. [Craig Volk] Quote:We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] Quote:You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. [Norman Douglas] Quote:The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. [Sir William Osler] Quote:Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. [Sir William Osler] Quote:Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. [Mark Twain] Quote:The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession. [Mark Twain] Quote:All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. [Mark Twain] Quote:Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. [Mark Twain] Quote:If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. [Mark Twain] Quote:When in doubt, tell the truth. [Mark Twain] Quote:Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. [Mark Twain] Quote:A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. [Mark Twain] Quote:It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. [Mark Twain] Quote:Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. [Mark Twain] Quote:To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. [Mark Twain] Quote:Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. [Mark Twain] Quote:Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. [James A. Froude] Quote:If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. [Tryon Edwards] Quote:He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. [Douglas Adams] Quote:Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. [Douglas Adams] Quote:The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. [John F. Kennedy] 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:Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society... [Herbert Hoover] Quote:The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability. [Tom Lehrer] Quote:An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. [Chester Bowles] Quote:Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. [Chester Bowles] Quote:Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. [Chester Bowles] Quote:The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success. [Anna Quindlen] Quote:The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. [A. Whitney Brown] Quote:The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. [Henry J. Tillman] Quote:Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein. [Phyllis Diller] Quote:Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. [Al Franken] Quote:Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. [Cicero] Quote:I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. [Cicero] Quote:Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. [Cicero] Quote:Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? [Cicero] Quote:The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. [Cicero] Quote:History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. [Cicero] Quote:Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? [Cicero] Quote:There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. [Cicero] Quote:If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. [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:Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. [George Bernard Shaw] 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:Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. [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:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. [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:Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. [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:How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names. [Alice Walker] Quote:Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. [Edward R. Murrow] Quote:In charity there is no excess. [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:An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. [Nicholas Chamfort] Quote:This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. [Agathon] Quote:This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. [Agathon] Quote:Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. [Andre Gide] Quote:Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. [Andre Gide] Quote:It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. [Jerome K. Jerome] Quote:Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. [Charles Dickens] Quote:I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. [John Cleese] Quote:He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. [Robertson Davies] Quote:We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. [Marie Ebner von Eschenbach] Quote:When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. [Logan Pearsall Smith] Quote:Sincerity is the way of Heaven. [Mencius] Quote:In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. [Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.] 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:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Jewish Proverb] Quote:The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. [Ann Landers] Quote:Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. [Ann Landers] Quote:Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. [Ann Landers] Quote:For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. [Bob Wells] Quote:In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. [Louis Pasteur] Quote:Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. [John Maynard Keynes] Quote:The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. [Democritus] Quote:The palest ink is better than the best memory. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you. [Chinese Proverb] Quote:Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. [Chinese Proverb] 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:You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. [Hippocrates] Quote:There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. [Hippocrates] Quote:I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. [Bette Davis] Quote:I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. [Bette Davis] 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:Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. [Bette Davis] Quote:My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. [Bette Davis] Quote:On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. [William Gibson] Quote:The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. [George Sheehan] Quote:We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. [Henri Matisse] 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:Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:When the judgement's weak,<br> The prejudice is strong. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before. [Mitchell Burgess] Quote:He plants trees to benefit another generation. [Caecilius Statius] Quote:Let each man exercise the art he knows. [Aristophanes] Quote:You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. [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:Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. [Jules Renard] Quote:Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. [Jules Renard] Quote:Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. [Jules Renard] Quote:Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. [Jules Renard] Quote:Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity. [Jules Renard] Quote:Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. [Colette] Quote:It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. [Colette] 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:Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Not even the gods fight against necessity. [Simonides] Quote:Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. [Charles F. Kettering] Quote:The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [Charles F. Kettering] Quote:Simplicity is the peak of civilization. [Lao-tzu] Quote:I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. [Franklin D. Roosevelt] Quote:I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. [George Sand] 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:One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. [Barbara Hall] Quote:They're slobbery and they're whiney and they look at you just like they could see right into your soul and they're unpredictable and the smell and they're noisy and the world revolves around them and why!? I don't get it. They're not interesting. They can't tell jokes, they don't have opinions, and they're boring, you know? They're just boring and annoying and I don't want to have one. [Barbara Hall] Quote:That's the secret of entertaining. You make your guests feel welcome and at home. If you do that honestly, the rest takes care of itself. [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:Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace. [Barbara Hall] Quote:You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. [Barbara Hall] Quote:Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was? My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. [Barbara Hall] Quote:The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. [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:If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." [David Assael] Quote:Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. [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 want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. [Carl Schurz] Quote:If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. [Joseph Addison] Quote:Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. [Ronald Reagan] Quote:An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. [Niels Bohr] 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:To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. [Andy Wachowski] Quote:Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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:Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. [Charles Lamb] 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:The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires. [Dorothy Parker] Quote:If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. [Dorothy Parker] Quote:If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [Isaac Asimov] Quote:You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:Our envy of others devours us most of all. [Alexander Solzhenitsyn] Quote:It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. [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:Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. [Judith Martin] Quote:Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. [Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.] 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:The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Quote:America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. [Frank Zappa] Quote:You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them! [Amy Tan] Quote:The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. [Bill Cosby] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. [Lillian Hellman] Quote:Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them. [Robert Graves] 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:Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. [Sun-tzu] Quote:Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. [George Burns] Quote:I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. [George Burns] Quote:Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. [Bertolt Brecht] Quote:Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy. [Izaak Walton] Quote:Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. [Susan Ertz] Quote:Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. [Cullen Hightower] Quote:Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. [Cullen Hightower] Quote:Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. [Sinclair Lewis] Quote:Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. [J. R. R. Tolkien] Quote:First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms. [Margaret Mead] Quote:A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. [Dante Alighieri] Quote:Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. [Albert Camus] Quote:You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. [Albert Camus] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. [Albert Camus] Quote:[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. [Christopher Morley] Quote:Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality. [Adam Clayton Powell Jr.] Quote:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. [Ayn Rand] 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:It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. [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:All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. [George Orwell] Quote:Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage. [Confucius] Quote:Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established. [Confucius] Quote:He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. [Confucius] Quote:The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. [Confucius] Quote:Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. [Confucius] Quote:The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. [Confucius] Quote:A lie told often enough becomes the truth. [Lenin] Quote:When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. [Bruce Barton] Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? [Heinrich Heine] Quote:There are more fools in the world than there are people. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess. [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. [Heywood Broun] Quote:My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. [Jean Rostand] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms. [Alan Corenk] Quote:It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. [Anne Tyler] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. [Epictetus] 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:What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. [Epictetus] Quote:Only the educated are free. [Epictetus] Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [Epictetus] Quote:Only the educated are free. [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:Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. [Sir Arthur Eddington] Quote:Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. [Walter Winchell] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The future is much like the present, only longer. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. [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:Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. [R. Buckminster Fuller] Quote:There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. [Albert Guinon] 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:Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [Albert Einstein] Quote:If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. [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:As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. [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:Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. [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:In a mad world only the mad are sane. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. [Albert Einstein] Quote:If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. [Albert Einstein] Quote:The best way to predict the future is to invent it. [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:We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. [Helen Keller] Quote:Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. [Helen Keller] Quote:Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. [Helen Keller] Quote:After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. [Henry Bromel] 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:I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. [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:One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. [George Eliot] Quote:Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. [George Eliot] Quote:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. [Blaise Pascal] Quote:Cowards are cruel, but the brave<br> Love mercy, and delight to save. [Sir Winston Churchill] 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:He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. [Sir Winston Churchill] Quote:Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. [Bern Williams] Quote:We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. [Anna Sewell] Quote:Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. [Clifton Fadiman] Quote:Live well. It is the greatest revenge. [The Talmud] Quote:He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. [Eddie Cantor] Quote:The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. [Jim Bishop] Quote:Pride sullies the noblest character. [Claudianus] Quote:Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. [Thomas Jefferson] Quote:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice. [Eleanor Roosevelt] 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:Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. [Dave Barry] Quote:Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. [Booker T. Washington] Quote:Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. [Abraham Lincoln] 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:Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. [Mahatma Gandhi] 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: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:The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore. [Robert J. Sawyer] Quote:Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. [John Kenneth Galbraith] Quote:Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. [Bob Dylan] Quote:I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. [Bob Dylan] Quote:Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. [Unknown] Quote:Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. [Unknown] Quote:You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. [Aristotle] Quote:The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. [Aristotle] Quote:Education is the best provision for old age. [Aristotle] Quote:It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. [Aristotle] Quote:If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. [Aristotle] Quote:The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. [Aristotle] Quote:Evil draws men together. [Aristotle] Quote:We must as second best...take the least of the evils. [Aristotle] Quote:To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. [Aristotle] Quote:Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. [Aristotle] Quote:Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. [Aristotle] Quote:Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage. [Aristotle] Quote:Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. [Aristotle] Quote:I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. [Aristotle] Quote:Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. [Aristotle] Quote:It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. [Aristotle] Quote:All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. [Aristotle] Quote:Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. [Aristotle] Quote:The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. [Euripides] Quote:The wisest men follow their own direction. [Euripides] Quote:I know indeed what evil I intend to do,<br>but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,<br>fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. [Euripides] Quote:The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. [Euripides] Quote:Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. [Euripides] Quote:The day is for honest men, the night for thieves. [Euripides] Quote:Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. [Euripides] Quote:Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. [Euripides] Quote:Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. [Euripides] Quote:The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star. [Anthelme Brillat-Savarin] 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:What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. [Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. [Don Marquis] Quote:Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love. [Don Marquis] Quote:Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. [Herman Melville] Quote:Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. [Horace] Quote:History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we made today. [Henry Ford] Quote:An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. [Henry Ford] Quote:The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of of others. [Dag Hammarskjold] 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:By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. [Helen Hayes] Quote:People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. [A. J. Liebling] Quote:After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. [Oscar Levant] Quote:Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. [Malcolm Forbes] Quote:Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. [Charles Kingsley] Quote:Be not slow to visit the sick. [Ecclesiastes] Quote:Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. [Ecclesiastes] Quote:A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. [Ogden Nash] 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:Management is nothing more than motivating other people. [Lee Iacocca] Quote:In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. [Julius Caesar] Quote:Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. [Ralph W. Sockman] Quote:Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. [Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. [Josh Billings] Quote:One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. [Josh Billings] Quote:The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. [Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey] Quote:In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. [Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. [Henri-Frdric Amiel] Quote:And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. [Anais Nin] Quote:Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair. [C. S. Lewis] Quote:Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. [David Letterman] Quote:Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees. [David Letterman] 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:Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. [Robert Frost] Quote:Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. [Robert Frost] Quote:I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. [Gerry Spence] Quote:The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. [Matthew Arnold] Quote:Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes." [H. L. Mencken] Quote:The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. [Franz Kafka] Quote:In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. [Johann von Neumann] Quote:Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. [Garrison Keillor] Quote:Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:Modesty is the citadel of beauty. [Fran Lebowitz] Quote:It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? [Fran Lebowitz] 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:I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." [G. K. Chesterton] Quote:Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. [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:Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. [George F. Will] Quote:Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. [Amelia Earhart] Quote:Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. [Woodrow Wilson] Quote:Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilei] Quote:Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. [Friedrich von Schiller] 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:It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. [Anatole France] 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:Good laws have their origins in bad morals. [Anatole France] Quote:Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. [Anatole France] Quote:The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. [Anatole France] Quote:Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. [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:Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. [Margaret Cho] Quote:Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. [Margaret Cho] Quote:I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. [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:Invention is the mother of necessity. [Thorstein Veblen] Quote:We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. [Etty Hillesum] Quote:There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. [Cyril Connolly] Quote:Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. [Cyril Connolly] 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:Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. [Max Frisch] Quote:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. [Lois McMaster Bujold] 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:Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us? [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is?the higher achievement. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us. [Charles Caleb Colton] 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:All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in. [Doug Larson] Quote:If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. [Doug Larson] 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:Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. [Rabbi Abraham Heschel] Quote:Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. [Edward Gibbon] Quote:And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:God, I don?t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. [Peter Drucker] Quote:But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. [Carl Sagan] 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:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. [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:So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. [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:Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. [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:No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. [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:Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. [Garry Shandling] Quote:If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. [Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. [Clare Booth Luce] Quote:Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts. [Clare Booth Luce] Quote:Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. [Arthur Rubinstein] Quote:In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. [John Updike] Quote:A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. [John Updike] Quote:No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. [Willa Cather] 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:There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. [Richard Feynman] Quote:I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. [Brenda Ueland] Quote:In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. [George Ade] 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:Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. [Jean Paul Richter] Quote:Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. [Ausonius] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. [Casey Stengel] Quote:Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. [Bible] 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:Envy is the ulcer of the soul. [Socrates] Quote:Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. [Socrates] Quote:If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. [Dan Quayle] Quote:We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. [Dan Quayle] Quote:Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. [Rene Descartes] Quote:If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. [Lyndon B. Johnson] Quote:The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character. [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:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette] Quote:Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. [Eugene McCarthy] Quote:There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. [Homer] Quote:The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. [Homer] Quote:This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. [Will Rogers] Quote:The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. [Will Rogers] Quote:We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. [Will Rogers] Quote:The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. [Will Rogers] Quote:The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence. [Joan Baez] Quote:The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. [Dorothy L. Sayers] Quote:A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. [Dorothy L. Sayers] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Quote:I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. [Plato] Quote:When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income. [Plato] Quote:No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. [Dr. David M. Burns] Quote:Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person. [Dr. David M. Burns] 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:You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. [Carrie Fisher] Quote:Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. [English Proverb] Quote:The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:There is so much good in the worst of us,<br> And so much bad in the best of us,<br> That it hardly behooves any of us<br> To talk about the rest of us. [Johann K. Lavater] Quote:They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol] Quote:In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. [Andy Warhol] Quote:When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions on some of them. When they are governed by a common passion, their opinions, if they are to be called, will be the same. [Alexander Hamilton] Quote:Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. [Lucius Accius] Quote:The crowd gives the leader new strength. [Evenius] Quote:Compassion is the basis of all morality. [Arthur Schopenhauer] 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:Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. [Henry J. Kaiser] Quote:I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. [Charles Rosin] 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:You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:[Common sense] is the best sense I know of. [Lord Chesterfield] 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:An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. [Dan Rather] Quote:Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. [Sophocles] Quote:Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about. [Lynn Johnston] Quote:It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. [Elizabeth Taylor] Quote:The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues. [Elizabeth Taylor] Quote:This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men. [Charlie Chaplin] Definitions of: theDefinition: See Thee.Definition: By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform. |
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