Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.[Douglas Adams] 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: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: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:Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.[Elbert Hubbard] 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: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: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: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: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:I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.[Barbara Bush] 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: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:Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.[Chapman Cohen] 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:If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.[Napoleon Bonaparte] 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:As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.[Julius Caesar] 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: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: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:Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.[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: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:Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.[Ian Fleming] 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:Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.[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: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:When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.[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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.[Author Unknown] 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 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:No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.[Roger Ebert] Quote:Don't look back; they may be gaining on you.[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:Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.[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:We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.[Christopher Morley] 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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.[Leo Burke] 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: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: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: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: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:Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.[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:Not only does God play dice, but he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.[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: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: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:Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.[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:If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.[Bill Maher] 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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.[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: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: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: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: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:You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.[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: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: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:Of course the meek will inherit the earth, what, did you think they'd take it by force?[Author Unknown] 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: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: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:It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.[Winston Churchill] 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: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:If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.[Margaret Thatcher] 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:Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.[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: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:Boy, those French, they have a different word for everything![Steve Martin] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] 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:In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.[Rodney Dangerfield] 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: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: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:Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.[Bertrand Russell] 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: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: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:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.[Oscar Wilde] 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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Anyone who says that they can contemplate quantum mechanics without becoming dizzy has not understood the concept in the least.[Niels Bohr] 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: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: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: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:Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.[Blaise Pascal] 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: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: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:The leader of genius must have the ability to make differentopponents appear as if they belonged to one category.[Adolf Hitler] 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:Those who believe they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.[Aldous Huxley] 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:Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.[Dwight Eisenhower] 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:Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:The wise speak only of what they know.[J.R.R. Tolkien] 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:Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Cocaine is God's way of telling someone that they're too rich.[Robin Williams] 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:If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?[Vince Lombardi] 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: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: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:In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.[Dave Barry] Quote:Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.[William Shakespeare] Quote: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: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: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: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:Men rise from one ambition to another. First they seek to secure themselves from attack, and then they attack others.[Nicolo Machiavelli] 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: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: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: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: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: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:Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.[Henry Van Dyke] 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: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: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: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:Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.[Robert Heinlein] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote: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:First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.[George Orwell] 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: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:Wal-Mart, what's that? Do they, like, make walls there?[Paris Hilton] Quote:Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.[Plato] 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: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:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.[Plato] 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: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: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:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. [Henny Youngman] Quote:Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? [Benjamin Franklin] 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: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:Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. [Aldous Huxley] Quote:Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. [Baltasar Gracian] 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:Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. [Erica Jong] Quote:It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. [Aesop] 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: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:Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. [Agatha Christie] Quote:Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. [Anonymous] Quote:Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. [Gertrude Stein] Quote:The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. [Henry Kissinger] 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: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: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: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:I hate women because they always know where things are. [James Thurber] 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:We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. [Francois de La Rochefoucauld] 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: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: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: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:If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. [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:When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. [Logan Pearsall Smith] 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: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: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 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: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: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: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:When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. [Oscar Wilde] 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:When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. [Bruce Barton] Quote:Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. [Alan Corenk] Quote:People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. [Anne Tyler] Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [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:Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. [Walter Winchell] 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: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: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: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: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:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. [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:Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. [Bob Dylan] Quote:You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. [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: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:Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. [Aristotle] 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:Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. [Horace] Quote:People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. [A. J. Liebling] 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: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:Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. [Woodrow Wilson] Quote:All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. [Galileo Galilei] Quote:We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. [Etty Hillesum] 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: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: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: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: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: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:We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. [Will Rogers] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Quote:Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. [John Adams] Quote: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:The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it. [Albert Schweitzer] 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] Definitions of: theyDefinition: The plural of he, she, or it. 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