Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:If you are going through hell, keep going.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details.[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: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:When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.[C.S. Lewis] 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:You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.[Zig Ziglar] 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:If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.[Mario Andretti] Quote:I am not young enough to know everything.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.[Woody Allen] Quote:To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.[Charles William Stubbs] Quote:Plough deep while sluggards sleep.[Benjamin Franklin] 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: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: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: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:Haven't you learned anything from that guy that gives those sermons in church? Captain What's-his-name. We live in a society of laws, why do you think I took you to see all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you? Except at that guy who made sound effects. Vroom! Beep! Honk! Honk! Ha-ha. Where was I? Oh yeah, stay out of my booze![Homer Simpson] Quote:To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.[Mark Twain] Quote: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: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:Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.[Victor Hugo] Quote:Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.[Bruce Lee] 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: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:I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.[Benjamin Disraeli] 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: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:Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.[T.S. Eliot] 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:Theology is only thought applied to religion.[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: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: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:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.[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:Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.[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 leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.[Dave Barry] Quote:God is not proud...He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:'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: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:Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.[Jonathan Swift] 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 good film is too long and no bad film is short enough.[Roger Ebert] 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: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:If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.[Robert Frost] Quote:Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.[Robert Frost] Quote:You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote: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:Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.[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: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: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: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:Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.[Dale Carnegie] Quote: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 the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.[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:Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.[Laurence Peter] Quote:There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy.[Lauren Bacall] 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:The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The cable TV sex channels don't expand our horizons, don't make us better people and don't come in clearly enough.[Bill Maher] Quote:Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.[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:The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.[Mark Twain] Quote:Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.[Britney Spears] 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:You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.[Stephen King] 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:As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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: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:You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.[Colin Powell] Quote:A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.[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: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: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: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:Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing.[Michael Iapoce] 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:Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.[Saint Augustine] Quote:You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.[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: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: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: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:Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.[Thomas Edison] Quote:Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.[Henry Kissinger] 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:Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have: Cincinnati sounds worse.[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: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:The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.[Socrates] Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Remember when safe sex meant not getting caught?[Author Unknown] 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:I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.[Bruce Lee] Quote:Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.[George Bernard Shaw] 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:No sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow reason but we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.[George Berkeley] 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: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:Any stupid ass can die. That's easy. Living is tough.[Jack LaLanne] Quote:Our best thoughts come from others.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] 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: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:A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.[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:Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.[Eleanor Roosevelt] 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:In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and work.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.[Saint Augustine] Quote:Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.[Niels Bohr] 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:For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.[Carl Sagan] Quote:The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] Quote:A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.[Peter Wimsey] 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: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: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: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: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:I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.[J.R.R. Tolkien] Quote:If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote: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: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: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:To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.[Jean-Jacques Rousseau] 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:A man should believe in God through faith, not because of miracles.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.[Nachman of Bratslav] Quote:Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.[Nachman of Bratslav] 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:Television has brought back murder into the home, where it belongs.[Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.[Zsa Zsa Gabor] Quote:What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.[Mark Twain] 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: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: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:Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.[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:Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.[Josh Billings] 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: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: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: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:Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.[Joseph Addison] Quote:Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:If 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: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: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:Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.[Jack Handey] 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:He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.[Harry Truman] 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:There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.[Robert Alden] 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: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: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:Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.[Michael Jordan] Quote:A day without laughter is a day wasted.[Charlie Chaplin] Quote:I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.[Rita Rudner] Quote:What once was thought can never be unthought.[Friedrich D?rrenmatt] Quote:I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.[Rudyard Kipling] 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:It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job.[Erna Bombeck] 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: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:When you're through changing, you're through.[Bruce Barton] 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:It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them![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:Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.[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: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:All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.[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:A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.[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:Oppression can only survive through silence. [Cato the Elder] Quote:They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. [Sir Philip Sidney] 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:Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. [Jay Leno] Quote:Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. [Baltasar Gracian] Quote:My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going to be scared. [Peter Ustinov] 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: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:We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. [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: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:Getting caught is the mother of invention. [Robert Byrne] 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:One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. [Edgar Watson Howe] 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: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: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:I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. [Terence] Quote:Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. [Abigail Adams] 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: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:It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. [Mark Twain] Quote:You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. [John Ciardi] Quote:If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. [Tryon Edwards] Quote:The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. [John Dewey] Quote:Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. [A. Whitney Brown] 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: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: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:Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. [Charles Dickens] Quote:Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. [Edgar Bergen] Quote:Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. [Robert Anton Wilson] 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:The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body. [George Sheehan] Quote:Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. [Lao-tzu] 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: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: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:If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. [Isaac Asimov] 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:Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. [Bob Newhart] Quote:Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. [Cullen Hightower] Quote:The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. [Confucius] Quote:A lie told often enough becomes the truth. [Lenin] Quote:If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. [Bruce Barton] Quote:To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. [Heinrich Heine] 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:We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. [Agnes Repplier] 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:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. [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:I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. [Albert Einstein] Quote:I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? [Jean Kerr] 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:The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. [e e cummings] 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:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [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:Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. [Dave Barry] 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:Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. [Bob Dylan] Quote:Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. [Unknown] Quote:I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. [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: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:To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character. [Aristotle] Quote:With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. [Aristotle] Quote:Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. [Aristotle] Quote:Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions. [Aristotle] 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: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:Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. [Dag Hammarskjold] 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:Laughter is by definition healthy. [Doris Lessing] 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: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:The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. [Jean Cocteau] Quote:If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. [Jimmy Buffet] 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:Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. [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: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:How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! [Charles Lindbergh] Quote:Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. [Benjamin Disraeli] 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: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:Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought. [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:I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. [Bertrand Russell] Quote: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: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:Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. [English Proverb] 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:All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer] Quote:A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. [Albert Schweitzer] Definitions of: ughDefinition: An exclamation expressive of disgust, horror, or recoil. Its utterance is usually accompanied by a shudder. |
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