Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.[Winston Churchill] Quote:I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.[Patrick Henry] Quote:Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.[Saint Augustine] Quote:The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.[Emile Zola] Quote:In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote: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:We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.[Groucho Marx] Quote:I almost had a pyschic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.[Steven Wright] Quote:I bought some batteries but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.[Steven Wright] Quote:The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.[George Patton] Quote:Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.[Jeanne Moreau] Quote:Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.[Henry Van Dyke] Quote:Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.[Mark Twain] Quote:The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice.[Dwight Eisenhower] Quote:He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves.[Dante Alighieri] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.[Bill Cosby] Quote:Peace isn't merely the absence of conflict, but the presence of justice.[Harrison Ford] Quote:...I hope that we will hear no more of all ways of life and all cultures being equally valid, which none of us truly believes but which many people mouth in order to appear broad-minded and generous of spirit.[Armand Nicholi Jr.] Quote:I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman![Homer Simpson] Quote:Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.[Adlai Stevenson] Quote:You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.[Henny Youngman] Quote:Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.[Robert G. Ingersoll] Quote:Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.[Robert G. Ingersoll] Quote:Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.[Saint Augustine] Quote:All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.[Victor Hugo] Quote:A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:Women are nothing but machines for producing children.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.[Mother Teresa] Quote:The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.[Mother Teresa] Quote:It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.[Susan B. Anthony] Quote: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:Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good.[Woody Allen] 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:We're not all alike but we can all like each other.[Jason Mechalek] Quote:Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.[T.S. Eliot] Quote:I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.[GK Chesterton] Quote:The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden.[GK Chesterton] Quote:How else can you fight God but to pretend He doesn't exist?[Chris Bowyer] Quote:It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.[GK Chesterton] Quote:All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Philosophy is written in this grand book - I mean the Universe - which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.[Galileo Galilei] Quote:All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.[George Santayana] Quote:The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'[Isaac Asimov] Quote: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:I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot![Dave Barry] Quote:If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.[Dave Barry] Quote:If you were to open up a baby's head -- and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should -- you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.[Dave Barry] Quote:Talking about golf is always boring. (Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.)[Dave Barry] Quote:The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.[Dave Barry] Quote:Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.[Dave Barry] Quote:God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.[C.S. Lewis] Quote: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:Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.[WT Purkiser] Quote:We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.[Jonathan Swift] Quote:You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.[Theodor Seuss Geisel] Quote:My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.[Christopher Morley] Quote:A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.[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:I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.[Siddhartha Buddha] Quote:I realise that I'm making gender-based generalizations here, but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us genders.[Dave Barry] Quote:It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.[Dave Barry] Quote: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:Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.[Louis Hector Berlioz] Quote:Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.[Adelle Davis] Quote:Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health and our happiness. Our enemies would dance with joy if only they knew how they were worrying us, lacerating us, and getting even with us! Our hate is not hurting them at al, but our hate is turning our days and nights into a hellish turmoil.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.[Dale Carnegie] Quote:Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.[Edmund Burke] Quote:Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.[Edmund Burke] Quote:The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.[Edmund Burke] Quote: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:Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.[Aristotle] Quote:Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.[Aristotle] Quote:Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.[Aristotle] Quote:It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.[Aristotle] Quote:Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.[Aristotle] Quote:The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.[Aristotle] Quote:The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.[Aristotle] Quote:Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.[Aristotle] Quote:We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.[Aristotle] Quote:A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions -- everyone but a school bus driver.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.[Laurence Peter] Quote:Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.[Laurence Peter] Quote:The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.[Wayne Dyer] Quote:Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.[Jimi Hendrix] Quote:Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:You may delay, but time will not.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.[Dorothy Parker] Quote:Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.[Mark Twain] Quote:Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.[Mark Twain] Quote:Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.[Mark Twain] Quote:I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.[Mark Twain] Quote:I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.[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:It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.[Stephen King] Quote:Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.[Fulton J. Sheen] Quote:As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.[Bill Cosby] Quote:My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.[Abraham Lincoln] 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:From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?[Thomas Paine] Quote:Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.[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:We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.[Thomas Paine] Quote:It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft![Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote: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:Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.[George Washington] Quote:God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.[Saint Augustine] Quote:My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.[Mike Tyson] Quote:You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts.[Author Unknown] 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:Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.[George Carlin] Quote:I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.[George Carlin] Quote:We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Curiousity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.[Steven Wright] Quote:I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.[Clarence Darrow] Quote:Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.[Albert Einstein] Quote:A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.[Frank Lloyd Wright] Quote:Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.[Woody Allen] Quote:Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.[Margaret Thatcher] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.[Confucius] Quote:Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.[Confucius] Quote:He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.[Confucius] Quote:We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.[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:The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote: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:Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.[Steve Martin] Quote:I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.[William F. Buckley] Quote:Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.[William F. Buckley] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Socrates] Quote:Friendship can sometimes end in love, but love in friendship, never.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:It is not length of life, but depth of life.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:The man who regards life as meaningless is not merely unfortunate, but almost disqualified for life.[Albert Einstein] Quote:God is clever, but not dishonest.[Albert Einstein] Quote:There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.[Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] 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:Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.[Woody Allen] Quote:Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?[Henry Mencken] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.[Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.[Fyodor Dostoevsky] Quote:Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.[Leonardo da Vinci] Quote:I broke a mirror the other day. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.[Steven Wright] Quote:The problem is not that we have too many fools, it's that the lightning isn't distributed right.[Mark Twain] Quote:My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.[Oprah Winfrey] Quote:There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily.[George Washington] Quote:To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right, and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock'n'roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.[John Lennon] Quote:A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.[GK Chesterton] Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.[Author Unknown] Quote:In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.[GK Chesterton] Quote:Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.[GK Chesterton] Quote: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:Baseball is the belly-button of our society.[Bill Lee] Quote:The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.[John F. Kennedy] Quote:We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.[Mother Teresa] Quote:Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.[George Eliot] Quote:Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.[Arnold Schwarzenegger] 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:A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.[Jesse Jackson] Quote:A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote: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:I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.[Mother Teresa] 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:There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.[Albert Camus] Quote:Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.[Albert Camus] Quote:Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.[Kahlil Gibran] Quote:Life is 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:Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.[Niels Bohr] Quote:It is not what you look at, but what you see.[Henry Thoreau] Quote:What is art but a way of seeing?[Saul Bellow] 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:There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.[Pablo Picasso] Quote:We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart.[Henry Mencken] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.[Erica Jong] Quote:I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.[Margaret Mead] Quote:It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.[Henry Ward Beecher] Quote:Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.[George Bernard Shaw] Quote:It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.[Patrick Henry] Quote: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:I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.[Desmond Morris] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.[Antoine de Saint-Exuper] Quote: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 am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.[Tom Hopkins] Quote:It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.[W. Somerset Maugham] Quote:A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:All art is but imitation of nature.[Lucius Annaeus Seneca] Quote:Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.[Christopher Marlowe] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safetly be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.[Adam Smith] Quote:The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.[Adam Smith] Quote:Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.[Adam Smith] Quote:Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement. The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.[Adam Smith] Quote:Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.[William Shakespeare] 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:I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.[Groucho Marx] 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:When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.[John Wayne] Quote:I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.[Muhammad Ali] Quote:You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.[Ambrose Bierce] Quote:A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.[Fred Allen] Quote:I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.[Winston Churchill] Quote:Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.[Winston Churchill] Quote:A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.[Henry Ford] Quote:Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.[Margaret Bourke-White] Quote:Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.[Mark Twain] Quote:The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me; but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.[Daniel Webster] Quote:Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.[William Shakespeare] Quote:Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:Government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do it harm.[Nicolo Machiavelli] Quote:There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character![Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.[P.J. O'Rourke] 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:It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Look not back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around you in awareness.[Ross Hersey] Quote:Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings.[Jack Handey] Quote:I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.[Jack Handey] Quote:I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.[Jack Handey] Quote:Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.[Jack Handey] Quote:If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness.[Jack Handey] Quote:Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The writer?s job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.[Ernest Hemingway] Quote:Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] Quote:It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.[Henry Kissinger] Quote:We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.[Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.[John Lennon] Quote:'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.[Thomas Paine] Quote:A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.[James Madison] Quote:Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.[Nathaniel Hawthorne] Quote:I have gathered a posie of other men?s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.[John Bartlett] Quote: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:It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.[John Adams] Quote:The statesman who would attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himeslf with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.[Adam Smith] Quote:If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all.[Thomas Jefferson] Quote:Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.[Robert Louis Stevenson] 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:When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.[Thomas Carlyle] Quote:When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.[Jacob August Riis] Quote:We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.[Earl Warren] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:All men are not homeless, but some men are home less than others.[Henny Youngman] Quote:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.[Henny Youngman] Quote:I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.[Henny Youngman] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.[Plato] Quote:The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.[Plato] Quote:Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.[Plato] Quote:He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.[Plato] Quote:I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.[Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach. [Pindar] Quote:Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. [Solomon Short] Quote:We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise. [Cato the Elder] Quote:Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. [Evan Esar] Quote:Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. [Steven Wright] Quote:I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. [Henny Youngman] 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:The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. [Dr. Thomas Fuller] Quote:Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:[Advice is] what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. [Erica Jong] Quote:Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. [Jose Ortega y Gasset] 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:It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. [Aesop] Quote:Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. [Aeschylus] Quote:None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. [Ferdinand Foch] Quote:Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. [Stuart Stevens] Quote:Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards. [Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde] Quote:Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. [Russell Baker] Quote:I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. [Trey Parker and Matt Stone] Quote:It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. [Abigail Van Buren] Quote:If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong. [Arthur C. Clarke] Quote:God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project. [Anonymous] Quote:Talk of nothing but business, and dispatch that business quickly. [Ambrose Bierce] Quote:There's never a new fashion but it's old. [Geoffrey Chaucer] Quote:A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. [Anne Morrow Lindbergh] Quote:Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. [Elizabeth I] Quote:Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. [Georg Christoph Lichtenberg] Quote:I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. [Arnold Bennett] Quote: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:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Greetings on this most exceedingly beautiful spring morning. A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. It's hard to believe just a few short weeks ago we were eating our cornflakes in the wintery dark. Now, well it's still kind of dim out there, but I can see the golden glow of Apollo's chariot waiting in the wings, about to make its entrance. Winter's on the lam, no doubt. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. [Carl Jung] Quote:I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. [Carl Sandburg] Quote:Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy [Norman Vincent Peale] Quote:Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. [Sir William Osler] Quote:And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. [John F. Kennedy] Quote: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:The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. [John Dewey] Quote:We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. [John Dewey] Quote:Nothing endures but change. [Heraclitus] Quote:It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. [Heraclitus] Quote:Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. [Clarence Darrow] Quote:The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death. [Cicero] Quote:A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. [Sir Francis Bacon] 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:This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. [Alfred Hitchcock] Quote:Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. [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:If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. [Carl Schurz] Quote:Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. [Carl Schurz] Quote:The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else. [Joseph Addison] Quote:How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! <br> Who would not be that youth? What pity is it <br> That we can die but once to serve our country! [Joseph Addison] Quote:Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. [Ralph Waldo Emerson] Quote:There's nothing that keeps its youth,<br> So far as I know, but a tree and truth. [Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are. [Adelle Davis] Quote:Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. [Charles M. Schulz] Quote:I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. [Bill Cosby] Quote:Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. [Bertolt Brecht] Quote:Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. [Cullen Hightower] Quote:If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. [Alfred North Whitehead] Quote:The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. [Ayn Rand] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. [Calvin Trillin] Quote:All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. [George Orwell] Quote:The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. [Confucius] Quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? [Heinrich Heine] Quote:Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. [Epictetus] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. [Eric Hoffer] Quote:Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. [Henri Poincare] 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:Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler. [Albert Einstein] Quote:Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. [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:Cowards are cruel, but the brave<br> Love mercy, and delight to save. [Sir Winston Churchill] 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:He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him. [Eddie Cantor] Quote:The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. [Jim Bishop] Quote: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:Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. [Lawana Blackwell] Quote:Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. [Mahatma Gandhi] Quote:Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. [Katharine Hepburn] Quote:His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. [J. K. Rowling] Quote:Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. [Aristotle] Quote:With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it. [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:Slow but sure moves the might of the gods. [Euripides] Quote:Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. [Don Marquis] Quote:Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. [Henry David Thoreau] Quote:Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet. [Horace] Quote:There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. [Antoine de Saint-Exupery] Quote:A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. [Ogden Nash] Quote:Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. [Ogden Nash] Quote:The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. [Doris Lessing] Quote:That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. [Doris Lessing] Quote:The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. [Josh Billings] Quote:In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. [Ellen DeGeneres] Quote:There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. [David Letterman] Quote:Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton] Quote:I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. [Margaret Cho] Quote:It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. [D. H. Lawrence] Quote:Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people. [Lois McMaster Bujold] Quote:Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. [Charles Caleb Colton] Quote:Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. [Elbert Hubbard] Quote:Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. [Elbert Hubbard] 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:Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle. [Real Live Preacher] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. [Bertrand Russell] Quote:You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. [Beverly Sills] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. [Socrates] Quote:Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. [Socrates] Quote:We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made. [Dan Quayle] Quote:Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work. [Will Rogers] Quote:America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. [Will Rogers] Quote:False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. [Plato] Quote:The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. [Alfred Lord Tennyson] Quote:They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. [Andy Warhol] Quote:Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. [Voltaire] Quote:You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. [Albert Schweitzer] Quote:Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. [Lord Chesterfield] Quote:Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. [Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door. [Luis Bunuel] Quote:Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. [Samuel Butler] Quote:In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. [Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. [Joe Louis] Quote:I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. [Robert Benchley] Quote:A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. [Groucho Marx] Quote:My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?</font><font face= [Henry Youngman] Quote:I've stopped drinking, but only while I'm asleep. [George best] Quote:I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. [Hunter S Thompson] Quote:I have been described as a lighthouse in the middle of a bog: Brilliant but useless. [Connor Cruise O'Brien] Quote:I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up. [Lenny Bruce] Quote:I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. [David Letterman] Quote:I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. [David Letterman] Quote:Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can't remember what they are. [Matt Lauer (on NBC's Today Show)] Quote:If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it? [Steven Wright] Quote:A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. [Tom Shales talking about Robin Williams] Quote:Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. [Gioacchino Rossini] Quote:The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. [Oliver Herford] Quote:Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique. [Peter Ustinov] Quote:Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there. [Yakov Smirnoff] Quote:Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. [Oliver Herford] Quote:Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the sun. [Ashleigh Brilliant] Quote:In the begining there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. [Dave Thomas] Quote:Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. [Mariah Carey] Quote:And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. [Spike Milligan] Quote:Not only is there no Go, but you try getting a plumber at weekends. [Woody Allen] Quote:A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials. [Ronald Knox] Quote:When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe? [Quentin Crisp] Quote:When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read. [Hillaire Belloc] Quote:God is love, but get it in writing. [Gypsy Rose Lee] Quote:Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. [Maria Carey] Quote:As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. [Oscar Wilde] Quote:A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. [Herm Albright] Quote:I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. [Charles Lamb] Quote:She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. [George Barnard Shaw] Quote:Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious. [Alan Winter] Quote:It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. [Robert Benchley] Quote:Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction. [Adlai Stevenson] Quote:I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. [Hunter S. Thompson] Quote:When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet but his books were read. [Hilliare Belloc] Quote:Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. [Cicero] Definitions of: butDefinition: Except with; unless with; without.Definition: Except; besides; save. Definition: Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that. Definition: Otherwise than that; that not; -- commonly, after a negative, with that. Definition: Only; solely; merely. Definition: On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. Definition: A limit; a boundary. Definition: The end; esp. the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end. Now disused in this sense, being replaced by butt{2}. See 1st Butt. Definition: A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end. Definition: The larger or thicker end of anything; the blunt end, in distinction from the sharp end; as, the butt of a rifle. Formerly also spelled but. See 2nd but, n. sense 2. Definition: A mark to be shot at; a target. Definition: A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed; as, the butt of the company. Definition: A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head of an animal; as, the butt of a ram. Definition: A thrust in fencing. Definition: A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field. Definition: A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint. Definition: The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib. Definition: The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose. Definition: The joint where two planks in a strake meet. Definition: A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge. Definition: The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks. Definition: The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice. Definition: The buttocks; as, get up off your butt and get to work; -- used as a euphemism, less objectionable than ass. |
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