Famous Quotes by Popular People

Famous Quotes by Popular People
Douglas Adams Quotes
Born: 1952-03-11
Died: 2001-05-11
Douglas Adams Biography
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously
aware of.
- Douglas Adams
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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well
supported in logic and argument than others.
- Douglas Adams
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no
account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams
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Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a
contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
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Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
- Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993
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Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were
pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 205
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
- Douglas Adams
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For a moment, nothing happened.Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to
happen.
- Douglas Adams
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He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive
incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered
whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
- Douglas Adams
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a
contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a
contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
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He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way down it.
- Douglas Adams
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He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.
- Douglas Adams
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His study was a total mess, like the results of an explosion in a public library.
- Douglas Adams
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the
experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
- Douglas Adams
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
- Douglas Adams
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I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me
that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
- Douglas Adams, Salmon of Doubt, 2002
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying
by.
- Douglas Adams
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I
needed to be.
- Douglas Adams
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I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
- Douglas Adams
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I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
- Douglas Adams
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I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
- Douglas Adams
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I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- Douglas Adams
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If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably
seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandonded this
theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought,
their brains start working.
- Douglas Adams
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the
possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
- Douglas Adams
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If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a
few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
- Douglas Adams
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry
and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
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In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women
were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry
creatures from Alpha Centauri.
- Douglas Adams
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there
are fairies at the bottom of it too?
- Douglas Adams
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It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the
phrase, 'as pretty as an airport.' Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain
a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort.
- Douglas Adams
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
- Douglas Adams
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious.
The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the
fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
- Douglas Adams
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso
facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves
made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams
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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an
Airport' appear.
- Douglas Adams
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It’s not the fall that kills you; it’s the sudden stop at the end.
- Douglas Adams
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Life is wasted on the living.
- Douglas Adams
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some
folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams
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Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and
nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth
speaking of.
- Douglas Adams
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Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be
Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe.
- Douglas Adams
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My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in
moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.
- Douglas Adams, Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe, and Everythi
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Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad
news, which obeys its own special laws.
- Douglas Adams,
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One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body
surgically removed.
- Douglas Adams
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One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to
do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well
known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those
least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of
power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with
governing people is people.
- Douglas Adams
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See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what
you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
- Douglas Adams
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I
mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just
peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams
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That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has
been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
- Douglas Adams
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones
I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
- Douglas Adams
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The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
- Douglas Adams
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all
customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he,
by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams, The Guardian
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
- Douglas Adams
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The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New
Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams
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The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot
possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it
usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
- Douglas Adams
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of
crossing my mind.
- Douglas Adams
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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long
passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to
avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the
whole length of the corridor.
- Douglas Adams
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
- Douglas Adams
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The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee:
one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century
would end.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has
walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
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There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the
Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by
something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states
that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams
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There is no problem so complicated that you cannot find a very simple answer to it if
you look at it in the right way.
- Douglas Adams
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This is an important announcement. This is flight 121 to Los Angeles. If your travel
plans today do not include Los Angeles, now would be a perfect time to disembark.
- Douglas Adams, "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish"
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams
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Time is bunk.
- Douglas Adams
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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured
with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- Douglas Adams
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To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule
people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary:
anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account
be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a
problem.
- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
- Douglas Adams
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We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is
therefore your own problem.
- Douglas Adams
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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
- Douglas Adams
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Alexander the Great Quotes
Born: 0356-07-00
Died: 0323-06-10
Alexander the Great Biography
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
- Alexander The Great
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I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.
- Alexander The Great
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I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent
of my powers and dominion.
- Alexander the Great
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
- Alexander the Great
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Muhammad Ali Quotes
Born: 1942-01-17
Died: 0000-00-00
Muhammad Ali Biography
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have
deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute
stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But
the will must be stronger than the skill.
- Muhammad Ali
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn
in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't
learned anything.
- Muhammad Ali
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I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
- Muhammad Ali
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I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
- Muhammad Ali
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If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out
of you.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
- Muhammad Ali
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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali
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Joe Frazier is so ugly, he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.
- Muhammad Ali
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Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a
Harvard graduation.)
- Muhammad Ali
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
- Muhammad Ali
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom
of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the
match is even.
- Muhammad Ali
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water.
Religions have different names, but all contain truth.
- Muhammad Ali
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali
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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out
there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
- Muhammad Ali
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of
his life.
- Muhammad Ali
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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
- Muhammad Ali
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When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.
- Muhammad Ali
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Born: 1928-04-04
Died: 0000-00-00
Maya Angelou Biography
All great achievements require time.

- Maya Angelou
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
- Maya Angelou
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
- Maya Angelou
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Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Maya Angelou
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For Africa to me is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can
know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how
he arrived at his present place.
- Maya Angelou
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with
courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou
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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
- Maya Angelou
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I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart
and mind and memories.'
- Maya Angelou
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
- Maya Angelou
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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
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I know why the caged bird sings.
- Maya Angelou
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If someone tells you who they are, believe them.
- Maya Angelou
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Don't complain.
- Maya Angelou
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
- Maya Angelou
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If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at
home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
- Maya Angelou
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In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either
he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.
- Maya Angelou
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
- Maya Angelou
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Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children
is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Maya Angelou
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my
back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou
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My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I
laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.
- Maya Angelou
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Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou
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Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the
present inaccessible.
- Maya Angelou
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
- Maya Angelou
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
- Maya Angelou
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are
intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
- Maya Angelou
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- Maya Angelou
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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
- Maya Angelou
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone
through to achieve that beauty.
- Maya Angelou
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We really are 15 countries, and it's really remarkable that each of us thinks we
represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in
Durham -- both are certain they are the real American.
- Maya Angelou
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When you learn, teach. When you get, give.
- Maya Angelou
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been
improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
- Maya Angelou
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Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues.
- Maya Angelou
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You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.
- Maya Angelou
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Aristotle Quotes
Born: 0384-00-00
Died: 0322-03-07
Aristotle Biography
...happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue,
which some can attain, while others have little or none of it...
- Aristotle
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A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.
- Aristotle
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A friend is a second self.
- Aristotle
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A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
- Aristotle
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
- Aristotle
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention
of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of
noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
- Aristotle
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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are
less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing
and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that
he has the gods on his side.
- Aristotle, unknown
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A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end.
- Aristotle
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Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
- Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature,
compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle
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All proofs rest on premises.
- Aristotle
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
- Aristotle
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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
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their
arms.
- Aristotle
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Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle
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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man
chooses or avoids
- Aristotle
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Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.
- Aristotle
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the
others.
- Aristotle
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so
make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve
them.
- Aristotle
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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Aristotle
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
- Aristotle
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Evil draws men together.
- Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because
we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted
rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
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Happiness is a state of activity.
- Aristotle
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human
existence.
- Aristotle
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He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
- Aristotle
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He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for
himself, must be either a beast or a god.
- Aristotle
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Hope is the dream of the waking man.
- Aristotle
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not
bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false
wit.
- Aristotle
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
- Aristotle
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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do
only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle
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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
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
- Aristotle
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
- Aristotle
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young
they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness,
and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
- Aristotle
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In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their
good qualities.
- Aristotle
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It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right
person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is
not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
- Aristotle
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It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.
- Aristotle
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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
- Aristotle
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It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.
- Aristotle
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It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when
addressing popular audiences.
- Aristotle
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without
accepting it.
- Aristotle
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It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the
gratification of it.
- Aristotle
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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and
wisdom.
- Aristotle
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Law is mind without reason.
- Aristotle
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Law is order, and good law is good order.
- Aristotle
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Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
- Aristotle
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
- Aristotle
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Man is by nature a political animal.
- Aristotle
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Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when
he lives without law, and without justice.
- Aristotle
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become
just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave
by performing brave actions.
- Aristotle
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
- Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they
are their own.
- Aristotle
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Nature does nothing uselessly.
- Aristotle
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
- Aristotle
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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
- Aristotle
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One swallow does not make a summer.
- Aristotle
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
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Philosophy is the science which considers truth.
- Aristotle
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Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
- Aristotle
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Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
- Aristotle
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Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
- Aristotle
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward
significance.
- Aristotle
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The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
- Aristotle
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The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
- Aristotle
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
- Aristotle
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
- Aristotle
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
- Aristotle, Rhetoric
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The high minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.
- Aristotle
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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of
circumstances.
- Aristotle
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- Aristotle
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The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle
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The Pythagorean ... having been brought up in the study of mathematics, thought
that things are numbers ... and that the whole cosmos is a scale and a number.
- Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Ma
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- Aristotle
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The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle, Metaphysica
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There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
- Aristotle
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They should rule who are able to rule best.
- Aristotle
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This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects for it
redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Aristotle
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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
- Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- Aristotle
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only
gave life, those the art of living well.
- Aristotle
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Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and
have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to
observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a
minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an
armed people.
- Aristotle
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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is
forgotten through the lapse of Time.
- Aristotle
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own
existence.
- Aristotle
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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest
bearing on excellence of character.
- Aristotle
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To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an
arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
- Aristotle
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To love someone is to identify with them.
- Aristotle
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To perceive is to suffer.
- Aristotle
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To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
- Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do.
- Aristotle
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We make war that we may live in peace.
- Aristotle
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We must as second best...take the least of the evils.
- Aristotle
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Well begun is half done.
- Aristotle
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
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What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
- Aristotle
***
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
- Aristotle
***
Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something
celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.
- Aristotle
***
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle
***
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle
***
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use
it.
- Aristotle
***
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
- Aristotle
***
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet
and they are growing.
- Aristotle
***
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
- Aristotle
***
Jane Austen Quotes
Born: 1775-12-16
Died: 1817-07-18
Jane Austen Biography
"Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind
are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest
delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to
the world in the best chosen language.
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
***
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
***
A woman should never be trusted with money.
- Jane Austen, The Watsons
***
An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
- Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798
***
At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or
hear anything to change them.
- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
***
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding
families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her
way.
- Jane Austen
***
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of
devotion.
- Jane Austen
***
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our
turn?
- Jane Austen
***
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen
***
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
- Jane Austen, Emma
***
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations,
that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
- Jane Austen, Emma
***
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
- Jane Austen, Emma
***
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may
often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
- Jane Austen
***
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
- Jane Austen
***
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage.
If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen
the right person.
- Jane Austen
***
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do
think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the
powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our
intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at
others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond
control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of
forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
- Jane Austen
***
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for
matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of
disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry.
***
In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided
between the sexes.
- Jane Austen
***
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good
fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such
a man on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds
of ths surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some
one or other of their daughters.
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (opening lines)
***
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of
marriage.
- Jane Austen
***
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they
ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
- Jane Austen
***
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
***
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the
abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Jane Austen
***
Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
***
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I
cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- Jane Austen
***
Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.
- Jane Austen, Emma
***
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on
something witty.
- Jane Austen
***
One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food
for a rambling fancy.
- Jane Austen
***
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been
suffering, nothing but suffering.
- Jane Austen
***
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
- Jane Austen
***
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom
can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
- Jane Austen, Emma
***
Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent
way.
- Jane Austen
***
The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.
- Jane Austen
***
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be
intolerably stupid.
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
***
There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry . It
is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least
honest themselves.
- Jane Austen
***
There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to
expect too much but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to
another if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better we find comfort
somewhere.
- Jane Austen
***
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
***
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
- Jane Austen
***
To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect
refreshment.
- Jane Austen
***
We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing
if you really liked him.
***
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other
person can be.
- Jane Austen
***
We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or
himself must be dead.
- Jane Austen
***
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
- Jane Austen
***
Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned
indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.
- Jane Austen
***
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there
not some reason to fear I may be wrong
- Jane Austen
***
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by
preparation, foolish preparations.
- Jane Austen
***
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her
side.
- Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
***
You have delighted us long enough.
***
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance
gives you pleasure.
***
Yogi Berra Quotes
Born: 1925-05-12
Died: 0000-00-00
Yogi Berra Biography
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.

- Yogi Berra
***
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra
***
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
- Yogi Berra
***
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
- Yogi Berra
***
I didn't really say everything I said.
- Yogi Berra
***
I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with
Phil Rizzuto! (on the marriage of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe)
- Yogi Berra
***
If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra
***
It ain't over 'till it's over.
- Yogi Berra
***
It's deja vu all over again
- Yogi Berra
***
Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.
- Yogi Berra, Sports Illustrated
***
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
- Yogi Berra
***
Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.
- Yogi Berra
***
The future ain't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
***
The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
- Yogi Berra
***
This is like deja vu all over again.
- Yogi Berra
***
We made too many wrong mistakes.
- Yogi Berra
***
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
- Yogi Berra
***
You can observe a lot just by watching.
- Yogi Berra
***
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not
get there.
- Yogi Berra
***
You guys over there, pair up into groups of three.
- Yogi Berra
***
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
- Yogi Berra
***
Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Born: 1842-06-24
Died: 1914-01-01
Ambrose Bierce Biography
Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well
enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Advice: the smallest current coin.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Age--that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by
reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are
having.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's
head.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished
from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge,
of things without parallel.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Genius - To know without having learned to draw just conclusions from unknown
premises to discern the soul of things.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought
about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so
highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and
springs, and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a
mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who
has no gills.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to
the critic.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner
confessedly unworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of
making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business
known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from
virginity.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
- Ambrose Bierce
***
Lewis Black Quotes
Born: 1948-08-30
Died: 0000-00-00
Lewis Black Biography
Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t
have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears
repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I
wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution.
Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!
- Lewis Black
***
But those aren't the flavors. That'd make too much sense. Apple and pear, according
to Dr. Phil, are body types the bars are made for. Hey, I've got some advice. If you
look like an apple or a pear, eat an apple or a pear! [On Dr. Phil's energy bars]
- Lewis Black
***
Candy Corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised.
And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.
- Lewis Black
***
I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out.
(on his political views)
- Lewis Black
***
In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from
John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we'll be
voting for plants.
- Lewis Black
***
Let's face it, Americans are fat all year round, but the holidays are when we really hit
our stride. And you can bet the food we eat will be just as unhealthy as the families
we're forced to visit.
- Lewis Black
***
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken!
- Lewis Black
***
The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "The British
are coming! The British are coming!" [On Boston traffic]
- Lewis Black
***
The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.
- Lewis Black
***
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks
will live forever.
- Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
***
Turns out we've all been eating the wrong thing...since the dawn of civilization! [On
the Atkins Diet]
- Lewis Black
***
You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in ONE
SENTENCE....what it does....it's illegal.
- Lewis Black
***
Erma Bombeck Quotes
Born: 1927-02-21
Died: 1996-04-22
Erma Bombeck Biography
... it's simply wrong to always order kids to stop that fighting. There are times when
one child is simply defending his rights and damned well should be fighting.
- Erma Bombeck
***
A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid
straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory an
empty gin bottle.
- Erma Bombeck
***
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her
birthday.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain
dead.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of
guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad
am I?" That's where courage comes in.
- Erma Bombeck
***
I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food.
- Erma Bombeck
***
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
- Erma Bombeck
***
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.
- Erma Bombeck
***
I told you I was sick.
- Erma Bombeck, on her tombstone
***
If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.
- Erma Bombeck
***
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
- Erma Bombeck
***
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm
bracelet.
- Erma Bombeck
***
It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to
want the job. (on the US presidency)
- Erma Bombeck
***
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the
top bunk bed until I faint.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
- Erma Bombeck
***
One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at
the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she
is.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone
else, and hope for the best.
- Erma Bombeck
***
People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a
century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving
woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve
minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck
***
The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to
gain the respect she needs to function, a other must have her children believe she
has never engaged in sex, never made a bad decision, never caused her own mother
a moment's anxiety, and was never a child.
- Erma Bombeck
***
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams,
of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in
awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they
never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your
dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I' That's
where courage comes in.
- Erma Bombeck
***
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a
child.
- Erma Bombeck
***
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how
it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache'
cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of
women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it
can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting
the battle.
- Erma Bombeck
***
When humor goes, there goes civilization.
- Erma Bombeck
***
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a
single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
- Erma Bombeck
***
You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying.
They're merging into big conglomerates.
- Erma Bombeck
***
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Born: 1769-08-15
Died: 1821-05-05
Napoleon Bonaparte Biography
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
***
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
***
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
***
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
***
An army marches on its stomach.
***
Chief of the Army.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, last words, 1821
***
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
***
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
***
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
***
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
***
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
***
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
***
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this
world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.
***
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
***
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
***
If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
***
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
***
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
***
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken
collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
***
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
***
Men, in general, are but great children.
***
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news
nothing presses but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then
there is not an instant to be lost.
***
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
***
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping the common people quiet.
***
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
***
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
***
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and
go in.
***
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
***
The French complain of everything, and always.
***
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
***
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
***
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the
sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
***
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
***
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
***
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
***
We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.
***
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
- Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802
***
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
***
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of
war.
***
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken
collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
***
James Brown Quotes
Born: 1928-05-03
Died: 2006-12-25
James Brown Biography
I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

- James Brown
***
I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too
complicated.
- James Brown
***
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving
Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.
- James Brown
***
Sometimes, you like to let the hair do the talking!
- James Brown
***
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.
- James Brown
***
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church
does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
- James Brown
***
Warren Buffett Quotes
Born: 1930-08-30
Died: 0000-00-00
Warren Buffett Biography
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn’t count; building arks does.
- Warren Buffett
***
I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a
dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty.
- Warren Buffett
***
If you have a harem of 40 women, you never get to know any of them very well.
- Warren Buffett
***
In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
- Warren Buffett
***
It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
- Warren Buffett
***
Our favourite holding period is forever.
- Warren Buffett
***
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. (on junk bonds)
- Warren Buffett
***
George W. Bush Quotes
Born: 1946-07-06
Died: 0000-00-00
George W. Bush Biography
....it is better to succeed with success than failure.

- George W. Bush Jan. 21, 2001, Inauguration speech
***
America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that
had the chance, and refused – preferring greatness to power and justice to glory.
- George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999
***
America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such
brave defenders.
- George W. Bush
***
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country.
- George W. Bush
***
American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a
great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of
democratic peace.
***
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and
the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is
God's gift to humanity.
- George W. Bush
***
As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our
decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need to test the water glasses of
about 3,000 people. Thank you for participating. [from a 2001 Washington TV/Radio
Correspondents dinner]
- George W. Bush
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By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
- George W. Bush, Speech to the United Nations, September 12, 2002
***
Chew before you swallow.
- George W. Bush, On TV, about his passing out eating a pretzel
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Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.
- George W. Bush
***
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or
you are with the terrorists.
- George W. Bush, September 20, 2001
***
For states that support terror, it is not enough that the consequences be costly -
they must be devastating. (Speech at The Citadel, Dec 11, 2001)
- George W. Bush
***
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression
in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability
never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the
Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful,
democratic nations.
- George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 200
***
Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. Freedom will be
defended! - September 11, 2001
- George W. Bush
***
God is not on the side of any nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our
finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the cause of
justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands.
- George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous pres
***
Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love
have no end.
- George W. Bush
***
History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.
- George W. Bush
***
I believe that freedom is the deepest need of every human soul.
- George W. Bush, Press Conference, White House, Tuesday, April 13
***
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom.
And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.
- George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
***
I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very
warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to
wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.
- George W. Bush
***
I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of
history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.
- George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Conve
***
I think we agree, the past is over.
- George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning
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If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That
will not happen on my watch.
- George W. Bush
***
If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched
uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less
than a year.
- George W. Bush
***
In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English
language.
- George W. Bush
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In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are
limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by
stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the
promise of swift punishment.
***
Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him!
(said after capture of Saddam)
- George W. Bush, BBC/CNN
***
Most of our imports come from other countries.
- George W. Bush, Robin Williams, Live on Broadway
***
See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over
again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.
- George W. Bush, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/05/
***
States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane
practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
- George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
***
Thank you for your e-mail. This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention. -- (email
to Al Gore, mocking his famous Internet invention claim, quoted in Newsweek, Mar
2000)
- George W. Bush
***
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
***
The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign.
- George W. Bush, Speech (2005)
***
The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits
of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy.
***
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our
country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
- George W. Bush
***
The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be
contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and
across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
***
The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With
a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
- George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001
***
These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of America's resolve.
- George W. Bush
***
This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except
victory.
- George W. Bush
***
To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And
to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
- George W. Bush
***
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able
to practice their love with women all across this country.
- George W. Bush
***
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they
are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on
our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting
that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our
own streets, in our own cities.
***
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to
resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror,
while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples
embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous
ideologies.
***
We must appreciate the dignity of life in all its seasons, even the path of the elderly
in the twilight of their years, to work toward the day when every child, born and
unborn, is welcomed to life and protected by law.
- George W. Bush
***
We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst
threats before they emerge.
- George W. Bush
***
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
- George W. Bush
***
What our enemies have begun, we will finish.
- George W. Bush
***
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar
empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. -- (Newsweek, Sep
24, 2001)
- George W. Bush
***
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will
be done.
***
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to
concentrate on. -- (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001)
- George W. Bush
***
You know what's interesting about Washington It's the kind of place where second-
guessing has become second nature.
- George W. Bush
***
Julius Caesar Quotes
Born: 0100-07-13
Died: 0044-03-15
Julius Caesar Biography
Et tu, Brute. You also, Brutus.

- Julius Caesar
***
I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to
fight a general without an army.
- Julius Caesar, (attributed)
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I came, I saw, I conquered.
- Julius Caesar
***
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-
looking.
- Julius Caesar
***
Men willingly believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar
***
Veni, vidi, vici. I came, I saw, I conquered
- Julius Caesar
***
Al Capone Quotes
Born: 1899-01-17
Died: 1947-01-27
Al Capone Biography
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago
get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of
grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
- Al Capone
***
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
- Al Capone
***
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
- Al Capone
***
I have built my organization upon fear.
- Al Capone
***
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
- Al Capone
***
My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.
- Al Capone
***
Once in the racket you're always in it.
- Al Capone
***
This American system of ours . . . call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what
you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it
with both hands and make the most of it.
- Al Capone
***
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone
***
When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore
Drive, it's called hospitality.
- Al Capone
***
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word
alone.
- Al Capone
***
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
- Al Capone
***
George Carlin Quotes
Born: 1937-05-12
Died: 2008-06-22
George Carlin Biography
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I
do" is the longest sentence?
- George Carlin
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"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
***
As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
- George Carlin
***
Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
- George Carlin
***
Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
- George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
***
Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, but anyone going faster is
a maniac?
- George Carlin
***
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian
water? Try spelling Evian backward.
- George Carlin
***
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and
gets stuck.
- George Carlin
***
Hobbies cost money but interests are free.
- George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
***
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by
elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin
***
I like Florida. Everything is in the 80's. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's. --
(Brain Droppings, 1997)
- George Carlin
***
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it
deliberately.
- George Carlin
***
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I
wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?
- George Carlin
***
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get
older; then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam.
- George Carlin
***
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
***
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
***
If a man smiles all the time he's probably selling something that doesn't work. --
(Brain Droppings, 1997)
- George Carlin
***
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
- George Carlin
***
If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a
hostage situation?
- George Carlin
***
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
- George Carlin
***
Keep thy religion to thyself.
- George Carlin
***
Life.....is a series of dogs.
- George Carlin
***
No one ever says, "It's only a game" when their team is winning.
- George Carlin
***
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you
have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
- George Carlin
***
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. -- (Sometimes a Little
Brain Damage Can Help, 1984)
- George Carlin
***
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other
going in opposite directions.
- George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty
***
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other
going in opposite directions. -- (Napalm and Silly Putty, 2001)
- George Carlin
***
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone
said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m
just not close enough to get the job done."
- George Carlin
***
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
- George Carlin
***
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
- George Carlin
***
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than
that.
- George Carlin
***
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered
light by morning.
- George Carlin
***
Weather forecast for tonight dark.
- George Carlin
***
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
- George Carlin
***
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters
fight They never mention that part to us, do they
- George Carlin
***
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters
fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin
***
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
- George Carlin
***
What's all this stuff about motivation? I say, if you need motivation, you probably
need more than motivation. You probably need chemical intervention or brain
surgery. Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation.
The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me.
- George Carlin
***
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in,
what happens to the other penny?
- George Carlin
***
Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?
- George Carlin
***
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups,
Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just
plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very
interesting for a long, long time.
- George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
***
George Washington Carver Quotes
Born: 1864-07-12
Died: 1943-01-05
George Washington Carver Biography
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that
when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets,
but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets
also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver
***
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong
-- because someday you will have been all of these.
***
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God
speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
***
Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making
excuses.
***
One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am
going to live, but how much I can do while living.
***
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world.
***
Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes
Born: 1874-05-29
Died: 1936-06-14
Gilbert K. Chesterton Biography
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth
about its author.
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All government is an ugly necessity.
***
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
***
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
***
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for
the newspapers.
***
Half a truth is better than no politics.
***
I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.
***
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
***
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
***
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
***
It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged.
***
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
***
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had
a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
***
Many clever men like you have trusted to civilisation. Many clever Babylonians, many
clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world
that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal
about yours?
***
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously
about what evils they will call excusable.
***
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night
before.
***
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or as good as drink.
***
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
***
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
***
Ten thousand women marched through the streets of London saying 'we will not be
dictated to,' and then went off to become stenographers.
***
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably
because they are generally the same people.
***
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult
and left untried.
***
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
***
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
***
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property
that they may more perfectly respect it. -- (The Man Who Was Thursday, 1908)
***
To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
***
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
***
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is
the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy
who merely happen to be walking around.
***
Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
***
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door
neighbour.
***
When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and
when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
***
When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they
haven't got any.
***
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
***
You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
***
Sir Winston Churchill Quotes
Born: 1874-11-30
Died: 1965-01-24
Sir Winston Churchill Biography
.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air,
with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war
against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of
human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one
word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
- Sir Winston Churchill
***
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you
straight in the eye and see his equal.
- Winston Churchill
***
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
***
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
***
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations
in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
***
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity
in every difficulty.
***
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom,
justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
***
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
***
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
***
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is
over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
***
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?
- Winston Churchill
***
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
***
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers
are getting hungry.
***
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
***
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch
out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know
you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only
adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
***
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
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Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
***
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the
past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
***
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
***
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will
not put.
***
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended
across the Continent.
***
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with
weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
***
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
***
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or
falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-
drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will
finish the job.
***
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
***
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
***
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am
the prod.
- Winston Churchill
***
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
meeting me is another matter.
***
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his
devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
***
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery
inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
***
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
***
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson
that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality,
what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when
anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
***
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites
among his opponents.
***
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
***
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
***
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
***
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have
nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
***
If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them
to himself.
***
If you are going through hell, keep going.
***
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at
forty, you have no brain.
- Winston Churchhill
***
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble
bounce.
***
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill
***
Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you
because I love you.
- Winston Churchill
***
In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you
also understand the most amusing.
- Winston Churchill
***
In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.
***
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the
others that have been tried.
***
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say,
disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it’s no use worrying, and two perhaps
can be settled.
***
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
***
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped
one link at a time.
***
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making
losses.
- Winston Churchill
***
It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic.
- Winston Churchill
***
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is
necessary.
***
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by
more than twenty.
***
Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it.
- Winston Churchill
***
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest
amount of thoughts.
***
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up,
walk over or around it, and carry on.
- Winston Churchill
***
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and
woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said
that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have
been tried from time to time.
- Winston Churchill
***
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
***
Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
***
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would
have been wrecked.
***
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty,
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force
never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
***
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
***
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
***
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who
embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will
encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal
is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and
uncontrollable events.
***
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
***
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning.
***
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions
about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
***
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from
it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without
flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
***
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
***
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided,
resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be
impotent.
***
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
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Success is never final.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
***
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average
voter.
- Winston Churchill
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be
told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But
they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.
- Winston Churchill
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue
of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'
- Winston Churchill
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
***
The price of greatness is responsibility.
***
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the
fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and
meaning.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is
a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.
- Winston Churchill
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The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of
them are true.
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There but for the grace of God goes God.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
***
This report, by its very length, defends itself against being read.
- Winston Churchill
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To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
***
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the
thoughtless act of a single day.
***
Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and
is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
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Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and
resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of
millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning
assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.
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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
***
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Winston Churchill
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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will
finish the job.
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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall
fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing
strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall
fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the
fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
***
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
***
We shape our buildings and they shape us.
- Winston Churchill
***
We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your
wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.
- Winston Churchill
***
What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed by their
tryanny?
- Winston Churchill
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the
government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on
his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
- Winston Churchill
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
- Winston Churchill
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When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
- Winston Churchill
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
***
Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height
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Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most
audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of
their fears.
- Winston Churchill
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You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and
fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
- Winston Churchill
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[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
***
[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.
For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw
Vale.
***
Bill Clinton Quotes
Born: 1946-08-19
Died: 0000-00-00
Bill Clinton Biography
I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ...
that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that
helps all Americans.
- William Jefferson Clinton
***
I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not
spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong.
(Letter to Arkansas Right to Life, 9/26/1986)
- Bill Cinton
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I felt like a pickle stepping into history.—During the unveiling of his official portrait in
the East Room of the White House (June 14, 2004)
- Bill Clinton
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time
has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America.
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
- William J. Clinton
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It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If the—if he—if 'is' means is and
never has been, that is not—that is one thing. If it means there is none, that was a
completely true statement. (Grand Jury testimony - August 17, 1998)
- Bill Clinton
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Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
- Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech
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The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20
members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the
House.
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in
America.
- William J. Clinton
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When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the
Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.
- Bill Clinton
***
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
- Bill Clinton
***
You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum
wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month
government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.
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[George Bush] has raised taxes on the people driving pickup trucks and lowered
taxes on the people riding in limousines. We can do better.
- Bill Clinton, Democratic National Convention, July 16, 1992
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[Iraq is] not Vietnam, we have a government that has a support of the majority of
the people.—Late Show with David Letterman, June 16, 2005
- Bill Clinton
***
Hillary Clinton Quotes
Born: 1947-10-26
Died: 0000-00-00
Hillary Clinton Biography
Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or
who finance them, are going to pay a price.
- Hillary Clinton
***
I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
president.
- Hillary Clinton
***
Confucius Quotes
Born: 0551-09-28
Died: 0479-00-00
Confucius Biography
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Confucius
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A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
- Confucius
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A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be
equal to our present?
- Confucius
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius
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Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
- Confucius
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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
- Confucius
***
By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius
***
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the
bitterest.
- Confucius
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages.
Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at
small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
- Confucius
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Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
- Confucius
***
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.
- Confucius
***
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
***
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
- Confucius
***
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Confucius
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Have no friends not equal to yourself.
- Confucius
***
He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
- Confucius
***
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north
polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius
***
He who learns but does not think, is lost He who thinks but does not learn is in great
danger.
- Confucius
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He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.
- Confucius
***
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
- Confucius
***
He who will not economize will have to agonize.
- Confucius
***
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
- Confucius
***
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements
that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.
- Confucius
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Heaven means to be one with God.
- Confucius
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Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
- Confucius
***
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that
away.
- Confucius
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I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of
antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
- Confucius
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I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my
shadow in the pool Can do better than that.
- Confucius
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I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous.
He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.
- Confucius
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I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
***
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius
***
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in
the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when
he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a
complete man.
- Confucius
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If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
- Confucius
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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to
the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if,
in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his
words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say
that he has.
- Confucius
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If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will
pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other
and correct them in myself.
- Confucius
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If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is
not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone,
morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in
helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This
matters above everything.
- Confucius
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If we don't know life, how can we know death
- Confucius
***
Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.
- Confucius
***
In his errors a man is true to type. Observe the errors and you will know the man.
- Confucius
***
Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand.
- Confucius
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
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It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.
- Confucius
***
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking other men.
- Confucius
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It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
- Confucius
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Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius
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Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
- Confucius
***
Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
- Confucius
***
Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently
shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as
spectator.
- Confucius
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius
***
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius
***
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
***
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
- Confucius
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Respect yourself and others will respect you.
- Confucius
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Silence is a friend who will never betray.
- Confucius
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Study the past if you would define the future.
- Confucius
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The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius
***
The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of
injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue
complete.
- Confucius
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it not having it, to confess your
ignorance.
- Confucius
***
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his
work must first sharpen his tools.
- Confucius
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The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
- Confucius
***
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success
only a subsequent consideration.
- Confucius
***
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is
prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far
back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
- Confucius
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Confucius
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The object of the superior man is truth.
- Confucius
***
The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to
understand it.
- Confucius
***
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral
development.
- Confucius
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The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Confucius
***
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his
actions.
- Confucius
***
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with
great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he
may be known in little matters.
- Confucius
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The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
- Confucius
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The superior man is satisfied and composed the mean man is always full of distress.
- Confucius
***
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only
comes later.
- Confucius
***
The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will
sell.
- Confucius
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The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.
When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is
orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not
endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved.
- Confucius
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The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything
what is right he will follow.
- Confucius
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The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-
day be uppermost.
- Confucius
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There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When
he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
- Confucius
***
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
- Confucius
***
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is
needless to blame.
- Confucius
***
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect
virtue...They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
- Confucius
***
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue;
these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius
***
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius
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To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius
***
To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare
remain incorrect?
- Confucius
***
To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what
one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
- Confucius
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To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle.
- Confucius
***
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading
on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of
virtue.
- Confucius
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Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
- Confucius
***
We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to
think so ourselves.
- Confucius
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Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way
they may not be possessed.
- Confucius
***
What is the sound of one hand clapping
- Confucius
***
What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.
- Confucius
***
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
- Confucius
***
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to
enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
- Confucius
***
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucius
***
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine
ourselves.
- Confucius
***
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them when we see men of a
contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
- Confucius
***
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
- Confucius
***
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing,
to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
- Confucius
***
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
***
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land.
While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes
generous treatment.
- Confucius
***
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While
you do not know life, how can you know about death
- Confucius
***
With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have
still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness
are to me as a floating cloud.
- Confucius
***
Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character
to be established.
- Confucius
***
Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.
- Confucius
***
[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his
actions.
- Confucius
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Bill Cosby Quotes
Born: 1937-07-12
Died: 0000-00-00
Bill Cosby Biography
A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
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As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally,
so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak:
she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by
"survival of the fittest."
- Bill Cosby
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
- Bill Cosby
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Gray hair is God's graffiti.
- Bill Cosby
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby
***
I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had
it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.
- Bill Cosby
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
***
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.
- Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969
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I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
- Bill Cosby
***
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
***
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of
failure.
- Bill Cosby
***
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with
coffee and obituaries.
- Bill Cosby
***
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't
because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
- Bill Cosby
***
My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was
Jesus Christ!
- Bill Cosby
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One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in
athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even
then, stay away from hide-and-seek.
- Bill Cosby, Time Flies
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People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often...
"And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer
welcome here at these prices.
- Bill Cosby
***
Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in
fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
- Bill Cosby
***
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
- Bill Cosby
***
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
- Bill Cosby
***
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the
delightfully vague.
- Bill Cosby
***
When you become senile, you won't know it.
- Bill Cosby
***
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in
anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
- Bill Cosby
***
Rodney Dangerfield Quotes
Born: 1921-11-22
Died: 2004-10-05
Rodney Dangerfield Biography
Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good
day. I got a dial tone.
- Rodney Dangerfield
***
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up,
a blind man was reading my face.
***
I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.
***
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous -
everyone hasn't met me yet.
***
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
***
In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the
teacher out of the window.
***
Life is just a bowl of pits.
***
My mother had morning sickness after I was born.
- Rodney Dangerfield, monologue
***
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap....He was in the electric chair.
***
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
***
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the
garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
***
My wife was afraid of the dark...then she saw me naked and now she's afraid of the
light.
***
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
***
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best
woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
***
Yeah, I know I'm ugly...I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat
me to it.'
***
Johnny Depp Quotes
Born: 1963-06-09
Died: 0000-00-00
Johnny Depp Biography
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To
have hopes, dreams-great.
- Johnny Depp
***
I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the
expression it leaves on my face.
- Johnny Depp
***
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
- Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
***
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.
- Johnny Depp
***
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and
infants.
- Johnny Depp
***
Charles Dickens Quotes
Born: 1812-02-07
Died: 1870-06-09
Charles Dickens Biography
'A merry Christmas, uncle, God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge.
'Humbug'
- Charles Dickens
***
'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen,
'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the
poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time,
because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.'
- Charles Dickens
***
'Out upon merry Christmas What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills
without money a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer... If I
could work my will,' said Scrooge indignantly, 'every idiot who goes about with
'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried
with a stake of holly through his heart. He should'
- Charles Dickens
***
...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any
man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us
- Charles Dickens
***
A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
- Charles Dickens
***
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
- Charles Dickens
***
A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
- Charles Dickens
***
A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world
- Charles Dickens
***
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that
profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a
great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own
secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every
beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its
imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
- Charles Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
- Charles Dickens
***
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
***
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't
much credit in that.
- Charles Dickens
***
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come
round...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
***
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out
that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously,
but never ourselves.
- Charles Dickens
***
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of
youthful looks.
- Charles Dickens
***
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can
not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens
***
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that
never hurts.
- Charles Dickens
***
I do not know the American gentleman, god forgive me for putting two such words
together.
- Charles Dickens
***
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in
the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of
countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it.
- Charles Dickens
***
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh
from God, love us.
- Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
***
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order,
and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a
time...
- Charles Dickens
***
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
- Charles Dickens
***
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.
- Charles Dickens
***
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig.
- Charles Dickens
***
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
- Charles Dickens
***
In love of home, the love of country has its rise.
- Charles Dickens
***
In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up,
there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
- Charles Dickens
***
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest
that I go to, than I have ever known.
- Charles Dickens
***
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
- Charles Dickens, Bleak House
***
It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have
snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.
- Charles Dickens
***
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive
possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny
Tim observed, "God Bless Us, Every One!
- Charles Dickens
***
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
- Charles Dickens
***
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere
excess of comfort.
- Charles Dickens
***
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
- Charles Dickens
***
Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge
sat busy in his counting-house.
- Charles Dickens
***
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of
thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first
link on one memorable day.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
***
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
***
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed
for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
***
Somehow he Tim gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the
strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the
people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant for
them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind
men see.
- Charles Dickens
***
Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
- Charles Dickens, Great expectations
***
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
- Charles Dickens
***
The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
- Charles Dickens
***
Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all
his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
- Charles Dickens
***
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens
***
There is always something for which to be thankful.
- Charles Dickens
***
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
- Charles Dickens
***
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade
of it.
- Charles Dickens
***
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
- Charles Dickens
***
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well
whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims
and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
- Charles Dickens
***
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
- Charles Dickens
***
Walt Disney Quotes
Born: 1901-12-05
Died: 1966-12-15
Walt Disney Biography
A man should never neglect his family for business.

- Walt Disney
***
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney
***
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have
strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth
may be the best thing in the world for you.
- Walt Disney
***
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
- Walt Disney
***
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national
resource - the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney
***
Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.
- Walt Disney
***
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get
along without it.
- Walt Disney
***
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
- Walt Disney
***
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate
people and hope they were entertained.
- Walt Disney
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
- Walt Disney
***
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
***
Laughter is America's most important export.
- Walt Disney
***
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of
entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
- Walt Disney
***
Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.
- Walt Disney, On the inside wall of the American Adventure in Epc
***
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach
our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and
feelings.
- Walt Disney
***
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
- Walt Disney
***
Albert Einstein Quotes
Born: 1879-03-14
Died: 1955-04-18
Albert Einstein Biography
...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from
everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of
one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the
personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- Albert Einstein
***
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time
and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something
separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This
delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to
affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the
whole of nature in its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
***
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on
the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to
give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
***
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and
social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he
had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
***
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- Albert Einstein
***
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the
months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a
photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you
remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a
photograph can be kind.
- Albert Einstein
***
A storm broke loose in my mind.
- Albert Einstein
***
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the
birth of a theory.
- Albert Einstein
***
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to
coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists
as well.
- Albert Einstein
***
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be
keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events
in the political field.
- Albert Einstein
***
All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a
meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however,
they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise
logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we
wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part
investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made
about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the
experiences.
- Albert Einstein
***
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
- Albert Einstein
***
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
- Albert Einstein
***
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein
***
Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and
force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable
in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the
individual.
- Albert Einstein
***
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
***
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as
they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- Albert Einstein
***
As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of
the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the
patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were
closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those
forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the
occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of
the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied
part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives.
- Albert Einstein
***
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
- Albert Einstein
***
At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
***
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein
***
Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation
suffers.
- Albert Einstein
***
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and
teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal
any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on
academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge
among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
- Albert Einstein
***
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
- Albert Einstein
***
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly
slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
- Albert Einstein
***
Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all
technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of
labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a
blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams
and equations.
- Albert Einstein
***
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still
greater.
- Albert Einstein
***
Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is
enough to wonder at the secrets.
- Albert Einstein
***
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
- Albert Einstein
***
Emc (Energy equals mass times the square of the speed of light.) Original statement
If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminshes by Lc.
- Albert Einstein
***
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein
***
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust
and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
- Albert Einstein
***
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we
have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings,
vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance
by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein
***
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
***
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can
labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein
***
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
***
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the
prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming
such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
***
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever
walked the face of this earth.
- Albert Einstein
***
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
- Albert Einstein
***
God may be subtle, but He isn't mean.
- Albert Einstein
***
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.
- Albert Einstein
***
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
***
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The
mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to
conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously
and honestly.
- Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
***
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his
eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
***
He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
- Albert Einstein
***
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
suffice.
- Albert Einstein
***
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes
by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
- Albert Einstein
***
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of
goodwill In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
- Albert Einstein
***
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what
purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows
from daily life that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
***
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to
annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate.
- Albert Einstein
***
I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward,
even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure
individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money
only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses,
Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie
- Albert Einstein
***
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
***
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how
unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of
good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set
an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced
by racial bias.
- Albert Einstein
***
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an
exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
***
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic
bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men
capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization
could be restored.
- Albert Einstein
***
I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight
World War IV with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
***
I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming
there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be
fought with -- stone clubs.
- Albert Einstein
***
I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with
stones.
- Albert Einstein
***
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because
you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work
harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your
very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring
to America)
- Albert Einstein
***
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but
into a circus.
- Albert Einstein
***
I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.
- Albert Einstein
***
I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.
- Albert Einstein
***
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
***
I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.
- Albert Einstein
***
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
- Albert Einstein
***
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
- Albert Einstein
***
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein
***
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
***
I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details
- Albert Einstein
***
I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that
phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts
the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein
***
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign
- Albert Einstein
***
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
***
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein
***
If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so
the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the
advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see
me.
- Albert Einstein
***
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more
ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.
- Albert Einstein
***
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German
and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
- Albert Einstein
***
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we
are a sorry lot indeed.
- Albert Einstein
***
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
- Albert Einstein
***
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it
- Albert Einstein
***
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Albert Einstein
***
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein
***
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
- Albert Einstein
***
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
***
In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of
course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the
years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of
confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who
have experienced it can understand it.
- Albert Einstein
***
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be
a sheep.
- Albert Einstein
***
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein
***
Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is
passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is
characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile
toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my
meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an
intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion
would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a
supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my
visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the
disappearance of the human race
- Albert Einstein
***
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein, (attributed)
***
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
***
Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein
***
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs,
strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held
essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the
psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary...The individual
is degraded...to "human materiel".
- Albert Einstein
***
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security
which, without mathematics, they could not attain.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but
the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his
convictions in political affairs.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and
knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
- Albert Einstein
***
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have
not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.
- Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
***
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered
religion.
- Albert Einstein
***
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is
being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never
denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called
religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as
our science can reveal it.
- Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einste
***
It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside
it. (referring to clothing)
- Albert Einstein
***
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein
***
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression in order that every man present his
views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
- Albert Einstein
***
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein
***
Let us not forget that knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy
and dignified life. ... I claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the
beginning as well as the end, forces over which we have no control. It is determined
for the insects as well as for the stars, Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we
all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
- Albert Einstein, Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical sing
***
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
***
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein
***
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
- Albert Einstein
***
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above
everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like
the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
***
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they
behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that is being performed on the international stage
before the eyes and ears of the world.
- Albert Einstein
***
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born
and that is all that is necessary.
- Albert Einstein
***
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder
of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is
based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
- Albert Einstein
***
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who
reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble
mind.
- Albert Einstein
***
My sense of God is my sense of wonder about the Universe.
- Albert Einstein
***
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
***
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the
liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and
to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
- Albert Einstein
***
Never underestimate your own ignorance.
- Albert Einstein, speech
***
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can
prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein
***
No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result
but the experimenter himself.
- Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004,
***
No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of
chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love
- Albert Einstein
***
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted.
- Albert Einstein
***
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can
we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.
- Albert Einstein
***
Nothing in the world makes people so afraid as the influence of independent-minded
people.
- Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
***
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land
than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous
increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
- Albert Einstein
***
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means
nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between
past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
***
Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself
to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members
at any time.
- Albert Einstein
***
Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a
fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet
come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I
do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and
love for it.
- Albert Einstein
***
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one
liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had
passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems
distasteful to me for an entire year.
- Albert Einstein
***
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form
as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is
pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result
to the community.
- Albert Einstein
***
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
***
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a
true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
***
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure
about the former.
- Albert Einstein
***
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our
defense is in law and order.
- Albert Einstein
***
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein
***
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past,
present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
- Albert Einstein
***
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may
seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
- Albert Einstein
***
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
- Albert Einstein
***
Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not
yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us closer to the
secret of the 'Old One.' I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice.
- Albert Einstein
***
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of
thinking.
- Albert Einstein
***
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
***
Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
- Albert Einstein
***
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein
***
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
***
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I
have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It
may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs,
which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
- Albert Einstein
***
Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions,
invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman
is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my
head because I have not answered the old ones.
- Albert Einstein
***
So long as there are men there will be wars.
- Albert Einstein
***
Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
- Albert Einstein
***
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Albert Einstein
***
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not
as a hard duty.
- Albert Einstein
***
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
***
That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is
enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a
backbone was all he needed.
- Albert Einstein
***
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking
individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life
achievement.
- Albert Einstein
***
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life
for him is always becoming, never being.
- Albert Einstein
***
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then
only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein
***
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he
sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the
betterment of society.
- Albert Einstein
***
The crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole
educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is
inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a
perparation for his future career.
- Albert Einstein
***
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
***
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is
inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
- Albert Einstein
***
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
- Albert Einstein
***
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for
someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
***
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to
me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the
fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
***
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by
logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein
***
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
- Albert Einstein
***
The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein
***
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child
entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many
different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It
does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are
written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a
mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
- Albert Einstein
***
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are
goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never
appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a
herd of cattle.
- Albert Einstein
***
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new
courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite
subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always
seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein
***
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for
existing.
- Albert Einstein
***
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best
he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.
- Albert Einstein
***
The Lord God is subtle, but malicious He is not.
- Albert Einstein
***
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is
not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
- Albert Einstein
***
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may
be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions,
new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative
imagination and marks real advances in science.
- Albert Einstein
***
The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of
the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a
stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To
know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the
highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend
only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true
religiousness.
- Albert Einstein
***
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
- Albert Einstein
***
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
- Albert Einstein
***
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein
***
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
- Albert Einstein
***
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Albert Einstein
***
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein
***
The physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of
the theoretical foundations for he himself knows best and feels most surely where
the shoe pinches.... he must try to make clear in his own mind just how far the
concepts which he uses are justified... The whole of science is nothing more than a
refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein
***
The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for
recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school
demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
- Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
***
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking
that created them.
- Albert Einstein
***
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
- Albert Einstein
***
The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and
the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that
make me thank my stars that I belong to it.
- Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
***
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to
remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
***
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made
more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
- Albert Einstein
***
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein
***
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we
were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein
***
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science.
These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest
human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring
danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and
stereotypes.
- Albert Einstein
***
The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to
defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense
are the constitutional rights secure.
- Albert Einstein
***
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
- Albert Einstein
***
The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his
ego.
- Albert Einstein
***
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of
thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
***
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of
receiving.
- Albert Einstein
***
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
***
The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a
very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The
wireless is the same, only without the cat.
- Albert Einstein
***
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
***
Theories should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
***
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
***
There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The
legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as
a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a
view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the
state in time of war.
- Albert Einstein
***
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never
prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
***
There has already been published by the bucketfuls such brazen lies and utter
fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had let myself
pay attention to that.
- Albert Einstein
***
There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress
clothes. Away with it
- Albert Einstein
***
There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing
before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and
thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.
- Albert Einstein
***
Those people have seen something. What it is I do not know and I can not care to
know. (on flying saucers)
- Albert Einstein
***
To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the
highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull facilities can
comprehend only in the most primitive forms--this knowledge, this feeling, is at the
center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the
ranks of the devoutly religious men.
- Albert Einstein
***
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
- Albert Einstein
***
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein
***
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
***
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
- Albert Einstein
***
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
- Albert Einstein
***
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
***
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about
the universe.
- Albert Einstein
***
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
- Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
***
We cannot dispair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.
- Albert Einstein
***
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created
them.
- Albert Einstein
***
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation
ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and
transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being
used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
- Albert Einstein
***
We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful
muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein
***
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to
us.
- Albert Einstein
***
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
***
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
- Albert Einstein
***
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this
question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I
answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as
meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
- Albert Einstein
***
What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.
- Albert Einstein
***
When all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Albert Einstein
***
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
***
When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all
sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
- Albert Einstein
***
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a
red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein
***
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always
reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
***
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we
face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art
and Science.
- Albert Einstein
***
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important
matters.
- Albert Einstein
***
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Albert Einstein
***
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier,
bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to
make sensible use of it.
- Albert Einstein
***
Why is it that nobody understands me and everybody likes me
- Albert Einstein
***
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
***
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations.
But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of
present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein
***
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein
***
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio
operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The
only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
***
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Born: 1803-05-25
Died: 1882-04-27
Ralph Waldo Emerson Biography
...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness,
the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay)
***
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
***
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
***
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
***
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
***
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
***
A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.
***
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
***
A good intention clothes itself with power.
***
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
***
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to
furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
***
A man is related to all nature.
***
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
***
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as
insupportable as any other dullness.
***
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from
within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses
without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we
recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated
majesty.
***
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
***
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
***
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a
tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching
for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then
draw him at every attitude . . .
***
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of
thinking.
***
A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.
***
A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
***
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
***
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by
position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only,
like invalids, act on the defensive.
***
All diseases run into one, old age.
***
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third,
and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step.
With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.
***
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
***
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.
***
All mankind love a lover.
***
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to
delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that,
not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of
beauty is art.
***
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then
an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct
to the end, though you can render no reason.
***
Always do what you are afraid to do.
***
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music,
architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
***
As soon as there is life there is danger.
***
As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.
***
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not
miss.
***
Be and not seem.
***
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are
trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
***
Be careful what you set your heart on, for it will surely be yours.
***
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
***
Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
***
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquility that religion is powerless to
bestow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, quoting a friend
***
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, in denying them.
***
Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
***
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
***
Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
***
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to
appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
***
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here
once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.
***
Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce
***
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
***
Character is what can do without success.
***
Children are all foreigners.
***
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice
and chance.
***
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
***
Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.
***
Common sense is as rare as genius.
***
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is
electrified.
***
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is
that which all are practising every day while they live.
***
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
***
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may
get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once
or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.
***
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail.
***
Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I
cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
***
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
***
Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
***
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make the better.
***
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of
the good.
***
Each man has his own vocation his talent is his call. There is one direction in which
all space is open to him.
***
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he
begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. He has
changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
***
Earth laughs in flowers.
***
Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance
***
Every artist was first an amateur.
***
Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged
word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
***
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the triumph of
some enthusiasm.
***
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
***
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
***
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
***
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
***
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool.
***
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
***
Every sweet has its sour every evil its good.
***
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
***
Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to
me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me
outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn
the Brahmin sings.
***
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
***
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could some blunders
and absurdities have crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new
day you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your
old nonsense.
***
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the
world.
***
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
***
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything
you gain, you lose something.
***
For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.
***
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see -- not to
eat, not for love, but only gliding.
***
Give all to love obey thy heart.
***
Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
***
God enters by a private door into every individual.
***
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force,
that thoughts rule the world.
***
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and
their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest
gems in a useful life.
***
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on
yourself.
***
He is great who confers the most benefits.
***
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by
worry, fret and anxiety.
***
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended
into the secrets of all minds.
***
He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one
enemyShall meet him everywhere.
***
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at
the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it
possesses.
***
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
***
Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a
cannibal, of the crusades a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.
***
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never
a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the
theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
***
Hitch your wagon to a star.
***
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage
in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
***
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
***
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any
kindness that I can show for any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer
or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
***
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
***
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that
the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is
powerless to bestow.
***
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
***
I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row
of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
***
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his
work for a reply.
***
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in
Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical,
that I fled from.
***
I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark
times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy
day.
***
I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought
I'd look back on us laughing and cry.
***
Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they
are no better than dreams.
***
If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him.
And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or
can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of
Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with
delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first
witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.
***
If eyes were made for seeing,
Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
***
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
***
If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs
or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad,
hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
***
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution
when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be
compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one...
***
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
***
If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it
Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying
them.
***
Imitation is suicide.
***
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to
quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
***
In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
***
In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some
man's father.
***
In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
***
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once
known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
***
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between
their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements
and identities in all the religions of humanity.
***
In the woods is perpetual youth.
***
Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with
the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another
you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to
you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.
***
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
***
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the
world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish
to get in.
***
It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a
large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no
apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do
not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
***
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
***
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
***
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
***
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
***
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself.
***
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in
solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd
keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
***
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
***
It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or
no.
***
It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to
characterize our age.
***
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
***
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever
I am contradicted.
***
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
***
Life is a festival only to the wise.
***
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
***
Life is a progress, and not a station.
***
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
***
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a
hundred years hence.
***
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make
it beautiful.
***
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
***
Love and you shall be loved.
***
Love is the essence of God.
***
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
***
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
***
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most
luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
***
Men are what their mothers made them.
***
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
***
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their
victories.
***
Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has
not been the victim and slave of his action.
***
Money often costs too much.
***
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors
without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
***
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
***
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face.
***
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
***
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
***
Nature hates calculators.
***
Nature is a mutable cloud, which is always and never the same.
***
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his
character.
***
Never read a book that is not a year old.
***
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
***
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker
with no Past at my back.
***
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
***
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he
listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
***
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
***
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
***
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
***
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
***
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
***
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
***
One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one
man's wisdom another's folly.
***
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
***
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and
morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in
circulation beyond its intrinsic date.
***
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
***
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
***
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through
understanding.
***
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
***
People only see what they are prepared to see.
***
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their
character.
***
People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any
hope for them.
***
Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.
***
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
***
Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without
qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its
intuitions.
***
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble prosperity is full of friends.
***
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
***
Self-trust is the essence of heroism
***
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
***
Skill to do comes of doing.
***
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that
the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
***
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
***
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
***
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
***
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
***
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait
shall add a richer strain to the song.
***
Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak
what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said
to-day.
***
Spiritual force is stronger than material force thoughts rule the world.
***
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.
***
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes
to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and
the style of its architecture from within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841)
***
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for
beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut,
in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought
you.
***
That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become
easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.
***
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse
given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
***
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest
fiddles.
***
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
***
The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will
not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their
own, whether there be any who understand it or not.
***
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
***
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
***
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the
belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
***
The education of the will is the object of our existence.
***
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
***
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended
halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the
same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the
intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
***
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
***
The first wealth is health.
***
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy
of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover
that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them.
***
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the
merchants a merchant.
***
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
***
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
***
The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power.
***
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.
***
The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a
helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can
only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
***
The less government we have the better.
***
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield
the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
***
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
***
***
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
***
The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.
***
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion
twenty years later.
***
The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed there is no
winter and no night all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,-all duties even.
***
The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
***
The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
***
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
***
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
***
The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.
***
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
***
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
***
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
***
The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is
commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more
is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition
for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.
***
The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.
***
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and
not despairs.
***
The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of
each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man
becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)
***
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
***
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
***
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest
applause.
***
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
***
The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart
of the child.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature"
***
The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and
comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with
which we have to contend… The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere
is the Government.
***
The things taught in colleges and schools are not an education, but the means of
education.
***
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold
mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the
confined powers.
***
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by
fiend, by prayer or by wine.
***
The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the
crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude
***
The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.
***
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his
interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
***
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance
from fear.
***
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
***
The world belongs to the energetic.
***
The world is emblematic. Parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature
is a metaphor of the human mind.
***
The years teach much which the days never knew.
***
There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than
you do.
***
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.
***
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we
respect; and poets by nature, these we love.
***
There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
***
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy
and not pain around us.
***
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is
made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground,
such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
***
There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into a power.
***
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its
gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
***
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life
who does not every day surmount a fear.
***
They say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.
***
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
***
This world we live in is but thickened light.
***
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with
indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
***
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we
find it not.
***
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
***
Thought is the seed of action.
***
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
***
To be great is to be misunderstood.
***
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private
heart is true for all men-that is genius.
***
To fill the hour-that is happiness.
***
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
***
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching.
***
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
***
To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false
friends to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others to leave the world a little
better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition to
know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning
of success.
***
To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company,
nature is medicinal and restores their tone.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay: Nature
***
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles
with light.
***
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all
events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.
***
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions the
surest poison is time.
***
Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly, and they will show
themselves great.
***
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
***
Truth is beautiful, without doubt but so are lies.
***
Truth is the summit of being justice is the application of it to affairs.
***
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their
own, discredit the routine as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.
***
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will
never grow.
***
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
***
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.
***
We are prisoners of ideas.
***
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and
come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
***
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-
rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of
words, and do not know a thing.
***
We become what we think about all day long.
***
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being
bitten.
***
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
***
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big
for the body.
***
We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves.
***
We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our
clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best
property of all -- friends?
***
What a new face courage puts on everything.
***
What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.
***
What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read
your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.
***
What greater pain could mortals have than this To see their children dead before
their eyes
***
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and
intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and
meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what
is your duty better than you know it.
***
What is a weed A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.
***
What is the hardest thing in the world To think.
***
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
with in us.
***
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his
secret sorrow soothed.
***
What we call results are beginnings.
***
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an
hour.
***
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.
***
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
***
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
***
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is
always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which
tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and
follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
***
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him
boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it
was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
***
When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore
the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
***
When it is darkest, men see the stars.
***
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
***
When you strike at a king, you must kill him.
***
Who so would be a man, must be a nonconformist.
***
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself,
and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God
and man....such a man is a true gentleman.
***
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
***
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
***
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
***
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.
***
Work is victory.
***
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
***
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
***
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
***
You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But
you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a
man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods,
and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.
***
Gerald Ford Quotes
Born: 1913-07-14
Died: 2006-12-26
Gerald Ford Biography
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for
goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses,
to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.
- Gerald R. Ford
***
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard
up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry
Ford might have been a household word today.
- Gerald R. Ford
***
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

- Gerald R. Ford
***
Ronald Reagan doesn't dye his hair, he's just prematurely orange.
- Gerald Ford
***
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you
get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same time?
- Gerald R. Ford
***
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Born: 1706-01-17
Died: 1790-04-17
Benjamin Franklin Biography
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in
countenance.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
- Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel an
***
A penny saved is a penny earned.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an
incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get
over.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
All cats are gray in the dark.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but
neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome
changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
All would live long, but none would be old.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in

duration.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Clearly spoken, Mr. Fogg; you explain English by Greek.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Creditors have better memories than debtors.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a
well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
***
Diligence is the mother of good luck.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the
sunlight.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice
and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done
much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Energy and persistence conquer all thing.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Fish and visitors smell in three days.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Five thousand balloons, capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than
five ships of the line; and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country
with troops for its defense as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not
in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought
together to repel them?
- Benjamin Franklin
***
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose;
and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the
enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of
man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot
anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley, December 4, 1789
***
God heals and the doctor takes the fee.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He does not possess wealth it possesses him.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He is ill clothed, who is bare of virtue.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to
complain if the sparks fly in his face
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that can have patience can have what he will.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he
whom you yourself have obliged.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing
everything for money.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that won't be counselled can't be helped.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages so ignorant that he
bought a cow to ride on.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will
change the face of the world.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade
- Benjamin Franklin
***
How many observe Christ's birthday How few, his precepts O 'tis easier to keep
holidays than commandments.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
I am in the prime of senility.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the
inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine,
hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
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
***
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding
wives.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by
some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper
occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An
investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you would know the value of money try to borrow some.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth
reading or do things worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable
man.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Lost time is never found again.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to
produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a
vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want
another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little
with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Necessity never made a good bargain.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
No nation was ever ruined by trade.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Our critics are our friends; they show us our faults.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Passion governs, and she never governs wisely.

- Benjamin Franklin, In response to the situation of the colonists
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Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Read much, but not many books.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
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
***
Remember that time is money.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it's hurtful.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must
trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so
slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or

make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Tell me....And I Forget,

Teach me.....And I Learn,
Involve Me.....And I Remember.
- Benjamin Franklin, Card
***
The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness.
You have to catch it yourself.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
The doors of wisdom are never shut.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and
frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
There is no little enemy.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will
rap you on the knuckles.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you
must account.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your
liberty.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in

their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would
be of more use to them.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Time is money.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

- Benjamin Franklin, ?
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To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our
power to repay it.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Use no hurtful deceit think innocently and justly and if you speak, speak accordingly.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same

life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition
to correct some faults in the first.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end
of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting,

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Who is rich He that is content. Who is that Nobody.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Who is wise He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful He that governs his
passions. Who is rich He who is content. Who is that Nobody.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in
the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if
others can be depressed to a level of themselves.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the
freeness of speech.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Without justice courage is weak.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.
- Benjamin Franklin
***
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
You may delay, but time will not.

- Benjamin Franklin
***
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Born: 1869-10-02
Died: 1948-01-30
Mahatma Gandhi Biography
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a

person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his
disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.
- Mahatma Gandhi, 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act
of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas Gandhi
***
Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Hate the sin, love the sinner.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I

want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.
But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your
Christ.
- Mohandas Gandhi
***
I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
I want freedom for the full expression on my personality.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

- Mohandas Gandhi
***
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is
elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and
arduous quest after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be

happy.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of
nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas Gandhi
***
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Live simply that others may simply live.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
N.B. This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never
advocated the individual right to bear arms.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended
against the heaviest odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
The future depends on what we do in the present.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
The good man is the friend of all living things.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its
animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
***
The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is
where all our battles should be fought.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the
inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a
correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform
from within.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Mohandas Gandhi
***
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in
the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without
humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
There is more to life than increasing its speed

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.

- Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
***
To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives

ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
We must become the change we want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi
***
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether
the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name
of liberty or democracy
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have
always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem
invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it – always.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Where there is love there is life.

- Mohandas Gandhi
***
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

- Mohandas Gandhi
***
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the
ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words
become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your
values. Your values become your destiny.
- Mahatma Gandhi
***
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Born: 1942-11-27
Died: 1970-09-18
Jimi Hendrix Biography
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

- Jimi Hendrix, Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic,
***
Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.

- Jimi Hendrix
***
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

- Jimi Hendrix
***
I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the
greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.
- Jimi Hendrix
***
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

- Jimi Hendrix
***
Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where
highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.
- Jimi Hendrix
***
Music is my religion.
- Jimi Hendrix
***
Technically, I am not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

- Jimi Hendrix
***
The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and
goodbye, until we meet again.
- Jimi Hendrix
***
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love.
I love my guitar.
- Jimi Hendrix
***
When I die, just keep playin' the records.

- Jimi Hendrix
***
When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
***
Audrey Hepburn Quotes
Born: 1929-05-04
Died: 1993-01-20
Audrey Hepburn Biography
I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind.
I just do my thing.
- Audrey Hepburn
***
I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

- Audrey Hepburn
***
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I
couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of
things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
- Audrey Hepburn
***
If I get married, I want to be very married.

- Audrey Hepburn
***
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,
and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
- Audrey Hepburn
***
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. .
. . As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping
yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn
***
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are
all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved
and found to be real.
- Audrey Hepburn
***
Paris Hilton Quotes
Born: 1981-02-17
Died: 0000-00-00
Paris Hilton Biography
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage,
a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.
- Paris Hilton
***
I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as

Paris.
- Paris Hilton
***
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's
true of me, but it actually was.
- Paris Hilton
***
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

- Paris Hilton
***
The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend.

- Paris Hilton
***
Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

- Paris Hilton
***
Adolf Hitler Quotes
Born: 1889-04-20
Died: 1945-04-30
Adolf Hitler Biography
...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

- Adolf Hitler
***
A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-
destroying blow.
- Adolf Hitler
***
And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect
only what I at least know.
- Adolf Hitler
***
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and
useless.
- Adolf Hitler
***
Brutality creates respect.

- Adolf Hitler
***
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people

believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it
will be believed.
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
***
For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the
man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic
decision arise from a hundred cowards.
- Adolf Hitler
***
Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian
Genocide
- Adolf Hitler
***
How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started -- that
is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want
to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.
- Adolf Hitler
***
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
- Adolf Hitler
***
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a
small one.
- Adolf Hitler
***
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
- Adolph Hitler
***
The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if
they belonged to one category.
- Adolf Hitler
***
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered
Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed
their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so.
- Adolf Hitler
***
The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own
greatness.
- Adolf Hitler
***
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
- Adolph Hitler
***
The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate
it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!
- Adolf Hitler
***
There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word
'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have
advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.
- Adolf Hitler
***
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this
world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
- Adolf Hitler
***
True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.
- Adolf Hitler
***
What luck for rulers, that men do not think.

- Adolf Hitler
***
Homer Quotes
Born: 0800-00-00
Died: 0700-00-00
Homer Biography
A companion's words of persuasion are effective.

- Homer
***
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace
is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

- Homer
***
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves
upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of
spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. (The
Iliad)
- Homer
***
A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and,
second, that nobody else is either.
- Homer McLin
***
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
A small rock holds back a great wave.

- Homer
***
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

- Homer, The Odyssey
***
All men have need of the gods.
***
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
- Homer
***
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the
muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.
***
At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus
slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was
Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength
and glory laid.
- Homer
***
By their own follies they perished, the fools.

- Homer
***
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
- Homer
***
Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass
for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates one is fashioned of horn and one of
ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing
tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn
bring true results when a mortal sees them.
- Homer
***
Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and
endured.
- Homer
***
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers
behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle
man and he who has done much meet death alike. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
Evil deeds do not prosper the slow man catches up with the swift.
- Homer
***
For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than
their fathers.
- Homer
***
Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and
speaks another. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had
been before.
- Homer
***
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his
knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
How God ever brings like to like.

- Homer
***
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for
another.
- Homer
***
I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one
whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
- Homer
***
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. (The
Iliad)
- Homer
***
If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift.
- Homer
***
In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to
gods and men.
- Homer
***
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze
spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and
gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that
happens among wretched mortals. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who
is anxious to leave.
- Homer
***
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. (The Iliad)
- Homer
***
It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

- Homer
***
It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. (The
Iliad)
- Homer
***
Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us,
but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own
follies.
- Homer
***
May the gods grant you all things which your heart desires, and may they give you a
husband and a home and gracious concord, for there is nothing greater and better
than this -when a husband and wife keep a household in oneness of mind, a great
woe to their enemies and joy to their friends, and win high renown.
- Homer
***
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.
- Homer
***
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the
produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
- Homer
***
Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe
and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as
long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength but when the
blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with
steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of
gods and men brings upon them.
- Homer
***
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but
from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
- Homer
***
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
- Homer
***
So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor
intelligence nor eloquence.
- Homer
***
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
- Homer
***
The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

- Homer
***
The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside.

- Homer
***
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from
city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.
- Homer
***
The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.

- Homer
***
The outcome of the war is in our hands the outcome of words is in the council.
- Homer
***
The single best augury is to fight for one's country.

- Homer
***
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing
and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which
were better unspoken.
- Homer
***
There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.

- Homer
***
There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men.

- Homer
***
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Homer
***
There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such
deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her
husband's murder.
- Homer
***
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye
keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
- Homer
***
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while
they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts
which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
- Homer
***
Trying is the first step towards failure.

- Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
***
We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

- Homer
***
Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
- Homer
***
Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes
upon him.
- Homer
***
You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.
- Homer
***
You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
- Homer Simpson
***
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a
god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and
in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
- Homer
***
Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a
matter, he looks both before and after.
- Homer
***
Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

- Homer
***
Saddam Hussein Quotes
Born: 1937-04-28
Died: 2006-12-30
Saddam Hussein Biography
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

- Saddam Hussein
***
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with
an old weapon.
- Saddam Hussein
***
We are not intimidated by the size of the armies, or the type of hardware the US has
brought.
- Saddam Hussein
***
We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up
Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of
the Iraqis with its weapons.
- Saddam Hussein
***
You Americans, you treat the Third World the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new
bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.
- Saddam Hussein
***
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Born: 1743-04-13
Died: 1826-07-04
Thomas Jefferson Biography
...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It
neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the
gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise
and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature,
are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun
therefore be the constant companion of your walks.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Nathaniel Macon, January 12, 1819
***
All authority belongs to the people.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has
never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting
or a vestry.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813
***
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his
God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the
legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate
with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that
their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between
Church and State.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and
thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Delay is preferable to error.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of
time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always
doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always
doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will
vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Every man has two countries his own and France.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without a rebellion.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Health is worth more than learning.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal
ascendancy of one sect over another.
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799
***
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our
constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I cannot live without books.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely
the happier for it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness
to himself from the exercise of power over others.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny
over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my

public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in
the political world as storms in the physical.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I live for books.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from
wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
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
***
I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed
sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to
those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791
***
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without,
we must try to extinguish it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take,
their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under
tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes
nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson, (Notes on Virginia, 1782)
***
In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice
cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia - denouncing th
***
Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Is it the Fourth?
- Thomas Jefferson
***
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give
happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount

every difficulty by resolution and contrivance.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of
what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed
under his own eye.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
- Thomas Jefferson, 1801
***
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as
cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is

practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to
war; but of its abolition I despair.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Never enter into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance of
one of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many on their
getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling,
never fails of employment.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Never spend your money before you have it.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever
will.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into
it...To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of
friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
No more good must be attempted than the people can bear.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool
and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
One man with courage is a majority.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and
thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without
being lost.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be
permitted to pursue it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with
none.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he
must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
***
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before
the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the
religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely
crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every
opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be
one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be
touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human,
and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can
he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the
forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
***
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline
themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object
should be to keep that right and were it left to me to decide whether we should have
a government without newspapers, or newspapers wthout government, I should not
hesita
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to
take it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in
the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in
the brain of Jupiter.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to
work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to
put into the hands of their rulers no such engine of oppression as a standing army.
Their system was to make every man a soldier, and oblige him to repair to the
standard of his country whenever that was reared. This made them invincible and
the same remedy will make us so.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home
in the bosom of my family.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to
others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no
god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads
nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is
the best.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish

it to be always kept alive.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a
last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will
soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in
Spain. . .
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to
protect its free expression should be our first object.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal people.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For
here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error
so long as reason is left free to combat it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without

fearing it.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and
independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and
inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments ar
- Thomas Jefferson
***
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the

majority who participate.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
***
We never regret having eaten too little.

- Thomas Jefferson
***
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without

newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment
to prefer the latter.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property
- Thomas Jefferson
***
When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
When angry, count ten before you speak if very angry, an hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his
conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to
institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
***
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own
government that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they
may be relied on to set them to rights.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask
yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you and act accordingly.
- Thomas Jefferson
***
Angelina Jolie Quotes
Born: 1975-06-04
Died: 0000-00-00
Angelina Jolie Biography
And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

- Angelina Jolie
***
I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never

intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you
should live completely free.
- Angelina Jolie
***
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life
more than they do.
- Angelina Jolie
***
Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.
- Angelina Jolie
***
Michael Jordan Quotes
Born: 1963-02-17
Died: 0000-00-00
Michael Jordan Biography
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.'
There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
- Michael Jordan
***
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan
***
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the
consequences you always think of a negative result.
- Michael Jordan
***
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26
times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over
and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan
***
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has
had them. But 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
***
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

- Michael Jordan
***
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

- Michael Jordan
***
Helen Keller Quotes
Born: 1880-06-27
Died: 1968-06-01
Helen Keller Biography
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
***
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are
caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
***
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial
and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
- Helen Keller
***
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

- Helen Keller
***
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I
am in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
***
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let
them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Helen Keller
***
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
- Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash
***
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Helen Keller
***
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Helen Keller
***
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding
which bringeth peace.
- Helen Keller
***
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to
accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
***
I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of
a family fued.
- Helen Keller
***
Is there anything worse than being blind? Yes, a man with sight and no vision.
- Helen Keller
***
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would
only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die
in his own tracks of ennui.
- Helen Keller
***
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is
God and I have no fears.
- Helen Keller
***
Keep your eyes to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.
- Helen Keller
***
Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
- Helen Keller
***
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
- Helen Keller
***
Knowledge is love and light and vision.

- Helen Keller
***
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do
the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long
run than exposure.
- Helen Keller
***
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses

shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to
me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller
***
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not
attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
***
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or
opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller
***
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

- Helen Keller
***
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
***
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope
and confidence.
- Helen Keller
***
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions
are not always pleasant.
- Helen Keller
***
Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the
worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
***
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
***
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in
the world.
- Helen Keller
***
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the
years you have lived.
- Helen Keller
***
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt within the heart.
- Helen Keller
***
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

- Helen Keller
***
The highest result of education is tolerance.

- Helen Keller
***
The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.
- Helen Keller
***
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the
aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has
not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most
luxurious Persian rug.
- Helen Keller
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Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.

- Helen Keller
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
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When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.
- Helen Keller
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
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John F. Kennedy Quotes
Born: 1917-05-29
Died: 1963-11-22
John F. Kennedy Biography
(Happiness is ) the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

- John F. Kennedy
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...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for
perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.
- John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 19
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All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first
1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on
this planet. But let us begin.
- John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
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And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what
you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
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But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and
minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let
us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the
hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of
human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
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Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are
certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.

- John F. Kennedy
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For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small
planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are
all mortal.
- John F. Kennedy
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy
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History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the
future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
- John F. Kennedy
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I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on
other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
***
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is
out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
- John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will
protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old
American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build
handsome and balanced cities for our future.
- John F. Kennedy
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
rich.
- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow
his vision wherever it takes him.
- John F. Kennedy
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If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in
response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.
- John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
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If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for
diversity.
- John F. Kennedy
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It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those
who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural
wealth and beauty which is ours.
- John F. Kennedy
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

- John F. Kennedy
***
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price,
bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure
the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy
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Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch
has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered
by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and
unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this
nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home
and around the world!
- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy
***
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right
answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own
responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy
***
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because
in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated
into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy
***
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
- John F. Kennedy
***
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy
***
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go

straight.
- John F. Kennedy
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My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never
believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S.
Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest
new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)
- John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
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Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.

- John F. Kennedy, Comment after the Vatican scolded him for suppo
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be
as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington,
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Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The
human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder

who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
- John F. Kennedy
***
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines
of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
- John F. Kennedy
***
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live
manfully.
- Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and
dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths
allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
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The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The
gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for
100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this
afternoon'
- John F. Kennedy
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The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

- John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
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The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s
greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as
indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine
whether we use power or power uses us.
- John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963 - Source JFK Libr
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The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods.
This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
- John F. Kennedy
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

- John F. Kennedy
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to
abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
- John F. Kennedy
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-
range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
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There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without
alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and
seeking influence without responsibility.
- John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was neve
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This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.

- John F. Kennedy, 28 October 1962, after receiving word from Khru
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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
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Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy
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Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.

- John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr
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War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same
reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
- John F. Kennedy
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

- John F. Kennedy
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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign
ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its
people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of
its people.
- John F. Kennedy
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We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free
man.
- John F. Kennedy, Introducing Pablo Casals at a White House dinne
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We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because
they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are
willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!
- John F. Kennedy, Rice University speech on September 12, 1962
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We don’t see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don’t think it is darker than it
was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
- John F. Kennedy, speech in 1962
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We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
***
We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

- John F. Kennedy
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We need men who can dream of things that never were.

- John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only
commitment to others.
- John F. Kennedy
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We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
- John F. Kennedy
***
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were
as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy
***
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One
represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
***
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy,
speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing
documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
- John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1
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You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.
- John F. Kennedy
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Martin Luther King Quotes
Born: 1929-01-15
Died: 1968-04-04
Martin Luther King Biography
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with
you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised
land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any
man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own
spiritual death on an installment plan.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
***
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken
with painstaking excellence.
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All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

***
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with
another problem.
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But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.
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Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

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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 it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate only love can do that.
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Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their

lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society
dominating them.
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Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there
was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a
college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to
serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
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Forgiveness is not an occasional act it is an attitude.

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God is not merely interestd in the freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and
black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
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Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred
darkens life love illumines it.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good
people.
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

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I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in
reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
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I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit
down together at the table of brotherhood.
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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. I
have a dream today
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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling
block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux
Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who
prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is
the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek,
but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes
he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept
of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'
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I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and
who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience
of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for
the law.
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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit
to live.
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I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as

Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and
say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
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If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values --

that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.
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If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the
history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and
say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and
dignity into the veins of civilization.
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In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy.
An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who
willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of
the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
***
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from
lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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I’ve seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to
myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up
against our most bitter opponents and say:”We shall match your capacity to inflict
suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with
soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that
we’ll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom.
We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and
conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double
victory.
***
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital
unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to
describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with
the false and the false with the true.
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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

***
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression
and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
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Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time the
need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to
oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which
rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is
love.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious
stupidity.
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Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and
tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I
have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of
its creed - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
***
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot
down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
***
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
***
Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this
means we must develop a world perspective.
***
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and
misguided men.
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Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an
almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains
some people more than having to think.
***
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power
religion gives man wisdom which is control.
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Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.

***
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where
everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the
majority.
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Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the
first step.
***
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets
himself into immortality.
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The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of
popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.
***
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner
qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
***
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are
dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
***
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their
participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it
invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense
of futility.
***
The question is no longer between violence and non-violence it is between non-

violence and non-existence.
***
The time is always right to do what is right.

***
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and
convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King Jr.,
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There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

***
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and
superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs
restructuring.
- Martin Luther King
***
We have flown the air like birds and swum the seas like fishes, but have yet to learn
the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
***
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

***
We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a
tough mind and a tender heart.
***
We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a
means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through
peaceful means.
***
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the
power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of
us and some evil in the best of us.
***
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
***
We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the
wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
***
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.
***
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.
***
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be
too conservative.
***
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been
a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of
an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has
the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
- Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec
***
Lao-tzu Quotes
Born: 0604-00-00
Died: 0531-00-00
Lao-tzu Biography
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when
people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him.
- Lao-Tzu
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

- Lao Tzu
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim
fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
***
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao Tzu
***
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine
stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
- Lao Tzu
***
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that
which is small.
- Lao Tzu
***
All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.
- Lao Tzu
***
Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the
heavens.
- Lao Tzu
***
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

- Lao Tzu
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Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best
to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to
exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should
weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning
rites.
- Lao-Tzu
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Be the chief but never the lord.

- Lao Tzu
***
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you
courage.
- Lao Tzu
***
Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

- Lao Tzu
***
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when
you try and try the world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
***
Clay is molded to form a cup, But it is on its non-being that the utility of the cup
depends. Doors and windows are cut out to make a room, But it is on its non-being
that the utility of the room depends. Therefore turn being into advantage, and turn
non-being into utility.
- Lao Tzu
***
Conquering others takes force, conquering yourself is true strength.

- Lao-Tzu
***
Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

- Lao Tzu
***
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will
blunt.
- Lao Tzu
***
From of old the things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has
become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become
spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into
existence.
- Lao Tzu
***
From wonder into wonder existence opens.

- Lao Tzu
***
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed
him for a lifetime.
- Lao Tzu
***
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu
***
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
***
Great acts are made up of small deeds.

- Lao Tzu
***
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
***
He who conquers others is strong He who conquers himself is mighty.

- Lao Tzu
***
He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
- Lao Tzu
***
He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.

- Lao Tzu
***
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

- Lao Tzu
***
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

- Lao Tzu
***
He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
***
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
- Lao Tzu
***
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
***
He who tip-toes cannot stand he who strides cannot walk.

- Lao Tzu
***
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence

is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
***
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for
themselves.
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
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I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is
frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love,
one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be
ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.
- Lao Tzu
***
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and
knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there
will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful
servants.
- Lao Tzu
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If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
***
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you
are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu
***
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be
fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In
family life, be completely present.
- Lao Tzu
***
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for
attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
- Lao Tzu
***
It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the
duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own
nature reveals it, never sins.
- Lao Tzu
***
It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you
will not see its back.
- Lao Tzu
***
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love.
- Lao Tzu
***
Know the masculine, keep to the feminine.

- Lao Tzu
***
Knowing others is intelligence knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is

strength, mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
***
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification.
Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is
eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the
world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
- Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu
***
Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
***
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only
creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever
way they like.
- Lao Tzu
***
Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
- Lao Tzu
***
Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

- Lao Tzu
***
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

- Lao Tzu
***
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

- Lao Tzu
***
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all
that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the
foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
***
One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.
- Lao Tzu
***
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
- Lao Tzu
***
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one
remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
- Lao Tzu
***
Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of
others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of
others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating,
then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.
- Lao Tzu
***
Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.

- Lao Tzu
***
Silence is a source of great strength.

- Lao Tzu
***
Stop thinking, and end your problems.

- Lao Tzu
***
The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete
with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao.
- Lao Tzu
***
The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a
flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
- Lao Tzu
***
The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the
Three. The Three generates all things.
- Lao Tzu
***
The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery.
- Lao-Tzu
***
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
- Lao Tzu
***
The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the
goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
***
The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete.
It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal.
- Lao Tzu
***
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

- Lao Tzu
***
The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that
which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The
one they discard, the other they hold.
- Lao Tzu
***
The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there
will be.
- Lao Tzu
***
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
- Lao Tzu
***
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one
good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.
- Lao Tzu
***
The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows
himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in
high esteem.
- Lao Tzu
***
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through
this I know the advantage of taking no action.
- Lao Tzu
***
The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The
supreme excellence is to subdue the armies of your enemies without even having to
fight them.
- Lao Tzu
***
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
- Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching
***
The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does
not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your
invitation.
- Lao Tzu
***
The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the
people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Lao Tzu
***
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than
discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed.
- Lao Tzu
***
There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your
being For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The
way to do is to be.
- Lao Tzu
***
To be worn out is to be renewed.

- Lao Tzu
***
To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
***
To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.

- Lao Tzu
***
To know that you do not know is the best.

To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
***
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that
one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
***
To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice
their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people
fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people
say, 'We did it ourselves!'
- Lao Tzu
***
To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them,
To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them -
This is called profound and secret virtue.
- Lao Tzu
***
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

- Lao Tzu
***
Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with
goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be
also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
***
Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

- Lao Tzu
***
When armies are mobilized and issues are joined, The man who is sorry over the fact
will win.
- Lao Tzu
***
When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the
average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men
hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it.
- Lao Tzu
***
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the
recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the
recognition of evil.
- Lao Tzu
***
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct
appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere
shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
- Lao Tzu
***
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
***
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, He who has
learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard
formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion Let nature take its course. By
letting each thing act in accordance with its own nature, everything that needs to be
done gets done.
- Lao Tzu
***
Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even
looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going
beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent
man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see
without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do without undue exertion.
- Lao Tzu
***
Bruce Lee Quotes
Born: 1940-11-27
Died: 1973-07-20
Bruce Lee Biography
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim
at.
- Bruce Lee
***
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

- Bruce Lee
***
Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no
creativity.
- Bruce Lee
***
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and

experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
- Bruce Lee
***
As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization.

- Bruce Lee
***
Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

- Bruce Lee
***
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.
- Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
***
Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup,
it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a
teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my
friend.
- Bruce Lee
***
I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to
live up to mine.
- Bruce Lee
***
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

- Bruce Lee
***
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread
into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and
you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
- Bruce Lee
***
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.
- Bruce Lee
***
If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.
- Bruce Lee
***
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Bruce Lee
***
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
- Bruce Lee
***
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often
hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts
mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
- Bruce Lee
***
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive,
aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
- Bruce Lee
***
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow
survives by bending with the wind.
- Bruce Lee
***
One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.

- Bruce Lee
***
The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all
physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate
medicine for a particular ailment.
- Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by
***
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

- Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted a
***
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee
***
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

- Bruce Lee
***
To understand this fully, one must transcend from the duality of 'for' and 'against'
into one organic unity which is without distinctions.
- Bruce Lee
***
True refinement seeks simplicity.

- Bruce Lee
***
When the opponent expand, I contract, When he contracts, I expand, And when
there is an opportunity, I do not hit--it hits all by itself.
- Bruce Lee
***
When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to
feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned.
- Bruce Lee, During a television interview
***
C.S. Lewis Quotes
Born: 1898-11-29
Died: 1963-11-22
C.S. Lewis Biography
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic
can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
- C. S. Lewis
***
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility,
thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state
than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
- C. S. Lewis
***
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his
reading.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there
is in our lives.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should
think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only

thing it cannot be is moderately important.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing
point.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very";
otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really
infinite.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever
devil.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

- C. S. Lewis
***
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original:
whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has
been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having
noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

- C. S. Lewis
***
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
***
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather
it is one of those things that give value to survival.
- C. S. Lewis
***
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not
there. There is no such thing.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are
better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- C. S. Lewis
***
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the
eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis
***
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
***
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

- C. S. Lewis
***
I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
- C. S. Lewis
***
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no
meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures
with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
- C. S. Lewis
***
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are
backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up
imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
- C. S. Lewis
***
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will
not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in
the end, despair.
- C. S. Lewis
***
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
***
It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't
matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has
consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say
that birth doesn't matter.
- C. S. Lewis
***
It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you
must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
- C. S. Lewis
***
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to
learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go
on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
- C. S. Lewis
***
It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity
elsewhere.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across
the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

- C. S. Lewis
***
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own"
their bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made
the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they
are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
- C. S. Lewis
***
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

- C. S. Lewis
***
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the
most oppressive.
- C. S. Lewis
***
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
***
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different
things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will
claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
- C. S. Lewis
***
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C. S. Lewis
***
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why
some do not.
- C. S. Lewis
***
The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without
sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
- C. S. Lewis
***
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
- C. S. Lewis
***
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to
whom God says, All right, then, have it your way.
- C. S. Lewis
***
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering
how painful the best will turn out to be.
- C.S. Lewis
***
You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
- C. S. Lewis
***
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Born: 1809-02-12
Died: 1865-04-15
Abraham Lincoln Biography
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government,
of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
***
...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
Earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would
grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them

- Abraham Lincoln
***
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of
democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all
doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid
against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has
been answered fully.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think
of it the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes
so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow
and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices
of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is
destroyed.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As

a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will
still be business enough.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

- Abraham Lincoln
***
Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the
same results. - in reply to comments about General Grant's drinking problems
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new
nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the
people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I ever
met. (referring to a lawyer)
- Abraham Lincoln
***
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the
grounds that he was an orphan.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to
meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion

without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental
truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will
bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever
to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I
come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall
at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I do not believe the Union will disolve, I believe it will become all one thing, or all the
other.
- Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided
***
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his
grandson will be.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I
had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed
insufficient for the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so
that his place will be proud of him.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have
clung to me all my life.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to
tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era
of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will
endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the
wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
- Unknown, Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln
***
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of
free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes
sharpening my axe.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop
might as well be closed for any other business.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

- Abraham Lincoln
***
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some
coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their
respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even
fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the
time.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere
friend.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except
with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a
mistake. You are sure to be happy again.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims
kindred to the great God who made him.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence,
to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and
situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away.
- Abraham Lincoln
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It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
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
***
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do
our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give
him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

- Abraham Lincoln
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
No man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal
contention.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage
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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
- Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for
personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
***
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln
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That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just
encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is
piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so
we must think anew and act anew.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the
support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was
dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been
involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always,
that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be
the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the
Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon
us.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do
themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever
they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their
constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow
it.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under
a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July
***
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system
respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as
a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate
education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have
strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall
swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new
disaster with each newspaper we read.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our
bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield
and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land,
will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by
the better angels of our nature.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new
and untried?
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Whatever you are, be a good one.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming

persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of
honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man
to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of
honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his
reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of
the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's
best to let him run.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on
him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
With malice toward none, with charity for all, ...let us strive on to finish the work we
are in, ...to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among
ourselves and with all nations.
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
***
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

- Abraham Lincoln
***
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the
time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time,
but not all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
***
Vince Lombardi Quotes
Born: 1913-06-11
Died: 1970-09-03
Vince Lombardi Biography
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the
courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are
willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are
worthwhile, it can be done.
- Vince Lombardi
***
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have
been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship
ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the
enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to
victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the
world a better place in which to live.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of
strength to be derived by unity.
- Vince Lombardi
***
But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your
body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's
never going to come off the field second.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport.

- Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kra
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.

***
Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.
- Vince Lombardi
***
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he
holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and
lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
- Vince Lombardi
***
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all
about.
***
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

- Vince Lombardi
***
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
***
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

- Vince Lombardi
***
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you
can accomplish in your lives.
- Vince Lombardi
***
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a

company work, a society work, a civilization work.
- Vince Lombardi
***
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when
you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not
yet a winner.
- Vince Lombardi
***
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any
goal.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the
man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Mental toughness is essential to success.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength
in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made
his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables
you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.
- Vince Lombardi
***
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses,
or the problems of modern society.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Praise in public criticize in private.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for
individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each
individual.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not
a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

- Vince Lombardi
***
The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is
no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must
win and the control he must exert.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules - but to win. And in truth, I've never
known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't
appreciate the grind, the discipline.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vince Lombardi
***
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the
determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to
the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to

excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel, are the things that endure. These
qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
- Vince Lombardi
***
The will to excel and the will to win, they endure. They are more important than any
events that occasion them.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and
puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to
him
- Vince Lombardi
***
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Winners never quit and quitters never win.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

- Vince Lombardi
***
Winning is not a sometime thing it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while,
you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is
habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

- Vince Lombardi
***
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of live.
- Vince Lombardi
***
Nelson Mandela Quotes
Born: 1918-07-18
Died: 0000-00-00
Nelson Mandela Biography
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add
to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
- Nelson Mandela
***
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
***
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
***
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
- Nelson Mandela
***
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for
observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want
observers.
- Nelson Mandela
***
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk
to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
- Nelson Mandela
***
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be
overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
- Nelson Mandela
***
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom
and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
***
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.
- Nelson Mandela
***
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
***
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in
which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
***
Groucho Marx Quotes
Born: 1890-10-02
Died: 1977-08-19
Groucho Marx Biography
A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx
***
A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead. (Double Dynamite)
- Groucho Marx
***
Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars? (Monkey Business)
- Groucho Marx
***
Africa is God's country, and He can have it. (Animal Crackers)

- Groucho Marx
***
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is
live long enough.
- Groucho Marx
***
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

- Groucho Marx
***
Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you.
He really is an idiot. (Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
Clear? Huh! Why a 4-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find
me a 4-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it. (Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you.
(Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.

- Groucho Marx
***
Every time I get romantic with you, you want to talk business. I don't know, there's
something about me that brings out the business in every woman. (Night at the
Opera)
- Groucho Marx
***
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
***
Go, and never darken my towels again.

- Groucho Marx
***
Humor is reason gone mad.

- Groucho Marx
***
I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it.
- Groucho Marx
***
I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

- Groucho Marx
***
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the
other room and read a book.
- Groucho Marx
***
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself
up there.
- Fred Allen, in a letter to Groucho Marx, 1953
***
I have nothing but confidence in you. And very little of that.

- Groucho Marx
***
I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

- Groucho Marx
***
I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when

you arrived. (Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
***
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
- Groucho Marx
***
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

- Groucho Marx
***
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO
BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
- Groucho Marx
***
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

- Groucho Marx
***
I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

- Groucho Marx
***
I'd have thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I didn't have a tape measure.
(Go West)
- Groucho Marx
***
I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
- Groucho Marx
***
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

- Groucho Marx
***
If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go.

- Groucho Marx
***
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on
the air and kid the people.
- Groucho Marx
***
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

- Groucho Marx
***
Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the
parlor.
- Groucho Marx
***
Love goes out the door when money comes innuendo.

- Groucho Marx, "Duck Soup" 1934
***
Maybe you can suggest something. As a matter of fact, you do suggest something.
To me you suggest a baboon. (Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Groucho Marx
***
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

- Groucho Marx
***
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly
everything, money is handy.
- Groucho Marx
***
My boy, get in there and play like you did in the last game. I've got five dollars bet
on the other team. (Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
***
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
- Groucho Marx
***
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

- Groucho Marx
***
No, no, I'd rather not. I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't
practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling. (At the Circus)
- Groucho Marx
***
Oh, I know it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me. I worked myself up
from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. (Monkey Business)
- Groucho Marx
***
One morning, I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don't

know. (Animal Crackers)
- Groucho Marx
***
One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to
marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather. (Animal Crackers)
- Groucho Marx
***
Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to
read.
- Groucho Marx
***
Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.

- Groucho Marx
***
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

- Groucho Marx
***
Say! You cover a lot of ground yourself. You'd better beat it. I hear they're gonna
tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. (Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx
***
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and
his checkbook open.
- Groucho Marx
***
There were three things that Chico was always on—a phone, a horse, or a broad.
- Groucho Marx
***
This bear was six foot seven in his stocking feet and had shoes on. (Animal Crackers)
- Groucho Marx
***
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
- Groucho Marx
***
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

- Groucho Marx
***
Two thousand dollars for ice? I can get an Eskimo for two hundred dollars and make
my own ice. (Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
***
We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed, but we're
going back again in a couple of weeks. (Animal Crackers)
- Groucho Marx
***
We've got to speed things up in this hotel. Chef, if a guest orders a three-minute
egg, give it to him in two minutes. If he orders a two-minute egg, give it to him in
one minute. If he orders a one-minute egg, give him a chicken and let him work it
out for himself. (A Night in Casablanca)
- Groucho Marx
***
When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price
she has to pay. (Night at the Opera)
- Groucho Marx
***
Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? (Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
***
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
- Groucho Marx
***
Women should be obscene and not heard.

- Groucho Marx
***
You are only as old as the woman you feel.
- Groucho Marx
***
You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too
soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. (Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here. You must have been
vaccinated with a phonograph needle. (Duck Soup)
- Groucho Marx
***
You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can
get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a
quarter, you can get Minnie. (Night at the Opera)
- Groucho Marx
***
You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it.
(Horse Feathers)
- Groucho Marx
***
Karl Marx Quotes
Born: 1818-05-05
Died: 1883-03-14
Karl Marx Biography
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

- Karl Marx
***
All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

- Karl Marx
***
Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a
wonderful business opportunity.
- Karl Marx
***
Democracy is the road to socialism.

- Karl Marx
***
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

- Karl Marx
***
It is not the consciousness of men that determines their beeing, but on the contrary,
it is their social being that determines their consciousness.
- Karl Marx
***
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world
of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of thought. Just
as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so they were bound to
make language into an independent realm.
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3
***
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.
- Karl Marx
***
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

- Karl Marx
***
Religion is the opium of the masses.

- Karl Marx
***
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular
representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
- Karl Marx
***
The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to
change it.
- Karl Marx, from "The Eleventh Thesis on Feuerbach"
***
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the
living.
- Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl M
***
Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.
- Karl Marx
***
H. L. Mencken Quotes
Born: 1880-09-12
Died: 1956-01-29
H. L. Mencken Biography
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing
a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as
philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and
almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every
night.
- H. L. Mencken
***
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
***
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

- H. L. Mencken
***
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

- H. L. Mencken
***
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he
begins to bunch them.
- H. L. Mencken
***
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
- H. L. Mencken
***
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

- H. L. Mencken
***
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of
their parents.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

- H. L. Mencken
***
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare
***
Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.

- H. L. Mencken
***
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself
deny it.
- H. L. Mencken
***
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend
anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by
denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken
***
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a
form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or
even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
- H. L. Mencken
***
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes
that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken
***
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that
is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest
possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still
young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and
covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.
- H. L. Mencken
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them
misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken
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Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

- H. L. Mencken
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

- H. L. Mencken
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be
married too.
- H. L. Mencken
***
College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the
students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks.
- H. L. Mencken
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Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less,
idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.
- H. L. Mencken
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends

- H. L. Mencken
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
- H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

- H. L. Mencken
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

- H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H.L. Mencken
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve
to get it good and hard.
- H.L. Mencken
***
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve
to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love,
and just after he has left his last one.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black
flag, and begin to slit throats.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
***
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-
worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
***
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations
together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a
scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
- H. L. Mencken
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has
made them good.
- H. L. Mencken
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They
find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their
macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.
- H. L. Mencken
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Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

- H. L. Mencken
***
He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the
Chicago stockyard.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

- H. L. Mencken
***
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste
of time.
- H. L. Mencken
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I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

- H. L. Mencken
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If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.

- H. L. Mencken
***
If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in
the United States.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
- H. L. Mencken
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

- H. L. Mencken
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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of
persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for
me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- H. L. Mencken
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie
if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken
***
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a
bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
- H. L. Mencken
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

- H. L. Mencken
***
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense,

common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public
office.
- H. L. Mencken
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It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to

mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- H. L. Mencken
***
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
- H. L. Mencken
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Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.
- H. L. Mencken
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Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing,
health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

- H. L. Mencken
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

- H. L. Mencken
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

- H. L. Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and
another hanging on to his coattails.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often
desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of
gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and
the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless
and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
- H. L. Mencken
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one
another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
- H. L. Mencken
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for
another thing, they die earlier.
- H. L. Mencken
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

- H. L. Mencken
***
New York: A third-rate Babylon.

- H. L. Mencken
***
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to
drink when he was single.
- H. L. Mencken
***
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- H. L. Mencken
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Optimist — The sort of man who marries his sister's best friend.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are
jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he
is one himself.
- H. L. Mencken
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not
true.
- H. L. Mencken
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the
pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- H. L. Mencken
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she
marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth
about him.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven,
and that their neighbors were dead and in hell.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to
thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
- H. L. Mencken
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the
forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than
that of any other animal.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that
God is a bore.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is
overestimated.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a
sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

- H. L. Mencken
***
The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have,
taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have
only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It
is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the
complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this
penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence
clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical
with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are
nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually
simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
- H. L. Mencken
***
The worshiper is the father of the gods.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
***
There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and
begin slitting throats.
- H. L. Mencken
***
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and
wrong.
- H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
***
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.

- H. L. Mencken
***
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an

ordinary young woman for a goddess.
- H.L. Mencken
***
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if
men died for ideas that were true!
- H. L. Mencken
***
Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that
the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as
much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- H. L. Mencken
***
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums
and smaller adrenal glands.
- H. L. Mencken
***
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
- H. L. Mencken
***
We must respect 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 smart.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Wealth is any income that is at least one hundred dollars a year more than the
income of one's wife's sister's husband.
- H. L. Mencken
***
When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Wife: a former sweetheart.

- H. L. Mencken
***
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
- H. L. Mencken
***
Marilyn Monroe Quotes
Born: 1926-06-01
Died: 1962-08-05
Marilyn Monroe Biography
A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she
has to hold him to make love to him.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision
- Marilyn Monroe
***
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it
was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even
beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the
face I have made.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
I'm going to be a great movie star some day.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat? (on being served matzo ball
soup three meals in a row)
- Marilyn Monroe
***
It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

- Marilyn Monroe
***
[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty
cents for your soul.
- Marilyn Monroe
***
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Born: 1844-10-15
Died: 1900-08-25
Friedrich Nietzsche Biography
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait
which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only
necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice -
and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the
icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
***
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
***
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out
something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41
***
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
***
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

***
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.
***
And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those
who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones.
***
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.
***
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to
be insipid.
***
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest
enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
***
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
***
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is
powerful!
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
***
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.

***
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health

everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
***
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from
"justifying" ourselves.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms in Beyond Good and Evil
***
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell
of carrion?
***
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
***
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study
ourselves while having an experience.
***
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.

***
For a significant man

woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant
men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece
of old iron.
***
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and
greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
***
God is dead.
***
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

***
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze
too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
***
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And
if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
***
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

***
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
***
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
***
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.
***
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

***
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols---"Maxims and Arrows"
***
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good
dancer.
***
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how
little it must then be worth!
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "Human, All Too Human" page 87, #120.
***
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

***
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your
heart when you resist him.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
***
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any
point.
***
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.

***
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the
rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
***
In music the passions enjoy themselves.

***
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
***
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons

for them!
***
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when
one is right.
***
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?

- Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra
***
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his
doctrine.
***
Life without music would be a mistake.

***
Man is more ape than many of the apes.

***
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
***
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually
memory yields.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By
***
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
***
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

***
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point
higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb
higher tomorrow.
***
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
***
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
***
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which
it was conveyed.
***
Only sick music makes money today.

***
Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
***
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever.
For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is
always much that is unpleasant to see.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
***
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to
ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
***
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he
had to invent laughter.
***
Plato is boring.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the An
***
Some men are born posthumously.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
***
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

***
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing
but thinking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
***
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

***
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
***
The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme

value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist
***
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good
things for the first time.
***
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and
bad.
***
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found
anything but the APES of their ideal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols-- "Maxims and Arrows"
***
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

***
The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.
***
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the
tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is
too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
***
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his
friends.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword
***
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with
faulty arguments.
***
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those
who think alike than those who think differently.
***
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

***
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will
to power - and nothing else!
- Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"
***
There are no facts, only interpretations.
***
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in
madness.
***
Thinking evil is making evil.

***
This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!

- Friedrich Nietzsche, The World to Power, section 1064
***
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.
***
We are always in our own company.

***
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.

***
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly
experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
***
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person
lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do
***
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153
***
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power,
power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The
feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2
***
When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to
converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is
transitory.
***
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
***
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
***
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil aphorism 78
***
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a
monster.
***
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

***
Without music, life would be a mistake.

***
Barack Obama Quotes
Born: 1961-08-04
Died: 0000-00-00
Barack Obama Biography
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good

piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes
sense.'
- Barack Obama
***
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually
you'll make progress.
- Barack Obama
***
Dorothy Parker Quotes
Born: 1893-08-22
Died: 1967-06-07
Dorothy Parker Biography
"Coolidge is dead"
"How could they tell?
- Dorothy Parker
***
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

- Dorothy Parker
***
Art is a form of catharsis.

- Dorothy Parker
***
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

- Dorothy Parker
***
By whom?
- Dorothy Parker, when told she was outspoken
***
Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

- Dorothy Parker, telegram to friend who had given birth
***
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and
the ground all mucked up with plants.
- Dorothy Parker
***
His voice was a intimate as the rustle of sheets.

- Dorothy Parker
***
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Dorothy Parker
***
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it.
- Dorothy Parker
***
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from
minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
- Dorothy Parker
***
I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.

- Dorothy Parker
***
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the
Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
- Dorothy Parker
***
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
***
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit
surprised.
- Dorothy Parker
***
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker
***
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.

- Dorothy Parker
***
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing
that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.
- Dorothy Parker
***
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. (speaking of Katharine Hepburn)

- Dorothy Parker
***
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
- Dorothy Parker
***
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went,
including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker
***
The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest
love stories in all literature.
- Dorothy Parker
***
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and
let the air out of the tires.
- Dorothy Parker
***
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

- Dorothy Parker
***
The only "ism" Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

- Dorothy Parker
***
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'
- Dorothy Parker
***
There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it;
wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
- Dorothy Parker
***
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

- Dorothy Parker
***
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker
***
This is on me.
- Dorothy Parker, suggested for her tombstone
***
Trapped, like a trap in a trap.

- Dorothy Parker
***
General George S. Patton Quotes
Born: 1885-11-11
Died: 1945-12-21
General George S. Patton Biography
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed
next week.
- George S. Patton
***
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

- George S. Patton
***
Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.
- George S. Patton
***
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
- George S. Patton
***
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

- George S. Patton
***
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
- George S. Patton
***
If a man does his best, what else is there?

- General George S. Patton
***
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

- George S. Patton
***
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that
such men lived.
- George S. Patton
***
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you
with their ingenuity.
- George S. Patton
***
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other
bastards die for their country.
- George S. Patton
***
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

- George S. Patton
***
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

- George S. Patton
***
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
- George S. Patton
***
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for
his.
- George S. Patton
***
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
***
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask
many more questions.
- George S. Patton
***
Plato Quotes
Born: 0427-05-21
Died: 0348-00-00
Plato Biography
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who
receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be
exceedingly simple-minded...
- Plato, _Phaedrus_
***
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and
however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty
prince.
- Plato
***
As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the
greatest blabbers.
- Plato
***
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to
another.
- Plato
***
At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

- Plato
***
Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.

- Plato
***
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

- Plato
***
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is
acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
- Plato
***
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without
any difficulty contradict Socrates.
- Plato, Symposium
***
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without
any difficulty contradict Socrates.
- Plato, in Symposium
***
Courage is knowing what not to fear.

- Plato
***
Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

- Plato
***
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.

- Plato
***
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Plato
***
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn
it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in
writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the
internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for
memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.
- Plato
***
Friends have all things in common.

- Plato
***
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will
find a way around the laws.
- Plato
***
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will
find a way around the laws.
- Plato
***
He was a wise man who invented God.

- Plato
***
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

- Plato
***
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
***
Honesty is for the most part, less profitable than dishonesty.

- Plato
***
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and
greater than every other earthly combat.
- Plato
***
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

- Plato
***
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.
- Plato
***
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same
things.
- Plato
***
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest
of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad
training, are a much greater misfortune.
- Plato
***
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.

- Plato
***
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the
experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as
consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a
musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate
most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with
_beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_.
- Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar A
***
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person
by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body
politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
- Plato
***
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same
amount of indignation as those offended.
- Plato
***
Knowledge is true opinion.

- Plato
***
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they
may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who
refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered
from plunging into evil.
- Plato
***
Life must be lived as play.

- Plato
***
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and
a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most
civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly
creatures.
- Plato
***
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because
they shrink from committing it.
- Plato
***
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and
life to everything.
- Plato
***
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
- Plato
***
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and
harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily
fasten imparting grace.
- Plato
***
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death

- Plato
***
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
- Plato, The Republic
***
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

- Plato
***
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

- Plato
***
No human thing is of serious importance.

- Plato
***
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

- Plato, Laws
***
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end
in their nature and education.
- Plato
***
Not even the gods fight against necessity.

- Simonides, from Plato, Dialogues, Protagoras
***
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men
and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one
mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
- Plato
***
Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

- Plato
***
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato
***
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being
governed by your inferiors.
- Plato
***
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

- Plato
***
Philosophy is the highest music.

- Plato
***
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

- Plato
***
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold
not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to
become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the
eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Plato
***
Science is nothing but perception.

- Plato
***
So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that
nothing is certain.
- Plato
***
The beginning is the most important part of the work.

- Plato
***
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
- Plato
***
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
- Plato
***
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

- Plato
***
The harder you work, the luckier you get.

- Plato
***
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live.
Which is better God only knows.
- Plato
***
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with
that of which we are ignorant.
- Plato
***
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

- Plato
***
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely
things.
- Plato
***
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
***
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into
greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs when he first
appears he is a protector.
- Plato
***
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
- Plato
***
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is
to live under the government of worse men.
- Plato, The Republic
***
The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

- Plato
***
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all
truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be
absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean,
if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the
magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much
of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
- Plato
***
The wisest have the most authority.

- Plato
***
There are three arts which are concerned with all things one which uses, another
which makes, and a third which imitates them.
- Plato
***
There is no such thing as a lover's oath.

- Plato
***
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato
***
Thinking The talking of the soul with itself.

- Plato
***
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be
understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
- Plato
***
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by
those who are dumber.
- Plato
***
We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

- Plato
***
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is
when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato
***
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and
viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato
***
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
- Plato
***
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the
same amount of income.
- Plato
***
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say
something.
- Plato
***
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse
many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a
judge of the highest matters.
- Plato
***
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of
conversation.
- Plato
***
You cannot conceive the many without the one.

- Plato
***
You cannot step twice into the same river.

- Heraclitus, In Plato, Cratylus
***
Elvis Presley Quotes
Born: 1935-01-08
Died: 1977-08-16
Elvis Presley Biography
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity,
there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
- Elvis Presley
***
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

- Elvis Presley
***
Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something
else happens.
- Elvis Presley
***
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley
***
I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They
sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in Scarsdale, but I won't buy
tickets to see her act.
- Elvis Presley
***
I sing all kinds.

- Elvis Presley
***
I'd rather go on hearing your lies than to go on living without you.

- Elvis Presley
***
Man, I was tame compared to what they do now, are you kidding ? All that I ever did
was just jiggle.
- Elvis Presley
***
Take care of the fans and they will sure as hell take care of you.
- Elvis Presley
***
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
- Elvis Presley
***
Ronald Reagan Quotes
Born: 1911-02-06
Died: 2004-06-05
Ronald Reagan Biography
A Hippie is someone who walks like Tarzan, looks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.
(Second book of Insults, 1981, ed. Nancy McPhee)
- Ronald Reagan
***
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the
world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a
weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
- Ronald Reagan
***
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

- Ronald Reagan
***
America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored.
Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious
books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our
blessed land.
- President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangel
***
America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We

condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as
soon as you wish it would.
- Ronald Reagan
***
As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to
have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have
difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-
the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get
those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)
- Ronald Reagan
***
Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Die-hard conservatives thought that if I couldn't get everything I asked for, I should
jump off the cliff with the flag flying-go down in flames. No, if I can get 70 or 80
percent of what it is I'm trying to get ... I'll take that and then continue to try to get
the rest in the future.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic
growth in the United States.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Facts are stupid things.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it
to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on
for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our
children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where
men were free.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and
no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it

moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.
- Ronald Reagan
***
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is
cheap.
- Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984
***
How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how
do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear
weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to
give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might
be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from
another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings
here on this earth together.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L
North's work)
- Ronald Reagan
***
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to
two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as
many times as they want to vote for him
- Ronald Reagan
***
I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if
I'm in a cabinet meeting.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if
Moses had run them through the U.S. congress
- Ronald Reagan
***
I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary
of State visit to Moscow)
- Ronald Reagan
***
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually
triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for
America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
- Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
***
I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar.

- Ronald Reagan
***
I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow.

- Ronald Reagan
***
I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without
having had any acting experience.
- Ronald Reagan
***
I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation
faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess—we're not connected to
the press room yet, are we?
- Ronald Reagan
***
If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too.

- Ronald Reagan
***
If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be
sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet
nuclear submarines along US coastlines)
- Ronald Reagan
***
If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red,
eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly

as a hit man.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by
barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one
part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their
people in
- Ronald Reagan
***
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If
he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to
live in Harlem or Watts.
- Ronald Reagan
***
It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't
available.(1986)
- Ronald Reagan
***
Most tax revisions didn't improve the system, they made it more like Washington
itself complicated, unfair, cluttered with gobbledygook and loopholes designed for
those with the power and influence to hire high-priced legal and tax advisers.
- Ronald Reagan
***
My belief has always been ... that wherever in this land any individual's constitutional
rights are being unjustly denied, it is the obligation of the federal government-at
point of bayonet if necessary-to restore that individual's constitutional rights.
- Ronald Reagan
***
My fellow Americans I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will
outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. (Comment while testing a
microphone before a broadcast 11 Aug 84)
- Ronald Reagan
***
My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in

Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not
go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.
- Ronald Reagan
***
No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and
moral courage of free men and women.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill)

- Ronald Reagan
***
People don't start wars, governments do.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you
disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it
bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Qaddafi counted on America to be passive. He counted wrong.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. (During 1980 presidential campaign)
- Ronald Reagan
***
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day
is April 15.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper
age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century
ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for
war and the stainless patriotism of those who suffered its scars. But there has been a
rethinking and now we can say to you, and say as a nation, thank you for your
courage.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the
heavens and on earth.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just
take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The distance between the present system and our proposal is like comparing the
distance between a Model T and the space shuttle. And I should know I've seen both.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers
and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did
not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the West and appeared in a
two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)
- Ronald Reagan
***
The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority
that the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the
government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan
***
The Soviet Union would remain a one-party nation even if an opposition party were
permitted-because everyone would join that party.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't
have to take the civil service examination.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
- Ronald Reagan in 1973
***
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be
bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve the values
we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The vote on the Peacekeeper is also a vote on Geneva. Rejecting the Peacekeeper
will knock the legs out from under the negotiating table. (On importance of the MX
missile)
- Ronald Reagan
***
The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and
philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's
been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
- Ronald Reagan
***
The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to
ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)
- Ronald Reagan
***
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human
intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
- Ronald Reagan
***
There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough
promises to go around.
- Ronald Reagan
***
These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere ... You can run but
you can't hide. (On US pilots who captured four terrorists)
- Ronald Reagan
***
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't
believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination.
(Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)
- Ronald Reagan
***
This administration is totally colorblind.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by
his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
- Ronald Reagan
***
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go
on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Today we have done what we had to do. If necessary, we shall do it again.

- Ronald Reagan
***
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of
human history.
- Ronald Reagan
***
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as
citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. (On dismissing 12,000
striking air traffic controllers)
- Ronald Reagan
***
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On
Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)
- Ronald Reagan
***
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should
never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Where would this country be without this great land of ours?

- Ronald Reagan
***
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
- Ronald Reagan
***
With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today. ... we will
achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
- Ronald Reagan
***
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the
last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a
thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's
children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.
- Ronald Reagan
***
You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.
- Ronald Reagan
***
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
- Ronald Reagan
***
You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the
churchyard.
- Ronald Reagan
***
Chris Rock Quotes
Born: 1965-02-07
Died: 0000-00-00
Chris Rock Biography
Men are only as unfaithful as their options.

- Chris Rock
***
The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they're not mad
they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the
Oscars for her great performance. I was like, 'If you'd done that in the movie, you'd
have won an Oscar, girl!
- Chris Rock
***
We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed.

- Chris Rock
***
Who's judging American Idol? Paula Abdul? Paula Abdul judging a singing contest is
like Christopher Reeve judging a dance contest!
- Chris Rock
***
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.

- Chris Rock
***
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best
golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the
America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to
go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and
'Colon'.
- Chris Rock
***
Will Rogers Quotes
Born: 1879-11-04
Died: 1935-08-15
Will Rogers Biography
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the
closest our country has ever been to being even.
- Will Rogers
***
Always drink upstream from the herd.

- Will Rogers
***
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

- Will Rogers
***
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers
***
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to
make them laugh.
- Will Rogers
***
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us
with both a House and a Senate?
- Will Rogers
***
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

- Will Rogers
***
Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

- Will Rogers
***
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
***
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes
up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
- Will Rogers
***
Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

- Will Rogers
***
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
***
Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.

- Will Rogers
***
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man
leaves off something he looks worse.
- Will Rogers
***
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers
***
Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians
as a joke.
- Will Rogers
***
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

- Will Rogers
***
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed
through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers
***
Heroing is one of the shortest lived professions there is. (The Will Rogers Book,
1961)
- Will Rogers
***
I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him
a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like.
- Will Rogers
***
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.
- Will Rogers
***
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
***
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never
been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at
yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
- Will Rogers
***
I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these
foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to
run it like they want to.
- Will Rogers
***
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much
when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
- Will Rogers
***
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
- Will Rogers
***
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight
years ago.
- Will Rogers
***
If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would
have cause to start to worry.
- Will Rogers
***
If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit
down for a week.
- Will Rogers
***
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers
***
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

- Will Rogers
***
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
- Will Rogers
***
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town
gossip.
- Will Rogers
***
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
- Will Rogers
***
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
- Will Rogers
***
Never miss a good chance to shut up.

- Will Rogers
***
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did
they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific
animals.
- Will Rogers
***
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.

- Will Rogers
***
Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the
United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.
- Will Rogers
***
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in
the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
- Will Rogers
***
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

- Will Rogers
***
Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term

in prison.
- Will Rogers
***
People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their
conscience, be their guide.
- Will Rogers
***
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
- Will Rogers
***
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
- Will Rogers
***
Politics is applesauce.
- Will Rogers
***
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

- Will Rogers
***
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails
- Will Rogers
***
So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
***
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers
***
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the
matter-he's got to just know.
- Will Rogers
***
The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is
looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but
he can't make anybody believe that he has it.
- Will Rogers
***
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who
wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he
saved.
- Will Rogers
***
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
- Will Rogers
***
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get
up every morning and say, 'How's the President'
- Will Rogers
***
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each
party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
- Will Rogers
***
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
- Will Rogers
***
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
- Will Rogers
***
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be

worth it except they keep coming back!
- Will Rogers
***
There is good news from Washington today. Congress is deadlocked and can't act.
- Will Rogers
***
There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.
- Will Rogers
***
There ought to be one day -- just one -- where there is open season on senators.
- Will Rogers
***
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working
for you.
- Will Rogers
***
There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works.

- Will Rogers
***
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the
baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers
***
We are all here for a spell get all the good laughs you can.
- Will Rogers
***
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go
by.
- Will Rogers
***
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
- Will Rogers
***
We have the best Congress money can buy.

- Will Rogers
***
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

- Will Rogers
***
What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
- Will Rogers
***
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning
anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the
smartest race of people on Earth.
- Will Rogers
***
With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a
law it's a joke.
- Will Rogers
***
You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers
***
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

- Will Rogers
***
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Born: 1858-10-27
Died: 1919-01-06
Theodore Roosevelt Biography
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a
university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt
***
A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be
given a square deal afterwards.
***
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

***
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
***
All the resources we need are in the mind.

***
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
***
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
***
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing.
***
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.
***
I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do
not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I
don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I
need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or
body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like
so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.
***
I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
***
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
***
If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

***
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst
thing you can do is nothing.
***
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether
secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man
who does things.
***
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get
nothing save by effort.
***
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbled, 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 the dust and sweat
and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who
knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy
course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall
never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
***
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the
right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Cente
***
Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
***
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

***
No man is above the law and no man below it.

***
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

***
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of
mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.
- Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, an autobiography
***
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
***
Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the

combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare
- Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography
***
Put out the light.

- Theodore Roosevelt, last words, 6 January 1919
***
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we
are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.
***
Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far.

***
Spend and be spent.

- Theodore Roosevelt, sign posted at his grave site
***
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he
wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they
do it.
***
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he
wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they
do it.
***
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold,
persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it
fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
***
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 short again and
again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in
a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the
worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
***
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged
in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike,
but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of
others.
***
The government is us we are the government, you and I.

***
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative
task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all
that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger
against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
***
The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if
necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.
***
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get
along with people.
***
The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all
possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle
of squabbling nationalities.
***
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
***
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead
of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
***
There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go
far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the
highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.
***
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.
***
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.

***
When I say I believe in a square deal i do not mean ... to give every man the best
hand. If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got
the power to play them, that is his affair. All I mean is that there shall be no
crookedness in the dealing.
***
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer
'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
***
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
***
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get
busy and find out how to do it.
***
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement,
it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life.
***
Adam Sandler Quotes
Born: 1966-09-09
Died: 0000-00-00
Adam Sandler Biography
Now I realize how ugly I am. (after laser eye surgery)

- Adam Sandler
***
Jerry Seinfeld Quotes
Born: 1954-04-29
Died: 0000-00-00
Jerry Seinfeld Biography
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still
thinking.
- Jerry Seinfield
***
A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a
speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on
the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy
in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.
- Jerry Seinfield
***
I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME!

- Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode "The Van Buren Boys" - broadcas
***
I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.
- Jerry Seinfeld
***
I was the best man at the wedding. If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?
- Jerry Seinfield
***
Introducing 'Lite' - The new way to spell 'Light', but with twenty per cent fewer
letters.
- Jerry Seinfield
***
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day just
exactly fits in the newspaper.
- Jerry Seinfield
***
Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little
support, comfort, and freedom.
- Jerry Seinfeld
***
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

- Jerry Seinfeld
***
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the
funnier you will be.
- Jerry Seinfeld
***
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

- Jerry Seinfeld
***
Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final
word on where your lips end.
- Jerry Seinfield
***
William Shakespeare Quotes
Born: 1564-04-23
Died: 1616-04-23
William Shakespeare Biography
'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be
perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
- William Shakespeare
***
'Tis neither here nor there.

***
A hit, a very palpable hit.

- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
***
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

- William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4
***
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him
that makes it.
***
A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse.
- William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 3 scene 3
***
A little more than kin, and less than kind.

- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 2
***
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his
brain.
***
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and
neither party loser.
***
A plague o' both your houses

***
A very ancient and fish-like smell.

***
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But
were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves
complain.
***
Action is eloquence.
***
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale

Her infinite variety.
- William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
***
Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe
appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies.
***
Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent
fancy...
***
All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their
exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being
seven ages.
***
Although the last, not least.

- William Shakespeare, "King Lear", Act 1 scene 1
***
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

***
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.

- William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 4 scene 3
***
And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered
oak.
***
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
***
And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.
***
And since you know you cannot see yourself,

so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
***
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the
running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
***
And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And
seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
***
Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin
damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked,
or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee.
***
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport.
***
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
***
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

***
Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures, more than is native to
them.
***
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

***
Be not afraid of greatness some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon them.
***
Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee
to a nunnery, go.
***
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of
thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but
reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in
fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
***
Beware the ides of March.

***
Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.
***
Brevity is the soul of wit.

***
But love is blind and lovers cannot see

The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
***
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
***
But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for
evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy
writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil.
***
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honoured in the breach than the observance.
***
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.

***
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the
sun.
***
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks,
Whoever knocks
***
Come not within the measure of my wrath.

- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 5 scene
***
Come what come may,

Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
***
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free

without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
***
Courage mounteth with occasion.

- William Shakespeare, King John, II.i
***
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but
once.
***
Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.
***
Cursed be he that moves my bones.

- William Shakespeare, Epitaph on his gravestone
***
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
***
Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief.

***
Et tu, Brute
***
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

***
Excellent wretch Perdition catch my soul, But I do love thee and when I love thee
not, Chaos is come again.
***
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I.vii
***
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.

- William Shakespeare, Sonnet lxxxvii
***
Fill all thy bones with aches.

***
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
***
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard...
***
For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of
true love never did run smooth.
***
For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all, all honourable men.
***
For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother tomorrow.
***
For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

***
Frailty, thy name is woman

***
Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger constant in spirit, not swerving with the
blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without
the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither Such and so finely bolted didst
thou seem.
***
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to
praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their
bones.
***
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent.
***
From the still-vexed Bermoothes.

***
From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we
band of brothers.
- William Shakespeare, Henry V.
***
Full fathom five thy father lies;

Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
***
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy
judgement.
***
Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad
spreading it disperses to naught.
***
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true
duty!
***
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls
Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, nothing 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and
has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of
that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed.
***
Good night, good night parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it
be morrow.
***
Hamlet Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel Polonius By the
mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius It is
backed like a weasel. Hamlet Or like a whale Polonius Very like a whale.
***
He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
***
He hath eaten me out of house and home.

***
He hath eaten me out of house and home.

- William Shakespeare, "King Henry IV Part II", Act 2 scene 1
***
He is not great who is not greatly good.

***
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

***
He that commends me to mine own content

Commends me to the thing I cannot get.
- William Shakespeare, A Comedy of Errors
***
He that dies pays all debts.
***
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

- William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
***
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he's not
robb'd at all.
***
He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.
***
He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And
Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose
ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor
have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus
says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man.
***
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

***
He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare
him; if stronger, spare thyself.
***
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
***
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
***
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
***
How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world.
***
How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness
everywhere
***
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and
accents yet unknown
***
How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by
degrees.
***
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child

***
How use doth breed a habit in a man.

***
I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

***
I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.

***
I am wealthy in my friends.
***
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

- William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2
***
I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true
'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'.
***
I do begin to have bloody thoughts.

- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1
***
I dote on his very absence.

***
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
***
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
***
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any
taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
***
I have
Immortal longings in me.
- William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 5 scene 2
***
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you
make yourselves another.
***
I have Immortal longings in me.

***
I have not slept one wink.

***
I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.

- William Shakespeare, As You Like It
***
I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool.

***
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
***
I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a
sieve.
***
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may
think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with
contemplation and devout desires.
***
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;

And if I die no soul will pity me:
And wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
- William Shakespeare, Richard III, V.iii
***
I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester
than I.
***
I understand a fury in your words, But not the words.

***
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

***
I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently.

***
I will make a Star-chamber matter of it.

***
I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at.

***
I wish you all the joy you can wish.

***
I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again.
***
I would fain die a dry death.

***
I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated

To closeness and the bettering of my mind.
***
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
***
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.
***
If Love be rough with you, be rough with Love, prick Love for pricking, and you beat
Love down.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, Scene 2
***
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better
acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I
hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.
***
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
- William Shakespeare, "Twelfth Night", Act 3 scene 4
***
Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.

***
In a false quarrel there is no true valour.

***
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.

***
In time we hate that which we often fear.

***
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me
clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision,
sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain
***
It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

***
It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
***
It is a wise father that knows his own child.

- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice", Act 2 scene 2
***
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot
be seduced.
***
It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
***
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

***
Jesters do often prove prophets.

***
Lady you berefit me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And
there is such confusion in my powers.
***
Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, Hold, enough
***
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting
her.
***
Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'
nights Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such men are
dangerous.
***
Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds.
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet cxvi
***
Let the coming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.
***
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
***
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
***
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the
stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying Nothing.
***
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to
their end.
***
Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
***
Lord, what fools these mortals be

***
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

***
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

- William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
***
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from look, toward
school with heavy looks.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
***
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone
else.
- William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis
***
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.

***
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

***
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
***
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.

***
Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
***
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
***
Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.
***
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

***
My library
Was dukedom large enough.
***
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is

sufficient.
***
My salad days, When I was green in judgment.

***
My tongue will tell the anger of mine heart, Or else my heart, concealing it, will
break.
- William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
***
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven
go.
***
Neither a borrower nor a lender be For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And
borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all to thine own self be true, And
it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
***
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no
beast.
- William Shakespeare, Richard III
***
No legacy is so rich as honesty.

***
No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue Outvenoms all
the worms of Nile, whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All
corners of the world.
***
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

***
Nothing will come of nothing.

***
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to
thy rest
***
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York, And
all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for
monuments, Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to
delightful measures. Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front And now,
instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He
capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, that am
not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass I, that
am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling
nymph I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling
nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce
half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt
by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away
the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
***
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
***
Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
***
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
***
O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo

***
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The
meat it feeds on.
***
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
***
O, I am slain!
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet. Polonius says this as Hamlet kills
***
O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A
brother's murder.
***
O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed
troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing
steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal
banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you
mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
Farewell Othello's occupation's gone
***
O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see
***
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope
is coldest; and despair most sits.
***
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
***
Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that.

***
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast
done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I
knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of
the wicked.
***
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our
English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and
humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the
tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
***
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

***
Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.
***
Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to
attempt.
***
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
***
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie.

***
Out, damned spot out, I say

***
Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.
***
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear.

***
Pray you now, forget and forgive.

***
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition oft got without merit, and lost
without deserving.
***
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600
***
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo Deny thy father, and refuse thy name...
***
See first that the design is wise and just that ascertained, pursue it resolutely do not
for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.
***
Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting.

***
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy I were but little happy, if I could say how
much.
***
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
***
Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my
baseness.
***
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

***
Small to greater matters must give way.

***
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

***
So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him

***
Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt
new ideas, they are never chargeable with foggyism. Satisfied, yet ever dissatisfied,
settled, yet ever unsettled, they always enjoy the best of what is, are the first to find
the best of what will be.
***
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

***
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

***
Speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of
thoughts The worst of words.
***
Strong reasons make strong actions.

***
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

***
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous,
wears yet a precious jewel in its head.
***
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,

If with his tongue he cannot win a woman.
***
The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.

***
The course of true love never did run smooth.

***
The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

***
The earth has music for those who listen.

***
The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.
- William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5
***
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

***
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
***
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

***
The game is up.

***
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
***
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
***
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.
***
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

***
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

***
The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show.
***
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
***
The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 1 Scene 2, character: T
***
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war.
***
The play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
***
The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination.

***
The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon
the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
***
The rest is silence.

***
The sands are number'd that make up my life.

***
The soul of this man is in his clothes.

***
The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.
***
The worst is not So long as we can say, This is the worst.

***
Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the
reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.
***
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.
***
There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
***
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune
Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
***
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

***
There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.

***
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

- William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
***
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
***
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much
more the better For being a little bad.
***
Things are neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
***
This above all to thine own self be true.

***
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
***
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when
next we meet.
***
This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.
***
This fellow's wise enough to play the fool, And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
***
This is the short and the long of it.

***
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in
odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
***
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against
infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This
precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a
moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed
plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
***
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the
behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.
***
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
***
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

***
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
***
Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.
***
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.

***
Though inclination be as sharp as will,
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3
***
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

***
Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

***
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
***
To be a well-flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by

nature.
***
To be, or not to be that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The
slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them To die to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end The
heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'t is a
consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep To sleep perchance to dream
ay, there's the rub For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have
shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there's the respect That makes
calamity of so long life For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The
oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the
law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy
takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin who would
fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something
after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles
the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know
not of Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of
resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith
and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
***
To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

***
To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

***
To die, to sleep --To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,For in that sleep
of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give
us pause there's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.
***
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
***
To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not
be false to any man
***
To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their
schoolmasters.
***
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to
day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor
player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a
tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
***
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner
creatures kings.
***
True is it that we have seen better days.
***
Truth is truth To the end of reckoning.

***
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

***
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
***
We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

***
We burn daylight.
***
We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.
***
We have seen better days.

- William Shakespeare, "Timon of Athens", Act 4 scene 2
***
We have some salt of our youth in us.

***
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

***
What a deformed thief this fashion is.
***
What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and
moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how
like a god
***
What seest thou else

In the dark backward and abysm of time?
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2
***
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , Act I scene ii
***
What's done can't be undone.

***
What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as
sweet.
***
What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.

***
When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then
music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.
***
When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little
better than a beast.
***
When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them
thence So sweet is zealous contemplation.
***
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest
winner.
- William Shakespeare, Henry V
***
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she
lies.
***
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
***
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools.
***
While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head.

***
Yet do I fear thy nature It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
***
You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense.
***
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
***
Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole.

***
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Born: 1856-07-26
Died: 1950-11-02
George Bernard Shaw Biography
"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as
himself, and hates them for it."
- George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial Socialist (1887) ch. 5
***
A dramatic critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

- George Bernard Shaw
***
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

***
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into
pedantry. Hence University education.
***
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
***
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it
is more dangerous than ignorance.
***
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it
is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903
***
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
***
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
***
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

***
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about
her.
***
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

***
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
***
Activity is the only road to knowledge.

***
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who
could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do
things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
***
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

***
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and
existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and
executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of
progress is the removal of censorships.
***
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska (1919)
***
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have
made has been taken in spite of it.
***
All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

***
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about
them.
***
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) act 3
***
An institution which is populare because it combines the maximum of temptation

with the maximum of opportunity.
***
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

***
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

***
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
***
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
***
Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must
see the world.
***
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

***
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something
very clever when they are only wasting their time.
***
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

***
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

***
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
***
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
***
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

***
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the

corrupt few.
***
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment

by the corrupt few.
***
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished
from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
***
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may
not be the same.
***
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may
not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolut
***
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is
Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
***
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself,
and hates them for it.
***
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real
and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the
only things that are true.
***
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
***
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every
Englishman loves a pedigree.
***
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

***
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

***
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his
affairs as well as a tree does.
***
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by
tradesmen.
***
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

***
Few people think more than two or three times a year I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
***
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

***
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
***
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for
nothing.
***
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
***
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political
career.
***
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

***
He who has never hoped can never despair.

***
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn
anything from history.
***
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

***
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a

cockatoo.
***
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

***
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
***
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human
form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
***
I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all
amusing.
***
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over
to the government in taxes to keep it going.
***
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do
not tempt me.
***
I never thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is at least
safe from people.
***
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

***
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it
as soon as I possibly could.
***
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I
rejoice in life for its own sake.
***
I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed
ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.
***
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
***
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must
Man be of learning from experience.
***
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it
must be bad.
***
If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid,
there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains
unsolved.
***
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
***
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you
and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and
we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
***
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they
should be. Now put the foundations under them.
***
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what
you imagine and at last you create what you will.
***
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

***
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
***
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
***
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

***
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other
Englishman hate or despise him.
***
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

***
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my

faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the
British public.
***
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
***
I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.
- George Bernard Shaw, when asked on his deathbed, “What would you
***
Lack of money is the root of all evil.

***
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the
protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives,
pistols, or bombs without incurring any penalties.
***
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

***
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be
serious when people laugh.
***
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the
disease at which he lives.
***
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of
for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it
on to future generations.
***
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.
***
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

***
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone
else.
***
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
***
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
***
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut,
and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
***
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
***
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
***
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is
never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
***
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to
say it with the utmost levity.
***
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
***
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
***
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that
it says what he means.
***
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

***
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the
shore in safety.
***
Nothing ever is done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is
not done.
***
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

***
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and
don't.
***
Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe
and island are the laws of nature.
- George Bernard Shaw, "Ceasar and Cleopatra"
***
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed
in the interest of the children.
***
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
***
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

***
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries
because you were born in it.
***
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
***
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary
execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by
a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms
the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
***
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds
cannot change anything.
***
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
***
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to

adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable
people.
***
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in
reviewing you take it out on other people.
***
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

***
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

***
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

***
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

***
Success covers a multitude of blunders.

***
Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
***
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
***
Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the
utmost levity.
***
The 100% American is 99% an idiot.

***
The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
***
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the
player.
***
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

***
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to
speak it.
***
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact
than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
***
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the
women who love me.
***
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

***
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all
the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my
time.
***
The love of money is the root of all virtue.

***
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not
strong enough to master her.
***
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
***
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
***
The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as
the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
***
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every
time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect
them to fit me.
***
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up
to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
***
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
***
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

***
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have
not got it.
***
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't
have it.
***
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
***
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh
and blood.
***
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are
happy or not. The cure is occupation.
***
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of
speech.
***
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
***
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to
them that's the essense of inhumanity.
***
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
***
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any
man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
***
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to
get it.
***
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

***
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

***
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

***
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
***
There is only one universal passion fear.

***
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a
mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap
the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and
grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
***
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to
want it.
***
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all
you have before you die and do not outlive yourself.
***
Virtue is insufficient temptation.

***
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the

expense of human character.
***
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for
our future.
***
We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what
would he say now
***
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we
don't dress well and we've no manners.
***
We don't stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing.
***
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume

wealth without producing it.
***
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical
profession.
***
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
***
We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that
honesty is the best policy.
***
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our
existence...on pain of liquidation.
***
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.

***
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
***
What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never
lose a chance it doesn't come every day.
***
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is
uselessness.
***
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is
most likely to be the true one?
***
What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.
***
What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead.

***
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution
of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the
contemporary real.
***
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in
pursuit of the child.
***
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder
him he calls it ferocity.
***
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it
is his duty.
***
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

***
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the
last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
***
When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush' just once.
- Mrs Patrick Campbell, to George Bernard Shaw
***
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any
ideal conditions on this earth?
***
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he
shouldn't!
***
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
***
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman
is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
***
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that
you will eat, but you will not live.
***
You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say,
Why not
***
You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and
ask, 'Why not'
***
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
***
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

***
Youth is wasted on the young.
***
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing age, which forgives itself
everything, is forgiven nothing.
***
Socrates Quotes
Born: 0470-06-04
Died: 0399-05-07
Socrates Biography
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
- Socrates
***
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

- Socrates
***
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that
they may live.
- Socrates
***
Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
***
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us
takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
- Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
***
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one,
you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates
***
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and
tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates
***
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

- Socrates
***
Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Socrates
***
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

- Socrates
***
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall
gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
***
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

- Socrates
***
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of
your love.
- Socrates
***
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

- Socrates
***
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
***
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he
would like to have.
- Socrates
***
I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

- Socrates
***
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
(Plato's Apology)
- Socrates
***
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

- Socrates
***
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind
of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates
***
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take
thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the
greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but
that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as
private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I
am a mischievous person.
- Socrates
***
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

- Socrates
***
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

- Socrates
***
I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is
really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having
no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than
he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.
- Socrates
***
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them
with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
- Socrates, In "Phaedo," sct. 98, by Plato.
***
If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he
employs it.
- Socrates
***
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
- Socrates
***
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
- Socrates, Crito," (Plato)
***
My advice to you is get married if you find a good wife youll be happy if not, youll
become a philosopher.
- Socrates
***
My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

- Socrates
***
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

- Socrates
***
Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

- Isocrates
***
Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
- Socrates
***
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they
avoid.
- Socrates
***
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
***
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

- Socrates
***
Science says 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing,
facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says
'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.
- Socrates
***
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like him.
- Socrates
***
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
***
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live.
Which is better God only knows.
- Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
***
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

- Socrates
***
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates
***
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what
we would appear to be and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues
increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
- Socrates
***
The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates
***
The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates
***
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
***
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

- Socrates
***
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly
reprove thy faults.
- Socrates
***
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

- Socrates
***
To find yourself, think for yourself.

- Socrates, The Apology
***
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you
know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
- Socrates
***
Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which
men have. . . comes from virtue.
- Socrates
***
What you cannot enforce, do not command.

- Socrates
***
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to
right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . .
- Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
***
When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
- Socrates
***
Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is
clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain
resemblances to that truth.
- Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus, sct. 262.
***
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.

- Socrates
***
Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates
***
You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For,
acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear
to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing
at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in
their own conceit, instead of truly wise.
- Socrates, Phaedrus, sct. 275
***
Britney Spears Quotes
Born: 1981-12-02
Died: 0000-00-00
Britney Spears Biography
Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things
that I stress about.
- Britney Spears
***
I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its
exciting.
- Britney Spears
***
I wish my hair was thicker, and I wish my feet were prettier. My toes are really ugly.
I wish my ears were smaller. And my nose could be smaller too.
- Britney Spears
***
I would really, really, really like to be a legend like Madonna. Madonna knows what
to do next, and when she's performing, the audience is just in awe of her.
- Britney Spears
***
My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on
the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.
- Britney Spears
***
Onstage I'm the happiest person in the world.

- Britney Spears
***
With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an
amazing feeling.
- Britney Spears
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Born: 1817-07-12
Died: 1862-05-06
Henry David Thoreau Biography
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from
Live Without Principle
- Henry David Thoreau
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone.

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A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.
Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their
age.
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A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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All good things are wild, and free.

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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to
our head.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit
which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
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As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that
so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a
tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have
drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.
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As if there were safety in stupidity alone.

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As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!

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Be not simply good - be good for something.

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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature
dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is
nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than
this incessant business.
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Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with
the feet.
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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality.
Be not simply good be good for something.
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Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his
hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but
you have ceased to live.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

- Henry David Thoreau, Vol. 2, p.318 Houghton Mifflin
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Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who
understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

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Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when
you are my friend I may be yours.
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Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder
that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
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Government never furthered any enterprise but the alacrity with which it got out of
the way.
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Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go
and meet their ideal cousins.
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How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!
- Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names.
It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
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I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in
it, be it good or bad.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has
regular features.
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I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in

the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For
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I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these
things would be by me unavoidable.
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an
appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the
pines.
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I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he
will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first
syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for
the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our
chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good
and the braver every in a majority
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to

elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the

direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will
meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind,
will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to
establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and
interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a
higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe
will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor
weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", pp. 323- 324
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as

solitude.
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a
village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I
should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
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I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer
of clothes.
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I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms,

houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than
gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf,
that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as
well.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Economy.
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I stand in awe of my body.

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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy,
ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.

- Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government"
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential
facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came
to die, discover that I had not lived.
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or
far away.
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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of
being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off
those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious
and enterprising citizen.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the
life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours.
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If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a
fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more
immortal--that is your success.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they
should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what
they see.
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Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau, Wednesday, A Week on the Concord and Merri
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In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly
than we see others awake.
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In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone

who can think.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at
something high.
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you
are alone in the world.
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In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you
are alone in the world.
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In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

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In wildness is the preservation of the world.

- Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862)
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In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking

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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were
divested of their clothes.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were
divested of their clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about

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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

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It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

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It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to

make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very
atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect
the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
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It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear.

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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
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Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth
and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
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Live each season as it passes breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and
resign yourself to the influences of each.
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Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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Make the most of your regrets. . . . To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

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Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau, ?
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are
after.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

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Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones
over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their
wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
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Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not
indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
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Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really
lived.
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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to

thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life
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My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

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Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am
sure to be filled.
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her
smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new
channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which
the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

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None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage
ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
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Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to
find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
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One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he
hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the
audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.
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Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than
housed in them.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more
than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest.
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
- Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
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Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
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Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-
Believe!
- Henry David Thoreau, Simplify Simplify
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable
mould myself.
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Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience

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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been
accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not
sometimes got in its way.
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The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
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The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by
the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus
tenderly.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of
air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I
thought , and attended to my answer.
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The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

- Henry David Thoreau, book
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The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

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The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we
are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait
till that other is ready.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

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The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

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The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think
right.
- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
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The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the
tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, A segment of the rainbow
which I have clutched.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of

individuals.
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. -
from Live Without Principle
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The world is but a canvas to the imagination.

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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its
root.
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life
getting his living. - from Live Without Principle
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.

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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding
what we suspect.
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Things do not change; we change.

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are
old women over their tea.
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To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a

school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity,
independence, magnanimity, and trust.
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To reget deeply is to live afresh.

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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and
ignorance.
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Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in
prison.
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Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

- Henry David Thoreau, "An Essay on Civil Disobedience," 1849.
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Water is the only drink for a wise man.

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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to
describe human character.
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We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there
have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a
character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they
treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on
the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to

philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their

yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who
has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor
indeed.
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We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak
out that we have not.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark
to our success.
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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they
vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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What a man thinks of himself that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate.
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What does education often do It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering

brook.
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple
and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as
to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves
and to the ground.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

- Henry David Thoreau, in Walden, "Economy"
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature
take sides with one party.
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what
lives within us.
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What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie
close together to keep each other warm.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old
people, and new deeds for new.
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What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.
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Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to

the earliest times, and to the latest.
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When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language
correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
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Why should we be in such desperate hast to succeed, and in such desperate

enterprises If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer.
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Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be
starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they
take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in
each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another
land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

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Mark Twain Quotes
Born: 1835-11-30
Died: 1910-04-21
Mark Twain Biography
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it
back the minute it begins to rain.
- Mark Twain
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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

- Mark Twain
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
- Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
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A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be
a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of
Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Mark Twain
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain, Following the Equator
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A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes.
- Mark Twain
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A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

- Mark Twain
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A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he
knows.
- Mark Twain
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A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the
nose.
- Mark Twain
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- Mark Twain
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A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.

- Mark Twain
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A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will
join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain
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A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's
downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part
of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and
put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just
shovel in German.
- Mark Twain
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped
teething.
- Mark Twain
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After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better
to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
- Mark Twain
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

- Mark Twain
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the
mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
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All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable
knowledge. - Notebook, 1908
- Mark Twain
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and
give you an opportunity to commit more.
- Mark Twain
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Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
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An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to
complete the thing and make it perfect.
- Mark Twain
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An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An
American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.
- Mark Twain
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Are you so unobservant that you do not yet realize that sanity and hapiness are an
impossible combination?
- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger
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At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned,
ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for
then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain
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Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest
enough.
- Mark Twain
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

- Mark Twain
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Be good and you will be lonesome.

- Mark Twain
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Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a
manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith,
Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.
- Mark Twain
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Buy land. They've stopped making it.

- Mark Twain
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

- Mark Twain
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Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.
- Mark Twain
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Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.

- Mark Twain
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.
- Mark Twain
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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
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Cold If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death
- Mark Twain
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

- Mark Twain
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Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It
was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.
- Mark Twain
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Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for
acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain
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Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It
was here first.
- Mark Twain
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Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have
ceased to live.
- Mark Twain
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Drag your thoughts away from your troubles.. by the ears, by the heels, or any other
way you can manage it.
- Mark Twain
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Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned. - Notebook, 1898

- Mark Twain
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast
limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain
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Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

- Mark Twain
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Everything has its limit--iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906
- Mark Twain
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Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but
sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
- Mark Twain
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Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

- Mark Twain
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Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

- Mark Twain
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Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
- Mark Twain
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

- Mark Twain
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Few sinners are saved after the fiirst twenty minutes of a sermon.
- Mark Twain
***
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

- Mark Twain
***
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
***
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

- Mark Twain
***
Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

- Mark Twain
***
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either
by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase
in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with
later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the
same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4
might fiks the "g
j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai
with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the
rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu
meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the
maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud
hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
- Mark Twain, "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling"
***
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
***
Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.
- Mark Twain
***
George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of

youth - he could not even lie.
- Mark Twain
***
Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

- Mark Twain
***
Giving up smoking is easy...I've done it hundreds of times.

- Mark Twain
***
Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

- Mark Twain
***
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board
- Mark Twain
***
Golf is a good walk spoiled.

- Mark Twain
***
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little
we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain
***
Great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
***
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have
somebody to divide it with.
- Mark Twain
***
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain
***
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in
order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing
difficult to obtain.
- Mark Twain
***
He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of
speech, because he didn't have any.
- Mark Twain
***
Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would
go in.
- Mark Twain
***
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in
it anywhere.
- Mark Twain
***
Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
***
How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the
person involved.
- Mark Twain
***
How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.
- Mark Twain
***
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

- Mark Twain
***
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations
and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
- Mark Twain
***
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to
observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
- Mark Twain
***
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never
happened.
- Mark Twain
***
I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

- Mark Twain
***
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

- Mark Twain
***
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Mark Twain
***
I can live two months on a good compliment.

- Mark Twain
***
I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except
toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain
***
I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive.

- Mark Twain
***
I did it partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it
again.
- Mark Twain
***
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
***
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain
***
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both
places.
- Mark Twain
***
I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or
not.
- Mark Twain
***
I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no
translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the
translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the
translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp
Abroad,1880)
- Mark Twain
***
I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how
much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of
paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to
produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
- Mark Twain
***
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain
***
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

- Mark Twain
***
I have spent most of my time worrying about thigs that have never happened.
- Mark Twain
***
I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner
created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite
sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically
exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the
next thing to suicide.
- Mark Twain
***
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week

sometimes to make it up.
- Mark Twain
***
I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would
believe.
- Mark Twain
***
I never let schooling interfere with my education.

- Mark Twain
***
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I
never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.
- Mark Twain
***
I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

- Mark Twain
***
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him
kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
- Mark Twain
***
I was born modest. Not all over, but in spots.

- Mark Twain
***
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

- Mark Twain
***
I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything
without statistics.
- Mark Twain
***
If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not,
do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a
brick.
- Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
***
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian.
- Mark Twain
***
If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would
escape hanging?
- Mark Twain
***
If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

- Mark Twain
***
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is
the principal difference between a man and a dog.
- Mark Twain
***
If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog
will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain
***
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

- Mark Twain
***
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The
influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect
because the crowd is never conscious of it.
- Mark Twain
***
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances,

profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain
***
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the
Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained
from books of travel.
- Mark Twain
***
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech,
freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
- Mark Twain
***
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in
making those idiots understand their language.
- Mark Twain
***
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case
gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not
themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand
from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass
farthing.
- Mark Twain
***
In the first place God made idiots; that was for practice; then he made school
boards.
- Mark Twain
***
Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.

- Mark Twain
***
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American
criminal class except Congress.
- Mark Twain
***
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when
awake.
- Mark Twain
***
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve
them.
- Mark Twain
***
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to
open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
***
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never
to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain
***
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral
courage so rare.
- Mark Twain
***
It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and
dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.
- Mark Twain
***
It is easier to stay out than get out.

- Mark Twain
***
It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. -
speech, 1906
- Mark Twain
***
It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races.

- Mark Twain
***
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to
slander you, and the other to get the news to you.
- Mark Twain
***
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
- Mark Twain
***
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

- Mark Twain
***
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
- Mark Twain
***
It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that
makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Mark Twain
***
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain
***
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Mark Twain
***
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
***
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days
of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of
July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Mark Twain
***
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out
of a library that hadn't a book in it.
- Mark Twain
***
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
***
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear, and the blind can read.
- Mark Twain
***
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- Mark Twain
***
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have
since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
- Mark Twain
***
Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but
an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.
- Mark Twain
***
Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
- Mark Twain
***
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be
sorry.
- Mark Twain
***
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
***
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none
at all.
- Mark Twain
***
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
***
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the
faculty of putting out blossoms.
- Mark Twain
***
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really
knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain
***
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain
***
Man - a figment of God's imagination.

- Mark Twain
***
Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.

- Mark Twain
***
Man will do many things to get himself loved he will do all things to get himself
envied.
- Mark Twain
***
Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain
***
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand,
but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain
***
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
- Mark Twain
***
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

- Mark Twain
***
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
***
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it....

- Mark Twain
***
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

- Mark Twain
***
October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are
July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August
and February.
- Mark Twain
***
Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.

- Mark Twain
***
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it
out of his heaven.
- Mark Twain
***
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain
***
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
- Mark Twain
***
Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
- Mark Twain
***
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and
whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the
poor, the loved and the unloved.
- Mark Twain
***
Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. (talking
about Henry James)
- Mark Twain
***
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only
nine lives.
- Mark Twain
***
Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to
someone else.
- Mark Twain
***
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside.
- Mark Twain
***
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
- Mark Twain
***
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
***
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
- Mark Twain
***
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

- Mark Twain
***
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
***
Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and
wishes he was certain.
- Mark Twain
***
Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

- Mark Twain
***
Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and
cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give
out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
- Mark Twain
***
So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature,
to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds.
Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.
- Mark Twain
***
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in
the long run.
- Mark Twain
***
Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship
God, and over these ideals they dispute, but they all worship money.
- Mark Twain
***
Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get
out.
- Mark Twain
***
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting
us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
- Mark Twain
***
Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

- Mark Twain
***
Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.
- Mark Twain
***
Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than on all other days of the year
put together. This proves, by the numbers left in stock, that one Fourth of July per
year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
- Mark Twain
***
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I
repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
***
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress but I
repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
***
The best coffee in Europe is Vienna coffee, compared to which all other coffee is fluid
poverty.
- Mark Twain, Greatly Exaggerated
***
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

- Mark Twain
***
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
- Mark Twain
***
The billiard table is better than the doctor.

- Mark Twain
***
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

- Mark Twain
***
The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference
between lightning and the lightning bug.
- Mark Twain
***
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other
creatures but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any
creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain
***
creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any
- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
***
creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any
- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
***
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the
year.
- Mark Twain
***
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with
evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.
- Mark Twain
***
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
***
The holy passion of Friendship is 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
***
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
- Mark Twain
***
The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a
gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.
- Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906
***
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot
read them.
- Mark Twain
***
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much if he is an optimist after it, he
knows too little.
- Mark Twain
***
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry,
application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
- Mark Twain
***
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody
will side with you when you are right.
- Mark Twain
***
The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts
them.
- Mark Twain
***
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the
views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
- Mark Twain
***
The report of my death was an exaggeration. (New York Journal, June 1897)
- Mark Twain
***
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed
pause.
- Mark Twain
***
The rule is perfect in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
- Mark Twain
***
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in
heaven.
- Mark Twain
***
The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed
right.
- Mark Twain
***
The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

- Mark Twain
***
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
- Mark Twain
***
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

- Mark Twain
***
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

- Mark Twain
***
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable,
drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They
pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like
paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
- Mark Twain
***
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
- Mark Twain
***
There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after
year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth
being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself.
There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will
not tell itself.
- Mark Twain
***
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the
farce.
- Mark Twain
***
There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate when he can't
afford it, and when he can. - from Following the Equator
- Mark Twain
***
There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

- Mark Twain
***
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

- Mark Twain
***
There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands
of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares
- Mark Twain
***
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy
interrupting.
- Mark Twain
***
There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad
morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men
to angelship.
- Mark Twain
***
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- Mark Twain
***
There ought to be a room in every house to swear in.

- Mark Twain
***
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three
hundred and sixty-four.
- Mark Twain
***
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.
- Mark Twain
***
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written
fiction.
- Mark Twain
***
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

- Mark Twain
***
Time cools, time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the
course of hours.
- Mark Twain
***
To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
- Mark Twain
***
To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a
thousand times.
- Mark Twain
***
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience of 4000 critics.
- Mark Twain
***
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but
cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain
***
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
- Mark Twain
***
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

- Mark Twain
***
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't
do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
***
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

- Mark Twain
***
Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

- Mark Twain
***
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

- Mark Twain
***
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

- Mark Twain
***
We all have thoughts that would shame the devil.

- Mark Twain
***
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.
- Mark Twain
***
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not
possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
- Mark Twain
***
We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest
they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal
association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
- Mark Twain
***
We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and
wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which
was human liberty.
- Mark Twain
***
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy
and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
- Mark Twain
***
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels
without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.
- Mark Twain
***
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and
discuss whether they was made or just happened.
- Mark Twain
***
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and its
efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't
know anything and can't read.
- Mark Twain
***
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human
race: he brought death into the world.
- Mark Twain
***
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and
stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit
down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a
cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
***
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it
before.
- Mark Twain
***
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, what counts is the size
of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
***
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to
deceive other people.
- Mark Twain
***
When angry count four; when very angry, swear.

- Mark Twain
***
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to
have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how
much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
***
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy
today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and
by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
- Mark Twain
***
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
- Mark Twain
***
When in doubt, tell the truth.
- Mark Twain
***
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.
- Mark Twain
***
When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his
private heart no man much respects himself.
- Mark Twain
***
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands
explained.
- Mark Twain
***
When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
- Mark Twain
***
Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to
see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his
mouth.
- Mark Twain
***
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and
reflect.
- Mark Twain
***
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not
the person involved.
- Mark Twain
***
Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the
possibilities.
- Mark Twain
***
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
- Mark Twain
***
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body
is not obliged to do.
- Mark Twain
***
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

- Mark Twain
***
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

- Mark Twain
***
You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

- Mark Twain
***
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
***
Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that
Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination
- Mark Twain
***
[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.
- Mark Twain
***
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power,

money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—
push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to
rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
***
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its
feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise.
Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd
follows it.
- Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX
Voltaire Quotes
Born: 1694-11-21
Died: 1778-05-30
Voltaire Biography
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die
without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last
moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals
cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire
***
'That is indisputable,' was the answer, 'but in this country it is a good thing to kill an
admiral from time to time to encourage the others.'
- Voltaire
***
...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we
can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Voltaire
***
A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the
expense of the rascals who work to live.
- Voltaire
***
A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

- Voltaire
***
A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of

weakness and malady.
- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
***
A witty saying proves nothing.

- Voltaire
***
All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
***
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge
of God.
- Voltaire
***
All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the
same, because it comes from God.
- Voltaire
***
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die
without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last
moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals
cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire
***
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

- Voltaire
***
Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as

well.
- Voltaire
***
As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

***
As long as there are fools and rascals, there will be religions.

- Voltaire, Letter to Frederick, 1767
***
Better is the enemy of good.

***
Canada: A few acres of snow.
- Voltaire
***
Change everything except your loves.

***
Common sense is not so common.

- Voltaire
***
Dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les
autres. (In this country England it is thought well to kill an admiral from time to time
to encourage the others. from Candide)
***
Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

***
Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases
of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing.
- Voltaire
***
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

- Voltaire
***
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.

***
England has forty-two religions and only two sauces.

- Voltaire
***
Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
- Voltaire
***
God created sex. Priests created marriage.

- Voltaire
***
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

- Voltaire
***
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

- Voltaire
***
God is always on the side of the big battalions.

- Voltaire
***
Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a
drunken savage's imagination.
***
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
- Voltaire
***
History is fables agreed upon.

***
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.

***
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not
confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that
the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the
inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who
imagined innate ideas.
- Voltaire
***
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire",
***
I have lost the half of myself – a soul for which mine was made.
- Voltaire
***
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my
enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
- Voltaire
***
I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human
race.
***
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right
to say it.
- Voltaire
***
I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
- Voltaire
***
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
- Voltaire
***
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
- Voltaire
***
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

- Voltaire
***
If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible
for one man to enslave another.
***
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
***
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from
one part of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire, The Portable Voltaire
***
In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage
the others.
***
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

- Voltaire
***
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a

virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge
- Voltaire
***
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

***
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
***
It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire
***
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large
numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire
***
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of
mankind.
- Voltaire
***
It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
- Voltaire
***
It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce.

***
It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the
planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.
***
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could
be a virtue.
- Voltaire
***
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

***
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- Voltaire
***
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending
for one.
***
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun (Common sense is not so common)

***
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

- Voltaire
***
Love truth, and pardon error.

- Voltaire
***
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

- Voltaire
***
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

- Voltaire
***
May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
- Voltaire
***
Men are equal it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire
***
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to
conceal their thoughts.
***
Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to
sin, or die.
***
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

***
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them
a pleasure as well as a necessity.
***
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

***
Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance
most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
***
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.

- Voltaire
***
One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

***
Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not
the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.
***
Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one
from another.
***
People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and
people have always delighted in it.
***
Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

***
Prejudice is opinion without judgement.

- Voltaire
***
Really, to stop criticism, they say, one must die.

***
Regimen is superior to medicine.

- Voltaire
***
Right now I think censorship is necessary the things they're doing and saying in films
right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's
very important.
***
Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course
exterminated.
- Voltaire
***
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise

mother.
***
The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class
of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire
***
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
- Voltaire
***
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier Who serves his country well has no
need of ancestors.
***
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

***
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human
errors.
- Voltaire
***
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- Voltaire
***
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it
at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
***
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
***
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer
belongs to him.
- Voltaire
***
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

- Voltaire
***
The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
***
The public is a ferocious beast -- one must either chain it up or flee from it.
***
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

- Voltaire
***
The superfluous is very necessary.

***
The wicked can have only accomplices, the voluptuous have companions in
debauchery, self-seekers have associates, the politic assemble the factions, the
typical idler has connections, princes have courtiers. Only the virtuous have friends.
***
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
***
There has never been a perfect government, because men have passions and if they
did not have passions, there would be no need for government.
***
There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be

impenetrable.
- Voltaire
***
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We

repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of
Homer.
- Voltaire
***
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
- Voltaire
***
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman
Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
- Voltaire
***
This is no time for making new enemies. (when asked on his deathbed to renounce
Satan)
- Voltaire
***
This poem will never reach its destination.

- Voltaire
***
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire
***
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing

about it.
- Voltaire
***
To hold a pen is to be at war.

***
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-
mannered.
- Voltaire
***
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself

and others.
- Voltaire
***
Use, do not abuse neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
- Voltaire
***
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.
- Voltaire
***
We are rarely proud when we are alone.

- Voltaire
***
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

- Voltaire
***
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
- Voltaire
***
When it is a question of money, everyone is of the same religion.

- Voltaire
***
When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

- Voltaire
***
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a
duty.
***
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
- Voltaire
***
Work saves us from three great evils boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire
***
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the
pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting
only savage nations, is governed by books.
- Voltaire
***
[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
- Voltaire, Candide
***
John Wayne Quotes
Born: 1907-05-26
Died: 1979-06-11
John Wayne Biography
A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

- John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke"
***
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

- John Wayne
***
I never trust a man that doesn't drink.

- John Wayne
***
I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's
couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
- John Wayne
***
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word
and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be
goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for
trouble.
- John Wayne
***
If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
- John Wayne
***
Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

- John Wayne
***
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

- John Wayne
***
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned
something from yesterday.
- John Wayne
***
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer
hatred will kindle into love.
- John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Co
***
Oscar Wilde Quotes
Born: 1854-10-16
Died: 1900-11-30
Oscar Wilde Biography
... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks
where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She
will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without
stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my
hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
- Oscar Wilde
***
...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have
anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter
over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- Oscar Wilde
***
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one
unsatisfied. What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde
***
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that
he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde
***
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

- Oscar Wilde
***
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

- Oscar Wilde
***
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Oscar Wilde
***
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

- Oscar Wilde
***
A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde
***
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

- Oscar Wilde
***
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

- Oscar Wilde
***
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

- Oscar Wilde
***
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

- Oscar Wilde
***
About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. (As he sipped champagne on his deathbed)

- Oscar Wilde
***
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at
their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
- Oscar Wilde
***
All art is quite useless.

- Oscar Wilde
***
All authority is quite degrading.

- Oscar Wilde
***
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

- Oscar Wilde
***
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more
than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

- Oscar Wilde
***
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed
up.
- Oscar Wilde
***
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
***
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats,

None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine
nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- Oscar Wilde
***
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is
looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Oscar Wilde
***
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to
illustrate quotations from the poets.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Bad artists always admire each other's work.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no

explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the
reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by
appearances.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Being natural is simply a pose.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity,
worship, love, but no friendship.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same

- Oscar Wilde
***
Biography lends to death a new terror.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

- Oscar Wilde
***
But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is

unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
- Oscar Wilde
***
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the
ignorance of the community.
- Oscar Wilde
***
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public

temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them;
sometimes they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the
people.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Divorces are made in heaven.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear
in the evening.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see
the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Genius is born--not paid.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no
account.
- Oscar Wilde
***
He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.
- Oscar Wilde
***
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare
not realise.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

- Oscar Wilde
***
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her
as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
- Oscar Wilde
***
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
- Oscar Wilde
***
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old
ones.
- Oscar Wilde
***
I am not young enough to know everything.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I can resist anything but temptation.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice
of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
***
I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I have nothing to declare but my genius. (As he passed through customs)

- Oscar Wilde
***
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than
anything else in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
***
I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts
me. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
- Oscar Wilde
***
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

- Oscar Wilde
***
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde
***
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a
comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense
of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

- Oscar Wilde
***
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or
tedious.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco.
It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be

ugly.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give really unbiased
opinions, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
- Oscar Wilde
***
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

- Oscar Wilde
***
It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

- Oscar Wilde
***
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

- Oscar Wilde
***
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

- Oscar Wilde
***
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner
that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd
want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival
of the vulgarist.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things
beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending
for one.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage
is not a success.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Live the wonderful life that is in you.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will
tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last
romance.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that
each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives
a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is
the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde
***
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.
- Oscar Wilde
***
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an
artist.
- Oscar Wilde
***
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the
soul.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it
is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything
except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when
he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are
and will be what they will be.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details.
Details are always vulgar.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

- Oscar Wilde
***
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell
anything.
- Oscar Wilde
***
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious
things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far
more than art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

- Oscar Wilde
***
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I
call the depth of generosity.
- Oscar Wilde
***
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because
chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it
merely had been detected.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Philanthropic people lose all sense of Humanity, it is their distinguishing
characteristic.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Philanthropy is the refuge of rich people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Punctuality is the thief of time.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be
happier than others.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end
with a settlement.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Science is the record of dead religions.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes
to live.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

- Oscar Wilde
***
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of
science is that it is not emotional.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what
each of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know
not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit
of the uneatable.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there.
Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and
contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and
demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of
the world depends.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both
parties.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.
- Oscar Wilde,
***
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense
inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to
oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

- Oscar Wilde
***
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth
knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies
their demands.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art
to life.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men
can be analyzed, women… merely adored.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

- Oscar Wilde
***
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than
the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- Oscar Wilde
***
The very essence of love is uncertainty.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others
might pick them up.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know
absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other
is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read
Pope.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one

else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us
absolution.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has
ceased to love.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There is no sin except stupidity.

- Oscar Wilde
***
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or
badly written.
- Oscar Wilde
***
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not
being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their
own free choice remained thirty-five for years.
- Oscar Wilde
***
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It

merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative
thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
- Oscar Wilde
***
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

- Oscar Wilde
***
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of
sanity.
- Oscar Wilde
***
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up
early, or be respectable.
- Oscar Wilde
***
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like
carelessness. (The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895)
- Oscar Wilde
***
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
- Oscar Wilde
***
True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Vile deeds like poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man,
that wastes and withers there.
- Oscar Wilde
***
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Lady Windermere's
Fan, 1892)
- Oscar Wilde
***
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
- Oscar Wilde
***
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The
only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is
quite useless.
- Oscar Wilde
***
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course,

language.
- Oscar Wilde
***
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

- Oscar Wilde
***
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
***
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our
personalities.
- Oscar Wilde
***
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a
man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck men
risk theirs.
- Oscar Wilde
***
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

- Oscar Wilde
***
When good Americans die they go to Paris. When bad Americans die they go to
America.
- Oscar Wilde
***
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses
other people. It is excessively boring.
- Oscar Wilde
***
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde
***
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always
happy.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest
motives.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
***
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate
his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist
is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second
is perfection, which all should aim at.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Who, being loved, is poor?

- Oscar Wilde
***
Why was I born with such contemporaries

- Oscar Wilde
***
Wisdom comes with winters.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference
between the sexes.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us
everything, even our intellects.
- Oscar Wilde
***
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

- Oscar Wilde
***
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a
bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man
with a sword
- Oscar Wilde
***
Robin Williams Quotes
Born: 1952-07-21
Died: 0000-00-00
Robin Williams Biography
Ah...so many pedestrians, so little time...

- Robin Williams
***
Ballet: Men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
- Robin Williams
***
Carpe per diem - seize the check.

- Robin Williams
***
Comedy is acting out optimism.

- Robin Williams
***
Honey, you gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're
Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on.
He's like Lord Of The Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species. [on
Michael Jackson]
- Robin Williams
***
See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood
to run one at a time.
- Robin Williams
***
She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are
perfect for each other.
- Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting
***
Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

- Robin Williams
***
The Russians love Brooke Shield because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid
Brezhnev.
- Robin Williams
***
Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.
- Robin Williams
***
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves? (from Mork and Mindy)
- Robin Williams
***
You can do no great things, just small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa, Robin Williams
***
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
- Robin Williams
***
Oprah Winfrey Quotes
Born: 1954-01-29
Died: 0000-00-00
Oprah Winfrey Biography
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide
what is best for you - the first time around.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on
what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress
to your life, ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes
resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon
discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in
Mississippi.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you
know you have for sure.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight
them. Just find a different way to stand.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second
time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
This is your moment. Own it.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe
together.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by
knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining
focus.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and
dance.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing
in the gap to close it for us.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a
message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling
on yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you
are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying
your design.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Everything in your world is created by what you think.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine February 2001 issue
***
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you
the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it
was teachers and school.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of
treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
- Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
***
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over
fear.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's
secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and
better lovers.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't
decide for you. Something is off-balance here.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words
with the intention to require more from yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to
what matters.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
- Oprah Winfrey, "The Oprah Winfrey Show"
***
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And
it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's
life.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to
myself.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to
see it.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a
fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then
find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing
the energy of the universe to lead you.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you
don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without
stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value
What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for
new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what
life is all about.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your
light shine.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who
will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
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
***
Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether
you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get
there if you're willing to work.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then
even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But
when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the
distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing
to share a seat on the bus.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were
intended to be.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to
greatness.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My
feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell
in possiblity.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you
are rewarded or how much you have.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I
don't feel that anymore.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

- Oprah Winfrey
***
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought,
choice by choice.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be
defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
- Oprah Winfrey
***
Steven Wright Quotes
Born: 1955-12-06
Died: 0000-00-00
Steven Wright Biography
A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth
taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here.
- Steven Wright
***
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

- Steven Wright
***
Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time.

- Steven Wright
***
Black holes are where God divided by zero.

- Steven Wright
***
Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

- Steven Wright
***
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

- Steven Wright
***
Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents?
Someone is making a penny on the deal!
- Steven Wright
***
Every now and then I like to lean out my window, look up and smile for a satellite
picture.
- Steven Wright
***
Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up, and smile for a
satellite picture.
- Steven Wright
***
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

- Steven Wright
***
How young can you die of old age?

- Steven Wright
***
I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him...'Come here,
Stay! Come here, Stay!' He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.
He's an East German Shepherd.
- Steven Wright
***
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.

- Steven Wright
***
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me
five.
- Steven Wright
***
I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.

- Steven Wright
***
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright
***
I have the worlds largest seashell collection. You may have seen it, I keep it spread
out on beaches all over the world.
- Steven Wright
***
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!
- Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
***
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

- Steven Wright
***
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only
eight minutes.
- Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
***
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.
- Steven Wright
***
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

- Steven Wright
***
I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
- Steven Wright
***
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
- Steven Wright
***
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

- Steven Wright
***
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
- Steven Wright
***
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast
during the Renaissance.
- Steven Wright
***
I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters.
- Steven Wright
***
I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

- Steven Wright
***
I'm living on a one-way dead end street. I don't know how I got there.
- Steven Wright
***
If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know

- Steven Wright
***
If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly
combed?
- Steven Wright
***
If God dropped acid, would he see people?

- Steven Wright
***
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
***
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer

- Steven Wright
***
It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room
temperature.
- Steven Wright
***
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
- Steven Wright
***
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four
people died.
- Steven Wright
***
Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact
duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you'
- Steven Wright
***
Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang,
'Happy Birthday'
- Steven Wright
***
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught
every other fish.
- Steven Wright
***
My apartment was robbed and everything was replaced with exact replicas...I told
my roommate and he said 'Do I know you?'
- Steven Wright
***
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.

- Steven Wright, I Have a Pony
***
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

- Steven Wright
***
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten
this before.
- Steven Wright
***
The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts.
- Steven Wright
***
The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where
we were supposed to go.
- Steven Wright
***
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

- Steven Wright
***
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
- Steven Wright
***
They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The
sky must get awfully crowded.
- Steven Wright
***
Today I met with a subliminal advertising executive for just a second.

- Steven Wright
***
What's another word for Thesaurus

- Steven Wright
***
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run
around the mall looking frantic.
- Steven Wright
***
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good' I said
'No, I made a few mistakes.'
- Steven Wright
***
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
- Steven Wright
***
Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
- Steven Wright
***
You can't have everything. Where would you put it

- Steven Wright
***
You know when you put a stick in water and it looks bent? That's why I never take
baths.
- Steven Wright
***
This book was collected and printed through the internet, I just introduced it!
For more information send me an email at:
Mr_doody2004@yahoo.com
Copyright © 2009 by Mr. Doody. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be
reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including
photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without the
written permission from Mr. Doody.

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