|
640K ought to be enough for anybody. |
William H. Gates |
|
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. |
Joyce A. Myers |
|
A am realistic -- I expect miracles. |
Wayne Dyer |
|
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. |
Mark Twain |
|
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
Carl Sandburg |
|
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a
saint. |
Francis Bacon |
|
A barrier is of ideas, not of things. |
Mark Caine |
|
A beautiful woman is a practical poet. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A belief is not true because it is useful. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
|
A belief may be larger than a fact. |
Vannevar Bush |
|
A bigger bang for a buck. |
Charles E. Wilson |
|
A bit of talcum / Is always walcum. |
Ogden Nash |
|
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. |
Joyce A. Myers |
|
A book is the only immortality. |
Rufus Choate |
|
A book should be luminous not voluminous. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
|
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. |
Charles Dickens |
|
A brain of feathers and a heart of lead. |
Alexander Pope |
|
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. |
James Thurber |
|
A business exists to create a customer. |
Peter Drucker |
|
A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. |
Marilyn Monroe |
|
A case of the tail dogging the wag. |
S. J. Perelman |
|
A character is a completely fashioned will. |
Novalis |
|
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A church debt is the devil's salary. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
|
A city clerk, but gently born and bred. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A civilization is always judged in its decline. |
Melvin Tolson |
|
A committee is an animal with four back legs. |
John LeCarre |
|
A compliment is verbal sunshine. |
Robert Orben |
|
A concept is stronger than a fact. |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
|
A confession has to be part of your new life. |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A critic is a legless man who teaches running. |
Channing Pollock |
|
A critic is a louse in the locks of literature. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. |
Frederick the Great |
|
A day may sink or save a realm. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A daydream is an evasion. |
Thomas Merton |
|
A dead end street is a good place to turn
around. |
Naomi Judd |
|
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. |
Homer |
|
A deed without a name. |
William Shakespeare |
|
A dog wags its tail with its heart. |
Martin Buxbaum |
|
A fat kitchen, a lean will. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. |
St. Jerome |
|
A fat person lives shorter but eats longer. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
A feeble body weakens the mind. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
|
A field cannot well be seen from within the
field. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A fool and her money are soon courted. |
Helen Rowland |
|
A forte always makes a foible. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A friend in power is a friend lost. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
|
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't. |
Bern Williams |
|
A friend is one who has the same enemies you
have. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
A full mind is an empty bat. |
Branch Rickey |
|
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. |
Lana Turner |
|
A goal is a dream with a deadline. |
Napoleon Hill |
|
A goal properly set is halfway reached. |
Zig Ziglar |
|
A good book is the purest essence of a human
soul. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
A good composer does not imitate, he steals. |
Igor Stravinsky |
|
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
A good conscience is a continual feast. |
Francis Bacon |
|
A good example is far better than a good
precept. |
Dwight L. Moody |
|
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A good model can advance fashion by ten years. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
|
A good orator is pointed and impassioned. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
|
A good system shortens the road to the goal. |
Orison Swett Marden |
|
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. |
Louis Nizer |
|
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. |
Jose Marti |
|
A great man is always willing to be little. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A great ship asks deep water. |
George Herbert |
|
A great speech is literature. |
Peggy Noonan |
|
A hair divides what is false and true. |
Omar Khayyam |
|
A half-truth is usually less than half of that. |
Bern Williams |
|
A hamburger by any other name costs twice as
much. |
Evan Esar |
|
A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A hard beginning maketh a good ending. |
John Heywood |
|
A healthy hatred of scoundrels. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
A hero is one who does what he can. |
Romain Rolland |
|
A hero is someone right who doesn't change. |
George Foreman |
|
A highly geological home-made cake. |
Charles Dickens |
|
A historian is a prophet in reverse. |
Friedrich von Schlegel |
|
A hit, a very palpable hit. |
William Shakespeare |
|
A Hospital is no place to be sick. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
|
A house divided against itself cannot stand. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
A hungry dog hunts best. |
Lee Trevino |
|
A joke's a very serious thing. |
Charles Churchill |
|
A jug fills drop by drop. |
Buddha |
|
A kiss may ruin a human life. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
A lady is known by the product she endorses. |
Ogden Nash |
|
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. |
Charles Lamb |
|
A law is not a law without coercion behind it. |
James A. Garfield |
|
A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. |
George Herbert |
|
A learned man is an idler who kills time by
study. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
A letter does not blush. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
A literary man - with a wooden leg. |
Charles Dickens |
|
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A little of what you fancy does you good. |
Marie Lloyd |
|
A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long. |
Thomas Middleton |
|
A loafer always has the correct time. |
Kin Hubbard |
|
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has
lost. |
Ferdinand Foch |
|
A lot of what acting is paying attention. |
Robert Redford |
|
A louse in the locks of literature. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
Charles Dickens |
|
A man can do all things if he but wills them. |
Leon Battista Alberti |
|
A man convinced against his will is not
convinced. |
Laurence J. Peter |
|
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. |
Dorothy Gilman |
|
A man in the house is worth two in the street. |
Mae West |
|
A man is always better than he thinks. |
Woody Hayes |
|
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
|
A man is known by the silence he keeps. |
Oliver Herford |
|
A man is not completely born until he be dead. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
A man is related to all nature. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A man is the origin of his action. |
Aristotle |
|
A man is what he thinks about all day long. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A man of courage is also full of faith. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the
man. |
Isaac Stern |
|
A man sits as many risks as he runs. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
A man's errors are what make him amiable. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
|
A man's library is a sort of harem. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A mask tells us more than a face. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern
us. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
A mere scholar, a mere ass. |
Robert Burton |
|
A minute's success pays the failure of years. |
Robert Browning |
|
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. |
Katharine Graham |
|
A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. |
Francis Bacon |
|
A moment's thinking is an hour in words. |
Thomas Hood |
|
A morsel for a monarch. |
William Shakespeare |
|
A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
Honore de Balzac |
|
A nickel isn't worth a dime today. |
Yogi Berra |
|
A paranoiac. . . like a poet, is born, not made. |
Luis Bunuel |
|
A peaceful man does more good than a learned
one. |
Pope John XXIII |
|
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal
desire. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the
air. |
Walter Winchell |
|
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the
mind. |
Petronius Arbiter |
|
A picture is a model of reality. |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. |
Peace Pilgrim |
|
A place for everything, everything in its place. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
A play visibly represents pure existing. |
Thornton Wilder |
|
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. |
Robert Frost |
|
A poem should not mean - But be. |
Archibald MacLeish |
|
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
A poet is a professional maker of verbal
objects. |
W. H. Auden |
|
A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. |
James A. Garfield |
|
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work
sells. |
Grandma Moses |
|
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. |
Charles Kettering |
|
A proverb is good sense brought to a point. |
John Morley |
|
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. |
John Russell |
|
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. |
Francis Bacon |
|
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. |
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael |
|
A riot is the language of the unheard. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
|
A root is a flower that disdains fame. |
Kahlil Gibran |
|
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. |
Charlotte Bronte |
|
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A salad is not a meal. It is a style. |
Fran Lebowitz |
|
A shilling life will give you all the facts. |
W. H. Auden |
|
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. |
Sophocles |
|
A single word often betrays a great design. |
Jean Racine |
|
A sister is both your mirror -- and your
opposite. |
Elizabeth Fishel |
|
A small leak can sink a great ship |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A smile is a curve that sets everything
straight. |
Phyllis Diller |
|
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. |
William Shakespeare |
|
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of
superiority. |
Graham Henry Greene |
|
A song is a poem set to music. |
Tom T. Hall |
|
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. |
Susan Griffin |
|
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
A theory must be tempered with reality. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
A thick skin is a gift from God. |
Konrad Adenauer |
|
A thought is an idea in transit. |
Pythagoras |
|
A tie is like kissing your sister. |
Duffy Daugherty |
|
A traitor is everyone who does not agree with
me. |
George III |
|
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the
day. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
A vast, vamped future, old, revived new piece. |
Alexander Pope |
|
A very unclubable man. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
A vow is a snare for sin. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in
life. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as
bad. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
|
A winner never stops trying. |
Tom Landry |
|
A winner never whines. |
Paul Brown |
|
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. |
Jack Herbert |
|
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. |
John Churton Collins |
|
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. |
Alexander Pope |
|
A woman is as young as her knees. |
Mary Quant |
|
A woman must be a genius to create a good
husband. |
Honore de Balzac |
|
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net. |
Cynthia Heimel |
|
A woman should be an illusion. |
Ian Fleming |
|
A woman who is loved always has success. |
Vicki Baum |
|
A word after a word after a word is power. |
Margaret Atwood |
|
A Wounded deer - leaps highest. |
Emily Dickinson |
|
A yawn is a silent shout. |
G. K. Chesterton |
|
Ability is nothing without opportunity. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
|
Ability is of little account without
opportunity. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
|
Ability without honor is useless. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
Thomas Haynes Bayly |
|
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. |
Michael Crichton |
|
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. |
Jackson Pollock |
|
Accept your genius and say what you think. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Accomplishments have no color. |
Leontyne Price |
|
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Acorns were good until bread was found. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Acquaintance lessens fame. |
Claudius |
|
Act well your part; there all honor lies. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Acting is a form of confusion. |
Tallulah Bankhead |
|
Acting is not my language at all. |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
|
Acting is the ability to dream on cue. |
Ralph Richardson |
|
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. |
Katharine Hepburn |
|
Action conquers fear. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
|
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. |
Doug Horton |
|
Action is the antidote to despair. |
Joan Baez |
|
Action makes more fortune than caution. |
Luc De Clapiers |
|
ACTUALLY, adv. Perhaps; possibly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. |
Carol Burnett |
|
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is
patience. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. |
Marshall McLuhan |
|
Adultery is the application of democracy to
love. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Adults are obsolete children. |
Dr. Seuss |
|
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. |
Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson] |
|
Adventure is the champagne of life. |
G. K. Chesterton |
|
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. |
Amelia Earhart |
|
Adversity makes men wise but not rich. |
John Ray |
|
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals
it. |
Horace |
|
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. |
Fred Allen |
|
Advertising is legalized lying. |
H. G. Wells |
|
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. |
Bruce Barton |
|
ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Affluence means influence. |
Jack London |
|
After it, follow it, / Follow The Gleam. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. |
Bette Midler |
|
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in
vain. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Against the assault of laughter nothing can
stand. |
Mark Twain |
|
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. |
Wendell Phillips |
|
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. |
Louis XIV |
|
Ah, why? |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Aim for the highest. / Should life all labour
be? |
Andrew Carnegie |
|
AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Ain't I volatile? |
Charles Dickens |
|
All a poet can do today is warn. |
Wilfred Owen |
|
All along the valley, stream that flashest
white. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
All art is concerned with coming into being. |
Aristotle |
|
All Art is quite useless. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
All art is quite useless. So is a flower. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
All autobiography is self-indulgent. |
Daphne DuMaurier |
|
All bad precedents began as justifiable
measures. |
Julius Caesar |
|
All beliefs are bald ideas. |
Francis Picabia |
|
All bravery stands on comparisons. |
Francis Bacon |
|
All colours will agree in the dark. |
Francis Bacon |
|
All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. |
Alexander Pope |
|
All diseases run into one, old age. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All gardening is landscape painting. |
Alexander Pope |
|
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. |
Otto Weininger |
|
All good things are cheap: all bad are very
dear. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
All great men come out of the middle classes. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All great peoples are conservative. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
All I know is just what I read in the papers. |
Will Rogers |
|
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. |
Philip Sidney |
|
All is not gold that glitters. |
David Garrick |
|
All kings is mostly rapscallions. |
Mark Twain |
|
All literature is gossip. |
Truman Capote |
|
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. |
John Lyly |
|
All men are creative but few are artists. |
Paul Goodman |
|
All men by nature desire knowledge. |
Aristotle |
|
All millionaires love a baked apple. |
Ronald Firbank |
|
All money is a matter of belief. |
Adam Smith |
|
All my best thoughts were stolen by the
ancients. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All my possessions for a moment of time. |
Elizabeth I |
|
All necessary truth is its own evidence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All objects lose by too familiar a view. |
John Dryden |
|
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
All of the men on my staff can type. |
Bella Abzug |
|
All of us need to grow continuously in our
lives. |
Les Brown |
|
All places are distant from heaven alike. |
Robert Burton |
|
All poets are mad. |
Robert Burton |
|
All problems are finally scientific problems. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
All progress means war with society. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
All promise outruns performance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All publicity is good, except an obituary
notice. |
Brendan Behan |
|
All quitters are good losers. |
Bob Zuppke |
|
All rising to great places is by a winding
stair. |
Francis Bacon |
|
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is
poetry. |
G. K. Chesterton |
|
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. |
Georges Clemenceau |
|
All the fun's in how you say a thing. |
Robert Frost |
|
All the great ages have been ages of belief. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All the great speakers were bad speaker at
first. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
All the modern inconveniences. |
Mark Twain |
|
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. |
Thomas Browne |
|
All the world loves a good loser. |
Kin Hubbard |
|
All things are difficult before they are easy. |
Thomas Fuller |
|
All things come to him who waits -- even
justice. |
Austin O'Malley |
|
All those men have their price. |
Robert Walpole |
|
All truly great thoughts are conceived by
walking. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. |
Marquis de Sade |
|
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. |
Aristotle |
|
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. |
Tony Benn |
|
All warfare is based on deception. |
Sun Tzu [Wu] |
|
All we ask is to be let alone. |
Jefferson Davis |
|
All wonder is the effect of novelty on
ignorance. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
|
All would live long, but none would be old. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
|
ALONE, adj. In bad company. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Along with success comes a reputation for
wisdom. |
Euripides |
|
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. |
Irene Peter |
|
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. |
Lena Horne |
|
Always do what you are afraid to do. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Always keep learning. It keeps you young. |
Patty Berg |
|
Am in Birmingham. Where ought I to be? |
G. K. Chesterton |
|
Amateurs hope, professionals work. |
Garson Kanin |
|
Amateurs hope. Professionals work. |
Garson Kanin |
|
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. |
Elvis Presley |
|
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. |
William Shakespeare |
|
America faces a new race that has awakened. |
E. Franklin Frazier |
|
America is a country of young men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
America is too great for small dreams. |
Ronald Reagan |
|
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. |
Euripides |
|
An annuity is a very serious business. |
Jane Austen |
|
An answer is always a form of death. |
John Fowles |
|
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
An artist's career always begins tomorrow. |
James McNeill Whistler |
|
An asylum for the sane would be empty in
America. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. |
Jane Austen |
|
An empire is an immense egotism. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces. |
Mark Twain |
|
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home. |
Carl Sandburg |
|
An honest man's the noblest work of God. |
Alexander Pope |
|
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. |
William Shakespeare |
|
An idea is salvation by imagination. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
|
An imitation rough diamond. |
Margot Asquith |
|
An injustice anywhere is an injustice
everywhere. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
An investment in knowledge pays the best
interest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
An old young man, will be a young old man. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of
ambition. |
Michael Korda |
|
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. |
Friedrich Engels |
|
And everything else is just literature |
Paul Verlaine |
|
And gain is gain, however small. |
Robert Browning |
|
And here is my heart which beats only for you. |
Paul Verlaine |
|
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence. |
Alexander Pope |
|
And now, I am dying beyond my means. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
And our dreams are who we are. |
Barbara Sher |
|
And took for truth the test of ridicule. |
George Crabbe |
|
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. |
Homer |
|
And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass. |
Edward Fitzgerald |
|
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. |
Thomas Shadwell |
|
Angels rush in when fools are almost dead. |
Rudolph Fisher |
|
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. |
Harriet Lerner |
|
Another weaver of black dreams has gone. |
Etheridge Knight |
|
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. |
Maimonides |
|
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. |
Aesop |
|
Any game you play, you got to lose sometime. |
Roy Acuff |
|
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. |
Starhawk |
|
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. |
Yogi Berra |
|
Anything we fully do is an alone journey. |
Natalie Goldberg |
|
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
|
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Appearances are often deceiving. |
Aesop |
|
Applaud friends, the comedy is over. |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
|
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. |
Artur Schnabel |
|
Applause waits on success. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Architecture begins where engineering ends. |
Walter Gropius |
|
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. |
Philip Johnson |
|
Are we having fun yet? |
Carol Burnett |
|
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? |
Ray Kroc |
|
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight
back? |
Jackie Robinson |
|
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. |
Plato |
|
Art alone has kept her covenant with democracy. |
William Stanley Braithwaite |
|
Art is a form of catharsis. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Art is a kind of illness. |
Giacomo Puccini |
|
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. |
Paul Gauguin |
|
Art is I; science is we. |
Claude Bernard |
|
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. |
Georges Braque |
|
Art is man added to nature. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Art is man's expression of his joy in labour. |
William Morris |
|
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. |
Philip James Bailey |
|
Art is right reason in the doing of work. |
Thomas Aquinas |
|
Art is the objectification of feeling. |
Suzanne K. Langer |
|
Art is the path of the creator to his work. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Art is the signature of civilization. |
Beverly Sills |
|
Art is the triumph over chaos. |
John Cheever |
|
Art must take reality by surprise. |
Francoise Sagan |
|
Art never expresses anything but itself. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Art raises its head where creeds relax. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. |
Marshall McLuhan |
|
As good be out of the world as out of the
fashion. |
Colley Cibber |
|
As hard as the nails on a crucifix. |
Clive Barnes |
|
As I walked through the wilderness of this
world. |
John Bunyan |
|
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. |
William Hazlitt |
|
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. |
Charles Morgan |
|
As long as one keeps searching, the answers
come. |
Joan Baez |
|
As our case is new, we must think and act anew. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
As soon as there is life there is danger. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. |
Lao-Tzu |
|
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it
out. |
Mark Twain |
|
As you believe, so it is for you. |
Richard Bach |
|
As you have sown so shall you reap. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
As you think, so shall you become. |
Bruce Lee |
|
Ask the gods nothing excessive. |
Aeschylus |
|
Ask with urgency and passion. |
A. J. Balfour |
|
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear
one. |
Baltasar Gracian |
|
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Assassination: the extreme form of censorship. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
At all times it is better to have a method. |
Mark Caine |
|
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. |
Alexander Pope |
|
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville
lay. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. |
Ivan Illich |
|
Attitudes are more important than facts. |
Karl A. Menninger |
|
Authority forgets a dying king. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Avarice is always poor. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at
all. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason. |
Joseph Brodsky |
|
Bad manners make a journalist. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Bad men are full of repentance. |
Aristotle |
|
Bankers are just like everyone else only richer. |
Ogden Nash |
|
Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Barkis is willin'. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Baseball is a game of inches. |
Branch Rickey |
|
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead. |
Davy Crockett |
|
Be an opener of doors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Be aware that rigidity imprisons. |
Madeleine L'Engle |
|
Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. |
Virginia Graham |
|
Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. |
Harvey Penick |
|
Be careful what you choose. You may get it. |
Colin Powell |
|
Be careful what you swallow. Chew! |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
|
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
|
Be different, stand out, and work your butt off. |
Reba McEntire |
|
Be good and you will be lonesome. |
Mark Twain |
|
Be larger than your task. |
Orison Swett Marden |
|
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
Be not solitary, be not idle. |
Robert Burton |
|
Be not the slave of Words. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Be obscure clearly. |
E. B. White |
|
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in
changing. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Be true to your work, your word, and your
friend. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. |
Mark Twain |
|
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. |
Francis Quarles |
|
Be yourself. The world worships the original. |
Ingrid Bergman |
|
Beauty and wisdom make a rare conjunction. |
Petronius Arbiter |
|
Beauty comes in all sizes-not just size 5. |
Roseanne Barr |
|
Beauty is God's trademark in creation. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
|
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. |
Al Bernstein |
|
Beauty is not caused. It is. |
Emily Dickinson |
|
Beauty is the gift of God. |
Aristotle |
|
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. |
Michelangelo |
|
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. |
Doug Horton |
|
Beauty without grace is the hook without the
bait. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Because he spills his seed on the ground. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Because you're mine / I walk the line. |
Johnny Cash |
|
Become a fixer, not just a fixture. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
|
Before beginning, plan carefully. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
BEFRIEND, v.t. To make an ingrate. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. |
St. Jerome |
|
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. |
Louis Brandeis |
|
Behind every fortune there is a crime. |
Honore de Balzac |
|
Behold a man raised up by Christ. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Being is the great explainer. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Being oppressed means the absence of choices. |
bell hooks |
|
Believe in something larger than yourself. |
Barbara Bush |
|
Believe one who has tried it. |
Virgil |
|
Believing where we cannot prove. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! |
George Eliot |
|
Better never than late. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Better not be at all than not be noble. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Better pointed bullets than pointed words. |
Otto von Bismarck |
|
Better to be disliked than pitied. |
Abba Eban |
|
Better to be without logic than without feeling. |
Charlotte Bronte |
|
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. |
George Crabbe |
|
Between friends there is no need of justice. |
Aristotle |
|
Beware of losing what isn't in your head. |
John Cage |
|
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
|
Beware the hobby that eats. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Bewitched is half of everything. |
Nelly Sachs |
|
Big shots are only little shots who keep
shooting. |
Christopher Morley |
|
Bigamy: Only crime where two rites make a wrong. |
Bob Hope |
|
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. |
John Arbuthnot |
|
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. |
A. J. Balfour |
|
Biology transcends society. |
Jessie Redmon Fauset |
|
Blame is for God and small children. |
Dustin Hoffman |
|
Blame is safer than praise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Blessed barrier between day and day. |
William Wordsworth |
|
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. |
Benito Mussolini |
|
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. |
George Eliot |
|
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. |
Jimi Hendrix |
|
Boldness be my friend! |
William Shakespeare |
|
Boldness can mask great fear. |
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus |
|
Boldness is a child of ignorance. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Boldness is an ill-keeper of promise. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Books are for nothing but to inspire. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Books are funny little portable pieces of
thought. |
Susan Sontag |
|
Books are not men and yet they stay alive. |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
|
Books succeed, and lives fail. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
|
Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Boring people are a reflection of boring people. |
Doug Horton |
|
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. |
Doug Horton |
|
Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. |
William Morris |
|
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. |
Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
|
Brave men are brave from the very first. |
Pierre Corneille |
|
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Breed is stronger than pasture. |
George Eliot |
|
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
Brevity is the body and soul of wit. |
Jean Paul |
|
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels. |
Charles II |
|
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. |
G. K. Chesterton |
|
Business is other people's money. |
Delphine de Girardin |
|
Busy opinion is an idle fool. |
John Ford |
|
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind. |
Thomas Campbell |
|
But I have a go, lady, don't I? Pave a go. I do. |
John Osborne |
|
But I was born to other things. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
But lo! men have become the tools of their
tools. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
But the shortest works are always the best. |
Jean de la Fontaine |
|
Buying is a profound pleasure. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
|
By blood a king, in heart a clown. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to
fail. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
By indignities men come to dignities. |
Francis Bacon |
|
By indirections find directions out. |
William Shakespeare |
|
By words the mind is winged. |
Aristophanes |
|
By working hard, you get to play hard
guilt-free. |
Jim Rohn |
|
Calculation never made a hero. |
John Henry Newman |
|
Call no man happy till he is dead. |
Aeschylus |
|
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for
Scandal. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Canada was built on dead beavers. |
Margaret Atwood |
|
Candy / Is dandy, / But Liquor, / Is quicker. |
Ogden Nash |
|
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
Capital isn't scarce; vision is. |
Sam Walton |
|
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist. |
Mary McLeod Bethune |
|
Certainties are arrived at only on foot. |
Antonio Porchia |
|
Chamber music -- a conversation between friends. |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
|
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so
fast. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Change is such hard work. |
Billy Crystal |
|
Change is the one thing we can be sure of. |
Naomi Judd |
|
Change your thoughts, and you change your world. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
|
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds
habit. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
|
Character fashions fate. |
Cornelius Nepos |
|
Character is simply habit long continued. |
Plutarch |
|
Character is that which can do without success. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Character is what you are in the dark. |
Dwight L. Moody |
|
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. |
Booker T. Washington |
|
Charity creates a multitude of sins. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. |
Saint Augustine |
|
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Check enclosed. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. |
Clifton Fadiman |
|
Cherish your wilderness. |
Maxine Kumin |
|
Chess is life. |
Bobby Fischer |
|
Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'. |
Alice Childress |
|
Children always turn to the light. |
David Hare |
|
Children reinvent your world for you. |
Susan Sarandon |
|
Christianity makes suffering contagious. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
|
Circumstances beyond my individual control. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Clean up your own mess. |
Robert Fulghum |
|
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Cleverness is not wisdom. |
Euripides |
|
Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Coercion. The unpardonable crime. |
Dorothy Miller Richardson |
|
Cogito ergo spud." / [I think, therefore I yam] |
Herb Caen |
|
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. |
Robert Frost |
|
College isn't the place to go for ideas. |
Helen Keller |
|
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. |
Noam Chomsky |
|
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. |
Samuel Lover |
|
Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. |
James Thomson |
|
Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come. |
James Thomson |
|
Comedy is acting out optimism. |
Robin Williams |
|
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
Peter Ustinov |
|
Comedy is tragedy plus time. |
Carol Burnett |
|
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. |
Steve Martin |
|
Comic vision often leads to serious solutions. |
Malcolm Kushner |
|
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Common sense is as rare as genius. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Common sense is genius in homespun. |
Alfred North Whitehead |
|
Common sense is in medicine the master workman. |
Peter Mere Latham |
|
Common Sense is not so common. |
Voltaire |
|
Common sense is the wick of the candle. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Common sense is very uncommon. |
Horace Greeley |
|
Common sense often makes good law. |
William O. Douglas |
|
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. |
Elizabeth Fishel |
|
Compassion is no substitute for justice. |
Rush Limbaugh |
|
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Conceit is God's gift to little men. |
Bruce Barton |
|
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
|
Concentrate, don't embroider. |
Spencer Tracy |
|
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. |
Jack Nicklaus |
|
CONGRATULATION, n. The civility of envy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Conquer but don't triumph. |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
|
Conscience is a man's compass. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
|
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. |
Karl Barth |
|
Conscience makes egotists of us all. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Conscience without judgment is superstition. |
Benjamin Whichcote |
|
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. |
Irving Layton |
|
Consistency is the foundation of virtue. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Constant repetition carries conviction. |
Robert Collier |
|
Continually strive to improve yourself. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
|
Controlled time is our true wealth. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
|
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
|
Conviction without experience makes for
harshness. |
Flannery O'Connor |
|
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. |
Robert Half |
|
Country music belongs to America. |
Bill Monroe |
|
Courage is one step ahead of fear. |
Coleman Young |
|
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
|
Craft is common both to skill and deceit. |
Winston Churchill |
|
Create Demand. |
Charles Revson |
|
Create your own constituency of the infuriated. |
William Safire |
|
Credentials are not the same as accomplishments. |
Robert Half |
|
Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. |
George Farquhar |
|
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Criticism should be a casual conversation. |
W. H. Auden |
|
Criticize the act, not the person. |
Mary Kay Ash |
|
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. |
Nat King Cole |
|
Critics? I love every bone in their heads. |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"? |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Culture is not a biologically transmitted
complex. |
Ruth Benedict |
|
Culture is one thing and varnish is another. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of
beliefs. |
Thomas Wolfe |
|
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom. |
Henry St. John Bolingbroke |
|
Cunning is a sinister or crooked wisdom. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Cunning is strength withheld. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Cure the disease and kill the patient. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. |
Alistair Cooke |
|
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. |
William A. Ward |
|
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Custom is the principal magistrate of man's
life. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. |
H. G. Wells |
|
Cynicism is intellectual treason. |
Norman Cousins |
|
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity. |
Charles Lamb |
|
Dance is about never-ending aspiration. |
Judith Jamison |
|
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. |
Martha Graham |
|
Dancing is a sweat job. |
Fred Astaire |
|
Dandyism is. . . a variety of genius. |
William Hazlitt |
|
Danger is the spur of all great minds. |
George Chapman |
|
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. |
Robert Burns |
|
Dare to be wrong and to dream. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
|
David should have killed Goliath with a harp. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Dead birds don't fall out of their nests. |
Winston Churchill |
|
Dear damned distracting town. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay. |
Anthony Burgess |
|
Death is an acquired trait. |
Woody Allen |
|
Death is feared as birth is forgotten. |
Doug Horton |
|
Death is my neighbour now. |
Edith Evans |
|
Death is the final wake-up call. |
Doug Horton |
|
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a
picnic. |
W. H. Auden |
|
Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation |
Nathan Huggins |
|
DEATH, n. To stop sinning suddenly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Decision making is the specific executive task. |
Peter Drucker |
|
Deeds, not words. |
John Fletcher |
|
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. |
Ava Gardner |
|
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. |
John Milton |
|
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. |
Patrick Buchanan |
|
DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Delay breeds fear. |
Jessamyn West |
|
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. |
C. Northcote Parkinson |
|
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty. |
Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon |
|
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. |
Mark Twain |
|
Deserve your dream. |
Octavio Paz |
|
Desire is proof of the availability... |
Robert Collier |
|
Despair ruins some, presumption many. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Dialogue more tame than Wilde. |
Clive Barnes |
|
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. |
Marshall McLuhan |
|
Dictators never invent their own opportunities. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
|
Did anyone ever have a boring dream? |
Ralph Hodgson |
|
Die and endow a college or a cat. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Die of a rose in aromatic pain? |
Alexander Pope |
|
Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you. |
Joan Rivers |
|
Differences challenge assumptions. |
Anne Wilson Schaef |
|
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. |
Winston Churchill |
|
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. |
Edward R. Murrow |
|
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. |
David Lloyd George |
|
Disco is just jitterbug. |
Fred Astaire |
|
Discretion is not the better part of biography. |
Lytton Strachey |
|
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. |
Hosea Ballou |
|
Distance is a great promoter of admiration! |
Denis Diderot |
|
Distrust any enterprise that requires new
clothes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Do not fear mistakes -- there are none. |
Miles Davis |
|
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
|
Do not try to live forever. You will not
succeed. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Do the next thing. |
John Wanamaker |
|
Do unto others, then run. |
Benny Hill |
|
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. |
Aleister Crowley |
|
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Do you want to be successful? Nurture your
talent. |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
|
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. |
Pierre Corneille |
|
Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth. |
Douglas Jerrold |
|
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. |
Robert Byrne |
|
Doing beats stewing. |
Arnold Glasow |
|
Done to death by slanderous tongues. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. |
Roy Acuff |
|
Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face. |
Eddy Arnold |
|
Don't be against things so much as for things. |
Harland Sanders |
|
Don't be an agnostic--be something. |
Robert Frost |
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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not. |
Jack Nicklaus |
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Don't clap too hard -- it's a very old building. |
John Osborne |
|
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've
got. |
Janis Joplin |
|
Don't count your chickens before they are
hatched. |
Aesop |
|
Don't fear change, embrace it. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
|
Don't fight forces, use them. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
|
Don't follow trends, start trends. |
Frank Capra |
|
Don't forget to duck! |
Patricia Neal |
|
Don't give advice unless you're asked. |
Amy Strum Alcott |
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Don't go through life, grow through life. |
Eric Butterworth |
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Don't let other people tell you what you want. |
Pat Riley |
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Don't let yesterday use up too much of today! |
Will Rogers |
|
Don't mistake activity for achievement. |
John Wooden |
|
Don't overestimate the decency of the human
race. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. |
Charlie Parker |
|
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. |
Miles Davis |
|
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
|
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed! |
Ethel Watts Mumford |
|
Don't talk too much or too soon. |
Bear Bryant |
|
Don't throw away your conscience. |
George McGovern |
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Don't trust anyone over thirty. |
Jerry Rubin |
|
Don't try to fine-tune someone else's view. |
George Bush |
|
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. |
Jim Rohn |
|
Don't Worry. . . Be Happy. |
Bobby McFerrin |
|
Doodling is the brooding of the hand. |
Saul Steinberg |
|
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. |
Emile Chartier |
|
Doubt is the father of invention. |
Galileo |
|
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
|
Draw your salary before spending it. |
Artemus Ward |
|
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Dreams have as much influence as actions. |
Stephane Mallarme |
|
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. |
Djuna Barnes |
|
Dressing is a way of life. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
|
Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later! |
Katharine Hepburn |
|
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
DULL. 8. To make dictionaries is dull work. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
|
Duty is what one expects from others. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Dyb-dyb-dyb. |
Robert Baden-Powell |
|
Dying is a wild night and a new road. |
Emily Dickinson |
|
Each day provides its own gifts. |
Martial |
|
Each man kills the thing he loves. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not
guilty. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. |
Thomas Moore |
|
Earth laughs in flowers. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Easy DOESN'T do it. |
Al Bernstein |
|
Easy writings curse is hard reading. |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
|
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Eat to live, and not live to eat. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please
others. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Eating words has never given me indigestion. |
Winston Churchill |
|
Eccentricities of genius. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Education is the best provision for old age. |
Aristotle |
|
Education is the cheap defense of nations. |
Edmund Burke |
|
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. |
Frank Crane |
|
Education is the transmission of civilization. |
Ariel Durant |
|
Effective action is always unjust.. |
Jean Anouilh |
|
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. |
Jose Ortega y Gasset |
|
Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
Woody Allen |
|
Either back us or sack us. |
James Callaghan |
|
Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. |
Groucho Marx |
|
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. |
Philip Sidney |
|
Either sex alone is half itself. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. |
Andy Rooney |
|
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
|
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. |
William C. Bryant |
|
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. |
Richard Cecil |
|
Eloquence may set fire to reason. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
|
Employment and ennui are simply incompatible. |
Doroth‚e DeLuzy |
|
Endurance is patience concentrated. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Enemies are so stimulating. |
Katharine Hepburn |
|
Energy and persistence alter all things. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Enthusiasm moves the world. |
A. J. Balfour |
|
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Error is always more busy than truth. |
Hosea Ballou |
|
Error is discipline through which we advance. |
William E. Channing |
|
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. |
Isaac Newton |
|
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
Yul Brynner |
|
Eternity -- waste of time. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
|
Even God has been defended with nonsense. |
Walter Lippmann |
|
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. |
Menander |
|
Even paranoids have real enemies. |
Delmore Schwartz |
|
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Even the best things are not equal to their
fame. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . . |
Grace Metalious |
|
Even without wars, life is dangerous. |
Anne Sexton |
|
Events are not a matter of chance. |
Gamal Abdel Nasser |
|
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
|
Every advantage has its tax. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every artist was first an amateur. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every artist writes his own autobiography. |
Havelock Ellis |
|
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every choice you make has an end result. |
Zig Ziglar |
|
Every clarification breeds new questions. |
Arthur Bloch |
|
Every crowd has a silver lining. |
P. T. Barnum |
|
Every day you waste is one you can never make
up. |
George Allen |
|
Every day's a kick! |
Oprah Winfrey |
|
Every decision you make is a mistake. |
Edward Dahlberg |
|
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. |
Horace Walpole |
|
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. |
Tom Stoppard |
|
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. |
Gerard De Nerval |
|
Every good servant does not all commands. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every kind of writing is hypocritical. |
Max Beerbohm |
|
Every law is an infraction of liberty. |
Jeremy Bentham |
|
Every little thing counts in a crisis. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
Every love is the love before / In a duller
dress. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Every man believes he has a greater possibility. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every man has a wild beast within him. |
Frederick the Great |
|
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every man is an impossibility until he is born. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every man is eloquent once in his life. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every man loves what he is good at. |
Thomas Shadwell |
|
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime. |
Joe Louis |
|
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is
born. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Every noble work is at first impossible. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Every physician almost hath his favorite
disease. |
Henry Fielding |
|
Every production must resemble its author. |
Miguel de Cervantes |
|
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new. |
Aeschylus |
|
Every sin is the result of collaboration. |
Stephen Crane |
|
Every solution breeds new problems. |
Arthur Bloch |
|
Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. |
Emile M. Cioran |
|
Every wall is a door. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Every word is a preconceived judgment. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Every writer is a writer of the generation
before. |
Wilfrid Sheed |
|
Everybody writes a book too many. |
Mordecai Richler |
|
Everyone has a song in him. |
Cliffie Stone |
|
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. |
Rudyard Kipling |
|
Everything begins with an idea. |
Earl Nightingale |
|
Everything changes but change. |
Israel Zangwill |
|
Everything evil is revenge. |
Otto Weininger |
|
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. |
Hippocrates |
|
Everything in this book may be wrong. |
Richard Bach |
|
Everything intercepts us from ourselves. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Everything is an illusion, including this
notion. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
Everything is sweetened by risk. |
Alexander Smith |
|
Everything nourishes what is strong already. |
Jane Austen |
|
Everything pays for growing tame. |
Maxine Kumin |
|
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. |
Sophia Loren |
|
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find
it. |
Lewis Carroll |
|
Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint. |
Princess of Wales Diana |
|
Evidence and reason: my heroes and my guides. |
Naomi Weisstein |
|
Evil events from evil causes spring. |
Aristophanes |
|
Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg. |
William Harvey |
|
Example is always more efficacious than precept. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Example is leadership. |
Albert Schweitzer |
|
Example is the best precept. |
Aesop |
|
Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he. |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
|
Excuse my dust. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Excuse the mess but we live here. |
Roseanne Barr |
|
Expect nothing. Live frugally / On surprise. |
Alice Walker |
|
Experience is one thing you can't get for
nothing. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Experientia does it - as papa used to say. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Experts should be on tap but never on top. |
Winston Churchill |
|
Explorers have to be ready to die lost. |
Russell Hoban |
|
Facts are stubborn things. |
Tobias Smollett |
|
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. |
John H. Johnson |
|
Failure is impossible. |
Susan B. Anthony |
|
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. |
John Wooden |
|
Failure too is a form of death. . . |
Graham Henry Greene |
|
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. |
Albert Pike |
|
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. |
Mark Twain |
|
Faith lives in honest doubt. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone
tomorrow. |
Aphra Behn |
|
Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. |
Hosea Ballou |
|
Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting plate. |
Emily Dickinson |
|
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. |
Graham Henry Greene |
|
Fame is an embalmer trembling with stage fright. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. |
John Milton |
|
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Familiarity breeds attempt. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
|
FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt. |
Robertson Davies |
|
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated
mind. |
William Cowper |
|
Fans don't boo nobodies. |
Reggie Jackson |
|
Fantasy is literature for teenagers. |
Brian Aldiss |
|
Fantasy is the only truth. |
Abbie Hoffman |
|
Far better hang wrong fler than no fler. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Fashions fade, style is eternal. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
|
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool. |
Paul Newman |
|
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. |
Elizabeth Bowen |
|
Fatigue is the best pillow. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Fear always springs from ignorance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Fear God and work hard. |
David Livingstone |
|
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
|
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. |
Jean Toomer |
|
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. |
Hannah Arendt |
|
Fear is the foundation of safety. |
Tertullian |
|
Fear is the mother of morality. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Fear of death and fear of life both become
piety. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Fears and fancies thick upon me came. |
William Wordsworth |
|
Feather by feather the goose is plucked. |
John Ray |
|
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. |
Kenneth Blanchard |
|
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. |
Frantz Fanon |
|
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Few minds wear out; more rust out. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
|
Few things are impossible to diligence and
skill. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. |
Stephen King |
|
Fine by defect and delicately weak. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. |
Emily Dickinson |
|
First feelings are always the most natural. |
Louis XIV |
|
First things first, second things never. |
Shirley Conran |
|
First we have to believe, and then we believe. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
|
First, I prepare. Then I have faith. |
Joe Namath |
|
Fish and visitors smell in three days. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like
dogs. |
George Chapman |
|
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the
giver. |
Edmund Burke |
|
Flowers grow out of dark moments. |
Corita Kent |
|
Focus on remedies, not faults. |
Jack Nicklaus |
|
Following the sun we left the old world. |
Christopher Columbus |
|
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. |
Fran Lebowitz |
|
Food is our common ground, a universal
experience. |
James Beard |
|
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked. |
Christina of Sweden |
|
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. |
Oscar Hammerstein |
|
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. |
H. G. Wells |
|
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Football, like life, is about change. |
Hank Stram |
|
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside
yourself. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
For every promise, there is price to pay. |
Jim Rohn |
|
For every why he had a wherefore. |
Samuel Butler (a) |
|
For fast acting relief, try slowing down. |
Lily Tomlin |
|
For fools admire, but men of sense approve. |
Alexander Pope |
|
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. |
William Shakespeare |
|
For hope is but a dream for those that wake. |
Matthew Prior |
|
For knowledge itself is power. |
Francis Bacon |
|
For man is man and master of his fate. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
For man proposes, but God disposes. |
Thomas … Kempis |
|
For my own part, it was Greek to me. |
William Shakespeare |
|
For Nature then . . . / To me was all in all. |
William Wordsworth |
|
For new-made honour doth forget men's names. |
William Shakespeare |
|
For truth there is no deadline. |
Heywood C. Broun |
|
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Force has no place where there is need of skill. |
Herodotus |
|
Force is not a remedy. |
John Bright |
|
Forget your opponents; always play against par. |
Sam Snead |
|
Fortune brings in some boats that are not
steered. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Fortune favors the brave. |
Terence |
|
Fortune sides with him who dares. |
Virgil |
|
Fortunes . . . come tumbling into some men's
laps. |
Francis Bacon |
|
France was long a despotism tempered by
epigrams. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Freedom and slavery are mental states. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
|
Freedom is a system based on courage. |
Charles Peguy |
|
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions. .
. |
Kenneth Hildebrand |
|
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. |
Friedrich Engels |
|
Freedom lies in being bold. |
Robert Frost |
|
Friends are the sunshine of life. |
John Hay |
|
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and
fables. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Friendship demands the ability to do without it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Friendship is not always the sequel of
obligation. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. |
Mencius |
|
From low to high doth dissolution climb. |
William Wordsworth |
|
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. |
Jane Austen |
|
From the great deep to the great deep he goes. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Funny is an attitude. |
Flip Wilson |
|
Gardening is not a rational act. |
Margaret Atwood |
|
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. |
Andrew Marvell |
|
General consultant to mankind. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
General notions are generally wrong. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
|
Genius Borrows nobly. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Genius does what it must, talent does what it
can. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton |
|
Genius has no taste for weaving sand. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Genius is a child up to the age of ten. |
Aldous Huxley |
|
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
|
Genius is born, not paid. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Genius is eternal patience. |
Michelangelo |
|
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. |
Janet Flanner |
|
Genius is independent of situation. |
Charles Churchill |
|
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. |
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
|
Genius is sorrow's child. |
John Adams |
|
Genius is talent provided with ideals. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
|
Genius is the talent of a man who is dead. |
Edmond de Goncourt |
|
Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. |
Henry Lewis Stimson |
|
Gentlemen prefer blondes. |
Andrew Mellon |
|
Gentleness succeeds better than violence. |
Jean de LaFontaine |
|
Get out of the way of justice. She is blind. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
Get out on the stage of life. |
Cliffie Stone |
|
Get stewed: Books are a load of crap. |
Philip Larkin |
|
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its
feelings. |
Jelly Roll Morton |
|
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. |
William Wordsworth |
|
Getting caught is the mother of invention. |
Robert Byrne |
|
Getting involved is so, so . . . involving. |
Vera-Ellen |
|
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. |
John Steinbeck |
|
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. |
Charlotte Bronte |
|
Give luck a chance to happen. |
Tom Kite |
|
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. |
Gioacchino Rossini |
|
Give me a man who sings at his work. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Give more than take. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
|
Give the lady what she wants! |
Marshall Field |
|
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. |
Winston Churchill |
|
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
|
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
|
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. |
Wayne Dyer |
|
Goals determine what you're going to be. |
Julius Erving |
|
Goals help you overcome short-term problems. |
Hannah More |
|
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. |
Mary Catherine Bateson |
|
God buries His workmen but carries on His work. |
Charles Wesley |
|
God comes to the hungry in the form of food. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
|
God doesn't believe in the easy way. |
James Agee |
|
God forgives those who invent what they need. |
Lillian Hellman |
|
God gives quietness at last. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
|
God grants an easy death only to the just. |
Svetlana Alliluyeva |
|
God heals and the doctor takes the fees. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. |
John Lennon |
|
God is in the details. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
|
God is love, but get it in writing. |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
|
God knows no distance. |
Charleszetta Waddles |
|
God loves to help him who strives to help
himself. |
Aeschylus |
|
God made all pleasures innocent. |
Caroline Sheridan Norton |
|
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
God made me and broke the mold. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
|
God make thee good as thou art beautiful. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
God makes stars. I just produce them. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
|
God may pardon you, but I never can. |
Elizabeth I |
|
God will not forgive us if we fail. |
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev |
|
God's finger touched him, and he slept. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
God's first creature, which was light. |
Francis Bacon |
|
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
|
God's providence is on the side of clear heads. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
|
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly. |
Nicolas Boileau |
|
Golf is a game of precision, not strength. |
Jack Nicklaus |
|
Golf is a good walk spoiled. |
Mark Twain |
|
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
|
Good council has no price. |
Giuseppe Mazzini |
|
Good habits are worth being fanatical about. |
John Irving |
|
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are
free. |
Doug Horton |
|
Good luck needs no explanation. |
Shirley Temple Black |
|
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Good men must not obey the laws too well. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds
buyers. |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
|
Good night, Chet. Good night, David. |
Chet Huntley |
|
Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are! |
Jimmy Durante |
|
Good order is the foundation of all things. |
Edmund Burke |
|
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it
up. |
Miguel de Cervantes |
|
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. |
Brooks Atkinson |
|
Good swiping is an art in itself. |
Jules Feiffer |
|
Good taste is as tiring as good company. |
Francis Picabia |
|
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. |
Edith Sitwell |
|
Good temper is an estate for life. |
William Hazlitt |
|
Good things happen to those who hustle. |
Chuck Noll |
|
Good things, when short, are twice as good. |
Baltasar Gracian |
|
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
Good, the more communicated, more abundant
grows. |
John Milton |
|
Good-morning, gentlemen both. |
Elizabeth I |
|
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. |
W. H. Auden |
|
Goodness is the only investment which never
fails. |
Henry David Thoreau |
|
Gort. Klaatu baraada nikto. (to the robot Gort) |
Patricia Neal |
|
Gossip is nature's telephone. |
Sholom Aleichem |
|
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. |
William Hazlitt |
|
Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of
courtesy. |
Jacques Maritain |
|
Gray hair is God's graffiti. |
Bill Cosby |
|
Great art picks up where nature ends. |
Marc Chagall |
|
Great artists suffer for the people. |
Marvin Gaye |
|
Great causes and little men go ill together. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
|
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. |
Herodotus |
|
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Great intellects are skeptical. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
Great lives never go out; they go on. |
Benjamin Harrison |
|
Great necessities call out great virtues. |
Abigail Adams |
|
Great writers are the saints for the godless. |
Anita Brookner |
|
Greatness is a spiritual condition. |
Matthew Arnold |
|
Grief has turned her fair. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
Grief is a species of idleness. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Grow Rich While You Sleep |
Ben Sweetland |
|
Growing old is not growing up. |
Doug Horton |
|
Grown men do not need leaders. |
Edward Abbey |
|
Growth demands a temporary surrender of
security. |
Gail Sheehy |
|
Growth is the only evidence of life. |
John Henry Newman |
|
Guess if you can, choose if you dare. |
Pierre Corneille |
|
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. |
Erma Bombeck |
|
Guts win more games than ability. |
Bob Zuppke |
|
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. |
Saint Augustine |
|
HABIT, n. A shackle for the free. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! |
Abraham Cowley |
|
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
Half a truth is better than no politics. |
G. K. Chesterton |
|
Half a truth is often a great lie. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Half my life is an act of revision. |
John Irving |
|
Half wits talk much, but say little. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Handle people with gloves, but issues,
barefisted. |
Dagobert Runes |
|
Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
Aristotle |
|
Happiness hates the timid! So does science! |
Eugene O'Neill |
|
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. |
Alphonse Karr |
|
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. |
Ingrid Bergman |
|
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
|
Happiness is not the end in life; character is. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
|
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. |
Austin O'Malley |
|
Happiness is the longing for repetition. |
Milan Kundera |
|
Happiness means quiet nerves. |
W. C. Fields |
|
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. |
Meridel Le Sueur |
|
Hardship makes the world obscure. |
Don Delillo |
|
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon. |
Lincoln Kirstein |
|
Haste maketh waste. |
John Heywood |
|
Hatred is the most clear-sighted, next to
genius. |
Claude Bernard |
|
Have a strong mind and a soft heart. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
|
Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering? |
Thomas Middleton |
|
Having an aim is the key to achieving your best. |
Henry J. Kaiser |
|
He bears the seed of ruin in himself. |
Matthew Arnold |
|
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged. |
Simone Signoret |
|
He can run, but he can't hide. |
Joe Louis |
|
He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. |
Charles Dickens |
|
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up. |
Margot Asquith |
|
He has gone over to the majority. |
Petronius Arbiter |
|
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. |
Charles Dickens |
|
He hasn't a single redeeming vice. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
He hath eaten me out of house and home. |
William Shakespeare |
|
He himself one vile antithesis. |
Alexander Pope |
|
He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him. |
Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
|
He is great enough that is his own master. |
Joseph Hall |
|
He is like a female llama surprised in her bath. |
Winston Churchill |
|
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. |
Charles Lamb |
|
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. |
William Shakespeare |
|
He lives who dies to win a lasting name. |
Henry Drummond |
|
He loved politicians -- even Republicans. |
Margaret Truman |
|
He makes no friend who never made a foe. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
He means well' is useless unless he does well. |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
|
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. |
Charles Churchill |
|
He said it, that knew it best. |
Francis Bacon |
|
He seems so near and yet so far. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
He that can have patience can have what he will. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He that can work is born to be king of
something. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
He that drinks fast, pays slow. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. |
William Shakespeare |
|
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He that rises late must trot all day. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He that sleeps feels no the toothache. |
William Shakespeare |
|
He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He that won't be counseled can't be helped. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He turns not back who is bound to a star. |
Leonardo da Vinci |
|
He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster. |
James I |
|
He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach. |
William Shakespeare |
|
He was an average guy who could carry a tune. |
Bing Crosby |
|
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
|
He who awaits much can expect little. |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
|
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
He who does not tire, tires adversity. |
Martin Tupper |
|
He who flees will fight again. |
Tertullian |
|
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. |
Aeschylus |
|
He who has never hoped can never despair. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
He who hesitates is poor. |
Mel Brooks |
|
He who hesitates is sometimes saved. |
James Thurber |
|
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. |
Frantz Fanon |
|
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
|
He who laughs most, learns best. |
John Cleese |
|
He who laughs, lasts. |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
|
He who limps is still walking. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
|
He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
Victor Hugo |
|
He who praises everybody praises nobody. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
He who stops being better stops being good. |
Oliver Cromwell |
|
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of
dinner. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich. |
Mencius |
|
Health consists with temperance alone. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Health has its science as well as disease. . . |
Emily Blackwell |
|
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of
Fate. |
Alexander Pope |
|
He'd make a lovely corpse. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. |
Milton Friedman |
|
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. |
Robert Frost |
|
Hell is paved with good intentions. |
James Boswell |
|
Hell was made for the inquisitive. |
Saint Augustine |
|
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. |
Alexander Pope |
|
Here Skugg / Lies snug / As a bug / In a rug. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
Here, in memory, we live and die. |
Patricia Hampl |
|
Here's looking at you, kid. |
Humphrey Bogart |
|
Here's richness! |
Charles Dickens |
|
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. |
Graham Henry Greene |
|
He's a gentleman: look at his boots. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
He's a going out with the tide. |
Charles Dickens |
|
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! |
Alexander Pope |
|
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
Billy Wilder |
|
His modesty amounts to deformity. |
Margot Asquith |
|
His sleep was a sensuous gluttony of oblivion. |
P. D. James |
|
His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
His worst is better than any other person's
best. |
William Hazlitt |
|
Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
History is a better guide than good intentions. |
Jeane Kirkpatrick |
|
History is a vision of God's creation on the
move. |
Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee |
|
History is the autobiography of a madman. |
Alexander Herzen |
|
History is the distillation of rumor. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
History is the essence of innumerable
biographies. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy. |
James A. Garfield |
|
History is written by the winners. |
Alex Haley |
|
Hit the nail on the head. |
John Fletcher |
|
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. |
Candice Bergen |
|
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming
pool. |
Liv Ullmann |
|
Home is where you hang your head. |
Groucho Marx |
|
Home wasn't built in a day. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
|
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. |
William Shakespeare |
|
Honest hearts produce honest actions. |
Brigham Young |
|
Honesty is not greater where elegance is less. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
Honey, I forgot to duck. |
Jack Dempsey |
|
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once. |
Marcel Pagnol |
|
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Honor wears different coats to different eyes. |
Barbara Tuchman |
|
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. |
James Montgomery |
|
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad
supper. |
Francis Bacon |
|
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. |
Honore de Balzac |
|
Hope is a risk that must be run. |
Georges Bernanos |
|
Hope is a waking dream. |
Aristotle |
|
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder,
yonder. |
Carl Sandburg |
|
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. |
Norman Cousins |
|
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. |
Ben Jonson |
|
Hope is the dream of a waking man. |
Aristotle |
|
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. |
Democritus |
|
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. |
Algernon Charles Swinburne |
|
HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. |
Billy Graham |
|
House Beautiful' is the play lousy. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
How badly do you want it? |
George Allen |
|
How camest thou in this pickle? |
William Shakespeare |
|
How can you contrive to write so even? |
Jane Austen |
|
How can you think and hit at the same time? |
Yogi Berra |
|
How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama. |
Lillian Carter |
|
How could they tell? |
Dorothy Parker |
|
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. |
Letitia Landon |
|
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. |
Robert Penn Warren |
|
How fares it with the happy dead? |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! |
Francesco Petrarch |
|
How is the Empire? |
George V |
|
How long a time lies in one little word! |
William Shakespeare |
|
How long can you be cute? |
Goldie Hawn |
|
How long should you try? Until. |
Jim Rohn |
|
How many things I can do without! |
Socrates |
|
How much of human life is lost in waiting. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. |
Elizabeth A. Drew |
|
How quickly the world's glory passes away. |
Thomas … Kempis |
|
How success changes the opinion of men! |
Maria Edgeworth |
|
How sweet it is! |
Jackie Gleason |
|
How use doth breed a habit in a man! |
William Shakespeare |
|
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat
food. |
Mary Catherine Bateson |
|
Human history in essence is the history of
ideas. |
H. G. Wells |
|
Humility is no substitute for a good
personality. |
Fran Lebowitz |
|
Humor is a universal language. |
Joel Goodman |
|
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. |
Mark Twain |
|
Humor is the ability to see 3 sides to one coin. |
Ned Rorem |
|
Humor is the finest perfection of poetic genius. |
Thomas Carlyle |
|
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. |
Robert Frost |
|
Humor is tragedy plus time. |
Mark Twain |
|
Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes." |
Joel Goodman |
|
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. |
Aristophanes |
|
HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
HYBRID, n. A pooled issue. |
Ambrose Bierce |
|
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by
morality. |
H. L. Mencken |
|
Hypotheses non fingo.' I feign no hypotheses. |
Isaac Newton |
|
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. |
Joan Baez |
|
I always advise people never to give advice. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
|
I always get more applause than votes. |
Norman Thomas |
|
I always looked ahead. |
Chris Evert Lloyd |
|
I always say beauty is only sin deep. |
Saki |
|
I always sings too long and too loud. |
Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter |
|
I always wake up at the crack of ice. |
Joe E. Lewis |
|
I am a feather for each wind that blows. |
William Shakespeare |
|
I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor. |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. |
William Shakespeare |
|
I am a member of the rabble in good standing. |
Westbrook Pegler |
|
I am a mystery to myself. |
Angelina Grimke |
|
I am a part of all I have met. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
|
I am a spy of life. |
Lech Walesa |
|
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
|
I am afeered that werges on the poetical, Sammy. |
Charles Dickens |
|
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex. |
Whoopi Goldberg |
|
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so
patient. |
William Shakespeare |
|
I am at last in a free country. |
P. B. S. Pinchback |
|
I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
|
I am big. It's the pictures that got small. |
Gloria Swanson |
|
I am bored with it all. |
Winston Churchill |
|
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. |
Audre Lorde |
|
I am dying with the help of too many physicians. |
Alexander the Great |
|
I am easily satisfied with the very best. |
Winston Churchill |
|
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy. |
Yul Brynner |
|
I am lord of myself, accountable to none. |
Benjamin Franklin |
|
I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the
next. |
Harold Macmillan |
|
I am made to tremble and I fear! |
Pope John XXIII |
|
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
|
I am never afraid of what I know. |
Anna Sewell |
|
I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food. |
Erma Bombeck |
|
I am not a has-been. I'm a will be. |
Lauren Bacall |
|
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. |
Robert Frost |
|
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
|
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I
think. |
Eric Butterworth |
|
I am not young enough to know everything. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
I am one of the people who love the why of
things. |
Catherine the Great |
|
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over. |
Matthew Arnold |
|
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. |
Mary McCarthy |
|
I am the cat that walks alone. |
William Maxwell Beaverbrook |
|
I am the primitive of the method I have
invented. |
Paul Cezanne |
|
I am willing to taste any drink once. |
James Branch Cabell |
|
I am worn to a raveling. |
Beatrix Potter |
|
I believe all literature started as gossip. |
Rita Mae Brown |
|
I believe in art that conceals art. |
Rita Mae Brown |
|
I believe only in art and failure. |
Jane Rule |
|
I believe that every person is born with talent. |
Maya Angelou |
|
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. |
Phyllis Diller |
|
I came like Water, and like Wind I go. |
Edward Fitzgerald |
|
I came, I saw, God conquered. |
Charles V |
|
I came, I saw, I conquered. |
Julius Caesar |
|
I can live for two months on a good compliment. |
Mark Twain |
|
I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own. |
Marcus Cato |
|
I can resist everything except temptation. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. |
Burt Reynolds |
|
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs
at. |
Wilson Mizner |
|
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. |
Louis Agassiz |
|
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. |
William Shakespeare |
|
I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right. |
Billy Crystal |
|
I can't get no satisfaction. |
Mick Jagger |
|
I can't spare this man; he fights. |
Abraham Lincoln |
|
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. |
Cleveland Amory |
|
I can't write five words but that I change
seven. |
Dorothy Parker |
|
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of
morals. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
I consider your conduct unethical and lousy. |
Peter Arno |
|
I decided to box my way out of the ghettol. |
Larry Holmes |
|
I didn't say the things I said. |
Yogi Berra |
|
I do not like work even when someone else does
it. |
Mark Twain |
|
I do not seek. I find. |
Pablo Picasso |
|
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. |
Marcel Duchamp |
|
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em. |
Willie Mays |
|
I don't even know what street Canada is on. |
Al Capone |
|
I don't meet competition. I crush it. |
Charles Revson |
|
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. |
Marshall McLuhan |
|
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. |
Roy Acuff |
|
I don't want to make the wrong mistake. |
Yogi Berra |
|
I dream for a living. |
Steven Spielberg |
|
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
|
I dream, therefore I exist. |
J. August Strindberg |
|
I expect a judgment. Shortly. |
Charles Dickens |
|
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. |
Nikos Kazantzakis |
|
I feel coming on a strange disease -- humility. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
|
I felt it shelter to speak to you. |
Emily Dickinson |
|
I find the medicine worse than the malady. |
John Fletcher |
|
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible. |
August Wilson |
|
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces. |
Samuel Johnson |
|
I go to school to youth to learn the future. |
Robert Frost |
|
I hand him a lyric and get out of his way. |
Oscar Hammerstein |
|
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. |
Salman Rushdie |
|
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
|
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. |
Patricia Schroeder |
|
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. |
William Shakespeare |
|
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
|
I have been over into the future, and it works. |
Lincoln Steffens |
|
I have build my organization upon fear. |
Al Capone |
|
I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. |
Larry Neal |
|
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
T. S. Eliot |
|
I have not slept one wink. |
William Shakespeare |
|
I have not yet begun to fight. |
John Paul Jones |
|
I have nothing to declare except my genius. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
I have taken all knowledge to be my province. |
Francis Bacon |
|
I have the necessary lack of tact. |
Ted Koppel |
|
I have to be seen to be believed. |
Elizabeth II |
|
I have wandered in a face, for hours . . . |
Robert Bly |
|
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career. |
