T-Shirt Creativity: 4,000 Pithy Quotations for Creating Your Personalized T-Shirt

 

T-Shirt Quotes A to Z
 

 

 T-Shirt Quotes A to Z

 

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
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not. Jack Nicklaus
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
Don't go through life, grow through life. Eric Butterworth
Don't let other people tell you what you want. Pat Riley
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
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.