Author |
Quotation |
A. J. Balfour |
Enthusiasm moves the world. |
A. J. Balfour |
Ask with urgency and passion. |
A. J. Balfour |
I never forgive, but I always forget. |
A. J. Balfour |
I rather think of having a career of my own. |
A. J. Balfour |
Biography should be written by an acute enemy. |
A. J. P. Taylor |
Nothing is inevitable until it happens. |
Aaron Hill |
Reason gains all people by compelling none. |
Abba Eban |
Better to be disliked than pitied. |
Abbie Hoffman |
Fantasy is the only truth. |
Abbie Hoffman |
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. |
Abigail Adams |
Great necessities call out great virtues. |
Abigail Van Buren |
The less you talk, the more you're listened to. |
Abraham Cowley |
Life is an incurable Disease. |
Abraham Cowley |
Hail, old patrician trees, so great and good! |
Abraham Cowley |
Thou needst not make new songs, but say the old. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Whatever you are, be a good one. |
Abraham Lincoln |
I can't spare this man; he fights. |
Abraham Lincoln |
The ballot is stronger than the bullet. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Towering genius disdains a beaten path. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. |
Abraham Lincoln |
A lawyer's advice is his stock and trade. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. |
Abraham Lincoln |
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Knavery and flattery are blood relations. |
Abraham Lincoln |
A house divided against itself cannot stand. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Important principles may and must be flexible. |
Abraham Lincoln |
As our case is new, we must think and act anew. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. |
Abraham Lincoln |
I will prepare and some day my chance will come. |
Abraham Lincoln |
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this
one? |
Abraham Lincoln |
A friend is one who has the same enemies you
have. |
Abraham Lincoln |
Suspicions which may be unjust need not be
stated. |
Adam Clayton Powell |
Mix a conviction with a man and something
happens. |
Adam Smith |
All money is a matter of belief. |
Addison Gayle, Jr. |
To understand madness is to be a bit mad. |
Addison Mizner |
Poets are born, not paid. |
Addison Mizner |
Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit. |
Addison Mizner |
Never call a man a fool; borrow from him. |
Adelaide A. Proctor |
See how time makes all grief decay. |
Adlai Stevenson |
In quiet places, reason abounds. |
Adlai Stevenson |
There are no gains without pains. |
Adolf Hitler |
What luck for rulers that men do not think. |
Adrienne Rich |
Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged
feeling. |
Aeschylus |
Ask the gods nothing excessive. |
Aeschylus |
Time brings all things to pass. |
Aeschylus |
Call no man happy till he is dead. |
Aeschylus |
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. |
Aeschylus |
The reward of suffering is experience. |
Aeschylus |
Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new. |
Aeschylus |
Time as he grows old teaches all things. |
Aeschylus |
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired. |
Aeschylus |
When a man's willing and eager, the gods join
in. |
Aeschylus |
God loves to help him who strives to help
himself. |
Aesop |
Obscurity brings safety. |
Aesop |
Example is the best precept. |
Aesop |
Slow and steady wins the race. |
Aesop |
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. |
Aesop |
Appearances are often deceiving. |
Aesop |
Little by little does the trick. |
Aesop |
Kindness effects more than severity. |
Aesop |
Please all, and you will please none. |
Aesop |
Wealth unused might as well not exist. |
Aesop |
The gods help them that help themselves. |
Aesop |
It is easy to be brave when far away from
danger. |
Aesop |
Don't count your chickens before they are
hatched. |
Aesop |
It is not only fine feathers that make fine
birds. |
Aesop |
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner
worth. |
Aime Cesaire |
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze. |
Al Bernstein |
Easy DOESN'T do it. |
Al Bernstein |
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. |
Al Capone |
I have build my organization upon fear. |
Al Capone |
I don't even know what street Canada is on. |
Al McGuire |
I think the world is run by C students. |
Al Neuharth |
Never hesitate to steal a good idea. |
Al Neuharth |
Only cream and SOBs rise to the top. |
Alan Brien |
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate. |
Alan Jay Lerner |
Men die but an idea does not. |
Alan Jay Lerner |
You write a hit the same way you write a flop. |
Albert Camus |
Integrity has no need of rules. |
Albert Einstein |
Imagination is more important than knowledge. |
Albert Pike |
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted. |
Albert Schweitzer |
Example is leadership. |
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi |
Whatever a man does he must do first in his
mind. |
Alcuin |
Man thinks, God directs. |
Aldous Huxley |
Genius is a child up to the age of ten. |
Aleister Crowley |
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. |
Aleister Crowley |
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. |
Aleister Crowley |
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. |
Alex Haley |
History is written by the winners. |
Alex Haley |
In the bush, "trust" no one you don't know.' |
Alexander Calder |
I paint with shapes. |
Alexander Calder |
My fan mail is enormous. Everyone is under six. |
Alexander Chase |
The banalities of a great man pass for wit. |
Alexander Crummell |
We read the future by the past. |
Alexander Herzen |
History is the autobiography of a madman. |
Alexander Pope |
Order is heav'ns first law. |
Alexander Pope |
This long disease, my life. |
Alexander Pope |
Dear damned distracting town. |
Alexander Pope |
Die of a rose in aromatic pain? |
Alexander Pope |
He himself one vile antithesis. |
Alexander Pope |
Passions are the gales of life. |
Alexander Pope |
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. |
Alexander Pope |
On wrongs swift vengeance waits. |
Alexander Pope |
Die and endow a college or a cat. |
Alexander Pope |
In wit a man; simplicity a child. |
Alexander Pope |
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? |
Alexander Pope |
Fine by defect and delicately weak. |
Alexander Pope |
The many-headed monster of the pit. |
Alexander Pope |
All gardening is landscape painting. |
Alexander Pope |
To err is human, to forgive, divine. |
Alexander Pope |
Health consists with temperance alone. |
Alexander Pope |
Nor in the critic let the man be lost. |
Alexander Pope |
We bring to one dead level ev'ry mind. |
Alexander Pope |
Woman's at best a contradiction still. |
Alexander Pope |
Is not absence death to those who love? |
Alexander Pope |
Most authors steal their works, or buy. |
Alexander Pope |
No creature smarts so little as a fool. |
Alexander Pope |
Pride, the never failing vice of fools. |
Alexander Pope |
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. |
Alexander Pope |
Who shall decide when doctors disagree? |
Alexander Pope |
A brain of feathers and a heart of lead. |
Alexander Pope |
An honest man's the noblest work of God. |
Alexander Pope |
Grant but as many sorts of mind as moss. |
Alexander Pope |
So sweetly mawkish and so smoothly dull. |
Alexander Pope |
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. |
Alexander Pope |
Act well your part; there all honor lies. |
Alexander Pope |
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. |
Alexander Pope |
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. |
Alexander Pope |
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. |
Alexander Pope |
Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair. |
Alexander Pope |
The right divine of kings to govern wrong. |
Alexander Pope |
The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. |
Alexander Pope |
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. |
Alexander Pope |
For fools admire, but men of sense approve. |
Alexander Pope |
Is it, in heav'n, a crime to love too well? |
Alexander Pope |
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. |
Alexander Pope |
Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. |
Alexander Pope |
Men dream of courtship, but in wedlock wake. |
Alexander Pope |
Rise, honest Muse! and sing the Man of Ross. |
Alexander Pope |
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. |
Alexander Pope |
When man's whole frame is obvious to a flea. |
Alexander Pope |
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss. |
Alexander Pope |
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. |
Alexander Pope |
They shift the moving toyshop of their heart. |
Alexander Pope |
A vast, vamped future, old, revived new piece. |
Alexander Pope |
And love th' offender, yet detest th' offence. |
Alexander Pope |
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. |
Alexander Pope |
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! |
Alexander Pope |
Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. |
Alexander Pope |
The hidden harmony is better than the obvious. |
Alexander Pope |
All crowd, who foremost shall be damned to fame. |
Alexander Pope |
Curse on all laws, but those that love has made. |
Alexander Pope |
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the
soul. |
Alexander Pope |
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of
Fate. |
Alexander Pope |
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the
dust. |
Alexander Smith |
Everything is sweetened by risk. |
Alexander Smith |
The sea complains upon a thousand shores. |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Literature becomes the living memory of a
nation. |
Alexander the Great |
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. |
Alexander the Great |
I am dying with the help of too many physicians. |
Alexander the Great |
There is nothing impossible to him who will try. |
Alfred Adler |
Man know much more than he understands. |
Alfred E. Smith |
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Self-plagiarism is style. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it. |
Alfred North Whitehead |
Common sense is genius in homespun. |
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. |
Work hard. There is no short cut. |
Alfred Victor Vigny |
The true God, the mighty God, is the God of
ideas. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Ah, why? |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Lead and I follow. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Love is the only gold. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
There is no joy but calm! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Faith lives in honest doubt. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
I am a part of all I have met. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Let us hob-and-nob with Death. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Nature, red in tooth and claw. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A day may sink or save a realm. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Authority forgets a dying king. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
But I was born to other things. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Believing where we cannot prove. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Either sex alone is half itself. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
He seems so near and yet so far. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The grand old name of gentleman. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Behold a man raised up by Christ. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
How fares it with the happy dead? |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
O hard, when love and duty clash! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
By blood a king, in heart a clown. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Riflemen, Riflemen, Riflemen form! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The lark becomes a sightless song. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Thou madest man, he knows not why. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A louse in the locks of literature. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
In that world-earthquake, Waterloo! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
O you chorus of indolent reviewers. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Trust me not at all, or all in all. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
This is my son, mine own Telemachus. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
I will drink / Life to the lees.C1581 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
For man is man and master of his fate. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The greater person is one of courtesy. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A city clerk, but gently born and bred. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Better not be at all than not be noble. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
God made Himself an awful rose of dawn. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
God's finger touched him, and he slept. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
He makes no friend who never made a foe. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
On the bald street breaks the blank day. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
After it, follow it, / Follow The Gleam. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
God make thee good as thou art beautiful. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Now lies the Earth all Dana‰ to the stars. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
O friends, our chief state-oracle is mute. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Our loyal passion for our temperate kings. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The rise / And long roll of the Hexameter. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
This way and that dividing the swift mind. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Who is wise in love, love most, say least. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Barbarous experiment, barbarous hexameters. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
O tell her, brief is life but love is long. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Things seen are mightier than things heard. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The shell must break before the bird can fly. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Wearing the white flower of a blameless life. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
From the great deep to the great deep he goes. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
. . . cling to Faith beyond the forms of Faith. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A critic is a louse in the locks of literature. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Sleep my little one, sleep my pretty one, sleep. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
All along the valley, stream that flashest
white. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
So much to do, so little done, such things to
be. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the
day. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville
lay. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is
born. |
Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all. |
Algernon Charles Swinburne |
Let us go hence, my songs; she will not hear. |
Alice Childress |
Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'. |
Alice Embree |
The message of the media is the commercial. |
Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
You can't make souffle rise twice. |
Alice Walker |
Expect nothing. Live frugally / On surprise. |
Alistair Cooke |
Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. |
Alphonse De Lamartine |
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. |
Alphonse Karr |
We can invent only with memory. |
Alphonse Karr |
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. |
Althea Gibson |
Talent wins out. |
Alvin Toffler |
Knowledge is the most democratic source of
power. |
Alvin Toffler |
The great growling engine of change --
technology. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ONCE, adv. Enough. |
Ambrose Bierce |
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. |
Ambrose Bierce |
OVEREAT, v. To dine. |
Ambrose Bierce |
TRUCE, n. Friendship. |
Ambrose Bierce |
REALLY, adv. Apparently. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. |
Ambrose Bierce |
WHITE, adj. and n. Black. |
Ambrose Bierce |
HYBRID, n. A pooled issue. |
Ambrose Bierce |
OTHERWISE, adv. No better. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ALONE, adj. In bad company. |
Ambrose Bierce |
TWICE, adv. Once too often. |
Ambrose Bierce |
OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
KLEPTOMANIAC, n. A rich thief. |
Ambrose Bierce |
MINOR, adj. Less objectionable. |
Ambrose Bierce |
PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. |
Ambrose Bierce |
RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave. |
Ambrose Bierce |
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. |
Ambrose Bierce |
NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ACTUALLY, adv. Perhaps; possibly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
HABIT, n. A shackle for the free. |
Ambrose Bierce |
BEFRIEND, v.t. To make an ingrate. |
Ambrose Bierce |
DEATH, n. To stop sinning suddenly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. |
Ambrose Bierce |
HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip. |
Ambrose Bierce |
HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs. |
Ambrose Bierce |
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. |
Ambrose Bierce |
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ADORE, v.t. To venerate expectantly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
INDISCRETION, n. The guilt of woman. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ADVICE, n. The smallest current coin. |
Ambrose Bierce |
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. |
Ambrose Bierce |
FAMOUS, adj. Conspicuously miserable. |
Ambrose Bierce |
REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice. |
Ambrose Bierce |
REPOSE, v.i. To cease from troubling. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth. |
Ambrose Bierce |
AIM, n. The task we set our wishes to. |
Ambrose Bierce |
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power. |
Ambrose Bierce |
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric. |
Ambrose Bierce |
MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government. |
Ambrose Bierce |
SELF-ESTEEM,n. An erroneous appraisal. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ITCH, n. The patriotism of a Scotchman. |
Ambrose Bierce |
CONGRATULATION, n. The civility of envy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
PREDICAMENT, n. The wage of consistency. |
Ambrose Bierce |
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. |
Ambrose Bierce |
LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. |
Ambrose Bierce |
RESTITUTOR, n. Benefactor; philanthropist. |
Ambrose Bierce |
LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission. |
Ambrose Bierce |
SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. |
Ambrose Bierce |
REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction. |
Ambrose Bierce |
IMPIETY, n. Your irreverence toward my deity. |
Ambrose Bierce |
MAGNET, n. Something acted upon by magnetism. |
Ambrose Bierce |
MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. |
Ambrose Bierce |
METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism. |
Ambrose Bierce |
POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. |
Ambrose Bierce |
LOW-BRED, adj. "Raised" instead of brought up. |
Ambrose Bierce |
MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much. |
Ambrose Bierce |
CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"? |
Ambrose Bierce |
DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. |
Ambrose Bierce |
HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one. |
Ambrose Bierce |
PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation. |
Ambrose Bierce |
PREROGATIVE, n. A sovereign's right to do wrong. |
Ambrose Bierce |
PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting
punishment. |
Ambrose Bierce |
PLEASURE, n. The least hateful form of
dejection. |
Ambrose Bierce |
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our
advice. |
Ambrose Bierce |
REDUNDANT, adj. Superfluous; needless; "de
trop". |
Ambrose Bierce |
CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for
Scandal. |
Ambrose Bierce |
RASCAL, n. A fool considered under another
aspect. |
Ambrose Bierce |
UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable,
heathenish. |
Amelia Barr |
Old age is the verdict of life. |
Amelia Earhart |
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. |
Amelia Earhart |
I want to do it because I want to do it. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
The less routine the more life. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
Our ideals are our better selves. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
The surest sign of age is loneliness. |
Amy Lowell |
Youth condemns; maturity condones. |
Amy Strum Alcott |
Don't give advice unless you're asked. |
Anatole France |
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. |
Andre Gide |
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea. |
Andrea Dworkin |
Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice. |
Andrea Dworkin |
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it. |
Andrew Carnegie |
Aim for the highest. / Should life all labour
be? |
Andrew Jackson |
Never take counsel of your fears. |
Andrew Jackson |
To the victors belong the spoils. |
Andrew Jackson |
One man with courage makes a majority. |
Andrew Marvell |
This delicious Solitude. |
Andrew Marvell |
Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. |
Andrew Mellon |
Gentlemen prefer blondes. |
Andy Rooney |
Elephants and grandchildren never forget. |
Andy Warhol |
I'm a deeply superficial person. |
Angelina Grimke |
I am a mystery to myself. |
Anita Brookner |
Great writers are the saints for the godless. |
Ann Landers |
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. |
Anna Letitia Barbauld |
The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. |
Anna Sewell |
I am never afraid of what I know. |
Anne Baxter |
See into life -- don't just look at it. |
Anne Bradstreet |
Thou ill-form,d offspring of my feeble brain . .
. |
Anne Bronte |
There is always a "but" in this imperfect world. |
Anne Frank |
Whoever is happy will make others happy, too. |
Anne Hutchinson |
I thinke the soule to be nothing but Light. |
Anne Louise Germaine de Stael |
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood. |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Why do progress and beauty have to be so
opposed? |
Anne Sexton |
In a dream you are never eighty. |
Anne Sexton |
Even without wars, life is dangerous. |
Anne Wilson Schaef |
Differences challenge assumptions. |
Annie Dillard |
You can't test courage cautiously. |
Annie Dillard |
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. |
Ansel Adams |
You don't take a photograph, you make it. |
Anthony Burgess |
Death comes along like a gas bill one can't pay. |
Anthony Hope |
I may not understand, but I am willing to
admire. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Give more than take. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Don't fear change, embrace it. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Become a fixer, not just a fixture. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Have a strong mind and a soft heart. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Continually strive to improve yourself. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
If you have a vision, do something with it. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Thoughts come through people, not from them. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
The most important things in life aren't things. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
Treasure your relationships, not your
possessions. |
Anthony Trollope |
Life is so unlike theory. |
Anton Chekhov |
The more refined one is, the more unhappy. |
Antonio Porchia |
Certainties are arrived at only on foot. |
Antonio Porchia |
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. |
Anzia Yezierska |
The real thing creates its own poetry. |
Anzia Yezierska |
In America, money takes the place of God. |
Aphra Behn |
Variety is the soul of pleasure. |
Aphra Behn |
There is no sinner like a young saint. |
Aphra Behn |
Love's a thin diet, nor will keep out cold. |
Aphra Behn |
Faith, Sir, we are here to-day, and gone
tomorrow. |
Archibald MacLeish |
A poem should not mean - But be. |
Ariel Durant |
Education is the transmission of civilization. |
Aristophanes |
By words the mind is winged. |
Aristophanes |
Evil events from evil causes spring. |
Aristophanes |
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder. |
Aristophanes |
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. |
Aristotle |
Law means good order. |
Aristotle |
Hope is a waking dream. |
Aristotle |
Well begun is half done. |
Aristotle |
Beauty is the gift of God. |
Aristotle |
Wit is educated insolence. |
Aristotle |
Bad men are full of repentance. |
Aristotle |
The secret to humor is surprise. |
Aristotle |
Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
Aristotle |
Memory is the scribe of the soul. |
Aristotle |
A man is the origin of his action. |
Aristotle |
Hope is the dream of a waking man. |
Aristotle |
All men by nature desire knowledge. |
Aristotle |
One swallow does not make a spring. |
Aristotle |
Man is by nature a political animal. |
Aristotle |
The end of labor is to gain leisure. |
Aristotle |
The law is reason free from passion. |
Aristotle |
The soul never thinks without a picture. |
Aristotle |
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. |
Aristotle |
All art is concerned with coming into being. |
Aristotle |
Between friends there is no need of justice. |
Aristotle |
Education is the best provision for old age. |
Aristotle |
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. |
Aristotle |
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. |
Aristotle |
The energy of the mind is the essence of life. |
Aristotle |
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. |
Aristotle |
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. |
Aristotle |
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. |
Aristotle |
Philosophy is the science which considers truth. |
Aristotle |
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. |
Aristotle |
Most people would rather give than get
affection. |
Aristotle |
The true end of tragedy is to purify the
passions. |
Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee |
History is a vision of God's creation on the
move. |
Arnold Bennett |
The price of justice is eternal publicity. |
Arnold Glasgow |
Silence is the safety zone of conversation. |
Arnold Glasgow |
Make your life a mission-not an intermission. |
Arnold Glasgow |
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. |
Arnold Glasgow |
Standing on your dignity makes for poor footing. |
Arnold Glasow |
Doing beats stewing. |
Arnold Glasow |
The truth will ouch. |
Arnold Glasow |
The badge of intellect is a question mark. |
Arnold Glasow |
The family fireside is the best of schools. |
Arnold Glasow |
Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. |
Arnold Glasow |
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. |
Artemus Ward |
Draw your salary before spending it. |
Artemus Ward |
Why care for grammar as long as we are good? |
Artemus Ward |
I'm not a politician and my other habits are
good. |
Arthur Bloch |
Every solution breeds new problems. |
Arthur Bloch |
Every clarification breeds new questions. |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
It is quite a three-pipe problem. |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
Excellent!' I cried. 'Elementary,' said he. |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
What one man can invent another can discover. |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious
fact. |
Arthur Hugh Clough |
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars. |
Arthur J. Goldberg |
The trick is to be there when it's settled. |
Arthur Koestler |
True creativity often starts where language
ends. |
Arthur Miller |
If I see an ending. I can work backwards. |
Arthur Rimbaud |
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. |
Arthur Wellesley |
To know when to retreat; and to dare to do it. |
Artur Schnabel |
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. |
Ashleigh Brilliant |
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. |
Audre Lorde |
Our visions begin with our desires. |
Audre Lorde |
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing. |
August Wilson |
I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible. |
Auguste Renoir |
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. |
Auguste Renoir |
I think I'm beginning to learn something about
it. |
Auguste Rodin |
I invent nothing. I rediscover. |
Auguste Rodin |
Nobody does good to men with impunity. |
Auguste Rodin |
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. |
Augustine Birrell |
Libraries are not made; they grow. |
Augustine Birrell |
That great dust-heap called "history." |
Augustus (and Julius) Hare |
Science sees signs; Poetry the thing signified. |
Austin Dobson |
I intended an Ode, / And it turned to a Sonnet. |
Austin O'Malley |
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. |
Austin O'Malley |
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream. |
Austin O'Malley |
All things come to him who waits -- even
justice. |
Austin O'Malley |
Truth lives in the cellar; error on the
doorstep. |
Ava Gardner |
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. |
B. C. Forbes |
The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to. |
Babe Ruth |
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. |
Baltasar Gracian |
Know or listen to those who know. |
Baltasar Gracian |
Self-reflection is the school of wisdom. |
Baltasar Gracian |
Good things, when short, are twice as good. |
Baltasar Gracian |
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. |
Baltasar Gracian |
Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. |
Baltasar Gracian |
Never contend with a man who has nothing to
lose. |
Baltasar Gracian |
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear
one. |
Barbara Bush |
Believe in something larger than yourself. |
Barbara Bush |
I listen and give input only if somebody asks. |
Barbara Cartland |
I'll keep going till my face falls off. |
Barbara Sher |
And our dreams are who we are. |
Barbara Sher |
You don't have to get it right the first time. |
Barbara Tuchman |
Honor wears different coats to different eyes. |
Barbara Walters |
Trust your gut. |
Barry Commoner |
No action is without its side effects. |
Barry Goldwater |
In your heart you know he's right. |
Bear Bryant |
Don't talk too much or too soon. |
Beatrice Potter Webb |
The Inevitability of Gradualness. |
Beatrice Potter Webb |
Religion is love; in no case is it logic. |
Beatrice Potter Webb |
So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere. |
Beatrix Potter |
I am worn to a raveling. |
bell hooks |
It is poetry that changes everything. |
bell hooks |
Being oppressed means the absence of choices. |
Bella Abzug |
All of the men on my staff can type. |
Belle Livingstone |
Like Moses, I wasn't born. l was found. |
Ben Jonson |
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. |
Ben Jonson |
Weigh the meaning and look not at the words. |
Ben Stein |
No one will do it for you. |
Ben Sweetland |
Grow Rich While You Sleep |
Ben Sweetland |
Success is a journey, not a destination. |
Benito Mussolini |
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. |
Benjamin Britten |
Music does not exist until it is performed. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
Eloquence is the child of knowledge. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Mine is better than ours. |
Benjamin Franklin |
The best is the cheapest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Applause waits on success. |
Benjamin Franklin |
A fat kitchen, a lean will. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Beware the hobby that eats. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Fatigue is the best pillow. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Man is a tool-making animal. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Remember that time is money. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Observe all men, thyself most. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Read much, but not many books. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He that drinks fast, pays slow. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Little strokes fell great oaks. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Men and melons are hard to know. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Eat to live, and not live to eat. |
Benjamin Franklin |
A small leak can sink a great ship |
Benjamin Franklin |
Half a truth is often a great lie. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Let thy discontents be thy secrets. |
Benjamin Franklin |
The doors of wisdom are never shut. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Well done is better than well said. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Half wits talk much, but say little. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Necessity never made a good bargain. |
Benjamin Franklin |
What is the use of a new-born child? |
Benjamin Franklin |
Despair ruins some, presumption many. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He that rises late must trot all day. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Nothing preaches better than the act. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Fish and visitors smell in three days. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Our necessities never equal our wants. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Energy and persistence alter all things. |
Benjamin Franklin |
God heals and the doctor takes the fees. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Most fools think they are only ignorant. |
Benjamin Franklin |
One should eat to live, not live to eat. |
Benjamin Franklin |
A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her. |
Benjamin Franklin |
I am lord of myself, accountable to none. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Men take more pains to mask than to mend. |
Benjamin Franklin |
The discontented man finds no easy chair. |
Benjamin Franklin |
An old young man, will be a young old man. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Keep thy shop and thy shop will keep thee. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame. |
Benjamin Franklin |
A good conscience is a continual Christmas. |
Benjamin Franklin |
All would live long, but none would be old. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He that won't be counseled can't be helped. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Creditors have better memories than debtors. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Here Skugg / Lies snug / As a bug / In a rug. |
Benjamin Franklin |
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. |
Benjamin Franklin |
A man is not completely born until he be dead. |
Benjamin Franklin |
If you want something done, ask a busy person. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Ere you consult your fancy, consult your purse. |
Benjamin Franklin |
If you persuade, speak of interest, not reason. |
Benjamin Franklin |
A place for everything, everything in its place. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He that can have patience can have what he will. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in
changing. |
Benjamin Franklin |
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to
fail. |
Benjamin Franklin |
If passion drives you, let reason hold the
reins. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Love your enemies, for they tell you your
faults. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Search others for virtues, thyself for thy
vices. |
Benjamin Franklin |
An investment in knowledge pays the best
interest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please
others. |
Benjamin Franklin |
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of
dinner. |
Benjamin Harrison |
Great lives never go out; they go on. |
Benjamin Harrison |
The bud of victory is always in the truth. |
Benjamin Whichcote |
Conscience without judgment is superstition. |
Benny Hill |
Do unto others, then run. |
Berenice Abbott |
Photography helps people to see. |
Bern Williams |
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. |
Bern Williams |
A half-truth is usually less than half of that. |
Bern Williams |
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't. |
Bern Williams |
Women have a favorite room, men a favorite
chair. |
Bernard Baruch |
Never follow the crowd. |
Bernard Baruch |
Nobody ever lost money taking a profit. |
Bernard Berenson |
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. |
Bernard Levin |
The best headlines never fi |
Bernard Malamud |
Life is a tragedy full of joy. |
Bernard Malamud |
The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly. |
Bertolt Brecht |
It's all right to hesitate if you then go ahead. |
Bertolt Brecht |
What happens to the hole when the cheese is
gone? |
Beryl Markham |
Success breeds confidence. |
Bette Midler |
After thirty, a body has a mind of its own. |
Betty Hutton |
Some kind of fun lasts longer than others. |
Beverly Sills |
Art is the signature of civilization. |
Bill Anderson |
Mile after boring mile . . . |
Bill Anderson |
Long before I was a star, I was a fan. |
Bill Anderson |
Time is one of my most valuable assets. |
Bill Anderson |
Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves |
Bill Cosby |
Gray hair is God's graffiti. |
Bill Cosby |
Nobody ever says, 'Can I have your beets?' |
Bill Monroe |
Country music belongs to America. |
Bill Monroe |
Practice every time you get a chance. |
Bill Moyers |
I own and operate a ferocious ego. |
Bill Parcells |
Success is never final, but failure can be. |
Billie Holiday |
If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing. |
Billie Holiday |
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to
lose. |
Billie Jean King |
No one changes the world who isn't obsessed. |
Billy Casper |
Think ahead. Golf is a next-shot game. |
Billy Crystal |
Change is such hard work. |
Billy Crystal |
I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right. |
Billy Graham |
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything. |
Billy Wilder |
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
Billy Wilder |
You have Van Gogh's ear for music. |
Bing Crosby |
He was an average guy who could carry a tune. |
Bliss Carman |
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of
man. |
Bob Geldof |
Music can't change the world. |
Bob Hope |
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. |
Bob Hope |
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued. |
Bob Hope |
Bigamy: Only crime where two rites make a wrong. |
Bob Hope |
The only thing chicken about Israel is their
soup. |
Bob Zuppke |
All quitters are good losers. |
Bob Zuppke |
Guts win more games than ability. |
Bobby Fischer |
Chess is life. |
Bobby Fischer |
I like the moment when I break a man's ego. |
Bobby Knight |
Mental toughness is to physical as four is to
one. |
Bobby Locke |
Second guesses in putting are fatal. |
Bobby Locke |
You drive for show, but putt for dough. |
Bobby Locke |
You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes. |
Bobby McFerrin |
Don't Worry. . . Be Happy. |
Bobby Seale |
Seize the Time. |
Booker T. Washington |
We must reinforce argument with results. |
Booker T. Washington |
Character, not circumstances, makes the man. |
Boris Pasternak |
No bad man can be a good poet. |
Boris Pasternak |
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live. |
Branch Rickey |
A full mind is an empty bat. |
Branch Rickey |
Baseball is a game of inches. |
Branch Rickey |
Luck is the Residue of Design. |
Branch Rickey |
Problems are the price you pay for progress. |
Brendan Behan |
I wish I'd been a mixed infant. |
Brendan Behan |
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke. |
Brendan Behan |
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself. |
Brendan Behan |
All publicity is good, except an obituary
notice. |
Brendan Gill |
If it were better, it wouldn't be as good. |
Brian Aldiss |
Fantasy is literature for teenagers. |
Brian Tracy |
Persistence is self-discipline in action. |
Brigham Young |
Honest hearts produce honest actions. |
Brigham Young |
The biggest labor problem is tomorrow. |
Brigitte Bardot |
I leave before being left. I decide. |
Brigitte Bardot |
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. |
Brooks Atkinson |
Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy. |
Bruce Barton |
Conceit is God's gift to little men. |
Bruce Barton |
Advertising is the very essence of democracy. |
Bruce Barton |
When you're through changing, you're through. |
Bruce Lee |
As you think, so shall you become. |
Bruce Springsteen |
Talk about a dream, try to make it real. |
Bud Wilkinson |
Losing is easy. It's not enjoyable, but it's
easy. |
Buddha |
A jug fills drop by drop. |
Bugs Baer |
It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop. |
Bum Phillips |
The only discipline that lasts is
self-discipline. |
Burt Reynolds |
I can sing as well as Fred Astaire can act. |
C. Northcote Parkinson |
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. |
C. Northcote Parkinson |
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. |
C. S. Calverley |
Meaning, however, is no great matter. |
Caius Valerius Catullus |
Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is! |
Caius Valerius Catullus |
It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed
passion. |
Candice Bergen |
Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom. |
Carl Gustav Jung |
The creative mind plays with the objects it
loves. |
Carl Linnaeus |
If a tree dies, plant another in its place. |
Carl Linnaeus |
Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds. |
Carl Sandburg |
Nothing happens unless first we dream. |
Carl Sandburg |
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. |
Carl Sandburg |
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. |
Carl Sandburg |
Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in. |
Carl Sandburg |
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. |
Carl Sandburg |
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. |
Carl Sandburg |
It is the business of little minds to shrink. |
Carl Sandburg |
An expert is a damn fool a long way from home. |
Carl Sandburg |
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
Carl Sandburg |
Men of ideas vanish first when freedom vanishes. |
Carl Sandburg |
Hope is an echo, hope ties itself yonder,
yonder. |
Carl Sandburg |
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will
come. |
Carl Sandburg |
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk
to. |
Carl Van Doren |
Yes, it's hard to write, but it's harder not to. |
Carlos Castaneda |
No person is important enough to make me angry. |
Carlos Fuentes |
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect
horror. |
Carol Burnett |
Are we having fun yet? |
Carol Burnett |
Comedy is tragedy plus time. |
Carol Burnett |
I think we're here for each other. |
Carol Burnett |
I liked myself better when I wasn't me. |
Carol Burnett |
Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. |
Caroline Sheridan Norton |
God made all pleasures innocent. |
Caroline Sheridan Norton |
They serve God well, who serve his creatures. |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
We in middle age require adventure. |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
Ideas move rapidly when their time comes. |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions. |
Carolyn Wells |
Of two evils choose the prettier. |
Carrie Fisher |
Instant gratification takes too long. |
Cary Grant |
I improve on misquotation. |
Casey Stengel |
Most games are lost, not won. |
Casey Stengel |
Without losers, where would the winners be? |
Casey Stengel |
The trick is growing up without growing old. |
Casey Stengel |
It ain't the water cooler that's getting you
out. |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
Will the reader turn the page? |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
Chamber music -- a conversation between friends. |
Catherine the Great |
Your wits make others witty. |
Catherine the Great |
I praise loudly, I blame softly |
Catherine the Great |
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing. |
Catherine the Great |
I am one of the people who love the why of
things. |
Cecil Rhodes |
So little done, so much to do. |
Channing Pollock |
A critic is a legless man who teaches running. |
Charles A. Beard |
The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. |
Charles A. Beard |
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. |
Charles Baudelaire |
Inspiration comes of working every day. |
Charles Buxton |
In life, as in chess, forethought wins. |
Charles Buxton |
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them. |
Charles Buxton |
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. |
Charles Caleb Colton |
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. |
Charles Churchill |
Patience is sorrow's salve. |
Charles Churchill |
A joke's a very serious thing. |
Charles Churchill |
Just to the windward of the law. |
Charles Churchill |
Genius is independent of situation. |
Charles Churchill |
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone. |
Charles Churchill |
The best things carried to excess are wrong. |
Charles Dickens |
Here's richness! |
Charles Dickens |
Ain't I volatile? |
Charles Dickens |
Barkis is willin'. |
Charles Dickens |
Eccentricities of genius. |
Charles Dickens |
He'd make a lovely corpse. |
Charles Dickens |
I only ask for information. |
Charles Dickens |
Lord, keep my memory green. |
Charles Dickens |
I expect a judgment. Shortly. |
Charles Dickens |
The dodgerest of the dodgers. |
Charles Dickens |
He's a going out with the tide. |
Charles Dickens |
Oliver Twist has asked for more! |
Charles Dickens |
I wants to make your flesh creep. |
Charles Dickens |
My life is one demd horrid grind! |
Charles Dickens |
A highly geological home-made cake. |
Charles Dickens |
A literary man - with a wooden leg. |
Charles Dickens |
She's been thinking of the old 'un! |
Charles Dickens |
A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
Charles Dickens |
Keep up appearances whatever you do. |
Charles Dickens |
Not to put too fine a point upon it. |
Charles Dickens |
I pity his ignorance and despise him. |
Charles Dickens |
There's milestones on the Dover Road! |
Charles Dickens |
Dumb as a drum vith a hole in it, sir. |
Charles Dickens |
He has gone to the demnition bow-wows. |
Charles Dickens |
Far better hang wrong fler than no fler. |
Charles Dickens |
Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman. |
Charles Dickens |
Experientia does it - as papa used to say. |
Charles Dickens |
Oh! I know their tricks and their manners. |
Charles Dickens |
There might be some credit in being jolly. |
Charles Dickens |
Circumstances beyond my individual control. |
Charles Dickens |
Oh Sammy, Sammy, vy worn't there a alleybi! |
Charles Dickens |
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. |
Charles Dickens |
Jobling, there are chords in the human mind. |
Charles Dickens |
Oh gracious, why wasn't I born old and ugly? |
Charles Dickens |
Put it down a we, my lord, put it down a we! |
Charles Dickens |
Mrs Jellyby was looking far away into Africa. |
Charles Dickens |
Philosophers are only men in armor after all. |
Charles Dickens |
She's a swellin' wisibly before my wery eyes. |
Charles Dickens |
There's light enough for what I've got to do. |
Charles Dickens |
He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. |
Charles Dickens |
Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. |
Charles Dickens |
This is a London particular . . . A fog, miss. |
Charles Dickens |
Known by the sobriquet" of 'The artful Dodger.' |
Charles Dickens |
Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. |
Charles Dickens |
I am afeered that werges on the poetical, Sammy. |
Charles Dickens |
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. |
Charles Dickens |
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so
fast. |
Charles Dickens |
I'm Gormed - and I can't say no fairer than
that! |
Charles Dickens |
It's my opinion, sir, that this meeting is
drunk. |
Charles Dudley Warner |
Politics makes strange bed-fellows. |
Charles E. Wilson |
A bigger bang for a buck. |
Charles Fillmore |
It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom. |
Charles H. Spurgeon |
The anvil is not afraid of the hammer. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
The bashful are always aggressive at heart. |
Charles Horton Cooley |
To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration. |
Charles II |
You had better have one King than five hundred. |
Charles II |
Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels. |
Charles James Fox |
The worst of revolutions is a restoration. |
Charles Kettering |
A problem well stated is a problem half solved. |
Charles Krauthammer |
Middleness is the very enemy of the bold. |
Charles Lamb |
Presents, I often say, endear absents. |
Charles Lamb |
The vices of some men are magnificent. |
Charles Lamb |
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity. |
Charles Lamb |
The beggar wears all colors fearing none. |
Charles Lamb |
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. |
Charles Lamb |
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. |
Charles Lamb |
Riches are chiefly good because they give us
time. |
Charles Morgan |
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. |
Charles Peguy |
Freedom is a system based on courage. |
Charles Reade |
Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait. |
Charles Revson |
Create Demand. |
Charles Revson |
I don't meet competition. I crush it. |
Charles Schulz |
There is no greater burden than great potential. |
Charles V |
I came, I saw, God conquered. |
Charles W. Chesnutt |
There's time enough, but none to spare. |
Charles Wesley |
God buries His workmen but carries on His work. |
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand |
Not too much zeal! |
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand |
Speech was given to man to disguise his
thoughts. |
Charleszetta Waddles |
God knows no distance. |
Charlie Chaplin |
In the end, everything is a gag. |
Charlie Parker |
Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. |
Charlotte Bronte |
Look twice before you leap. |
Charlotte Bronte |
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. |
Charlotte Bronte |
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. |
Charlotte Bronte |
Better to be without logic than without feeling. |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
A concept is stronger than a fact. |
Che Guevara |
Silence is argument carried on by other means. |
Chet Atkins |
You shape your own destiny. |
Chet Atkins |
I'll always be poor in my mind. |
Chet Huntley |
Good night, Chet. Good night, David. |
Chet Huntley |
I hesitate to get into the gutter with this guy. |
Chi Chi Rodriguez |
I never exaggerate; I just remember big. |
Chiang Kai-Shek |
The sky cannot have two suns. |
Chris Evert Lloyd |
I always looked ahead. |
Christa McAuliffe |
I touch the future. I teach. |
Christiaan Barnard |
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
Few minds wear out; more rust out. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
A book should be luminous not voluminous. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
The great artist is a slave to his ideals. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
When all else is lost, the future still remains. |
Christina Baldwin |
Journal writing is a voyage to the interior. |
Christina of Sweden |
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked. |
Christopher Columbus |
Following the sun we left the old world. |
Christopher Lasch |
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. |
Christopher Marlowe |
There is no sin but ignorance. |
Christopher Morley |
Big shots are only little shots who keep
shooting. |
Chuck Noll |
Good things happen to those who hustle. |
Chuck Yeager |
Never wait for trouble. |
Clarence Darrow |
To think is to differ. |
Clarence Darrow |
The trouble with law is lawyers. |
Clarence Day |
Reason is the servant of instinct. |
Claude Bernard |
Art is I; science is we. |
Claude Bernard |
Science does not permit exceptions. |
Claude Bernard |
Hatred is the most clear-sighted, next to
genius. |
Claude McDonald |
Most worries are reruns. |
Claude McDonald |
Opportunity is a bird that never perches. |
Claude Pepper |
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy. |
Claudius |
Acquaintance lessens fame. |
Claudius |
No one is free who does not lord over himself. |
Cleveland Amory |
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. |
Cliffie Stone |
Everyone has a song in him. |
Cliffie Stone |
Get out on the stage of life. |
Clifton Fadiman |
Cheese -- milk's leap forward to immortality. |
Clive Barnes |
Dialogue more tame than Wilde. |
Clive Barnes |
As hard as the nails on a crucifix. |
Cole Porter |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't. |
Coleman Young |
Courage is one step ahead of fear. |
Colin Powell |
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. |
Colin Powell |
Be careful what you choose. You may get it. |
Colley Cibber |
Stolen sweets are best. |
Colley Cibber |
This business will never hold water. |
Colley Cibber |
As good be out of the world as out of the
fashion. |
Conway Twitty |
Listen to advice, but follow your heart. |
Conway Twitty |
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. |
Corazon Aquino |
One must be frank to be relevant. |
Corazon Aquino |
The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. |
Corita Kent |
Flowers grow out of dark moments. |
Cornelia Otis Skinner |
Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. |
Cornelius Nepos |
Character fashions fate. |
Countee Cullen |
Your love to me was like an unread book . . . |
Cullen Hightower |
Talk is cheap -- except when Congress does it. |
Cynthia Heimel |
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a net. |
Cynthia Nelms |
If men liked shopping, they'd call it research. |
Cynthia Ozick |
The engineering is secondary to the vision. |
D. Sutten |
Indiscriminate study bloats the mind. |
Dagobert Runes |
There is no better friend than a frank enemy. |
Dagobert Runes |
Work is man's most natural form of relaxation. |
Dagobert Runes |
Handle people with gloves, but issues,
barefisted. |
Daisy Ashford |
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without
you. |
Damon Runyon |
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. |
Dan Quayle |
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things. |
Daniel Boorstin |
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities. |
Daniel Webster |
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. |
Dante |
Nature is the art of God eternal. |
Daphne DuMaurier |
All autobiography is self-indulgent. |
Daphne DuMaurier |
People who travel are always fugitives. |
Daphne DuMaurier |
Life and death do not wait for legal action. |
David Bailey |
When I die I want to go to Vogue. |
David Ben-Gurion |
The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. |
David Garrick |
Wonders will never cease. |
David Garrick |
That's easier said than done. |
David Garrick |
All is not gold that glitters. |
David Garrick |
The boughs that bear most hang lowest. |
David Hare |
Children always turn to the light. |
David Hare |
No one but a fool is always right. |
David Hare |
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of
nature. |
David Livingstone |
Fear God and work hard. |
David Livingstone |
I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward. |
David Lloyd George |
Liberty has restraints but not frontiers. |
David Lloyd George |
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. |
David Thomas |
There's no one to stop you but yourself. |
Davy Crockett |
Be always sure you are right - then go ahead. |
Davy Crockett |
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. |
Dean Acheson |
The future comes one day at a time. |
Dean Acheson |
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake. |
Dean Martin |
If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. |
Dean William Ralph Inge |
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. |
Deepak Chopra |
To think is to practice brain chemistry. |
Delmore Schwartz |
Even paranoids have real enemies. |
Delphine de Girardin |
Business is other people's money. |
Delphine de Girardin |
Instinct is the nose of the mind. |
Delphine de Girardin |
The best religion is the most tolerant. |
Democritus |
Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss. |
Denis Diderot |
Distance is a great promoter of admiration! |
Denise Levertov |
Images / split the truth / in fractions. |
Denzel Washington |
Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. |
Desiderius Erasmus |
The desire to write grows with writing. |
Diane Ackerman |
We live on the leash of our senses. |
Diane Arbus |
My favorite thing is to go where I've never
been. |
Diane Wakoski |
Poems come from incomplete knowledge. |
Dianne Feinstein |
Survival is nothing more than recovery. |
Dinah Mulock Craik |
There was never a night that had no morn. |
Dizzy Dean |
It ain't bragging if you really done it. |
Dizzy Dean |
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. |
Dizzy Gillespie |
The idea of life is to give and receive. |
Djuna Barnes |
Life, the permission to know death. |
Djuna Barnes |
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact. |
Djuna Barnes |
To love without criticism is to be betrayed. |
Dodie Smith |
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. |
Dolly Parton |
Leave something good in every day. |
Don Delillo |
Hardship makes the world obscure. |
Don Marquis |
There is nothing so habit-forming as money. |
Don Marquis |
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. |
Don Marquis |
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. |
Don Shula |
Learn from everyone, copy no one. |
Doris Lessing |
Small things amuse small minds. |
Doris Lilly |
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles. |
Doroth‚e DeLuzy |
Perseverance and audacity generally win. |
Doroth‚e DeLuzy |
Employment and ennui are simply incompatible. |
Dorothea Brande |
Old habits are strong and jealous. |
Dorothy Gilman |
The best things arrive on time. |
Dorothy Gilman |
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
Very dangerous things, theories. |
Dorothy Miller Richardson |
Coercion. The unpardonable crime. |
Dorothy Miller Richardson |
If there was a trick, there must be a trickster. |
Dorothy Parker |
This is on me. |
Dorothy Parker |
Check enclosed. |
Dorothy Parker |
Excuse my dust. |
Dorothy Parker |
Outspoken by whom? |
Dorothy Parker |
How could they tell? |
Dorothy Parker |
Tonstant Weader Wowed up. |
Dorothy Parker |
Art is a form of catharsis. |
Dorothy Parker |
Somebody was using the pencil. |
Dorothy Parker |
Scratch a king and find a fool! |
Dorothy Parker |
Work is the province of cattle. |
Dorothy Parker |
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
Dorothy Parker |
Scratch a lover, and find a foe. |
Dorothy Parker |
Women and elephants never forget. |
Dorothy Parker |
House Beautiful' is the play lousy. |
Dorothy Parker |
It's like meeting God without dying. |
Dorothy Parker |
The doctors were very brave about it. |
Dorothy Parker |
Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city. |
Dorothy Parker |
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. |
Dorothy Parker |
Because he spills his seed on the ground. |
Dorothy Parker |
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress. |
Dorothy Parker |
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm. |
Dorothy Parker |
Sorrow is tranquillity remembered in emotion. |
Dorothy Parker |
His voice was intimate as the rustle of sheets. |
Dorothy Parker |
Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. |
Dorothy Parker |
I can't write five words but that I change
seven. |
Dorothy Parker |
Every love is the love before / In a duller
dress. |
Doug Horton |
Smile, it's free therapy. |
Doug Horton |
If food were free, why work? |
Doug Horton |
Growing old is not growing up. |
Doug Horton |
Money is good, love is wealth. |
Doug Horton |
Death is the final wake-up call. |
Doug Horton |
To buy happiness is to sell soul. |
Doug Horton |
Love is a given, hatred is acquired. |
Doug Horton |
Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it. |
Doug Horton |
Death is feared as birth is forgotten. |
Doug Horton |
To awake from death is to die in peace. |
Doug Horton |
Why ask why? If it's raining it just is. |
Doug Horton |
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. |
Doug Horton |
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye. |
Doug Horton |
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror. |
Doug Horton |
Strong words are required for weak principles. |
Doug Horton |
The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated. |
Doug Horton |
Boring people are a reflection of boring people. |
Doug Horton |
Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others. |
Doug Horton |
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. |
Doug Horton |
Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are
free. |
Douglas Adams |
So long, and thanks for all the fish. |
Douglas Adams |
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. |
Douglas Jerrold |
Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth. |
Douglas Jerrold |
In this world truth can wait; she's used to it. |
Douglas MacArthur |
Life is a lively process of becoming. |
Douglas MacArthur |
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. |
Dr. Seuss |
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. |
Dr. Seuss |
Adults are obsolete children. |
Duffy Daugherty |
A tie is like kissing your sister. |
Duke Ellington |
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That
Swing. |
Duke Ellington |
People do not retire. They are retired by
others. |
Dustin Hoffman |
Blame is for God and small children. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Plans are nothing; planning is everything. |
Dwight L. Moody |
Character is what you are in the dark. |
Dwight L. Moody |
A good example is far better than a good
precept. |
Dylan Thomas |
Somebody's boring me. . . I think it's me. |
E. B. White |
Be obscure clearly. |
e. e. cummings |
Nothing recedes like progress. |
e. e. cummings |
If they give you ruled paper, write the other
way. |
E. Franklin Frazier |
America faces a new race that has awakened. |
E. M. Forster |
Only connect! |
E. M. Forster |
Ideas are fatal to caste. |
E. M. Forster |
Unless we remember we cannot understand. |
E. M. Forster |
Yes, oh dear, yes, the novel tells a story. |
Earl Nightingale |
Everything begins with an idea. |
Earl Nightingale |
You become what you think about. |
Earl Nightingale |
We tend to live up to our expectations. |
Earl Nightingale |
The big thing is that you know what you want. |
Eddy Arnold |
Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face. |
Eddy Arnold |
Touring is really a pretty lonely business. |
Eddy Arnold |
Stay busy and take care of your own business. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
Stupidity is a talent for misconception. |
Edgar Quinet |
Time is the fairest and toughest judge. |
Edgar Quinet |
The perfection of art is to conceal art. |
Edgar Quinet |
What we share with another ceases to be our own. |
Edith Clara Summerskill |
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. |
Edith Evans |
Death is my neighbour now. |
Edith Hamilton |
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. |
Edith Nesbitt |
Time and space are only forms of thought. |
Edith Sitwell |
Poetry is the deification of reality. |
Edith Sitwell |
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. |
Edith Sitwell |
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of
life. |
Edmond de Goncourt |
Genius is the talent of a man who is dead. |
Edmund Burke |
To innovate is not to reform. |
Edmund Burke |
You cannot plan the future by the past. |
Edmund Burke |
Education is the cheap defense of nations. |
Edmund Burke |
Good order is the foundation of all things. |
Edmund Burke |
Our patience will achieve more than our force. |
Edmund Burke |
Never despair, but if you do, work on in
despair. |
Edmund Burke |
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the
giver. |
Edmund Burke |
It is the nature of all greatness not to be
exact. |
Edmund Hillary |
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. |
Edmund Spenser |
Sweete Themmes! runne softly, till I end my
Song. |
Edmund Wilson |
No two people read the same book. |
Edna O'Brien |
. . . in dreams begins responsibility. |
Edward Abbey |
Grown men do not need leaders. |
Edward Abbey |
The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. |
Edward Abbey |
If the end does not justify the means - what
can? |
Edward Coke |
Precaution is better than cure. |
Edward Coke |
One threatens the innocent who spares the
guilty. |
Edward Dahlberg |
To write is a humiliation. |
Edward Dahlberg |
Every decision you make is a mistake. |
Edward Dahlberg |
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature. |
Edward De Bono |
If you never change your mind, why have one? |
Edward Everett |
There is no sanctuary of virtue like home. |
Edward Everett |
I will not refuse to do something that I can do. |
Edward Fitzgerald |
One by one crept silently to Rest. |
Edward Fitzgerald |
I came like Water, and like Wind I go. |
Edward Fitzgerald |
Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot? |
Edward Fitzgerald |
And when like her, O Saki, you shall pass. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton |
Genius does what it must, talent does what it
can. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton |
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in
curves. |
Edward Koch |
Tone can be as important as text. |
Edward Koch |
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. |
Edward M. Kennedy |
Well, here I don't go again. |
Edward R. Murrow |
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. |
Edward Steichen |
No photographer is as good as the simplest
camera. |
Edward Young |
Procrastination is the thief of time. |
Edward Young |
Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. |
Edwin A. Robinson |
I shall have more to say when I am dead. |
Edwin Percy Whipple |
Wit is the unexpected explosion of thought. |
Elayne Boosler |
When the sun comes up, I have morals again. |
Elayne Boosler |
I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. |
Elbert Hubbard |
The more one knows, the more one simplifies. |
Eleanor Holmes Norton |
There is no reason to repeat bad history. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
What one has to do usually can be done. |
Elie Wiesel |
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. |
Elizabeth A. Drew |
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery. |
Elizabeth Arden |
Nothing that costs only a dollar is worth
having. |
Elizabeth Ashley |
Money is the long hair of the 80s. |
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco |
Irony is the hygiene of the mind. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Light tomorrow with today. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Books succeed, and lives fail. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Whoso loves / Believes the impossible. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
Since when was genius found respectable? |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. |
Elizabeth Bowen |
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. |
Elizabeth Bowen |
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your
eye. |
Elizabeth Fishel |
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony. |
Elizabeth Fishel |
A sister is both your mirror -- and your
opposite. |
Elizabeth I |
Good-morning, gentlemen both. |
Elizabeth I |
I will make you shorter by a head. |
Elizabeth I |
God may pardon you, but I never can. |
Elizabeth I |
All my possessions for a moment of time. |
Elizabeth I |
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. |
Elizabeth I |
The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth
sow. |
Elizabeth II |
I should like to be a horse. |
Elizabeth II |
I have to be seen to be believed. |
Elizabeth Montagu |
Minds ripen at very different ages. |
Elsa Maxwell |
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. |
Elsa Schiaparelli |
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. |
Elton John |
So shine on through these days we have to fill. |
Elvis Presley |
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. |
Emile Chartier |
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. |
Emile M. Cioran |
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. |
Emily Blackwell |
Health has its science as well as disease. . . |
Emily Dickinson |
My friends are my estate. |
Emily Dickinson |
Beauty is not caused. It is. |
Emily Dickinson |
Where thou art, that is home. |
Emily Dickinson |
A Wounded deer - leaps highest. |
Emily Dickinson |
Let us go in; the fog is rising. |
Emily Dickinson |
I felt it shelter to speak to you. |
Emily Dickinson |
Dying is a wild night and a new road. |
Emily Dickinson |
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. |
Emily Dickinson |
Fame is a fickle food / Upon a shifting plate. |
Emily Dickinson |
To multiply the harbors does not reduce the sea. |
Emily Dickinson |
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell
it. |
Emily Dickinson |
We turn not older with years, but newer every
day. |
Emma Goldman |
When we can't dream any longer, we die. |
Emma Goldman |
Revolution is but thought carried into action. |
Emmeline Pankhurst |
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. |
Enid Bagnold |
Judges don't age. Time decorates them. |
Epictetus |
Only the educated are free. |
Epicurus |
Only the just man enjoys peace of mind. |
Eric Butterworth |
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense |
Eric Butterworth |
Don't go through life, grow through life. |
Eric Butterworth |
I am not what I think. I am thinking what I
think. |
Eric Sevareid |
The chief cause of problems is solutions. |
Erica Jong |
Surviving meant being born over and over. |
Erica Jong |
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. |
Erich Segal |
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural. |
Erich Segal |
Love means never having to say you're sorry. |
Erik Satie |
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we
are. |
Erma Bombeck |
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. |
Erma Bombeck |
Never accept a drink from a Urologist. |
Erma Bombeck |
When humor goes, there goes civilization. |
Erma Bombeck |
I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food. |
Erma Bombeck |
If you can't make it better, you can laugh at
it. |
Erma Bombeck |
My mind works . . . two boobs never get me a
job. |
Erma Bombeck |
The grass is always greener over the septic
tank. |
Ernest Bramah |
One learns to itch where one can scratch. |
Ernest Bramah |
Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps. |
Ernest Dimnet |
Ideas are the roots of creation. |
Ernest Hemingway |
Never mistake motion for action. |
Ernest Newman |
The higher the voice the smaller the intellect. |
Ernestine L. Rose |
Slavery and freedom cannot exist together. |
Est‚e Lauder |
Look for a sweet person. Forget rich. |
Ethel Barrymore |
That's all there is, there isn't any more. |
Ethel Barrymore |
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare. |
Ethel Merman |
She's OK if you like talent. |
Ethel Merman |
I take a breath when I have to. |
Ethel Watts Mumford |
Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed! |
Etheridge Knight |
Another weaver of black dreams has gone. |
Eugene Delacroix |
Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. |
Eugene Ionesco |
The critic should describe, and not prescribe. |
Eugene O'Neill |
Critics? I love every bone in their heads. |
Eugene O'Neill |
Happiness hates the timid! So does science! |
Euripides |
Cleverness is not wisdom. |
Euripides |
Much effort, much prosperity. |
Euripides |
The language of truth is simple. |
Euripides |
The lucky person passes for a genius. |
Euripides |
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest. |
Euripides |
The wavering mind is but a base possession. |
Euripides |
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. |
Euripides |
Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. |
Euripides |
Along with success comes a reputation for
wisdom. |
Euripides |
Judge a tree from its fruit; not from the
leaves. |
Eva Peron |
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish
anything. |
Evan Esar |
Play -- Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. |
Evan Esar |
Play is work that you enjoy doing for nothing. |
Evan Esar |
A hamburger by any other name costs twice as
much. |
Evelyn Waugh |
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. |
Evelyn Waugh |
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic
utterances. |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Never confuse a single defeat with a final
defeat. |
Faith Baldwin |
Time is a dressmaker specializing in
alterations. |
Fannie Lou Hamer |
I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. |
Ferdinand Foch |
Victory is a thing of the will. |
Ferdinand Foch |
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has
lost. |
Finley Peter Dunne |
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. |
Flannery O'Connor |
Conviction without experience makes for
harshness. |
Flip Wilson |
Funny is an attitude. |
Florence Griffith Joyner |
I like being unconventional. |
Florence Griffith Joyner |
I pray hard, work hard and leave the rest to
God. |
Florence King |
We worship education but hate learning. |
Fran Lebowitz |
Nothing succeeds like address. |
Fran Lebowitz |
Never judge a cover by its book. |
Fran Lebowitz |
A salad is not a meal. It is a style. |
Fran Lebowitz |
Polite conversation is rarely either. |
Fran Lebowitz |
Food is an important part of a balanced diet. |
Fran Lebowitz |
Humility is no substitute for a good
personality. |
Frances Perkins |
In America, public opinion is the leader. |
Francesco Petrarch |
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. |
Francesco Petrarch |
How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! |
Francis Bacon |
Riches are for spending. |
Francis Bacon |
Knowledge itself is power. |
Francis Bacon |
Opportunity makes a thief. |
Francis Bacon |
Art is man added to nature. |
Francis Bacon |
Mysteries are due to secrecy. |
Francis Bacon |
For knowledge itself is power. |
Francis Bacon |
He said it, that knew it best. |
Francis Bacon |
In charity there is no excess. |
Francis Bacon |
Silence is the virtue of fools. |
Francis Bacon |
To choose time is to save time. |
Francis Bacon |
Time is the measure of business. |
Francis Bacon |
Boldness is a child of ignorance. |
Francis Bacon |
Lucid intervals and happy pauses. |
Francis Bacon |
All bravery stands on comparisons. |
Francis Bacon |
All colours will agree in the dark. |
Francis Bacon |
Intermingle . . . jest with earnest. |
Francis Bacon |
Boldness is an ill-keeper of promise. |
Francis Bacon |
By indignities men come to dignities. |
Francis Bacon |
It is impossible to love and be wise. |
Francis Bacon |
Science is but an image of the truth. |
Francis Bacon |
The remedy is worse than the disease. |
Francis Bacon |
Cure the disease and kill the patient. |
Francis Bacon |
God's first creature, which was light. |
Francis Bacon |
A good conscience is a continual feast. |
Francis Bacon |
Acorns were good until bread was found. |
Francis Bacon |
Consistency is the foundation of virtue. |
Francis Bacon |
Cunning is a sinister or crooked wisdom. |
Francis Bacon |
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. |
Francis Bacon |
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. |
Francis Bacon |
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot. |
Francis Bacon |
The place of justice is a hallowed place. |
Francis Bacon |
A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. |
Francis Bacon |
Let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. |
Francis Bacon |
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. |
Francis Bacon |
To spend too much time in studies is sloth. |
Francis Bacon |
I hold every man a debtor to his profession. |
Francis Bacon |
Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry. |
Francis Bacon |
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. |
Francis Bacon |
I have taken all knowledge to be my province. |
Francis Bacon |
I would live to study, and not study to live. |
Francis Bacon |
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. |
Francis Bacon |
Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch. |
Francis Bacon |
Nakedness is uncomely as well in mind, as body. |
Francis Bacon |
The folly of one man is the fortune of another. |
Francis Bacon |
The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery. |
Francis Bacon |
All rising to great places is by a winding
stair. |
Francis Bacon |
Custom is the principal magistrate of man's
life. |
Francis Bacon |
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad
supper. |
Francis Bacon |
Money is like muck, not good except it be
spread. |
Francis Bacon |
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own
hands. |
Francis Bacon |
There is a superstition in avoiding
superstition. |
Francis Bacon |
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a
saint. |
Francis Bacon |
Fortunes . . . come tumbling into some men's
laps. |
Francis Bacon |
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be
true. |
Francis Bacon |
Praise yourself daringly, something always
sticks. |
Francis Beaumont |
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. |
Francis H. Bradley |
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to
care. |
Francis Picabia |
All beliefs are bald ideas. |
Francis Picabia |
Only useless things are indispensable. |
Francis Picabia |
Good taste is as tiring as good company. |
Francis Picabia |
The essence of a man is found in his faults. |
Francis Quarles |
Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. |
Francois de Salignac Fenelon |
Little opportunities should be improved. |
Francois Rabelais |
Tell the truth and shame the devil. |
Francois Rabelais |
What cannot be cured must be endured. |
Francois Rabelais |
When I drink, I think; and when I think, I
drink. |
Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon |
Delicacy is to love what grace is to beauty. |
Francoise Sagan |
Art must take reality by surprise. |
Frank Capra |
Don't follow trends, start trends. |
Frank Crane |
Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. |
Frank Herbert |
Journalism is the entertainment business. |
Frank Herbert |
If Wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. |
Frank Herbert |
What do you despise? By this are you truly
known. |
Frank Leahy |
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
An idea is salvation by imagination. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
The truth is more important than the facts. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
I feel coming on a strange disease -- humility. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Youth is a quality, not a matter of
circumstances. |
Frank Tyger |
Success is often just an idea away. |
Frank Tyger |
Progress is not created by contented people. |
Frank Tyger |
When you like your work every day is a holiday. |
Franklin P. Jones |
Originality is the art of concealing your
source. |
Franklin Pierce |
There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk. |
Frantz Fanon |
Fervor is the weapon of choice of the impotent. |
Frantz Fanon |
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me. |
Fred Allen |
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. |
Fred Allen |
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission. |
Fred Allen |
Where were you fellows when the paper was blank? |
Fred Astaire |
Dancing is a sweat job. |
Fred Astaire |
Disco is just jitterbug. |
Frederick the Great |
Every man has a wild beast within him. |
Frederick the Great |
A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. |
Friedrich Engels |
Freedom is the recognition of necessity. |
Friedrich Engels |
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. |
Friedrich Engels |
The state is not 'abolished', it withers away. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Man is the cruelest animal. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Fear is the mother of morality. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Great intellects are skeptical. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
The lie is a condition of life. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Woman was God's 'second' mistake. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Only sick music makes money today. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Success has always been a great liar. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Every word is a preconceived judgment. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Art raises its head where creeds relax. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
In music the passions enjoy themselves. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Without music, life would be a mistake. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Christianity makes suffering contagious. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Idleness is the parent of all psychology. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
There are no facts, only interpretations. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Morality in Europe today is herd morality. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
We have art in order not to die of the truth. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
The English are the nation of consummate cant. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
The exuberant fertility of the universal will. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Morality is the herd instinct in the individual. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern
us. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
Against boredom the gods themselves fight in
vain. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
All truly great thoughts are conceived by
walking. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
No man lies so boldly as the man who is
indignant. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
The best weapon against an enemy is another
enemy. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
Man is an imitative creature. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
Dare to be wrong and to dream. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
The universe is one of God's thoughts. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
The voice of the majority is no proof of
justice. |
Friedrich von Schlegel |
A historian is a prophet in reverse. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
Ideas too are a life and a world. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
In each of us there is a little of all of us. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
First we have to believe, and then we believe. |