Length |
Quotation |
Author |
8 |
Ah, why? |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
11 |
Jesus wept. |
John 11:33 |
12 |
Dyb-dyb-dyb. |
Robert Baden-Powell |
12 |
Me no Leica. |
Walter Kerr |
13 |
Only connect! |
E. M. Forster |
13 |
Wait and see. |
Herbert Henry Asquith |
13 |
Less is more. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
14 |
Chess is life. |
Bobby Fischer |
14 |
Create Demand. |
Charles Revson |
14 |
This is on me. |
Dorothy Parker |
14 |
Seize the day. |
Horace |
14 |
Wait a minute. |
Sam Rayburn |
15 |
Trust your gut. |
Barbara Walters |
15 |
Seize the Time. |
Bobby Seale |
15 |
Check enclosed. |
Dorothy Parker |
15 |
Excuse my dust. |
Dorothy Parker |
15 |
Keep breathing. |
Sophie Tucker |
16 |
Talent wins out. |
Althea Gibson |
16 |
Here's richness! |
Charles Dickens |
16 |
How sweet it is! |
Jackie Gleason |
16 |
To begin, begin. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
16 |
Work is victory. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
17 |
Ain't I volatile? |
Charles Dickens |
17 |
Deeds, not words. |
John Fletcher |
17 |
I refute it thus. |
Samuel Johnson |
18 |
Lead and I follow. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
18 |
ONCE, adv. Enough. |
Ambrose Bierce |
18 |
Barkis is willin'. |
Charles Dickens |
18 |
Not too much zeal! |
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand |
18 |
Outspoken by whom? |
Dorothy Parker |
18 |
Visualize winning. |
Gary Player |
18 |
My Lady Bountiful. |
George Farquhar |
18 |
How is the Empire? |
George V |
18 |
Time stays, we go. |
H. L. Mencken |
18 |
Delay breeds fear. |
Jessamyn West |
18 |
Do the next thing. |
John Wanamaker |
18 |
I sing about life. |
Marvin Gaye |
18 |
All poets are mad. |
Robert Burton |
19 |
Easy DOESN'T do it. |
Al Bernstein |
19 |
Be obscure clearly. |
E. B. White |
19 |
No Bishop, no King. |
James I |
19 |
Haste maketh waste. |
John Heywood |
19 |
I'm not the public. |
Lauren Bacall |
19 |
I am a spy of life. |
Lech Walesa |
19 |
I was born excited. |
Mark Twain |
19 |
Deserve your dream. |
Octavio Paz |
19 |
Every day's a kick! |
Oprah Winfrey |
19 |
To think is to act. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
19 |
The everlasting No. |
Thomas Carlyle |
19 |
We have deep depth. |
Yogi Berra |
20 |
I paint with shapes. |
Alexander Calder |
20 |
IMPUNITY, n. Wealth. |
Ambrose Bierce |
20 |
OVEREAT, v. To dine. |
Ambrose Bierce |
20 |
Give more than take. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
20 |
Doing beats stewing. |
Arnold Glasow |
20 |
The truth will ouch. |
Arnold Glasow |
20 |
How could they tell? |
Dorothy Parker |
20 |
New roads: new ruts. |
G. K. Chesterton |
20 |
When in doubt, punt! |
John Heisman |
20 |
Think and let think. |
John Wesley |
20 |
Purity is obscurity. |
Ogden Nash |
20 |
Never use intuition. |
Omar Bradley |
20 |
Reason over passion. |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
20 |
So who's in a hurry? |
Robert Benchley |
20 |
I write like I talk. |
Roger Miller |
20 |
See with your heart. |
Ronnie Milsap |
20 |
Venerate art as art. |
William Hazlitt |
21 |
TRUCE, n. Friendship. |
Ambrose Bierce |
21 |
Law means good order. |
Aristotle |
21 |
Funny is an attitude. |
Flip Wilson |
21 |
Man is what he reads. |
Joseph Brodsky |
21 |
More will mean worse. |
Kingsley Amis |
21 |
What we play is life. |
Louis Armstrong |
21 |
He who laughs, lasts. |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
21 |
Don't forget to duck! |
Patricia Neal |
21 |
Action conquers fear. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
21 |
Every wall is a door. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
21 |
Genius Borrows nobly. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
21 |
Imitation is suicide. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
21 |
The balance of power. |
Robert Walpole |
21 |
I dream for a living. |
Steven Spielberg |
21 |
Sanity is a cozy lie. |
Susan Sontag |
21 |
Rest is for the dead. |
Thomas Carlyle |
22 |
Example is leadership. |
Albert Schweitzer |
22 |
Love is the only gold. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
22 |
Are we having fun yet? |
Carol Burnett |
22 |
God knows no distance. |
Charleszetta Waddles |
22 |
I always looked ahead. |
Chris Evert Lloyd |
22 |
To think is to differ. |
Clarence Darrow |
22 |
Now comes the mystery. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
22 |
Time wounds all heels. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
22 |
Force is not a remedy. |
John Bright |
22 |
God is in the details. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
22 |
I do not seek. I find. |
Pablo Picasso |
22 |
A winner never whines. |
Paul Brown |
22 |
Never bet on baseball. |
Pete Rose |
22 |
Be an opener of doors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
22 |
A very unclubable man. |
Samuel Johnson |
22 |
Live with no time out. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
22 |
Failure is impossible. |
Susan B. Anthony |
22 |
A deed without a name. |
William Shakespeare |
22 |
Boldness be my friend! |
William Shakespeare |
22 |
I was adored once too. |
William Shakespeare |
23 |
Hope is a waking dream. |
Aristotle |
23 |
Never follow the crowd. |
Bernard Baruch |
23 |
Never wait for trouble. |
Chuck Yeager |
23 |
Stolen sweets are best. |
Colley Cibber |
23 |
Fear God and work hard. |
David Livingstone |
23 |
Dancing is a sweat job. |
Fred Astaire |
23 |
Better never than late. |
George Bernard Shaw |
23 |
Oh to be seventy again. |
Georges Clemenceau |
23 |
When in doubt, risk it. |
Holbrook Jackson |
23 |
Youth is a mortal wound |
Katherine Paterson |
23 |
There is no quit in me. |
Larry Holmes |
23 |
We all need each other. |
Leo Buscaglia |
23 |
Miracles do not happen. |
Matthew Arnold |
23 |
Time is waste of money. |
Oscar Wilde |
23 |
Clean up your own mess. |
Robert Fulghum |
23 |
Avarice is always poor. |
Samuel Johnson |
23 |
A morsel for a monarch. |
William Shakespeare |
23 |
I am bored with it all. |
Winston Churchill |
23 |
Success is never final. |
Winston Churchill |
24 |
Obscurity brings safety. |
Aesop |
24 |
Man thinks, God directs. |
Alcuin |
24 |
REALLY, adv. Apparently. |
Ambrose Bierce |
24 |
This delicious Solitude. |
Andrew Marvell |
24 |
Well begun is half done. |
Aristotle |
24 |
I am worn to a raveling. |
Beatrix Potter |
24 |
Art is I; science is we. |
Claude Bernard |
24 |
Most worries are reruns. |
Claude McDonald |
24 |
Character fashions fate. |
Cornelius Nepos |
24 |
Riches are for spending. |
Francis Bacon |
24 |
Disco is just jitterbug. |
Fred Astaire |
24 |
Oh, one world at a time! |
Henry David Thoreau |
24 |
Honey, I forgot to duck. |
Jack Dempsey |
24 |
Ideas control the world. |
James A. Garfield |
24 |
Suicide is not a remedy. |
James A. Garfield |
24 |
A hungry dog hunts best. |
Lee Trevino |
24 |
Only entropy comes easy. |
Lewis Mumford |
24 |
Never get caught acting. |
Lillian Gish |
24 |
A letter does not blush. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
24 |
Cherish your wilderness. |
Maxine Kumin |
24 |
Earth laughs in flowers. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
24 |
I like man, but not men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
24 |
Pride ruined the angels. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
24 |
Fans don't boo nobodies. |
Reggie Jackson |
24 |
Mental inertia is death. |
T. Thomas Fortune |
24 |
You can't shoot an idea. |
Thomas E. Dewey |
24 |
Science is all metaphor. |
Timothy Leary |
24 |
Responsibility educates. |
Wendell Phillips |
24 |
When you doubt, abstain. |
Zoroaster |
25 |
Poets are born, not paid. |
Addison Mizner |
25 |
Self-plagiarism is style. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
25 |
There is no joy but calm! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
25 |
ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten. |
Ambrose Bierce |
25 |
WHITE, adj. and n. Black. |
Ambrose Bierce |
25 |
Gentlemen prefer blondes. |
Andrew Mellon |
25 |
I am a mystery to myself. |
Angelina Grimke |
25 |
Life is so unlike theory. |
Anthony Trollope |
25 |
Grow Rich While You Sleep |
Ben Sweetland |
25 |
Mine is better than ours. |
Benjamin Franklin |
25 |
The best is the cheapest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
25 |
Do unto others, then run. |
Benny Hill |
25 |
Change is such hard work. |
Billy Crystal |
25 |
A jug fills drop by drop. |
Buddha |
25 |
Eccentricities of genius. |
Charles Dickens |
25 |
A bigger bang for a buck. |
Charles E. Wilson |
25 |
Wonders will never cease. |
David Garrick |
25 |
Tonstant Weader Wowed up. |
Dorothy Parker |
25 |
Smile, it's free therapy. |
Doug Horton |
25 |
Ideas are fatal to caste. |
E. M. Forster |
25 |
My friends are my estate. |
Emily Dickinson |
25 |
Cleverness is not wisdom. |
Euripides |
25 |
A yawn is a silent shout. |
G. K. Chesterton |
25 |
How badly do you want it? |
George Allen |
25 |
Life's but a day at most. |
George Burns |
25 |
Art is a kind of illness. |
Giacomo Puccini |
25 |
How long can you be cute? |
Goldie Hawn |
25 |
Poetry is life distilled. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
25 |
Sorrow makes men sincere. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
25 |
Learning is a livelihood. |
Hitopadesa |
25 |
Words are loaded pistols. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
25 |
Genius is sorrow's child. |
John Adams |
25 |
Hit the nail on the head. |
John Fletcher |
25 |
More bomb than bombshell. |
Judith Crist |
25 |
Let reason govern desire. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
25 |
He who hesitates is poor. |
Mel Brooks |
25 |
Be larger than your task. |
Orison Swett Marden |
25 |
All Art is quite useless. |
Oscar Wilde |
25 |
Genius is born, not paid. |
Oscar Wilde |
25 |
Nature hates calculators. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
25 |
New arts destroy the old. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
25 |
We have more than we use. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
25 |
Just do what you do best. |
Red Auerbach |
25 |
A vow is a snare for sin. |
Samuel Johnson |
25 |
Fortune favors the brave. |
Terence |
25 |
A daydream is an evasion. |
Thomas Merton |
25 |
Old folks are the nation. |
Toni Cade Bambara |
25 |
All literature is gossip. |
Truman Capote |
25 |
We have seen better days. |
William Shakespeare |
26 |
Fantasy is the only truth. |
Abbie Hoffman |
26 |
HYBRID, n. A pooled issue. |
Ambrose Bierce |
26 |
OTHERWISE, adv. No better. |
Ambrose Bierce |
26 |
Beauty is the gift of God. |
Aristotle |
26 |
Wit is educated insolence. |
Aristotle |
26 |
No one will do it for you. |
Ben Stein |
26 |
Applause waits on success. |
Benjamin Franklin |
26 |
Success breeds confidence. |
Beryl Markham |
26 |
Don't Worry. . . Be Happy. |
Bobby McFerrin |
26 |
I improve on misquotation. |
Cary Grant |
26 |
He'd make a lovely corpse. |
Charles Dickens |
26 |
Acquaintance lessens fame. |
Claudius |
26 |
You make 'em, I amuse 'em. |
Dr. Seuss |
26 |
Death is my neighbour now. |
Edith Evans |
26 |
To write is a humiliation. |
Edward Dahlberg |
26 |
Light tomorrow with today. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
26 |
Knowledge itself is power. |
Francis Bacon |
26 |
Opportunity makes a thief. |
Francis Bacon |
26 |
Man is an imagining being. |
Gaston Bachelard |
26 |
Persevere and get it done. |
George Allen |
26 |
Good council has no price. |
Giuseppe Mazzini |
26 |
Life is a dead-end street. |
H. L. Mencken |
26 |
Study men, not historians. |
Harry S. Truman |
26 |
The unfinished is nothing. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
26 |
Affluence means influence. |
Jack London |
26 |
The future is . . . black. |
James Baldwin |
26 |
Either back us or sack us. |
James Callaghan |
26 |
I'm famous. That's my job. |
Jerry Rubin |
26 |
What people want me to be. |
Joan Crawford |
26 |
Learn to think Imperially. |
Joseph Chamberlain |
26 |
Then again, maybe I won't. |
Judy Blume |
26 |
True strength is delicate. |
Louise Nevelson |
26 |
Patience is passion tamed. |
Lyman Abbott |
26 |
Like associates with like. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
26 |
Conquer but don't triumph. |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
26 |
Eternity -- waste of time. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
26 |
Grief has turned her fair. |
Oscar Wilde |
26 |
Life is a zoo in a jungle. |
Peter De Vries |
26 |
Swifter, higher, stronger. |
Pierre de Coubertin |
26 |
Language is fossil poetry. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
26 |
Reality is a sliding door. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
26 |
The surest poison is time. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
26 |
We are prisoners of ideas. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
26 |
We are wiser than we know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
26 |
Be not the slave of Words. |
Thomas Carlyle |
26 |
Facts are stubborn things. |
Tobias Smollett |
26 |
I'm not exactly repulsive. |
Vera-Ellen |
26 |
Money is a kind of poetry. |
Wallace Stevens |
26 |
I have not slept one wink. |
William Shakespeare |
26 |
I live from mouth to hand. |
Winston Churchill |
26 |
Dressing is a way of life. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
27 |
Enthusiasm moves the world. |
A. J. Balfour |
27 |
Order is heav'ns first law. |
Alexander Pope |
27 |
This long disease, my life. |
Alexander Pope |
27 |
ALONE, adj. In bad company. |
Ambrose Bierce |
27 |
TWICE, adv. Once too often. |
Ambrose Bierce |
27 |
A fat kitchen, a lean will. |
Benjamin Franklin |
27 |
Beware the hobby that eats. |
Benjamin Franklin |
27 |
Fatigue is the best pillow. |
Benjamin Franklin |
27 |
The best headlines never fi |
Bernard Levin |
27 |
Patience is sorrow's salve. |
Charles Churchill |
27 |
I only ask for information. |
Charles Dickens |
27 |
Lord, keep my memory green. |
Charles Dickens |
27 |
Look twice before you leap. |
Charlotte Bronte |
27 |
You shape your own destiny. |
Chet Atkins |
27 |
Everyone has a song in him. |
Cliffie Stone |
27 |
Art is a form of catharsis. |
Dorothy Parker |
27 |
Only the educated are free. |
Epictetus |
27 |
Art is man added to nature. |
Francis Bacon |
27 |
All beliefs are bald ideas. |
Francis Picabia |
27 |
Man is the cruelest animal. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
27 |
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. |
George Eliot |
27 |
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. |
George Farquhar |
27 |
Remarks are not literature. |
Gertrude Stein |
27 |
Not to decide is to decide. |
Harvey Cox |
27 |
Nothing endures but change. |
Heraclitus of Ephesus |
27 |
Here's looking at you, kid. |
Humphrey Bogart |
27 |
I dream, therefore I exist. |
J. August Strindberg |
27 |
Familiarity breeds attempt. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
27 |
Home wasn't built in a day. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
27 |
I'm a ragged individualist. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
27 |
One chance is all you need. |
Jesse Owens |
27 |
Biology transcends society. |
Jessie Redmon Fauset |
27 |
Labor gives birth to ideas. |
Jim Rohn |
27 |
Life itself is a quotation. |
Jorge Luis Borges |
27 |
I came, I saw, I conquered. |
Julius Caesar |
27 |
Enemies are so stimulating. |
Katharine Hepburn |
27 |
Man proposes, God disposes. |
Ludovico Ariosto |
27 |
Thrift is of great revenue. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
27 |
An imitation rough diamond. |
Margot Asquith |
27 |
Humor is tragedy plus time. |
Mark Twain |
27 |
The only sin is mediocrity. |
Martha Graham |
27 |
Life loves the liver of it. |
Maya Angelou |
27 |
Genius is eternal patience. |
Michelangelo |
27 |
Everything evil is revenge. |
Otto Weininger |
27 |
See the ball; hit the ball. |
Pete Rose |
27 |
Blame is safer than praise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
27 |
Money often costs too much. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
27 |
Skill to do comes of doing. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
27 |
The first wealth is health. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
27 |
A mere scholar, a mere ass. |
Robert Burton |
27 |
Freedom lies in being bold. |
Robert Frost |
27 |
Love, and do what you like. |
Saint Augustine |
27 |
No violent extreme endures. |
Thomas Carlyle |
27 |
The seagreen Incorruptible. |
Thomas Carlyle |
27 |
Naught venture naught have. |
Thomas Tusser |
27 |
Tis neither here nor there. |
William Shakespeare |
27 |
A hit, a very palpable hit. |
William Shakespeare |
27 |
Death is an acquired trait. |
Woody Allen |
27 |
Macho does not prove mucho. |
Zsa Zsa Gabor |
28 |
Example is the best precept. |
Aesop |
28 |
Faith lives in honest doubt. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
28 |
By words the mind is winged. |
Aristophanes |
28 |
Man is a tool-making animal. |
Benjamin Franklin |
28 |
Remember that time is money. |
Benjamin Franklin |
28 |
Mile after boring mile . . . |
Bill Anderson |
28 |
Gray hair is God's graffiti. |
Bill Cosby |
28 |
A full mind is an empty bat. |
Branch Rickey |
28 |
Comedy is tragedy plus time. |
Carol Burnett |
28 |
Your wits make others witty. |
Catherine the Great |
28 |
I touch the future. I teach. |
Christa McAuliffe |
28 |
If food were free, why work? |
Doug Horton |
28 |
Well, here I don't go again. |
Edward M. Kennedy |
28 |
I should like to be a horse. |
Elizabeth II |
28 |
Beauty is not caused. It is. |
Emily Dickinson |
28 |
SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense |
Eric Butterworth |
28 |
She's OK if you like talent. |
Ethel Merman |
28 |
I like being unconventional. |
Florence Griffith Joyner |
28 |
Little words hurt big ideas. |
Howard W. Newton |
28 |
The game is meant to be fun. |
Jack Nicklaus |
28 |
Truth is no road to fortune. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
28 |
Never floss with a stranger. |
Joan Rivers |
28 |
When you win, nothing hurts. |
Joe Namath |
28 |
God gives quietness at last. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
28 |
The smile of God is victory. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
28 |
Rome was not built in a day. |
John Heywood |
28 |
It stirs up envy, fame does. |
Marilyn Monroe |
28 |
Golf is a good walk spoiled. |
Mark Twain |
28 |
To philosophize is to doubt. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
28 |
I can't get no satisfaction. |
Mick Jagger |
28 |
Imagination rules the world. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
28 |
Novels are longer than life. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
28 |
No one is wise at all times. |
Pliny the Elder |
28 |
Every advantage has its tax. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
28 |
Life too near paralyses art. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
28 |
New York is a sucked orange. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
28 |
Only poetry inspires poetry. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
28 |
Today is a king in disguise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
28 |
What is a ship but a prison? |
Robert Burton |
28 |
Life is just a bowl of pits. |
Rodney Dangerfield |
28 |
Let's have some new clich‚s. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
28 |
The king is the man who can. |
Thomas Carlyle |
28 |
The public is a bad guesser. |
Thomas De Quincey |
28 |
A winner never stops trying. |
Tom Landry |
28 |
Well, I've had a happy life. |
William Hazlitt |
29 |
Ask with urgency and passion. |
A. J. Balfour |
29 |
Life is an incurable Disease. |
Abraham Cowley |
29 |
Men die but an idea does not. |
Alan Jay Lerner |
29 |
Dear damned distracting town. |
Alexander Pope |
29 |
Nobody shoots at Santa Claus. |
Alfred E. Smith |
29 |
OUTDO, v.t. To make an enemy. |
Ambrose Bierce |
29 |
Music can't change the world. |
Bob Geldof |
29 |
All quitters are good losers. |
Bob Zuppke |
29 |
Baseball is a game of inches. |
Branch Rickey |
29 |
Most games are lost, not won. |
Casey Stengel |
29 |
I expect a judgment. Shortly. |
Charles Dickens |
29 |
The dodgerest of the dodgers. |
Charles Dickens |
29 |
I came, I saw, God conquered. |
Charles V |
29 |
The sky cannot have two suns. |
Chiang Kai-Shek |
29 |
Get out on the stage of life. |
Cliffie Stone |
29 |
That's easier said than done. |
David Garrick |
29 |
Adults are obsolete children. |
Dr. Seuss |
29 |
To innovate is not to reform. |
Edmund Burke |
29 |
Good-morning, gentlemen both. |
Elizabeth I |
29 |
Where thou art, that is home. |
Emily Dickinson |
29 |
Much effort, much prosperity. |
Euripides |
29 |
Mysteries are due to secrecy. |
Francis Bacon |
29 |
Man is an imitative creature. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
29 |
A great ship asks deep water. |
George Herbert |
29 |
Time takes all and gives all. |
Giordano Bruno |
29 |
Never wound a snake, kill it. |
Harriet Tubman |
29 |
Marriage: A souvenir of love. |
Helen Rowland |
29 |
Variety is the spice of love. |
Helen Rowland |
29 |
Being is the great explainer. |
Henry David Thoreau |
29 |
It is a great art to saunter. |
Henry David Thoreau |
29 |
Music is a safe kind of high. |
Jimi Hendrix |
29 |
Love's tongue is in his eyes. |
John Fletcher |
29 |
Busy opinion is an idle fool. |
John Ford |
29 |
One brave deed makes no hero. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
29 |
It's been a hard day's night. |
John Lennon |
29 |
Boldness can mask great fear. |
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus |
29 |
Kings is mostly rapscallions. |
Mark Twain |
29 |
Give the lady what she wants! |
Marshall Field |
29 |
What keeps me going is goals. |
Muhammad Ali |
29 |
A kiss may ruin a human life. |
Oscar Wilde |
29 |
The final mystery is oneself. |
Oscar Wilde |
29 |
To retire is to begin to die. |
Pablo Casals |
29 |
A great speech is literature. |
Peggy Noonan |
29 |
Cunning is strength withheld. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
29 |
Life is a search after power. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
29 |
The excellent is new forever. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
29 |
The eye is easily frightened. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
29 |
We boil at different degrees. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
29 |
We never touch but at points. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
29 |
Don't fight forces, use them. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
29 |
Talent works, genius creates. |
Robert Alexander Schumann |
29 |
Be not solitary, be not idle. |
Robert Burton |
29 |
The great Panjandrum himself. |
Samuel Foote |
29 |
Gossip is nature's telephone. |
Sholom Aleichem |
29 |
Concentrate, don't embroider. |
Spencer Tracy |
29 |
This was a good week's labor. |
Thomas Middleton |
29 |
Give luck a chance to happen. |
Tom Kite |
29 |
Talent is a valued tormentor. |
Truman Capote |
29 |
Believe one who has tried it. |
Virgil |
29 |
Happiness means quiet nerves. |
W. C. Fields |
29 |
Reflection makes men cowards. |
William Hazlitt |
29 |
Pain with the thousand teeth. |
William Watson |
29 |
Still longed for, never seen. |
William Wordsworth |
29 |
Writing is thinking on paper. |
William Zinsser |
29 |
It ain't over 'til it's over. |
Yogi Berra |
30 |
Slow and steady wins the race. |
Aesop |
30 |
I am a part of all I have met. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
30 |
Let us hob-and-nob with Death. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
30 |
Nature, red in tooth and claw. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
30 |
KLEPTOMANIAC, n. A rich thief. |
Ambrose Bierce |
30 |
Don't fear change, embrace it. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
30 |
And our dreams are who we are. |
Barbara Sher |
30 |
Observe all men, thyself most. |
Benjamin Franklin |
30 |
Read much, but not many books. |
Benjamin Franklin |
30 |
Life is a tragedy full of joy. |
Bernard Malamud |
30 |
No bad man can be a good poet. |
Boris Pasternak |
30 |
Luck is the Residue of Design. |
Branch Rickey |
30 |
Will the reader turn the page? |
Catherine Drinker Bowen |
30 |
So little done, so much to do. |
Cecil Rhodes |
30 |
A joke's a very serious thing. |
Charles Churchill |
30 |
There is no sin but ignorance. |
Christopher Marlowe |
30 |
Dialogue more tame than Wilde. |
Clive Barnes |
30 |
All is not gold that glitters. |
David Garrick |
30 |
Somebody was using the pencil. |
Dorothy Parker |
30 |
Growing old is not growing up. |
Doug Horton |
30 |
Money is good, love is wealth. |
Doug Horton |
30 |
Nothing recedes like progress. |
e. e. cummings |
30 |
Grown men do not need leaders. |
Edward Abbey |
30 |
Books succeed, and lives fail. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
30 |
Nothing succeeds like address. |
Fran Lebowitz |
30 |
For knowledge itself is power. |
Francis Bacon |
30 |
He said it, that knew it best. |
Francis Bacon |
30 |
In charity there is no excess. |
Francis Bacon |
30 |
Dare to be wrong and to dream. |
Friedrich von Schiller |
30 |
Men love . . . newfangledness. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
30 |
Time and tide wait for no man. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
30 |
General consultant to mankind. |
George Bernard Shaw |
30 |
Property is organised robbery. |
George Bernard Shaw |
30 |
Those who trust us educate us. |
George Eliot |
30 |
Success is the sum of details. |
Harvey S. Firestone |
30 |
I never felt I left the stage. |
Helen Gahagan Douglas |
30 |
The sun is but a morning star. |
Henry David Thoreau |
30 |
Common sense is very uncommon. |
Horace Greeley |
30 |
A woman should be an illusion. |
Ian Fleming |
30 |
Everything changes but change. |
Israel Zangwill |
30 |
Focus on remedies, not faults. |
Jack Nicklaus |
30 |
I like the noise of democracy. |
James Buchanan |
30 |
All we ask is to be let alone. |
Jefferson Davis |
30 |
He can run, but he can't hide. |
Joe Louis |
30 |
Humor is a universal language. |
Joel Goodman |
30 |
Art is the triumph over chaos. |
John Cheever |
30 |
Patience is the best medicine. |
John Florio |
30 |
Calculation never made a hero. |
John Henry Newman |
30 |
I have not yet begun to fight. |
John Paul Jones |
30 |
When in doubt, make a western. |
John Sean O'Feeny Ford |
30 |
Man is that he might have joy. |
Joseph Smith |
30 |
Accomplishments have no color. |
Leontyne Price |
30 |
Patience means self-suffering. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
30 |
All the modern inconveniences. |
Mark Twain |
30 |
When in doubt, tell the truth. |
Mark Twain |
30 |
The beginning is always today. |
Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft |
30 |
Whom the gods love dies young. |
Menander |
30 |
Bad manners make a journalist. |
Oscar Wilde |
30 |
Petty laws breed great crimes. |
Ouida |
30 |
We live in a rainbow of chaos. |
Paul Cezanne |
30 |
One eye sees, the other feels. |
Paul Klee |
30 |
A forte always makes a foible. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
30 |
Live, let live, and help live. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
30 |
Reason is life's sole arbiter. |
Richard Francis Burton |
30 |
I would have made a good Pope. |
Richard Nixon |
30 |
Comedy is acting out optimism. |
Robin Williams |
30 |
Life is not a dress rehearsal. |
Rose Tremain |
30 |
Our lives teach us who we are. |
Salman Rushdie |
30 |
Buying is a profound pleasure. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
30 |
He who limps is still walking. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
30 |
Open sesame-I want to get out. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
30 |
Is it larger than a bread box? |
Steve Allen |
30 |
My business is hurting people. |
Sugar Ray Robinson |
30 |
Acting is a form of confusion. |
Tallulah Bankhead |
30 |
He who flees will fight again. |
Tertullian |
30 |
Society is founded upon cloth. |
Thomas Carlyle |
30 |
Song is the heroics of speech. |
Thomas Carlyle |
30 |
The actual well seen is ideal. |
Thomas Carlyle |
30 |
A song is a poem set to music. |
Tom T. Hall |
30 |
Conscience is a man's compass. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
30 |
Common Sense is not so common. |
Voltaire |
30 |
Lord, let me live until I die. |
Will Rogers |
30 |
I am the cat that walks alone. |
William Maxwell Beaverbrook |
31 |
Ask the gods nothing excessive. |
Aeschylus |
31 |
Time brings all things to pass. |
Aeschylus |
31 |
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. |
Aesop |
31 |
Integrity has no need of rules. |
Albert Camus |
31 |
We read the future by the past. |
Alexander Crummell |
31 |
Die of a rose in aromatic pain? |
Alexander Pope |
31 |
He himself one vile antithesis. |
Alexander Pope |
31 |
Passions are the gales of life. |
Alexander Pope |
31 |
A day may sink or save a realm. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
31 |
Authority forgets a dying king. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
31 |
But I was born to other things. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
31 |
We can invent only with memory. |
Alphonse Karr |
31 |
MINOR, adj. Less objectionable. |
Ambrose Bierce |
31 |
PRECIPITATE, adj. Anteprandial. |
Ambrose Bierce |
31 |
RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave. |
Ambrose Bierce |
31 |
Old age is the verdict of life. |
Amelia Barr |
31 |
The less routine the more life. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
31 |
Bad men are full of repentance. |
Aristotle |
31 |
I invent nothing. I rediscover. |
Auguste Rodin |
31 |
He that drinks fast, pays slow. |
Benjamin Franklin |
31 |
Little strokes fell great oaks. |
Benjamin Franklin |
31 |
I wish I'd been a mixed infant. |
Brendan Behan |
31 |
I praise loudly, I blame softly |
Catherine the Great |
31 |
He's a going out with the tide. |
Charles Dickens |
31 |
I'll always be poor in my mind. |
Chet Atkins |
31 |
Small things amuse small minds. |
Doris Lessing |
31 |
The best things arrive on time. |
Dorothy Gilman |
31 |
Scratch a king and find a fool! |
Dorothy Parker |
31 |
Work is the province of cattle. |
Dorothy Parker |
31 |
Everything begins with an idea. |
Earl Nightingale |
31 |
Precaution is better than cure. |
Edward Coke |
31 |
A Wounded deer - leaps highest. |
Emily Dickinson |
31 |
I take a breath when I have to. |
Ethel Merman |
31 |
Victory is a thing of the will. |
Ferdinand Foch |
31 |
Silence is the virtue of fools. |
Francis Bacon |
31 |
To choose time is to save time. |
Francis Bacon |
31 |
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. |
Frank Lloyd Wright |
31 |
Fear is the mother of morality. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
31 |
Great intellects are skeptical. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
31 |
The lie is a condition of life. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
31 |
Morality is not respectability. |
George Bernard Shaw |
31 |
We are a nation of governesses. |
George Bernard Shaw |
31 |
Breed is stronger than pasture. |
George Eliot |
31 |
Kissing don't last: cookery do! |
George Meredith |
31 |
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. |
Graham Henry Greene |
31 |
Advertising is legalized lying. |
H. G. Wells |
31 |
Where words fail, music speaks. |
Hans Christian Andersen |
31 |
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. |
Harold Macmillan |
31 |
We're all controlled neurotics. |
Harry Reasoner |
31 |
True obedience is true freedom. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
31 |
For truth there is no deadline. |
Heywood C. Broun |
31 |
Intuition is reason in a hurry. |
Holbrook Jackson |
31 |
Where would we be without salt? |
James Beard |
31 |
A feeble body weakens the mind. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
31 |
God made me and broke the mold. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
31 |
Don't trust anyone over thirty. |
Jerry Rubin |
31 |
How long should you try? Until. |
Jim Rohn |
31 |
The biggest dog has been a pup. |
Joaquin Miller |
31 |
What you become is what counts. |
Liz Smith |
31 |
People fail forward to success. |
Mary Kay Ash |
31 |
Sincerity is the way to heaven. |
Mencius |
31 |
Man proposes, woman forecloses. |
Minna Thomas Antrim |
31 |
When Ah itchez, / Ah scratchez. |
Ogden Nash |
31 |
Many are called but few get up. |
Oliver Herford |
31 |
I am at last in a free country. |
P. B. S. Pinchback |
31 |
I shut my eyes in order to see. |
Paul Gauguin |
31 |
One good turn deserves another. |
Petronius Arbiter |
31 |
A man is related to all nature. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
31 |
Knowledge is the only elegance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
31 |
Nature tells every secret once. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
31 |
Necessity does everything well. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
31 |
All those men have their price. |
Robert Walpole |
31 |
A book is the only immortality. |
Rufus Choate |
31 |
Love is the beauty of the soul. |
Saint Augustine |
31 |
I'll give you a definite maybe. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
31 |
Grief is a species of idleness. |
Samuel Johnson |
31 |
Round numbers are always false. |
Samuel Johnson |
31 |
Technology: No Place for Wimps! |
Scott Adams |
31 |
Good luck needs no explanation. |
Shirley Temple Black |
31 |
Thought is action in rehearsal. |
Sigmund Freud |
31 |
Rapidity is the essence of war. |
Sun Tzu [Wu] |
31 |
To bear is to conquer our fate. |
Thomas Campbell |
31 |
A healthy hatred of scoundrels. |
Thomas Carlyle |
31 |
Wonder is the basis of worship. |
Thomas Carlyle |
31 |
Worship is transcendent wonder. |
Thomas Carlyle |
31 |
No hero is mortal till he dies. |
W. H. Auden |
31 |
Where laws end, tyranny begins. |
William Pitt the Elder |
31 |
How camest thou in this pickle? |
William Shakespeare |
31 |
O, had I but followed the arts! |
William Shakespeare |
31 |
The mutable, rank-scented many. |
William Shakespeare |
31 |
Let's face it, writing is hell. |
William Styron |
31 |
I didn't say the things I said. |
Yogi Berra |
31 |
It was deja vue all over again. |
Yogi Berra |
32 |
Whatever you are, be a good one. |
Abraham Lincoln |
32 |
All money is a matter of belief. |
Adam Smith |
32 |
In quiet places, reason abounds. |
Adlai Stevenson |
32 |
Appearances are often deceiving. |
Aesop |
32 |
Little by little does the trick. |
Aesop |
32 |
At ev'ry word a reputation dies. |
Alexander Pope |
32 |
On wrongs swift vengeance waits. |
Alexander Pope |
32 |
Everything is sweetened by risk. |
Alexander Smith |
32 |
Believing where we cannot prove. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
32 |
Either sex alone is half itself. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
32 |
He seems so near and yet so far. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
32 |
The grand old name of gentleman. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
32 |
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. |
Ambrose Bierce |
32 |
NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker. |
Ambrose Bierce |
32 |
I'm a deeply superficial person. |
Andy Warhol |
32 |
In a dream you are never eighty. |
Anne Sexton |
32 |
Variety is the soul of pleasure. |
Aphra Behn |
32 |
A poem should not mean - But be. |
Archibald MacLeish |
32 |
The secret to humor is surprise. |
Aristotle |
32 |
Don't talk too much or too soon. |
Bear Bryant |
32 |
Men and melons are hard to know. |
Benjamin Franklin |
32 |
Photography helps people to see. |
Berenice Abbott |
32 |
God made all pleasures innocent. |
Caroline Sheridan Norton |
32 |
Just to the windward of the law. |
Charles Churchill |
32 |
Oliver Twist has asked for more! |
Charles Dickens |
32 |
In the end, everything is a gag. |
Charlie Chaplin |
32 |
The trouble with law is lawyers. |
Clarence Darrow |
32 |
Very dangerous things, theories. |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
32 |
Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
Dorothy Parker |
32 |
Scratch a lover, and find a foe. |
Dorothy Parker |
32 |
Death is the final wake-up call. |
Doug Horton |
32 |
You become what you think about. |
Earl Nightingale |
32 |
Let us go in; the fog is rising. |
Emily Dickinson |
32 |
Ideas are the roots of creation. |
Ernest Dimnet |
32 |
Never mistake motion for action. |
Ernest Hemingway |
32 |
The language of truth is simple. |
Euripides |
32 |
Never judge a cover by its book. |
Fran Lebowitz |
32 |
Time is the measure of business. |
Francis Bacon |
32 |
The scavenger of misery is pity. |
George Bernard Shaw |
32 |
The resolved mind hath no cares. |
George Herbert |
32 |
Hope is a risk that must be run. |
Georges Bernanos |
32 |
Our true nationality is mankind. |
H. G. Wells |
32 |
Things do not change: we change. |
Henry David Thoreau |
32 |
Necessity is the spur of genius. |
Honore de Balzac |
32 |
Never give up and never give in. |
Hubert H. Humphrey |
32 |
Idealist: a cynic in the making. |
Irving Layton |
32 |
Real life seems to have no plot. |
Ivy Compton-Burnett |
32 |
Man cannot live by profit alone. |
James Baldwin |
32 |
The public seldom forgive twice. |
Johann Casper Lavater |
32 |
He who laughs most, learns best. |
John Cleese |
32 |
Let's meet and either do or die. |
John Fletcher |
32 |
Night is the mother of thoughts. |
John Florio |
32 |
Praise the sea; on shore remain. |
John Florio |
32 |
The Hand that made us is divine. |
Joseph Addison |
32 |
A thick skin is a gift from God. |
Konrad Adenauer |
32 |
The sum of all sums is eternity. |
Lucretius |
32 |
A picture is a model of reality. |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
32 |
I think it would be a good idea. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
32 |
If you don't ask, you don't get. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
32 |
Gardening is not a rational act. |
Margaret Atwood |
32 |
True friendship is never serene. |
Marie de Sevigne |
32 |
We are all alike, on the inside. |
Mark Twain |
32 |
Each day provides its own gifts. |
Martial |
32 |
The ends must justify the means. |
Matthew Prior |
32 |
Bewitched is half of everything. |
Nelly Sachs |
32 |
Every crowd has a silver lining. |
P. T. Barnum |
32 |
Many a necklace becomes a noose. |
Paul Eldridge |
32 |
Read good, big important things. |
Peggy Noonan |
32 |
I am made to tremble and I fear! |
Pope John XXIII |
32 |
A thought is an idea in transit. |
Pythagoras |
32 |
All promise outruns performance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
An empire is an immense egotism. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
It is a luxury to be understood. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
Knowledge exists to be imparted. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
Poverty consist in feeling poor. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
There is always safety in valor. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
Thoughts are the seed of action. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
32 |
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. |
Rex Harrison |
32 |
And gain is gain, however small. |
Robert Browning |
32 |
To be social is to be forgiving. |
Robert Frost |
32 |
A compliment is verbal sunshine. |
Robert Orben |
32 |
I took the right sow by the ear. |
Robert Walpole |
32 |
The purpose of all war is peace. |
Saint Augustine |
32 |
It is either easy or impossible. |
Salvador Dali |
32 |
Capital isn't scarce; vision is. |
Sam Walton |
32 |
Illness makes a man a scoundrel. |
Samuel Johnson |
32 |
You're never too old to grow up. |
Shirley Conran |
32 |
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. |
Siegfried Sassoon |
32 |
This is a movie, not a lifeboat. |
Spencer Tracy |
32 |
When you're leading, don't talk. |
Thomas E. Dewey |
32 |
There's no hate lost between us. |
Thomas Middleton |
32 |
All a poet can do today is warn. |
Wilfred Owen |
32 |
The ocean is a mighty harmonist. |
William Wordsworth |
32 |
Wars are not won by evacuations. |
Winston Churchill |
32 |
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
Yul Brynner |
32 |
Fashions fade, style is eternal. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
33 |
There are no gains without pains. |
Adlai Stevenson |
33 |
Die and endow a college or a cat. |
Alexander Pope |
33 |
In wit a man; simplicity a child. |
Alexander Pope |
33 |
Work hard. There is no short cut. |
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. |
33 |
Behold a man raised up by Christ. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
33 |
How fares it with the happy dead? |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
33 |
O hard, when love and duty clash! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
33 |
ACTUALLY, adv. Perhaps; possibly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
33 |
HABIT, n. A shackle for the free. |
Ambrose Bierce |
33 |
Our ideals are our better selves. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
33 |
Never take counsel of your fears. |
Andrew Jackson |
33 |
To the victors belong the spoils. |
Andrew Jackson |
33 |
I am never afraid of what I know. |
Anna Sewell |
33 |
Happiness depends upon ourselves. |
Aristotle |
33 |
Memory is the scribe of the soul. |
Aristotle |
33 |
It is quite a three-pipe problem. |
Arthur Conan Doyle |
33 |
Know or listen to those who know. |
Baltasar Gracian |
33 |
The Inevitability of Gradualness. |
Beatrice Potter Webb |
33 |
Eat to live, and not live to eat. |
Benjamin Franklin |
33 |
Country music belongs to America. |
Bill Monroe |
33 |
Guts win more games than ability. |
Bob Zuppke |
33 |
Of two evils choose the prettier. |
Carolyn Wells |
33 |
I wants to make your flesh creep. |
Charles Dickens |
33 |
My life is one demd horrid grind! |
Charles Dickens |
33 |
One must be frank to be relevant. |
Corazon Aquino |
33 |
Flowers grow out of dark moments. |
Corita Kent |
33 |
Nature is the art of God eternal. |
Dante |
33 |
When I die I want to go to Vogue. |
David Bailey |
33 |
Even paranoids have real enemies. |
Delmore Schwartz |
33 |
Business is other people's money. |
Delphine de Girardin |
33 |
Instinct is the nose of the mind. |
Delphine de Girardin |
33 |
Hardship makes the world obscure. |
Don Delillo |
33 |
Learn from everyone, copy no one. |
Don Shula |
33 |
Coercion. The unpardonable crime. |
Dorothy Miller Richardson |
33 |
Women and elephants never forget. |
Dorothy Parker |
33 |
To buy happiness is to sell soul. |
Doug Horton |
33 |
No two people read the same book. |
Edmund Wilson |
33 |
Tone can be as important as text. |
Edward Koch |
33 |
Irony is the hygiene of the mind. |
Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco |
33 |
I have to be seen to be believed. |
Elizabeth II |
33 |
Boldness is a child of ignorance. |
Francis Bacon |
33 |
Lucid intervals and happy pauses. |
Francis Bacon |
33 |
Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
33 |
Woman was God's 'second' mistake. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
33 |
Ideas too are a life and a world. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
33 |
Doubt is the father of invention. |
Galileo |
33 |
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. |
George Eliot |
33 |
Don't throw away your conscience. |
George McGovern |
33 |
Let me listen to me and not them. |
Gertrude Stein |
33 |
Home is where you hang your head. |
Groucho Marx |
33 |
You cannot legislate an attitude. |
H. Rap Brown |
33 |
You cannot win if you cannot run. |
Hank Stram |
33 |
The landscapist lives in silence. |
Henri Rousseau |
33 |
The eye is the jewel of the body. |
Henry David Thoreau |
33 |
Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
33 |
What you get free costs too much. |
Jean Anouilh |
33 |
Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
33 |
Friends are the sunshine of life. |
John Hay |
33 |
Good swiping is an art in itself. |
Jules Feiffer |
33 |
All the world loves a good loser. |
Kin Hubbard |
33 |
Be aware that rigidity imprisons. |
Madeleine L'Engle |
33 |
Ability without honor is useless. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
33 |
Before beginning, plan carefully. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
33 |
While there's life, there's hope. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
33 |
Canada was built on dead beavers. |
Margaret Atwood |
33 |
His modesty amounts to deformity. |
Margot Asquith |
33 |
The truth is not so good a story. |
Marion Zimmer Bradley |
33 |
All kings is mostly rapscallions. |
Mark Twain |
33 |
Be good and you will be lonesome. |
Mark Twain |
33 |
A woman is as young as her knees. |
Mary Quant |
33 |
Not deep the poet sees, but wide. |
Matthew Arnold |
33 |
Everything pays for growing tame. |
Maxine Kumin |
33 |
The more we have the less we own. |
Meister Eckhart |
33 |
Acting is not my language at all. |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
33 |
Everybody writes a book too many. |
Mordecai Richler |
33 |
Cynicism is intellectual treason. |
Norman Cousins |
33 |
Eloquence may set fire to reason. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
33 |
A mask tells us more than a face. |
Oscar Wilde |
33 |
Only the shallow know themselves. |
Oscar Wilde |
33 |
There is no sin except stupidity. |
Oscar Wilde |
33 |
Politics is not an exact science. |
Otto von Bismarck |
33 |
Here, in memory, we live and die. |
Patricia Hampl |
33 |
He has gone over to the majority. |
Petronius Arbiter |
33 |
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. |
Plutarch |
33 |
Real action is in silent moments. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
33 |
The true poem is the poet's mind. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
33 |
Whatever limits us, we call Fate. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
33 |
As you believe, so it is for you. |
Richard Bach |
33 |
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. |
Richard Cecil |
33 |
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. |
Robert Frost |
33 |
Sorrow is a silence in the heart. |
Robert Nathan |
33 |
Excuse the mess but we live here. |
Roseanne Barr |
33 |
For every why he had a wherefore. |
Samuel Butler (a) |
33 |
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. |
Samuel Johnson |
33 |
Language is the dress of thought. |
Samuel Johnson |
33 |
To a poet nothing can be useless. |
Samuel Johnson |
33 |
Virtue is too often merely local. |
Samuel Johnson |
33 |
We would all be idle if we could. |
Samuel Johnson |
33 |
How many things I can do without! |
Socrates |
33 |
No manager ever won no ballgames. |
Sparky Anderson |
33 |
Powerless rage can work miracles. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
33 |
Fear is the foundation of safety. |
Tertullian |
33 |
Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. |
Thomas Carlyle |
33 |
The archenemy is the arch stupid! |
Thomas Carlyle |
33 |
Life is a loom, weaving illusion. |
Vachel Lindsay |
33 |
Fortune sides with him who dares. |
Virgil |
33 |
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. |
William C. Bryant |
33 |
Words of love, are works of love. |
William R. Alger |
33 |
Never assume the obvious is true. |
William Safire |
34 |
Better to be disliked than pitied. |
Abba Eban |
34 |
I can't spare this man; he fights. |
Abraham Lincoln |
34 |
Call no man happy till he is dead. |
Aeschylus |
34 |
History is written by the winners. |
Alex Haley |
34 |
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? |
Alexander Pope |
34 |
By blood a king, in heart a clown. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
34 |
Like glimpses of forgotten dreams. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
34 |
Riflemen, Riflemen, Riflemen form! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
34 |
The lark becomes a sightless song. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
34 |
Thou madest man, he knows not why. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
34 |
You can't make souffle rise twice. |
Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
34 |
BEFRIEND, v.t. To make an ingrate. |
Ambrose Bierce |
34 |
Adventure is worthwhile in itself. |
Amelia Earhart |
34 |
Youth condemns; maturity condones. |
Amy Lowell |
34 |
Differences challenge assumptions. |
Anne Wilson Schaef |
34 |
You can't test courage cautiously. |
Annie Dillard |
34 |
A man is the origin of his action. |
Aristotle |
34 |
Hope is the dream of a waking man. |
Aristotle |
34 |
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. |
Artur Schnabel |
34 |
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. |
Ashleigh Brilliant |
34 |
Libraries are not made; they grow. |
Augustine Birrell |
34 |
Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. |
Ava Gardner |
34 |
In your heart you know he's right. |
Barry Goldwater |
34 |
A small leak can sink a great ship |
Benjamin Franklin |
34 |
Half a truth is often a great lie. |
Benjamin Franklin |
34 |
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. |
Benjamin Franklin |
34 |
I own and operate a ferocious ego. |
Bill Moyers |
34 |
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. |
Billy Wilder |
34 |
You have Van Gogh's ear for music. |
Billy Wilder |
34 |
As you think, so shall you become. |
Bruce Lee |
34 |
I think we're here for each other. |
Carol Burnett |
34 |
A concept is stronger than a fact. |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
34 |
Few minds wear out; more rust out. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
34 |
Reason is the servant of instinct. |
Clarence Day |
34 |
Courage is one step ahead of fear. |
Coleman Young |
34 |
Children always turn to the light. |
David Hare |
34 |
No one but a fool is always right. |
David Hare |
34 |
Leave something good in every day. |
Dolly Parton |
34 |
Old habits are strong and jealous. |
Dorothea Brande |
34 |
A tie is like kissing your sister. |
Duffy Daugherty |
34 |
One by one crept silently to Rest. |
Edward Fitzgerald |
34 |
Money is the long hair of the 80s. |
Elizabeth Ashley |
34 |
I will make you shorter by a head. |
Elizabeth I |
34 |
I felt it shelter to speak to you. |
Emily Dickinson |
34 |
All bravery stands on comparisons. |
Francis Bacon |
34 |
Art must take reality by surprise. |
Francoise Sagan |
34 |
Don't follow trends, start trends. |
Frank Capra |
34 |
Only sick music makes money today. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
34 |
Events are not a matter of chance. |
Gamal Abdel Nasser |
34 |
Amateurs hope, professionals work. |
Garson Kanin |
34 |
Amateurs hope. Professionals work. |
Garson Kanin |
34 |
I never expect a soldier to think. |
George Bernard Shaw |
34 |
Virtue is insufficient temptation. |
George Bernard Shaw |
34 |
The only cure for grief is action. |
George Henry Lewes |
34 |
Life's been nothing but paperwork. |
Gustav Mahler |
34 |
Be careful what you swallow. Chew! |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
34 |
What is art? Nature concentrated. |
Honore de Balzac |
34 |
No man can lose what he never had. |
Izaak Walton |
34 |
Life is a long lesson in humility. |
James Matthew Barrie |
34 |
One cannot have too large a party. |
Jane Austen |
34 |
You have delighted us long enough. |
Jane Austen |
34 |
I believe only in art and failure. |
Jane Rule |
34 |
Action is the antidote to despair. |
Joan Baez |
34 |
It has been a splendid little war. |
John Hay |
34 |
The Negro was invented in America. |
John Oliver Killens |
34 |
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. |
Lucille Ball |
34 |
There is no god higher than truth. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
34 |
To read too many books is harmful. |
Mao Tse-Tung |
34 |
Many a truth sprang from an error. |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
34 |
Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse. |
Mark Twain |
34 |
Criticize the act, not the person. |
Mary Kay Ash |
34 |
To fly we have to have resistance. |
Maya Ying Lin |
34 |
A goal is a dream with a deadline. |
Napoleon Hill |
34 |
Life is made up of marble and mud. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
34 |
The first blow is half the battle. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
34 |
Each man kills the thing he loves. |
Oscar Wilde |
34 |
He hasn't a single redeeming vice. |
Oscar Wilde |
34 |
Take eloquence and wring its neck. |
Paul Verlaine |
34 |
Success tempts many to their ruin. |
Phaedrus |
34 |
I'm about four skyscrapers behind. |
Philip Johnson |
34 |
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. |
Rachel Carson |
34 |
America is a country of young men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
Common sense is as rare as genius. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
Every artist was first an amateur. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
Insist on yourself; never imitate. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
The dice of God are always loaded. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
34 |
Joy is not in things, it is in us. |
Richard Wagner |
34 |
The stitch of a book is its words. |
Rumer Godden |
34 |
Hell was made for the inquisitive. |
Saint Augustine |
34 |
The world's verdict is conclusive. |
Saint Augustine |
34 |
A Hospital is no place to be sick. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
34 |
Life protracted is protracted woe. |
Samuel Johnson |
34 |
What's another word for Thesaurus? |
Steven Wright |
34 |
All warfare is based on deception. |
Sun Tzu [Wu] |
34 |
Taste has no system and no proofs. |
Susan Sontag |
34 |
When I teach people, I marry them. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
34 |
I have the necessary lack of tact. |
Ted Koppel |
34 |
Thought is the parent of the deed. |
Thomas Carlyle |
34 |
No man is happy but by comparison. |
Thomas Shadwell |
34 |
There is no forgiveness in nature. |
Ugo Betti |
34 |
There are no signposts in the sea. |
Vita Sackville-West |
34 |
Never give a sucker an even break. |
W. C. Fields |
34 |
Our intention creates our reality. |
Wayne Dyer |
34 |
One, on God's side, is a majority. |
Wendell Phillips |
34 |
Nothing is new except arrangement. |
Will Durant |
34 |
No party is as bad as its leaders. |
Will Rogers |
34 |
Good temper is an estate for life. |
William Hazlitt |
34 |
That which is not just is not law. |
William Lloyd Garrison |
34 |
Common sense often makes good law. |
William O. Douglas |
34 |
Men of few words are the best men. |
William Shakespeare |
34 |
Mighty poets in their misery dead. |
William Wordsworth |
34 |
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. |
William Wordsworth |
34 |
If you were my wife, I'd drink it. |
Winston Churchill |
34 |
A nickel isn't worth a dime today. |
Yogi Berra |
35 |
See how time makes all grief decay. |
Adelaide A. Proctor |
35 |
Memory is the mother of all wisdom. |
Aeschylus |
35 |
Fine by defect and delicately weak. |
Alexander Pope |
35 |
The many-headed monster of the pit. |
Alexander Pope |
35 |
Common sense is genius in homespun. |
Alfred North Whitehead |
35 |
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
35 |
A louse in the locks of literature. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
35 |
In that world-earthquake, Waterloo! |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
35 |
O you chorus of indolent reviewers. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
35 |
Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
35 |
Trust me not at all, or all in all. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
35 |
DEATH, n. To stop sinning suddenly. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
DEFENCELESS, adj. Unable to attack. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
HISTORIAN, n. A broad-gauge gossip. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
ROBBER, n. A candid man of affairs. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions. |
Ambrose Bierce |
35 |
Become a fixer, not just a fixture. |
Anthony J. D'Angelo |
35 |
All men by nature desire knowledge. |
Aristotle |
35 |
One swallow does not make a spring. |
Aristotle |
35 |
Every solution breeds new problems. |
Arthur Bloch |
35 |
Our visions begin with our desires. |
Audre Lorde |
35 |
Let thy discontents be thy secrets. |
Benjamin Franklin |
35 |
The doors of wisdom are never shut. |
Benjamin Franklin |
35 |
Well done is better than well said. |
Benjamin Franklin |
35 |
We in middle age require adventure. |
Carolyn Heilbrun |
35 |
Genius is independent of situation. |
Charles Churchill |
35 |
A highly geological home-made cake. |
Charles Dickens |
35 |
A literary man - with a wooden leg. |
Charles Dickens |
35 |
She's been thinking of the old 'un! |
Charles Dickens |
35 |
Politics makes strange bed-fellows. |
Charles Dudley Warner |
35 |
Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. |
Christian Nestell Bovee |
35 |
Science does not permit exceptions. |
Claude Bernard |
35 |
As hard as the nails on a crucifix. |
Clive Barnes |
35 |
The future comes one day at a time. |
Dean Acheson |
35 |
We live on the leash of our senses. |
Diane Ackerman |
35 |
Life, the permission to know death. |
Djuna Barnes |
35 |
House Beautiful' is the play lousy. |
Dorothy Parker |
35 |
Minds ripen at very different ages. |
Elizabeth Montagu |
35 |
Trust everybody, but cut the cards. |
Finley Peter Dunne |
35 |
All colours will agree in the dark. |
Francis Bacon |
35 |
Tell the truth and shame the devil. |
Francois Rabelais |
35 |
Success is often just an idea away. |
Frank Tyger |
35 |
Adventure is the champagne of life. |
G. K. Chesterton |
35 |
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