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. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight. |
G. C. Lichtenberg |
Man is to be found in reason, God in the
passions. |
G. K. Chesterton |
New roads: new ruts. |
G. K. Chesterton |
A yawn is a silent shout. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Adventure is the champagne of life. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Silence is the unbearable repartee. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Am in Birmingham. Where ought I to be? |
G. K. Chesterton |
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Literature has always been allegorical. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Half a truth is better than no politics. |
G. K. Chesterton |
The Nothing scrawled on a five-foot page. |
G. K. Chesterton |
There is nothing that fails like success. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Materialists and madmen never have doubts. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. |
G. K. Chesterton |
No man knows he is young while he is young. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. |
G. K. Chesterton |
Spring never is Spring unless it comes too soon. |
G. K. Chesterton |
The present condition of fame is merely fashion. |
G. K. Chesterton |
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is
poetry. |
G. K. Chesterton |
If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing
badly. |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
He who awaits much can expect little. |
Gail Hamilton |
The total depravity of inanimate things. |
Gail Hamilton |
What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat. |
Gail Sheehy |
Growth demands a temporary surrender of
security. |
Galileo |
Doubt is the father of invention. |
Gamal Abdel Nasser |
Events are not a matter of chance. |
Garson Kanin |
Amateurs hope, professionals work. |
Garson Kanin |
Amateurs hope. Professionals work. |
Garth Brooks |
Just keep taking chances and having fun. |
Gary Hart |
There is always some fig leaf being used. |
Gary Player |
Visualize winning. |
Gary Player |
The harder you work, the luckier you get. |
Gaston Bachelard |
Man is an imagining being. |
Gaston Bachelard |
The words of the world want to make sentences. |
Gaston Bachelard |
There is no original truth, only original error. |
Geena Davis |
If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. |
Gelett Burgess |
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. |
Gene Brown |
Today's opportunities erase yesterday's
failures. |
Gene Fowler |
If they haven't heard it before, it's original. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Men love . . . newfangledness. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
Time and tide wait for no man. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
People can die of mere imagination. |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
The gretteste clerkes been noght the wysest men. |
George Ade |
One man's poison ivy is another man's spinach. |
George Ade |
She was short on intellect, but long on shape. |
George Allen |
How badly do you want it? |
George Allen |
Persevere and get it done. |
George Allen |
The tougher the job, the greater the reward. |
George Allen |
If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. |
George Allen |
Every day you waste is one you can never make
up. |
George Allen |
Winning is the science of being totally
prepared. |
George Bancroft |
The public is wiser than the wisest critic. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Better never than late. |
George Bernard Shaw |
General consultant to mankind. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Property is organised robbery. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Morality is not respectability. |
George Bernard Shaw |
We are a nation of governesses. |
George Bernard Shaw |
The scavenger of misery is pity. |
George Bernard Shaw |
I never expect a soldier to think. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Virtue is insufficient temptation. |
George Bernard Shaw |
All progress means war with society. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Every man over forty is a scoundrel. |
George Bernard Shaw |
He's a gentleman: look at his boots. |
George Bernard Shaw |
I want to be all used up when I die. |
George Bernard Shaw |
All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
George Bernard Shaw |
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Lack of money is the root of all evil. |
George Bernard Shaw |
My reputation grew with every failure. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Success covers a multitude of blunders. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death. |
George Bernard Shaw |
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. |
George Bernard Shaw |
He who has never hoped can never despair. |
George Bernard Shaw |
I wish all Americans were as blind as you. |
George Bernard Shaw |
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Beware of the man whose god is in the skies. |
George Bernard Shaw |
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. |
George Bernard Shaw |
All problems are finally scientific problems. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence. |
George Bernard Shaw |
I am a gentleman. I live by robbing the poor. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Assassination: the extreme form of censorship. |
George Bernard Shaw |
One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes. |
George Bernard Shaw |
I was a freethinker before I knew how to think. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Life levels all men: death reveals the eminent. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. |
George Bernard Shaw |
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. |
George Bernard Shaw |
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there? |
George Bernard Shaw |
An asylum for the sane would be empty in
America. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Do not try to live forever. You will not
succeed. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Never forget that two blacks do not make a
white. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable
man. |
George Bernard Shaw |
The most anxious man in a prison is the
governor. |
George Bernard Shaw |
A learned man is an idler who kills time by
study. |
George Bernard Shaw |
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal
desire. |
George Bernard Shaw |
The golden rule is that there are no golden
rules. |
George Borrow |
Two great talkers will not travel far together. |
George Burns |
Life's but a day at most. |
George Bush |
I try to hold my charisma in check. |
George Bush |
We are not the sum of our possessions. |
George Bush |
You do not reform a world by ignoring it. |
George Bush |
Don't try to fine-tune someone else's view. |
George Bush |
What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy? |
George Canning |
Indecision and delays are the parents of
failure. |
George Carlin |
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. |
George Chapman |
Danger is the spur of all great minds. |
George Chapman |
Pure innovation is more gross than error. |
George Chapman |
Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like
dogs. |
George Crabbe |
And took for truth the test of ridicule. |
George Crabbe |
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved. |
George Eliot |
Kisses honeyed by oblivion. |
George Eliot |
Those who trust us educate us. |
George Eliot |
Breed is stronger than pasture. |
George Eliot |
Blows are sarcasms turned stupid. |
George Eliot |
Necessity does the work of courage. |
George Eliot |
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. |
George Eliot |
There are many victories worse than a defeat. |
George Eliot |
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? |
George Eliot |
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! |
George Eliot |
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
George Eliot |
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error. |
George Eliot |
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. |
George Eliot |
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. |
George Eliot |
Our words have wings, but fly not where we
would. |
George Farquhar |
My Lady Bountiful. |
George Farquhar |
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. |
George Farquhar |
Spare all I have, and take my life. |
George Farquhar |
Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini. |
George Farquhar |
Money is the sinews of love, as of war. |
George Farquhar |
Those who know the least obey the best. |
George Farquhar |
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards. |
George Foreman |
A hero is someone right who doesn't change. |
George Foreman |
If you don't dream, you might as well be dead. |
George Gordon Byron |
When we think we lead we are most led. |
George Gordon Byron |
Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. |
George Halas |
You can achieve only that which you will do. |
George Henry Lewes |
The only cure for grief is action. |
George Herbert |
A great ship asks deep water. |
George Herbert |
The resolved mind hath no cares. |
George Herbert |
You must lose a fly to catch a trout. |
George Herbert |
Many things are lost for want of asking. |
George Herbert |
Without danger you cannot get beyond danger. |
George Herbert |
Where your will is ready, your feet are light. |
George Herbert |
A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit. |
George Herbert |
Our father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. |
George Herbert |
There is great force hidden in a gentle command. |
George III |
A traitor is everyone who does not agree with
me. |
George Jean Nathan |
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. |
George Lucas |
I thought it was too wacky for the general
public. |
George MacDonald |
The principal part of faith is patience. |
George McGovern |
Don't throw away your conscience. |
George McGovern |
The longer the title, the less important the
job. |
George Meredith |
Kissing don't last: cookery do! |
George Meredith |
The well of true wit is truth itself. |
George Moore |
The difficulty in life is the choice. |
George Moore |
Remorse is beholding heaven and feeling hell. |
George Moore |
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. |
George Santayana |
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. |
George V |
How is the Empire? |
George Washington |
To err is nature, to rectify error is glory. |
George Washington Carver |
Where there is no vision, there is no hope. |
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. |
Georges Bataille |
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. |
Georges Bernanos |
Hope is a risk that must be run. |
Georges Braque |
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. |
Georges Clemenceau |
Oh to be seventy again. |
Georges Clemenceau |
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. |
Georges Seurat |
Painting is the art of hollowing a surface. |
Georgia Douglas Johnson |
Your world is as big as you make it. |
Georgia Douglas Johnson |
Rise with the hour for which you were made. |
Gerald Barzan |
Success is the ability to rise above principle. |
Gerald F. Lieberman |
Where there is life there is wishful thinking. |
Geraldine Ferraro |
Modern life is confusing no "Ms take" about it. |
Geraldine Ferraro |
Vice president -- it has such a nice ring to it! |
Gerard De Nerval |
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature. |
Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. |
Gertrude Stein |
Remarks are not literature. |
Gertrude Stein |
Let me listen to me and not them. |
Gertrude Stein |
Money is always there, but the pockets change. |
Giacomo Puccini |
Art is a kind of illness. |
Gifford Pinchot, III |
Innovations never happen as planned. |
Gilbert Adair |
The only tastes worth having are acquired
tastes. |
Gioacchino Rossini |
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. |
Giordano Bruno |
Time takes all and gives all. |
Giordano Bruno |
There is no law governing all things. |
Giordano Bruno |
With luck on your side, you can do without
brains. |
Giuseppe Mazzini |
Good council has no price. |
Giuseppe Verdi |
You may have the universe if I may have Italy. |
Gloria Steinem |
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the
foot? |
Gloria Swanson |
I am big. It's the pictures that got small. |
Golda Meir |
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. |
Goldie Hawn |
How long can you be cute? |
Grace Metalious |
Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend . . . |
Grace Metalious |
I looked into that empty bottle and I saw
myself. |
Grace Murray Hopper |
If it isn't bolted down, bring it home. |
Graham Henry Greene |
Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac. |
Graham Henry Greene |
Failure too is a form of death. . . |
Graham Henry Greene |
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. |
Graham Henry Greene |
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of
superiority. |
Grandma Moses |
A primitive artist is an amateur whose work
sells. |
Greg Anderson |
When we blame, we give away our power. |
Greg Norman |
Know your strengths and take advantage of them. |
Gregory Nunn |
Never underestimate the value of cold cash. |
Greta Garbo |
I'm afraid of nothing except being bored. |
Gretel Ehrlich |
Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons. |
Groucho Marx |
Home is where you hang your head. |
Groucho Marx |
Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. |
Groucho Marx |
Military intelligence is a contradiction in
terms. |
Gustav Mahler |
Life's been nothing but paperwork. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
Poetry is life distilled. |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
Be careful what you swallow. Chew! |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
God is love, but get it in writing. |
Gypsy Rose Lee |
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. |
H. G. Wells |
Advertising is legalized lying. |
H. G. Wells |
Our true nationality is mankind. |
H. G. Wells |
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. |
H. G. Wells |
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. |
H. G. Wells |
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. |
H. G. Wells |
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them. |
H. G. Wells |
Human history in essence is the history of
ideas. |
H. L. Mencken |
Time stays, we go. |
H. L. Mencken |
Life is a dead-end street. |
H. L. Mencken |
The lunatic fringe wags the underdog. |
H. L. Mencken |
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. |
H. L. Mencken |
Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist. |
H. L. Mencken |
The cynics are right nine times out of ten. |
H. L. Mencken |
No man ever quite believes in any other man. |
H. L. Mencken |
The more a man dreams, the less he believes. |
H. L. Mencken |
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. |
H. L. Mencken |
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. |
H. L. Mencken |
The only cure for contempt is countercontempt. |
H. L. Mencken |
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. |
H. L. Mencken |
Fame is an embalmer trembling with stage fright. |
H. L. Mencken |
Adultery is the application of democracy to
love. |
H. L. Mencken |
Don't overestimate the decency of the human
race. |
H. L. Mencken |
Fear of death and fear of life both become
piety. |
H. L. Mencken |
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by
morality. |
H. L. Mencken |
Temptation is a woman's weapon and a man's
excuse. |
H. Rap Brown |
You cannot legislate an attitude. |
H. Ross Perot |
Life is like a cob web, not an organization
chart. |
Han Suyin |
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. |
Hank Stram |
You cannot win if you cannot run. |
Hank Stram |
Football, like life, is about change. |
Hank Stram |
My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety. |
Hank Stram |
There are few secrets in football. So execute. |
Hannah Arendt |
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. |
Hannah More |
Goals help you overcome short-term problems. |
Hans Christian Andersen |
Where words fail, music speaks. |
Harlan Howard |
Work is both my living and my pleasure. |
Harland Sanders |
Don't be against things so much as for things. |
Harold Macmillan |
Jaw-jaw is better than war-war. |
Harold Macmillan |
It's no use crying over spilt summits. |
Harold Macmillan |
To be alive at all involves some risk. |
Harold Macmillan |
I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the
next. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Women are the real architects of society. |
Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. |
Harriet Lerner |
Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. |
Harriet Martineau |
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. |
Harriet Monroe |
. . . poetry, 'The Cinderella of the Arts.' |
Harriet Tubman |
Never wound a snake, kill it. |
Harry A. Blackmun |
We're all eccentrics. We're nine prima donnas. |
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
Our power is not so much in us as through us. |
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps
young. |
Harry Emerson Fosdick |
Preaching is personal counseling on a group
basis. |
Harry Lauder |
The future is not a gift -- it is an
achievement. |
Harry Reasoner |
We're all controlled neurotics. |
Harry S. Truman |
Study men, not historians. |
Harry S. Truman |
If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. |
Harry S. Truman |
Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. |
Harvey Cox |
Not to decide is to decide. |
Harvey Penick |
Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. |
Harvey S. Firestone |
Success is the sum of details. |
Havelock Ellis |
Every artist writes his own autobiography. |
Havelock Ellis |
When love is suppressed, hate takes its place. |
Havelock Ellis |
The tide turns at low water as well as at high. |
Havelock Ellis |
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. |
Hedda Hopper |
Nobody's interested in sweetness and light. |
Hedda Hopper |
In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number
One. |
Heinrich Heine |
When words leave off, music begins. |
Helen Gahagan Douglas |
I never felt I left the stage. |
Helen Hunt Jackson |
Who longest waits most surely wins. |
Helen Hunt Jackson |
Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy. |
Helen Keller |
College isn't the place to go for ideas. |
Helen Keller |
The highest result of education is tolerance. |
Helen Rowland |
Marriage: A souvenir of love. |
Helen Rowland |
Variety is the spice of love. |
Helen Rowland |
A fool and her money are soon courted. |
Helen Rowland |
One man's folly is often another man's wife. |
Helen Rowland |
There are two kinds of men -- dead and deadly. |
Helena Rubinstein |
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones. |
Henny Youngman |
When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say. |
Henri Bergson |
Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
The unfinished is nothing. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
The great artist is the simplifier. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
A belief is not true because it is useful. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
The best path through life is the highway. |
Henri Frederic Amiel |
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. |
Henri Rousseau |
The landscapist lives in silence. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
A friend in power is a friend lost. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
They know enough who know how to learn. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
Morality is a private and costly luxury. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. |
Henry Brooks Adams |
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds
habit. |
Henry Clay |
Statistics are no substitute for judgment. |
Henry Clay |
Sir, I would rather be right than be President. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Oh, one world at a time! |
Henry David Thoreau |
Being is the great explainer. |
Henry David Thoreau |
It is a great art to saunter. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The sun is but a morning star. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Things do not change: we change. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The eye is the jewel of the body. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Tis healthy to be sick sometimes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The heart is forever inexperienced. |
Henry David Thoreau |
To regret deeply is to live afresh. |
Henry David Thoreau |
A man sits as many risks as he runs. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Men are born to succeed, not to fail. |
Henry David Thoreau |
We were born to succeed, not to fail. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Water is the only drink for a wise man. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Truths and roses have thorns about them. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Men have become the tools of their trade. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The bluebird carries the sky on his back. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The perception of beauty is a moral test. |
Henry David Thoreau |
If you give money, spend yourself with it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Only the defeated and deserters go to war. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Let nothing come between you and the light. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The stars are the apexes of what triangles! |
Henry David Thoreau |
The universe is wider than our views of it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
We are constantly invited to be who we are. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. |
Henry David Thoreau |
People die of fright and live of confidence. |
Henry David Thoreau |
That government is best which governs least. |
Henry David Thoreau |
The savage in man is never quite eradicated. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. |
Henry David Thoreau |
In wildness is the preservation of the world. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. |
Henry David Thoreau |
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. |
Henry David Thoreau |
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? |
Henry David Thoreau |
It is never too late to give up our prejudices. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. |
Henry David Thoreau |
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity. |
Henry David Thoreau |
All good things are cheap: all bad are very
dear. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Be true to your work, your word, and your
friend. |
Henry David Thoreau |
But lo! men have become the tools of their
tools. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Even the best things are not equal to their
fame. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Live your life, do your work, then take your
hat. |
Henry David Thoreau |
That man is richest whose pleasures are
cheapest. |
Henry David Thoreau |
You must not blame me if I do talk to the
clouds. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Distrust any enterprise that requires new
clothes. |
Henry David Thoreau |
For an impenetrable shield, stand inside
yourself. |
Henry David Thoreau |
Goodness is the only investment which never
fails. |
Henry Drummond |
No man can become a saint in his sleep. |
Henry Drummond |
He lives who dies to win a lasting name. |
Henry Fielding |
Every physician almost hath his favorite
disease. |
Henry J. Kaiser |
Having an aim is the key to achieving your best. |
Henry James, Jr. |
She felt in italics and thought in capitals. |
Henry Lewis Stimson |
The only deadly sin I know is cynicism. |
Henry Lewis Stimson |
Gentlemen do not read each other's mail. |
Henry Moore |
There is a right physical size for every idea. |
Henry St. John Bolingbroke |
Nations, like men, have their infancy. |
Henry St. John Bolingbroke |
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom. |
Henry Vandyke |
Tact is the unsaid part of what you think. |
Henry Vandyke |
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. |
Henry Vandyke |
Self is the only prison that can bind the soul. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Now comes the mystery. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Sorrow makes men sincere. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
True obedience is true freedom. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
A church debt is the devil's salary. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Suffering is part of the divine idea. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Beauty is God's trademark in creation. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Love is the river of life in the world. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Work is not the curse, but drudgery is. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Repentance is another name for aspiration. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Theology is a science of mind applied to God. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
God's providence is on the side of clear heads. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Happiness is not the end in life; character is. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
Where is human nature so weak as in the
bookstore? |
Heraclitus of Ephesus |
Nothing endures but change. |
Heraclitus of Ephesus |
Much learning does not teach understanding. |
Heraclitus of Ephesus |
The road up and the road down is one and the
same. |
Herb Caen |
Cogito ergo spud." / [I think, therefore I yam] |
Herbert Beerbohm Tree |
He is an old bore; even the grave yawns for him. |
Herbert Henry Asquith |
Wait and see. |
Herman J. Mankiewicz |
There, but for the Grace of God, goes God. |
Herodotus |
Men trust their eyes less than their ears. |
Herodotus |
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk. |
Herodotus |
Force has no place where there is need of skill. |
Heywood C. Broun |
For truth there is no deadline. |
Heywood Hale Broun |
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. |
Heywood Hale Broun |
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. |
Hippocrates |
Everything in excess is opposed to nature. |
Hitopadesa |
Learning is a livelihood. |
Hitopadesa |
She is a wife who is the soul of her husband. |
Holbrook Jackson |
When in doubt, risk it. |
Holbrook Jackson |
Intuition is reason in a hurry. |
Holbrook Jackson |
Suffer fools gladly; they may be right. |
Homer |
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. |
Homer |
A decent boldness ever meets with friends. |
Homer |
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. |
Honore de Balzac |
Necessity is the spur of genius. |
Honore de Balzac |
What is art? Nature concentrated. |
Honore de Balzac |
Behind every fortune there is a crime. |
Honore de Balzac |
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. |
Honore de Balzac |
Modesty is the conscience of the body. |
Honore de Balzac |
You may imitate, but never counterfeit. |
Honore de Balzac |
The more one judges, the less one loves. |
Honore de Balzac |
Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. |
Honore de Balzac |
A mother who is really a mother is never free. |
Honore de Balzac |
A woman must be a genius to create a good
husband. |
Horace |
Seize the day. |
Horace |
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals
it. |
Horace Greeley |
Common sense is very uncommon. |
Horace Walpole |
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. |
Horace Walpole |
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. |
Hosea Ballou |
Mystery and innocence are not akin. |
Hosea Ballou |
Error is always more busy than truth. |
Hosea Ballou |
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. |
Hosea Ballou |
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. |
Howard W. Newton |
Little words hurt big ideas. |
Howard W. Newton |
The thoughtless are rarely wordless. |
Hubert H. Humphrey |
Never give up and never give in. |
Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter |
I always sings too long and too loud. |
Huey P. Newton |
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. |
Humphrey Bogart |
Here's looking at you, kid. |
Ian Fleming |
A woman should be an illusion. |
Igor Stravinsky |
A good composer does not imitate, he steals. |
Ingmar Bergman |
I hope I never get so old I get religious. |
Ingrid Bengis |
The real trap of fame is its irresistibility. |
Ingrid Bergman |
Happiness is good health and a bad memory. |
Ingrid Bergman |
Be yourself. The world worships the original. |
Irene Peter |
Life is entirely too time-consuming. |
Irene Peter |
Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. |
Irving Layton |
Idealist: a cynic in the making. |
Irving Layton |
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. |
Isaac Asimov |
One man's religion is another mans' belly laugh. |
Isaac Asimov |
I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed
understander. |
Isaac Newton |
Hypotheses non fingo.' I feign no hypotheses. |
Isaac Newton |
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers. |
Isaac Newton |
I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties. |
Isaac Singer |
The waste basket is a writer's best friend. |
Isaac Singer |
The waste basket is the writer's best friend. |
Isaac Stern |
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the
man. |
Ishmael Reed |
I try to do what has never been done before. |
Israel Zangwill |
Everything changes but change. |
Ivan Illich |
Leadership does not depend on being right. |
Ivan Illich |
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. |
Ivern Ball |
The past should be a springboard, not a hammock. |
Ivy Compton-Burnett |
Real life seems to have no plot. |
Izaak Walton |
No man can lose what he never had. |
J. August Strindberg |
I dream, therefore I exist. |
J. August Strindberg |
Silence hides nothing. Words conceal. |
J. G. Holland |
The heart is wiser than the intellect. |
J. P. Donleavy |
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty. |
J. P. Donleavy |
Writing is turning one's worst moments into
money. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
We knew the world would not be the same. |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds. |
J. William Fulbright |
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. |
Jack Dempsey |
Honey, I forgot to duck. |
Jack Herbert |
A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. |
Jack Kerouac |
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune. |
Jack London |
Affluence means influence. |
Jack Nicklaus |
The game is meant to be fun. |
Jack Nicklaus |
Focus on remedies, not faults. |
Jack Nicklaus |
Golf is a game of precision, not strength. |
Jack Nicklaus |
Concentration is a fine antidote to anxiety. |
Jack Nicklaus |
Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not. |
Jackie Gleason |
How sweet it is! |
Jackie Robinson |
Are you looking for a Negro who won't fight
back? |
Jackson Pollock |
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. |
Jacob Bronowski |
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. |
Jacob M. Braude |
If a thing goes without saying -- let it. |
Jacques Maritain |
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of
courtesy. |
James A. Garfield |
Ideas control the world. |
James A. Garfield |
Suicide is not a remedy. |
James A. Garfield |
Right reason is stronger than force. |
James A. Garfield |
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. |
James A. Garfield |
History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy. |
James A. Garfield |
A law is not a law without coercion behind it. |
James Agate |
My mind is not a bed to be made and remade. |
James Agee |
God doesn't believe in the easy way. |
James Allen |
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. |
James Baker |
Never let the other fellow set the agenda. |
James Baldwin |
The future is . . . black. |
James Baldwin |
Man cannot live by profit alone. |
James Baldwin |
Where there is no vision, the people perish. |
James Baldwin |
I want to be an honest man and a good writer. |
James Baldwin |
People can cry much easier than they can change. |
James Beard |
Where would we be without salt? |
James Beard |
Food is our common ground, a universal
experience. |
James Boswell |
Hell is paved with good intentions. |
James Branch Cabell |
I am willing to taste any drink once. |
James Buchanan |
I like the noise of democracy. |
James Callaghan |
Either back us or sack us. |
James Cone |
Truth knows no color; it appeals to
intelligence. |
James Goldsmith |
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. |
James Goldsmith |
If you see a bandwagon, it's too late. |
James I |
No Bishop, no King. |
James I |
He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster. |
James Matthew Barrie |
Life is a long lesson in humility. |
James Matthew Barrie |
To die will be an awfully big adventure. |
James Matthew Barrie |
I know I'm not clever but I'm always right. |
James Matthew Barrie |
Some of my plays peter out and some pan out. |
James Matthew Barrie |
Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. |
James Matthew Barrie |
If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for
company. |
James Matthew Barrie |
Second to the right, and straight on till
morning. |
James McNeill Whistler |
An artist's career always begins tomorrow. |
James Montgomery |
Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive. |
James Russell Lowell |
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. |
James Thomson |
Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things. |
James Thomson |
See, Winter comes to rule the varied year. |
James Thomson |
The meek-ey'd Morn appears, mother of dews. |
James Thomson |
Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come. |
James Thomson |
Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. |
James Thurber |
He who hesitates is sometimes saved. |
James Thurber |
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. |
James Thurber |
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. |
Jane Addams |
The excellent becomes the permanent. |
Jane Austen |
One cannot have too large a party. |
Jane Austen |
You have delighted us long enough. |
Jane Austen |
An annuity is a very serious business. |
Jane Austen |
How can you contrive to write so even? |
Jane Austen |
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. |
Jane Austen |
An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome. |
Jane Austen |
Those who do not complain are never pitied. |
Jane Austen |
Everything nourishes what is strong already. |
Jane Austen |
The sooner every party breaks up the better. |
Jane Austen |
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. |
Jane Austen |
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's. |
Jane Howard |
She was a patron saint of the peripheral. |
Jane Howard |
New links must be forged as old ones rust. |
Jane Rule |
I believe only in art and failure. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
Time wounds all heels. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
Familiarity breeds attempt. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
Home wasn't built in a day. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
I'm a ragged individualist. |
Jane Sherwood Ace |
The chickens have come home to roast. |
Janet Erskine Stuart |
You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom. |
Janet Flanner |
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. |
Janis Joplin |
You got to get it while you can. . . |
Janis Joplin |
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've
got. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Every little thing counts in a crisis. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
A theory must be tempered with reality. |
Jawaharlal Nehru |
Great causes and little men go ill together. |
Jean Anouilh |
What you get free costs too much. |
Jean Anouilh |
Effective action is always unjust.. |
Jean Anouilh |
Nothing is irreparable in politics. |
Jean Anouilh |
I like reality. It tastes like bread. |
Jean Anouilh |
The object of art is to give life a shape. |
Jean Anouilh |
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless. |
Jean de la Fontaine |
But the shortest works are always the best. |
Jean de la Fontaine |
This fellow did not see further than his own
nose. |
Jean de LaFontaine |
In everything one must consider the end. |
Jean de LaFontaine |
Gentleness succeeds better than violence. |
Jean Giraudoux |
Only the mediocre are always at their best. |
Jean Harlow |
I'm going to be a lady if it kills me. |
Jean Ingelow |
It is not reason which makes faith hard, but
life. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Truth is no road to fortune. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
A feeble body weakens the mind. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
God made me and broke the mold. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. |
Jean Kerr |
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. |
Jean Paul |
Brevity is the body and soul of wit. |
Jean Paul |
The look of a king is itself a deed. |
Jean Paul |
Joys are our wings, sorrows our spurs. |
Jean Paul |
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. |
Jean Racine |
Small crimes always precedes great ones. |
Jean Racine |
Without money honor is merely a disease. |
Jean Racine |
A single word often betrays a great design. |
Jean Rostand |
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts. |
Jean Stafford |
(My bounded brain was as) unalterable as a ball. |
Jean Toomer |
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. |
Jean Toomer |
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. |
Jeane Kirkpatrick |
Look, I don't even agree with myself at times. |
Jeane Kirkpatrick |
History is a better guide than good intentions. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
Truth is in all things, even partly, in error. |
Jean-Luc Godard |
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world. |
Jeanne-Marie Roland |
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
Words are loaded pistols. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
When the rich wage war it is the poor who die. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
It is only in our decisions that we are
important. |
Jeff Foxworthy |
If men have a smell it's usually an accident. |
Jefferson Davis |
All we ask is to be let alone. |
Jelly Roll Morton |
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its
feelings. |
Jeremy Bentham |
Every law is an infraction of liberty. |
Jeremy Bernstein |
Never speak more clearly than you think. |
Jeremy Taylor |
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for
it. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
We drink one another's health and spoil our own. |
Jerome K. Jerome |
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be
stolen. |
Jerry Brown |
Inaction may be the biggest form of action. |
Jerry Rubin |
I'm famous. That's my job. |
Jerry Rubin |
Don't trust anyone over thirty. |
Jessamyn West |
Delay breeds fear. |
Jessamyn West |
Teaching is the royal road to learning. |
Jessamyn West |
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to
leave. |
Jesse Owens |
One chance is all you need. |
Jessie Redmon Fauset |
Biology transcends society. |
Jim Fiebig |
If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at
39? |
Jim Rohn |
Labor gives birth to ideas. |
Jim Rohn |
How long should you try? Until. |
Jim Rohn |
The book you don't read won't help. |
Jim Rohn |
Money is usually attracted, not pursued. |
Jim Rohn |
For every promise, there is price to pay. |
Jim Rohn |
Income seldom exceeds personal development. |
Jim Rohn |
The more you know the less you need to say. |
Jim Rohn |
Make measurable progress in reasonable time. |
Jim Rohn |
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. |
Jim Rohn |
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. |
Jim Rohn |
By working hard, you get to play hard
guilt-free. |
Jim Rohn |
What you become directly influences what you
get. |
Jim Rohn |
Whatever good things we build end up building
us. |
Jim Rohn |
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a
book. |
Jim Rohn |
Never begin the day until it is finished on
paper. |
Jimi Hendrix |
Music is a safe kind of high. |
Jimi Hendrix |
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. |
Jimmy Connors |
When you're hot, anything can happen. |
Jimmy Durante |
Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are! |
Joan Baez |
Action is the antidote to despair. |
Joan Baez |
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. |
Joan Baez |
As long as one keeps searching, the answers
come. |
Joan Crawford |
What people want me to be. |
Joan Didion |
Writers are always selling somebody out. |
Joan Konner |
This life isn't bad for a first draft. |
Joan L. Curcio |
We teach what we learn, and the cycle goes on. |
Joan Rivers |
Never floss with a stranger. |
Joan Rivers |
Diets, like clothes, should be tailored to you. |
Joanna Baillie |
The bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss. |
Joanne Woodward |
Intensity is so much more becoming in the young. |
Joaquin Miller |
The biggest dog has been a pup. |
Joe E. Lewis |
I always wake up at the crack of ice. |
Joe E. Lewis |
Show me a friend in need and I'll show you a
pest. |
Joe Frazier |
Kill the body and the head will die. |
Joe Louis |
He can run, but he can't hide. |
Joe Louis |
Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime. |
Joe Namath |
When you win, nothing hurts. |
Joe Namath |
First, I prepare. Then I have faith. |
Joe Namath |
Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."" |
Joe Orton |
The humble and meek are thirsting for blood. |
Joe Paterno |
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. |
Joel Goodman |
Humor is a universal language. |
Joel Goodman |
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. |
Joel Goodman |
Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes." |
Joey Adams |
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. |
Johann Casper Lavater |
The public seldom forgive twice. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
A man's errors are what make him amiable. |
Johannes Kepler |
Nature uses as little as possible of anything. |
John 11:33 |
Jesus wept. |
John Adams |
Genius is sorrow's child. |
John Arbuthnot |
Biography is one of the new terrors of death. |
John Barrymore |
You can only be as good as you dare to be bad. |
John Berryman |
We must travel in the direction of our fear. |
John Bright |
Force is not a remedy. |
John Bright |
Popular applause veers with the wind. |
John Bunyan |
As I walked through the wilderness of this
world. |
John Burroughs |
The secret of happiness is something to do. |
John Cage |
Beware of losing what isn't in your head. |
John Cage |
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. |
John Cage |
If someone says can't, that shows you what to
do. |
John Calvin |
We must remember that Satan has his miracles,
too. |
John Cheever |
Art is the triumph over chaos. |
John Churton Collins |
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. |
John Cleese |
He who laughs most, learns best. |
John Coltrane |
You can play a shoestring if you're sincere. |
John Dalberg Acton |
Learn as much by writing as by reading. |
John Donne |
Who are a little wise the best fools be. |
John Dryden |
Beware the fury of a patient man. |
John Dryden |
All objects lose by too familiar a view. |
John Fletcher |
Deeds, not words. |
John Fletcher |
Hit the nail on the head. |
John Fletcher |
Love's tongue is in his eyes. |
John Fletcher |
Let's meet and either do or die. |
John Fletcher |
I find the medicine worse than the malady. |
John Fletcher |
Love is like linen often changed, the sweeter. |
John Florio |
Patience is the best medicine. |
John Florio |
Night is the mother of thoughts. |
John Florio |
Praise the sea; on shore remain. |
John Ford |
Busy opinion is an idle fool. |
John Fowles |
Time is not a road -- it is a room. |
John Fowles |
An answer is always a form of death. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
God gives quietness at last. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
The smile of God is victory. |
John Greenleaf Whittier |
One brave deed makes no hero. |
John H. Johnson |
Failure is a word that I simply don't accept. |
John H. Johnson |
To succeed, one must be creative and persistent. |
John Hay |
Friends are the sunshine of life. |
John Hay |
It has been a splendid little war. |
John Heisman |
When in doubt, punt! |
John Henry Newman |
Calculation never made a hero. |
John Henry Newman |
Growth is the only evidence of life. |
John Henry Newman |
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt. |
John Heywood |
Haste maketh waste. |
John Heywood |
Rome was not built in a day. |
John Heywood |
A hard beginning maketh a good ending. |
John Heywood |
When all candles be out, all cats be gray. |
John Irving |
Half my life is an act of revision. |
John Irving |
We invent what we love, and what we fear. |
John Irving |
Good habits are worth being fanatical about. |
John Irving |
You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. |
John LeCarre |
You should have died when I killed you. |
John LeCarre |
A committee is an animal with four back legs. |
John Lee Hooker |
We are here to pay our dues to the natural
facts. |
John Lennon |
It's been a hard day's night. |
John Lennon |
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. |
John Lennon |
The more I see the less I know for sure. |
John Lennon |
God is a concept by which we measure our pain. |
John Lennon |
There's nothing you can know that isn't known. |
John Lyly |
Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. |
John Lyly |
All men [are] of one metal, but not in one mold. |
John Madden |
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. |
John Masefield |
Life is a long headache in a noisy street. |
John Masefield |
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. |
John Milton |
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. |
John Milton |
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. |
John Milton |
The troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming. |
John Milton |
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore. |
John Milton |
Good, the more communicated, more abundant
grows. |
John Milton |
What is strength without a double share of
wisdom? |
John Morley |
A proverb is good sense brought to a point. |
John Muir |
The power of imagination makes us infinite. |
John Naisbitt |
Value is what people are willing to pay for it. |
John Oliver Killens |
The Negro was invented in America. |
John Osborne |
But I have a go, lady, don't I? Pave a go. I do. |
John Osborne |
Don't clap too hard -- it's a very old building. |
John Paul Jones |
I have not yet begun to fight. |
John Randolph |
Life is not so important as the duties of life. |
John Randolph |
The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. |
John Randolph |
We all know our duty better than we discharge
it. |
John Ray |
Adversity makes men wise but not rich. |
John Ray |
Feather by feather the goose is plucked. |
John Russell |
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. |
John Russell |
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. |
John Sculley |
Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore. |
John Sean O'Feeny Ford |
When in doubt, make a western. |
John Selden |
They that govern the most, make least noise. |
John Steinbeck |
No one wants advice - only corroboration. |
John Steinbeck |
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play. |
John Steinbeck |
I know this -- a man got to do what he got to
do. |
John Wanamaker |
Do the next thing. |
John Wayne |
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. |
John Wesley |
Think and let think. |
John Wooden |
Don't mistake activity for achievement. |
John Wooden |
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. |
Johnny Cash |
Because you're mine / I walk the line. |
Jonathan Swift |
Necessity is the mother of invention. |
Jonathan Swift |
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. |
Jorge Luis Borges |
Life itself is a quotation. |
Jorge Luis Borges |
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream. |
Jorge Luis Borges |
The original is unfaithful to the translation. |
Jorge Luis Borges |
What a writer wants to do is not what he does. |
Jose Marti |
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century. |
Jose Marti |
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in
men. |
Jose Ortega y Gasset |
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. |
Joseph Addison |
The Hand that made us is divine. |
Joseph Addison |
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. |
Joseph Brodsky |
Man is what he reads. |
Joseph Brodsky |
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason. |
Joseph Campbell |
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private
myths. |
Joseph Chamberlain |
Learn to think Imperially. |
Joseph Goebbels |
We have made the Reich by propaganda. |
Joseph Hall |
He is great enough that is his own master. |
Joseph Heller |
When I grow up I want to be a little boy." |
Joseph Joubert |
Imagination is the eye of the soul. |
Joseph P. Kennedy |
More men die of jealousy than of cancer. |
Joseph P. Kennedy |
Only a fool holds out for the top dollar. |
Joseph Smith |
Man is that he might have joy. |
Joseph Stalin |
The writer is an engineer of the human soul. |
Joseph Stalin |
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. |
Josh Billings |
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to
refute. |
Joyce A. Myers |
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. |
Joyce A. Myers |
A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. |
Judith Crist |
More bomb than bombshell. |
Judith Jamison |
Dance is about never-ending aspiration. |
Judith Martin |
If you can't be kind, at least be vague. |
Judy Blume |
Then again, maybe I won't. |
Judy Blume |
No place has delicatessen like New York. |
Jules Feiffer |
Good swiping is an art in itself. |
Julian Bond |
Moulded on Africa's anvil, / tempered down home. |
Julius Caesar |
I came, I saw, I conquered. |
Julius Caesar |
All bad precedents began as justifiable
measures. |
Julius Erving |
Goals determine what you're going to be. |
Juvenal |
Whate'er men do, or say, or think, or dream. |
Juvenal |
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. |
Kahlil Gibran |
A root is a flower that disdains fame. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
You can't win if you don't play as a unit. |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Your mind is what makes everything else work. |
Karl A. Menninger |
Attitudes are more important than facts. |
Karl Barth |
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude. |
Karl Barth |
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. |
Karl Barth |
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of
God. |
Katharine Graham |
A mistake is simply another way of doing things. |
Katharine Hepburn |
Enemies are so stimulating. |
Katharine Hepburn |
Acting is the perfect idiot's profession. |
Katharine Hepburn |
Drive on. We'll sweep up the blood later! |
Katharine Hepburn |
Without discipline, there's no life at all. |
Katharine Hepburn |
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. |
Katherine Paterson |
Youth is a mortal wound |
Kathleen Turner |
I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way. |
Ken Kesey |
I'd rather be a lightning rod than a
seismograph. |
Kenneth Blanchard |
Feedback is the breakfast of champions. |
Kenneth Hildebrand |
Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions. .
. |
Kenny Rogers |
The music business is strictly business. |
Kin Hubbard |
All the world loves a good loser. |
Kin Hubbard |
Politics makes strange postmasters. |
Kin Hubbard |
You won't skid if you stay in a rut. |
Kin Hubbard |
A loafer always has the correct time. |
Kin Hubbard |
The early tire gets the roofin' tack. |
Kin Hubbard |
It's the good loser who finally loses out. |
Kin Hubbard |
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. |
Kin Hubbard |
Nobody ever forgets where they buried a hatchet. |
Kin Hubbard |
Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble. |
Kin Hubbard |
Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited
guest. |
Kin Hubbard |
It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts
him. |
Kin Hubbard |
Lots of folks confuse bad management with
destiny. |
Kin Hubbard |
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is the
best. |
Kin Hubbard |
Very often the quiet fellow has said all he
knows. |
Kingman Brewster, Jr. |
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. |
Kingsley Amis |
More will mean worse. |
Konrad Adenauer |
A thick skin is a gift from God. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him. |
Kwame Nkrumah |
We face neither East nor West: we face forward. |
Lady Marguerite Blessington |
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. |
Lana Turner |
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. |
Lane Olinghouse |
To Err is human; to refrain from laughing,
humane. |
Lao-Tzu |
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. |
Larry Holmes |
There is no quit in me. |
Larry Holmes |
I decided to box my way out of the ghettol. |
Larry Neal |
I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. |
Lauren Bacall |
I'm not the public. |
Lauren Bacall |
I am not a has-been. I'm a will be. |
Lauren Bacall |
Imagination is the highest kite that one can
fly. |
Laurence J. Peter |
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again. |
Laurence J. Peter |
A man convinced against his will is not
convinced. |
Lawrence Durrell |
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes. |
Lawrence Durrell |
Truth disappears with the telling of it. |
Lawrence Durrell |
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. |
Learned Hand |
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. |
Lech Walesa |
I am a spy of life. |
Lee Iacocca |
MBAs know everything but understand nothing. |
Lee Trevino |
A hungry dog hunts best. |
Lena Horne |
Always be smarter than the people who hire you. |
Lenny Bruce |
Miami Beach is where neon goes to die. |
Leo Buscaglia |
We all need each other. |
Leo Durocher |
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot. |
Leo Tolstoy |
Man discovers truth by reason only, not by
faith. |
Leon Battista Alberti |
A man can do all things if he but wills them. |
Leonardo da Vinci |
He turns not back who is bound to a star. |
Leonardo da Vinci |
Time stays long enough for those who use it. |
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev |
God will not forgive us if we fail. |
Leontyne Price |
Accomplishments have no color. |
Les Brown |
All of us need to grow continuously in our
lives. |
Letitia Landon |
How disappointment tracks the steps of hope. |
Letty Cottin Pogrebin |
Boys don't make passes at female smart-asses. |
Lewis Carroll |
What I tell you three times is true. |
Lewis Carroll |
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find
it. |
Lewis Mumford |
Only entropy comes easy. |
Lillian Carter |
How could Jimmy ever criticize me? l'm his mama. |
Lillian Gish |
Never get caught acting. |
Lillian Gish |
The stage was our school, our home, our life. |
Lillian Hellman |
God forgives those who invent what they need. |
Lily Tomlin |
The best mind-altering drug is truth. |
Lily Tomlin |
Just remember, we're all in this alone. |
Lily Tomlin |
For fast acting relief, try slowing down. |
Lily Tomlin |
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. |
Lin Yu-t'ang |
The wise man reads both books and life itself. |
Lincoln Kirstein |
Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon. |
Lincoln Steffens |
Morality is moral only when it is voluntary. |
Lincoln Steffens |
I have been over into the future, and it works. |
Lionel Trilling |
Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. |
Liv Ullmann |
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming
pool. |
Liz Smith |
What you become is what counts. |
Liza Minnelli |
Reality is something you rise above. |
Liza Minnelli |
There are so many girls, and so few princes. |
Liza Minnelli |
Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family. |
Lord Darling |
Much truth is spoken, that more may be
concealed. |
Lorraine Hansberry |
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. |
Louis Agassiz |
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. |
Louis Armstrong |
What we play is life. |
Louis Armstrong |
Never play a thing the same way twice. |
Louis Auchincloss |
Only little boys and old men sneer at love. |
Louis Brandeis |
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. |
Louis Nizer |
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults. |
Louis XIV |
First feelings are always the most natural. |
Louis XIV |
Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper. |
Louisa May Alcott |
It takes two flints to make a fire. |
Louise Erdrich |
It was enough just to sit there without words. |
Louise Nevelson |
True strength is delicate. |
Louis-Ferdinand Celine |
The more one is hated, I find, the happier one
is. |
Luc De Clapiers |
Action makes more fortune than caution. |
Luc De Clapiers |
More are taken in by hope than by cunning. |
Luc de Clapiers Vauvenargues |
The art of pleasing is the art of deceiving. |
Luciano Pavarotti |
You don't need any brains to listen to music. |
Lucille Ball |
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
While we are postponing life speeds up. |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
There is no genius without a mixture of madness. |
Lucretia Mott |
Truth for authority, not authority for truth. |
Lucretius |
The sum of all sums is eternity. |
Lucretius |
Life is one long struggle in the dark. |
Lucretius |
Nothing can be created out of nothing. |
Lucretius |
Victory puts us on a level with heaven. |
Lucretius |
What is food to one is to another bitter poison. |
Ludovico Ariosto |
Man proposes, God disposes. |
Ludovico Ariosto |
Nature made him -- then broke the mold. |
Ludovico Ariosto |
We soon believe the things we would believe. |
Ludovico Ariosto |
They think they have God Almighty by the toe. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
Less is more. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
God is in the details. |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
It is better to be good than to be original. |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Applaud friends, the comedy is over. |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
No one should drive a hard bargain with an
artist. |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
A picture is a model of reality. |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
A confession has to be part of your new life. |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving
oneself. |
Luis Bunuel |
A paranoiac. . . like a poet, is born, not made. |
Lyman Abbott |
Patience is passion tamed. |
Lyman Abbott |
It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. |
Lynda Barry |
Love will make a way out of no way. |
Lynn Fontanne |
We can be bought, but we can't be bored. |
Lytton Strachey |
Discretion is not the better part of biography. |
M. C. Escher |
My work is a game -- a very serious game. |
M. C. Escher |
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. |
M. F. K. Fisher |
Salad is roughage and a French idea. |
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek |
We write our own destiny; we become what we do. |
Madeleine L'Engle |
Be aware that rigidity imprisons. |
Madeleine L'Engle |
It is the ability to choose which makes us
human. |
Madeleine L'Engle |
To be born is to start the journey towards
death. |
Mae West |
To err is human, but it feels divine. |
Mae West |
Too much of a good thing is wonderful. |
Mae West |
I used to be snow white, but I drifted. |
Mae West |
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office. |
Mae West |
A man in the house is worth two in the street. |
Mae West |
It is better to be looked over than overlooked. |
Mae West |
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. |
Maggie Kuhn |
Learning and sex until rigor mortis. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Patience means self-suffering. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
I think it would be a good idea. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
If you don't ask, you don't get. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
There is no god higher than truth. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Freedom and slavery are mental states. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Truth never damages a cause that is just. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
God comes to the hungry in the form of food. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Those who know how to think need no teachers. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
The good man is the friend of all living things. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
There is more to life than increasing its speed. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's
cause. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
We must be the change we wish to see in the
world. |
Maimonides |
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. |
Malcolm Forbes |
When you cease to dream you cease to live. |
Malcolm Kushner |
Comic vision often leads to serious solutions. |
Malcolm X |
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. |
Manly Hall |
Moderation is the secret of survival. |
Mao Tse-Tung |
To read too many books is harmful. |
Marc Chagall |
Great art picks up where nature ends. |
Marc Chagall |
I work in whatever medium likes me at the
moment. |
Marcel Duchamp |
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. |
Marcel Marceau |
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. |
Marcel Pagnol |
Honor is like a match, you can only use it once. |
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus |
Boldness can mask great fear. |
Marcus Cato |
I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own. |
Marcus Cato |
Speech is the gift of all, but thought of few. |
Marcus Garvey |
Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward. |
Marcus Garvey |
Progress is the attraction that moves humanity. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
A letter does not blush. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Let reason govern desire. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Like associates with like. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Thrift is of great revenue. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Ability without honor is useless. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Before beginning, plan carefully. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
While there's life, there's hope. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
As you have sown so shall you reap. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
A man of courage is also full of faith. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Reason should direct and appetite obey. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
A good orator is pointed and impassioned. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
They condemn what they do not understand. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
The good of the people is the greatest law. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Silence is one of the great arts of
conversation. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all
things. |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
The greater the difficulty, the greater the
glory. |
Margaret Anderson |
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. |
Margaret Atwood |
Gardening is not a rational act. |
Margaret Atwood |
Canada was built on dead beavers. |
Margaret Atwood |
A word after a word after a word is power. |
Margaret Atwood |
Sons branch out, but one woman leads to another. |
Margaret Atwood |
The truly fearless think of themselves as
normal. |
Margaret Bourke-White |
The beauty of the past belongs to the past. |
Margaret Drabble |
When nothing is sure, everything is possible. |
Margaret Drabble |
Why can't people be both flexible and efficient? |
Margaret Truman |
He loved politicians -- even Republicans. |
Marge Piercy |
Love as if you liked yourself, and it may
happen. |
Margery Allingham |
The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable. |
Margot Asquith |
An imitation rough diamond. |
Margot Asquith |
His modesty amounts to deformity. |
Margot Asquith |
He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up. |
Margot Asquith |
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. |
Marguerite de Valois |
Tears may be dried up, but the heart -- never. |
Marguerite Duras |
The best way to fill time is to waste it. |
Maria Edgeworth |
How success changes the opinion of men! |
Maria Schell |
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes
by. |
Marian Anderson |
You lose a lot of time hating people. |
Marian Anderson |
Prayer begins where human capacity ends. |
Marian Wright Edelman |
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. |
Marie Antoinette |
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat
cake. |
Marie de Sevigne |
True friendship is never serene. |
Marie Lloyd |
A little of what you fancy does you good. |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
Conquer but don't triumph. |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
Many a truth sprang from an error. |
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
In youth we learn; in age we understand. |
Marilyn Monroe |
It stirs up envy, fame does. |
Marilyn Monroe |
I've been on a calendar, but never on time. |
Marilyn Monroe |
A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. |
Mario Cuomo |
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. |
Marion Zimmer Bradley |
The truth is not so good a story. |
Marita Bonner |
The one real thing that money buys -- Time. |
Mark Caine |
A barrier is of ideas, not of things. |
Mark Caine |
At all times it is better to have a method. |
Mark Twain |
I was born excited. |
Mark Twain |
Humor is tragedy plus time. |
Mark Twain |
Golf is a good walk spoiled. |
Mark Twain |
Kings is mostly rapscallions. |
Mark Twain |
All the modern inconveniences. |
Mark Twain |
When in doubt, tell the truth. |
Mark Twain |
We are all alike, on the inside. |
Mark Twain |
All kings is mostly rapscallions. |
Mark Twain |
Be good and you will be lonesome. |
Mark Twain |
Woman is unrivaled as a wet nurse. |
Mark Twain |
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. |
Mark Twain |
To be busy is man's only happiness. |
Mark Twain |
To eat in human. To digest divine. |
Mark Twain |
Words in haste do friendships waste. |
Mark Twain |
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. |
Mark Twain |
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. |
Mark Twain |
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. |
Mark Twain |
It is easier to stay out than get out. |
Mark Twain |
The report of my death is exaggerated. |
Mark Twain |
Never do wrong when people are looking. |
Mark Twain |
I like criticism, but it must be my way. |
Mark Twain |
If you have nothing to say, say nothing. |
Mark Twain |
Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. |
Mark Twain |
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. |
Mark Twain |
Necessity is the mother of taking chances. |
Mark Twain |
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough. |
Mark Twain |
The lack of money is the root of all evils. |
Mark Twain |
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. |
Mark Twain |
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. |
Mark Twain |
A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. |
Mark Twain |
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. |
Mark Twain |
Tell the truth or trump -- but get the trick. |
Mark Twain |
I was born modest; not all over, but in spots. |
Mark Twain |
Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind. |
Mark Twain |
Prosperity is the best protector of principle. |
Mark Twain |
Virtue has never been as respectable as money. |
Mark Twain |
What a man misses mostly in heaven is company. |
Mark Twain |
I can live for two months on a good compliment. |
Mark Twain |
Some of his words were not Sunday-school words. |
Mark Twain |
We have the best government that money can buy. |
Mark Twain |
When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. |
Mark Twain |
An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces. |
Mark Twain |
There is a great deal of human nature in people. |
Mark Twain |
There is nothing so annoying as a good example!! |
Mark Twain |
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. |
Mark Twain |
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs
to. |
Mark Twain |
Name the greatest of all the inventors.
Accident. |
Mark Twain |
Against the assault of laughter nothing can
stand. |
Mark Twain |
As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it
out. |
Mark Twain |
I do not like work even when someone else does
it. |
Mark Twain |
In his private heart no man much respects
himself. |
Marquis de Sade |
All universal moral principles are idle fancies. |
Marshall Field |
Give the lady what she wants! |
Marshall McLuhan |
Language is a form of organized stutter. |
Marshall McLuhan |
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. |
Marshall McLuhan |
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. |
Marshall McLuhan |
As a rule, I always look for what others ignore. |
Marshall McLuhan |
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. |
Martha Graham |
The only sin is mediocrity. |
Martha Graham |
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. |
Martial |
Each day provides its own gifts. |
Martial |
Those they praise, but they read the others. |
Martial |
Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today. |
Martial |
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. |
Martin Amis |
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. |
Martin Buber |
Leisure is the exultation of the possible. |
Martin Buxbaum |
A dog wags its tail with its heart. |
Martin H. Fischer |
In diagnosis think of the easy first. |
Martin H. Fischer |
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words. |
Martin H. Fischer |
We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites. |
Martin Luther |
The fewer the words, the better the prayer. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
A riot is the language of the unheard. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow. |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
The time is always right to do what is right. |
Martin Tupper |
He who does not tire, tires adversity. |
Martin Tupper |
It is sure to be dark if you shut your eyes. |
Martina Navratilova |
I just try to concentrate on concentrating. |
Martina Navratilova |
Just go out there and do what you've got to do. |
Marty Robbins |
Talent is being able to please people. |
Marvin Gaye |
I sing about life. |
Marvin Gaye |
Great artists suffer for the people. |
Marvin Hagler |
When a man goes into the ring, he's going to
war. |
Mary Baker Eddy |
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. |
Mary Catherine Bateson |
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. |
Mary Catherine Bateson |
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. |
Mary Catherine Bateson |
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat
food. |
Mary Jean LeTendre |
We have to preach what winners practice. |
Mary Jean LeTendre |
Let us never confuse stability with stagnation. |
Mary Kay Ash |
People fail forward to success. |
Mary Kay Ash |
Criticize the act, not the person. |
Mary Kay Ash |
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. |
Mary McCarthy |
The happy ending is our national belief. |
Mary McCarthy |
I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake. |
Mary McLeod Bethune |
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. |
Mary McLeod Bethune |
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist. |
Mary McLeod Bethune |
I never stop to plan. I take things step by
step. |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
He who laughs, lasts. |
Mary Pettibone Poole |
You can keep your friends by not giving them
away. |
Mary Quant |
A woman is as young as her knees. |
Mary Shelly Wollstonecraft |
The beginning is always today. |
Mary Webb |
Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'ern. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
Life is too short for a long story. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
General notions are generally wrong. |
Mary Wortley Montagu |
Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote. |
Matthew Arnold |
Miracles do not happen. |
Matthew Arnold |
Not deep the poet sees, but wide. |
Matthew Arnold |
Greatness is a spiritual condition. |
Matthew Arnold |
Journalism is literature in a hurry. |
Matthew Arnold |
He bears the seed of ruin in himself. |
Matthew Arnold |
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. |
Matthew Arnold |
Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. |
Matthew Arnold |
Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall. |
Matthew Arnold |
The bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I. |
Matthew Arnold |
With women, the heart argues, not the mind. |
Matthew Arnold |
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over. |
Matthew Prior |
The ends must justify the means. |
Matthew Prior |
For hope is but a dream for those that wake. |
Maureen Duffy |
Love is the only effective counter to death. |
Max Beerbohm |
Every kind of writing is hypocritical. |
Max Beerbohm |
Pessimism does win us some great moments. |
Maxine Kumin |
Cherish your wilderness. |
Maxine Kumin |
Everything pays for growing tame. |
May Swenson |
I was the horse and the rider . . . |
May Swenson |
We play in the den of the Gods and snort at
death. |
Maya Angelou |
Life loves the liver of it. |
Maya Angelou |
I believe that every person is born with talent. |
Maya Angelou |
Nobody, but nobody / Can make it out here alone. |
Maya Ying Lin |
To fly we have to have resistance. |
Medgar Evers |
Our only hope is to control the vote. |
Medgar Evers |
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. |
Meister Eckhart |
The more we have the less we own. |
Mel Brooks |
He who hesitates is poor. |
Melvin Tolson |
Old men dream dreams; young men see visions. |
Melvin Tolson |
A civilization is always judged in its decline. |
Menander |
Whom the gods love dies young. |
Menander |
Nothing is more useful than silence. |
Menander |
No just person ever became quickly rich. |
Menander |
Even God lends a hand to honest boldness. |
Menander |
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. |
Mencius |
Sincerity is the way to heaven. |
Mencius |
Friendship is one mind in two bodies. |
Mencius |
Truth uttered before its time is dangerous. |
Mencius |
He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich. |
Meridel Le Sueur |
Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. |
Meridel Le Sueur |
They never die, who have the future in them. |
Merry Browne |
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. |
Meryl Streep |
You can't get spoiled if you do your own
ironing. |
Michael Crichton |
Absence of proof is not proof of absence. |
Michael Jackson |
I was a veteran before I was a teenager. |
Michael Jordan |
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. |
Michael Korda |
An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of
ambition. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
To philosophize is to doubt. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
I want death to find me planting my cabbages. |
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne |
I quote others in order to better express
myself. |
Michelangelo |
Genius is eternal patience. |
Michelangelo |
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. |
Mick Jagger |
I can't get no satisfaction. |
Mickey Rooney |
I was a 14-year-old boy for 30 years. |
Mickey Rooney |
You always pass failure on the way to success. |
Miguel de Cervantes |
Jests that give pains are no jests. |
Miguel de Cervantes |
Every production must resemble its author. |
Miguel de Cervantes |
Good painters imitate nature, bad ones spew it
up. |
Miguel de Unamuno |
Science is a cemetery of dead ideas. |
Mike Ditka |
You 're never a loser until you quit trying. |
Mikhail Bakunin |
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils
life. |
Mikhail Baryshnikov |
Acting is not my language at all. |
Milan Kundera |
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. |
Milan Kundera |
Optimism is the opium of the people. |
Milan Kundera |
Happiness is the longing for repetition. |
Miles Davis |
Do not fear mistakes -- there are none. |
Miles Davis |
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. |
Miles Davis |
If you understood everything I say, you'd be me! |
Miles Davis |
I'll play it first and tell you what it is
later. |
Milton Berle |
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. |
Milton Friedman |
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. |
Minna Thomas Antrim |
Man proposes, woman forecloses. |
Minnie Pearl |
Take the back roads instead of the highways. |
Mohammed |
Patience is the key to contentment. |
MoliŠre |
Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two! |
MoliŠre |
Long is the road from conception to completion. |
Montgomery Clift |
If a man don't go his own way, he's nothin. |
Mordecai Richler |
Everybody writes a book too many. |
Mort Sahl |
Would you buy a second-hand car from this man? |
Muhammad Ali |
What keeps me going is goals. |
Muhammad Ali |
My toughest fight was with my first wife. |
Muhammad Ali |
I want to get out with my greatness intact. |
Muhammad Ali |
The man who has no imagination has no wings. |
Muriel Rukeyser |
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms. |
Muriel Spark |
One should only see a psychiatrist out of
boredom. |
Nancy Lopez |
Never practice without a thought in mind. |
Nancy Lopez |
The simpler I keep things, the better I play. |
Nannie Burroughs |
We specialize in the wholly impossible. |
Naomi Judd |
Change is the one thing we can be sure of. |
Naomi Judd |
There are many paths but only one journey. |
Naomi Judd |
Your body hears everything your mind says. |
Naomi Judd |
A dead end street is a good place to turn
around. |
Naomi Weisstein |
Evidence and reason: my heroes and my guides. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Imagination rules the world. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Ability is nothing without opportunity. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
Ability is of little account without
opportunity. |
Napoleon Hill |
A goal is a dream with a deadline. |
Nat King Cole |
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
Eternity -- waste of time. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
Novels are longer than life. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
It is time for dead languages to be quiet. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction. |
Natalie Clifford Barney |
To be one's own master is to be the slave of
self. |
Natalie Goldberg |
Anything we fully do is an alone journey. |
Nathan Huggins |
Death mattered not -- It was a mere puncutation |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Life is made up of marble and mud. |
Ned Rorem |
Humor is the ability to see 3 sides to one coin. |
Neil Kinnock |
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits. |
Nelly Sachs |
Bewitched is half of everything. |
Nicholas Rowe |
Is this that haughty, gallant, gay Lothario? |
Nicolas Boileau |
Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly. |
Nikki Giovanni |
We love because it's the only true adventure. |
Nikos Kazantzakis |
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. |
Noam Chomsky |
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously. |
Norman Augustine |
It costs a lot to build bad products. |
Norman Augustine |
The optimum committee has no members. |
Norman Augustine |
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. |
Norman Cousins |
Cynicism is intellectual treason. |
Norman Cousins |
No one really knows enough to be a pessimist. |
Norman Cousins |
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. |
Norman Thomas |
I always get more applause than votes. |
Norman Vincent Peale |
Change your thoughts, and you change your world. |
Novalis |
A character is a completely fashioned will. |
Novalis |
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. |
Novalis |
Where children are, there is the golden age. |
Novalis |
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of
life. |
Novalis |
We are near waking when we dream we are
dreaming. |
Ntozake Shange |
Where there is woman there is magic. |
O. Henry |
Write what you like; there is no other rule. |
Octavio Paz |
Deserve your dream. |
Ogden Nash |
Purity is obscurity. |
Ogden Nash |
When Ah itchez, / Ah scratchez. |
Ogden Nash |
A bit of talcum / Is always walcum. |
Ogden Nash |
If called by a panther, / don't anther. |
Ogden Nash |
In the world of mules there are no rules. |
Ogden Nash |
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. |
Ogden Nash |
A lady is known by the product she endorses. |
Ogden Nash |
Women would rather be right than reasonable. |
Ogden Nash |
Candy / Is dandy, / But Liquor, / Is quicker. |
Ogden Nash |
Bankers are just like everyone else only richer. |
Ogden Nash |
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. |
Ogden Nash |
Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead
it. |
Ogden Nash |
In real life, it takes only one to make a
quarrel. |
Oliver Cromwell |
He who stops being better stops being good. |
Oliver Cromwell |
Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
The first blow is half the battle. |
Oliver Goldsmith |
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. |
Oliver Herford |
Many are called but few get up. |
Oliver Herford |
A man is known by the silence he keeps. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
Eloquence may set fire to reason. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |
Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true. |
Omar Bradley |
Never use intuition. |
Omar Khayyam |
A hair divides what is false and true. |
Omar Khayyam |
Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum! |
Omar Khayyam |
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. |
Oprah Winfrey |
Every day's a kick! |
Oriana Fallaci |
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost. |
Orison Swett Marden |
Be larger than your task. |
Orison Swett Marden |
A good system shortens the road to the goal. |
Osbert Sitwell |
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time. |
Oscar Hammerstein |
I hand him a lyric and get out of his way. |
Oscar Hammerstein |
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try. |
Oscar Hammerstein |
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair. |
Oscar Levant |
So little time and so little to do. |
Oscar Levant |
Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. |
Oscar Wilde |
Time is waste of money. |
Oscar Wilde |
All Art is quite useless. |
Oscar Wilde |
Genius is born, not paid. |
Oscar Wilde |
Grief has turned her fair. |
Oscar Wilde |
A kiss may ruin a human life. |
Oscar Wilde |
The final mystery is oneself. |
Oscar Wilde |
Bad manners make a journalist. |
Oscar Wilde |
A mask tells us more than a face. |
Oscar Wilde |
Only the shallow know themselves. |
Oscar Wilde |
There is no sin except stupidity. |
Oscar Wilde |
Each man kills the thing he loves. |
Oscar Wilde |
He hasn't a single redeeming vice. |
Oscar Wilde |
And now, I am dying beyond my means. |
Oscar Wilde |
Charity creates a multitude of sins. |
Oscar Wilde |
Conscience makes egotists of us all. |
Oscar Wilde |
Either that wallpaper goes, or I do. |
Oscar Wilde |
Those whom the gods love grow young. |
Oscar Wilde |
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man. |
Oscar Wilde |
Duty is what one expects from others. |
Oscar Wilde |
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. |
Oscar Wilde |
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. |
Oscar Wilde |
The greatest of all sins is stupidity. |
Oscar Wilde |
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece? |
Oscar Wilde |
Truth is rarely pure, and never simple. |
Oscar Wilde |
Art never expresses anything but itself. |
Oscar Wilde |
It is always the unreadable that occurs. |
Oscar Wilde |
All art is quite useless. So is a flower. |
Oscar Wilde |
I am not young enough to know everything. |
Oscar Wilde |
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. |
Oscar Wilde |
Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality. |
Oscar Wilde |
I can resist everything except temptation. |
Oscar Wilde |
Work is the curse of the drinking classes. |
Oscar Wilde |
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. |
Oscar Wilde |
I have nothing to declare except my genius. |
Oscar Wilde |
Men become old, but they never become good. |
Oscar Wilde |
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. |
Oscar Wilde |
Nothing is impossible in Russia but reform. |
Oscar Wilde |
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. |
Oscar Wilde |
Life is too important to be taken seriously. |
Oscar Wilde |
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. |
Oscar Wilde |
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. |
Oscar Wilde |
She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. |
Oscar Wilde |
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. |
Oscar Wilde |
Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness. |
Oscar Wilde |
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. |
Oscar Wilde |
The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last. |
Oscar Wilde |
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. |
Oscar Wilde |
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. |
Oscar Wilde |
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. |
Oscar Wilde |
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it. |
Oscar Wilde |
The world is a stage, but the play's badly cast. |
Oscar Wilde |
Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at
all. |
Oscar Wilde |
I love acting. It is so much more real than
life. |
Oscar Wilde |
In married life three is company and two is
none. |
Oscar Wilde |
It requires one to assume such indecent
postures. |
Oscar Wilde |
Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is
Browning. |
Oscar Wilde |
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in
life. |
Oscar Wilde |
Experience is one thing you can't get for
nothing. |
Oscar Wilde |
Life imitates art far more than art imitates
life. |
Otto von Bismarck |
Politics is not an exact science. |
Otto von Bismarck |
Better pointed bullets than pointed words. |
Otto von Bismarck |
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. |
Otto Weininger |
Everything evil is revenge. |
Otto Weininger |
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. |
Ouida |
Petty laws breed great crimes. |
Ouida |
Indifference is the invisible giant of the
world. |
P. B. S. Pinchback |
I am at last in a free country. |
P. D. James |
His sleep was a sensuous gluttony of oblivion. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
He was white and shaken, like a dry martini. |
P. G. Wodehouse |
I always advise people never to give advice. |
P. T. Barnum |
Every crowd has a silver lining. |
P. T. Barnum |
There's a sucker born every minute. |
Pablo Casals |
To retire is to begin to die. |
Pablo Picasso |
I do not seek. I find. |
Paramahansa Yogananda |
Truth is exact correspondence with reality. |
Pat Nixon |
I would feel sorry for her if she did. |
Pat Riley |
Don't let other people tell you what you want. |
Patricia Hampl |
Here, in memory, we live and die. |
Patricia Hampl |
Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. |
Patricia Neal |
Don't forget to duck! |
Patricia Neal |
Gort. Klaatu baraada nikto. (to the robot Gort) |
Patricia Schroeder |
I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both. |
Patrick Buchanan |
Defeat has its lessons as well as victory. |
Patti Smith |
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand? |
Patti Smith |
Never let go of that fiery sadness called
desire. |
Patti Smith |
People have the power to redeem the work of
fools. |
Patty Berg |
Always keep learning. It keeps you young. |
Patty Berg |
It's a wonderful day for me, I made it to 80. |
Paul Brown |
A winner never whines. |
Paul Brown |
The key to winning is poise under stress. |
Paul Cezanne |
We live in a rainbow of chaos. |
Paul Cezanne |
I am the primitive of the method I have
invented. |
Paul Cezanne |
The awareness of our own strength makes us
modest. |
Paul Dietzel |
There are no office hours for champions. |
Paul Dietzel |
Leadership is the ability to lift and inspire. |
Paul Eldridge |
Many a necklace becomes a noose. |
Paul Engle |
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. |
Paul Gauguin |
I shut my eyes in order to see. |
Paul Gauguin |
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. |
Paul Goodman |
All men are creative but few are artists. |
Paul Klee |
One eye sees, the other feels. |
Paul Newman |
Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool. |
Paul Newman |
Show me a good loser and I will show you a
loser. |
Paul Tillich |
The first duty of love is to listen. |
Paul Verlaine |
Take eloquence and wring its neck. |
Paul Verlaine |
And everything else is just literature |
Paul Verlaine |
And here is my heart which beats only for you. |
Paul Verlaine |
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the
town. |
Peace Pilgrim |
A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose. |
Peace Pilgrim |
We are all cells in the same body of humanity. |
Pearl Bailey |
We must change in order to survive. |
Pearl Bailey |
No one can figure out your worth but you. |
Pearl Bailey |
You never find yourself until you face the
truth. |
Pearl Buck |
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. |
Peggy Noonan |
A great speech is literature. |
Peggy Noonan |
Read good, big important things. |
Peggy Noonan |
Part of courage is simple consistency. |
Pericles |
Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time. |
Pete Rose |
Never bet on baseball. |
Pete Rose |
See the ball; hit the ball. |
Peter Arno |
Well, back to the old drawing board. |
Peter Arno |
I consider your conduct unethical and lousy. |
Peter De Vries |
Life is a zoo in a jungle. |
Peter De Vries |
The rich aren't like us -- they pay less taxes. |
Peter Drucker |
A business exists to create a customer. |
Peter Drucker |
We always remember best the irrelevant. |
Peter Drucker |
Decision making is the specific executive task. |
Peter Mere Latham |
Common sense is in medicine the master workman. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
To begin, begin. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
Action conquers fear. |
Peter Nivio Zarlenga |
No authority is higher than reality. |
Peter Thomson |
Use your brain, not your endurance. |
Peter Thomson |
You can think best when you're happiest. |
Peter Ustinov |
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. |
Petronius Arbiter |
One good turn deserves another. |
Petronius Arbiter |
He has gone over to the majority. |
Petronius Arbiter |
Beauty and wisdom make a rare conjunction. |
Petronius Arbiter |
A physician is nothing but a consoler of the
mind. |
Phaedrus |
Success tempts many to their ruin. |
Phil Donahue |
Women are smarter than men because they listen. |
Philip Crosby |
The great discoveries are usually obvious. |
Philip Crosby |
No one can remember more than three points. |
Philip Crosby |
You don't have to be noisy to be effective. |
Philip Dormer Chesterfield |
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. |
Philip James Bailey |
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. |
Philip James Bailey |
The worst men often give the best advice. |
Philip Johnson |
I'm about four skyscrapers behind. |
Philip Johnson |
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. |
Philip Larkin |
Get stewed: Books are a load of crap. |
Philip Larkin |
You can't put off being young until you retire. |
Philip Massinger |
Now speak, / Or be for ever silent. |
Philip Massinger |
Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. |
Philip Sidney |
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. |
Philip Sidney |
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. |
Phyllis Diller |
I buried a lot of my ironing in the back yard. |
Phyllis Diller |
A smile is a curve that sets everything
straight. |
Pierre Corneille |
Guess if you can, choose if you dare. |
Pierre Corneille |
Brave men are brave from the very first. |
Pierre Corneille |
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. |
Pierre de Coubertin |
Swifter, higher, stronger. |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
Reason over passion. |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
Power only tires those who don't exercise it. |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
The essential ingredient of politics is timing. |
Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
My life is one long curve, full of turning
points. |
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. |
Plato |
Arguments derived from probabilities are idle. |
Pliny the Elder |
No one is wise at all times. |
Pliny the Elder |
The happier the moment the shorter. |
Pliny the Elder |
There is always something new out of Africa. |
Pliny the Elder |
The brain is the citadel of sense perception. |
Plutarch |
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. |
Plutarch |
The wildest colts make the best horses. |
Plutarch |
Character is simply habit long continued. |
Polly Adler |
My home is in whatever town I'm booked. |
Pope John XXIII |
I am made to tremble and I fear! |
Pope John XXIII |
A peaceful man does more good than a learned
one. |
Potter Stewart |
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness. |
Princess Anne |
I know my own heart to be entirely English. |
Princess of Wales Diana |
Everywhere I go I smell fresh paint. |
Publilius Syrus |
In quarreling the truth is always lost. |
Publilius Syrus |
Some remedies are worse than the diseases. |
Publilius Syrus |
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. |
Publilius Syrus |
It is not every question that deserves an
answer. |
Pythagoras |
A thought is an idea in transit. |
R. S. Surtees |
I'll fill hup the chinks wi' cheese. |
Rachel Carson |
The ocean is a place of paradoxes. |
Ralph Ellison |
When I discover who I am, I'll be free. |
Ralph Ellison |
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead. |
Ralph Hodgson |
Did anyone ever have a boring dream? |
Ralph Hodgson |
Some things have to be believed to be seen. |
Ralph Hodgson |
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery. |
Ralph Nader |
Power has to be insecure to be responsive. |
Ralph Richardson |
Acting is the ability to dream on cue. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Work is victory. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
To think is to act. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every wall is a door. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Genius Borrows nobly. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Imitation is suicide. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Be an opener of doors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Earth laughs in flowers. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
I like man, but not men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Pride ruined the angels. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature hates calculators. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
New arts destroy the old. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We have more than we use. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Language is fossil poetry. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Reality is a sliding door. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The surest poison is time. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We are prisoners of ideas. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We are wiser than we know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Blame is safer than praise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Money often costs too much. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Skill to do comes of doing. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The first wealth is health. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every advantage has its tax. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Life too near paralyses art. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
New York is a sucked orange. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Only poetry inspires poetry. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Today is a king in disguise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Cunning is strength withheld. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Life is a search after power. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The excellent is new forever. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The eye is easily frightened. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We boil at different degrees. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We never touch but at points. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A forte always makes a foible. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Live, let live, and help live. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A man is related to all nature. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Knowledge is the only elegance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature tells every secret once. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Necessity does everything well. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All promise outruns performance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
An empire is an immense egotism. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is a luxury to be understood. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Knowledge exists to be imparted. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Poverty consist in feeling poor. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
There is always safety in valor. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Thoughts are the seed of action. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Real action is in silent moments. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The true poem is the poet's mind. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Whatever limits us, we call Fate. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
America is a country of young men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Common sense is as rare as genius. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every artist was first an amateur. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every hero becomes a bore at last. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Insist on yourself; never imitate. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The dice of God are always loaded. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A man's library is a sort of harem. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All diseases run into one, old age. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear always springs from ignorance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Make yourself necessary to someone. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Our best thoughts come from others. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The world belongs to the energetic. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Thou art to me a delicious torment. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
To be great is to be misunderstood. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We go to Europe to be Americanized. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We may be partial, but Fate is not. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Always do what you are afraid to do. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Language is the archives of history. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Life is a festival only to the wise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Music causes us to think eloquently. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
People say law but they mean wealth. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Self-command is the main discipline. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Society is a hospital of incurables. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The soul's emphasis is always right. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A strenuous soul hates cheap success. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Books are for nothing but to inspire. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Genius has no taste for weaving sand. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
If we live truly, we shall see truly. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Men are what their mothers made them. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The force of character is cumulative. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The more reason, the less government. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The most dangerous thing is illusion. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wherever there is power there is age. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A beautiful woman is a practical poet. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
If a man owns land, the land owns him. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is the eye which makes the horizon. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Life is a progress, and not a station. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Thought makes every thing fit for use. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
To fill the hour -- that is happiness. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Common sense is the wick of the candle. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every man is eloquent once in his life. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature hates monopolies and exceptions. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Our strength grows out of our weakness. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The less government we have the better. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The walking of Man is falling forwards. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All necessary truth is its own evidence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Everything intercepts us from ourselves. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
There is no knowledge that is not power. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
There is no one who does not exaggerate! |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
As soon as there is life there is danger. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Good men must not obey the laws too well. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is a happy talent to know how to play. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Men are respectable only as they respect. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
So far as a person thinks; they are free. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The more experiments you make the better. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The virtue in most request is conformity. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We acquire the strength we have overcome. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Where there is no vision a people perish. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Accept your genius and say what you think. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
How much of human life is lost in waiting. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Man is a piece of the universe made alive. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Sanity is not being subdued by your means. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Self-trust is the first secret of success. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The ancestor of every action is a thought. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The life of man is a self-evolving circle. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
When a man meets his make, society begins. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A great man is always willing to be little. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A man is what he thinks about all day long. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A sage is the instructor of a hundred ages. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Art is the path of the creator to his work. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fame is proof that the people are gullible. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Never read any book that is not a year old. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Obedience alone gives the right to command. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
People are to be taken in very small doses. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The only prudence in life is concentration. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The religions we call false were once true. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
What a new face courage puts on everything! |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wherever work is done, victory is attained. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All the great ages have been ages of belief. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Culture is one thing and varnish is another. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is not length of life, but depth of life. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Only that mind draws me which I cannot read. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The greatest man in history was the poorest. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The longest wave is quickly lost in the sea. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The world we live in is but thickened light. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
There is a crack in everything God has made. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All great men come out of the middle classes. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
That man is idle who can do something better. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The highest virtue is always against the law. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
There is properly no history; only biography. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Valor consists in the power of self recovery. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action? |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
People see only what they are prepared to see. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Science does not know its debt to imagination. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
There is no eloquence without a man behind it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Character is that which can do without success. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every man is an impossibility until he is born. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nothing external to you has any power over you. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The never-ending task of self improvement . . . |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The years teach much which the days never know. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every man believes he has a greater possibility. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Friendship demands the ability to do without it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Sincerity is the highest compliment you can pay. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The course of everything goes to teach us faith. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The greatest genius is the most indebted person. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is
patience. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All my best thoughts were stolen by the
ancients. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
All the great speakers were bad speaker at
first. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
I consider theology to be the rhetoric of
morals. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The wise through excess of wisdom is made a
fool. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We gain the strength of the temptation we
resist. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
What is the hardest thing in the world? To
think. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
A field cannot well be seen from within the
field. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Beauty without grace is the hook without the
bait. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and
fables. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see
them. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no
errors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by
praise. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use
it. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
The line of beauty is the line of perfect
economy. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
We learn geology the morning after the
earthquake. |
Raoul Dufy |
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. |
Raoul Vaneigem |
Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. |
Raquel Welch |
You can't fake listening. It shows. |
Raquel Welch |
The mind can also be an erogenous zone. |
Ray Bradbury |
Touch a scientist and you touch a child. |
Ray Bradbury |
We are anthill men upon an anthill world. |
Ray Bradbury |
We are an impossibility in an impossible
universe |
Ray Kroc |
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? |
Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson] |
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within. |
Raymond Chandler |
The more you reason the less you create. |
Raymond Chandler |
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip
pocket. |
Reba McEntire |
Be different, stand out, and work your butt off. |
Rebecca West |
I write books to find out about things. |
Red Auerbach |
Just do what you do best. |
Red Blaik |
You don't develop good teeth by eating mush. |
Reggie Jackson |
Fans don't boo nobodies. |
Rex Harrison |
Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure. |
Rex Harrison |
Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime. |
Richard Armour |
Until Eve arrived, this was a man's world. |
Richard Bach |
As you believe, so it is for you. |
Richard Bach |
Everything in this book may be wrong. |
Richard Bach |
Real love stories never have endings. |
Richard Bach |
In order to win, you must expect to win. |
Richard Bach |
You teach best what you most need to learn. |
Richard Bach |
Learning is finding out what you already know |
Richard Bach |
Listen to what you know instead of what you
fear. |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
Easy writings curse is hard reading. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
Don't fight forces, use them. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
Controlled time is our true wealth. |
Richard Buckminster Fuller |
Dictators never invent their own opportunities. |
Richard Cecil |
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. |
Richard Cobden |
Luck relies on chance, labor on character. |
Richard Francis Burton |
Reason is life's sole arbiter. |
Richard Francis Burton |
Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry
race. |
Richard Nixon |
I would have made a good Pope. |
Richard Steele |
The insupportable labour of doing nothing. |
Richard Wagner |
Joy is not in things, it is in us. |
Richard Wagner |
I write music with an exclamation point! |
Ring Lardner |
They gave each other a smile with a future in
it. |
Rita Dove |
If you can't be free, be a mystery. |
Rita Dove |
What's invisible / sings, and we bear witness. |
Rita Mae Brown |
I believe in art that conceals art. |
Rita Mae Brown |
I believe all literature started as gossip. |
Robert Alexander Schumann |
Talent works, genius creates. |
Robert Anthony |
What you can't communicate runs your life. |
Robert Anthony |
You cannot control without being controlled. |
Robert Baden-Powell |
Dyb-dyb-dyb. |
Robert Benchley |
So who's in a hurry? |
Robert Benchley |
STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE. |
Robert Bly |
I have wandered in a face, for hours . . . |
Robert Browning |
And gain is gain, however small. |
Robert Browning |
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. |
Robert Browning |
The are times when patience proves at fault. |
Robert Browning |
A minute's success pays the failure of years. |
Robert Browning |
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also. |
Robert Burns |
Dare to be honest and fear no labor. |
Robert Burns |
Suspense is worst than disappointment. |
Robert Burns |
Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto! |
Robert Burns |
There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing. |
Robert Burton |
All poets are mad. |
Robert Burton |
A mere scholar, a mere ass. |
Robert Burton |
What is a ship but a prison? |
Robert Burton |
Be not solitary, be not idle. |
Robert Burton |
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. |
Robert Burton |
What can't be cured must be endured. |
Robert Burton |
The devil is the author of confusion. |
Robert Burton |
All places are distant from heaven alike. |
Robert Byrne |
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. |
Robert Byrne |
Getting caught is the mother of invention. |
Robert Byrne |
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. |
Robert Collier |
Desire is proof of the availability... |
Robert Collier |
Constant repetition carries conviction. |
Robert Collier |
Supply always comes on the heels of demand. |
Robert Collier |
Pictures help you to form the mental mold... |
Robert Frost |
Freedom lies in being bold. |
Robert Frost |
To be social is to be forgiving. |
Robert Frost |
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. |
Robert Frost |
Don't be an agnostic--be something. |
Robert Frost |
The best way out is always through. |
Robert Frost |
I am not a teacher, but an awakener. |
Robert Frost |
All the fun's in how you say a thing. |
Robert Frost |
Humor is the most engaging cowardice. |
Robert Frost |
I never take my own side in a quarrel. |
Robert Frost |
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed. |
Robert Frost |
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. |
Robert Frost |
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. |
Robert Frost |
I go to school to youth to learn the future. |
Robert Frost |
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. |
Robert Frost |
One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house. |
Robert Frost |
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. |
Robert Frost |
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. |
Robert Frost |
Pressed into service means pressed out of shape. |
Robert Frost |
So dawn goes down to day / Nothing gold can
stay. |
Robert Frost |
You have freedom when you're easy in your
harness. |
Robert Fulghum |
Clean up your own mess. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. |
Robert Graves |
The thundering text, the snivelling commentary. |
Robert Half |
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. |
Robert Half |
Credentials are not the same as accomplishments. |
Robert Heinlein |
Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you. |
Robert Heinlein |
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. |
Robert Heinlein |
Never underestimate the power of human
stupidity. |
Robert Heller |
Spare the innovation and ruin the company. |
Robert Heller |
The greater the risk, usually the worse the
idea. |
Robert Herrick |
Tears are the noble language of the eye. |
Robert Herrick |
It is the will that makes the action good or
ill. |
Robert Hughes |
The protein of our cultural imagination. |
Robert Lowell |
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will. |
Robert Nathan |
Sorrow is a silence in the heart. |
Robert Orben |
A compliment is verbal sunshine. |
Robert Orben |
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. |
Robert Orben |
Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!' |
Robert Orben |
If you can laugh together, you can work
together. |
Robert Penn Warren |
How do poems grow? They grow out of your life. |
Robert Redford |
A lot of what acting is paying attention. |
Robert Schuller |
Tough times don't last, tough people do. |
Robert Stone |
One doesn't consider style, because style is. |
Robert Walpole |
The balance of power. |
Robert Walpole |
All those men have their price. |
Robert Walpole |
I took the right sow by the ear. |
Robertson Davies |
Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt. |
Robertson Davies |
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. |
Robin Williams |
Comedy is acting out optimism. |
Robin Williams |
Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's
party!' |
Rod Stewart |
I wish I knew what I know now before. |
Rodney Crowell |
The poetry of country music will survive. |
Rodney Crowell |
Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a
choice. |
Rodney Dangerfield |
Life is just a bowl of pits. |
Roger Ascham |
It is costly wisdom that is bought by
experience. |
Roger Miller |
I write like I talk. |
Roger Miller |
I want my music to leave an indelible mark. |
Roger Staubach |
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. |
Roland Barthes |
The New is not a fashion, it is a value. |
Roland Barthes |
Literature is the question minus the answer. |
Romain Rolland |
A hero is one who does what he can. |
Romare Howard Bearden |
I want to see how life can triumph. |
Rona Barrett |
I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail. |
Ronald Firbank |
All millionaires love a baked apple. |
Ronald Reagan |
America is too great for small dreams. |
Ronald Reagan |
I like photographers you don't ask questions. |
Ronnie Milsap |
See with your heart. |
Ronnie Milsap |
Music is not just my passion it's my companion. |
Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
Power is the ability to get things done. |
Rosalind Russell |
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. |
Rose Kennedy |
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of
moments. |
Rose Tremain |
Life is not a dress rehearsal. |
Rose Tremain |
Life should be embraced like a lover. |
Roseanne Barr |
Excuse the mess but we live here. |
Roseanne Barr |
I know how to do anything -- I'm a mom. |
Roseanne Barr |
Beauty comes in all sizes-not just size 5. |
Roy Acuff |
Don't be a blueprint. Be an original. |
Roy Acuff |
I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. |
Roy Acuff |
Any game you play, you got to lose sometime. |
Roy Acuff |
Turn loose and have fun. Give the audience a
show. |
Roy Wilkins |
Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular. |
Ruby Dee |
The greatest gift is not being afraid to
question. |
Rudolph Fisher |
Angels rush in when fools are almost dead. |
Rudyard Kipling |
Everyone is more or less mad on one point. |
Rufus Choate |
A book is the only immortality. |
Rufus Choate |
Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. |
Rufus Choate |
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument. |
Rumer Godden |
The stitch of a book is its words. |
Rush Limbaugh |
Compassion is no substitute for justice. |
Russell Baker |
In America nothing dies easier than tradition. |
Russell Baker |
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart. |
Russell Baker |
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. |
Russell Hoban |
Explorers have to be ready to die lost. |
Ruth Benedict |
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career. |
Ruth Benedict |
Culture is not a biologically transmitted
complex. |
Ryszard Kapuscinski |
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives. |
S. J. Perelman |
A case of the tail dogging the wag. |
S. J. Perelman |
The main obligation is to amuse yourself. |
S. J. Perelman |
I've got Bright's disease and he's got mine. |
Sacha Guitry |
The little I know I owe to my ignorance. |
Saint Ambrose |
In some causes silence is dangerous. |
Saint Ambrose |
There is no time of life past learning
something. |
Saint Augustine |
Love, and do what you like. |
Saint Augustine |
Love is the beauty of the soul. |
Saint Augustine |
The purpose of all war is peace. |
Saint Augustine |
Hell was made for the inquisitive. |
Saint Augustine |
The world's verdict is conclusive. |
Saint Augustine |
Patience is the companion of wisdom. |
Saint Augustine |
Punishment is justice for the unjust. |
Saint Augustine |
Understanding is the reward of faith. |
Saint Augustine |
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. |
Saint Augustine |
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. |
Saint Augustine |
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. |
Saint Augustine |
The playthings of our elders are called
business. |
Saint Augustine |
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss
him. |
Saint Augustine |
Not the punishment but the cause makes the
martyr. |
Saki |
I always say beauty is only sin deep. |
Salman Rushdie |
Our lives teach us who we are. |
Salman Rushdie |
I hate admitting that my enemies have a point. |
Salman Rushdie |
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by
now. |
Salvador Dali |
It is either easy or impossible. |
Sam Rayburn |
Wait a minute. |
Sam Snead |
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst. |
Sam Snead |
Practice puts your brains in your muscles. |
Sam Snead |
Forget your opponents; always play against par. |
Sam Snead |
Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot. |
Sam Walton |
Capital isn't scarce; vision is. |
Sammy Davis, Jr. |
The ultimate mystery is one's own self. |
Samuel Beckett |
We are all born mad. Some remain so. |
Samuel Butler (a) |
For every why he had a wherefore. |
Samuel Butler (a) |
Oaths are but words, and words but wind. |
Samuel Butler (b) |
Life is one long process of getting tired. |
Samuel Butler (b) |
Life is not an exact science, it is an art. |
Samuel Foote |
The great Panjandrum himself. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
Let's have some new clich‚s. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
I'll give you a definite maybe. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
A Hospital is no place to be sick. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
The harder I work the luckier I get. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
God makes stars. I just produce them. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
I read part of it all the way through. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
Why only 12? Go out and get thousands. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
We're overpaying him, but he's worth it. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
It's more than magnificent. It's mediocre. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
Television has raised writing to a new low. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
You've got to take the bitter with the sour. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
If I look confused it's because I'm thinking. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
You ought to take the bull between the teeth. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as
bad. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
Never make forecasts, especially about the
future. |
Samuel Johnson |
I refute it thus. |
Samuel Johnson |
A very unclubable man. |
Samuel Johnson |
Avarice is always poor. |
Samuel Johnson |
A vow is a snare for sin. |
Samuel Johnson |
Grief is a species of idleness. |
Samuel Johnson |
Round numbers are always false. |
Samuel Johnson |
Illness makes a man a scoundrel. |
Samuel Johnson |
Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance. |
Samuel Johnson |
Language is the dress of thought. |
Samuel Johnson |
To a poet nothing can be useless. |
Samuel Johnson |
Virtue is too often merely local. |
Samuel Johnson |
We would all be idle if we could. |
Samuel Johnson |
Life protracted is protracted woe. |
Samuel Johnson |
No man was ever great by imitation. |
Samuel Johnson |
Men hate more steadily than they love. |
Samuel Johnson |
To do nothing is in every man's power. |
Samuel Johnson |
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. |
Samuel Johnson |
The future is purchased by the present. |
Samuel Johnson |
The only sensual pleasure without vice. |
Samuel Johnson |
He who praises everybody praises nobody. |
Samuel Johnson |
Seldom any splendid story is wholly true. |
Samuel Johnson |
Power is not sufficient evidence of truth. |
Samuel Johnson |
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate. |
Samuel Johnson |
Insanity is the power of fancy over reason. |
Samuel Johnson |
It is better to live rich than to die rich. |
Samuel Johnson |
DULL. 8. To make dictionaries is dull work. |
Samuel Johnson |
Sir, the insolence of wealth will creep out. |
Samuel Johnson |
At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest. |
Samuel Johnson |
I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces. |
Samuel Johnson |
It is the only sensual pleasure without vice. |
Samuel Johnson |
Honesty is not greater where elegance is less. |
Samuel Johnson |
Worth seeing? yes; but not worth going to see. |
Samuel Johnson |
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. |
Samuel Johnson |
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. |
Samuel Johnson |
The true art of memory is the art of attention. |
Samuel Johnson |
Wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance. |
Samuel Johnson |
Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing. |
Samuel Johnson |
Example is always more efficacious than precept. |
Samuel Johnson |
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. |
Samuel Johnson |
The booksellers are generous liberal-minded men. |
Samuel Johnson |
Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor. |
Samuel Johnson |
All wonder is the effect of novelty on
ignorance. |
Samuel Johnson |
An injustice anywhere is an injustice
everywhere. |
Samuel Johnson |
Few things are impossible to diligence and
skill. |
Samuel Johnson |
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with
truth. |
Samuel Johnson |
Friendship is not always the sequel of
obligation. |
Samuel Johnson |
Love has no great influences upon the sum of
life. |
Samuel Johnson |
There are charms made only for distant
admiration. |
Samuel Johnson |
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless
sorrow. |
Samuel Lover |
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. |
Samuel Lover |
Sure the shovel and tongs / To each other
belongs. |
Sara Jeannette Duncan |
One loses many laughs by not laughing at
oneself. |
Sara Teasdale |
It is my heart that makes my songs, not I. |
Sarah Bernhardt |
Legend remains victorious in spite of history. |
Sarah Louise Delany |
In our dreams, we are always young. |
Sarah Orne Jewett |
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. |
Saul Steinberg |
I think, therefore Descartes exists. |
Saul Steinberg |
Doodling is the brooding of the hand. |
Scott Adams |
Technology: No Place for Wimps! |
Shana Alexander |
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. |
Sheilah Graham |
No one has a closest friend in Hollywood. |
Shirley Conran |
You're never too old to grow up. |
Shirley Conran |
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom. |
Shirley Conran |
First things first, second things never. |
Shirley Temple Black |
Good luck needs no explanation. |
Sholem Asch |
Personality is the gland of creativity. |
Sholom Aleichem |
Gossip is nature's telephone. |
Siegfried Sassoon |
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. |
Sigmund Freud |
Thought is action in rehearsal. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
Live with no time out. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
Buying is a profound pleasure. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
What is an adult? A child blown up by age. |
Simone de Beauvoir |
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman." |
Simone de Beauvoir |
One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius. |
Simone Signoret |
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. |
Simone Signoret |
He bore no grudge against those he had wronged. |
Socrates |
How many things I can do without! |
Socrates |
The unexamined life is not worth living. |
Socrates |
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of
terms. |
Sojourner Truth |
It is the mind that makes the body. |
Sojourner Truth |
We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. |
Sojourner Truth |
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff. |
Sonny Liston |
It don't matter as long as he can count up to
ten. |
Sophia Loren |
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. |
Sophie Tucker |
Keep breathing. |
Sophocles |
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. |
Sophocles |
It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. |
Sophocles |
To a man who is afraid everything rustles. |
Sparky Anderson |
No manager ever won no ballgames. |
Spencer Tracy |
Concentrate, don't embroider. |
Spencer Tracy |
This is a movie, not a lifeboat. |
Spencer Tracy |
Know your lines and don't bump into the
furniture. |
St. Jerome |
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. |
St. Jerome |
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. |
St. Jerome |
The friendship that can cease has never been
real. |
Stanislaus I |
Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes,
joy. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
He who limps is still walking. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Open sesame-I want to get out. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Powerless rage can work miracles. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
When gossip grows old it becomes myth. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Myth is nothing more than ancient gossip. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
A fat person lives shorter but eats longer. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Get out of the way of justice. She is blind. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Never lie when the truth is more profitable. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
David should have killed Goliath with a harp. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
People find life entirely too time-consuming. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
The first requisite for immortality is death. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
In a war of ideas it is people who get killed. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not
guilty. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Everything is an illusion, including this
notion. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and
fork? |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
When myth meets myth, the collision is very
real. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
What a pity the only way to heaven is in a
hearse. |
Stanislaw Lem |
Where do consequences lead? Depends on the
escort. |
Stanley Baldwin |
War would end if the dead could return. |
Starhawk |
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation. |
Stendhal |
Only great minds can afford a simple style. |
Stephane Mallarme |
Dreams have as much influence as actions. |
Stephane Mallarme |
You don't make a poem with ideas, but with
words. |
Stephen Crane |
Every sin is the result of collaboration. |
Stephen Hawking |
It matters if you just don't give up. |
Stephen King |
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. |
Stephen Leacock |
It may be those who do most, dream most. |
Stephen R. Covey |
Live out of your imagination, not your history. |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
Books are not men and yet they stay alive. |
Stephen Vincent Benet |
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. |
Steve Allen |
Is it larger than a bread box? |
Steve Allen |
The hair is real; it's the head that's fake. |
Steve Martin |
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. |
Steven Spielberg |
I dream for a living. |
Steven Wright |
What's another word for Thesaurus? |
Steven Wright |
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was
adopted. |
Steven Wright |
You can't have everything. Where would you put
it? |
Stonewall Jackson |
Let us cross over the river and rest in the
shade. |
Sugar Ray Robinson |
My business is hurting people. |
Sun Tzu [Wu] |
Rapidity is the essence of war. |
Sun Tzu [Wu] |
All warfare is based on deception. |
Susan B. Anthony |
Failure is impossible. |
Susan Griffin |
One can find traces of every life in each life. |
Susan Griffin |
A story is told as much by silence as by speech. |
Susan Sarandon |
Children reinvent your world for you. |
Susan Sontag |
Sanity is a cozy lie. |
Susan Sontag |
Taste has no system and no proofs. |
Susan Sontag |
Life is a movie. Death is a photograph. |
Susan Sontag |
Perversity is the muse of modern literature. |
Susan Sontag |
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. |
Susan Sontag |
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. |
Susan Sontag |
Books are funny little portable pieces of
thought. |
Suzanne Curchod Necker |
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise. |
Suzanne K. Langer |
Art is the objectification of feeling. |
Svetlana Alliluyeva |
God grants an easy death only to the just. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
When I teach people, I marry them. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor. |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner |
What can be heavier than wealth than freedom? |
Sylvia Plath |
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished
writing. |
T. S. Eliot |
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. |
T. S. Eliot |
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. |
T. Thomas Fortune |
Mental inertia is death. |
Tallulah Bankhead |
Acting is a form of confusion. |
Tallulah Bankhead |
I thought I told you to wait in the car. |
Tallulah Bankhead |
There is less in this than meets the eye. |
Tammy Faye Bakker |
You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian. |
Ted Koppel |
I have the necessary lack of tact. |
Ted Koppel |
I think we're glazing eyes all across America. |
Ted Turner |
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. |
Ted Williams |
If you don't think too good, don't think too
much. |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
You can't cheat the public for long. |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
Know yourself -- and know your audience. |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
Looking back on it, I wouldn't change a thing. |
Tennessee Ernie Ford |
Do you want to be successful? Nurture your
talent. |
Terence |
Fortune favors the brave. |
Tertullian |
He who flees will fight again. |
Tertullian |
Fear is the foundation of safety. |
Tertullian |
What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? |
Tertullian |
See how these Christians love one another. |
Tertullian |
Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money. |
Theodore Dreiser |
Nothing is proved, all is permitted. |
Theodore M. Hesburgh |
It is easier to exemplify values than teach
them. |
Theodore Roethke |
The soul has many motions, body one. |
Theodore Roethke |
In a dark time, the eye begins to see. |
Theodore Roethke |
Time marks us while we are marking time. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. |
Thomas … Kempis |
For man proposes, but God disposes. |
Thomas … Kempis |
How quickly the world's glory passes away. |
Thomas Aquinas |
Art is right reason in the doing of work. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
A man is known by the company his mind keeps. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. |
Thomas Beecham |
No operatic star has yet died soon enough for
me. |
Thomas Browne |
There is no road or ready way to virtue. |
Thomas Browne |
All the wonders you seek are within yourself. |
Thomas Browne |
The world -- A small parenthesis in eternity. |
Thomas Browne |
We carry with us the wonders we seek without us. |
Thomas C. Haliburton |
Punctuality is the soul of business. |
Thomas Campbell |
To bear is to conquer our fate. |
Thomas Campbell |
But Hope, the charmer, linger'd still behind. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The everlasting No. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Rest is for the dead. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Be not the slave of Words. |
Thomas Carlyle |
No violent extreme endures. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The seagreen Incorruptible. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The king is the man who can. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Society is founded upon cloth. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Song is the heroics of speech. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The actual well seen is ideal. |
Thomas Carlyle |
A healthy hatred of scoundrels. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Wonder is the basis of worship. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Worship is transcendent wonder. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The archenemy is the arch stupid! |
Thomas Carlyle |
Thought is the parent of the deed. |
Thomas Carlyle |
All great peoples are conservative. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Endurance is patience concentrated. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Give me a man who sings at his work. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Silence is more eloquent than words. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The age of miracles is forever here! |
Thomas Carlyle |
Variety is the condition of harmony. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Violence does even justice unjustly. |
Thomas Carlyle |
History is the distillation of rumor. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The gospel according to Jean Jacques. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Perseverance is patience concentrated. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Ridicule is the language of the devil. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Every noble work is at first impossible. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity. |
Thomas Carlyle |
No age seemed the age of romance to itself. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The Universe is but one vast symbol of God. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Vain hope to make people happy by politics! |
Thomas Carlyle |
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The purpose of man is in action not thought. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The spiritual is the parent of the practical. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. |
Thomas Carlyle |
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Humor is the finest perfection of poetic genius. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The whole past is the procession of the present. |
Thomas Carlyle |
France was long a despotism tempered by
epigrams. |
Thomas Carlyle |
He that can work is born to be king of
something. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the
world. |
Thomas Carlyle |
A good book is the purest essence of a human
soul. |
Thomas Carlyle |
History is the essence of innumerable
biographies. |
Thomas Carlyle |
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men
tall. |
Thomas De Quincey |
The public is a bad guesser. |
Thomas E. Dewey |
You can't shoot an idea. |
Thomas E. Dewey |
When you're leading, don't talk. |
Thomas Fuller |
All things are difficult before they are easy. |
Thomas Gray |
Where ignorance is bliss / Tis folly to be wise. |
Thomas Griffith |
Journalism is in fact history on the run. |
Thomas Hardy |
That man's silence is wonderful to listen to. |
Thomas Haynes Bayly |
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. |
Thomas Henry Huxley |
The great end of life is not knowledge but
action. |
Thomas Hood |
A moment's thinking is an hour in words. |
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. |
The way to succeed is to double your failure
rate. |
Thomas Jefferson |
The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years. |
Thomas Malthus |
Virtue: to resist all temptation to evil. |
Thomas Merton |
A daydream is an evasion. |
Thomas Middleton |
This was a good week's labor. |
Thomas Middleton |
There's no hate lost between us. |
Thomas Middleton |
Have you summoned your wits from woolgathering? |
Thomas Middleton |
A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long. |
Thomas Moore |
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. |
Thomas Paine |
Man must go back to nature for information. |
Thomas Shadwell |
No man is happy but by comparison. |
Thomas Shadwell |
Every man loves what he is good at. |
Thomas Shadwell |
And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. |
Thomas Tusser |
Naught venture naught have. |
Thomas Tusser |
Seek home for rest, / For home is best. |
Thomas Tusser |
Sweet April showers / Do spring May flowers. |
Thomas W. Higginson |
Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. |
Thomas Wolfe |
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. |
Thomas Wolfe |
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of
beliefs. |
Thornton Wilder |
A play visibly represents pure existing. |
Thornton Wilder |
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. |
Thornton Wilder |
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. |
Thorstein Veblen |
Invention is the mother of necessity. |
Thurgood Marshall |
Sometimes history takes things into its own
hands. |
Timothy Leary |
Science is all metaphor. |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
It is well for one to know more than he says. |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
He means well' is useless unless he does well. |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers. |
Titus Maccius Plautus |
Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds
buyers. |
Tobias Smollett |
Facts are stubborn things. |
Tobias Smollett |
Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise. |
Tobias Smollett |
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. |
Tom Kite |
Give luck a chance to happen. |
Tom Landry |
A winner never stops trying. |
Tom Sharpe |
There's nothing worse than an introspective
drunk. |
Tom Stoppard |
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. |
Tom T. Hall |
A song is a poem set to music. |
Tom T. Hall |
Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit. |
Tom T. Hall |
Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent. |
Tommy Lasorda |
Never argue with people who buy ink by the
gallon. |
Toni Cade Bambara |
Old folks are the nation. |
Toni Cade Bambara |
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. |
Toni Cade Bambara |
The most effective way to do it, is to do it. |
Tony Benn |
All war represents a failure of diplomacy. |
Tony Lema |
In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist. |
Truman Capote |
All literature is gossip. |
Truman Capote |
Talent is a valued tormentor. |
Truman Capote |
That isn't writing at all, it's typing. |
Tryon Edwards |
Never be so brief as to become obscure. |
Ugo Betti |
There is no forgiveness in nature. |
Vachel Lindsay |
Life is a loom, weaving illusion. |
Vannevar Bush |
A belief may be larger than a fact. |
Vera-Ellen |
I'm not exactly repulsive. |
Vera-Ellen |
Getting involved is so, so . . . involving. |
Vicki Baum |
A woman who is loved always has success. |
Victor Hugo |
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. |
Victor Kiam |
Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon. |
Victor Kiam |
Procrastination is opportunity's natural
assassin. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
Conscience is a man's compass. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. |
Vincent Van Gogh |
If one hasn't a horse, one is one's own horse. |
Virgil |
Believe one who has tried it. |
Virgil |
Fortune sides with him who dares. |
Virgil |
Time bears away all things, even the mind. |
Virgil |
They are able because they think they are able. |
Virgil Thomson |
Let your mind alone, and see what happens. |
Virgil Thomson |
I look at you and I write down what I hear. |
Virgil Thomson |
Musicians . . . own music because music owns
them. |
Virgilia Peterson |
There is no plummet to sound another's soul. |
Virginia Graham |
Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful. |
Vita Sackville-West |
There are no signposts in the sea. |
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin |
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Genius is an African who dreams up snow. |
Vladimir Nabokov |
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. |
Voltaire |
Common Sense is not so common. |
W. C. Fields |
Happiness means quiet nerves. |
W. C. Fields |
Never give a sucker an even break. |
W. C. Fields |
On the whole I'd rather be in Philadelphia. |
W. C. Fields |
Lady Godiva put everything she had on a horse. |
W. C. Fields |
I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. |
W. Clement Stone |
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. |
W. H. Auden |
No hero is mortal till he dies. |
W. H. Auden |
To ask the hard question is simple. |
W. H. Auden |
Criticism should be a casual conversation. |
W. H. Auden |
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. |
W. H. Auden |
A shilling life will give you all the facts. |
W. H. Auden |
Goodness is easier to recognize than to define. |
W. H. Auden |
A poet is a professional maker of verbal
objects. |
W. H. Auden |
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a
picnic. |
W. H. Auden |
Music is the best means we have of digesting
time. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
Genius is talent provided with ideals. |
Wallace Stevens |
Money is a kind of poetry. |
Walt Disney |
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. |
Walt Disney |
People spend money when and where they feel
good. |
Walt Kelly |
We have met the enemy and he is us. |
Walt Kelly |
Now is the time for all good men to come to. |
Walter Bagehot |
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. |
Walter Bagehot |
When great questions end, little parties begin. |
Walter Cronkite |
I'd like to be a song and dance man. |
Walter Gropius |
Architecture begins where engineering ends. |
Walter Hagen |
No one remembers who came in second. |
Walter Kerr |
Me no Leica. |
Walter Lippmann |
Even God has been defended with nonsense. |
Walter Lippmann |
When all think alike, then no one is thinking. |
Walter Lippmann |
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. |
Walter Savage Landor |
What is reading but silent conversation? |
Walter Winchell |
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline. |
Walter Winchell |
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the
air. |
Warren Beatty |
Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for
cancer. |
Warren Buffett |
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing. |
Warren Buffett |
We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds. |
Warren Harding |
We drew a pair of deuces and filled. |
Washington Irving |
They who drink beer will think beer. |
Wayne Dyer |
Our intention creates our reality. |
Wayne Dyer |
A am realistic -- I expect miracles. |
Wayne Dyer |
It's never too late to have a happy childhood. |
Wayne Dyer |
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. |
Wayne Gretzky |
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never
take. |
Wendell Phillips |
Responsibility educates. |
Wendell Phillips |
One, on God's side, is a majority. |
Wendell Phillips |
Revolutions are not made. They come. |
Wendell Phillips |
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains. |
Wendell Phillips |
The keener the wheat the lustier the growth. |
Wendell Phillips |
Many know how to flatter, few know how to
praise. |
Wendy Wasserstein |
The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain. |
Westbrook Pegler |
I am a member of the rabble in good standing. |
Whoopi Goldberg |
I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me. |
Whoopi Goldberg |
I am an artist, art has no color and no sex. |
Wilfred Owen |
All a poet can do today is warn. |
Wilfrid Sheed |
Every writer is a writer of the generation
before. |
Wilkie Collins |
Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind. |
Will Durant |
Nothing is new except arrangement. |
Will Rogers |
Lord, let me live until I die. |
Will Rogers |
No party is as bad as its leaders. |
Will Rogers |
Nothing you can't spell will ever work. |
Will Rogers |
All I know is just what I read in the papers. |
Will Rogers |
Don't let yesterday use up too much of today! |
Will Rogers |
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce. |
Will Rogers |
Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. |
Will Rogers |
Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going
up. |
Willa Cather |
I tell you there is such a thing as creative
hate. |
William A. Ward |
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. |
William Blake |
What is now proved was once only imagined. |
William Blake |
To create a little flower is the labor of ages. |
William C. Bryant |
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. |
William Cowper |
Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated
mind. |
William E. Channing |
Error is discipline through which we advance. |
William F. Buckley, Jr. |
Some of my instincts are reprehensible. |
William H. Gates |
640K ought to be enough for anybody. |
William H. Gates |
Often you have to rely on your intuition. |
William Harvey |
Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg. |
William Hazlitt |
Venerate art as art. |
William Hazlitt |
Well, I've had a happy life. |
William Hazlitt |
Reflection makes men cowards. |
William Hazlitt |
Good temper is an estate for life. |
William Hazlitt |
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. |
William Hazlitt |
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. |
William Hazlitt |
Dandyism is. . . a variety of genius. |
William Hazlitt |
The soul of conversation is sympathy. |
William Hazlitt |
The worst old age is that of the mind. |
William Hazlitt |
Life is the art of being well deceived. |
William Hazlitt |
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food. |
William Hazlitt |
Never say never and always avoid always. |
William Hazlitt |
No young man believes he shall ever die. |
William Hazlitt |
Rules and models destroy genius and art. |
William Hazlitt |
As is our confidence, so is our capacity. |
William Hazlitt |
We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. |
William Hazlitt |
The essence of poetry is will and passion. |
William Hazlitt |
Grace in women has more effect than beauty. |
William Hazlitt |
No truly great man ever thought himself so. |
William Hazlitt |
The busier we are the more leisure we have. |
William Hazlitt |
The public have neither shame or gratitude. |
William Hazlitt |
Words are the only things that last forever. |
William Hazlitt |
Silence is the one great art of conversation. |
William Hazlitt |
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. |
William Hazlitt |
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. |
William Hazlitt |
Those who can command themselves command others. |
William Hazlitt |
His worst is better than any other person's
best. |
William Hazlitt |
The garb of religion is the best cloak for
power. |
William Hazlitt |
The most learned are often the most narrow
minded. |
William Hazlitt |
Those only deserve a monument who do not need
one. |
William James |
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions. |
William Jennings Bryan |
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. |
William Jennings Bryan |
One miracle is just as easy to believe as
another. |
William Lloyd Garrison |
That which is not just is not law. |
William Maxwell Beaverbrook |
I am the cat that walks alone. |
William McFee |
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. |
William Morris |
Boundless risk must pay for boundless gain. |
William Morris |
Art is man's expression of his joy in labour. |
William Morris |
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. |
William Morris |
Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed
lips. |
William O. Douglas |
Common sense often makes good law. |
William Penn |
Less judgment than wit is more sail than
ballast. |
William Pitt the Elder |
Where laws end, tyranny begins. |
William Plomer |
Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor. |
William R. Alger |
Words of love, are works of love. |
William R. Alger |
Public opinion is a second conscience. |
William S. Burroughs |
If you can't be just, be arbitrary. |
William S. Burroughs |
Language is a virus from outer space. |
William S. Burroughs |
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? |
William Safire |
Never assume the obvious is true. |
William Safire |
Create your own constituency of the infuriated. |
William Shakespeare |
A deed without a name. |
William Shakespeare |
Boldness be my friend! |
William Shakespeare |
I was adored once too. |
William Shakespeare |
A morsel for a monarch. |
William Shakespeare |
We have seen better days. |
William Shakespeare |
I have not slept one wink. |
William Shakespeare |
Tis neither here nor there. |
William Shakespeare |
A hit, a very palpable hit. |
William Shakespeare |
How camest thou in this pickle? |
William Shakespeare |
O, had I but followed the arts! |
William Shakespeare |
The mutable, rank-scented many. |
William Shakespeare |
Men of few words are the best men. |
William Shakespeare |
I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. |
William Shakespeare |
Why this is very midsummer madness. |
William Shakespeare |
By indirections find directions out. |
William Shakespeare |
Done to death by slanderous tongues. |
William Shakespeare |
For my own part, it was Greek to me. |
William Shakespeare |
How use doth breed a habit in a man! |
William Shakespeare |
I owe him little duty and less love. |
William Shakespeare |
A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. |
William Shakespeare |
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. |
William Shakespeare |
Time's thievish progress to eternity. |
William Shakespeare |
He that sleeps feels no the toothache. |
William Shakespeare |
I will be the pattern of all patience. |
William Shakespeare |
My library / Was dukedom large enough. |
William Shakespeare |
There's small choice in rotten apples. |
William Shakespeare |
He hath eaten me out of house and home. |
William Shakespeare |
He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach. |
William Shakespeare |
Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy. |
William Shakespeare |
Nothing can seem foul to those who win. |
William Shakespeare |
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. |
William Shakespeare |
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof. |
William Shakespeare |
How long a time lies in one little word! |
William Shakespeare |
I am a feather for each wind that blows. |
William Shakespeare |
The better part of valour is discretion. |
William Shakespeare |
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. |
William Shakespeare |
Every good servant does not all commands. |
William Shakespeare |
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. |
William Shakespeare |
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. |
William Shakespeare |
Ideas are the very coinage of your brain. |
William Shakespeare |
Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. |
William Shakespeare |
I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted. |
William Shakespeare |
I will praise any man that will praise me. |
William Shakespeare |
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. |
William Shakespeare |
This above all: to thine own self be true. |
William Shakespeare |
Few love to hear the sins they love to act. |
William Shakespeare |
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. |
William Shakespeare |
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind. |
William Shakespeare |
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. |
William Shakespeare |
Once more the engine of her thoughts began: |
William Shakespeare |
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. |
William Shakespeare |
They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk. |
William Shakespeare |
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. |
William Shakespeare |
Woe to the land that's govern'd by a child! |
William Shakespeare |
Advantage is a better soldier than rashness. |
William Shakespeare |
Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head. |
William Shakespeare |
For new-made honour doth forget men's names. |
William Shakespeare |
Society is no comfort / To one not sociable. |
William Shakespeare |
There's place and means for every man alive. |
William Shakespeare |
To be wise, and love, / Exceeds man's might. |
William Shakespeare |
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. |
William Shakespeare |
For greatest scandal waits on greatest state. |
William Shakespeare |
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. |
William Shakespeare |
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. |
William Shakespeare |
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. |
William Shakespeare |
This is the way to kill a wife with kindness. |
William Shakespeare |
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. |
William Shakespeare |
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. |
William Shakespeare |
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. |
William Shakespeare |
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. |
William Shakespeare |
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. |
William Shakespeare |
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. |
William Shakespeare |
Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. |
William Shakespeare |
We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. |
William Shakespeare |
I never knew so young a body with so old a head. |
William Shakespeare |
The bright day is done, And we are for the dark. |
William Shakespeare |
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so
patient. |
William Shakespeare |
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own
fingers. |
William Shakespeare |
We know what we are, but know not what we may
be. |
William Shakespeare |
Fortune brings in some boats that are not
steered. |
William Shakespeare |
The rarer action is / In virtue than in
vengeance. |
William Stanley Braithwaite |
Art alone has kept her covenant with democracy. |
William Styron |
Let's face it, writing is hell. |
William Watson |
Pain with the thousand teeth. |
William Wordsworth |
Still longed for, never seen. |
William Wordsworth |
The ocean is a mighty harmonist. |
William Wordsworth |
Mighty poets in their misery dead. |
William Wordsworth |
The first cuckoo's melancholy cry. |
William Wordsworth |
Blessed barrier between day and day. |
William Wordsworth |
That was the song - the song for me! |
William Wordsworth |
Fears and fancies thick upon me came. |
William Wordsworth |
Tis said that some have died for love. |
William Wordsworth |
From low to high doth dissolution climb. |
William Wordsworth |
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. |
William Wordsworth |
Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong. |
William Wordsworth |
Lost in the gloom of uninspired research. |
William Wordsworth |
Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense. |
William Wordsworth |
Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart. |
William Wordsworth |
For Nature then . . . / To me was all in all. |
William Wordsworth |
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. |
William Wordsworth |
Small service is true service, while it lasts. |
William Wordsworth |
The winds come to me from the fields of sleep. |
William Wordsworth |
Where lies the land to which yon ship must go? |
William Wordsworth |
Like an army defeated / The snow hath retreated. |
William Wordsworth |
Provoke / The years to bring the inevitable
yoke. |
William Zinsser |
Writing is thinking on paper. |
Willie Mays |
I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em. |
Willie Mays |
Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly
was. |
Willie Mays |
I think I was the best baseball player I ever
saw. |
Willie Nelson |
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. |
Willie Shoemaker |
The horse never knows I'm there until he needs
me. |
Wilson Mizner |
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs
at. |
Winston Churchill |
I am bored with it all. |
Winston Churchill |
Success is never final. |
Winston Churchill |
I live from mouth to hand. |
Winston Churchill |
Wars are not won by evacuations. |
Winston Churchill |
If you were my wife, I'd drink it. |
Winston Churchill |
The Happy Warrior of Squandermania. |
Winston Churchill |
I like a man who grins when he fights. |
Winston Churchill |
We must just KBO ('Keep Buggering On'). |
Winston Churchill |
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. |
Winston Churchill |
No crime is so great as daring to excel. |
Winston Churchill |
Craft is common both to skill and deceit. |
Winston Churchill |
Dead birds don't fall out of their nests. |
Winston Churchill |
I am easily satisfied with the very best. |
Winston Churchill |
Responsibility is the price of greatness. |
Winston Churchill |
The price of greatness is responsibility. |
Winston Churchill |
We have sustained a defeat without a war. |
Winston Churchill |
Experts should be on tap but never on top. |
Winston Churchill |
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. |
Winston Churchill |
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. |
Winston Churchill |
Eating words has never given me indigestion. |
Winston Churchill |
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable. |
Winston Churchill |
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. |
Winston Churchill |
Tell them from me they are unloading history. |
Winston Churchill |
The first quality that is needed is audacity. |
Winston Churchill |
Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. |
Winston Churchill |
I never worry about action, but only inaction. |
Winston Churchill |
Opening amenities are often opening inanities. |
Winston Churchill |
Talking jaw-jaw is always better than war-war. |
Winston Churchill |
The crafty, cold-blooded, blackhearted Italian. |
Winston Churchill |
He is like a female llama surprised in her bath. |
Winston Churchill |
Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell. |
Winston Churchill |
We must build a kind of United States of Europe. |
Winston Churchill |
Men will forgive a man anything except bad
prose. |
Winston Churchill |
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow
strong. |
Winston Churchill |
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape
us. |
Winston Churchill |
The English never draw a line without blurring
it. |
Woody Allen |
Death is an acquired trait. |
Woody Allen |
Eighty percent of success is showing up. |
Woody Allen |
My brain: it's my second favorite organ. |
Woody Guthrie |
So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh. |
Woody Hayes |
A man is always better than he thinks. |
Woody Hayes |
Success - it 's what you do with what you've
got. |
Yogi Berra |
We have deep depth. |
Yogi Berra |
It ain't over 'til it's over. |
Yogi Berra |
I didn't say the things I said. |
Yogi Berra |
It was deja vue all over again. |
Yogi Berra |
A nickel isn't worth a dime today. |
Yogi Berra |
I don't want to make the wrong mistake. |
Yogi Berra |
You can observe a lot just by watching. |
Yogi Berra |
If you can't imitate him, don't copy him. |
Yogi Berra |
How can you think and hit at the same time? |
Yogi Berra |
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. |
Yogi Berra |
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. |
Yogi Berra |
When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it. |
Yogi Berra |
You can't think and hit the ball at the same
time. |
Yul Brynner |
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. |
Yul Brynner |
I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
Dressing is a way of life. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
Fashions fade, style is eternal. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
A good model can advance fashion by ten years. |
Yves Saint Laurent |
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? |
Zig Ziglar |
A goal properly set is halfway reached. |
Zig Ziglar |
Every choice you make has an end result. |
Zig Ziglar |
The way you see people is the way you treat
them. |
Zora Neale Hurston |
People can be slave-ships in shoes. |
Zoroaster |
When you doubt, abstain. |
Zsa Zsa Gabor |
Macho does not prove mucho. |