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

 

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 T-Shirt Quotes by Author

 

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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.