##A-One
"A vandal is somebody who throws a brick through a window. An artist is somebody who paints a picture on that window. A great artist is somebody who paints a picture on the window and then throws a brick through it." - quoted in New Yorker. (A-One).
##Abdera, Democritus of
"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all." - fragment. (Abdera, Democritus of).
##Abelson, Hal
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.". (Abelson, Hal).
##Abert, Geoffrey F.
"The most important thing about having goals is having one.". (Abert, Geoffrey F.).
##Acheson, Dean
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.". (Acheson, Dean).
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." - quoted by Merle Miller in Plain Speaking. (Acheson, Dean).
##Adams, Abigail
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world." - letter (1780). (Adams, Abigail).
##Adams, Douglas
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.". (Adams, Douglas).
"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.". (Adams, Douglas).
"There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.". (Adams, Douglas).
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.". (Adams, Douglas).
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.". (Adams, Douglas).
"Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into something even more incomprehensible. And then there are those who say that this has already happened.". (Adams, Douglas).
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." - Last Chance to See. (Adams, Douglas).
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Mostly Harmless, 1992. (Adams, Douglas).
"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about." - Mostly Harmless, 1992. (Adams, Douglas).
"God's final message to his Creation: We Apologise For The Inconvenience" - So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish. (Adams, Douglas).
"Arthur: 'It's at times like this I wish I'd listened to my mother.' Ford : 'Why, what did she say?' Arthur: 'I don't know, I never listened.'" - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Adams, Douglas).
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Adams, Douglas).
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Adams, Douglas).
"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Adams, Douglas).
"'My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' he muttered to himself, 'and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.'" - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Adams, Douglas).
##Adams, Franklin P.
"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time." - Nods and Becks. (Adams, Franklin P.).
##Adams, Charles Follen
"I haf von funny leedle poy. Vot gomes schust to mine knee: Der queerest schap, der createst rogue. As efer you dit see." - Yawcob Strauss. (Adams, Charles Follen)
##Adams, Henry B.
"slippery and thought is viscous.". (Adams, Henry B.).
##Addington, Henry
"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.". (Addington, Henry).
##Ade, George
"The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking." - Forty Modern Fables. (Ade, George).
##Adler, Alfred
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.". (Adler, Alfred).
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth." - Problems of Neurosis. (Adler, Alfred).
##Aeschylus
"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.". (Aeschylus).
"Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, 'Let no more riches enter!'". (Aeschylus).
##Aesop
"The gods help them that help themselves." - Fables. (Aesop).
"Appearances often are deceiving." - Fables. (Aesop).
"Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything." - Fables. (Aesop).
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." - Fables. (Aesop).
"The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own lumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction." - Fables. (Aesop).
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Fables. (Aesop).
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." - Fables. (Aesop).
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Fables. (Aesop).
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales." - Fables. (Aesop).
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." - Fables. (Aesop).
"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." - Fables. (Aesop).
##Agathon
"This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past." - quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics. (Agathon).
##Aiken, Conrad
"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.". (Aiken, Conrad).
##Akhenaton
"As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities;  so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.". (Akhenaton).
"As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.". (Akhenaton).
"The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.". (Akhenaton).
"If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it.  Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.". (Akhenaton).
"Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.". (Akhenaton).
"Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart;  her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.". (Akhenaton).
"Why seeketh thou revenge, O man!  with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it?  Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it?  Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.". (Akhenaton).
"What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind?  What giveth it power but the want of reason?  Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.". (Akhenaton).
"Put a bridle on thy tongue;  set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace...On much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.". (Akhenaton).
"Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy?  Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?". (Akhenaton).
"Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method;  strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.". (Akhenaton).
##Akiba, Ben Joseph
"The paper burns, but the words fly away.". (Akiba, Ben Joseph).
##Alain
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea." - Libres-propos. (Alain).
##Albani, Emma
"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.". (Albani, Emma).
##Alcott, A. B
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.". (Alcott, A. B).
##Ali, Muhammad
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.". (Ali, Muhammad).
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.". (Ali, Muhammad).
"The man who has no imagination has no wings.". (Ali, Muhammad).
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - quoted in New York Times. (Ali, Muhammad).
##Allen, Agnes
"Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of." - attributed, in Omni. (Allen, Agnes).
##Allen, Fred
"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.". (Allen, Fred).
"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star.". (Allen, Fred).
"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.". (Allen, Fred).
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised.". (Allen, Fred).
"Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.". (Allen, Fred).
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised." - Treadmill to Oblivion. (Allen, Fred).
##Allen, George
"Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.". (Allen, George).
##Allen, Henry
"It is better for civilisation to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.". (Allen, Henry).
##Allen, Marty
"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.". (Allen, Marty).
##Allen, Woody
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.". (Allen, Woody).
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.". (Allen, Woody).
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying.". (Allen, Woody).
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.". (Allen, Woody).
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.". (Allen, Woody).
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.". (Allen, Woody).
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.". (Allen, Woody).
"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman.". (Allen, Woody).
"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.". (Allen, Woody).
"The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.". (Allen, Woody).
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.". (Allen, Woody).
"The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.". (Allen, Woody).
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.". (Allen, Woody).
"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.". (Allen, Woody).
"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.". (Allen, Woody).
"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.". (Allen, Woody).
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . . I want to achieve it through not dying." - quoted in Woody Allen and his Comedy by Eric Lax. (Allen, Woody).
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." - Side Effects. (Allen, Woody).
"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife. . . . Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held." - Without Feathers. (Allen, Woody).
##Almes, Guy
"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.". (Almes, Guy).
##Altito, Noelie
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction.". (Altito, Noelie).
##Alton Jones, W.
"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best co-ordinate the brains and talents of his associates.". (Alton Jones, W.).
##Amiel, Henri-Frdric
"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.". (Amiel, Henri-Frdric).
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.". (Amiel, Henri-Frdric).
"A belief is not true because it is useful.". (Amiel, Henri-Frdric).
"Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves." - Journal intime. (Amiel, Henri-Frdric).
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing." - Journal intime. (Amiel, Henri-Frdric).
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains." - Journal intime. (Amiel, Henri-Frdric).
##Amory, Cleveland
"You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.". (Amory, Cleveland).
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.". (Amory, Cleveland).
##Anacharsis
"Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.". (Anacharsis).
"A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.". (Anacharsis).
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.". (Anacharsis).
##Anderson, Jeremy S.
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.". (Anderson, Jeremy S.).
##Anonymous
"He's a self made man and he worships his creator.". (Anonymous).
"Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?". (Anonymous).
"Rationalising is the bringing of ideals down to one's conduct. Repentance is bringing one's conduct up to the level of his ideals.". (Anonymous).
"Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go.". (Anonymous).
"If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would  reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about...five minutes.". (Anonymous).
"Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out the window!". (Anonymous).
"Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.". (Anonymous).
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.". (Anonymous).
"By the time a man realises that his father was usually right, he has a son who thinks he's usually wrong.". (Anonymous).
"I inherited my ability from both my parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not making it.". (Anonymous).
"Mummy, mummy, what's an orgasm? I dunno. Ask your father.". (Anonymous).
"Vote early and vote often.". (Anonymous).
"God is not dead. He is alive and working; working on a less ambitious project.". (Anonymous).
"He who Laughs, Lasts.". (Anonymous).
"The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.". (Anonymous).
"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.". (Anonymous).
##Antisthenes
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.". (Antisthenes).
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.". (Antisthenes).
"As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.". (Antisthenes).
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes." - quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers. (Antisthenes).
##Antrim, Minna
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." - Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, 1902. (Antrim, Minna).
##Appius Claudius Caecus
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - quoted by Sallust, 'Speech to Caesar on the State'. (Appius Claudius Caecus).
##Aquinas, St. Thomas
"Beware, the man of one book.". (Aquinas, St. Thomas).
"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do." - Two Precepts of Charity, 1273. (Aquinas, St. Thomas).
##Arany, Janos
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.". (Arany, Janos).
##Arendt, Hannah
"It was as though in those last minutes he [Eichmann] was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil." - Eichmann in Jerusalem. (Arendt, Hannah).
"It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution." - in New Yorker. (Arendt, Hannah).
"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think." - quoted in W.H. Auden's A Certain World. (Arendt, Hannah).
##Aristotle
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable.". (Aristotle).
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:  chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.". (Aristotle).
"Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way; this is not easy.". (Aristotle).
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.". (Aristotle).
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.". (Aristotle).
"This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.". (Aristotle).
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.". (Aristotle).
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.". (Aristotle).
"A friend to all is a friend to none.". (Aristotle).
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.". (Aristotle).
"Wit is educated insolence.". (Aristotle).
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.". (Aristotle).
"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.". (Aristotle).
"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.". (Aristotle).
"To be successful, keep looking tanned, live in an elegant building (even if you're in the cellar), be seen in smart restaurants (even if you nurse one drink) and if you borrow, borrow big.". (Aristotle).
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.". (Aristotle).
"The actuality of thought is life." - Metaphysics, book XII, ch. 7. (Aristotle).
"One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day." - Nichomachean Ethics. (Aristotle).
"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward." - Nichomachean Ethics. (Aristotle).
"Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know." - Nichomachean Ethics. (Aristotle).
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." - On the Heavens, book I, ch. 5. (Aristotle).
"It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalised." - Politics. (Aristotle).
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled." - Politics. (Aristotle).
"Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles." - Politics. (Aristotle).
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." - Politics. (Aristotle).
"Man is by nature a political animal." - Politics, book I, ch. 2. (Aristotle).
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers. (Aristotle).
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers. (Aristotle).
"Hope is a waking dream." - quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 18 by Diogenes Laertius. (Aristotle).
"Education is the best provision for old age." - quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 21 by Diogenes Laertius. (Aristotle).
"We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us." - quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 21 by Diogenes Laertius. (Aristotle).
"Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope." - Rhetoric. (Aristotle).
##Armey, Dick
"You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.". (Armey, Dick).
##Artaud, Antonin
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him." - of Van Gogh. (Artaud, Antonin).
##Ash, Mary Kay
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.". (Ash, Mary Kay).
##Ashley, G. O.
"Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.". (Ashley, G. O.).
##Asimov, Isaac
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.". (Asimov, Isaac).
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....'". (Asimov, Isaac).
##Atherton, Gertrude
"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth." - The Conqueror. (Atherton, Gertrude).
##Atkinson, Brooks
"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking." - Once Around the Sun. (Atkinson, Brooks).
"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them." - Once Around the Sun. (Atkinson, Brooks).
"Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers." - Once Around the Sun. (Atkinson, Brooks).
##Atkinson, Rowan
"As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech." - Live in Belfast. (Atkinson, Rowan).
##Auden, W. H.
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.". (Auden, W. H.).
"Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public." - A Certain World. (Auden, W. H.).
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good." - A Certain World. (Auden, W. H.).
"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation." - A Certain World. (Auden, W. H.).
"No hero is immortal till he dies." - A Short Ode to a Philologist. (Auden, W. H.).
"No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing." - in Time. (Auden, W. H.).
"The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition." - The Dyer's Hand. (Auden, W. H.).
"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind." - The Dyer's Hand. (Auden, W. H.).
"It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it." - The Dyer's Hand. (Auden, W. H.).
"To ask the hard question is simple." - The Question. (Auden, W. H.).
##Auden, Wystan Hugh
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.". (Auden, Wystan Hugh).
##Austin, Alfred
"Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think." - Prince Lucifer. (Austin, Alfred).
##Averell Harriman, W.
"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.". (Averell Harriman, W.).
##Averros
"Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect." - Destructio Destructionum. (Averros).
##Ayer, A. J.
"No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine." - Essay on Humanism. (Ayer, A. J.).
##Bacall, Lauren
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.". (Bacall, Lauren).
##Bacharach, Burt
"A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.". (Bacharach, Burt).
##Bacon, Francis
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Friends are thieves of time.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity;  and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.". (Bacon, Francis).
"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic:  a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.". (Bacon, Francis).
"If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.". (Bacon, Francis).
"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.". (Bacon, Francis).
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Apophthegms. (Bacon, Francis).
"Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress." - De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum. (Bacon, Francis).
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel or man come in danger by it." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"The arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"The joys of parents are secret: and so are their griefs and fears." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"All rising to great place is by a winding stair." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business." - Essays. (Bacon, Francis).
"For knowledge, too, is itself power." - Meditationes Sacrae. (Bacon, Francis).
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." - Novum Organum. (Bacon, Francis).
"The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds." - Novum Organum. (Bacon, Francis).
"The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolours the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it." - Novum Organum. (Bacon, Francis).
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - The Advancement of Learning. (Bacon, Francis).
##Bagehot, Walter
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.". (Bagehot, Walter).
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.". (Bagehot, Walter).
"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour." - in National Review. (Bagehot, Walter).
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." - Physics and Politics. (Bagehot, Walter).
##Bailey, Gamaliel
"Who never doubted, never half believed.  Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.". (Bailey, Gamaliel).
"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.". (Bailey, Gamaliel).
"Evil and good are God's right hand and left.". (Bailey, Gamaliel).
"I cannot love as I have loved,  And yet I know not why;  It is the one great woe of life  To feel all feeling die.". (Bailey, Gamaliel).
##Balfour, Arthur James
"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth." - letter (1891). (Balfour, Arthur James).
##Ball, George
"Nostalgia is a seductive liar." - in Newsweek. (Ball, George).
##Bancroft, George
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.". (Bancroft, George).
##Banks, Harry F.
"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk.". (Banks, Harry F.).
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.". (Banks, Harry F.).
##Barnard, Christiaan
"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms." - quoted in Time. (Barnard, Christiaan).
##Barnes, Clive
"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.". (Barnes, Clive).
"Television is the first truly democratic culture-the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want." - in New York Times. (Barnes, Clive).
##Barr, Amelia
"Old age is the verdict of life." - All the Days of My Life. (Barr, Amelia).
##Barry, Dave
"Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.". (Barry, Dave).
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.". (Barry, Dave).
##Barrymore, Ethel
"For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros." - quoted in George Jean Nathan's The Theatre in the Fifties. (Barrymore, Ethel).
##Barton, Bruce
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.". (Barton, Bruce).
"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.". (Barton, Bruce).
"Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to." - in Town and Country. (Barton, Bruce).
##Baruch, Bernard Mannes
"I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.". (Baruch, Bernard Mannes).
"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale.". (Baruch, Bernard Mannes).
"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am." - quoted in Newsweek (on his 85th birthday). (Baruch, Bernard Mannes).
##Bates, Daisy
"The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.  No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.". (Bates, Daisy).
##Baudelaire, Charles
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." - Mon Coeur mis  nu. (Baudelaire, Charles).
##Beadle, Elias Root
"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.". (Beadle, Elias Root).
##Beaumarchais, Caron de
"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.". (Beaumarchais, Caron de).
##Beccaria, Cesare
"Happy is the nation without a history." - Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment. (Beccaria, Cesare).
##Becque, Henry
"The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors." - Querelles littraires. (Becque, Henry).
##Beecher, Henry Ward
"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.". (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.". (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.". (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.". (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will,  and the other from a strong won't.". (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.". (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." - Life Thoughts. (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." - Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude." - Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. (Beecher, Henry Ward).
"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin." - Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit. (Beecher, Henry Ward).
##Beethoven
"Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.". (Beethoven).
##Behan, Brendan
"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.". (Behan, Brendan).
"I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started.". (Behan, Brendan).
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.". (Behan, Brendan).
##Behn, Aphra
"Patience is a flatterer, sir - and an ass, sir." - The Feigned Curtezans. (Behn, Aphra).
"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret." - The Lover's Watch. (Behn, Aphra).
"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand." - The Rover. (Behn, Aphra).
"Variety is the soul of pleasure." - The Rover. (Behn, Aphra).
##Bellack, Dan
"Life is too short for traffic.". (Bellack, Dan).
##Bender, Betty
"Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.". (Bender, Betty).
##Bennett, Arnold
"The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.". (Bennett, Arnold).
"Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste." - in Evening Standard. (Bennett, Arnold).
"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism." - Things that Have Interested Me. (Bennett, Arnold).
##Bennis, Warren G.
"Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led.". (Bennis, Warren G.).
##Bentley, Eric
"If one truly had lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.". (Bentley, Eric).
##Benton, William
"The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea.". (Benton, William).
##Berenson, Bernard
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Notebook. (Berenson, Bernard).
##Bergson, Henri
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.". (Bergson, Henri).
"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment." - Introduction to Metaphysics. (Bergson, Henri).
"Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilisation." - The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. (Bergson, Henri).
##Berlioz, Hector
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - quoted in Almanach des lettres franaises. (Berlioz, Hector).
##Bernanos, Georges
"Hope is a risk that must be run." - Last Essays. (Bernanos, Georges).
"Hell, Madame, is to love no longer." - The Diary of a Country Priest. (Bernanos, Georges).
"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself." - The Diary of a Country Priest. (Bernanos, Georges).
##Bernard, Claude
"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.". (Bernard, Claude).
##Berra, Yogi
"We have deep depth.". (Berra, Yogi).
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.". (Berra, Yogi).
"Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical.". (Berra, Yogi).
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.". (Berra, Yogi).
"We made too many wrong mistakes.". (Berra, Yogi).
"You can observe a lot by just watching.". (Berra, Yogi).
"It ain't over till it's over." - attributed. (Berra, Yogi).
"You can observe a lot just by watching." - attributed. (Berra, Yogi).
##Beston, Henry
"Do no dishonour to the earth lest you dishonour the spirit of man." - The Outermost House. (Beston, Henry).
"As well expect Nature to answer to your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair. The economy of nature, its checks and balances, its measurements of competing life-all this is its great marvel and has an ethic of its own." - The Outermost House. (Beston, Henry).
##Bibesco, Elizabeth
"'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said, 'it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'" - The Fir and the Palm. (Bibesco, Elizabeth).
##Arnold, Samuel J.
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##Birrell, Augustine
"Is this true or only clever?". (Birrell, Augustine).
##Bishop, Billy
"On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.". (Bishop, Billy).
##Blackstone, William
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." - Commentaries on the Laws of England. (Blackstone, William).
"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it." - Commentaries on the Laws of England. (Blackstone, William).
##Blake, Eubie
"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.". (Blake, Eubie).
##Blake, William
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.". (Blake, William).
"Exuberance is beauty.". (Blake, William).
"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.". (Blake, William).
"I must Create a System or be enslav'd by another Man's." - Jerusalem. (Blake, William).
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer." - Jerusalem. (Blake, William).
"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"To create a little flower is the labour of ages." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"Shame is Pride's cloak." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (Blake, William).
"The eye altering, alters all." - The Mental Traveller. (Blake, William).
##Blavatsky, H. P.
"When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine:  the drop returneth whence it came.  The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.". (Blavatsky, H. P.).
"The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the Great Breath which is eternity.". (Blavatsky, H. P.).
"The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.". (Blavatsky, H. P.).
"If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.". (Blavatsky, H. P.).
##Bloch, Arther
"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.". (Bloch, Arther).
##Boetcker, William J. H.
"That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.". (Boetcker, William J. H.).
##Bohn, Henry George
"He preacheth patience that never knew pain." - Handbook of Proverbs. (Bohn, Henry George).
##Bok, Derek
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.". (Bok, Derek).
##Bolingbroke
"Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom.". (Bolingbroke).
"To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.". (Bolingbroke).
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.". (Bolingbroke).
##Bolitho, William
"Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social." - Twelve Against the Gods. (Bolitho, William).
##Bombeck, Erma
"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving." - quoted in Time. (Bombeck, Erma).
##Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.". (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich).
"It is the advantage and the nature of the strong that they can bring crucial issues to the fore and take a clear position regarding them. The weak always have to choose between alternatives that are not their own." - Letters and Papers from Prison. (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich).
"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol." - No Rusty Swords. (Bonhoeffer, Dietrich).
##Bono, Edward de
"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.". (Bono, Edward de).
##Boone, Daniel
"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.". (Boone, Daniel).
##Boorstin, Daniel J.
"In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa." - The Image. (Boorstin, Daniel J.).
"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness." - The Image. (Boorstin, Daniel J.).
"We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God." - The Image. (Boorstin, Daniel J.).
##Borah, William E.
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.". (Borah, William E.).
##Borrow, George
"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness." - Lavengro. (Borrow, George).
##Boudinot, Elias
"Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.". (Boudinot, Elias).
##Bourne, Alex
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.". (Bourne, Alex).
##Bovee, Christian Nestell
"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
"A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.  Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
"Good men have the fewest fears.  He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
"It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship.  With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
"Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.". (Bovee, Christian Nestell).
##Bowen, Elizabeth
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.". (Bowen, Elizabeth).
"No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." - Orion III. (Bowen, Elizabeth).
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends." - The Death of the Heart. (Bowen, Elizabeth).
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience." - The Death of the Heart. (Bowen, Elizabeth).
"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone." - The House in Paris. (Bowen, Elizabeth).
"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat." - The House in Paris. (Bowen, Elizabeth).
##Bradley, F. H.
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness." - Aphorisms. (Bradley, F. H.).
"The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbours." - Aphorisms. (Bradley, F. H.).
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct." - Appearance and Reality. (Bradley, F. H.).
##Bradley, General Omar
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.". (Bradley, General Omar).
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - speech (1948). (Bradley, General Omar).
##Brague, Georges
"Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them." - Illustrated Notebooks. (Brague, Georges).
"Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented." - Penses sur l'art. (Brague, Georges).
"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry." - quoted in The Times. (Brague, Georges).
##Brancusi, Constantin
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture." - quoted in Themes and Episodes by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft. (Brancusi, Constantin).
##Braun, Wernher von
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." - in Chicago Sun Times. (Braun, Wernher von).
##Brecht, Bertolt
"Grub first, then ethics.". (Brecht, Bertolt).
"ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! . . . GALILEO: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes." - Life of Galileo. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves." - Mother Courage. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom." - Mother Courage. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong." - Mother Courage. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"War is like love, it always finds a way." - Mother Courage. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"You can only help one of your luckless brothers By trampling down a dozen others." - The Good Woman of Setzuan. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?" - The Threepenny Opera. (Brecht, Bertolt).
"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse." - The Threepenny Opera. (Brecht, Bertolt).
##Brenan, Gerald
"We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them." - Thoughts in a Dry Season. (Brenan, Gerald).
"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values." - Thoughts in a Dry Season. (Brenan, Gerald).
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." - Thoughts in a Dry Season. (Brenan, Gerald).
"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money." - Thoughts in a Dry Season. (Brenan, Gerald).
##Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - The Physiology of Taste. (Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme).
"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." - The Physiology of Taste. (Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme).
##Brilliant, Ashleigh
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.". (Brilliant, Ashleigh).
"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.". (Brilliant, Ashleigh).
"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.". (Brilliant, Ashleigh).
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.". (Brilliant, Ashleigh).
"Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.". (Brilliant, Ashleigh).
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.". (Brilliant, Ashleigh).
##Bront, Charlotte
"Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition." - Jane Eyre. (Bront, Charlotte).
"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones." - Jane Eyre. (Bront, Charlotte).
##Brothers, Dr. Joyce
"Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success.". (Brothers, Dr. Joyce).
##Broude, Dorothy
"Act as if it were impossible to fail.". (Broude, Dorothy).
##Brougham, Henry
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.". (Brougham, Henry).
##Broun, Haywood Hale
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - quoted in James A. Michener's Sports in America. (Broun, Haywood Hale).
##Brower, Charles
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.". (Brower, Charles).
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.". (Brower, Charles).
##Brown, Gene
"Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.". (Brown, Gene).
##Brown, Governor Jerry
"I reject 'get it done', 'make it happen' thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand them better.". (Brown, Governor Jerry).
##Brown, H. Jackson
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.". (Brown, H. Jackson).
##Brown, H. Rap
"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie." - press conference (1967). (Brown, H. Rap).
##Brown Jr, H. Jackson
"When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.". (Brown Jr, H. Jackson).
"Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.". (Brown Jr, H. Jackson).
"You either make dust or eat dust.". (Brown Jr, H. Jackson).
"When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.". (Brown Jr, H. Jackson).
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.". (Brown Jr, H. Jackson).
##Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.". (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett).
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.". (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett).
"The devil's most devilish when respectable." - Aurora Leigh. (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett).
##Broyard, Anatole
"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave." - in New York Times. (Broyard, Anatole).
##Bruno, Giordano
"God is the universal substance in existing things.  He comprises all things.  He is the fountain of all being.  In Him exists everything that is.". (Bruno, Giordano).
##Bryan, William Jennings
"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.". (Bryan, William Jennings).
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.". (Bryan, William Jennings).
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly.". (Bryan, William Jennings).
##Bryant, Anita
"As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.". (Bryant, Anita).
##Buchman, Frank
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." - Remaking the World. (Buchman, Frank).
##Buchwald, Art
"People are broad-minded. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him." - Have I Ever Lied to You?. (Buchwald, Art).
##Buckley, William F.
"We love your adherence to democratic principles.". (Buckley, William F.).
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.". (Buckley, William F.).
##Buckley Jr., William F.
"I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.". (Buckley Jr., William F.).
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.". (Buckley Jr., William F.).
"The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.". (Buckley Jr., William F.).
##Buddha
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.  He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.". (Buddha).
"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage!  Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.". (Buddha).
"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.". (Buddha).
"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.". (Buddha).
"If a man possesses a repentant spirit his sins will disappear, but if he has an unrepentant spirit his sins will continue and condemn him for their sake forever.". (Buddha).
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.". (Buddha).
"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.  Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.". (Buddha).
##Buffon, Comte de
"The style is the man himself." - Discours sur le style. (Buffon, Comte de).
##Bukowski, Charles
"Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better than political opportunist slamming hate horse shit in the public park.". (Bukowski, Charles).
##Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.).
"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.).
"There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths." - What Will He Do With It?. (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.).
##Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.  The classic literature is always modern.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"I was always an early riser.  Happy the man who is!  Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness.  The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.". (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - speech (1873). (Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert).
##Burke, Edmund
"Good order is the foundation of all things.". (Burke, Edmund).
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper.". (Burke, Edmund).
"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.". (Burke, Edmund).
"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it;  but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.". (Burke, Edmund).
"The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.". (Burke, Edmund).
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.". (Burke, Edmund).
"It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.". (Burke, Edmund).
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - attributed. (Burke, Edmund).
"You can never plan the future by the past." - letter (1791). (Burke, Edmund).
"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities." - Letters on a Regicide Peace. (Burke, Edmund).
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." - Letters on a Regicide Peace. (Burke, Edmund).
"Custom reconciles us to everything." - On the Sublime and Beautiful. (Burke, Edmund).
"Good order is the foundation of all good things." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. (Burke, Edmund).
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. (Burke, Edmund).
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart." - Reflections on the Revolution in France. (Burke, Edmund).
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." - speech (1771). (Burke, Edmund).
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none." - speech (1773). (Burke, Edmund).
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." - speech (1774). (Burke, Edmund).
"Public calamity is a mighty leveller." - speech (1775). (Burke, Edmund).
"All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter." - speech (1775). (Burke, Edmund).
"The march of the human mind is slow." - speech (1775). (Burke, Edmund).
"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered." - speech (1775). (Burke, Edmund).
"Dangers by being despised grow great." - speech (1792). (Burke, Edmund).
"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." - speech (1792). (Burke, Edmund).
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. (Burke, Edmund).
##Burnett, Carol
"Comedy is tragedy - plus time". (Burnett, Carol).
##Burney, Fanny
"Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here, after seeing Italy." - Cecilia. (Burney, Fanny).
##Burnham, Daniel H.
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." - quoted in Charles Moore's Daniel H. Burnham. (Burnham, Daniel H.).
##Burns, George
"I have my 87th birthday coming up and people ask what I'd most appreciate getting. I'll tell you : a paternity suit.". (Burns, George).
"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.". (Burns, George).
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.". (Burns, George).
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." - quoted in Life. (Burns, George).
##Bush, George
"This is America . . .- brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky." - speech (accepting nomination for President, 1988). (Bush, George).
"Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going." - speech (accepting nomination for President, 1988). (Bush, George).
##Buxton, Charles
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.". (Buxton, Charles).
##Caesar Augustus
"Make haste slowly." - quoted by Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars. (Caesar Augustus).
##Calwell, Arthur
"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.". (Calwell, Arthur).
##Camus, Albert
"I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.". (Camus, Albert).
"Life is a sum of all your choices.". (Camus, Albert).
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.". (Camus, Albert).
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.". (Camus, Albert).
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.". (Camus, Albert).
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.". (Camus, Albert).
"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.". (Camus, Albert).
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." - Notebooks. (Camus, Albert).
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad." - Resistance, Rebellion and Death. (Camus, Albert).
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - The Fall. (Camus, Albert).
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - The Fall. (Camus, Albert).
"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day." - The Fall. (Camus, Albert).
"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to." - The Myth of Sisyphus. (Camus, Albert).
"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy." - The Myth of Sisyphus. (Camus, Albert).
"What is a rebel? A man who says no." - The Rebel. (Camus, Albert).
##Canetti, Elias
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you." - The Human Province. (Canetti, Elias).
"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." - The Human Province. (Canetti, Elias).
##Canfield, Bertrand R.
"Successful salesmanship is 90% preparation and 10% presentation.". (Canfield, Bertrand R.).
##Cantor, Eddie
"When I see the 'Ten Most Wanted Lists' ... I always have this thought : If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.". (Cantor, Eddie).
"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.". (Cantor, Eddie).
##Capone, Al
"When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.". (Capone, Al).
"Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.". (Capone, Al).
"I don't even know what street Canada is on.". (Capone, Al).
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.". (Capone, Al).
##Caracciolo, Domenico
"In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce." - attributed. (Caracciolo, Domenico).
##Cardozo, Benjamin N.
"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.". (Cardozo, Benjamin N.).
##Carey, Alex
"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.". (Carey, Alex).
##Carf, Bennett
"Gross ignorance : 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.". (Carf, Bennett).
##Carlyle, Thomas
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome.  Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity;  speech is shallow as Time.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The eye sees what it brings the power to see.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.". (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The three great elements of modern civilisation, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion." - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being." - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies." - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!" - Life of Frederick the Great. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." - On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one." - On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another." - On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!" - Past and Present. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom." - Past and Present. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them." - Past and Present. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it." - quoted in D.A. Wilson's Carlyle at his Zenith. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself." - Sartor Resartus. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity." - Sartor Resartus. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Speech is too often not . . . the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought." - Sartor Resartus. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind, - honest work, which you intend getting done." - speech (1866). (Carlyle, Thomas).
"In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing." - The French Revolution. (Carlyle, Thomas).
"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams." - The French Revolution. (Carlyle, Thomas).
##Carman, Bliss
"I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease." - attributed. (Carman, Bliss).
##Carnegie, Andrew
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.". (Carnegie, Andrew).
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.". (Carnegie, Andrew).
"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.". (Carnegie, Andrew).
##Carnegie, Dale
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.". (Carnegie, Dale).
"Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.". (Carnegie, Dale).
"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.". (Carnegie, Dale).
##Carter, Boake
"In time of war the first casualty is treuth.". (Carter, Boake).
##Casanova, Giovanni G.
"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.". (Casanova, Giovanni G.).
##Castaneda, Carlos
"The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse.". (Castaneda, Carlos).
"The trick is what one emphasises. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.". (Castaneda, Carlos).
##Castro, Fidel
"A revolution is not a bed of roses ... a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." - speech (1961). (Castro, Fidel).
##Cather, Willa
"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." - O Pioneers!. (Cather, Willa).
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." - O Pioneers!. (Cather, Willa).
"If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on." - Song of the Lark. (Cather, Willa).
##Catlin, Wynn
"Diplomacy-The art of saying 'Nice doggie' till you can find a rock." - attributed, by Bennett Cerf in The Laugh's on Me. (Catlin, Wynn).
##Cato, Dionysius
"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.". (Cato, Dionysius).
##Cato the Elder
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.". (Cato the Elder).
"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses." - De Agri Cultura. (Cato the Elder).
"Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters." - quoted in Plutarch's Moralia: Sayings of Kings and Commanders. (Cato the Elder).
"I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one." - quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. (Cato the Elder).
"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise." - quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. (Cato the Elder).
##Catullus
"My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, --or stop loving you, no matter what you do.". (Catullus).
"There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh." - Carmina. (Catullus).
##Cavett, Dick
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.". (Cavett, Dick).
##Cavour, Camillo di Cavour
"You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.". (Cavour, Camillo di Cavour).
##Cerami, Charles A.
"Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.". (Cerami, Charles A.).
##Cervantes
"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.". (Cervantes).
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune.". (Cervantes).
"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.". (Cervantes).
"The pen is the tongue of the mind.". (Cervantes).
##Chanel, Coco
"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." - quoted in Marcel Haedrich's Coco Chanel, Her Life, Her Secrets. (Chanel, Coco).
##Channing, W. E.
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.". (Channing, W. E.).
##Chapman, George
"They're only truly great who are truly good." - Revenge for Honour. (Chapman, George).
##Chase, Alexander
"Memory is the thing you forget with." - Perspectives. (Chase, Alexander).
"Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul." - Perspectives. (Chase, Alexander).
"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion." - Perspectives. (Chase, Alexander).
##Chateaubriand
"Genius creates, and taste preserves.  Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.". (Chateaubriand).
##Chateaubriand, Franois-Ren de
"The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can be imitated by none." - The Genius of Christianity. (Chateaubriand, Franois-Ren de).
##Chatham
"Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.". (Chatham).
##Chaucer, Geoffrey
"Forbid us 'some' thing, and that 'thing' we desire." - The Canterbury Tales. (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
"By nature, men love newfangledness." - The Canterbury Tales. (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
"And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach." - The Canterbury Tales. (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
"The smiler with the knife under the cloak." - The Canterbury Tales. (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
"Murder will out, certain, it will not fail." - The Canterbury Tales. (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily." - The Canterbury Tales. (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
##Chavez, Cesar
"In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.". (Chavez, Cesar).
##Chekhov, Anton
"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.". (Chekhov, Anton).
"The more refined one is, the more unhappy.". (Chekhov, Anton).
"Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Notebooks. (Chekhov, Anton).
"The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilised man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected." - The Lady with the Dog. (Chekhov, Anton).
##Cher
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.". (Cher).
##Cherbuliez, Charles Victor
"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.". (Cherbuliez, Charles Victor).
##Chesterton, G. K.
"The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.". (Chesterton, G. K.).
"No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.". (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.". (Chesterton, G. K.).
"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.". (Chesterton, G. K.).
"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.". (Chesterton, G. K.).
"The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before.". (Chesterton, G. K.).
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." - All Things Considered. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great." - Charles Dickens. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind." - Come to Think of It. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act." - Generally Speaking. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions." - Heretics. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters." - Heretics. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong." - in New York Times. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Tradition may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." - Orthodoxy. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star." - Orthodoxy. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else." - Orthodoxy. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change." - Orthodoxy. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." - Orthodoxy. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself." - Orthodoxy. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange." - The Defendant. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry." - The Defendant. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'" - The Defendant. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." - The Man who was Thursday. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." - The Wisdom of Father Brown. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf." - What's Wrong with the World. (Chesterton, G. K.).
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." - What's Wrong with the World. (Chesterton, G. K.).
##Chilton
"Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.". (Chilton).
##Chou En-Lai
"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means." - quoted in Saturday Evening Post. (Chou En-Lai).
##Christie, Agatha
"An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.". (Christie, Agatha).
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention-invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble." - An Autobiography. (Christie, Agatha).
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them." - Witness for the Prosecution. (Christie, Agatha).
##Chuang-Tzu
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.". (Chuang-Tzu).
"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.  A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.". (Chuang-Tzu).
##Church, Francis P.
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist." - editorial in New York Sun. (Church, Francis P.).
##Churchill, Sir Winston
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Never in the field of human conflicts was so much owed by so many to so few". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, `This was their finest hour". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The price of greatness is responsibility.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I like a man who grins when he fights.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"There is no such thing as a good tax.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.". (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - My Early Life. (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - quoted in New York Times. (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." - quoted in 'Quentin Reynolds' By Quentin Reynolds. (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - quoted in Time. (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'" - speech (1914). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet." - speech (1927). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator." - speech (1931). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." - speech (1939). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." - speech (1940). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." - speech (1940). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - speech (1943). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." - speech (1944). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - speech (1947). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." - speech (1954). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely, that I inspired the nation. . . . It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar." - speech (marking his 80th birthday, 1954). (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - The Story of the Malakand Field Force. (Churchill, Sir Winston).
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry." - While England Slept. (Churchill, Sir Winston).
##Ciano, Count Galeazzo
"As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan." - The Ciano Diaries 19391943. (Ciano, Count Galeazzo).
##Cibber, Colley
"Oh!  how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring.". (Cibber, Colley).
"One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion." - Love's Last Shift. (Cibber, Colley).
"Stolen sweets are best." - The Rival Fools. (Cibber, Colley).
##Cicero
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.". (Cicero).
"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.". (Cicero).
"We are slaves of the laws in order that we may be able to be free.". (Cicero).
"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.". (Cicero).
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.". (Cicero).
"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.". (Cicero).
"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.". (Cicero).
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.". (Cicero).
"What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.". (Cicero).
"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.". (Cicero).
"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.". (Cicero).
"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.". (Cicero).
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.". (Cicero).
"We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.". (Cicero).
"In honourable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.". (Cicero).
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence.". (Cicero).
"Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.". (Cicero).
"Nature abhors annihilation.". (Cicero).
"In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.". (Cicero).
"Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery.". (Cicero).
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law.". (Cicero).
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.". (Cicero).
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.". (Cicero).
"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.". (Cicero).
"If you pursue good with labour, the labour passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.". (Cicero).
"Nothing quite new is perfect." - Brutus. (Cicero).
"If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure." - De Amicitia. (Cicero).
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - De Amicitia. (Cicero).
"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." - De Divinatione. (Cicero).
"Let the punishment match the offence." - De Legibus. (Cicero).
"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration." - De Natura Deorum. (Cicero).
"Justice shines by its own light." - De Officiis. (Cicero).
"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed." - De Officiis. (Cicero).
"The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers." - De Oratore. (Cicero).
"Whatever you do, do with all your might." - De Senectute. (Cicero).
"Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! (O tempora! O mores!)" - In Catilinam. (Cicero).
"He is his own worst enemy." - of Julius Caesar, in Epistolae Ad Atticum. (Cicero).
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" - Orator. (Cicero).
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Pro Archia Poeta. (Cicero).
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." - Pro Archia Poeta. (Cicero).
"Laws are silent in time of war." - Pro Milone. (Cicero).
##Cioran, E. M.
"France has cherished words to the point of vice, and at the expense of things. Dubious of our possibilities of knowing, she is not so of our possibilities of formulating our doubts." - The Temptation to Exist. (Cioran, E. M.).
##Clark, Kenneth
"All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war." - Civilization. (Clark, Kenneth).
##Clarke, Arthur C.
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.". (Clarke, Arthur C.).
"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.". (Clarke, Arthur C.).
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.". (Clarke, Arthur C.).
"The First Clarke Law states, 'If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.'" - quoted in New Yorker. (Clarke, Arthur C.).
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - The Lost Worlds of 2001. (Clarke, Arthur C.).
##Clausewitz, Carl de
"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.". (Clausewitz, Carl de).
"Defence is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.". (Clausewitz, Carl de).
##Clay, Henry
"I would rather be right than be President." - speech (1850). (Clay, Henry).
##Cleaver, Eldridge
"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.". (Cleaver, Eldridge).
"What we're saying today is that you're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem." - speech (1968). (Cleaver, Eldridge).
##Clemenceau, Georges
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation." - attributed. (Clemenceau, Georges).
"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers." - quoted by J. Hampden Jackson in Clemenceau and the Third Republic. (Clemenceau, Georges).
"In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking." - quoted in Clemenceau, The Events of His Life As Told by Himself to His Former Se. (Clemenceau, Georges).
##Cleveland, Grover
"A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labour and the fact that honour lies in honest toil.". (Cleveland, Grover).
##Cocks, Barnett
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - attributed. (Cocks, Barnett).
##Coffin, Harold
"The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.". (Coffin, Harold).
##Coke, Edward
"Precaution is better than cure.". (Coke, Edward).
"Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls." - Reports, Case of Sutton's Hospital. (Coke, Edward).
"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions." - The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. (Coke, Edward).
"A man's house is his castle." - The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England. (Coke, Edward).
##Colby, Frank Moore
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humour?" - The Colby Essays. (Colby, Frank Moore).
##Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
"Life is but thought.". (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.  We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.". (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
"Truth is a good dog;  but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.". (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming." - Biographia Literaria. (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
"The wise only possess ideas . . . the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." - Defoe. (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order." - Table Talk. (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed." - Table Talk. (Coleridge, Samuel Taylor).
##Colette
"The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.". (Colette).
"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it." - Cheri. (Colette).
"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." - Earthly Paradise. (Colette).
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object." - Earthly Paradise. (Colette).
"By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet." - Mes Apprentissages. (Colette).
". . . that provisional tomb where the living exile sighs, weeps, fights and succumbs, and is born again, remembering nothing, with the day." - The Cat. (Colette).
##Collins, Churton
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." - Aphorisms. (Collins, Churton).
##Colman, George
"But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.". (Colman, George).
##Colton, Charles Caleb
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us.  Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.". (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"We ask advice, but we mean approbation." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Imitation is the sincerest flattery." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
"If rich, it is easy enough to conceal our wealth but, if poor, it is not quite so easy to conceal our poverty. We shall find it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas, than one hole in our coat." - Lacon. (Colton, Charles Caleb).
##Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.". (Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur).
"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. (Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur).
"It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. (Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur).
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" - The Sign of Four. (Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur).
##Confucius
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.". (Confucius).
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.". (Confucius).
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.". (Confucius).
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.". (Confucius).
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.". (Confucius).
"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven.". (Confucius).
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.". (Confucius).
"Heaven means to be one with God.". (Confucius).
"If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things.". (Confucius).
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher.  I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.". (Confucius).
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.". (Confucius).
"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.". (Confucius).
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.". (Confucius).
"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.". (Confucius).
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue;  these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.". (Confucius).
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours.". (Confucius).
"When you are labouring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.". (Confucius).
"Have no friends not equal to yourself." - Analects. (Confucius).
"To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage." - Analects. (Confucius).
"It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change." - Analects. (Confucius).
"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them." - Analects. (Confucius).
##Congreve
"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd.  Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - The Mourning Bride. (Congreve).
##Congreve, William
"I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections." - Letters upon Several Occasions, ed. John Dennis. (Congreve, William).
"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere." - Love for Love. (Congreve, William).
##Connolly, Billy
"Marriage is a wonderful invention. But, then again, so is the bicycle repair kit.". (Connolly, Billy).
##Connolly, Cyril
"Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signalling to be let out.". (Connolly, Cyril).
"Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.". (Connolly, Cyril).
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.". (Connolly, Cyril).
"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.". (Connolly, Cyril).
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.". (Connolly, Cyril).
"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.". (Connolly, Cyril).
"Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising." - Enemies of Promise. (Connolly, Cyril).
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." - Enemies of Promise. (Connolly, Cyril).
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." - Enemies of Promise. (Connolly, Cyril).
"The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave." - quoted in Turnstile One. (Connolly, Cyril).
"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable." - The Unquiet Grave. (Connolly, Cyril).
"Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils." - The Unquiet Grave. (Connolly, Cyril).
"We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self." - The Unquiet Grave. (Connolly, Cyril).
"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say." - The Unquiet Grave. (Connolly, Cyril).
##Cook, Dan
"The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." - in Washington Post. (Cook, Dan).
##Cook, Eliza
"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.". (Cook, Eliza).
##Coolidge, Calvin
"All growth depends upon activity.  There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.". (Coolidge, Calvin).
"No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.". (Coolidge, Calvin).
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.". (Coolidge, Calvin).
"The chief business of the American people is business." - speech (1925). (Coolidge, Calvin).
##Cosby, Bill
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.". (Cosby, Bill).
"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home.". (Cosby, Bill).
##Cossman, E. Joseph
"Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.". (Cossman, E. Joseph).
"The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.". (Cossman, E. Joseph).
"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.". (Cossman, E. Joseph).
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.". (Cossman, E. Joseph).
##Cowley, Abraham
"Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.". (Cowley, Abraham).
"Money was made, not to command our will, But all our lawful pleasures to fulfil.  Shame and woe to us, if we our wealth obey; The horse doth with the horseman away.". (Cowley, Abraham).
##Cowley, Hannah
"Vanity, like murder, will out." - The Belle's Stratagem. (Cowley, Hannah).
##Cowper, William
"I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.  An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.". (Cowper, William).
"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.". (Cowper, William).
"O solitude, where are the charms  That sages have seen in thy face?  Better dwell in the midst of alarms,  Than reign in this horrible place.". (Cowper, William).
"A fool must now and then be right, by chance." - Conversation. (Cowper, William).
"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach." - in The Iconoclast. (Cowper, William).
"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm." - Light Shining Out of Darkness. (Cowper, William).
##Crabbe, George
"Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth." - The Borough. (Crabbe, George).
##Crane, George
"Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.". (Crane, George).
##Creon
"Time, and time alone, will show the just man, Though scoundrels are discovered in a day.". (Creon).
##Culbertson, Ely
"I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately." - Total Peace. (Culbertson, Ely).
##Cummings, Edward Estlin
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.". (Cummings, Edward Estlin).
"To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.". (Cummings, Edward Estlin).
##Curtis, Cyrus
"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.". (Curtis, Cyrus).
##D'Angelo, Anthony J.
"Know people for who they are rather than for what they are." - The College Blue Book. (D'Angelo, Anthony J.).
##Dalai Lama
"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.". (Dalai Lama).
##Dana, Charles A.
"Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.". (Dana, Charles A.).
##Dante
"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.". (Dante).
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery." - Inferno. (Dante).
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" - The Divine Comedy. (Dante).
##Danton, Georges Jacques
"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.". (Danton, Georges Jacques).
"Audacity, more audacity, and always audacity!" - speech (1792). (Danton, Georges Jacques).
##Darrow, Clarence S.
"If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.". (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.". (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.". (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.". (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.". (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means." - courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925). (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means." - courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925). (Darrow, Clarence S.).
"There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court." - quoted in New York Times. (Darrow, Clarence S.).
##Darwin, Charles
"In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection.". (Darwin, Charles).
"We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.". (Darwin, Charles).
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.". (Darwin, Charles).
##Darwin, Francis
"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." - in Eugenics Review. (Darwin, Francis).
##Davies, George
"I enjoy pressure, can't do without it.". (Davies, George).
##Davis, Bette
"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent." - The Lonely Life. (Davis, Bette).
##Davis, Elmer
"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.". (Davis, Elmer).
##Day, Clarence
"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own." - A Wild Polish Hero. (Day, Clarence).
##DeBuffon, George Louis
"Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.". (DeBuffon, George Louis).
##Dean, James
"Dream as if you'll live forever.  Live as if you'll die today!". (Dean, James).
##Debs, Eugene V.
"While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - speech (1917). (Debs, Eugene V.).
##Defoe, Daniel
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." - The Shortest Way With The Dissenters. (Defoe, Daniel).
##Demosthenes
"As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.". (Demosthenes).
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.". (Demosthenes).
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." - Third Olynthiac. (Demosthenes).
##Depew, Chauncey
"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.". (Depew, Chauncey).
##Deshoulires, Antoinette
"No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect." - epigram. (Deshoulires, Antoinette).
##Destouches
"The absent are always in the wrong." - L'Obstacle imprvu. (Destouches).
##Dickens, Charles
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.". (Dickens, Charles).
"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.". (Dickens, Charles).
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free." - Bleak House. (Dickens, Charles).
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations." - Bleak House. (Dickens, Charles).
"Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families." - David Copperfield. (Dickens, Charles).
". . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape." - David Copperfield. (Dickens, Charles).
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." - end of A Tale of Two Cities. (Dickens, Charles).
"In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice." - Great Expectations. (Dickens, Charles).
"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation." - Great Expectations. (Dickens, Charles).
"Now, what I want is, Facts . . . Facts alone are wanted in life." - Hard Times. (Dickens, Charles).
"Here's the rule for bargains - Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept." - Martin Chuzzlewit. (Dickens, Charles).
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." - Martin Chuzzlewit. (Dickens, Charles).
##Dickinson, Emily
"How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!". (Dickinson, Emily).
"If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain." - If I can stop one Heart from breaking. (Dickinson, Emily).
"How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell one's name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!" - I'm Nobody! Who are you?. (Dickinson, Emily).
##Diderot, Denis
"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.". (Diderot, Denis).
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity." - attributed (last words). (Diderot, Denis).
"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures." - Penses philosophiques. (Diderot, Denis).
##Dimnet, Ernest
"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul." - What We Live By. (Dimnet, Ernest).
##Dirksen, Everett M.
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking big money." - attributed. (Dirksen, Everett M.).
##Disney, Walt
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible.". (Disney, Walt).
"Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done right.". (Disney, Walt).
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.....and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day.". (Disney, Walt).
##Disraeli, Benjamin
"I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"There is moderation even in excess.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"There is no index of character so sure as the voice.". (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon." - attributed. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful." - Coningsby. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions." - Coningsby. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth." - Coningsby. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." - Coningsby. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: 'Adventures are to the adventurous.'" - Ixion in Heaven. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Never complain and never explain." - quoted in John Morley's The Life of William Ewart Gladstone. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy." - speech (1845). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"A precedent embalms a principle." - speech (1848). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"I say that justice is truth in action." - speech (1851). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels." - speech (1864). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable." - speech (1867). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilisers of man." - speech (1872). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace-but a peace I hope with honour." - speech (1878). (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"'Frank and explicit;' that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." - Sybil. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"A majority is always the best repartee." - Tancred. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us." - Vivian Grey. (Disraeli, Benjamin).
##Dix, Dorothy
"So many persons think divorce a panacea for every ill, who find out, when they try it, that the remedy is worse than the disease." - Dorothy Dix, Her Book. (Dix, Dorothy).
##Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." - Notes from Underground. (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor).
". . . if the devil does not exist, and man has therefore created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." - The Brothers Karamozov. (Dostoyevsky, Fyodor).
##Douglass, Frederick
"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery." - The North Star. (Douglass, Frederick).
##Dowson, Ernest
"I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion." - Non Sum Qualis Eram. (Dowson, Ernest).
##Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
"Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table." - opening line of The Hound of the Baskervilles. (Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan).
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognises genius." - Valley of Fear. (Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan).
##Drew, Elizabeth
"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion." - The Modern Novel. (Drew, Elizabeth).
##Dryden, John
"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age." - Amphitryon. (Dryden, John).
"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." - The Conquest of Granada. (Dryden, John).
##Du Bois, W. E. B.
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.". (Du Bois, W. E. B.).
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - John Brown. (Du Bois, W. E. B.).
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line." - The Souls of Black Folk. (Du Bois, W. E. B.).
##Dumas, fils, Alexandre
"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.". (Dumas, fils, Alexandre).
"Business? That's very simple-it's other people's money." - La Question d'argent. (Dumas, fils, Alexandre).
"Business? That's very simple - it's other people's money." - La Question d'argent. (Dumas, fils, Alexandre).
##Dumas, pre, Alexandre
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself.  He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.". (Dumas, pre, Alexandre).
"Nothing succeeds like success." - Ange Pitou. (Dumas, pre, Alexandre).
"Oh, the good times when we were so unhappy." - Le Chevalier d'Harmental. (Dumas, pre, Alexandre).
"All for one, one for all, that is our device." - The Three Musketeers. (Dumas, pre, Alexandre).
##Dunham, David
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness.". (Dunham, David).
##Dunne, Finley Peter
"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.". (Dunne, Finley Peter).
"It's more comfortable to feel that we're a slight improvement on a monkey thin such a fallin' off fr'm th'angels." - Mr. Dooley On Making a Will. (Dunne, Finley Peter).
"A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tu-rrned into angels be an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large." - Mr. Dooley's Opinions. (Dunne, Finley Peter).
"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case." - Mr. Dooley's Opinions. (Dunne, Finley Peter).
"Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him think." - Mr. Dooley's Opinions. (Dunne, Finley Peter).
"[Thanksgiving] `Twas founded be th' Puritans to give thanks f'r bein' presarved fr'm th' Indyans, an' . . . we keep it to give thanks we are presarved fr'm th' Puritans." - Mr. Dooley's Opinions. (Dunne, Finley Peter).
"Thrust ivrybody - but cut th' ca-ards." - Mr. Dooley's Philosophy. (Dunne, Finley Peter).
##Durant, Will
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.". (Durant, Will).
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.". (Durant, Will).
"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.". (Durant, Will).
"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order." - quoted in Time. (Durant, Will).
"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised." - The Life of Greece. (Durant, Will).
##Dyer, Wayne
"Infinite patience brings immediate results.". (Dyer, Wayne).
##Drrenmatt, Friedrich
"The more human beings proceed by plan the more effectively they may be hit by accident." - The Physicists. (Drrenmatt, Friedrich).
"He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality." - The Physicists. (Drrenmatt, Friedrich).
"What was once thought can never be unthought." - The Physicists. (Drrenmatt, Friedrich).
##Earhart, Amelia
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." - Courage. (Earhart, Amelia).
##Eban, Abba
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.". (Eban, Abba).
"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.". (Eban, Abba).
"His ignorance is encyclopaedic". (Eban, Abba).
##Eden, Anthony
"Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure." - quoted in The Observer. (Eden, Anthony).
##Edison, Thomas Alva
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"If there is a way to do it better, find it.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
"Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.". (Edison, Thomas Alva).
##Edward, Duke of Windsor
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - quoted in Look. (Edward, Duke of Windsor).
##Edwards Deming, W.
"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best.". (Edwards Deming, W.).
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.". (Edwards Deming, W.).
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.". (Edwards Deming, W.).
##Einstein, Albert
"The important thing is never to stop questioning.". (Einstein, Albert).
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.". (Einstein, Albert).
"The important thing is not to stop questioning.". (Einstein, Albert).
"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.". (Einstein, Albert).
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Imagination is more important than knowledge". (Einstein, Albert).
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education". (Einstein, Albert).
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources". (Einstein, Albert).
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen". (Einstein, Albert).
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds". (Einstein, Albert).
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods". (Einstein, Albert).
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science". (Einstein, Albert).
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality". (Einstein, Albert).
"Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth". (Einstein, Albert).
"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord". (Einstein, Albert).
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough". (Einstein, Albert).
"The important thing is not to stop questioning". (Einstein, Albert).
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world.". (Einstein, Albert).
"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.". (Einstein, Albert).
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.". (Einstein, Albert).
"If I had only known. I would have become a locksmith.". (Einstein, Albert).
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.". (Einstein, Albert).
"A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.". (Einstein, Albert).
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!". (Einstein, Albert).
"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.". (Einstein, Albert).
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.". (Einstein, Albert).
"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.". (Einstein, Albert).
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality". (Einstein, Albert).
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom.". (Einstein, Albert).
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - attributed. (Einstein, Albert).
"God is subtle but he is not malicious." - attributed. (Einstein, Albert).
"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it." - attributed. (Einstein, Albert).
"I, at any rate, am convinced that He 'God' is not playing at dice." - letter (1926). (Einstein, Albert).
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - On Science. (Einstein, Albert).
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Out of My Later Years. (Einstein, Albert).
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Out of My Later Years. (Einstein, Albert).
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." - quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers. (Einstein, Albert).
##Eisenhower, Dwight D.
"We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.". (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
"In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." - speech (farewell address, 1961). (Eisenhower, Dwight D.).
##Eliot, Charles W.
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - The Durable Satisfactions of Life. (Eliot, Charles W.).
##Eliot, George
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.". (Eliot, George).
"Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.". (Eliot, George).
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact.". (Eliot, George).
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." - Adam Bede. (Eliot, George).
"We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves." - Adam Bede. (Eliot, George).
"Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness." - Daniel Deronda. (Eliot, George).
"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." - Daniel Deronda. (Eliot, George).
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections." - Daniel Deronda. (Eliot, George).
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." - Felix Holt. (Eliot, George).
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." - Impressions of Theophrastus Such. (Eliot, George).
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution." - Janet's Repentance. (Eliot, George).
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." - Middlemarch. (Eliot, George).
"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving." - Middlemarch. (Eliot, George).
"If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence." - Middlemarch. (Eliot, George).
"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous." - Middlemarch. (Eliot, George).
"If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind." - Middlemarch. (Eliot, George).
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty." - Romola. (Eliot, George).
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." - Scenes of Clerical Life. (Eliot, George).
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand." - Silas Marner. (Eliot, George).
"Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." - The Mill on the Floss. (Eliot, George).
"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them." - The Mill on the Floss. (Eliot, George).
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." - The Mill on the Floss. (Eliot, George).
##Eliot, T. S.
"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"My name is only an anagram of toilets.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.". (Eliot, T. S.).
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." - Dante. (Eliot, T. S.).
"In my beginning is my end." - Four Quartets: 'East Coker'. (Eliot, T. S.).
"[Radio]  It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome." - quoted in New York Post. (Eliot, T. S.).
"Those who talk of the Bible as a 'monument of English prose' are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity." - Religion and Literature. (Eliot, T. S.).
"Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections." - The Cocktail Party. (Eliot, T. S.).
"And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust." - The Waste Land. (Eliot, T. S.).
##Elizabeth I
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." - quoted by Francis Bacon in Apophthegms. (Elizabeth I).
##Elliott, Ebenezer
"Facts are stubborn things." - Field Husbandry. (Elliott, Ebenezer).
##Elliott, Walter
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.". (Elliott, Walter).
##Ellis, Havelock
"What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.". (Ellis, Havelock).
"Every artist writes his own autobiography.". (Ellis, Havelock).
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.". (Ellis, Havelock).
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.". (Ellis, Havelock).
"The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing." - Impressions and Comments. (Ellis, Havelock).
"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." - Impressions and Comments. (Ellis, Havelock).
"Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive." - On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue. (Ellis, Havelock).
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum." - The Dance of Life. (Ellis, Havelock).
##Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"Vigour is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"Every man I meet is in some way my superior.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"Patience and fortitude conquer all things.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
"A man is known by the books he reads.". (Emerson, Ralph Waldo).
##English, Thomas
"Less good from genius we may find than that from perseverance flowing; so have good grist at hand to grind, and keep the mill a-going.". (English, Thomas).
##Epicetus
"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.". (Epicetus).
"I have a lantern. You steal my lantern. What, then, is your honour worth no more to you than the price of my lantern?". (Epicetus).
"Difficulties show men what they are.  In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.". (Epicetus).
"When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.". (Epicetus).
"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.". (Epicetus).
"There is nothing good or evil save in the will.". (Epicetus).
"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write." - Discourses. (Epicetus).
"It is difficulties that show what men are." - Discourses. (Epicetus).
"Only the educated are free." - Discourses. (Epicetus).
"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting." - Encheiridion. (Epicetus).
"Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not." - Encheiridion. (Epicetus).
"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life." - Encheiridion. (Epicetus).
"Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others. If he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave." - Encheiridion. (Epicetus).
"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit." - Encheiridion. (Epicetus).
"Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak." - fragment. (Epicetus).
##Epicurus
"It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.". (Epicurus).
"Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little." - in The Philosophy of Epicurus by G.K. Strodach. (Epicurus).
##Erasmus, Desiderius
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.". (Erasmus, Desiderius).
"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.". (Erasmus, Desiderius).
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.". (Erasmus, Desiderius).
##Euclid
"There is no royal road to geometry." - (said to Ptolemy I), quoted in Proclus, Commentary on Euclid. (Euclid).
##Euripides
"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.". (Euripides).
"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.". (Euripides).
"Happiness is brief.  It will not stay.  God batters at its sails.". (Euripides).
"He is not a lover who does not love forever.". (Euripides).
"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.". (Euripides).
"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.". (Euripides).
"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.". (Euripides).
"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.". (Euripides).
"Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." - fragment. (Euripides).
"The best of seers is he who guesses well." - fragment. (Euripides).
"Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked." - fragment. (Euripides).
"We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement." - Hippolytus. (Euripides).
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Hippolytus. (Euripides).
"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far." - Rhesus. (Euripides).
##Evans, Bergen
"Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.". (Evans, Bergen).
##Evans, Edith
"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?" - quoted in The Observer. (Evans, Edith).
##Evans, Harold
"The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.". (Evans, Harold).
"The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth." - Pictures on a Page. (Evans, Harold).
##Faber, Frederick
"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.". (Faber, Frederick).
##Fadiman, Clifton
"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.". (Fadiman, Clifton).
". . . cheese, milk's leap toward immortality." - Any Number Can Play. (Fadiman, Clifton).
##Fakes, Dennis
"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble.". (Fakes, Dennis).
##Fanon, Frantz
"When people like me, they tell me it is in spite of my colour. When they dislike me, they point out that it is not because of my colour." - Black Skin, White Masks. (Fanon, Frantz).
##Farquhar, George
"There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty." - The Beaux' Stratagem. (Farquhar, George).
"Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards." - The Inconstant. (Farquhar, George).
##Farrar
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.". (Farrar).
##Faulkner, William
"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid.". (Faulkner, William).
"If you could just be a nigger one Saturday night, you wouldn't never want to be a white man again as long as you live.". (Faulkner, William).
##Feather, Elliam
"If people really liked to work, we'd still be ploughing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.". (Feather, Elliam).
##Feather, William
"Setting an example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age". (Feather, William).
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.". (Feather, William).
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing.". (Feather, William).
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.". (Feather, William).
"No man is a failure who is enjoying life.". (Feather, William).
"If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.". (Feather, William).
"Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.". (Feather, William).
##Fellini, Federico
"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography." - quoted in Atlantic. (Fellini, Federico).
##Feltham, Owen
"The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities.  These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.". (Feltham, Owen).
##Ferber, Edna
"A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.". (Ferber, Edna).
##Ferrier, David
"Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.". (Ferrier, David).
##Field, Eugene
"All human joys are swift of wing, for heaven doth so allot it;  That when you get an easy thing, you find you haven't got it.". (Field, Eugene).
##Fielding, Henry
"It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." - Amelia. (Fielding, Henry).
"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea." - Love in Several Masques. (Fielding, Henry).
"Thwackum was for doing justice and leaving mercy to heaven." - Tom Jones. (Fielding, Henry).
"His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." - Tom Jones. (Fielding, Henry).
##Fields, W. C.
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?". (Fields, W. C.).
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.". (Fields, W. C.).
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.". (Fields, W. C.).
"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her.". (Fields, W. C.).
"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.". (Fields, W. C.).
"After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.". (Fields, W. C.).
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.". (Fields, W. C.).
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.". (Fields, W. C.).
"On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." - attributed. (Fields, W. C.).
"It ain't a fit night out for man or beast." - in the film The Fatal Glass of Beer. (Fields, W. C.).
"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy." - quoted in Corey Ford's Time of Laughter. (Fields, W. C.).
"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake-which I also keep handy." - quoted in Corey Ford's Time of Laughter. (Fields, W. C.).
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." - quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise. (Fields, W. C.).
##Finkelstein, Ed
"A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is." - in New York Times Magazine. (Finkelstein, Ed).
##Fisher, Charles
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - in Newsweek. (Fisher, Charles).
##Fisher, Geoffrey
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder.". (Fisher, Geoffrey).
##Fitzgerald, Edward
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit  Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it." - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for it As impotently moves as you or I." - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught /Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light." - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;  One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies." - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honour - Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell." - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!" - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
"YESTERDAY This Day's Madness did prepare; TOMORROW'S Silence, Triumph, or Despair:  Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where." - The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. (Fitzgerald, Edward).
##Fitzgerald, F. Scott
"In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day." - in Esquire. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you - like music to the musician . . .- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalised bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations." - letter (1940). (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you - like music to the musician . . . - or else it is nothing, an empty, formalised bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations." - letter (1940). (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much." - The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there." - The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another." - The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." - The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say." - The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." - The Diamond as Big as the Ritz. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - The Great Gatsby. (Fitzgerald, F. Scott).
##Fitzgerald, Zelda
"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising." - Save Me the Waltz. (Fitzgerald, Zelda).
##Flaubert, Gustave
"Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue." - letter (1846). (Flaubert, Gustave).
"A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier." - letter (1846). (Flaubert, Gustave).
##Flynn, Errol
"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.". (Flynn, Errol).
##Foch, Ferdinand
"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.". (Foch, Ferdinand).
##Fontenelle, Bernard de
"To be happy one must have a good stomach and a bad heart." - Dialogues des morts. (Fontenelle, Bernard de).
##Forbes, B. C.
"The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.". (Forbes, B. C.).
"The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.". (Forbes, B. C.).
"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.". (Forbes, B. C.).
##Ford, Gerald R.
"Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go." - comment during U.S. House committee hearing (1973). (Ford, Gerald R.).
"If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have." - quoted in John F. Parker's If Elected. (Ford, Gerald R.).
##Ford, Glenn
"If they try to rush me, I always say, 'I've only got one other speed - and it's slower.'". (Ford, Glenn).
##Ford, Henry
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.". (Ford, Henry).
"There is one rule for industrialists and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.". (Ford, Henry).
"Asking 'who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.". (Ford, Henry).
"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.". (Ford, Henry).
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.". (Ford, Henry).
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.". (Ford, Henry).
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.". (Ford, Henry).
"People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black.". (Ford, Henry).
"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." - quoted in Chicago Tribune. (Ford, Henry).
##Forsey, Eugene
"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.". (Forsey, Eugene).
##Forster, E. M.
"The so-called white races are really pinko-grey." - A Passage to India. (Forster, E. M.).
"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think creation's." - Two Cheers for Democracy. (Forster, E. M.).
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves." - Two Cheers for Democracy. (Forster, E. M.).
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship." - Two Cheers for Democracy. (Forster, E. M.).
"I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." - Two Cheers for Democracy. (Forster, E. M.).
##Forster, Edward Morgan
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.". (Forster, Edward Morgan).
##Fosdick, Harry Emerson
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." - attributed. (Fosdick, Harry Emerson).
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." - Riverside Sermons. (Fosdick, Harry Emerson).
##Fowler, Gene
"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." - Skyline. (Fowler, Gene).
##France, Anatole
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.". (France, Anatole).
"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.". (France, Anatole).
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.". (France, Anatole).
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.". (France, Anatole).
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.". (France, Anatole).
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.". (France, Anatole).
"To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.". (France, Anatole).
"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.". (France, Anatole).
"Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned." - Crainquebille. (France, Anatole).
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces." - La Vie litt'raire. (France, Anatole).
"In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing." - Penguin Island. (France, Anatole).
"People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them." - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. (France, Anatole).
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. (France, Anatole).
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another." - The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard. (France, Anatole).
##Francis, Brendan
"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.". (Francis, Brendan).
##Francis I of France
"There is nothing left to me but honour, and my life, which is saved." - letter (to his mother after the Battle of Pavia, 1525). (Francis I of France).
##Franco, Francisco
"I am responsible only to God and history.". (Franco, Francisco).
##Frank, Anne
"In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - diary entry (1944) (Diary of a Young Girl). (Frank, Anne).
##Frankfurter, Felix
"Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." - Felix Frankfurter Reminisces. (Frankfurter, Felix).
"It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." - judicial opinion (1949). (Frankfurter, Felix).
##Franklin, Benjamin
"Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Fish and visitors stink after three days.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Diligence is the mother of good luck.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Well done is better than well said.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Beauty and folly are old companions.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Plough deep while sluggards sleep.". (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Remember that time is money." - Advice to a Young Tradesman. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - attributed (at the signing of the Declaration of Independence). (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day." - Autobiography. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - in The Papers of Ben Franklin, ed. L.W. Labaree. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"There never was a good war or a bad peace." - letter (1773). (Franklin, Benjamin).
"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." - letter (1789). (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them `t will despise thee and increase them." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"No nation was ever ruined by trade." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Drive thy Business, or it will drive thee." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Setting too good an example is a kind of slander seldom forgiven." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Avarice and happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Where there's Marriage without Love, there will be Love without Marriage." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Necessity never made a good bargain." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Let thy Child's first Lesson be Obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to t'other World?" - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"There is no little enemy." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
"If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some." - Poor Richard's Almanac. (Franklin, Benjamin).
##Frederick II
"All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way.". (Frederick II).
##Frederick the Great
"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.". (Frederick the Great).
##Freud, Sigmund
"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.". (Freud, Sigmund).
"The goal of all life is death.". (Freud, Sigmund).
"Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams.  In what other way can one deal with them?  Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.". (Freud, Sigmund).
"One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of 'Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things." - Civilization and its Discontents. (Freud, Sigmund).
"Anatomy is destiny." - Collected Writings. (Freud, Sigmund).
"It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand." - Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. (Freud, Sigmund).
"Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home." - New Introductory Lectures of Psychoanalysis. (Freud, Sigmund).
"The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'" - quoted in Ernest Jones' Sigmund Freud: Life and Work. (Freud, Sigmund).
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing." - The Future of an Illusion. (Freud, Sigmund).
##Friedenberg, Edgar Z.
"The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding." - The Vanishing Adolescent. (Friedenberg, Edgar Z.).
##Friendly, Fred
"The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.". (Friendly, Fred).
##Fromm, Erich
"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.". (Fromm, Erich).
"Modern man thinks he loses something; time; when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains; except kill it.". (Fromm, Erich).
"Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want." - Escape from Freedom. (Fromm, Erich).
"Men are born equal but they are also born different." - Escape from Freedom. (Fromm, Erich).
"The paradoxical - and tragic - situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most." - Man for Himself. (Fromm, Erich).
"The paradoxical - and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most." - Man for Himself. (Fromm, Erich).
##Frummond, William
"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.". (Frummond, William).
##Fugard, Athol
"We compound our suffering by victimising each other.". (Fugard, Athol).
##Fuller, M. D., Thomas
"Business is the salt of life.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"All truth is not to be told at all times.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Great hopes make great men.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Hatred is blind, as well as love.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Necessity dispenseth with decorum.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.". (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Boldness in business is the first, second, and third thing." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Good bargains are pick-pockets." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Nothing is good or bad but by comparison." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Many would be cowards if they had courage enough." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"The mob has many heads, but no brains." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"A good example is the best sermon." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family, was begot by a flash of lightning." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"He that plants trees, loves others besides himself." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Nothing costs so much as what is given us." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"The Devil himself is good, when he is pleased." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Great and good are seldom the same man." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Riches have made more covetous men than covetousness hath made rich men." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"He that resolves to deal with none but honest men must leave off dealing." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"If it were not for Hopes, the Heart would break." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Nothing sharpens sight like envy." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Job was not so miserable in his sufferings, as happy in his patience." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Praise makes good men better and bad men worse." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." - Gnomologia. (Fuller, M. D., Thomas).
##Gabani, Nizar
"All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her.". (Gabani, Nizar).
##Gabor, Zsa Zsa
"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.". (Gabor, Zsa Zsa).
"I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.". (Gabor, Zsa Zsa).
"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.". (Gabor, Zsa Zsa).
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.". (Gabor, Zsa Zsa).
##Gaddis, William
"Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance." - Carpenter's Gothic. (Gaddis, William).
##Galileo
"Doubt is the father of invention.". (Galileo).
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.". (Galileo).
##Galileo Galilei
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.". (Galileo Galilei).
##Garbo, Greta
"I want to be alone." - in the film Grand Hotel. (Garbo, Greta).
##Gardner, Ed
"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings." - on the radio show Duffy's Tavern. (Gardner, Ed).
##Garibaldi, Giuseppe
"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.". (Garibaldi, Giuseppe).
##Gaskell, Elizabeth
"I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say." - Cranford. (Gaskell, Elizabeth).
##Gasset, Jos Ortega Y
"Civilisation is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the ultima ratio 'last resort'." - The Revolt of the Masses. (Gasset, Jos Ortega Y).
##Gaulle, Charles de
"Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.". (Gaulle, Charles de).
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men.". (Gaulle, Charles de).
"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself.  He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.". (Gaulle, Charles de).
"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians." - quoted by Clement Attlee in A Prime Minister Remembers, by Francis Williams). (Gaulle, Charles de).
"Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." - quoted in Life. (Gaulle, Charles de).
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him." - quoted in Newsweek. (Gaulle, Charles de).
"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?" - quoted in Newsweek. (Gaulle, Charles de).
##Gaynor, William J.
"The world does not grow better by force or by the policeman's club.". (Gaynor, William J.).
##Gelb, Michael J.
"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise". (Gelb, Michael J.).
"Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.". (Gelb, Michael J.).
"Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.". (Gelb, Michael J.).
"Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.". (Gelb, Michael J.).
"Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.". (Gelb, Michael J.).
"A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.". (Gelb, Michael J.).
##Gellius, Aulus
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'". (Gellius, Aulus).
##George, Henry
"The fundamental principle of human action - the law that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics - is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion." - Progress and Poverty. (George, Henry).
##Gibbon, Edward
"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive." - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Gibbon, Edward).
"History . . . is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Gibbon, Edward).
"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance." - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Gibbon, Edward).
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. (Gibbon, Edward).
##Gide, Andr
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.". (Gide, Andr).
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.". (Gide, Andr).
"Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness." - Fruits of the Earth. (Gide, Andr).
"Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases." - Journals. (Gide, Andr).
"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity." - The Counterfeiters. (Gide, Andr).
"The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations." - The Counterfeiters. (Gide, Andr).
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." - The Counterfeiters. (Gide, Andr).
"Prejudices are the props of civilisation." - The Counterfeiters. (Gide, Andr).
"Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness." - The Immoralist. (Gide, Andr).
##Gifford, Frank
"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors." - quoted in Sports Illustrated. (Gifford, Frank).
##Gilbert, W. S.
"Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream." - H.M.S. Pinafore. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"I see no objection to stoutness - in moderation." - Iolanthe. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"Darwinian Man, though well-behaved, At best is only a monkey shaved!" - Princess Ida. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it." - Ruddigore. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"In enterprise of martial kind When there was any fighting, He led his reg'ment from behind He found it less exciting." - The Gondoliers. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"As some day it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list, I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground And who never would be missed, who never would be missed!" - The Mikado. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this and every country but his own." - The Mikado. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"My object all sublime I shall achieve in time -  To let the punishment fit the crime -  The punishment fit the crime." - The Mikado. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something in-conceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering." - The Mikado. (Gilbert, W. S.).
"I am the very model of a modern Major-General; I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical." - The Pirates of Penzance. (Gilbert, W. S.).
##Gilbert, William S.
"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.". (Gilbert, William S.).
"If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.". (Gilbert, William S.).
##Gilder, George
"Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.". (Gilder, George).
##Gill, Eric
"Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why." - quoted in Christian Science Monitor. (Gill, Eric).
##Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
"New York . . . that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American." - The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. (Gilman, Charlotte Perkins).
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver." - Women and Economics. (Gilman, Charlotte Perkins).
##Ginsberg, Allen
"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked." - Howl. (Ginsberg, Allen).
"There is nothing to belearned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now." - quoted in Christopher Butler, After the Wake. (Ginsberg, Allen).
##Gissing, George
"It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched." - The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. (Gissing, George).
##Gita, Bhagavad
"Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"Man is made by his belief.  As he believes, so he is.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it.  He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be.  To the wise, these truths are self-evident.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with material senses.  Such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.". (Gita, Bhagavad).
##Gladstone, William Ewart
"Justice delayed, is justice denied.". (Gladstone, William Ewart).
"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes." - speech (1886). (Gladstone, William Ewart).
##Glasgow, Ellen
"No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated." - speech (1936). (Glasgow, Ellen).
##Glasow, Arnold H.
"Nothing lasts forever - not even your troubles.". (Glasow, Arnold H.).
"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.". (Glasow, Arnold H.).
"The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.". (Glasow, Arnold H.).
"The truth will ouch.". (Glasow, Arnold H.).
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency.". (Glasow, Arnold H.).
##Glass, Carter
"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money." - quoted in New York Times. (Glass, Carter).
##Godfrey, Arthur
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.". (Godfrey, Arthur).
##Godwin, Gail
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.". (Godwin, Gail).
##Goethe
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.". (Goethe).
"Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old.". (Goethe).
##Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
"Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.". (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von).
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy.". (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von).
"A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.". (Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von).
##Gogh, Vincent Van
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.". (Gogh, Vincent Van).
"Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.". (Gogh, Vincent Van).
"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.". (Gogh, Vincent Van).
##Goldoni, Carlo
"A wise traveller never despises his own country.". (Goldoni, Carlo).
##Goldwater, Barry
"I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" - speech (accepting nomination for President, 1964). (Goldwater, Barry).
##Gordon, George
"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.". (Gordon, George).
##Grable, Betty
"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.". (Grable, Betty).
##Gracian, Baltasar
"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.". (Gracian, Baltasar).
"Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.". (Gracian, Baltasar).
"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.". (Gracian, Baltasar).
"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.". (Gracian, Baltasar).
"The pillow is a silent Sibyl, and it is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards." - The Art of Worldly Wisdom. (Gracian, Baltasar).
"Good things, when short, are twice as good." - The Art of Worldly Wisdom. (Gracian, Baltasar).
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - The Art of Worldly Wisdom. (Gracian, Baltasar).
##Graffiti
"Keep Britain Tidy, kill a tourist.". (Graffiti).
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.". (Graffiti).
"If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.". (Graffiti).
"Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence.". (Graffiti).
"Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.". (Graffiti).
"If at first you don't succeed, cheat!". (Graffiti).
##Graham, Clementina Stirling
"The best way to get the better of temptation is just to yield to it." - Mystifications. (Graham, Clementina Stirling).
##Graham Bell, Alexander
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.". (Graham Bell, Alexander).
##Gray, Harry
"No one ever achieved greatness by playing it safe.". (Gray, Harry).
##Green, Celia
"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment." - The Decline and Fall of Science. (Green, Celia).
##Greene, Graham
"Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.". (Greene, Graham).
"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." - The Heart of the Matter. (Greene, Graham).
"Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness." - The Heart of the Matter. (Greene, Graham).
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." - The Power and the Glory. (Greene, Graham).
##Greenleaf, Clint
"Unfortunately, regret is a part of human existence. To defeat it, you must confront your fears before the opportunity is lost. If you wait, the regret will eat away at you for the rest of your life.". (Greenleaf, Clint).
##Greenleaf, Geof
"Class is how you treat people who can do nothing for you.". (Greenleaf, Geof).
"A man is measured by the size of things that anger him.". (Greenleaf, Geof).
##Gregory, Dick
"If it wasn't for Abe Lincoln, I'd still be on the open market.". (Gregory, Dick).
##Gretzky, Wayne
"You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.". (Gretzky, Wayne).
##Grosvenor, Charles H.
"Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.". (Grosvenor, Charles H.).
##Gucci
"Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.". (Gucci).
##Guest, Edgar A.
"It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home." - Home. (Guest, Edgar A.).
##Guitry, Sacha
"When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.". (Guitry, Sacha).
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.". (Guitry, Sacha).
"The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.". (Guitry, Sacha).
"The little I know I owe to my ignorance.". (Guitry, Sacha).
##Gurdjieff
"Man has the possibility of existence after death.  But possibility is one thing and the realisation of the possibility is quite a different thing.". (Gurdjieff).
"There is no progress whatever.  Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago.  The outward form changes.  The essence does not change.". (Gurdjieff).
##Gurney, Dorothy
"The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth -  One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth." - The Lord God Planted a Garden. (Gurney, Dorothy).
"The kiss of sun for pardon, The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth." - The Lord God Planted a Garden. (Gurney, Dorothy).
##Halderman, H. R.
"You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.". (Halderman, H. R.).
##Haliburton
"Innocence is always unsuspicious.". (Haliburton).
##Halm, Friedrich
"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one." - Ingomar the Barbarian. (Halm, Friedrich).
##Hamilton, Alex
"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.". (Hamilton, Alex).
##Hamilton, Alexander
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to". (Hamilton, Alexander).
"It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood." - The Federalist. (Hamilton, Alexander).
##Hammarskjld, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl
"'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights." - speech (1956). (Hammarskjld, Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl).
##Hansen, Fridjof
"War will cease when men refuse to fight.". (Hansen, Fridjof).
##Hardy, G. H.
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.". (Hardy, G. H.).
##Hardy, Thomas
"The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom.". (Hardy, Thomas).
"Yes;  quaint and curious war is!  You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is,  Or help to half-a-crown.". (Hardy, Thomas).
"'Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We've got as far as poison-gas." - Christmas: 1924. (Hardy, Thomas).
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." - Far from the Madding Crowd. (Hardy, Thomas).
"Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would." - Jude the Obscure. (Hardy, Thomas).
"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity." - Tess of the D'Ubervilles. (Hardy, Thomas).
"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all." - The Hand of Ethelberta. (Hardy, Thomas).
"Dialect words-those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel." - The Mayor of Casterbridge. (Hardy, Thomas).
"Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel." - The Mayor of Casterbridge. (Hardy, Thomas).
##Harrison, Frederick
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.". (Harrison, Frederick).
##Harte, Bret
"And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay  The song of the sailors in glee:  So I think of the luminous footprints that bore  The comfort o'er dark Galilee,  And wait for the signal to go to the shore,  To the ship that is waiting for me.". (Harte, Bret).
##Harte, Francis Bret
"Luck is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change." - The Outcasts of Poker Flat. (Harte, Francis Bret).
##Hathaway, Helen
"More tears have been shed over men's lack of manners than their lack of morals." - Manners for Men. (Hathaway, Helen).
##Hawking, Coleman
"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.". (Hawking, Coleman).
##Hayek, F. A.
"We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.". (Hayek, F. A.).
"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, 'a new form of servitude.'". (Hayek, F. A.).
##Hazlitt, William
"Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.". (Hazlitt, William).
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.". (Hazlitt, William).
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.". (Hazlitt, William).
"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.". (Hazlitt, William).
"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living.  It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.". (Hazlitt, William).
"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.". (Hazlitt, William).
"Learning is its own exceeding great reward.". (Hazlitt, William).
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.". (Hazlitt, William).
"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.". (Hazlitt, William).
"Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.  He who undervalues himself is justly overvalued by others.". (Hazlitt, William).
"The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors.  The first he does not admit of;  the last he does not concern himself about.". (Hazlitt, William).
"Principle is a passion for truth.". (Hazlitt, William).
"I should like to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.". (Hazlitt, William).
"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings." - American Literature - Dr. Channing. (Hazlitt, William).
"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration." - Characteristics. (Hazlitt, William).
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." - Characteristics. (Hazlitt, William).
"The way to procure insults is to submit to them." - Characteristics. (Hazlitt, William).
"Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong." - Characteristics. (Hazlitt, William).
"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies" - Characteristics. (Hazlitt, William).
"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world." - Characteristics. (Hazlitt, William).
"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it." - Lectures. (Hazlitt, William).
"Spleen can subsist on any kind of food." - Lectures on the English Comic Writers. (Hazlitt, William).
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." - Lectures on the English Comic Writers. (Hazlitt, William).
"To great evils we submit; we resent little provocations." - Literary Remains. (Hazlitt, William).
"No young man believes he shall ever die." - Literary Remains. (Hazlitt, William).
"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." - On Dreams. (Hazlitt, William).
"That which any one has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportionable eagerness and haste." - On Personal Character. (Hazlitt, William).
"Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt: nine out of ten have the inclination." - On Reading New Books. (Hazlitt, William).
"We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it." - Sketches and Essays. (Hazlitt, William).
"There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body." - Sketches and Essays. (Hazlitt, William).
"A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man." - Sketches and Essays. (Hazlitt, William).
"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room." - Sketches and Essays. (Hazlitt, William).
"No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves." - Table Talk. (Hazlitt, William).
"People do not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but to maintain an opinion for the sake of talking." - Table Talk. (Hazlitt, William).
"When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country." - Table Talk. (Hazlitt, William).
"Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken." - The Conversations of James Northcote. (Hazlitt, William).
##Hearn, Barry
"If you do anything just for the money, you don't succeed.". (Hearn, Barry).
##Hegel, Georg Wilhelm
"What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it.". (Hegel, Georg Wilhelm).
##Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
"What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." - Philosophy of History. (Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich).
"Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion." - Philosophy of History. (Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich).
##Heine, Heinrich
"We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first.". (Heine, Heinrich).
"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.". (Heine, Heinrich).
"In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles.  In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.". (Heine, Heinrich).
"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.". (Heine, Heinrich).
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." - Almansor: A Tragedy. (Heine, Heinrich).
"It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all." - City of Lucca. (Heine, Heinrich).
"Oh what lies there are in kisses!" - In den Kssen, welche Lge. (Heine, Heinrich).
"God will forgive me; it is his trade." - reportedly said on his deathbed. (Heine, Heinrich).
##Heisenberg, Werner Karl
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them." - Physics and Beyond. (Heisenberg, Werner Karl).
##Hello, Ernest
"The Holy Bible is an abyss. It is impossible to explain how profound it is, impossible to explain how simple it is." - Life, Science and Art. (Hello, Ernest).
##Hemans, Felicia Dorothea
"The stately homes of England! How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land!" - The Homes of England. (Hemans, Felicia Dorothea).
##Hemmingway, Ernest Miller
"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do.  It must be won.  For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.". (Hemmingway, Ernest Miller).
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." - A Moveable Feast. (Hemmingway, Ernest Miller).
"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after." - Death in the Afternoon. (Hemmingway, Ernest Miller).
"But did thee feel the earth move?" - For Whom the Bell Tolls. (Hemmingway, Ernest Miller).
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination." - Men at War. (Hemmingway, Ernest Miller).
##Henley, William
"Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.". (Henley, William).
##Henley, William Ernest
"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul." - Invictus. (Henley, William Ernest).
##Henri IV of France
"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday." - attributed. (Henri IV of France).
##Heraclitus
"We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.". (Heraclitus).
"Nothing endures but change.". (Heraclitus).
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.". (Heraclitus).
"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.". (Heraclitus).
"Much learning does not teach understanding.". (Heraclitus).
"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.". (Heraclitus).
"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine." - fragment. (Heraclitus).
"Character is destiny." - fragment. (Heraclitus).
"There is nothing permanent except change." - quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers. (Heraclitus).
"All is flux, nothing stays still." - quoted by Plato in Cratylus. (Heraclitus).
##Herbert, Alan Patrick
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.". (Herbert, Alan Patrick).
##Herbert, Frank
". . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be." - Dune. (Herbert, Frank).
"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles." - Dune. (Herbert, Frank).
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive." - Dune. (Herbert, Frank).
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known." - Dune, Manual of MuadDib by Princess Irulan. (Herbert, Frank).
##Herbert, George
"Valour that parleys is near yielding.". (Herbert, George).
"Skill and confidence are an unconquered army." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"The offender never pardons." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"When a friend asks there is no tomorrow." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"Love and a cough cannot be hid." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"Hell is full of good meanings and wishings." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"Hope is the poor man's bread." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"Love your neighbour, yet pull not down your hedge." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"Living well is the best revenge." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"None is a fool always, everyone sometimes." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one." - Jacula Prudentum. (Herbert, George).
"God heals, and the physician hath the thanks." - Outlandish Proverbs.. (Herbert, George).
"A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast." - The Church-Porch. (Herbert, George).
##Herodotus
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.". (Herodotus).
"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.". (Herodotus).
"Men trust their ears less than their eyes." - Histories. (Herodotus).
"In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons." - Histories. (Herodotus).
"These 'messengers' will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night." - Histories. (Herodotus).
##Herold, Don
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.". (Herold, Don).
##Hewart, Gordon
"Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done." - judicial opinion (1924). (Hewart, Gordon).
##Hightower, Cullen
"We experience moments absolutely free from worry.  These brief respites are called panic.". (Hightower, Cullen).
##Hill, Benny
"I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.". (Hill, Benny).
##Hilton, Conrad
"Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, bu they don't quit.". (Hilton, Conrad).
##Hitchcock, Alfred
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.". (Hitchcock, Alfred).
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.". (Hitchcock, Alfred).
##Hitler, Adolf
"Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and pastures blue ought to be sterilised.". (Hitler, Adolf).
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think.". (Hitler, Adolf).
"The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.". (Hitler, Adolf).
"Strength lies not in defence but in attack.". (Hitler, Adolf).
"Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.". (Hitler, Adolf).
"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.". (Hitler, Adolf).
##Hoffer, Eric
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.". (Hoffer, Eric).
"We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.". (Hoffer, Eric).
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.". (Hoffer, Eric).
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.". (Hoffer, Eric).
"The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.  Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophesies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.". (Hoffer, Eric).
"A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men." - The Ordeal of Change. (Hoffer, Eric).
"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail." - The Ordeal of Change. (Hoffer, Eric).
"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life." - The Passionate State of Mind. (Hoffer, Eric).
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." - The Passionate State of Mind. (Hoffer, Eric).
"Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience." - The True Believer. (Hoffer, Eric).
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." - The True Believer. (Hoffer, Eric).
##Hoffman, Abbie
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.". (Hoffman, Abbie).
"Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.". (Hoffman, Abbie).
##Homer
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.". (Homer).
"For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.". (Homer).
"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.". (Homer).
"To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.". (Homer).
"The man does better who runs from disaster than he who is caught by it." - The Iliad. (Homer).
"As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies." - The Iliad. (Homer).
"A decent boldness ever meets with friends." - The Odyssey. (Homer).
##Hope, Bob
"They asked Jack Benny if he would do something for the actor's orphanage - so he shot both his parents and moved in.". (Hope, Bob).
"Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.". (Hope, Bob).
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.". (Hope, Bob).
"If you watch a game, it's fun.  If you play it, it's recreation.  If you work at it, it's golf.". (Hope, Bob).
"People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.". (Hope, Bob).
"I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.". (Hope, Bob).
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - quoted in Life in the Crystal Palace by Alan Harrington. (Hope, Bob).
##Hopper, Admiral Grace Murrray
"You manage things; you lead people.". (Hopper, Admiral Grace Murrray).
##Horace
"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.". (Horace).
"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour.". (Horace).
"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while.". (Horace).
"Who then is free?  The wise man who can command himself.". (Horace).
"Fidelity is the sister of justice.". (Horace).
"That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.". (Horace).
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.". (Horace).
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.". (Horace).
"What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed?". (Horace).
"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.". (Horace).
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendour.". (Horace).
"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.". (Horace).
"The mountains will be in labour, and a ridiculous mouse will be born." - Ars Poetica. (Horace).
"Sometimes even excellent Homer nods." - Ars Poetica. (Horace).
"Whatever advice you give, be brief." - Ars Poetica. (Horace).
"I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure." - Ars Poetica. (Horace).
"To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise." - Epistles. (Horace).
"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon, but all are weighed down in unending night, unwept and unknown, because they lacked a sacred bard." - Odes. (Horace).
"Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals; we storm heaven itself in our folly." - Odes. (Horace).
"In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant!  -you praise the distant city to the stars." - Satires. (Horace).
##Housman, A. E.
"The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I:  let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.". (Housman, A. E.).
##Howe, Edgar Watson
"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
"So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
"No man's credit is as good as his money.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.". (Howe, Edgar Watson).
##Hoyle, Fred
"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example." - Into Deepest Space. (Hoyle, Fred).
##Hubbard, Elbert
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others." - The Philistine. (Hubbard, Elbert).
##Hubbard, Elbert Green
"Never explain - your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyhow.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"The love we give away is the only love we keep.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.". (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off." - in The Philistine. (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - The Note Book. (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." - The Note Book. (Hubbard, Elbert Green).
##Hudson, Bob
"I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake.". (Hudson, Bob).
##Hughes, Charles Evans
"Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.". (Hughes, Charles Evans).
##Hugo, Victor
"It is not enough to be wicked to prosper.". (Hugo, Victor).
"One can dream of something more terrible than a hell where one suffers; it's a hell where one would get bored.". (Hugo, Victor).
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.". (Hugo, Victor).
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison.". (Hugo, Victor).
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.". (Hugo, Victor).
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.". (Hugo, Victor).
"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.". (Hugo, Victor).
"Liberation is not deliverance.". (Hugo, Victor).
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself.". (Hugo, Victor).
"Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.". (Hugo, Victor).
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.  There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour.". (Hugo, Victor).
"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise." - Ninetythree, 1874. (Hugo, Victor).
##Hume, David
"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.". (Hume, David).
"Avarice, the spur of industry.". (Hume, David).
"The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.". (Hume, David).
##Hutcheson, Francis
"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers." - Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. (Hutcheson, Francis).
##Huxley, Aldous
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon. Hence the constant popularity of dogs.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying.  A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end.  To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.". (Huxley, Aldous).
"There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provincialism." - Antic Hay. (Huxley, Aldous).
"Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else." - Point Counter Point. (Huxley, Aldous).
"Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something." - Proper Studies. (Huxley, Aldous).
"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent." - Proper Studies. (Huxley, Aldous).
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Proper Studies. (Huxley, Aldous).
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Texts and Pretexts. (Huxley, Aldous).
"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense." - Time Must Have a Stop. (Huxley, Aldous).
##Ibarruri, Dolores
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.". (Ibarruri, Dolores).
##Ibsen, Henrik
"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.". (Ibsen, Henrik).
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.". (Ibsen, Henrik).
##Inge, Dean William R.
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.". (Inge, Dean William R.).
##Inge, William Ralph
"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." - in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant. (Inge, William Ralph).
"The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilisation of the Fabians." - The End of an Age. (Inge, William Ralph).
##Ionesco, Eugene
"A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.". (Ionesco, Eugene).
"A civil servant doesn't make jokes." - The Killer. (Ionesco, Eugene).
##Irving, Washington
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.". (Irving, Washington).
"A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.  But a mother's love endures through all.". (Irving, Washington).
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.". (Irving, Washington).
##Jackson, Andrew
"One man with courage makes a majority.". (Jackson, Andrew).
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.". (Jackson, Andrew).
##James, Clive
"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.". (James, Clive).
##James, Henry
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue." - Partial Portraits. (James, Henry).
##James, William
"The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.". (James, William).
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.". (James, William).
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.". (James, William).
"The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.". (James, William).
"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the Bitch-Goddess success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.". (James, William).
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.". (James, William).
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.". (James, William).
"Genius . . . means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - The Principles of Psychology. (James, William).
"Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor." - The Principles of Psychology. (James, William).
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." - The Varieties of Religious Experience. (James, William).
##Jasienski, Bruno
"Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.". (Jasienski, Bruno).
##Jefferson, Thomas
"In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"That government is best which governs least.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. --Thomas Jefferson". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Be polite to all, but intimate with few.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I cannot live without books. --Thomas Jefferson". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body.  Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong;  and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.". (Jefferson, Thomas).
"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!" - A Decaloque of Canons for observation in practical life (in letter, 1825). (Jefferson, Thomas).
"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." - Autobiography. (Jefferson, Thomas).
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - draft of the Declaration of Independence. (Jefferson, Thomas).
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it." - letter (1791). (Jefferson, Thomas).
"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will." - letter (to George Washington, 1792). (Jefferson, Thomas).
##Jerrold, Douglas
"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.". (Jerrold, Douglas).
"He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.". (Jerrold, Douglas).
##Johnson, Ben
"I am a printer, and a printer of news; ... I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so be it news.". (Johnson, Ben).
##Johnson, Dr. Samuel
"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.". (Johnson, Dr. Samuel).
##Johnson, Gerald W.
"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all." - American Heroes and Hero-Worship. (Johnson, Gerald W.).
##Johnson, Samuel
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"To do nothing is in every man's power.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick...". (Johnson, Samuel).
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman.  So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain.  We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness;  it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"The first years of man make provision for the last.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Revenge is an act of passion;  vengeance of justice.  Injuries are revenged;  crimes are avenged.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little  difference.  As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"Words are but the signs of ideas.". (Johnson, Samuel).
"It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done." - in Boswell's Life, 1770. (Johnson, Samuel).
"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves." - quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson. (Johnson, Samuel).
"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." - quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson. (Johnson, Samuel).
"Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson. (Johnson, Samuel).
"Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." - quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson. (Johnson, Samuel).
"A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." - quoted in James Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. (Johnson, Samuel).
"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain." - The Rambler. (Johnson, Samuel).
##Jones, Donald P.
"The quickest and shortest way to crush whatever laurels you have won is for you to rest on them.". (Jones, Donald P.).
##Jong, Erica
"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.". (Jong, Erica).
"You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.". (Jong, Erica).
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - How to Save Your Own Life. (Jong, Erica).
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads." - in The First Ms. Reader, ed. Francine Klagsbrun. (Jong, Erica).
##Jonson, Ben
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things.  A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.". (Jonson, Ben).
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.". (Jonson, Ben).
"In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be." - A Part of an Ode . . .. (Jonson, Ben).
"Fortune, that favours fools." - The Alchemist. (Jonson, Ben).
"Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell." - Timber. (Jonson, Ben).
##Kafka, Franz
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world.". (Kafka, Franz).
"We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.". (Kafka, Franz).
"It's often safer to be in chains than to be free." - The Trail. (Kafka, Franz).
##Kahanamoku, Duke P.
"You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got - your everything.". (Kahanamoku, Duke P.).
##Karr, Alphonse
"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.". (Karr, Alphonse).
"The more things change, the more they remain the same. (Plus a change, plus c'est la mme chose.)" - in Les Gupes. (Karr, Alphonse).
##Katona, George
"Business is like sex. When it is good, it's very, very good; when it's not so good, it's still good.". (Katona, George).
##Kay, Alan
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it.". (Kay, Alan).
##Keane, Bil
"Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.". (Keane, Bil).
##Keating, Edward
"You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.". (Keating, Edward).
##Keillor, Garrison
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.". (Keillor, Garrison).
##Keller, Helen
"College isn't the place to go for ideas.". (Keller, Helen).
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.". (Keller, Helen).
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.". (Keller, Helen).
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.". (Keller, Helen).
"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings." - My Religion. (Keller, Helen).
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." - The Story of My Life. (Keller, Helen).
##Kendall, Donald
"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.". (Kendall, Donald).
##Kennan, George F.
"Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more." - letter (1921). (Kennan, George F.).
##Kennedy, John F.
"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.". (Kennedy, John F.).
"Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.". (Kennedy, John F.).
"Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.". (Kennedy, John F.).
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.". (Kennedy, John F.).
##Kettering, Charles F.
"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.". (Kettering, Charles F.).
"You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.". (Kettering, Charles F.).
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.". (Kettering, Charles F.).
"The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.". (Kettering, Charles F.).
"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.". (Kettering, Charles F.).
"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.". (Kettering, Charles F.).
##Keys, Daniel
"Dr. Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remember and every thing that happens to me from now on.." - opening line of Flowers for Algernon. (Keys, Daniel).
##Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.". (Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye).
"The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.". (Kierkegaard, Soren Aabye).
##Kingsley, Charles
"The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunshine follows the rain;  And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.". (Kingsley, Charles).
"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - quoted in Reader's Digest. (Kingsley, Charles).
##Kipling, Rudyard
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.". (Kipling, Rudyard).
"I keep six honest serving men, They taught me all I knew, Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who.". (Kipling, Rudyard).
"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!  I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!". (Kipling, Rudyard).
"The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.". (Kipling, Rudyard).
"Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money." - Plain Tales from the Hills. (Kipling, Rudyard).
"Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees." - The Glory of the Garden. (Kipling, Rudyard).
##Kissinger, Henry
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.". (Kissinger, Henry).
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.". (Kissinger, Henry).
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.". (Kissinger, Henry).
##Kissinger, Henry A.
"Even a paranoid can have enemies." - quoted in Time. (Kissinger, Henry A.).
##Koestler, Arthur
"If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out." - in Encounter. (Koestler, Arthur).
##Kovacs, Ernie
"Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.". (Kovacs, Ernie).
##Kroll, Alex
"Getting ideas is like shaving: if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.". (Kroll, Alex).
##Kuralt, Charles
"Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.". (Kuralt, Charles).
##Kurosawa, Akiro
"In a mad world, only the mad are sane.". (Kurosawa, Akiro).
##Laertius, Diogenes
"A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn;  nor too far off, lest he freeze.". (Laertius, Diogenes).
"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.". (Laertius, Diogenes).
##Lamartine, Alphonse de
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." - Premires mditations potiques. (Lamartine, Alphonse de).
##Lamb, Charles
"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.". (Lamb, Charles).
"Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other." - Essays of Elia. (Lamb, Charles).
"'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'" - Essays of Elia. (Lamb, Charles).
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me." - Last Essays of Elia. (Lamb, Charles).
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Table Talk. (Lamb, Charles).
##Lang, Andrew
"Life's more amusing than we thought.". (Lang, Andrew).
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.". (Lang, Andrew).
##Larson, Doug
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.". (Larson, Doug).
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.". (Larson, Doug).
"Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.". (Larson, Doug).
"The ageing process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.". (Larson, Doug).
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.". (Larson, Doug).
##Lauretta, Sister Mary
"To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.". (Lauretta, Sister Mary).
##Lawrence, Bill
"The honeymoon is over when he phones that he'll be late for supper - and she has already left a note that it's in the refrigerator.". (Lawrence, Bill).
##Lawrence, D. H.
"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.". (Lawrence, D. H.).
##Lawrence, T. E.
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible." - Seven Pillars of Wisdom. (Lawrence, T. E.).
##Le Bon, Gustave
"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.". (Le Bon, Gustave).
##Lessing, Gotthold
"Suspicion follows close on mistrust.". (Lessing, Gotthold).
##Levenstein, Aaron
"Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.". (Levenstein, Aaron).
##Levi-Strauss, Claude
"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.". (Levi-Strauss, Claude).
##Levin, Bernard
"Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.". (Levin, Bernard).
"No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing." - The Pendulum Years. (Levin, Bernard).
##Lewis, C. S.
"A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.". (Lewis, C. S.).
"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.". (Lewis, C. S.).
"There will be two kinds of people in the end: Those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'" - paraphrased. (Lewis, C. S.).
"There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth." - The Screwtape Letters. (Lewis, C. S.).
##Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
"Some people read because they are too lazy to think.". (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.". (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.". (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven." - Aphorisms. (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"A book is a mirror: when a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out." - Aphorisms. (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle." - Aphorisms. (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all." - Aphorisms. (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
"I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius - in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede, not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won't count up to fourteen." - The Reflections of Lichtenberg, ed. Norman Allison. (Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph).
##Lincoln, Abraham
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"When I'm ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say, and two thirds of my time thinking about him and what he is going to say.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"You cannot escape the responsibility tomorrow by evading it today.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"He has the right to criticise who has the heart to help.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.". (Lincoln, Abraham).
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them." - attributed. (Lincoln, Abraham).
"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time." - attributed. (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves." - letter (1859). (Lincoln, Abraham).
"Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." - letter (1863). (Lincoln, Abraham).
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - speech (1854). (Lincoln, Abraham).
". . . government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - speech (address at Gettysburg, 1863). (Lincoln, Abraham).
##Link, Henry C.
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.". (Link, Henry C.).
##Linkletter, Art
"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence." - A Child's Garden of Misinformation. (Linkletter, Art).
##Lippmann, Walter
"When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.". (Lippmann, Walter).
"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.". (Lippmann, Walter).
"Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.". (Lippmann, Walter).
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.". (Lippmann, Walter).
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most." - A Preface to Politics. (Lippmann, Walter).
##Lloyd George, David
"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.". (Lloyd George, David).
"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.". (Lloyd George, David).
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.". (Lloyd George, David).
##Lodge, David
"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around." - The British Museum is Falling Down. (Lodge, David).
##Logau, Friedrich von
"Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small." - Retribution. (Logau, Friedrich von).
##Lombardi, Vince
"Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.". (Lombardi, Vince).
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength , not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.". (Lombardi, Vince).
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.". (Lombardi, Vince).
"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.". (Lombardi, Vince).
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.". (Lombardi, Vince).
##Londor, Walter Savage
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.". (Londor, Walter Savage).
"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.". (Londor, Walter Savage).
"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good." - Imaginary Conversations. (Londor, Walter Savage).
##Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
"Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Ah, how skilful grows the hand  That obeyeth Love's command!  It is the heart and not the brain  That to the highest doth attain,  And he who followeth Love's behest  Far excelleth all the rest.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Life is real!  Life is earnest!  And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,  Was not spoken of the soul.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art.". (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time." - A Psalm of Life. (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Drift-Wood. (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Kavanagh. (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
"Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose." - The Best Medicines. (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth).
##Loos, Anita
"Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever." - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. (Loos, Anita).
"It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun." - Kiss Hollywood Goodbye. (Loos, Anita).
##Lowell, Amy
"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation." - Happiness. (Lowell, Amy).
##Lucas, Edward
"There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.". (Lucas, Edward).
##Luce, Clare Boothe
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.". (Luce, Clare Boothe).
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.". (Luce, Clare Boothe).
"No good deed goes unpunished.". (Luce, Clare Boothe).
##Lyall, Charles J. C.
"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committees and accountants.". (Lyall, Charles J. C.).
##Mabie, Hamilton
"Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against; not with; the wind.". (Mabie, Hamilton).
##MacArthur, General Douglas
"In war there is no substitute for victory.". (MacArthur, General Douglas).
"There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.". (MacArthur, General Douglas).
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.". (MacArthur, General Douglas).
"Wars are caused by undefended wealth.". (MacArthur, General Douglas).
##MacKay, Harvey
"It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.". (MacKay, Harvey).
##MacLeish, Archibald
"Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.". (MacLeish, Archibald).
##MacMillan, Harold
"'A Foreign Secretary' is forever poised between the clich and the indiscretion." - comment made in Parliament. (MacMillan, Harold).
##Magee, William Connor
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - sermon (1868). (Magee, William Connor).
##Malraux, Andre
"Communism destroys democracy.  Democracy can also destroy Communism.". (Malraux, Andre).
##Manske, Jr., Fred A.
"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.". (Manske, Jr., Fred A.).
##Marcus Aurelius
"We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.". (Marcus Aurelius).
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.". (Marcus Aurelius).
"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.". (Marcus Aurelius).
"Poverty is the mother of crime.". (Marcus Aurelius).
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.". (Marcus Aurelius).
"Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.". (Marcus Aurelius).
"Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"'A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?'" - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, 'I have been harmed.' Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?" - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Nothing is evil which is according to nature." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." - Meditations. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle." - Meditations, II, 14. (Marcus Aurelius).
"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly." - Meditations, IV, 10. (Marcus Aurelius).
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Meditations, IV, 3. (Marcus Aurelius).
"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something." - Meditations, IX, 5. (Marcus Aurelius).
##Marlowe, Christopher
"Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be." - Doctor Faustus. (Marlowe, Christopher).
##Marquis, Don
"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.". (Marquis, Don).
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?". (Marquis, Don).
"Middle age is . . . when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever." - attributed. (Marquis, Don).
##Marquis, Donald R. Perry
"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.". (Marquis, Donald R. Perry).
"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.". (Marquis, Donald R. Perry).
##Marshall, George Catlett
"Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination.". (Marshall, George Catlett).
##Martineau, Harriet
"If a test of civilisation be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power." - Society in America. (Martineau, Harriet).
##Marvell, Andrew
"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime." - To His Coy Mistress. (Marvell, Andrew).
##Marx, Groucho
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.". (Marx, Groucho).
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.". (Marx, Groucho).
"A child of five would understand this. Send somebody to fetch a child of five!". (Marx, Groucho).
"Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know.". (Marx, Groucho).
"I never forget a face, but I'll make an exception in your case.". (Marx, Groucho).
"I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.". (Marx, Groucho).
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.". (Marx, Groucho).
"Send two dozen roses to Room 4 and put 'Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill.". (Marx, Groucho).
"She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon.". (Marx, Groucho).
"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.". (Marx, Groucho).
##Massey, Gerald
"There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.". (Massey, Gerald).
##Maupassant, Guy de
"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.". (Maupassant, Guy de).
##Maxwell, John C.
"Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.". (Maxwell, John C.).
"A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.". (Maxwell, John C.).
"People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.". (Maxwell, John C.).
"Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.". (Maxwell, John C.).
"Leadership is influence.". (Maxwell, John C.).
"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.". (Maxwell, John C.).
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.". (Maxwell, John C.).
##McAlindon, Harold R.
"The quality of an organisation can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.". (McAlindon, Harold R.).
##McDonagh, Edward
"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." - in Time. (McDonagh, Edward).
##McIntosh, David
"The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.". (McIntosh, David).
##McKay, David O.
"One secret act of self-denial, one sacrifice of inclination to do is worth all of the good thought, warm feelings, and passionate prayers in which idle men indulge themselves.". (McKay, David O.).
##McKinney Hubbard, Frank
"A diplomat is a fellow that lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants.". (McKinney Hubbard, Frank).
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.". (McKinney Hubbard, Frank).
"We all belong t' th' union when it comes t' wantin' more money and less work.". (McKinney Hubbard, Frank).
##Mencken, Henry Louis
"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Time is the great legaliser, even in the field of morals.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Men become civilised, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"It is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds in favour of Judas.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Neither sex, without some fertilisation of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavour.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.". (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - A Little Book in C Major. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake." - A Mencken Chrestomathy. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Alimony-The ransom that the happy pay to the devil." - A Mencken Chrestomathy. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know." - A Mencken Chrestomathy. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety." - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression." - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible." - Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - Prejudices. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." - Prejudices. (Mencken, Henry Louis).
##Mery, Fernand
"Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?". (Mery, Fernand).
##Meurier, Gabriel
"He who excuses himself accuses himself.  (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse)" - Trsor des sentences. (Meurier, Gabriel).
##Mikes, George
"Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.". (Mikes, George).
"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one." - How to be an Alien. (Mikes, George).
##Millay, Edna St. Vicent
"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!". (Millay, Edna St. Vicent).
##Mille, Agnes de
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. . . . Bodies never lie." - in New York Times Magazine. (Mille, Agnes de).
##Mille, Cecil B. de
"God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice.". (Mille, Cecil B. de).
##Miller, Henry
"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.". (Miller, Henry).
##Mingus, Charles
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.". (Mingus, Charles).
##Mizner, Addison
"God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends." - The Cynic's Calendar. (Mizner, Addison).
##Mizner, Wilson
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"You sparkle with larceny.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.". (Mizner, Wilson).
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.". (Mizner, Wilson).
##Monkhouse, Bob
"Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted." - Just Say a Few Words. (Monkhouse, Bob).
##Montapert, Alfred A.
"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take.  You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.". (Montapert, Alfred A.).
##Montesquie, Baron de
"Liberty is the right to do whatever the laws permit." - De l'esprit des lois. (Montesquie, Baron de).
"If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides." - The Persian Letters. (Montesquie, Baron de).
##Moody, Dwight L.
"Character is what a man is in the dark." - quoted in William R. Moody's D.L. Moody. (Moody, Dwight L.).
##Moon, William Least Heat
"What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road." - Blue Highways. (Moon, William Least Heat).
##Moore, George
"The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.". (Moore, George).
##Moore, Henry
"To know one thing, you must know the opposite.". (Moore, Henry).
##More, Hannah
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.". (More, Hannah).
"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes." - Florio. (More, Hannah).
##Morgan, Elaine
"The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves." - The Descent of Woman. (Morgan, Elaine).
##Morgan, Henry
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.". (Morgan, Henry).
##Morgenstern, Christian
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.". (Morgenstern, Christian).
##Morley, Christopher Darlington
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.". (Morley, Christopher Darlington).
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.". (Morley, Christopher Darlington).
"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.". (Morley, Christopher Darlington).
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.". (Morley, Christopher Darlington).
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim." - Where the Blue Begins. (Morley, Christopher Darlington).
##Morris, Desmond
"Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." - The Human Zoo. (Morris, Desmond).
##Morrow, Dwight
"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.". (Morrow, Dwight).
##Morrow Lindbergh, Anne
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.". (Morrow Lindbergh, Anne).
##Moynihan, Daniel
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy scepticism of the powers of government to do good.". (Moynihan, Daniel).
"The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.". (Moynihan, Daniel).
##Munro, H. H.
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.". (Munro, H. H.).
##Murray, Earl of Mansfield, W.
"Give your decisions, never your reasons. Your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.". (Murray, Earl of Mansfield, W.).
##Murrow, Edward R.
"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.". (Murrow, Edward R.).
##Mussolini, Benito
"This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: 'Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.'". (Mussolini, Benito).
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.". (Mussolini, Benito).
##Myrdal, Gunnar
"The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.". (Myrdal, Gunnar).
##Nabokov, Vladimir
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual." - Strong Opinions. (Nabokov, Vladimir).
"A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection." - The Eye. (Nabokov, Vladimir).
"It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow." - The Gift. (Nabokov, Vladimir).
##Nance, W. A.
"No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.". (Nance, W. A.).
##Napoleon
"Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination.". (Napoleon).
##Nasser, Gamel
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them which we are missing.". (Nasser, Gamel).
##Nathan, George Jean
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.". (Nathan, George Jean).
"The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.". (Nathan, George Jean).
"Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people." - Autobiography of an Attitude. (Nathan, George Jean).
"It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body." - The Autobiography of an Attitude. (Nathan, George Jean).
##Nelson, Melissa A.
"If it feels good, do it.". (Nelson, Melissa A.).
##Nelson, Willie
"Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker.". (Nelson, Willie).
##Newhouse, Flower A.
"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.". (Newhouse, Flower A.).
##Newman, Alfred E.
"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavours and furniture polish is made from real lemons...". (Newman, Alfred E.).
##Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
"One should dies proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"What does not destroy me, makes me strong.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"The doer alone learneth.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Plato was a bore.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"In heaven all the interesting people are missing.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"People demand freedom only when they have no power.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He.". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?". (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself." - Beyond Good and Evil. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common." - Beyond Good and Evil. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love." - Beyond Good and Evil. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior." - Beyond Good and Evil. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity." - Beyond Good and Evil. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Human, All-too-Human. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases." - The Antichrist. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!" - The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science). (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." - The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science). (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." - Thus Spake Zarathustra. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books." - Twilight of the Idols. (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm).
##Nightingale, Earl
"We become what we think about.". (Nightingale, Earl).
##Nimitz, Chester
"A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.". (Nimitz, Chester).
##Nobel, Alfred
"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.". (Nobel, Alfred).
##North, Christopher
"Laws were made to be broken.". (North, Christopher).
##North, Eleanor Holmes
"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with." - quoted in New York Post. (North, Eleanor Holmes).
##North Whitehead, Alfred
"We think in generalities, but we live in details.". (North Whitehead, Alfred).
"Every really new idea looks crazy at first.". (North Whitehead, Alfred).
"The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.". (North Whitehead, Alfred).
"One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.". (North Whitehead, Alfred).
"Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - An Introduction to Mathematics. (North Whitehead, Alfred).
##O'Meara, Barry
"March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us.". (O'Meara, Barry).
##Ogilvy, David
"First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it.". (Ogilvy, David).
"Make sure you have a Vice President in charge of Revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.". (Ogilvy, David).
"The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything." - Confessions of an Advertising Man. (Ogilvy, David).
##Orwell, George
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.". (Orwell, George).
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.". (Orwell, George).
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.". (Orwell, George).
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - Animal Farm. (Orwell, George).
"Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell. (Orwell, George).
"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." - last words written in his notebook. (Orwell, George).
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents." - The Road to Wigan Pier. (Orwell, George).
##Outlaw, Frank
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.". (Outlaw, Frank).
##Oxenstierna, Count Axel
"Thou dost not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed." - letter (1648). (Oxenstierna, Count Axel).
##Pacino, Al
"I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.". (Pacino, Al).
##Paine, Thomas
"Character is much easier kept than recovered.". (Paine, Thomas).
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.". (Paine, Thomas).
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolise power and profit.". (Paine, Thomas).
"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.". (Paine, Thomas).
"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.". (Paine, Thomas).
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.". (Paine, Thomas).
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.". (Paine, Thomas).
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.". (Paine, Thomas).
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.". (Paine, Thomas).
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." - Common Sense. (Paine, Thomas).
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it." - The American Crisis. (Paine, Thomas).
##Palgrave, Francis
"Love to his soul gave eyes;  he knew things are not as they seem.  The dream is his real life;  the world around him is the dream.". (Palgrave, Francis).
##Pandita, Saskya
"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity.  The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.". (Pandita, Saskya).
"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable;  A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.". (Pandita, Saskya).
"It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship.  Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.". (Pandita, Saskya).
"The holy man, though he be distressed, does not eat food mixed with wickedness.  The lion, though hungry, will not eat what is unclean.". (Pandita, Saskya).
"Much talking is the cause of danger.  Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.  The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage.  Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.". (Pandita, Saskya).
"Apply yourself both now and in the next life.  Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.  Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.". (Pandita, Saskya).
##Parker, Dorothy
"The two most beautiful words in the English language are : 'Cheque enclosed'.". (Parker, Dorothy).
"If all the girls at the Yale Prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.". (Parker, Dorothy).
"That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them.". (Parker, Dorothy).
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." - attributed. (Parker, Dorothy).
"Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses." - News Item. (Parker, Dorothy).
##Parkinson, C. Northcote
"The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.  Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.". (Parkinson, C. Northcote).
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.". (Parkinson, C. Northcote).
##Parkinson, Cyril
"The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.". (Parkinson, Cyril).
##Parr, Ellen
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.". (Parr, Ellen).
##Parton, Dolly
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.". (Parton, Dolly).
"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.". (Parton, Dolly).
##Pascal, Blaise
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.". (Pascal, Blaise).
"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.". (Pascal, Blaise).
"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.". (Pascal, Blaise).
"Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God;  and defects, to show that she is only his image.". (Pascal, Blaise).
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.". (Pascal, Blaise).
"Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, and you who read this.". (Pascal, Blaise).
"A trifle consoles us because a trifle distresses us." - Penses. (Pascal, Blaise).
"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." - Penses. (Pascal, Blaise).
"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Provincial Letters. (Pascal, Blaise).
##Paton, Alan
"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.". (Paton, Alan).
"What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?". (Paton, Alan).
"Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.". (Paton, Alan).
"To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.". (Paton, Alan).
##Patton, General George S.
"Never tell the people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their integrity.". (Patton, General George S.).
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.". (Patton, General George S.).
"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climps but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.". (Patton, General George S.).
"Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.". (Patton, General George S.).
"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.". (Patton, General George S.).
"Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.". (Patton, General George S.).
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.". (Patton, General George S.).
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.". (Patton, General George S.).
"If a man does his best, what else is there?". (Patton, General George S.).
"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.". (Patton, General George S.).
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.". (Patton, General George S.).
"I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now.". (Patton, General George S.).
##Penn, William
"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals.". (Penn, William).
"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed." - Some Fruits of Solitude. (Penn, William).
##Penrose, Boise
"Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.". (Penrose, Boise).
##Perlman, Alfred Edward
"After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.". (Perlman, Alfred Edward).
##Perot, H. Ross
"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.". (Perot, H. Ross).
"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.". (Perot, H. Ross).
"Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.". (Perot, H. Ross).
##Peter, Dr. Laurence J.
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.". (Peter, Dr. Laurence J.).
##Phelps, Austin
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book.". (Phelps, Austin).
##Phillips, Wendell
"Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.". (Phillips, Wendell).
"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.". (Phillips, Wendell).
"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.". (Phillips, Wendell).
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty - power is ever stealing from the many to the few." - speech (1852). (Phillips, Wendell).
"Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies." - speech (1860). (Phillips, Wendell).
##Pike, Albert
"The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognisable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.". (Pike, Albert).
"The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.". (Pike, Albert).
"The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.". (Pike, Albert).
"Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men;  poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.". (Pike, Albert).
"A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.". (Pike, Albert).
"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.  A war for commercial supremacy, upon some shallow pretext, is despicable, and more than ought else demonstrates to what immeasurable depths of baseness men and nations can descend.". (Pike, Albert).
##Pinochet, Augusto
"Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.". (Pinochet, Augusto).
##Pitt, William
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - speech on the India Bill 18 November 1783. (Pitt, William).
##Player, Gary
"The harder you work, the luckier you get.". (Player, Gary).
##Pliny the Elder
"The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.". (Pliny the Elder).
##Plutarch
"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.". (Plutarch).
##Poe, Edgar Allan
"I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.". (Poe, Edgar Allan).
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.". (Poe, Edgar Allan).
##Pope, Alexander
"Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.". (Pope, Alexander).
"All nature is but art unknown to thee; All chance, direction which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good.". (Pope, Alexander).
"Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?". (Pope, Alexander).
"The public is a fool.". (Pope, Alexander).
"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man;  Simplicity, a child.". (Pope, Alexander).
"But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?". (Pope, Alexander).
"Health consists with temperance alone.". (Pope, Alexander).
"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.". (Pope, Alexander).
"But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.". (Pope, Alexander).
"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.". (Pope, Alexander).
"To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.". (Pope, Alexander).
"You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live.". (Pope, Alexander).
"When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report.". (Pope, Alexander).
"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.". (Pope, Alexander).
"We think our Fathers Fools, so wise we grow; Our Wiser Sons, no doubt, will think us so." - An Essay on Criticism. (Pope, Alexander).
"To err is human, to forgive divine." - An Essay on Criticism. (Pope, Alexander).
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - An Essay on Criticism. (Pope, Alexander).
"To err is human, to forgive, divine." - An Essay on Criticism. (Pope, Alexander).
"'Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed' was the ninth beatitude." - letter (1725). (Pope, Alexander).
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian." - Thoughts on Various Subjects. (Pope, Alexander).
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." - Thoughts on Various Subjects. (Pope, Alexander).
##Pope Morris, George
"Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." - Woodman, Spare That Tree. (Pope Morris, George).
##Porchia, Antonio
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.". (Porchia, Antonio).
##Pound, Ezra
"Literature is news that STAYS news." - ABC of Reading. (Pound, Ezra).
##Powell, Anthony
"Self-love seems so often unrequited." - A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. (Powell, Anthony).
##Powell, Colin
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.". (Powell, Colin).
##Prentice, George Dennison
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.". (Prentice, George Dennison).
##Proverb, African
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.". (Proverb, African).
##Proverb, Arabian
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.". (Proverb, Arabian).
##Proverb, Chinese
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"What you can not avoid, welcome.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Climb mountains to see lowlands.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.". (Proverb, Chinese).
"The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.". (Proverb, Chinese).
##Proverb, Danish
"Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.". (Proverb, Danish).
##Proverb, German
"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.". (Proverb, German).
##Proverb, Greek
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.". (Proverb, Greek).
##Proverb, Hebrew
"Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.". (Proverb, Hebrew).
##Proverb, Irish
"The Windy day is not a day for scallops (thatching)". (Proverb, Irish).
"People live in each other's shelter". (Proverb, Irish).
"The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey". (Proverb, Irish).
"There is no fireside like your own fireside". (Proverb, Irish).
"You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,". (Proverb, Irish).
"and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner.". (Proverb, Irish).
"There is no strength without unity.". (Proverb, Irish).
"You must live with a person to know a person.  If you want to know me come and live with me.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Praise the young and they will blossom". (Proverb, Irish).
"The raggy colt often made a powerful horse.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Age is honorable and youth is noble.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.". (Proverb, Irish).
"When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it.  Every beginning is weak.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The smallest thing outlives the human being.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The well fed does not understand the lean.". (Proverb, Irish).
"He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is not a secret if it is known by three people.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Quiet people are well able to look after themselves.". (Proverb, Irish).
"If you hit my dog you hit myself.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A friends eye is a good mirror.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is the good horse that draws its own cart.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A lock is better than suspicion.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Even a small thorn causes festering.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Two shorten the road.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is better to exist unknown to the law.". (Proverb, Irish).
"If you want to be criticized, marry.". (Proverb, Irish).
"What fills they fills the heart.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A trade not properly learned is an enemy.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Two thirds of the work is the semblance.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself.". (Proverb, Irish).
"He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It takes time to build castles.  Rome wan not built in a day.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Mere words do not feed the friars.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The work praises the man.". (Proverb, Irish).
"If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A drink precedes a story.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Good as drink is, it ends in thirst.". (Proverb, Irish).
"When the drop (drink) is inside the sense is outside.". (Proverb, Irish).
"When the liquor was gone the fun was gone.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Wine divulges truth.". (Proverb, Irish).
"As the big hound is, so will the pup be.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat.". (Proverb, Irish).
"You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Instinct is stronger than upbringing.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A poor person is often worthy.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is often that a cow does not take after its breed.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A hounds food is in its legs.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A persons heart is in his feet.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail.". (Proverb, Irish).
"It is a long road that has no turning.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Spalds (small stones) suit walls as well as big stones.". (Proverb, Irish).
"When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Necessity knows no law.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Need teaches a plan.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Necessity is the mother of invention.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Lack of resource has hanged many a person.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely.". (Proverb, Irish).
"There is no luck except where there is discipline.". (Proverb, Irish).
"A hen is heavy when carried far.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The hole is more honorable than the patch.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Time is a great story teller.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Patience is poultice for all wounds.". (Proverb, Irish).
"There is no need like the lack of a friend.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot.". (Proverb, Irish).
"The light heart lives long.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.". (Proverb, Irish).
"May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.". (Proverb, Irish).
"Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst.". (Proverb, Irish).
##Proverb, Yiddish
"If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.". (Proverb, Yiddish).
##Proxmire, William
"Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.". (Proxmire, William).
##Rabelais, Franalcois
"I am going to seek a great perhaps." - reputed last words. (Rabelais, Franalcois).
##Raleigh, Walter
"Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.". (Raleigh, Walter).
##Rand, Ayn
"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.". (Rand, Ayn).
"America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.". (Rand, Ayn).
"Civilisation is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilisation is the process of setting man free from men." - The Fountainhead, 1943. (Rand, Ayn).
##Ray, Dixy Lee
"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.". (Ray, Dixy Lee).
##Reagan, Ronald
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I've just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"I favour the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.". (Reagan, Ronald).
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?". (Reagan, Ronald).
"The Government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a healthy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other." - quoted in New York Times Magazine. (Reagan, Ronald).
##Repplier, Agnes
"People who cannot recognise a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilisation.". (Repplier, Agnes).
"What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!". (Repplier, Agnes).
##Rice, Grantland
"For when the One Great Scorer comes  To write against your name,  He marks - not that you won or lost - But how you played the game.". (Rice, Grantland).
##Richelieu, Cardinal de
"Give me six lines written by the most honourable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." - Mirame. (Richelieu, Cardinal de).
##Rickenbacker, Edward
"I can give you a six-word formula for success: 'Think things through - then follow through.'". (Rickenbacker, Edward).
##Rickey, Branch
"Luck is the residue of design.". (Rickey, Branch).
##Rickover, Admiral Hyman
"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.". (Rickover, Admiral Hyman).
##Rivarol, Antoine
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.". (Rivarol, Antoine).
##Rizzo, Frank
"The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.". (Rizzo, Frank).
##Robert, Cavett
"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.". (Robert, Cavett).
##Roberts, Wess
"Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.". (Roberts, Wess).
##Robinson, Edwin Arlington
"Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.". (Robinson, Edwin Arlington).
##Roch, Dennis
"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.". (Roch, Dennis).
##Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La
"We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so it is of small wits to talk much and say nothing.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.". (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers." - Maxims. (Rochefoucauld, Franois, Duc de La).
##Roddick, Anita
"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.". (Roddick, Anita).
"If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.". (Roddick, Anita).
##Rogers, Will
"Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.". (Rogers, Will).
"We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.". (Rogers, Will).
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.". (Rogers, Will).
"Never let yesterday use up too much of today.". (Rogers, Will).
"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.". (Rogers, Will).
"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in.". (Rogers, Will).
"The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.". (Rogers, Will).
"I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.". (Rogers, Will).
"I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it.". (Rogers, Will).
"I don't make jokes - I just watch the government and report the facts." - quoted in Saturday Review. (Rogers, Will).
"You can't say civilisation don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." - The Autobiography of Will Rogers. (Rogers, Will).
"A Country can get more real joy out of just Hollering for their Freedom than they can if they get it." - The Autobiography of Will Rogers. (Rogers, Will).
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - The Autobiography of Will Rogers. (Rogers, Will).
"This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to do is to know when to die. Prolonged life has ruined more men than it ever made." - The Autobiography of Will Rogers. (Rogers, Will).
"Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." - The Autobiography of Will Rogers. (Rogers, Will).
##Rooney, Andy
"Nothing in fine print is ever good news.". (Rooney, Andy).
##Roosevelt, Eleanor
"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.". (Roosevelt, Eleanor).
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.". (Roosevelt, Eleanor).
##Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
"A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air.". (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.". (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.". (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.". (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.". (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics.". (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933. (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." - Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933. (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).
##Roosevelt, Theodore
"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting.  Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.". (Roosevelt, Theodore).
##Roosevelt Longworth, Alice
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.". (Roosevelt Longworth, Alice).
##Rossetti, Christina
"Does the road wind up-hill all the way?  Yes, to the very end.  Will the day's journey take the whole long day?  From morn to night, my friend.". (Rossetti, Christina).
##Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.". (Rossetti, Dante Gabriel).
##Rowland, Helen
"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.". (Rowland, Helen).
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.". (Rowland, Helen).
"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.". (Rowland, Helen).
"The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity." - Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. (Rowland, Helen).
##Runes, Dagobert D.
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.". (Runes, Dagobert D.).
##Runyon, Damon
"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet." - attributed. (Runyon, Damon).
##Russell, Alistair
"Difficulty is a measure of effort, not of impossibility.". (Russell, Alistair).
##Russell, Bertrand
"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know the hotter you get.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Man can be scientifically manipulated.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.". (Russell, Bertrand).
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Autobiography. (Russell, Bertrand).
"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." - On Education. (Russell, Bertrand).
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell." - Sceptical Essays. (Russell, Bertrand).
"What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life." - The Conquest of Happiness. (Russell, Bertrand).
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." - The Conquest of Happiness. (Russell, Bertrand).
"One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny." - The Conquest of Happiness. (Russell, Bertrand).
"In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors." - Unpopular Essays. (Russell, Bertrand).
"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Unpopular Essays. (Russell, Bertrand).
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Unpopular Essays. (Russell, Bertrand).
##Russell, David
"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.". (Russell, David).
##Saadi
"The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare.  Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.". (Saadi).
"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.". (Saadi).
"The beloved of the Almighty are:  the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.". (Saadi).
"An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.". (Saadi).
##Sagan, Franois
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.". (Sagan, Franois).
##Saint-Exupery, Antoine de
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.". (Saint-Exupery, Antoine de).
"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction." - Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939. (Saint-Exupery, Antoine de).
"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible." - Wind, Sand, and Stars. (Saint-Exupery, Antoine de).
##Sales, Francis de
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.  Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.". (Sales, Francis de).
##Sand, George
"There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.". (Sand, George).
##Santayana, George
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.". (Santayana, George).
"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.". (Santayana, George).
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.". (Santayana, George).
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another;  people are friends in spots.". (Santayana, George).
"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.". (Santayana, George).
"Wisdom comes by disillusionment.". (Santayana, George).
"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours." - Soliloquies in England. (Santayana, George).
"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim." - The Life of Reason. (Santayana, George).
"Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous." - The Life of Reason. (Santayana, George).
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - The Life of Reason. (Santayana, George).
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." - The Life of Reason. (Santayana, George).
##Saporta, Alan
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.". (Saporta, Alan).
##Sarnoff, David
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people." - quoted in Esquire. (Sarnoff, David).
##Saville, George
"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much." - Character of Bishop Burnet. (Saville, George).
##Schopenhauer, Arthur
"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death;  and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.". (Schopenhauer, Arthur).
##Schubert, Franz
"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.". (Schubert, Franz).
##Schuller, Robert H.
"Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.". (Schuller, Robert H.).
"Most people who succeed n the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.". (Schuller, Robert H.).
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.". (Schuller, Robert H.).
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.". (Schuller, Robert H.).
##Schurz, Carl
"Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.". (Schurz, Carl).
##Schwab, Charles M.
"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.". (Schwab, Charles M.).
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.". (Schwab, Charles M.).
##Schwarzkopf, General H. Norman
"Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.". (Schwarzkopf, General H. Norman).
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.". (Schwarzkopf, General H. Norman).
##Schweitzer, Albert
"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.". (Schweitzer, Albert).
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others; it's the only thing.". (Schweitzer, Albert).
"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.". (Schweitzer, Albert).
##Scott, Walter
"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.". (Scott, Walter).
##Secondat, Charles de
"What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.". (Secondat, Charles de).
"Useless laws weaken necessary laws.". (Secondat, Charles de).
##Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.". (Seingalt, Giovanni Jacopo Casanova).
##Seneca
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.". (Seneca).
"If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind.". (Seneca).
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.". (Seneca).
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.". (Seneca).
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay.". (Seneca).
"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.". (Seneca).
"Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze.  Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.". (Seneca).
"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.". (Seneca).
"All cruelty springs from weakness.". (Seneca).
"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.". (Seneca).
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.". (Seneca).
"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness.". (Seneca).
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.". (Seneca).
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.". (Seneca).
"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.". (Seneca).
"That grief is light which can take counsel.". (Seneca).
"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.". (Seneca).
"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.". (Seneca).
"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.". (Seneca).
"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.". (Seneca).
"If you wished to be loved, love.". (Seneca).
"Malice drinks one half of its own poison.". (Seneca).
"A great mind becomes a great fortune.". (Seneca).
"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort.  There is nothing dead in Nature.  Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.". (Seneca).
"He who has great power should use it lightly.". (Seneca).
"Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.". (Seneca).
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.". (Seneca).
"Time heals what reason cannot.". (Seneca).
"Time discovers truth.". (Seneca).
"Everywhere is nowhere.  When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.". (Seneca).
"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.". (Seneca).
"The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success." - De Tranquillitate Animi. (Seneca).
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." - De Tranquillitate Animi. (Seneca).
"Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted." - De Tranquillitate Animi. (Seneca).
"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness." - Epistulae ad Lucilium. (Seneca).
"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly." - Epistulae ad Lucilium. (Seneca).
"Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling." - Epistulae ad Lucilium. (Seneca).
"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Epistulae ad Lucilium. (Seneca).
"He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another." - Hercules Furens. (Seneca).
"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away." - Hercules Furens. (Seneca).
"To greed, all nature is insufficient." - Hercules Oetaeus. (Seneca).
"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." - Phoenissae. (Seneca).
##Sexton, Anne
"In a dream you are never eighty." - Old. (Sexton, Anne).
##Shakespeare, William
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought.". (Shakespeare, William).
"In a false quarrel there is no true valour.". (Shakespeare, William).
"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.". (Shakespeare, William).
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.". (Shakespeare, William).
"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.". (Shakespeare, William).
"It is a wise father that knows his own child.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.". (Shakespeare, William).
"The love of heaven makes one heavenly.". (Shakespeare, William).
"To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.". (Shakespeare, William).
"To be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with the gods above.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Love is merely a madness.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.". (Shakespeare, William).
"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.". (Shakespeare, William).
"My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his.". (Shakespeare, William).
"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Men are as the time is.". (Shakespeare, William).
"When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools.". (Shakespeare, William).
"We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.". (Shakespeare, William).
"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stoln, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Trifles, light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.". (Shakespeare, William).
"This above all: to thine own self be true.". (Shakespeare, William).
"No legacy is so rich as honesty.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Brevity is the soul of wit.". (Shakespeare, William).
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.". (Shakespeare, William).
"The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Do you now know that I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard.". (Shakespeare, William).
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Thought is free.". (Shakespeare, William).
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.". (Shakespeare, William).
"If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest the heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Lawless are they that make their wills their law.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.". (Shakespeare, William).
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Shakespeare, William).
"Ay, me. You juggler! You canker blossom!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Shakespeare, William).
"You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Shakespeare, William).
"Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Shakespeare, William).
"Get gone, you dwarf!" - A Midsummer Night's Dream. (Shakespeare, William).
"You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave." - All's Well That Ends Well. (Shakespeare, William).
"One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten." - All's Well That Ends Well. (Shakespeare, William).
"Till I have no wife I have nothing." - All's Well That Ends Well. (Shakespeare, William).
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"I do desire we may be better strangers." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"It is my study to seem despiteful and ungentle to you." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"'Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favour'd children." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"Thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love: For I must tell you friendly in your ear,-- Sell when you can: you are not for all markets." - As You Like It. (Shakespeare, William).
"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ." - Hamlet. (Shakespeare, William).
"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself." - Hamlet. (Shakespeare, William).
"For to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." - Hamlet. (Shakespeare, William).
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt." - Hamlet. (Shakespeare, William).
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - Hamlet. (Shakespeare, William).
"You sir, are a fishmonger!" - Hamlet. (Shakespeare, William).
"What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!" - HAMLET - Hamlet II ii. (Shakespeare, William).
"He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again." - Hamlet I ii. (Shakespeare, William).
"This above all: to thine own self be true" - Hamlet I iii. (Shakespeare, William).
"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire." - Henry IV Part 2. (Shakespeare, William).
"I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way." - Henry IV Part 2. (Shakespeare, William).
"What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name." - Henry IV Part 2. (Shakespeare, William).
"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety." - Henry IV Part I. (Shakespeare, William).
"Your horse would trot as well were some of your brags dismounted." - Henry V. (Shakespeare, William).
"True nobility is exempt from fear." - Henry VI. (Shakespeare, William).
"Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought." - Henry VI Part 1. (Shakespeare, William).
"Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither." - Henry VI Part 3. (Shakespeare, William).
"Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies." - Henry VIII. (Shakespeare, William).
"Et tu, Brute!" - Julius Caesar. (Shakespeare, William).
"When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors." - Macbeth. (Shakespeare, William).
"If it were done when `tis done, then `twere well It were done quickly." - Macbeth. (Shakespeare, William).
"Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings." - Macbeth. (Shakespeare, William).
"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - Macbeth. (Shakespeare, William).
"[Your] horrid image doth unfix my hair." - Macbeth. (Shakespeare, William).
"All that is within him does condemn itself for being there." - Macbeth. (Shakespeare, William).
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." - Measure for Measure. (Shakespeare, William).
"When the age is in, the wit is out." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"I were but little happy, if I could say how much." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"They that touch pitch will be defiled." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one." - Much Ado About Nothing. (Shakespeare, William).
"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed." - Othello. (Shakespeare, William).
"You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell!" - Othello. (Shakespeare, William).
"If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee, in so fair a troop, To read a lecture of them?" - Richard II. (Shakespeare, William).
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" - Richard III. (Shakespeare, William).
"Thy mother's name is ominous to children." - Richard III. (Shakespeare, William).
"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." - Romeo and Juliet. (Shakespeare, William).
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." - Romeo and Juliet. (Shakespeare, William).
"Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit." - Romeo and Juliet. (Shakespeare, William).
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - Romeo and Juliet II ii. (Shakespeare, William).
"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight." - Sonnet CII. (Shakespeare, William).
"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth." - The Comedy of Errors. (Shakespeare, William).
"As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife." - The Comedy of Errors. (Shakespeare, William).
"All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told." - The Merchant of Venice. (Shakespeare, William).
"They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing." - The Merchant of Venice. (Shakespeare, William).
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - The Merchant of Venice. (Shakespeare, William).
"[He] speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man  in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in  two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find  them; and when you have them, they are not worth the  search." - The Merchant of Venice. (Shakespeare, William).
"I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that's in [you] should set hell on fire." - The Merry Wives of Windsor. (Shakespeare, William).
"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care." - The Passionate Pilgrim. (Shakespeare, William).
"There's small choice in rotten apples." - The Taming of the Shrew. (Shakespeare, William).
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." - The Taming of the Shrew. (Shakespeare, William).
"Though [he] is not naturally honest, [he] is so sometimes by chance." - The Winter's Tale. (Shakespeare, William).
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after." - Timon of Athens. (Shakespeare, William).
"Were I like thee I'd throw away myself." - Timon of Athens. (Shakespeare, William).
"But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon `em." - Twelfth Night. (Shakespeare, William).
##Shaw, George Bernard
"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don't like beer.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"He who can does.  He who can't, teaches.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"If parents would only realise how they bore their children!". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Money is the most important thing in the world.  It represents health, strength, honour, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children.  Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.  Their tastes may not be the same.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The love of economy is the root of all virtue.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.". (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." - attributed. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty." - Caesar and Cleopatra. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - Candida. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - Everybody's Political What's What. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy yourself there." - Man and Superman (1903). (Shaw, George Bernard).
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!" - Man and Superman (1903). (Shaw, George Bernard).
"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." - Man and Superman (1903). (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." - Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists: The Golden Rule. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Gambling promises the poor what Property performs for the rich." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death." - Overruled. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. . . . It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth, without making some other Englishman despise him." - Pygmalion. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." - The Devil's Disciple. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics." - The Doctor's Dilemma. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me." - The Philanderer. (Shaw, George Bernard).
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." - The Rejected Statement. (Shaw, George Bernard).
##Sheppard, Eugenia
"To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable." - in New York Herald Tribune. (Sheppard, Eugenia).
##Sheridan, Phillip
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.". (Sheridan, Phillip).
##Shore, Dinah
"Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.". (Shore, Dinah).
##Sivananda
"Good character is not formed in a week or a month.  It is created little by little, day by day.  Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.". (Sivananda).
"Evil exists to glorify the good.  Evil is negative good.  It is a relative term.  Evil can be transmuted into good.  What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.". (Sivananda).
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.". (Sivananda).
"Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet.  The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar.  The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.". (Sivananda).
"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns.  He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.". (Sivananda).
"Life is short.  Time is fleeting.  Realise the Self.  Purity of the heart is the gateway to God.  Aspire.  Renounce.  Meditate.  Be good;  do good.  Be kind;  be compassionate.  Inquire, know Thyself.". (Sivananda).
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.". (Sivananda).
"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man.  Man is not a finished creation.". (Sivananda).
"Will is the dynamic soul-force.". (Sivananda).
##Skinner, B. F.
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man." - Contingencies of Reinforcement. (Skinner, B. F.).
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - in New Scientist. (Skinner, B. F.).
##Smith, Adam
"The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.". (Smith, Adam).
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?". (Smith, Adam).
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.". (Smith, Adam).
"Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.  It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.". (Smith, Adam).
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." - The Wealth of Nations. (Smith, Adam).
##Smith, Alexander
"Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life." - Dreamthorp. (Smith, Alexander).
##Smith, Alfred E.
"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy." - speech (1933). (Smith, Alfred E.).
##Smith, Betty
"Look at everthing as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.". (Smith, Betty).
##Smith, Dodie
"To the family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to." - Dear Octopus. (Smith, Dodie).
##Smith, Frederick
"Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.". (Smith, Frederick).
##Socrates
"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?". (Socrates).
"An unexamined life is not worth living.". (Socrates).
"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own.". (Socrates).
"If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.". (Socrates).
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.". (Socrates).
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.". (Socrates).
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.". (Socrates).
"The unexamined life is not worth living.". (Socrates).
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.". (Socrates).
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.". (Socrates).
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue.". (Socrates).
##Somerset Maugham, W.
"Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.". (Somerset Maugham, W.).
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance.". (Somerset Maugham, W.).
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.". (Somerset Maugham, W.).
"It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set." - The Moon and Sixpence. (Somerset Maugham, W.).
"Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe." - The Summing Up, 1938. (Somerset Maugham, W.).
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - The Summing Up, 1938. (Somerset Maugham, W.).
##Sophocles
"Heaven never helps the men who act.". (Sophocles).
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.". (Sophocles).
"There is a point at which even justice does injury.". (Sophocles).
"A lie never lives to be old.". (Sophocles).
"Without labour nothing prospers.". (Sophocles).
"To him who is afraid everything rustles." - Acrisius. (Sophocles).
##Speakman, Frederick
"Decisions determine destiny.". (Speakman, Frederick).
##Spenser, Edmund
"For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.". (Spenser, Edmund).
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.". (Spenser, Edmund).
##Spinoza, Baruch
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.". (Spinoza, Baruch).
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.". (Spinoza, Baruch).
##Spinoza, Benedict de
"Desire is the very essence of man." - Ethics. (Spinoza, Benedict de).
"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear." - Ethics. (Spinoza, Benedict de).
##Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark.". (Spurgeon, Charles Haddon).
##St. Vincent Milay, Edna
"There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough." - Conversation at Midnight. (St. Vincent Milay, Edna).
##Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." - Declaration of Sentiments (First Woman's Rights Convention, 1848). (Stanton, Elizabeth Cady).
##Stein, Gertrude
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Sacred Emily. (Stein, Gertrude).
##Stephanopolous, George
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.". (Stephanopolous, George).
##Sterne, Laurence
"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one.". (Sterne, Laurence).
##Stevenson, Adlai E.
"The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
" I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organisation of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.". (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice." - speech (1951). (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - speech (1952). (Stevenson, Adlai E.).
##Stevenson, Robert Louis
"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.". (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"The cruellest lies are often told in silence.". (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.". (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"A generous prayer is never presented in vain;  the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.". (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.". (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords.". (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life." - Virginibus Puerisque. (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate." - Virginibus Puerisque. (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." - Virginibus Puerisque. (Stevenson, Robert Louis).
##Stinnett, Caskie
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip." - Out of the Red. (Stinnett, Caskie).
##Stone, W. Clement
"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.". (Stone, W. Clement).
##Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.". (Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher).
"No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man." - Uncle Tom's Cabin. (Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher).
##Strauss, Henry G.
"I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading.". (Strauss, Henry G.).
##Streisland, Barbara
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?". (Streisland, Barbara).
##Strong, Anna Louise
"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.". (Strong, Anna Louise).
##Swain, Charles
"Time to me this truth has taught,  (Tis a treasure worth revealing)  More offend from want of thought  Than from want of feeling.". (Swain, Charles).
##Swetchine, Anne
"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.". (Swetchine, Anne).
##Swindoll, Charles R.
"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.". (Swindoll, Charles R.).
##Szent-Gyorgi, Albert von
"Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.". (Szent-Gyorgi, Albert von).
##Szent-Gyorgy, Albert von
"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.". (Szent-Gyorgy, Albert von).
##Talmud, The
"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.". (Talmud, The).
"Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come;  and richer is one hour's calm of spirit in the world to come than all of life of this world.". (Talmud, The).
"Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world.  Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world.  Just as the soul sees but is not seen,  so God sees but is not seen.  Just as the soul feeds the body,  so God gives food to the world.". (Talmud, The).
"Iron sharpens iron;  scholar, the scholar.". (Talmud, The).
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.". (Talmud, The).
##Tarkington, Booth
"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink." - Penrod. (Tarkington, Booth).
##Tavares, C. D.
"Since when is 'public safety' the root password to the Constitution?". (Tavares, C. D.).
##Taylor, Bert Leston
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." - The So-Called Human Race. (Taylor, Bert Leston).
##Temple, William
"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.". (Temple, William).
"The greatest pleasure of life is love.". (Temple, William).
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.". (Temple, William).
##Tennyson, Alfred Lord
"And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"I am a part of all that I have met.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"Nature, red in tooth and claw.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"He never sold the truth to serve the hour,  Nor paltered with Eternal God for power.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.". (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." - Lady Clara Vere de Vere. (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" - The Higher Pantheism. (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
"He makes no friend who never made a foe." - The Idylls of the King. (Tennyson, Alfred Lord).
##Tennyson, Frederick
"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.". (Tennyson, Frederick).
##Thakeray, William Makepeace
"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.". (Thakeray, William Makepeace).
##Thomas, Clarence
"Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognise, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.". (Thomas, Clarence).
"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.". (Thomas, Clarence).
##Thompson, Francis
"The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.". (Thompson, Francis).
"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.". (Thompson, Francis).
##Thoreau, Henry David
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Fame is not just.  She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Time is but the stream I go a fishing in.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.". (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk." - Journal. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." - Journal. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm." - Journal. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it." - Walden (1854). (Thoreau, Henry David).
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." - Walden (1854). (Thoreau, Henry David).
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." - Walden (1854). (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Walden (1854). (Thoreau, Henry David).
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Walden (1854), I,Economy. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes." - Walden (1854), I,Economy. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Walden (1854), II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them." - Walden (1854), III, Reading. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will." - Walden (1854), V, Solitude. (Thoreau, Henry David).
"In wildness is the preservation of the world." - Walking (1862). (Thoreau, Henry David).
##Tocqueville, Alexis de
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.". (Tocqueville, Alexis de).
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.". (Tocqueville, Alexis de).
##Toffler, Alvin
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.". (Toffler, Alvin).
"You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.". (Toffler, Alvin).
##Toynbee, Arnold
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.". (Toynbee, Arnold).
##Trevelyan, G. M.
"Education . . . has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - English Social History. (Trevelyan, G. M.).
##Trollope, Anthony
"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself." - The Bertrams. (Trollope, Anthony).
##Truman, Harry S.
"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"If you can't convince them, confuse them.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"The 'C' students run the world.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"Truman's Law - If you can't convince them, confuse them.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.". (Truman, Harry S.).
"The Buck Stops Here" - motto on his desk when President. (Truman, Harry S.).
##Trump, Donald
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.". (Trump, Donald).
##Twain, Mark
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.". (Twain, Mark).
"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.". (Twain, Mark).
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.". (Twain, Mark).
"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.". (Twain, Mark).
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.". (Twain, Mark).
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.". (Twain, Mark).
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.". (Twain, Mark).
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.". (Twain, Mark).
"Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.". (Twain, Mark).
"Those who don't read have no advantage over those who can't.". (Twain, Mark).
"When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in seven years.". (Twain, Mark).
"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.". (Twain, Mark).
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.". (Twain, Mark).
"It is good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.". (Twain, Mark).
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.". (Twain, Mark).
"I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it.". (Twain, Mark).
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.". (Twain, Mark).
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.". (Twain, Mark).
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.". (Twain, Mark).
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.". (Twain, Mark).
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.". (Twain, Mark).
"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.". (Twain, Mark).
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.". (Twain, Mark).
"Truth is our most valuable commodity - let us economise.". (Twain, Mark).
"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.". (Twain, Mark).
"Don't let school interfere with your education.". (Twain, Mark).
"Necessity is the mother of taking chances.". (Twain, Mark).
"Golf is a good walk spoiled.". (Twain, Mark).
"Humour is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place". (Twain, Mark).
"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.". (Twain, Mark).
"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)". (Twain, Mark).
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.". (Twain, Mark).
"The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.". (Twain, Mark).
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.". (Twain, Mark).
"There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying". (Twain, Mark).
"Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.". (Twain, Mark).
"Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant, and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.". (Twain, Mark).
"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress.". (Twain, Mark).
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.". (Twain, Mark).
"I know I can quit smoking because I've done it a thousand times.". (Twain, Mark).
"Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff.". (Twain, Mark).
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.". (Twain, Mark).
"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.". (Twain, Mark).
"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.". (Twain, Mark).
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.". (Twain, Mark).
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.". (Twain, Mark).
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.". (Twain, Mark).
"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.". (Twain, Mark).
"When in doubt tell the truth.". (Twain, Mark).
"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.". (Twain, Mark).
"The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.". (Twain, Mark).
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.". (Twain, Mark).
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes.". (Twain, Mark).
"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.". (Twain, Mark).
"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.". (Twain, Mark).
"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.". (Twain, Mark).
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.". (Twain, Mark).
"Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them.". (Twain, Mark).
"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.". (Twain, Mark).
"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.". (Twain, Mark).
"There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. 'When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.'". (Twain, Mark).
"Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.". (Twain, Mark).
"The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.". (Twain, Mark).
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.". (Twain, Mark).
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economise it.". (Twain, Mark).
"In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?". (Twain, Mark).
"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.". (Twain, Mark).
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." - cable from London to a New York newspaper. (Twain, Mark).
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. (Twain, Mark).
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble." - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. (Twain, Mark).
"Classic: A book which people praise and don't read." - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. (Twain, Mark).
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. (Twain, Mark).
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. (Twain, Mark).
"They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce." - Innocents Abroad. (Twain, Mark).
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame.. (Twain, Mark).
"A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother." - letter (1876). (Twain, Mark).
"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." - Notebooks. (Twain, Mark).
"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"Let us endeavour to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that make horse races." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894). (Twain, Mark).
"Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful. . . . Get your facts first, and . . . then you can distort `em as much as you please." - quoted in Rudyard Kipling's From Sea to Sea. (Twain, Mark).
". . . a classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - speech (1900). (Twain, Mark).
"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." - spoken by Huck Finn, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (Twain, Mark).
"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot." - What Is Man?(1906). (Twain, Mark).
##Tyger, Frank
"To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.". (Tyger, Frank).
"When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will.". (Tyger, Frank).
##Unknown
"The older you get the more you like to tell it like it used to be.". (Unknown).
"Irony is when you buy a suit with two pairs of pants, and then burn a hole in the coat.". (Unknown).
"We spend too much time confessing other people's sins.". (Unknown).
"Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.". (Unknown).
"Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.". (Unknown).
"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.". (Unknown).
"If at first you don't succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.". (Unknown).
"Criticism is a step towards social reform.". (Unknown).
"Success is more attitude than aptitude.". (Unknown).
##Vandenberg, Arthur H.
"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.". (Vandenberg, Arthur H.).
##Vaughan, Bill
"The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.". (Vaughan, Bill).
##Vidal, Gore
"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.". (Vidal, Gore).
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.". (Vidal, Gore).
"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true." - in Encounter. (Vidal, Gore).
##Virgil
"They can because they think they can." - Aeneid. (Virgil).
"Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it." - Aeneid. (Virgil).
"The descent to Avernus is easy." - Aeneid. (Virgil).
"Fortune favours the bold." - Aeneid. (Virgil).
"Rumour, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds." - Aeneid. (Virgil).
##Voltaire
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.". (Voltaire).
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.". (Voltaire).
"The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.". (Voltaire).
"It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.". (Voltaire).
"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.". (Voltaire).
"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.". (Voltaire).
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.". (Voltaire).
"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.". (Voltaire).
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant.". (Voltaire).
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.". (Voltaire).
"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.". (Voltaire).
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.". (Voltaire).
"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them.  The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.". (Voltaire).
"When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.". (Voltaire).
"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.". (Voltaire).
"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but most of the time they will make fools of themselves.". (Voltaire).
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.". (Voltaire).
"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.". (Voltaire).
"The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.". (Voltaire).
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.". (Voltaire).
"As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.". (Voltaire).
"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.". (Voltaire).
"Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.". (Voltaire).
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." - ptre  l'auteur du livre des trois imposteurs. (Voltaire).
"If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated." - Le Sottisier. (Voltaire).
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - letter (1767). (Voltaire).
"I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write." - letter (1770). (Voltaire).
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." - letter (to Frederick the Great, 1767). (Voltaire).
"When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics." - Philosophical Dictionary. (Voltaire).
"The best is the enemy of the good." - Philosophical Dictionary. (Voltaire).
"Love truth, but pardon error." - Sept discours en vers sur l'homme. (Voltaire).
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Sept discours en vers sur l'homme. (Voltaire).
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Zadig. (Voltaire).
##Von Clausewitz
"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.". (Von Clausewitz).
##Wald, George
"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.". (Wald, George).
##Wallace, George
"Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers?  Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?". (Wallace, George).
##Waltkelly
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - comic strip Pogo. (Waltkelly).
##Warhol, Andy
"In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes." - widely attributed to and acknowledged by Warhol. (Warhol, Andy).
##Warner, Charles Dudley
"A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.'". (Warner, Charles Dudley).
"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it." - My Summer in a Garden. (Warner, Charles Dudley).
##Washington, Booker T.
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed.". (Washington, Booker T.).
"To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.". (Washington, Booker T.).
"Character is power.". (Washington, Booker T.).
##Washington, George
"I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.". (Washington, George).
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.". (Washington, George).
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.". (Washington, George).
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.". (Washington, George).
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.". (Washington, George).
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force.". (Washington, George).
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.". (Washington, George).
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.". (Washington, George).
##Watson, Thomas J.
"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?". (Watson, Thomas J.).
"If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.". (Watson, Thomas J.).
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.". (Watson, Thomas J.).
"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.". (Watson, Thomas J.).
##Waugh, Evelyn
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.". (Waugh, Evelyn).
"The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish." - Put Out More Flags. (Waugh, Evelyn).
##Weaver, Earl
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.". (Weaver, Earl).
##Webster, Daniel
"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labour of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilisation.". (Webster, Daniel).
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.". (Webster, Daniel).
"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilised beings and civilised nations together.". (Webster, Daniel).
"We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.". (Webster, Daniel).
"[democracy]. . . the people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." - speech (1830). (Webster, Daniel).
##Wellington, Duke of
"I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.". (Wellington, Duke of).
##Wells, H. G.
"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.". (Wells, H. G.).
##White, B.
"MOTHER: It's broccoli, dear.: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." - cartoon caption in New Yorker. (White, B.).
##White, Elwyn Brooks
"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.". (White, Elwyn Brooks).
"The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.". (White, Elwyn Brooks).
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.". (White, Elwyn Brooks).
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - in New Yorker. (White, Elwyn Brooks).
"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people." - One Man's Meat. (White, Elwyn Brooks).
##Whitehead, Alfred North
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.". (Whitehead, Alfred North).
##Whitman, Walt
"Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself." - Leaves of Grass. (Whitman, Walt).
"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred." - Leaves of Grass. (Whitman, Walt).
##Whitney Brown, A.
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.". (Whitney Brown, A.).
##Whitney Griswold, A.
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." - speech (1952). (Whitney Griswold, A.).
##Wholey, Dennis
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.". (Wholey, Dennis).
##Wilde, Oscar
"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.". (Wilde, Oscar).
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.". (Wilde, Oscar).
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.". (Wilde, Oscar).
"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.". (Wilde, Oscar).
"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.". (Wilde, Oscar).
"The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.". (Wilde, Oscar).
##Wilkie, Wendell L.
"A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.". (Wilkie, Wendell L.).
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.". (Wilkie, Wendell L.).
##Will, George F.
"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.". (Will, George F.).
"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it." - in Newsweek. (Will, George F.).
##William III
"Every bullet has its billet." - attributed. (William III).
##Williams, Ben Ames
"Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion, it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.". (Williams, Ben Ames).
##Williams, Hank
"You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.". (Williams, Hank).
##Williams, Walter
"History is not going to be kind to liberals. With their mindless programs, they've managed to do to Black Americans what slavery, Reconstruction, and rank racism found impossible: destroy their family and work ethic.". (Williams, Walter).
##Wills, Gary
"Only the winners decide what were war crimes.". (Wills, Gary).
##Wilson, Charles E.
"For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." - said in testimony before a U.S. Senate hearing. (Wilson, Charles E.).
##Wilson, Earl
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.". (Wilson, Earl).
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.". (Wilson, Earl).
##Wilson, Harold
"One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.". (Wilson, Harold).
##Wilson, Woodrow
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something.". (Wilson, Woodrow).
"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach." - speech (1912). (Wilson, Woodrow).
"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking." - speech (1919). (Wilson, Woodrow).
"The world must be made safe for democracy." - speech (to Congress, seeking a declaration of war, 1917). (Wilson, Woodrow).
##Winter, William
"Ambition has but one reward for all:  A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!". (Winter, William).
##Wooden, John
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.". (Wooden, John).
"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.". (Wooden, John).
"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.". (Wooden, John).
"It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.". (Wooden, John).
##Woolf, Virginia
"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.". (Woolf, Virginia).
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - A Room of One's Own. (Woolf, Virginia).
"Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England." - The Common Reader. (Woolf, Virginia).
##Wordsworth, William
"What is pride?  A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star.". (Wordsworth, William).
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.". (Wordsworth, William).
"I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils." - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. (Wordsworth, William).
"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." - Intimations of Immortality. (Wordsworth, William).
"The Child is father of the Man." - My Heart Leaps Up. (Wordsworth, William).
##Wright, Frank Lloyd
"The thing you really believe in always happens... and the belief in a thing makes it happen.". (Wright, Frank Lloyd).
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - in New York Times Magazine. (Wright, Frank Lloyd).
##Yeats, William Butler
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.". (Yeats, William Butler).
"In dreams begins responsibility.". (Yeats, William Butler).
##Yeltsin, Boris
"It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.". (Yeltsin, Boris).
##Yoda
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'". (Yoda).
##Young, Edward
"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.". (Young, Edward).
"A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.". (Young, Edward).
"By all means use some time to be alone.". (Young, Edward).
"Man wants but little; nor that little, long." - Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. (Young, Edward).
"By night an atheist half believes in a God." - Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality. (Young, Edward).
##Young, F. M.
"It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organisation. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up.". (Young, F. M.).
##Zappa, Frank
"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.". (Zappa, Frank).
##Zeno
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.". (Zeno).
##Zevon, Warren
"I'll sleep when I'm dead.". (Zevon, Warren).
##Zieg, W. W.
"Nothing can stop people with the right mental attitude from achieving their goals; nothing on earth can help those with the wrong mental attitude.". (Zieg, W. W.).
##Ziglar, Zig
"Real love is a growing and development process that involves every emotion, problem, joy and triumph known to man.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life, but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalise on what comes.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.". (Ziglar, Zig).
"Remember that failure is an event, not a person". (Ziglar, Zig).
"Opportunity lies in the man and not in the job.". (Ziglar, Zig).
##Zohar
"Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him... He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form... the Universe.". (Zohar).
"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world.  All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world;  yet all this is but One.". (Zohar).
##Zoroaster
"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.". (Zoroaster).
"When you doubt, abstain.". (Zoroaster).
