##Ability
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." - Janos Arany
"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Harry F. Banks
"In the last analysis, ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"The superior man is distressed by his want of ability." - CONFUCIUS, Analects
"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." - LAURENCE J. PETER, The Peter Principle
"Every man loves what he is good at." - THOMAS SHADWELL, A True Widow
"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended." - ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Dialogues
"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. T: 'If youth but knew; if [old] age but could.'" - Estienne, Henri in 'Les Pr]mices' 1594
"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Hale, Edward Everett
"The more we do, the more we can do." - Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
"Anything that is conceivable is possible." - Hume, David
##Absence
"'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said, 'it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'" - Elizabeth Bibesco, The Fir and the Palm
"The absent are always in the wrong." - Destouches, L'Obstacle imprvu
"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age." - John Dryden, Amphitryon
"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse." - Benjamin Franklin
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!" - THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, Isle of Beauty
"Among absent lovers, ardour always fares better." - Sextus Propertius, Elegies
"Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great." - ROGER DE BUSSY-RABUTIN, Histoire amoureuse des Gaules
"Absence, that common cure of love." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha
"Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an age." - JOHN DRYDEN, Amphitryon
##Absurdity
"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." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Life is a jest, and all things show it; I thought so once, but now I know it." - JOHN GAY, My Own Epitaph
"What is utterly absurd happens in the world." - NIKOLAI GOGOL, The Nose
". . . the privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only." - THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan
"From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step." - NAPOLEON I, attributed
"Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true." - LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Six Characters in Search of an Author
##Abuse
"You sparkle with larceny." - Wilson Mizner
"One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty." - JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
"An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
"It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it." - SENECA, De Ira
"If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business." - WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Vanity Fair
"Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?" - Meissner, Michael
##Achievement
"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." - W. Alton Jones
"Almost everything that is great has been done by youth." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
"The tree is known by his fruit." - BIBLE, Matthew 12:33
"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." - BIBLE, II Timothy 4:7
"Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labour done." - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Aurora Leigh
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done." - MARIE CURIE, letter (1894)
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Village Blacksmith
"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god." - NAPOLEON I, attributed
"Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speech (accepting nomination for President, 1952)
"Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment?" - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The New Arabian Nights
"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?" - Kennedy, John F.
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Thoreau, Henry David
##Acting
"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." - Ethel Barrymore, quoted in George Jean Nathan's The Theatre in the Fifties
"When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams." - Anton Chekhov
"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." - George Bernard Shaw
##Action
"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think." - Hannah Arendt, quoted in W.H. Auden's A Certain World
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes:  chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." - Aristotle
"Act as if it were impossible to fail." - Dorothy Broude
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, attributed
"Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds." - Cervantes
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"Whatever you do, do with all your might." - Cicero, De Senectute
"In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking." - Georges Clemenceau, quoted in Clemenceau, The Events of His Life As Told by Himself to His Former Se
"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Confucius
"This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in." - Charles Dickens
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing." - William Feather
"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action." - Brendan Francis
"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." - Henry George, Progress and Poverty
"Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature." - Bhagavad Gita
"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." - Bhagavad Gita
"Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, bu they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton
"That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers." - Francis Hutcheson, Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson
"To do nothing is in every man's power." - Samuel Johnson
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb, Table Talk
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh
"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." - Alfred A. Montapert
"Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill." - Danish Proverb
"It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 9:10
"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind." - JACOB BRONOWSKI, The Ascent of Man
"Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs." - LORD BYRON, Manfred
"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Nostromo
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action." - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, Technical Education
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
"Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Among My Books
"Action is eloquence." - SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." - SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
"Action is transitory a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed." - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Borderers
"It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Hale, Edward Everett
"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it." - Howe, E. W.
"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of those acts, will be written the history of this generation." - Kennedy, Robert F.
"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. Reversion is the action of Tao. Weakness is the function of Tao. All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." - Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
"If you have love you will do all things well." - Merton, Thomas
"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last." - Newton, Joseph F.
"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda [character from 'Star Wars']
##Adjustment
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti
"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." - Okakaura, Kakuzo
##Administration
"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS." - Bastard Operator from Hell [Anke Bodzin]
"Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work." - Redman, Brian
##Adolescence
"The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding." - EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG, The Vanishing Adolescent
"Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means." - D.H. LAWRENCE, The Jeune Fille
"So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition." - THEODORE ROETHKE, I'm Here
"At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Imile
"Just at the age `twixt boy and youth, When thought is speech, and speech is truth." - SIR WALTER SCOTT, Marmion
"I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting." - SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale
"Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults." - GORE VIDAL, Rocking the Boat
##Adventure
"Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social." - William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered." - G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
"The fruit of my tree of knowledge is plucked, and it is this: 'Adventures are to the adventurous.'" - Benjamin Disraeli, Ixion in Heaven
"The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate." - O. HENRY, The Green Door
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Keller, Helen (1880-1968)
##Adversity
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends." - Churton Collins, Aphorisms
"Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian." - Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects
"We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." - Seneca
"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
"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington
"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue." - FRANCIS BACON, Essays
"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it." - OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
"If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Fireside Travels
"Who would have known of Hector, if Troy had been happy? The road to valor is built by adversity." - OVID, Tristia
"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it." - SENECA, De Tranquillitate Animi
"Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head." - SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
"How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams? By being lower than they." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
##Advertising
"Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times people want to advertise; in bad times they have to." - Bruce Barton, in Town and Country
"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..." - Samuel Johnson
"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." - David Ogilvy, Confessions of an Advertising Man
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements." - NORMAN DOUGLAS, South Wind
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it." - STEPHEN LEACOCK, Garden of Folly
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers." - Boorstin, Daniel J.
##Advice
"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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"We ask advice, but we mean approbation." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"Whatever advice you give, be brief." - Horace, Ars Poetica
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong, How to Save Your Own Life
"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." - Harry S. Truman
"The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself." - Oscar Wilde
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." - NELSON ALGREN, quoted in Newsweek
"Who cannot give good counsel? 'Tis cheap, it costs them nothing." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy
"Good but rarely came from good advice." - LORD BYRON, Don Juan
"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., speech (1897)
"I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it." - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, letter (1725)
"Many receive advice, few profit by it." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"Go not to the elves for advice, for they will say both no and yes." - Tolkien, J. R. R.
"As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up." - Unknown 7-Year Old
"My young brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth--that most of us go to hell and burn eternally--but I didn't want to upset him." - Unknown 10-Year Old
##Affection
"Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity.  The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity." - Saskya Pandita
"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it." - George Bernard Shaw
##Age
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." - Muhammad Ali
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." - Woody Allen
"Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go." - Anonymous
"Education is the best provision for old age." - Aristotle, quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 21 by Diogenes Laertius
"Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?" - Bible, Job 12:12
"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Eubie Blake
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." - E. Joseph Cossman
"Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
##Ageing
"Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go." - Anonymous
"Old age is the verdict of life." - Amelia Barr, All the Days of My Life
"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am." - Bernard Mannes Baruch, quoted in Newsweek (on his 85th birthday)
"Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?" - Bible, Job 12:12
"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Eubie Blake
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." - E. Joseph Cossman
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." - Bob Hope
"The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence." - Art Linkletter, A Child's Garden of Misinformation
"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." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Middle age is . . . when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel just as good as ever." - Don Marquis, attributed
"At 50, everyone has the face he deserves." - George Orwell, last words written in his notebook
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny." - SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, The Coming of Age
"Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." - JACK BENNY, quoted in New York Times
"With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding." - BIBLE, Job 12:12
"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made." - ROBERT BROWNING, Rabbi Ben Ezra
"As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face." - JOSEPH CAMPBELL, The Old Woman
"Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." - MAURICE CHEVALIER, quoted in New York Times
"If youth knew; if age could." - HENRI ESTIENNE, Les Primices
"Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old." - WASHINGTON IRVING, Bracebridge Hall
"Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"I dread no more the first white in my hair, Or even age itself, the easy shoe, The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair Time, doing this to me, may alter too My sorrow, into something I can bear." - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Sonnet
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - SATCHEL PAIGE, Formula for Staying Young
"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime youhaven't committed." - ANTHONY POWELL, A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings
"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened." - SAKI, Reginald
"Old age is an incurable disease." - SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing." - SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
"I grow old ever learning many things." - SOLON (fragment)
"Nobody loves life like him that's growing old." - SOPHOCLES, Acrisius
"Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old." - JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects
"The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long." - A.J.P. TAYLOR, quoted in The Observer
"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man." - LEON TROTSKY, diary entry (Diary in Exile)
"I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumbbell and foil To keep the body young. Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?" - W.B. YEATS, A Song
##Agreement
"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement." - Elwyn Brooks White
"I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - McLuhan, Marshall
##Alcohol
"I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started." - Brendan Behan
"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth." - George Burns
"No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink." - G. K. Chesterton
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me." - Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in 'Quentin Reynolds' By Quentin Reynolds
"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." - W. C. Fields
"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake-which I also keep handy." - W. C. Fields, quoted in Corey Ford's Time of Laughter
"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." - Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubiyt of Omar Khayym
"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine." - Heraclitus, fragment
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience." - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
"Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy." - Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled." - Edward Lucas
"I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness." - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don't like beer." - George Bernard Shaw
"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink." - Booth Tarkington, Penrod
"If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine a friend or being dry Or lest we should be by and by Or any other reason why." - HENRY ALDRICH, Five Reasons for Drinking
"No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkenness Nor so good as drink." - G.K. CHESTERTON, All Things Considered
"Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave." - CHARLES DIBDIN, Nothing Like Grog
"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death." - JOHN FLETCHER, PHILIP MASSINGER, BEN JONSON, AND GEORGE CHAPMAN, The Bloody Brother
"Long quaffing maketh a short life." - JOHN LYLY, Euphues
"Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker." - OGDEN NASH, Reflections on Ice-breaking
"There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it." - THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK, Melincourt
"'Tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess." - JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even put." - Martin, Dean
"Coach: Can I draw you a beer, Norm? Norm: No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'No Help Wanted', 'Cheers'
"Women. Can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] 'Cheers'
"Woody: Can I pour you a draft, Mr. Peterson? Norm: A little early, isn't it Woody? Woody: For a beer? Norm: No, for stupid questions." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'Let Sleeping Drakes Lie', 'Cheers'
"One drink is just right, two are too many, three are too few." - Spanish Proverb
"College is a fountain of knowledge... and the students are there to drink." - Unknown
##Alienation
"I have been a stranger in a strange land." - BIBLE, Exodus 2:22
"The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can." - CHRISTOPHER FRY, The Lady's Not for Burning
"I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made." - A.E. HOUSMAN, The laws of God, the laws of man
"What have I in common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself." - FRANZ KAFKA , diary entry (1914)
"To live is to feel oneself lost." - ORTEGA Y GASSET, The Revolt of the Masses
##Ambition
"The most important thing about having goals is having one." - Geoffrey F. Abert
"AMBITION, n. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked." - Walter Savage Londor
"Ambition has but one reward for all:  A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!" - William Winter
"The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall." - THOMAS ADAMS, Diseases of the Soul
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?" - ROBERT BROWNING, Andrea del Sarto
"Hitch your wagon to a star." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude
"Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, For an Autograph
"Though ambition is itself a vice, it is often the parent of virtues." - QUINTILIAN, De Institutione Oratoria
"Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall." - SIR WALTER RALEIGH, attributed
"Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong." - VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, No Signposts in the Sea
"Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side" - SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff." - SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw." - EDMUND SPENSER, The Shepherd's Calendar
##America
"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any." - Emma Albani
"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie." - H. Rap Brown, press conference (1967)
"This is America . . .- brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky." - George Bush, speech (accepting nomination for President, 1988)
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation." - Georges Clemenceau, attributed
"A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labour and the fact that honour lies in honest toil." - Grover Cleveland
"The chief business of the American people is business." - Calvin Coolidge, speech (1925)
"[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." - Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look
"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising." - Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"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." - Gunnar Myrdal
"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." - Gamel Nasser
"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." - Ayn Rand
"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." - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"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." - Henry G. Strauss
"I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights." - Clarence Thomas
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Toynbee
"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress." - Mark Twain
"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world." - Mark Twain
"Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris." - THOMAS GOLD APPLETON, quoted by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
"We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly . . . to revere God and to be God." - DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, The Image
"This is America . . .a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky." - GEORGE BUSH, speech (accepting nomination for President, 1988)
"America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true." - JAMES T. FARRELL, introduction to H.L. Mencken's Prejudices: A Selection
"Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place." - OTTO FRIEDRICH, in Time
"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow: red, yellow, brown, black and white and we're all precious in God's sight." - JESSE JACKSON, speech (1984)
"America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Last Puritan
"It's complicated, being an American, Having the money and the bad conscience, both at the same time." - LOUIS SIMPSON, On the Lawn at the Villa
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is." - GERTRUDE STEIN, The Geographical History of America
"You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speech (1958)
"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through." - ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America
"The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
"For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us." - JOHN WINTHROP, sermon written during the voyage to Massachusetts (1630)
"America. . . It is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time." - THOMAS WOLFE, Of Time and the River
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Affluent Society
"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it." - Barry, Dave
"The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second." - Fiebig, Jim
"The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee." - Frank, Tellis
"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation." - Levenson, Sam
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - Mencken, H[enry] L[ouis] (1880-1956)
"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 we are missing." - Nasser, Gamel Abdel
"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation." - Old Farmers Almanac
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." - Reagan, Ronald
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test
"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." - Will, George [Columnist]
##Ancestry
"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." - W. S. Gilbert, The Mikado
"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his." - Helen Keller, The Story of My Life
"He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another." - Seneca, Hercules Furens
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance." - George Bernard Shaw
"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors." - Voltaire
"The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato, the only good belonging to him is under ground." - THOMAS OVERBURY, Characters
##Anger
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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
"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
"When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of." - H. Jackson Brown Jr
"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." - Cato the Elder
"The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor." - Elizabeth I, quoted by Francis Bacon in Apophthegms
"Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." - Euripides, fragment
"A man is measured by the size of things that anger him." - Geof Greenleaf
"When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred." - Thomas Jefferson
"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca
"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)
"A soft answer turneth away wrath." - BIBLE, Proverbs 15:1
"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." - BIBLE, Ephesians 4:26
"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Mourning Bride
"Anger is a brief madness." - HORACE, Epistles
"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life (in letter, 1825)
"Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one." - GEORGE SAVILE, Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
##Animals
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you." - Elias Canetti, The Human Province
"I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections." - William Congreve, Letters upon Several Occasions, ed. John Dennis
"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." - George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
"To his dog, every man is Napoleon. Hence the constant popularity of dogs." - Aldous Huxley
"The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic." - HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
"A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage." - WILLIAM BLAKE, Auguries of Innocence
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" - WILLIAM BLAKE, The Tyger
"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!" - ROBERT BROWNING, Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
"Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!" - ROBERT BURNS, To a Mouse
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d. 1902), Note-Books
"Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." - GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life
"Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats; all human life is there." - HENRY JAMES, The Madonna of the Future
"I never saw a wild thing Sorry for itself." - D.H. LAWRENCE, Self-Pity
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she isn't amusing herself with me more than I am with her?" - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT." - OGDEN NASH, The Kitten
"The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk." - OGDEN NASH, The Cow
"Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art." - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, To a Skylark
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back." - HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Journal
"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
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." - Benfield, John
"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Jackson, Holbrook
"If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine." - Stampfli, Rob
"In ancient egypt, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this." - Unknown
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" - Wright, Stephen
##Anxiety
"We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal." - INGMAR BERGMAN, quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise
"But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death." - J.P. DONLEAVY, The Ginger Man
"Worry, the interest paid by those who borrow trouble." - GEORGE WASHINGTON LYON, in Judge
"We are, perhaps uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still." - LEWIS THOMAS, The Medusa and the Snail
##Apathy
"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." - HELEN KELLER, My Religion
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference." - ELIE WIESEL, quoted in US News & World Report
##Appearances
"Appearances often are deceiving." - Aesop, Fables
"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
"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." - Elias Root Beadle
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them." - Abraham Lincoln, attributed
"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold." - ALAIN DE LILLE (ALANUS DE INSULIS), Parabolae
"It is not all gold that glareth." - CHAUCER, The House of Fame
"All, as they say, that glitters is not gold." - JOHN DRYDEN, The Hind and the Panther
"There is less in this than meets the eye." - TALLULAH BANKHEAD, quoted in Alexander Woollcott's Shouts and Murmurs (Said about a performance of a
"Judge not according to the appearance." - BIBLE, John 7:24
"Keep up appearances; there lies the test; The world will give thee credit for the rest." - CHARLES CHURCHILL, Night
"Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. . . But we seem to have no other." - IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Manservant and Maidservant
"A fair exterior is a silent recommendation." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"Things are entirely what they appear to be; and behind them . . . there is nothing." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Nausea
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"I may not have a perfect body but I have some excellent parts on it." - Unknown
##Architecture
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture." - Constantin Brancusi, quoted in Themes and Episodes by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft
"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul." - Ernest Dimnet, What We Live By
"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright, in New York Times Magazine
"I call architecture frozen music." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, quoted in Peter Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space." - PHILIP JOHNSON, quoted in New York Times
"A house is a machine for living in." - LE CORBUSIER, Towards an Architecture
"When we build, let us think that we build for ever." - JOHN RUSKIN, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
"Form ever follows function." - LOUIS HENRI SULLIVAN, in Lippincott's Magazine
"No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other." - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, An Autobiography
##Arguments
"Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them." - Anacharsis
"Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference." - Anonymous
"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them." - Caron de Beaumarchais
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill.  Our antagonist is our helper." - Edmund Burke
"The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation." - Dale Carnegie
"If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
"To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading." - Seneca
"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
"Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as little as the waves wear a cliff." - Mark Twain
"The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right." - QUINTIN MCGAREL HOGG, VISCOUNT HAILSHAM, in New York Times
"We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own." - JOSEPH JOUBERT, Penses
"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Democracy and Other Addresses
"We might as well give up the fiction That we can argue any view. For what in me is pure Conviction Is simple Prejudice in you." - PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, Note to My Neighbor
"When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless." - JOHN CARDINAL NEWMAN, sermon (1893)
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." - OSCAR WILDE, The Importance of Being Earnest
##Art
"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." - A-One, quoted in New Yorker
"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." - Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun
"PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere." - G. K. Chesterton
"Every artist writes his own autobiography." - Havelock Ellis
"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." - William Feather
"All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography." - Federico Fellini, quoted in Atlantic
"Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue." - Gustave Flaubert, letter (1846)
"A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual." - Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
"The object of art is to give life a shape." - JEAN ANOUILH, The Rehearsal
"PAINTING, n.The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic." - AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
"The history of art is the history of revivals." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers, and never succeeding." - MARC CHAGALL, attributed
"Art is a jealous mistress." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails." - JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
"Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible." - PAUL KLEE, The Inward Vision
"Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature." - SUZANNE K. LANGER, Mind
"The whole of art is an appeal to a reality which is not without us but in our minds." - DESMOND MACCARTHY, Theatre
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun." - PABLO PICASSO, attributed, quoted by Edith Sitwell in Fire of the Mind
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand." - PABLO PICASSO, quoted in Dore Ashton's Picasso on Art
"Art is the right hand of nature. The latter only gave us being, but the former made us men." - FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER, Fiesco
"A work of art has an author and yet, when it is perfect, it has something which is anonymous about it." - SIMONE WEIL, Gravity and Grace
"Art happens; no hovel is safe from it, no Prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about, and puny efforts to make it universal end in quaint comedy, and coarse farce." - JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"All art is quite useless." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein, Albert in 'What I Believe' 1930
"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
##Aspirations
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - Crisp, Quentin
"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Disney, Walt
"Your heart's desires be with you." - Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
"I always wanted to be somebody. I guess I should have been more specific." - Tomlin, Lily
##Astronomy
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Einstein, Albert
"The stars incline, but do not impel." - Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) quoted by Becky Vesey, a.k.a. Madame Alexandra Vesant, in 'Stranger
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'The Republic', book VII, 529
##Atheism
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." - Harry Emerson Fosdick, attributed
"I am an atheist still, thank God." - LUIS BUUEL, quoted by Ado Kyrou in Luis Buuel: An Introduction
"There are no atheists in the foxholes." - WILLIAM THOMAS CUMMINGS, sermon (1942)
"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." - CLARENCE DARROW, courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925)
"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave." - LOUIS KRONENBERGER, Company Manners
"By night an atheist half believes a God." - EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"My atheism is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests. nely burned at the stake in his day.' The real quote seems to be from Santayana (c.f.)." - Spinoza, B.
##Attitude
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." - Harry F. Banks
"'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?'" - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"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." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
##Attraction
"Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter." - David, Peter
"Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary." - I Ching c1150 B.C.
##Author Index
##Authors
"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." - Anatole Broyard, in New York Times
"My name is only an anagram of toilets." - T. S. Eliot
"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors." - Samuel Johnson
##Beauty
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference." - Aristotle
"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." - Francis Bacon
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite." - George Bancroft
"Exuberance is beauty." - William Blake
"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"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." - Albert Camus
"Beauty and folly are old companions." - Benjamin Franklin
"She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon." - Groucho Marx
"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny." - Socrates
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." - Henry David Thoreau, Journal
"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder." - Virginia Woolf
"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - FRANCIS BACON, Essays
"If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents." - ROBERT BROWNING, Fra Lippo Lippi
"She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." - LORD BYRON, She Walks in Beauty
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." - MARGARET WOLFE HUNGERFORD, Molly Bawn
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - JOHN KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness." - JOHN KEATS, Endymion
"Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time." - MARIANNE MOORE, In Distrust of Merits
"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance." - JOHN RUSKIN, The Stones of Venice
"What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful." - lSAPPHO (fragment)
"Beauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
"Beauty is momentary in the mind The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives." - WALLACE STEVENS, Peter Quince at the Clavier
"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after." - WALLACE STEVENS, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
"Beauty more than bitterness Makes the heart break." - SARA TEASDALE, Vignettes Overseas: Capri
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." - MLEO TOLSTOY, The Kreutzer Sonata
"Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde." - Chaucer, Geoffrey (c1343-1400) in 'The Parliament of Fowls', line 379
"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." - Davies, W. H.
"It is very beautiful over there." - Edison, Thomas on his deathbed, describing a vision of the hereafter
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein, Albert in 'What I Believe' 1930
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty." - Morley, Christopher
##Beginning
"To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise." - Horace, Epistles
"A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step." - LAO-TZU, The Way of Lao-tzu
"Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished." - MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditationsq
##Belief
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash
"Man is made by his belief.  As he believes, so he is." - Bhagavad Gita
"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." - Henry Louis Mencken, Prejudices
"Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe." - SAINT AUGUSTINE, Sermons
"If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove." - BIBLE, Matthew 17:20
"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them!" - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
"Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires." - JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, Fables
"Here I stand. I can do no other." - MARTIN LUTHER, speech (1521)
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"You're not free until you've been made captive by supreme belief." - MARIANNE MOORE, Spenser's Ireland
"It is certain because it is impossible." - TERTULLIAN, De Carne Christi
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. written in 1978 and published in 1985, Dick describes a student friend asking him in 1972 for a one-liner about reality for a paper, and this quote is what he came up with.'" - Dick, Philip K. quoted in 'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later' (1978) 19
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." - Dick, Philip K. in 'How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later' 1978
"Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." - Russell, Bertrand
"Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"He who believes himself spiritual proves he is not." - Unknown
##Betrayal
"The smiler with the knife under the cloak." - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
"All a man can betray is his conscience." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." - JOHN HARINGTON, Epigrams
##Bible
"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." - Bible, 2 Timothy 4:7
"God is no respecter of persons." - Bible, Acts 10:34
"It is more blessed to give than to receive." - Bible, Acts 20:35
"Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." - Bible, Deuteronomy
"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever." - Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:4
"Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body." - Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:12
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom." - Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:10
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." - Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11
"He that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little." - Bible, Ecclesiasticus 19:1
"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." - Bible, Ecclesiasticus 6:16
"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure." - Bible, Ecclesiasticus 9:10
"'For dust you are and to dust you will return.'" - Bible, Genesis 3:19
"'They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.'" - Bible, Hosea 8:7
"God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." - Bible, I John 4:16
"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." - Bible, II Corinthians 9:7
"Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?" - Bible, Job 12:12
"Great men are not always wise." - Bible, Job 32:9
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." - Bible, John 15:13
"'From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded.'" - Bible, Luke 12:48
"Remember Lot's wife!" - Bible, Luke 17:32
"Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?" - Bible, Malachi 2:10
"'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.'" - Bible, Mark 10:14
"A tree is recognised by its fruit." - Bible, Matthew 12:33
"O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" - Bible, Matthew 14:31
"'You of little faith,' he said, 'why did you doubt?'" - Bible, Matthew 14:31
"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." - Bible, Matthew 6:12
"Consider the lilies of the field how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." - Bible, Matthew 6:28-29
"But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing." - Bible, Matthew 6:3
"A cheerful heart is good medicine." - Bible, Proverbs 17:22
"'It's no good, it's no good!' says the buyer; then off he goes and boasts about his purchase." - Bible, Proverbs 20:14
"The borrower is servant to the lender." - Bible, Proverbs 22:7
"Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him." - Bible, Proverbs 26:12
"The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion." - Bible, Proverbs 28:1
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." - Bible, Psalms 46:1
"From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise." - Bible, Psalms 8:2
"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." - Bible, Revelation 22:13
"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death." - Bible, Revelation 6:8
"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." - Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image
"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." - Albert Pike
"Both read the Bible day and night, But thou read'st black where I read white." - WILLIAM BLAKE, The Everlasting Gospel
"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." - DANIEL J. BOORSTIN, The Image
". . . shallows where a lamb could wade and depths where an elephant could drown." - MATTHEW HENRY, Commentaries
"The English Bible - a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power." - THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, in The Edinburgh Review
"You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York." - WILLIAM LYON PHELPS, in New York Times
"The Bible is literature, not dogma." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Ethics of Spinoza
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose." - SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
"I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes well out of it." - VIRGINIA WOOLF, letter (1922)
"The bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." - Lavner, Lynn
##Birth
"My mother groan'd, my father wept Into the dangerous world I leapt, Helpless, naked, piping loud, Like a fiend hid in a cloud." - WILLIAM BLAKE, Infant Sorrow
"Being born, we die; our end is consequent on our beginning." - MARCUS MANILIUS, Astronomica
"When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools." - SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Intimations of Immortality
"For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'], 2:27 (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna
##Body
"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." - W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
"BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"The eye altering, alters all." - William Blake, The Mental Traveller
"The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears." - Heraclitus
"This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly." - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred." - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike." - THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book." - JOHN DONNE, The Extasy
"A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"The human body is a machine which winds its own springs." - JULIEN OFFROY DE LA METTRIE, L'Homme machine
"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?" - KATHERINE MANSFIELD, Bliss and Other Stories
##Boldness
"Audacity, more audacity, and always audacity!" - Georges Jacques Danton, speech (1792)
"A decent boldness ever meets with friends." - Homer, The Odyssey
"Nothing is too high for the daring of mortals; we storm heaven itself in our folly." - Horace, Odes
"If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out." - Arthur Koestler, in Encounter
"Fortune favours the bold." - Virgil, Aeneid
"Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence." - JOHN DRYDEN, Constantine the Great
"He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all." - JAMES GRAHAM, MARQUIS OF MONTROSE, I'll Never Love Thee More
"Fortune favors the bold." - VIRGIL, Aeneid
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
##Books
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body." - Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:12
"Master books, but do not let them master you. - Read to live, not live to read." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.  The classic literature is always modern." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"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." - Walt Disney
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers." - Charles W. Eliot, The Durable Satisfactions of Life
"A man is known by the books he reads." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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." - E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy
"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." - Anatole France
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine, Almansor: A Tragedy
"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." - Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia
"A book is a mirror: when a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
"Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way around." - David Lodge, The British Museum is Falling Down
"The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Literature is news that STAYS news." - Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain
"Classic: A book which people praise and don't read." - Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
". . . a classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - Mark Twain, speech (1900)
"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
"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." - A. Whitney Griswold, speech (1952)
"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one sometimes forgets which." - JAMES M. BARRIE, Sentimental Tommy
"Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 12:12
"There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry." - EMILY DICKINSON, There is no Frigate like a Book
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." - CHARLES W. ELIOT, The Durable Satisfactions of Life
"Never read any book that is not a year old." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude
"We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things." - JOSEPH JOUBERT, Penses
"All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words." - AMY LOWELL, Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
" . . . a classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read." - MARK TWAIN, speech (1900)
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read." - OSCAR WILDE, Intentions, The Critic as Artist
"A room without books is as a body without a soul." - Lubbock, Sir John
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
##Boredom
"BORE, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything." - Don Marquis
"The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." - Henry Louis Mencken
"We often forgive those who bore us, but never those whom we bore." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." - Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." - Bert Leston Taylor, The So-Called Human Race
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." - Voltaire, Sept discours en vers sur l'homme
"Society is now one polish'd horde, Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored" - LORD BYRON, Don Juan
"For I have known them all already, known them all - Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons." - T.S. ELIOT, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
". . . the desire for desires -  & boredom." - LEO TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina
"One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore . . . and a healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience." - JOHN UPDIKE, Assorted Prose
##Borrowing
##Bravery
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle
"The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
##Brevity
"Good things, when short, are twice as good." - Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
"I struggle to be brief, and I become obscure." - Horace, Ars Poetica
"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." - Dorothy Parker, attributed
"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters
"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words." - BIBLE, Ecclesiasticus 32:8
"Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short." - Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) from 'Lettres Provinciales' [1656-1657], no. 16
##Budgets
"Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." - Shepherd, Alan
##Bureaucracy
". . . skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape." - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Bureaucrats are the only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it." - JAMES H. BOREN, quoted in Time
"Too often I find that the volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases." - JERRY BROWN, quoted in Wall Street Journal
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism." - MARY MCCARTHY, in New Yorker
##Business
"A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk." - Harry F. Banks
"Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world." - Bruce Barton
"Failing organisations are usually over-managed and under-led." - Warren G. Bennis
"The rewards in business go to the man who does something with an idea." - William Benton
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Here's the rule for bargains - Do other men, for they would do you. That's the true business precept." - Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
"Business? That's very simple-it's other people's money." - Alexandre Dumas, fils, La Question d'argent
"Business? That's very simple - it's other people's money." - Alexandre Dumas, fils, La Question d'argent
"Business is the salt of life." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"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." - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau
"For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa." - Charles E. Wilson, said in testimony before a U.S. Senate hearing
"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." - Woodrow Wilson, speech (1912)
"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee." - GEORGE CHAPMAN, BEN JONSON, AND JOHN MARSTON, Eastward Ho
"Here's the rule for bargains - 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept." - CHARLES DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit
"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, Annals of an Abiding Liberal
"He's a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse." - MARIO PUZO, The Godfather
"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 neighbor on an empty stomach." - WOODROW WILSON, speech (1912)
"The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Any change to the salary plan will result in less money for you. If they wanted to give you 'more' money, they wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of changing the plan. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"The nearer you are to your boss's office, the lower the quality of your assignments. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"The most perilous challenge you will ever face is dealing with the boss's secretary. It may be necessary to offer a live calf or a summer intern as an animal sacrifice. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Sick days are the same as vacation days, but with sound effects. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are." - Grant, R. H.
"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committies and accountants." - Lyall, Charles J. C.
"In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong." - Unknown
##Capitalism
"Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, none 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!" - THOMAS CARLYLE, Past and Present
"The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I." - KARL LIEBKNECHT, speech (1907)
"The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself." - MORDECAI RICHLER, Cocksure
##Cars
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito
"Middle Age - When you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go." - Anonymous
"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." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Life is too short for traffic." - Dan Bellack
"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." - Art Buchwald, Have I Ever Lied to You?
"People can have the Model T in any colour - so long as it's black." - Henry Ford
"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." - Edward McDonagh, in Time
"To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism." - SINCLAIR LEWIS, Babbitt
"The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell,of urban and suburban man." - MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media
"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." - LEWIS MUMFORD, quoted in Quote magazine
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, geta million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Cringely, Robert X. from 'InfoWorld'
"Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph." - Samuels, Jim
##Caution
"Precaution is better than cure." - Edward Coke
"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
##Censorship
"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." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." - George Bernard Shaw, The Rejected Statement
"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye." - JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica
##Certainty
"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." - Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
"Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions." - Edward Coke, The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." - Henry Louis Mencken, Prejudices
"Oh! let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about!" - HILAIRE BELLOC, The Microbe
"Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., speech (1897)
"Certitude is not the test of certainty." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., Natural Law
"The only certainty is that nothing is certain." - PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
##Chance
"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause." - Voltaire
"God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." - Hawking, Stephen
##Change
"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." - H. P. Blavatsky
"The appearance and disappearance of the Universe are pictured as an outbreathing and inbreathing of the Great Breath which is eternity." - H. P. Blavatsky
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"It is only the wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change." - Confucius, Analects
"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable." - Benjamin Disraeli, speech (1867)
"Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness." - Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
"There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
"All is flux, nothing stays still." - Heraclitus, quoted by Plato in Cratylus
"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." - Washington Irving
"The more things change, the more they remain the same. (Plus a change, plus c'est la mme chose.)" - Alphonse Karr, in Les Gupes
"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." - Charles Kingsley
"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?" - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep A stable, changeless state, `twere cause indeed to weep." - WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, Mutation
"The world's a scene of changes, and to be Constant, in Nature were inconstancy." - ABRAHAM COWLEY, Inconstancy
"Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor." - ROBERT FROST, The Black Cottage
"All things change; nothing perishes." - OVID, Metamorphoses
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of those acts, will be written the history of this generation." - Kennedy, Robert F.
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910)
##Character
"Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Haywood Hale Broun, quoted in James A. Michener's Sports in America
"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." - Charles de Gaulle
"Character is destiny." - Heraclitus, fragment
"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." - Alphonse Karr
"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
"Character is what a man is in the dark." - Dwight L. Moody, quoted in William R. Moody's D.L. Moody
"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine
"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." - Saskya Pandita
"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man;  Simplicity, a child." - Alexander Pope
"Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed." - Cavett Robert
"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
"If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business." - William Makepeace Thakeray
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody." - Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
"Character is that which can do without success." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Uncollected Lectures
"Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Torquato Tasso
"Character is simply habit long continued." - PLUTARCH, Morals
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." - Benfield, John
##Charity
"Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong." - Zoroaster
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 13:1
"And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 13:13
"Charity shall cover the multitude of sins." - BIBLE, I Peter 4:8
"When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." - BIBLE, Matthew 6:3
"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Strength to Love
"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty." - MAIMONIDES, Guide to the Perplexed
"Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins." - HORACE SMITH, Horace in London
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well." - MARGARET THATCHER, television interview
##Charm
"Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves." - Henri-Frdric Amiel, Journal intime
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." - Albert Camus, The Fall
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others." - Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
"[Charm] It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have." - JAMES M. BARRIE, What Every Woman Knows
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." - Congreve, William (1670-1729)
##Cheerfulness
"Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other." - JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." - BIBLE, Proverbs 17:22
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper - the more it is spent, the more of it remains." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
##Children
"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"'Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.'" - Bible, Mark 10:14
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone." - Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1943)
"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home." - Bill Cosby
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." - Clarence S. Darrow
"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." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty." - George Eliot, Romola
"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble." - Dennis Fakes
"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler." - W. C. Fields
"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in." - Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn." - Eric Hoffer
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision." - Aldous Huxley
"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength." - Charles Lamb
"A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw
"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." - Harry S. Truman
"A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother." - Mark Twain, letter (1876)
"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
"Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it." - George F. Will, in Newsweek
"The Child is father of the Man." - William Wordsworth, My Heart Leaps Up
"Children sweeten labors, but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death." - FRANCIS BACON, Essays
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them." - JAMES BALDWIN, Nobody Knows My Name
"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength." - BIBLE, Psalms 8:2
"Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." - BIBLE, Mark 10:14
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. . . You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams." - KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
"We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Hermann und Dorothea
"Children need models more than they need critics." - JOSEPH JOUBERT, Penses
"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is." - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!" - SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
"It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip.
"I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information." - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip
"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese Proverb
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself." - Gibran, Kahlil
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Jones, Franklin P.
"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965)
"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men." - Montessori, Maria
"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective." - O'Rourke, P. J.
"There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it." - Unknown
##Choice
"White shall not neutralize the black, nor good Compensate bad in man, absolve him so: Life's business being just the terrible choice." - ROBERT BROWNING, The Pope
"I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." - ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken
##Cinema
"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for a star." - Fred Allen
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder." - Alfred Hitchcock
"I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience." - Wilson Mizner
"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." - Will Rogers
##City
"A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't." - Burt Bacharach
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant!  -you praise the distant city to the stars." - Horace, Satires
"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighbourhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim." - Christopher Darlington Morley, Where the Blue Begins
"Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo." - Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo
"Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city half as old as Time!" - JOHN WILLIAM BURGON, Petra
"Cities are the abyss of the human species." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, mile
##Civilisation
"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilisers of man." - Benjamin Disraeli, speech (1872)
"Civilisation is nothing else than the attempt to reduce force to being the ultima ratio 'last resort'." - Jos Ortega Y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
"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." - Harriet Martineau, Society in America
"Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason." - THEODORE DREISER, Sister Carrie
"what man calls civilization always results in deserts" - DON MARQUIS, archy and mehitabel
##Civilization
"That would be a good idea. already overwhelmed by journalists asking questions. One of them asked, `Mr Gandhi, what do you think of modern civilization?' And Mr Gandhi said, `That would be a good idea.''" - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) in reply to a journalist who had asked him 'Mr. Ga
"But I have seen the science I worshiped and the airplane I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve." - Lindbergh Jr., Charles A[ugustus] (1902-1974)
"Do not be quick to blame the encroachment of civilization for the lights on the horizon of your night sky; they may be the rising moon." - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 15 May 1994
"If builders built buildings they way computer programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed all civilization." - Weinberg's Law
##Class
"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others." - Cicero
"When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?" - JOHN BALL, speech (1381)
"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire." - HERMANN HESSE, Der Steppenwolf
"How beastly the bourgeois is Especially the male of the species." - D.H. LAWRENCE, How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead." - NANCY MITFORD, Noblesse Oblige
"There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches." - HESKETH PEARSON, The Marrying Americans
"I can't help feeling wary when I hear anything said about the masses. First, you take their faces away from `em by calling them masses, and then you accuse `em of not having any faces." - J.B. PRIESTLEY, Saturn Over the Water
"To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois." - JULES RENARD, The Journal of Jules Renard, ed. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget
##Clothing
"A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world." - Abigail Adams, letter (1780)
"FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation." - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." - Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead." - Christopher Darlington Morley
"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out." - Dolly Parton
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you." - Franois Sagan
"To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable." - Eugenia Sheppard, in New York Herald Tribune
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new." - Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
"All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress." - LIN YUTANG, quoted in Ladies' Home Journal
"Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?" - DOROTHY PARKER, The Satin Dress
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
##Code
"PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward." - Unknown
"REAL PROGRAMMERS don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." - Unknown
##Comedy
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)
"Comedy is a serious business." - Keaton, Buster
##Committees
"Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." - Fred Allen
"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." - Barnett Cocks, attributed
"A committee is an animal with four back legs." - JOHN LE CARR, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
##Communication
"We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words." - KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
"No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Elective Affinities
"After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?" - RUSSELL HOBAN, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
"The medium is the message." - MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media
"I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, What is Literature?
"Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself." - REBECCA WEST, The Court and the Castle
"But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." - Bible (Matthew 5:37)
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
"England and America are two countries seperated by the same language." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Siddhartha
"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain." - Tomlin, Lily
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." - Whorf, Benjamin
##Communism
"What is a communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings." - EBENEZER ELLIOTT, Epigram
"Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of their soul - religion and business." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Essays in Persuasion
"If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels, and Lenin he deceives himself poorly. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." - NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, speech (1955)
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." - KARL MARX, Critique of the Gotha Program
"A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of Communism." - KARL MARX AND FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Communist Manifesto
"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak." - PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, What Is Property?
##Company
"Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
"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." - Henry David Thoreau, Journal
##Competition
"Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people." - David Sarnoff, quoted in Esquire
"Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests." - LOUISA MAY ALCOTT,
"Behind a Mask Thou shalt not covet; but tradition Approves all forms of competition." - ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, The Latest Decalogue
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - LILY TOMLIN, attributed
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Light Fantastic'
##Complaint
"The Life of William Ewart Gladstone To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life." - ERIC HOFFER, The Passionate State of Mind
"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest." - JEROME K. JEROME, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
##Comprehension
"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." - Douglas Adams
"Do we know much about women? Do we? We don't. We know when they're happy, we know when they're crying, we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know what order those are gonna come at us." - Davis, Evan
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there." - Feynman, Richard
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855)
"Always begin with a woman by telling her that you don't understand women. You will be able to prove it to her satisfaction more certainly than anything else you will ever tell her." - Marquis, Don
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910) in 'War and Peace', VII:16
##Compromise
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward." - REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFFMAN, The Way of Peace
"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy." - PHYLLIS MCGINLEY, The Province of the Heart
"If you want to get along, go along." - SAM RAYBURN, quoted in Neil MacNeil's Forge of Democracy
##Computers
"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." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992
"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network." - Guy Almes
"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
"The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man." - B. F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement
"They [Computers] can rattle off the Manhattan telephone directory unerringly time after time, which no human can do, but they cannot begin to distinguish one face from another, as babies can do." - LEE DEMBART, in New York Times
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (1963)
"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage." - ROBERT S. MCNAMARA, The Essence of Security
"All a computer does is tell a consistent story: a consistent truth or, if the programmer's guesses are unlikely, a consistent fiction." - PAUL A. SAMUELSON, in Newsweek
"A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind." - JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM, quoted in Time
"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
"To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Anonymous in 'Farmer's Almanac for 1978' 1977
"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life." - Brown, Andrew
"Everybody thinks I'm Fruit Loops Because I post on newsgroups Instead of doing work. If I don't finish my degree Then I probably will be an overeducated clerk." - Brown, Thomas Ford
"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read." - Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
"Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw." - Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Cook. Rich
"I had to quit my job to have time to read my email." - Curry, Adam [MTV Host and net.legend] his occasional signature quote
"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8 m/sec/sec." - Dolengo, Marcus
"Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best--or worst, depending on what is posted on any particular day." - Fiedler, David in 'Byte'
"My suggestion for an Official Usenet Motto: 'If you have nothing to say, then come on in, this is the place for you, tell us all about it!'" - Fosseng, Hevard [quotation collector]
"Crossposting isn't inherently evil, in the same sense that necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody. One wonders only whether it's appropriate to the occasion." - Gordon, Rick
"Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Houghton, Blair in response to anonymous network monkey quote
"I must've seen it in a USENET posting; that's sort of like hearsay evidence from Richard Nixon..." - Houghton, Blair
"*However*, one thing on the Net is certain: there is someone willing to argue about any point." - I don't know but I'll dispute any attribution taken from quote collection by Hevard Fosseng
"The first step is to decide what Internet services users need to access and limit their access to those services." - Jesson, Joseph [a senior analyst at Chevron Corp] as quoted in ComputerWorld 6/28/93
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." - Kulawiec, Rich
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." - Lamport, Leslie as quoted in CACM, June 1992
"That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer." - Leary, Paul [lead guitarist, The Butthole Surfers] in Guitar World, September 1991, p70
"'Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor?' 'It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right?'" - MacNelley in 'Shoe'
"Usenet is not a right." - news.newusers.questions FAQ
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." - New Yorker cartoon
"Hardware : The parts of a computer system that can be kicked." - Pesis, Jeff
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." - Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." - Reid, Brian K.
"The IBM compatible sector has not yet recognized that 95% of computer usage is devoted to experimenting with different fonts and character styles in documents." - Reiner, Ron
"Imminent Death of the Net Predicted. GIFs at 11." - Rigney, Carl
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." - Rooney, Andy
"The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame." - Rospach, Chuq von
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea-- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it." - Spafford, Gene
"Go not to Usenet for counsel, for it will say both no, and yes, and no, and yes...." - Unknown
"Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet." - Unknown
"I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code!" - Unknown
"I know your little 4th grade teacher said there are not stupid questions. She was wrong. This is Usenet." - Unknown
"It can be shown that for any nutty theory, beyond-the-fringe political view or strange religion there exists a proponent on the Net. The proof is left as an exercise for your kill-file." - Unknown found in a .signature
"My company doesn't know Usenet exists, and my boss would have kittens if he thought I spoke for them. My opinions are better than theirs anyway." - Unknown found in a .signature
"PROGRAM - n. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages. v. tr.- To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward." - Unknown
"REAL PROGRAMMERS don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." - Unknown
"Real Programmers use C since it's the easiest language to spell." - Unknown
##Conceit
"I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them." - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him." - BIBLE, Proverbs 26:12
"Conceit is the finest armor a man can wear." - JEROME K. JEROME, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
"To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance." - OSCAR WILDE, An Ideal Husband
##Confidence
"You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price." - MARY KAY ASH, quoted in New York Times
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Self-Reliance
"The confidence which we have in ourselves engenders the greatest part of that which we have in others." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence." - Kettering, Charles
##Conflict
"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
"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape." - Mark Twain
"I've got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I'm a busy man! 'I' say, either agree with me or take a hike! I'm right, period! End of discussion!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip
##Conformity
"When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday; when I am at Milan, I do not. Follow the custom of the church where you are." - SAINT AMBROSE, advice to St. Augustine, quoted by St. Augustine in Epistle to Januarius
"For one man who thanks God that he is not as other men there are a thousand to offer thanks that they are as other men, sufficiently as others are to escape attention." - JOHN DEWEY, Human Nature and Conduct
"Conform and be dull." - JAMES FRANK DOBIE, The Voice of the Coyote
". . . conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (1961)
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti
##Conscience
"A good conscience is a continual Christmas." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
"A good conscience is a continual feast." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy
"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience." - EURIPIDES, Hippolytus
"Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse." - OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions." - LILLIAN HELLMAN, letter (1952)
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Little Book in C Major
"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, And that is to have either a clear conscience, or none at all." - OGDEN NASH, Interoffice Memorandum
"Don't you see that that blessed conscience of yours is nothing but other people inside you?" - LUIGI PIRANDELLO, Each in His Own Way
"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe." - SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
"Thus conscience does makes cowards of us all." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip, after having snuk up on Hobbes
"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience." - Washington, George
##Consequence
"They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." - BIBLE, Hosea 8:7
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men." - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, Science and Culture
"You can do anything in this world if you're prepared to take the consequences." - W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Circle
"Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow." - BENEDICT DE SPINOZA, Ethics
##Consistency
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Self-Reliance
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead." - ALDOUS HUXLEY, Do What You Will
"Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind." - W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Of Human Bondage
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass
##Construction
"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duck tape to make them stop." - Weilacher, G. M.
"If builders built buildings they way computer programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed all civilization." - Weinberg's Law
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Zwanzig, Carl
##Consulting
"USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean 'idiot.'" - Barry, Dave
"What Every Computer Consultant Needs to Know: 1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing. 2) Do not believe in miracles. Rely on them." - Murphy's Computer Laws [Finagle's Rules]
"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea." - Unknown
##Consumerism
"It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." - BIBLE, Proverbs 20:14
"In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy." - IVAN ILLICH, Tools for Conviviality
"Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure." - THORSTEIN VEBLEN, The Theory of the Leisure Class
##Control
"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules!" - Butz, Earl on the Pope and birth control
"I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it." - Eastwood, Clint in 'Pink Cadillac'
##Conversation
"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech." - George Bernard Shaw
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself." - LISA KIRK, quoted in New York Journal-American
"Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me." - ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH, quoted in Time
"One person seeks a midwife for his thoughts; the other, someone he can assist. Here is the origin of a good conversation." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory." - EMILY POST, Etiquette
"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor." - SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"No syren did ever so charm the ear of the listener, as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the syren." - HENRY TAYLOR, The Statesman
"There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all." - REBECCA WEST, There Is No Conversation
##Cooperation
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon, Sir Francis
"We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
##Correctness
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"In economics, the majority is always wrong." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- ) in 'Saturday Evening Post' 1968
##Corruption
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat." - Lehman, John [US Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987]
##Countryside
"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." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it." - William Hazlitt, Lectures
"When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country." - William Hazlitt, Table Talk
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live." - VITA SACKVILLE-WEST, Country Notes
"Anybody can be good in the country." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
##Courage
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." - Amelia Earhart, Courage
"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage." - JEAN ANOUILH, Becket
"The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from." - JOANNA BAILLIE, Basil
"Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live." - THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage." - CONFUCIUS, Analects
"None but the brave deserves the fair." - JOHN DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast
"By 'guts' I mean 'grace under pressure'." - ERNEST HEMINGWAY, quoted in New Yorker
"Perfect courage is todo without witnesses what one would be capable of doing before all the world." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed." - MARGARET MITCHELL, Gone with the Wind
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - ANAAUIS NIN, diary entry (The Diary of Anaauis Nin)
"Courage mounteth with occasion." - SHAKESPEARE, King John
"But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail." - SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
"Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand." - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, The Great North Road
"Fortune favors the brave." - TERENCE, Phormio
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualitites, because ... it is the quality that guarantees all others." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore
##Cowardice
"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." - Eliza Cook
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated." - George Bernard Shaw
"Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair." - LORD MORAN, The Anatomy of Courage
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." - SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
##Craftiness
"The fox has many tricks, and the hedgehog only one, but that is the best of all." - ARCHILOCHUS (fragment)
"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." - BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Sybil
"Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler
"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool." - GEORGE SAVILE, Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections
##Creation
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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." - Albert Pike
"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
"All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all." - MRS. CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER, All Things Bright
"Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created." - JACOB BRONOWSKI, The Ascent of Man
"GABRIEL: How about cleanin' up de whole mess of `em and sta'tin' all over ag'in wid some new kind of animal? GOD: An' admit I'm licked?" - MARCUS COOK CONNELLY, The Green Pastures
"In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Fable for Critics
"Nothing can be created out of nothing." - LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." - Bible (Romans 1:20)
"In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." - Tryon, Edward P.
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Valery, Paul
##Creativity
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Einstein, Albert
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." - Joubert, Joseph
"Nothing is said that has not been said before." - Terence (185 B.C - 159 B.C.)
##Crime
"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." - Eddie Cantor
"You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone
"Murder will out, certain, it will not fail." - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." - G. K. Chesterton, The Man who was Thursday
"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
"Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards." - George Farquhar, The Inconstant
"The long and distressing controversy over capital punishment is very unfair to anyone meditating murder." - Geoffrey Fisher
"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress." - Mark Twain
"Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices." - CLARENCE DARROW, quoted in New York Times Magazine
"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult is it to bring it home." - ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. . . Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"What man was ever content with one crime?" - JUVENAL, Satires
"One murder made a villain, Millions a hero." - BEILBY PORTEUS, Death
"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue." - SENECA, Hercules Furens
"The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief." - SHAKESPEARE, Othello
"I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression." - EVELYN WAUGH, Decline and Fall
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Marder, Jeff
##Crisis
"In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate." - W.H. AUDEN, In Memory of W.B. Yeats
"When written in Chinese the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (1959)
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation." - JEAN KERR, Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." - THOMAS PAINE, The American Crisis
"After us the deluge. (Apres nous le dluge.)" - MADAME DE POMPADOUR, attributed (comment reportedly made after the defeat of the French by Frederick
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." - Reagan, Ronald
##Criticism
"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." - Brendan Behan
"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." - Gustave Flaubert, letter (1846)
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces." - Anatole France, La Vie litt'raire
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense." - Samuel Johnson
"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant." - Wilson Mizner
"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." - George Bernard Shaw
"Criticism is a step towards social reform." - Unknown
"To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts." - JUDITH CRIST, quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise
"You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write, can surely review." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Fable for Critics
"You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for." - MARTIAL, Epigrams
"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise." - W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Of Human Bondage
"Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike." - ALEXANDER POPE, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
"Works of art are of an infinite lonelines s and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism. Only love can grasp and hold and be just toward them." - RAINER MARIA RILKE, Letters to a Young Poet
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art." - SUSAN SONTAG, Against Interpretation
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." - KENNETH TYNAN, in New York Times Magazine
"You say that you have a great respect for truth. Is that why you always place yourself at such a respectful distance from it?" - Escriva
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Parker, Dorothy
##Crowds
"It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them." - Charles Caleb Colton
"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men." - MAX BEERBOHM, Zuleika Dobson
"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas." - JEAN COCTEAU, Cock and Harlequin
"'It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.' 'But supppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass. 'Shout with the largest,' replied Mr. Pickwick." - CHARLES DICKENS, Pickwick Papers
"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude
"Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions." - D.H. LAWRENCE, Pornography and Obscenity
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on a popular restaurant
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." - Gardner, Herb
##Cruelty
"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." - William Cowper
"All cruelty springs from weakness." - Seneca
"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men." - JACOB BRONOWSKI, The Face of Violence
"Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!" - ROBERT BURNS, Man was Made to Mourn
"Scarcely anything awakens attention like a tale of cruelty. The writer of news never fails . . . to tell how the enemies murdered children and ravished virgins; and, if the scene of action be somewhat distant, scalps half the inhabitants of a province." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler
"Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
##Culture
"The more refined one is, the more unhappy." - Anton Chekhov
"Culture has one great passion - the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them prevail." - MATTHEW ARNOLD, Culture and Anarchy
"Culture is one thing, and varnish another." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals
"One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
"When I hear the word 'culture' . . . I release the safety-catch of my Browning." - HANNS JOHST, Schlageter
"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, The Life of Reason
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors." - SIMONE WEIL, The Need for Roots
"Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone." - EDITH WHARTON, Xingu
##Cunning
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Cunning...is but the low mimic of wisdom." - Bolingbroke
"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." - Benjamin Franklin
"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses." - William Hazlitt
"Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
##Curiosity
"Remember Lot's wife." - BIBLE, Luke 17:32
"Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand." - BIBLE, Ecclesiasticus, 3:23
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling." - BLAISE PASCAL, Penses
"Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance." - S. LEONARD RUBINSTEIN, quoted in Reader's Digest
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." - JAMES STEPHENS, The Crock of Gold
"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization." - G.M. TREVELYAN, English Social History
##Curses
"May the hearthstone of Hell be your bed rest." - Irish curse
"From Hell's heart I stab at thee. For hate's sake I spit my final breath at thee." - Melville, Herman in 'Moby Dick'
"'Yes, bugger all that.' said Nanny. 'Let's curse somebody.'" - Pratchett, Terry in 'Wyrd Sisters'
##Custom
"What custom hath endeared We part with sadly, though we prize it not." - JOANNA BAILLIE, Basil
"Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned." - JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH, The Modern Temper
"We are all convention; convention carries us away, and we neglect the substance of things. . . We dare not call our parts by their right names, but are not afraid to use them for every sort of debauchery." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature." - PLUTARCH, Morals
"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honor'd in the breach than the observance." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
##Cynicism
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." - Henry Louis Mencken
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." - SYDNEY J. HARRIS, On the Contrary
"Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." - LILLIAN HELLMAN, The Little Foxes
"Cynicism is intellectual dandyism." - GEORGE MEREDITH, The Egoist
"The worst cynicism: a belief in luck." - JOYCE CAROL OATES, Do with Me What You Will
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." - OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'" - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) 'Back to Methuselah' 1921
##Dance
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." - George Bernard Shaw, attributed
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. . . Bodies never lie." - AGNES DE MILLE, in New York Times Magazine
"[Dance] The poetry of the foot." - JOHN DRYDEN, The Rival Ladies
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul, of the body." - MARTHA GRAHAM, quoted in New York Times
"Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe." - JOHN MILTON, L'Allegro
"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made." - TED SHAWN, quoted in Time
"O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?" - W.B. YEATS, Among School Children
##Danger
"Dangers by being despised grow great." - Edmund Burke, speech (1792)
"Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Beware of meat twice boiled, and an old foe reconciled." - Benjamin Franklin
"Believe me, the secret of the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously!" - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science)
"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." - Sagan, Francoise
##Death
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
"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." - Woody Allen
"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." - Woody Allen, Without Feathers
"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network." - Guy Almes
"No hero is immortal till he dies." - W. H. Auden, A Short Ode to a Philologist
"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." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra
"'Where, O death, is your victory?  Where, O death, is your sting?" - Bible, 1 Corinthians 15:55
"'For dust you are and to dust you will return.'" - Bible, Genesis 3:19
"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death." - Bible, Revelation 6:8
"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill
"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
"It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible." - Henry Fielding, Amelia
"The goal of all life is death." - Sigmund Freud
"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
"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." - Bret Harte
"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings." - Horace
"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." - Dolores Ibarruri
"Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." - Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up." - Wilson Mizner
"One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"I am going to seek a great perhaps." - Franalcois Rabelais, reputed last words
"Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it." - Seneca, Phoenissae
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." - Mark Twain, cable from London to a New York newspaper
"To die will be an awfully big adventure." - JAMES M. BARRIE, Peter Pan
"For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return." - BIBLE, Genesis 3:19
"And I looked, and behold, a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death." - BIBLE, Revelation 6:8
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" - BIBLE, I Corinthians 15:55
"The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying." - THOMAS BROWNE, Urn Burial
"Even throughout life, `tis death that makes life live, Gives it whatever the significance." - ROBERT BROWNING, The Ring and the Book
"Because I could not stop for Death,/ He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality." - EMILY DICKINSON, Because I could not stop for Death
"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so, For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me." - JOHN DONNE, Holy Sonnets
"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where." - JOHN DRYDEN, Aureng-Zebe
"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own." - THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
"The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace." - ANDREW MARVELL, To His Coy Mistress
"Death has a thousand doors to let out life: I shall find one." - PHILIP MASSINGER, A Very Young Woman
"Whom the gods love dies young." - MENANDER, Dis Exapaton
"It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. Aha, my little dear, I say, Your clan will pay me back one day." - DOROTHY PARKER, Thought for a Sunshiny Morning
"Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well." - SYLVIA PLATH, Lady Lazarus
"When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me." - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, Song
"Death is an evil; the gods have so judged; had it been good, they would die." - SAPPHO (fragment)
"I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes back with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air." - ALAN SEEGER, I Have a Rendezvous with Death
"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted." - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Prometheus Unbound
"Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home from the hill." - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Requiem
"Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea." - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Crossing the Bar
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." - DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
"The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket." - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, The Excursion
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Allen, Woody (1937- )
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Allen, Woody (1937- )
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him." - Barrymore, John (1882-1942) his last words
"The embodied one within the body of everyone, O Bharata, is ever undestroyable. Therefore you should not grieve for any being." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna
"You can't get out of life alive." - Brown, Les
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." - Crowfoot [Blackfoot warrior and orator] (1821-1890) his last words 1890
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - France, Anatole
"The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass. So we, too, pass silently." - George, Chief Dan
"Gentlemen may cry 'Peace! Peace!' but there is no peace... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains & slavery?... I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Henry, Patrick at the Virginia Convention 23 Mar 1775
"Love is my religion--I could die for that." - Keats, John (1795-1821) in a letter to Fanny Brawne 13 Oct 1819
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)
"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.
"I was born nude and I wish to be buried nude." - MacPherson, Elle [Supermodel] 1995
"If you're gonna go, go naked." - Maicki, Henry [Philosopher]
"If I had known that I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mantle, Mickey
"Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough." - Marx, Karl (1818-1883) his last words
"Life. Consider the alternative." - McLuhan, Marshall in 'War and Peace in the Global Village' 1968
"Life's a beach, then you die." - Popular T-shirt slogan
"DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH." - Pratchett, Terry (and Neil Gaiman) in 'Good Omens'
"Why yes, a bulletproof vest!" - Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) (American criminal) his final request before the firing squad
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"Immortality--a fate worse than death." - Shoaff, Edgar A.
"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!" - Stratford, Dr. Mike [played by Matt Frewer] in 'Doctor, Doctor'
"When an old person dies, a library is lost." - Swann, Tommy
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau, Henry David in 'Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
"The reports of my death are greatly exagerated." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Brood about death and you hasten your demise." - Unknown
"I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?" - Unknown 15-Year Old
"My young brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth--that most of us go to hell and burn eternally--but I didn't want to upset him." - Unknown 10-Year Old
"I shall remain here [in this phenominal world] only as long as I shall not be released from the bonds of nescience. Then I shall reach my home." - Upanishads, The Aruni to Shvetaketu
"This is no time to make new enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton
##Deceit
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." - Demosthenes, Third Olynthiac
"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." - Abraham Lincoln, attributed
"Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, Are the children of Men." - ARISTOPHANES, The Birds
"'Tis my opinion every man cheats in his way, and he is only honest who is not discovered." - SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE, The Artifice
"Thou shalt not steal; an empty feat, When it's so lucrative to cheat." - ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, The Latest Decalogue
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The Scarlet Letter
"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver." - JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, Fables
"Eveything that deceives may be said to enchant." - PLATO, The Republic
"That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good." - JOSEPH ROUX, Meditations of a Parish Priest
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" - SIR WALTER SCOTT, Marmion
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying." - Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
"O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!" - Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) in 'Marmion', canto 6, st. 17 1808
##Decisions
"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." - Woody Allen, Side Effects
"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." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." - George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
"Give your decisions, never your reasons. Your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong." - W. Murray, Earl of Mansfield
"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions." - Sophocles
"The die is cast." - JULIUS CAESAR, quoted by Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars; said by Julius Caesar upon deciding to c
"If someone tells you he is going to make a realistic decision, you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad." - MARY MCCARTHY, On the Contrary
"It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions." - MARCEL PROUST, Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I.... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Frost, Robert in 'The Road Not Taken'
"Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the Ready-Aim-Aim-Aim Syndrome. You must be willing to fire." - Pickins, T. Boone
##Defeat
"Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"It ain't over til it's over." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on playing hard, in 'Yogi, It Ain't Over...' (1990) 1973
"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore
"Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory." - Steinbeck, John
##Definitions
"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." - Douglas Adams
"ASCII n s. [from the greek] Those people who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; such are the inhabitatants of the torrid zone." - Johnson's Dictionary
##Democracy
"Vote early and vote often." - Anonymous
"We love your adherence to democratic principles." - William F. Buckley
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry." - George Eliot, Felix Holt
"In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing." - Anatole France, Penguin Island
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - JOHN ADAMS, letter (1814)
"I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me." - LANGSTON HUGHES, The Black Man Speaks
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." - REINHOLD NIEBUHR, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
"Democracy . . . is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike." - PLATO, The Republic
"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." - TOM STOPPARD, Jumpers
"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway." - SIMEON STRUNSKY, No Mean City
"Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote." - Unknown 10-Year Old
##Dependency
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." - Voltaire (1694-1778) in 'Epitre a l'auteur de livre des trois imposteurs' 10 Nov 1770
##Desire
"It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalised." - Aristotle, Politics
"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." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"He who desires but acts not breeds pestilence." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness." - F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
"No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect." - Antoinette Deshoulires, epigram
"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim." - Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death." - George Bernard Shaw, Overruled
"Desire is the very essence of man." - Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics
"An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
"Man wants but little; nor that little, long." - Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
"Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long." - OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Vicar of Wakefield
"A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires." - PETRARCH, Epistolae de Rebus Familiaribus
"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan
"My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" - Fromm, Erich
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Oh with what passion my heart is burning, I fear you will never know." - Nineteen Poems
"After a time, you may find that 'having' is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as 'wanting'. It is not logical, but it is often true." - Spock in 'Amock Time' Stardate 3372.7
##Despair
"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." - George Eliot
"And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night." - MATTHEW ARNOLD, Dover Beach
"I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning." - STEVIE SMITH, Not Waving But Drowning
"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)
"God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through." - Valery, Paul
"It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless." - Weinstein, Howard
##Destiny
"Destiny:  A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them." - Telemacher, Harris K. [played by Steve Martin] in 'L.A. Story'
"The road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone and I must follow if I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until it joins some larger way, where many paths and errands meet - and whither then, I cannot say." - Tolkien, J. R. R.
##Destruction
"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." - Douglas Adams
"But I have seen the science I worshiped and the airplane I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve." - Lindbergh Jr., Charles A[ugustus] (1902-1974)
"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. T: Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900) in 'Twilight of the Idols' 1889
"I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: 'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." - Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967) spoken, according to stories, approximately 8 seconds after the d
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed." - Wein, Len
##Determination
". . . resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her." - LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, quoted by Ednah D. Cheney in Louisa May Alcott, Her Life, Letters, and Journals
"Let's meet, and either do or die." - JOHN FLETCHER, The Island Princess
"Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die! I have not yet begun to fight." - JOHN PAUL JONES, reply to a demand by the British that he surrender when his ship, the Bonhomme Rich
"He who breaks a resolution is a weakling; He who makes one is a fool." - F.M. KNOWLES, A Cheerful Year Book
"Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, A Psalm of Life
"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable Will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what else is not to be overcome?" - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
##Development
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Prophesy
"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." - Einstein, Albert
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Einstein, Albert
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
"When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible." - Kenyatta, Jomo
"Some races wax and others wane, and in the short space the tribes of living things are changed, and like runners hand on the torch of life." - Lucretius (99-55 B.C.)
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot." - St. Augustine
"Do not be quick to blame the encroachment of civilization for the lights on the horizon of your night sky; they may be the rising moon." - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 15 May 1994
##Difficulty
"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
"It is difficulties that show what men are." - Epicetus, Discourses
"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance." - Samuel Johnson
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." - Nixon, Richard Milhous
##Dignity
"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity--love. And the story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." - Hayes, Helen
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question." - Williams, Tennessee
##Diligence
"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." - Cervantes
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli
##Diplomacy
"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers." - W. Averell Harriman
"Diplomacy-The art of saying 'Nice doggie' till you can find a rock." - Wynn Catlin, attributed, by Bennett Cerf in The Laugh's on Me
"A diplomat is a fellow that lets you do all the talking while he gets what he wants." - Frank McKinney Hubbard
"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." - Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red
"Diplomacy - The art of saying 'Nice doggie' till you can find a rock." - WYNN CATLIN, attributed, by Bennett Cerf in The Laugh's on Me
"Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way." - BISAAC GOLDBERG, in The Reflex
"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (inaugural address, 1961)
"A Foreign Secretary is forever poised between the clich and the indiscretion." - HAROLD MACMILLAN, comment made in Parliament
"An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth." - HENRY WOTTON, written in the autograph album of Christopher Fleckmore (1604)
"Diplomacy--the art of saying 'Nice doggie' 'til you can find a stick." - Catlin, Wynn
"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 we are missing." - Nasser, Gamel Abdel
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test
##Direction
"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days." - Daniel Boone
"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." - Hammarskjold, Dag
##Disappointment
"The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be born." - HORACE, Ars Poetica
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude." - ALEXANDER POPE, letter (1725)
"Oft expectation fails and most oft there Where most it promises, and oft it hits Where hope is coldest and despair most fits." - SHAKESPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well
##Disasters
"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Public calamity is a mighty leveller." - Edmund Burke, speech (1775)
"When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped." - Samuel Johnson
"Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud." - Mandela, Nelson in his inauguration speech 10 May 1994
##Disaster
"Calamity is man's true touchstone." - FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER, Four Plays in One: The Triumph of Honor
"Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud." - Mandela, Nelson in his inauguration speech 10 May 1994
##Discipline
"No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline." - Seneca
" Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy." - Helvetius
##Discontent
"And sigh that one thing only has been lent To youth and age in common - discontent." - MATTHEW ARNOLD, Youth's Agitations
"Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture." - ROBERT BROWNING, One Word More
"Let thy discontents be thy secrets; - if the world knows them `t will despise thee and increase them." - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
"Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home." - JOHN KEATS, Fancy
"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?" - MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditations
"The splendid discontent of God With Chaos, made the world; . . . And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs." - ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, Discontent
##Discovery
"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." - Aldous Huxley
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Clarke, Arthur C.
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." - Smith, Alexander
##Distance
"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) giving directions
"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one." - Japanese proverb
##Divorce
"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, Dorothy Dix, Her Book
"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse." - Groucho Marx
"Alimony-The ransom that the happy pay to the devil." - Henry Louis Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
"Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy
"Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity that is found only in men who are giving away somebody else's cash." - P.G. WODEHOUSE,  Louder and Funnier
##Doubt
"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." - Douglas Adams
"Who never doubted, never half believed.  Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow." - Gamaliel Bailey
"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." - Alexandre Dumas, pre
"Doubt is the father of invention." - Galileo
"Men become civilised, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt." - Henry Louis Mencken
"It is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible." - Giovanni Jacopo Casanova Seingalt
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." - Voltaire, letter (to Frederick the Great, 1767)
"When you doubt, abstain." - Zoroaster
"All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt: We called the chess-board white, we call it black." - ROBERT BROWNING, Bishop Blougram's Apology
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." - REN DESCARTES, Principles of Philosophy
"Doubt grows with knowledge." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Proverbs in Prose
"Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise." - SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
"Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt." - SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
"There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds." - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, In Memoriam
"Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death." - MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, Salmo II
"Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education." - Mizner, Wilson
"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)
##Dreaming
"Hope is a waking dream." - Aristotle, quoted in Lives of Eminent Philosphers, book V, sec. 18 by Diogenes Laertius
"All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." - Elias Canetti, The Human Province
"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." - Sigmund Freud
"We are not hypocrites in our sleep." - William Hazlitt, On Dreams
"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." - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
"In a dream you are never eighty." - Anne Sexton, Old
"A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read." - The Talmud
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Higher Pantheism
"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." - Francis Thompson
"In dreams begins responsibility." - William Butler Yeats
"If there were dreams to sell, What would you buy?" - THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, Dream-Pedlary
"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though, in truth, his dreaming must not be out of proportion to his waking!" - MARGARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? . . . Or does it explode?" - LANGSTON HUGHES, Harlem
"The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream." - CARL SANDBURG, Washington Monument by Night
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." - Carnegie, Dale
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"We are near awakening when we dream that we dream." - Novalis [a.k.a. Baron Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772-1801)] 1798
"All that you see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." - Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849) 'A Dream Within a Dream' 1827
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Poe, Edgar Allen (1809-1849) 'Eleonora' 1841
"Every challenge we face can be solved by a dream." - Schwartz, David
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." - Thoreau, Henry David
##Dreams
"What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams." - Caldermn de la Barca, Pedro (1600-1681) in 'Life Is a Dream', act II, l. 1195
"Hope is the dream of a waking man." - Diogenes
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." - James, William
"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." - Starr, Pamela
##Drugs
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
"Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon." - Abbie Hoffman
"Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years." - TALLULAH BANKHEAD, Tallulah
"Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!" - THOMAS DE QUINCEY, Confessions of an English Opium Eater
"If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out." - TIMOTHY LEARY, speech (1967)
"What is dangerous about the tranquilizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones." - MAX LERNER, The Unfinished Country
"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." - Tomlin, Lily
"'If God dropped acid, would he see people?'" - Wright, Stephen
##Duty
"'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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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." - Bhagavad Gita
"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." - BIBLE Luke 12:48
"Do your duty, and leave the rest to the gods." - PIERRE CORNEILLE, Horace
"So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must The youth replies, I can" - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Voluntaries
"A Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical." - JOHN FOWLES, The Magus
"What, then, is your duty? What the day demands." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Proverbs in Prose
"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty." - ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER, Beauty and Duty
"O Duty, Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie? Why glitter thy spectacles so ominously? Why art thou clad so abominously?" - OGDEN NASH, Kind of an Ode to Duty
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." - JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., speech (1941)
##Dwarfs
"All dwarfs are by nature dutiful, serious, literate, obedient and thoughtful people whose only minor failing is a tendency, after one drink, to rush at enemies screaming 'Arrrrrrgh!' and axing their legs off at the knee." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Guards! Guards!'
"All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Guards! Guards!'
##Earth
"Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds." - Gamaliel Bailey
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed." - Frank Buchman, Remaking the World
"Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal." - THOMAS MOORE, Come, Ye Disconsolate
"The spirit of the valley never dies. It is called the subtle and profound female. The gate of the subtle and profound female Is the root of Heaven and Earth. It is continuous, and seems to be always existing. Use it and you will never wear it out." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
##Economics
"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year." - Marty Allen
"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." - Harry S. Truman
"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people." - Elwyn Brooks White, One Man's Meat
"Production only fills a void that it has itself created." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Affluent Society
"The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The New Industrial State
"Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it." - FREDERICK LEITH-ROSS, quoted in The Observer
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." - ABRAHAM LINCOLN, speech (1861)
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." - HARRY S TRUMAN, quoted in The Observer
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - HAROLD WILSON, quoted in The Observer
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- ) in 'Time' 1961
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - -- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible." - Knopf, Alfred A.
"Debt is the fatal disease of all republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people." - Phillips, Wendell
##Education
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." - Wystan Hugh Auden
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." - Alex Bourne
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - Henry Brougham
"The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house." - William F. Buckley Jr.
"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta
"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him think." - Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." - Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
"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." - Rudyard Kipling
"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing he was educated in." - Will Rogers
"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." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"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." - Theodore Roosevelt
"He who can does.  He who can't, teaches." - George Bernard Shaw
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." - B. F. Skinner, in New Scientist
"Education . . . has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History
"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind." - JACQUES BARZUN, in Saturday Evening Post
"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - HENRY PETER BROUGHAM, BARON BROUGHAM AND VAUX, speech (1828)
"The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - MALCOLM FORBES, attributed, in Ann Landers' syndicated column
"Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery." - HORACE MANN, education report (1848)
"I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible." - ROBERT MOSES, speech (1971)
"'Tis Education forms the common mind, Just as the Twig is bent, the Tree's inclin'd." - ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays
"In Examinations those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell." - SIR WALTER RALEIGH, Laughter from a Cloud
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - OSCAR WILDE, Intentions
"Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty." - ROGER ASCHAM, The Scholemaster
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge." - CONFUCIUS, Analects
"We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." - T.S. ELIOT, Four Quartets
"Little Gidding Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future." - EURIPIDES, (fragment)
"All wish to know, but none want to pay the fee." - JUVENAL, Satires
"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way." - DORIS LESSING, The Four-Gated City
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism
"Motivational catharses To me are mythic farces Something I will never know. But I will get my act together Buffalo will have good weather And grad school doesn't blow." - Brown, Thomas Ford
"My faculty adviser is a commie sympathizer who preaches Marx is great. When he mails across the nation letters of recommendation unemployment is my fate." - Brown, Thomas Ford
"If I had a dissertation there'd be no humiliation. I'd say 'Doctor, if you please.' [instrumental] I would publish all my theories in a twenty two part series, writing off the printing fees." - Callahan, Paul
"Hard to say, Ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused." - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip, responding to his teacher Mrs. Wormwood
"Life at a university with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at the postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap." - Chambers, Sir Paul (1904-1981) [British industrialist]
"Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way." - Chomsky, Noam in 'Language and Freedom'
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba
"Excuse me, teacher? May I be excused? My brain is full." - Larson, Gary a student, hand-raised, asks a question to his teacher in 'The Far Side'
"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." - Lowell, Abbott L. (1856-1943)
"Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up." - McLuhan, Marshall quoted in Phillip Marchand's biography of him
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education." - Mizner, Wilson
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'The Republic', book VII, 536-E
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
" 'Students?' barked the Archchancellor.  'Yes, Master. You know? They're the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we're a *university*? They come with the whole thing, like rats...'" - Pratchett, Terry in 'Moving Pictures'
"... [I]t is unfortunately in the nature of the academic career structure that there are always more people needing to say things than there are things that need to be said. (July Sept. 1992), p. 85." - Rosenthal, Michael from 'What was Postmodernism?' in 'Socialist Review', vol 22, no. 3
"College is a fountain of knowledge... and the students are there to drink." - Unknown
"Grad school: it's not just a job, it's an indenture." - Unknown
"If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable." - Unknown
"If this is an ivory tower, then I must be in the basement!" - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 9 August 1995
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Eloquence
"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." - Ben Jonson
"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts." - Blaise Pascal
"True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
##Emotion
"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" - BIBLE, Jeremiah 17:9
"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." - BIBLE, Matthew 6:21
"Seeing's believing, but feeling's the truth." - THOMAS FULLER, Gnomologia
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Sorrows of Young Werther
"There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Courtship of Miles Standish
"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at every turn." - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Pity me not because the light of day
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." - BLAISE PASCAL, Penses
"The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it." - FRANCIS QUARLES, Emblems
"My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." - WILLIAM SHARP, The Lonely Hunter
"In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable." - MADAME DE STA, letter (1810)
"Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart." - W.B. YEATS, The Circus Animals' Desertion
##Ending
"It ain't over till it's over." - Yogi Berra, attributed
"The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings." - Dan Cook, in Washington Post
"Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 7:8
"Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end." - LORD BYRON, Don Juan
"The opera ain't over `til the fat lady sings." - ODAN COOK, in Washington Post
"A hard beginning maketh a good ending." - JOHN HEYWOOD, Proverbs
"Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence part is already extinguished." - MARCUS AURELIUS, Meditationsq
##Endurance
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured." - Dean Acheson, quoted by Merle Miller in Plain Speaking
"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
"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Columbus
"Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend." - DCHRISTINA ROSSETTI, Up-Hill
##Enemies
"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." - Aesop, Fables
"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." - Aesop, Fables
"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." - Aesop, Fables
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults." - Antisthenes
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes." - Antisthenes, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
"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." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"He is his own worst enemy." - Cicero, of Julius Caesar, in Epistolae Ad Atticum
"There is no little enemy." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
"He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies" - William Hazlitt, Characteristics
"We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first." - Heinrich Heine
"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you." - Eric Hoffer
"Even a paranoid can have enemies." - Henry A. Kissinger, quoted in Time
"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." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"He makes no friend who never made a foe." - Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Idylls of the King
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." - Voltaire, letter (1767)
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Waltkelly, comic strip Pogo
"Call no man foe, but never love a stranger." - STELLA BENSON, To the Unborn
"If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee." - BIBLE, Proverbs 25:21
"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." - BIBLE, Matthew 5:44
"Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner." - THOMAS BROWNE, Religio Medici
"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim
"It is an unhappy lot which finds no enemies." - Publilius Syrus, Maxims
"We have met the enemy and they are ours." - OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, military communique (1813)
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." - VOLTAIRE, letter (1767)
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)
"This is no time to make new enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan
"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Energy
"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." - Thomas Alva Edison
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." - Camus, Albert
##England
"In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce." - Domenico Caracciolo, attributed
"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual.'" - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1914)
"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one." - George Mikes, How to be an Alien
"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humours." - George Santayana, Soliloquies in England
"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'
"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." - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
"Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role." - DEAN ACHESON, speech (1962)
"If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England." - RUPERT BROOKE, The Soldier
"Oh, to be in England Now that April's there." - ROBERT BROWNING, Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual'." - WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech (1914)
"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses." - JOHN FLORIO, Second Frutes
"England is a nation of shopkeepers." - NAPOLEON I, quoted in Barry O'Meara's Napoleon at St. Helena
"England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, Soliloquies in England
"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." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Pygmalion
"What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?" - SYDNEY SMITH, quoted in Hesketh Pearson's The Smith of Smiths
"Hell is a city much like London - A populous and smoky city." - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Peter Bell the Third
##Enjoyment
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.
"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
##Entertainment
"Television--a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done." - Kovacs, Ernie
"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." - Marx, Groucho [Julius Henry] (1895-1977)
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either." - McLuhan, Marshall
"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel." - 'Taxi'
##Enthusiasm
"It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth." - Arthur James Balfour, letter (1891)
"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." - Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.  Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light." - Thomas Fuller, M. D., Gnomologia
"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." - Charles Kingsley, quoted in Reader's Digest
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum - but you have to make the romance, and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., letter (1911)
##Environment
"Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man." - HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House
"Not one cent for scenery." - JOSEPH G. CANNON, quoted in Tyrant from Illinois by Blair Bolles, made by the congressman in the cou
"As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life." - RACHEL CARSON, Silent Spring
"We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it." - LAWRENCE DURRELL, Justine
"Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it." - R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
"Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products." - WILLIAM RALPH INGE, in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant
"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future." - MARYA MANNES, More in Anger
"Many people live in ugly wastelands, but in the absence of imaginative standards, most of them do not even know it." - C. WRIGHT MILLS, Power, Politics and People
"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources." - RONALD REAGAN, quoted in Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error by Mark Green and Gail MacColl
"The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself." - FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, letter (1937)
"The emergence of intelligence, I am convinced, tends to unbalance the ecology. In other words, intelligence is the great polluter. It is not until a creature begins to manage its environment that nature is thrown into disorder." - CLIFFORD D. SIMAK, Shakespeare's Planet
"Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand." - Brewer, Charles L. 1990
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." - Carlin, George
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Prophesy
"The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass. So we, too, pass silently." - George, Chief Dan
"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." - Nash, Ogden
##Epitaph
"In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath." - Samuel Johnson
"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.'" - Benito Mussolini
##Equality
"The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors." - Henry Becque, Querelles littraires
"One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"It was a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals." - Felix Frankfurter, judicial opinion (1949)
"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.'" - F. A. Hayek
"That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent." - Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Declaration of Sentiments (First Woman's Rights Convention, 1848)
"Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling to themselves." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (1963)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (at the March on Washington, 1963)
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (at the March on Washington, 1963)
"By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
##Error
"Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense." - HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE, Reflections upon Exile
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - PEARL S. BUCK, What America Means to Me
"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong." - MICHAEL FRAYN, Sweet Dreams
"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it." - JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth." - JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
"To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Anonymous in 'Farmer's Almanac for 1978' 1977
"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age." - Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)
"I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) 16 Feb 1934
##Errors
"To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer." - Anonymous in 'Farmer's Almanac for 1978' 1977
"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age." - Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." - Jones, Franklin P.
"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." - Niven, Larry, and Jerry Pournelle in 'Oath of Fealty'
"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself." - Sheinwold, Alfred [Bridge Writer]
##Evidence
"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? To the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. The dog did nothing in the nighttime. That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes." - ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
"Youk'n hide de fier, but w'at you gwine do wid de smoke?" - JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS, Uncle Remus
##Evil
"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." - Woody Allen
"Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good." - W. H. Auden, A Certain World
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke, attributed
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness." - Confucius
"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible." - Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
"Nothing is evil which is according to nature." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"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
"An Apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And `twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." - DANIEL DEFOE, The True-Born Englishman
"It is stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it." - RONALD KNOX, Let Dons Delight
"The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"Evil is unspectacular and always human And shares our bed and eats at our own table." - W.H. AUDEN, Herman Melville
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
"No one ever suddenly became depraved." - JUVENAL, Satires
"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - MAE WEST, in the film Klondike Annie
"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." - MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, A Vindication of the Rights of Men
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise." - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)
"But, by all thy nature's weakness,  Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil,  Conscious of thine own." - Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
##Evolution
"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Life and Habit
"The unfit die, the fit both live and thrive. Alas, who says so? They who do survive." - SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN, The Survival of the Fittest
"If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, geta million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." - Cringely, Robert X. from 'InfoWorld'
"Some races wax and others wane, and in the short space the tribes of living things are changed, and like runners hand on the torch of life." - Lucretius (99-55 B.C.)
##Example
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." - Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace
"It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example." - Fred Hoyle, Into Deepest Space
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." - KAHLIL GIBRAN, Sand and Foam
"Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example." - PHAEDRUS, Fables
##Excess
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." - W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938
"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." - SHAKESPEARE, King John
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
##Excuses
"He who excuses himself accuses himself.  (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse)" - Gabriel Meurier, Trsor des sentences
"Apology is only egotism wrong side out." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
"And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse." - SHAKESPEARE, King John
"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." - THOMAS SZASZ, The Second Sin
"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." - P.G. WODEHOUSE, The Man Upstairs
##Existence
"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be.  To the wise, these truths are self-evident." - Bhagavad Gita
"Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that's the only reason for having anything." - Buscaglia, Leo in 'Love'
"Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existance." - Fromm, Erich
"That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't." - Renard, Jules
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat." - Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
"Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existance." - Unknown
"He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist." - Unknown
"It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless." - Weinstein, Howard
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things." - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
##Experience
"Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience." - Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." - Albert Camus
"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it." - G. K. Chesterton
"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts
"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." - Henry James, Partial Portraits
"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them." - George Santayana
"All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I am a part of all that I have met." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past." - PATRICK HENRY, speech (1775)
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - VERNON LAW, in This Week
"Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments." - LEONARDO DA VINCI, Notebooks
"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move." - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Ulysses
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan
"The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly." - Chomsky, Noam in 'Language and Problems of Knowledge: the Managua Lectures' 1988
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things." - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
##Exploration
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - Eliot, T. S.
"You shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our journeying Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." - Eliot, T. S. in 'Little Gidding V', from 'Four Quartets' 1942
"America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Fact
"You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things." - Cleveland Amory
"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." - Bliss Carman, attributed
"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, letter (1860)
"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." - MARK TWAIN, quoted in Rudyard Kipling's From Sea to Sea
##Facts
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William
"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." - Gould, Stephen Jay
"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly." - Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936) [Russian physiologist]
##Failure
"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important." - Arther Bloch
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." - Farrar
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields, quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise
"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost." - Ferdinand Foch
"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African Proverb
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, For an Autograph
"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything." - Collins, Marva
"I don't know the the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everbody." - Cosby, Bill
"In school the external nightmare is internalized for life. Boris was not learning arithmetic only; he was learning the essential nightmare also. To be successful in our culture one must learn to dream of failure." - Henry, J. in 'Culture Against Men'
"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"There is always another chance... This thing called 'failure' is not falling down, but staying down." - Pickford, Mary
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore
##Faith
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." - Bible, Hebrews
"Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - Ambrose Bierce
##Faithfulness
"Wither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." - BIBLE, Ruth 1:16
"Faithfulwomen are all alike. They think only of their fidelity and never of their husbands." - JEAN GIRAUDOUX, Amphitryon 38
"O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect." - SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
"Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather." - JOHN SUCKLING, A Poem with the Answer
"Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
##Fame
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised." - Fred Allen
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognised." - Fred Allen, Treadmill to Oblivion
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . . I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen, quoted in Woody Allen and his Comedy by Eric Lax
"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness." - Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"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
"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." - Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta
"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the livelong June - to an admiring bog!" - Emily Dickinson
"Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame." - Baltasar Gracian
"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." - William Hazlitt
"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know." - Henry Louis Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
"Fame is not just.  She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs." - Henry David Thoreau
"In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes." - Andy Warhol, widely attributed to and acknowledged by Warhol
"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity." - RUSSELL BAKER, in New York Times
"Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the north pole." - VICKI BAUM, Grand Hotel
"Fame is a bee. It has a song It has a sting Ah, too, it has a wing." - EMILY DICKINSON, Fame is a bee
"If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, attributed, quoted by Sarah Yule and Mary S. Keene in Borrowings (1889)
"Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
"Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise That last infirmity of noble mind To scorn delights, and live laborious days." - JOHN MILTON, Lycidas
"Love of fame is the last thing even the wise give up." - TACITUS, Histories
"If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters." - LORETTA YOUNG, quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise
"The great are only great because we are on our knees." - Connolly, James
##Family
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
"It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations." - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
"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." - Thomas Hardy
"There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson." - Victor Hugo
"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." - Washington Irving
"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!" - Rudyard Kipling
"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." - George Santayana, The Life of Reason
"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." - Walter Scott
"If parents would only realise how they bore their children!" - George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended - and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended." - ROBERT FROST, quoted in Vogue
"A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?" - ROSE MACAULAY, The World My Wilderness
"One would be in less dange From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with." - OGDEN NASH, Family Court
"All happy families are like one another; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - LEO TOLSTOY, Anna Karenina
##Fanaticism
"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals
"Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave A paradise for a sect." - JOHN KEATS, The Fall of Hyperion
##Farewells
"It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting." - Bibesco, Elizabeth
"SlVn go foil." - Irish Written Greeting
##Fashion
"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics." - George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
"A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey." - AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism
"You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
"A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months." - OSCAR WILDE, quoted in Richard Ellmann's Oscar Wilde
##Fate
"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat." - Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris
"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." - William Jennings Bryan
"There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn." - Albert Camus
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, Generally Speaking
"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honours depend upon heaven." - Confucius
"But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?" - Alexander Pope
"Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling." - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets." - KARL POPPER, The Open Society and Its Enemies
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings." - SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
"There is no armor against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings." - JAMES SHIRLEY, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses
"It matters not how straight the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul." - Henley, William E. from 'Invictus'
"Immortality--a fate worse than death." - Shoaff, Edgar A.
##Faults
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
"We confess to little faults only to persuade others that we have no great ones." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad." - SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
"The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes." - MADAME DE STA, quoted in Samuel Griswold Goodrich's Lives of Celebrated Women
"People mistake their limitations for high standards." - JEAN TOOMER, in Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms, ed. Rudolph P. Byrd
##Fear
"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love." - Aristotle
"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." - Isaac Asimov
"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." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." - Edmund Burke, speech (1792)
"A door slamming makes one jump, but it doesn't make one afraid. What one fears is the serpent that crawls underneath it." - Colette, Cheri
"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." - William Faulkner
"Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear." - Thomas Fuller, M. D., Gnomologia
"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." - Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays
"When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"To him who is afraid everything rustles." - Sophocles, Acrisius
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha
"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved." - NICCOL MACHIAVELLI, The Prince
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
" Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy." - Helvetius
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)
"Question with boldness even the existance of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfold fear." - Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
"Your silence will not protect you." - Lourde, Audre
"The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear thate will make one." - Maxwell, John
"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we cannot." - Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - VanDyke, Henry
##Flirtation
"His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage." - HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones
"The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess." - JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
"O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed: By keeping men off, you keep them on." - JOHN GAY, The Beggar's Opera
"The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
##Flowers
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein, Sacred Emily
"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." - William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
"To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." - William Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality
"To create a little flower is the labor of ages." - WILLIAM BLAKE, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose." - ROBERT BROWNING, Sordello
"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." - JEAN GIRAUDOUX, The Enchanted
"'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone." - THOMAS MOORE, 'Tis the Last Rose
"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." - IRIS MURDOCH, A Fairly Honorable Defeat
##Flying
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." - Lauren Bacall
"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport." - Winters, George
##Food
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety." - Aesop, Fables
"EDIBLE, adj.. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach." - William Cowper, in The Iconoclast
"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." - Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." - Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides
"No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention." - Christopher Darlington Morley
"There is no love sincerer than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'
"MOTHER: It's broccoli, dear.: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." - B. White, cartoon caption in New Yorker
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well." - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
"There's no sauce in the world like hunger." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha
"It's a very odd thing As odd as can be That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T." - WALTER DE LA MARE, Miss T.
"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Affluent Society
"He was a very valiant man who first adventured on eating of oysters." - JAMES I, quoted in Thomas Fuller's Worthies of England
"We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks." - OWEN MEREDITH, Lucile
"Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today." - SYDNEY SMITH, quoted in Lady Holland's Memoir
"MOTHER: It's broccoli, dear. CHILD: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." - E.B. WHITE, cartoon caption in New Yorker
"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es. T: Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are." - Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme (1755-1826)
"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" - DeGaulle, Charles
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." - Fern, Fanny (1811-1872) in 'Willis Parton'
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Marder, Jeff
"There's nothing like unrequited love to take all the taste out of a peanut butter sandwich." - Schulz, Charles M. spoken by Charlie Brown in the comic strip 'Peanuts'
##Fools
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992
"Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference." - Anonymous
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools." - Gene Brown
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Sir Winston Churchill
"A fool must now and then be right, by chance." - William Cowper, Conversation
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." - Anatole France
"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends." - Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom
"None is a fool always, everyone sometimes." - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while." - Horace
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
"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." - Edmund Spenser
"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." - Mark Twain, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
"Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool." - Voltaire
"Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." - BIBLE Proverbs 26:4
"A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him." - NICOLAS BOILEAU, L'Art potique
"Fortune, that favors fools." - BEN JONSON, The Alchemist
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
"The wise through excessive wisdom is made a fool." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
##Forbidden
"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." - BIBLE, Proverbs 9:17
"The illicit has an added charm." - TACITUS, Annals
"Adam was but human - this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent." - RMARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
##Foreigner
"Everyone's quick to blame the alien." - AESCHYLUS, The Suppliant Maidens
"I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned." - QUENTIN CRISP, The Naked Civil Servant
##Forgiveness
"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." - John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada
"To err is human, to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
"You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in yourhearing." - JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
"Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong." - JOHN DRYDEN, The Conquest of Granada
"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not - squatter's rights of the heart." - JAMES HILTON, Time and Time Again
"Nobuddy ever fergits where he buried a hatchet." - KIN HUBBARD, Abe Martin's Broadcast
"He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love." - JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness." - Billings, Josh
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise." - Nowlan, Alden
"Love means never having to say you are sorry." - Segal, Erich
##Fortitude
"He who Laughs, Lasts." - Anonymous
"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
##Fortune
"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
"Fortune, that favours fools." - Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
"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
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down." - Seneca
"Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted." - Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 9:11
"Luck is not chance It's Toil Fortune's expensive smile Is earned" - EMILY DICKINSON, Luck is not chance
"Fortune's wheel never stands still - the highest point is therefore the most perilous." - MARIA EDGEWORTH, Patronage
"Fortune gives many too much, but none enough." - MARTIAL, Epigrams
"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind." - LOUIS PASTEUR, speech (1854)
"When Fortune flatters, she does it to betray." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted." - SENECA, De Tranquillitate Animi
"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit." - JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects
##France
"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams." - Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
"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." - E. M. Cioran, The Temptation to Exist
"How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?" - Charles de Gaulle, quoted in Newsweek
"Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes." - NORMAN DOUGLAS, Siren Lands
"The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human'." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Uncollected Lectures
"Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us, Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?" - THOMAS MOORE, The Fudge Family in Paris
"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaisance. T: 'Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.'" - Bussy-Rabutin, Compte des
"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" - DeGaulle, Charles
"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own laguage, and forthwith it is something entirely different." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"I can speak French but I cannot understand it." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
##Freedom
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali
"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." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"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." - Bruce Barton
"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist." - Edmund Burke
"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law." - Cicero
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown
"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." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Only the educated are free." - Epicetus, Discourses
"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." - E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
"Who then is free?  The wise man who can command himself." - Horace
"Liberation is not deliverance." - Victor Hugo
"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." - Thomas Jefferson
"Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration." - Walter Lippmann
"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired." - David Lloyd George
"Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man." - Archibald MacLeish
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression." - Thomas Paine
"A Country can get more real joy out of just Hollering for their Freedom than they can if they get it." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure." - Bertrand Russell
"He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason." - Baruch Spinoza
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." - George Washington
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth." - George Washington
"Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint." - Daniel Webster
"A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom." - IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA, in Kulchur
"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow." - LORD BYRON, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" - PATRICK HENRY, speech (1775)
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (inaugural address, 1961)
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." - ROSA LUXEMBURG, The Russian Revolution
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license." - JOHN MILTON, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!" - (MADAME) JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND, attributed, quoted in Alphonse de Lamartine's  Histoire des Girondins
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract
"Man is condemned to be free." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Existentialism and Humanism
"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?" - KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR., judicial decision (1919)
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, speech (1965)
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." - JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - Adams, John in 'Novanglus', 'Boston Gazette' 06 Feb 1775
"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once." - Long, Lazarus
"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people, by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent & sudden usurpations." - Madison, James to the Virgina Convention 06 Jun 1788
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'
"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly." - Russell, Bertrand
"Loud speech, profusion of words and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation." - Shankaracharya
"Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off." - Short, Solomon
##Friendship
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible." - Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
"Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune." - Aeschylus
"A friend to all is a friend to none." - Aristotle
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
"Friends are thieves of time." - Francis Bacon
"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends." - Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart
"There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, What Will He Do With It?
"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
"A friend is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero, De Amicitia
"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost." - Charles Caleb Colton
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself." - Confucius
"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." - E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy
"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world." - William Hazlitt, Characteristics
"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!" - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative." - Henry Louis Mencken
"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." - Blaise Pascal, Penses
"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one that we take the least care of all to acquire." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another;  people are friends in spots." - George Santayana
"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend." - Henry David Thoreau
"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." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)
"We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them." - Evelyn Waugh
"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha
"Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Representative Men
"It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue." - IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
"When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. Friends are the thermometers by which one may judge the temperature of our fortunes." - MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON, Commonplace Book
"Fate makes our relatives, choice makes our friends." - JACQUES DELILLE, Malheur et piti
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Friendship
"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Friendship
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends And say my glory was I had such friends." - W.B. YEATS, The Municipal Gallery Revisited
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years." - Bach, Richard
"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth." - Darwin, Charles
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"He who would be friends with God must remain alone or make the whole world his friend." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
"Joys divided are increased." - Holland, Josia Gilbert
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)
"I have no sustained relationship with any person whom I've met only by and through E-mail.... I uncharitably speculate that it's because I already have a life." - Sterling, Bruce
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you." - Tensin, Madame de
"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body." - Unknown
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Winchell, Walter
##Future
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
"FUTURE, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"You can never plan the future by the past." - Edmund Burke, letter (1791)
"The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities." - Benjamin N. Cardozo
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous." - George Eliot, Middlemarch
"The best of seers is he who guesses well." - Euripides, fragment
"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." - Eugene Forsey
"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." - Eric Hoffer
"The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done." - Elwyn Brooks White
"Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness." - Edward Young
"'We are always doing,' says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.'" - JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." - BIBLE, Matthew 6:34
"Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth." - BIBLE, Proverbs 27:1
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one." - JOHN GALSWORTHY, Swan Song
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." - SYDNEY J. HARRIS, quoted in Reader's Digest
"But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The Tract on Monetary Reform
"The Future . . . something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." - C.S. LEWIS, The Screwtape Letters
"I have been over into the future, and it works." - LINCOLN STEFFENS, Autobiography
"The future is made of the same stuff as the present." - SIMONE WEIL, in On Science, Necessity and the Love of God, ed. Richard Rees
"To know the road ahead, ask those coming back." - Chinese Proverb
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." - Einstein, Albert
"I have long considered it it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If were not, life would surely be unbearable." - Forsey, Eugene
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - -- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855)
"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) in '1984'
"Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it." - Santayana, George (1863-1952) in 'Life of Reason'
"People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future." - Unknown
##Gambling
"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." - AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
"Death and dice level all distinction." - SAMUEL FOOTE, The Minor
"God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." - Hawking, Stephen
##Games
"To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth." - HERBERT SPENCER, letter (to Beatrice Potter, 1890)
"It ain't over til it's over." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on playing hard, in 'Yogi, It Ain't Over...' (1990) 1973
"Roleplaying is an escapist activity that requires a good imagination, but it is not recommended for those with a poor grip on reality. It does not make weirdos, it simply attracts them." - rec.games.frp.* FAQ
##Garden
"A Garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!" - THOMAS EDWARD BROWN, My Garden
"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes." - PJAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A Fable for Critics
"I want death to find me planting my cabbages, but caring little for it, and even less for my imperfect garden." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
##Gender
"It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar." - Goodsell, Jane
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
##Generation
"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." - HOMER, The Iliad
"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers." - LEWIS MUMFORD, The Brown Decades
##Genius
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." - Samuel Johnson
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness." - Seneca
"A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents." - Unknown
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - THOMAS EDISON, quoted in F.L. Dyer's Edison: His Life and Inventions
"Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife." - MARGARET FULLER, diary entry
"Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains." - JANE ELLICE HOPKINS, Work Amongst Working Men
"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." - JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (honoring Nobel Prize winners, 1962)
"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Literary Essays
"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can." - OWEN MEREDITH, Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - JONATHAN SWIFT, Thoughts on Various Subjects
##Giving
"Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." - Bible, II Corinthians 9:7
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." - Albert Camus, The Fall
"Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best." - Samuel Johnson
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"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
"We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse." - Anne Swetchine
"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." - PIERRE CORNEILLE, Le Menteur
"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"Presents, I often say, endear absents." - CHARLES LAMB, Essays of Elia
"Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts." - NAN ROBERTSON, in New York Times
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you." - Gide, Andre
"The love we give away is the only one we keep." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)
##Glory
"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
"Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?" - JEAN GIRAUDOUX, Amphitryon 38
"The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave." - THOMAS GRAY, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
"There is no road of flowers leading to glory." - JEAN DE LA FONTAINE, Fables
"To our ashes glory comes too late." - MARTIAL, Epigrams
"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name." - THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT, Verses Written During the War
"Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, nothing so expensive as glory." - SYDNEY SMITH, quoted in Lady Holland's Memoir
"How quickly passes away the glory of this world." - THOMAS KEMPIS, Imitation of Christ
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore
##Goals
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - Crisp, Quentin
"When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero." - Unknown
##God
"This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past." - Agathon, quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen
"God is not dead. He is alive and working; working on a less ambitious project." - Anonymous
"Evil and good are God's right hand and left." - Gamaliel Bailey
"Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?" - Bible, Malachi 2:10
"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." - Giordano Bruno
"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm." - William Cowper, Light Shining Out of Darkness
"If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him." - Denis Diderot
"Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish." - Albert Einstein
"God is subtle but he is not malicious." - Albert Einstein, attributed
"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God." - Euripides
"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?" - Benjamin Franklin
"A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order." - Thomas Jefferson
"God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice." - Cecil B. de Mille
"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God." - Seneca
"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." - The Talmud
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd." - Voltaire
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." - Voltaire, ptre  l'auteur du livre des trois imposteurs
"We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is." - SAINT AUGUSTINE, De Trinitate
"God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod." - ROBERT BROWNING, Saul
"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us." - PETER DE VRIES, The Mackerel Plaza
"I, at any rate, am convinced that God is not playing at dice." - ALBERT EINSTEIN, letter (1926)
"God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper." - R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, No More Secondhand God
"An honest god is the noblest work of man." - ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, The Gods, and Other Lectures
"The Holy One . . . requires the heart." - JUDAH BEN EZEKIEL, in the Talmud
"A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing." - MARTIN LUTHER, Ein' feste Burg
"Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men." - JOHN MILTON, Samson Agonistes
"Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are." - OVID, Ars Amatoria
"Man proposes, but God disposes." - THOMAS KEMPIS, Imitation of Christ
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." - Bible (Romans 1:20)
"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain." - Cary, Joyce
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Einstein, Albert
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galilei, Galileo
"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Jackson, Holbrook
"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.
"If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides." - Montesquieu, Charles de in 'Essays' 1580
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't." - Renard, Jules
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Tagore, Rabindranath
"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." - Voltaire (1694-1778) in 'Epitre a l'auteur de livre des trois imposteurs' 10 Nov 1770
"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together." - Yunus, Muhammad [Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh]
##Good
"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
"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." - Woody Allen
"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." - Francis Bacon
"Evil and good are God's right hand and left." - Gamaliel Bailey
"Good order is the foundation of all good things." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
"Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good." - KARL BARTH, Christian Community
"He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer." - WILLIAM BLAKE, Jerusalem
"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." - STEPHEN GRELLET, attributed
"Good, the more Communicated, more abundant grows." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way." - JOHN MORLEY, On Compromise
"Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Lady Clara Vere de Vere
"No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'Dialogues', Apology, 41
##Gossip
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?" - JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
"A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run." - OUIDA, Wisdom, Wit and Pathos
"Rumor is not always wrong." - TACITUS, Life of Agricola
"Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first andin fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds." - VIRGIL, Aeneid
##Government
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." - William E. Borah
"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." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
"All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter." - Edmund Burke, speech (1775)
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." - George Burns, quoted in Life
"In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom." - Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
"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." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech (farewell address, 1961)
"Truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go." - Gerald R. Ford, comment during U.S. House committee hearing (1973)
"If the Government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have." - Gerald R. Ford, quoted in John F. Parker's If Elected
"A civil servant doesn't make jokes." - Eugene Ionesco, The Killer
"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - Henry Louis Mencken
"We live under a government of men and morning newspapers." - Wendell Phillips
"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts." - Seneca
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." - George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force." - George Washington
"Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government." - Wendell L. Wilkie
"A government of laws and not of men." - JOHN ADAMS, Novanglus Papers
"Where the State begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa." - MIKHAIL BAKUNIN, Federalism, Socialism and Anti-Theologism
"Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Proverbs in Prose
"Every country has the government it deserves." - JOSEPH MARIE DE MAISTRE, letter (1811)
"The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs." - NAPOLEON I, letter (1796)
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them." - P.J. O'ROURKE, quoted in Quote magazine
"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." - THOMAS B. REED, speech (1886)
"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it." - Barry, Dave
"All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second." - Fiebig, Jim
"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away." - Goldwater, Barry 1964
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." - Kennedy, Justice Anthony
"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." - Mencken, H[enry] L[ouis] (1880-1956)
"Debt is the fatal disease of all republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people." - Phillips, Wendell
" Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Reagan, Ronald
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." - Shepherd, Alan
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritative regime.-- Stewart, Potter [Supreme Court Justice]" - 
##Gratitude
"Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude." - Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." - Cicero
"The gratitude of most men is nothing but a secret desire to receive greater benefits." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart." - JEAN BAPTISTE MASSIEU, Letter to Abb Sicard
"A grateful mind By owing owes not,but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number." - Unknown 15-Year Old
##Great
"They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman, Revenge for Honour
"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of those acts, will be written the history of this generation." - Kennedy, Robert F.
##Greatness
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
"They're only truly great who are truly good." - George Chapman, Revenge for Honour
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens
"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration." - Cicero, De Natura Deorum
"Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect." - William Hazlitt
"Great men arebut life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short." - MAX BEERBOHM, And Even Now
"Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular." - MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON, Night Thought Book
"How drearyr to be Somebody! How public like a Frog To tell one's name the livelong June To an admiring Bog!" - EMILY DICKINSON, I'm Nobody! Who are you?
"To be great is to be misunderstood." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays, Self-Reliance
"Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The American Scholar
"Few great men could pass Personnel." - PAUL GOODMAN, Growing Up Absurd
"The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." - MENCIUS, Works
"Few have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of those acts, will be written the history of this generation." - Kennedy, Robert F.
##Greed
"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp." - JOHN BERRY, Flight of White Crows
"each generation wastes a little more of the future with greed and lust for riches" - DON MARQUIS, the lives and times of archy and mehitabel
"i have noticed that when chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same way with the human race" - DON MARQUIS, the lives and times of archy and mehitabel
"Poverty wants much; but avarice, everything." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"'T would make one scratch where `t does not itch,To see fools live poor to die rich." - THOMAS SHADWELL, Woman Captain
##Grief
"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." - Edmund Burke
"Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water." - Antoine Rivarol
"That grief is light which can take counsel." - Seneca
"Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself." - Seneca
##Growth
"All growth depends upon activity.  There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." - Calvin Coolidge
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Buscaglia, Leo
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Butterworth, Eric
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"It is a universal maxim, that the more liberty is given to everything which is in a state of growth, the more perfect it will become." - Priestly, Joseph in 'Essay on Government' 1768
"When they tell you to grow up, they mean to stop growing." - Robbins, Tom
##Guilt
"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving." - Erma Bombeck, quoted in Time
"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie." - LAWRENCE DURRELL, Justine
"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself, to actualize oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is." - R.D. LAING, Self and Others
"Without guilt What is a man? An animal, isn't he? A wolf forgiven at his meat, A beetle innocent in his copulation." - ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." - CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU, Mirame
##Habit
"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
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle
"Custom reconciles us to everything." - Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them." - Agatha Christie, Witness for the Prosecution
"Habit will reconcile us to everything but change." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them." - Confucius, Analects
"Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I've done it from my youth." - George Crabbe, The Borough
"Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit." - Epicetus, Encheiridion
"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." - William James, The Principles of Psychology
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." - Samuel Johnson
"Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes." - Hannah More, Florio
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?" - Barbara Streisland
"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time." - Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)
"For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people." - NICCOL MACHIAVELLI, The Prince and the Discourses
"Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments." - MARCEL PROUST, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain
"To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be." - MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, The Tragic Sense of Life
##Happiness
"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
"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." - Woody Allen
"Judge none blessed before his death." - Bible, Ecclesiasticus 11:28
"A cheerful heart is good medicine." - Bible, Proverbs 17:22
"Those who have easy, cheerful attitudes tend to be happier than those with less pleasant temperaments, regardless of money, 'making it', or success." - Dr. Joyce Brothers
"Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
"We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind." - Cicero
"Happiness is brief.  It will not stay.  God batters at its sails." - Euripides
"No man is a failure who is enjoying life." - William Feather
"To be happy one must have a good stomach and a bad heart." - Bernard de Fontenelle, Dialogues des morts
"Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day." - Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
"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." - Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
"Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness." - Andr Gide, The Immoralist
"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us." - William Hazlitt
"The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." - Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that one is loved; loved for oneself, or better yet, loved despite oneself." - Victor Hugo
"Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else." - Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
"The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so." - William Ralph Inge, in Wit and Wisdom of Dean Inge, ed. James Marchant
"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." - Thomas Jefferson
"Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation." - Amy Lowell, Happiness
"Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change." - Bertrand Russell
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment." - George Santayana, The Life of Reason
"I were but little happy, if I could say how much." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it." - George Bernard Shaw, Candida
"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?" - Adam Smith
"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise." - JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
"Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy." - AESCHYLUS, Agamemnon
"To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"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." - SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and its Discontents
"Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length" - ROBERT FROST, (poem title)
"It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed." - KIN HUBBARD, Abe Martin's Broadcast
"One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so." - JOHN STUART MILL, Autobiography
"No man is happy who does not think himself so." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
"Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it." - SYDNEY SMITH, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults." - THOMAS SZASZ, The Second Sin
"My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy." - Barnes, J.
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.
"They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
"We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about." - Brown, Sr., H. Jackson
"Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose." - Brown, John Marm
"There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday.... And the other ... is Tomorrow." - Burdette, Robert James
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy." - Connolly, Cyril
"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Joys divided are increased." - Holland, Josia Gilbert
"'This is eternal bliss,' I thought. 'This cannot be described; it is far too wonderful!'" - Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961) describing a heart attack that nearly killed him
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us." - Keller, Helen (1880-1968)
"Freindship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)
"To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved." - Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von
"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." - Merton, Thomas
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without books, without friends, without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts." - Munth, Axel
"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'" - Quillen, Robert quoted in 'A Treasury of the Art of Living'
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"Never think you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." - Trollope, Anthony
"I can live for two months on a good compliment." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Seen on the bathroom walls of Concordia University: 'Ignorance is bliss.' and right underneath it... 'I don't know what this means but I'm happy.'" - Unknown
"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." - Whitman, Walt
##Haste
"Make haste slowly." - Caesar Augustus, quoted by Suetonius in Lives of the Caesars
"There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily." - Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
"No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised." - Will Durant, The Life of Greece
"If they try to rush me, I always say, 'I've only got one other speed - and it's slower.'" - Glenn Ford
"If it were done when `tis done, then `twere well It were done quickly." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
"Nothing is more vulgar than haste." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions." - STEPHEN LEACOCK, Nonsense Novels
"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world." - THOMAS SHADWELL, A True Widow
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Lincoln, Abraham
##Hate
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Swift, Jonathan
"The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference." - Weisel, Elie
##Hatred
"Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something." - Anton Chekhov, Notebooks
"I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"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." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"I do desire we may be better strangers." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction." - MINNA ANTRIM, Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions
"Now Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure." - LORD BYRON, Don Juan
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us." - HERMANN HESSE, Demian
"Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art." - OGDEN NASH, Plea for Less Malice Toward Men
"Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad." - LEO ROSTEN, speech (at a dinner honoring W.C. Fields, 1939)
"Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, Confessions
"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." - Niven, Larry, and Jerry Pournelle in 'Oath of Fealty'
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people we personally dislike." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Health
"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." - Francis Bacon
"A cheerful heart is good medicine." - Bible, Proverbs 17:22
"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Eubie Blake
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, Come to Think of It
"Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy." - Benjamin Franklin
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
"God heals, and the physician hath the thanks." - George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs.
"Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Joy and Temperance and Repose Slam the door on the doctor's nose." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Best Medicines
"Health consists with temperance alone." - Alexander Pope
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." - George Dennison Prentice
"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well." - Seneca
"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease." - Sivananda
"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque
"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it." - William Temple
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times." - Mark Twain
"I know I can quit smoking because I've done it a thousand times." - Mark Twain
"Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy
"Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend." - JOHN DRYDEN, Epistle to John Driden of Chesterton
"You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. (Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.)" - JUVENAL, Satires
"It is a wearisome illness to preserve one's health by too strict a regimen." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. He that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else." - JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education Joy and Temperance and Repose
"Slam the door on the doctor's nose." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, The Best Medicines
"Life is not merely being alive, but being well." - MARTIAL, Epigrams
"The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would." - SIMEON STRUNSKY, The Patient Observer
"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies." - LEO TOLSTOY, War and Peace
"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it." - Barry, Dave
"Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors." - Crisp, Quentin
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti
"If I had known that I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mantle, Mickey
##Heart
"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." - Rudyard Kipling
"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." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength." - Hasidic saying
##Heaven
"Heaven means to be one with God." - Confucius
"The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance." - THOMAS MORE, Utopia
"The spirit of the valley never dies. It is called the subtle and profound female. The gate of the subtle and profound female Is the root of Heaven and Earth. It is continuous, and seems to be always existing. Use it and you will never wear it out." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there." - Luther, Martin (1483-1546)
##Hell
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!" - Dante, The Divine Comedy
"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell." - Phillip Sheridan
"If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company." - JAMES M. BARRIE, The Little Minister
"Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"Hell is other people." - JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, No Exit
"Hell is a city much like London - A populous and smoky city." - PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, Peter Bell the Third
"Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, Richard, in which there is no love." - Bach, Richard in 'A Bridge Across Forever'
##Help
"You can only help one of your luckless brothers By trampling down a dozen others." - Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
"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." - Emily Dickinson, If I can stop one Heart from breaking
"Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others." - Elbert Hubbard, The Philistine
"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, But to support him after." - William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
"Don't shout for help at night. You may wake your neighbors." - STANISLAW LEC, Unkempt Thoughts
"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us." - RAINER MARIA RILKE, Letters to a Young Poet
##Hereafter
"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." - WOODY ALLEN, Without Feathers
"Work and pray, live on hay, You'll get pie in the sky when you die." - JOE HILL, The Preacher and the Slave
##Heresy
"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth." - H. G. Wells
"It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions." - Huxley, Aldous
##Heroism
"ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! . . . GALILEO: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes." - Bertolt Brecht, Life of Galileo
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one." - Baltasar Gracian
"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all." - Gerald W. Johnson, American Heroes and Hero-Worship
"Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more." - George F. Kennan, letter (1921)
"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." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
"ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes! GALILEO: No, unhappy the land that needs heroes." - BERTOLT BRECHT, Life of Galileo
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." - UMBERTO ECO, Travels in Hyperreality
"Every hero becomes a bore at last." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Representative Men
"A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world." - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, Journals
"See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!" - THOMAS MORELL, Judas Maccabaeus
##History
"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." - Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun
"Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind." - W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
"Nostalgia is a seductive liar." - George Ball, in Newsweek
"Happy is the nation without a history." - Cesare Beccaria, Treatise of Crimes and of Punishment
"HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"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." - Anatole Broyard, in New York Times
"You can never plan the future by the past." - Edmund Burke, letter (1791)
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies." - Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
"Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!" - Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great
"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?" - Cicero, Orator
"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here." - Finley Peter Dunne
"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." - Graffiti
"What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it." - Georg Wilhelm Hegel
"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." - William Ralph Inge, The End of an Age
"If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past." - Baruch Spinoza
"It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Erewhon Revisited
"History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable." - JOHN W. GARDNER, No Easy Victories
"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.'" - JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." - KARL MARX, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon
"'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" - GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
"A historian is a prophet in reverse." - FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL, in Athenaeum
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." - Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Firth, Robert
"They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Jefferys, William H.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Kierkegaard, Soren (1813-1855)
"By holding fast to this Tao of old, you can harness the events of the present, you can know the beginnings of the past--here is the essence of Tao." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation." - Levenson, Sam
"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation." - Old Farmers Almanac
"Who controls the present controls the past. Who controls the past controls the future." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) in '1984'
"History does not repeat itself. But it does rhyme." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
##Holidays
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend." - Larson, Doug
"I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween." - Unknown 13-Year Old
##Home
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in." - ROBERT FROST, The Death of the Hired Man
"Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., Homesick in Heaven
"The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter (1813)
"Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman, The Revolutionist's Handbook
"You Can't Go Home Again." - THOMAS WOLFE, (title of novel)
"You shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our journeying Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." - Eliot, T. S. in 'Little Gidding V', from 'Four Quartets' 1942
##Honesty
"All truth is not to be told at all times." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do." - Alexander Pope
"When in doubt tell the truth." - Mark Twain
"It is difficult but not impossible to conduct strictly honest business. . .What is true is that honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune." - MOHANDAS K. GANDHI, Non-Violence in Peace and War
"Honesty is praised and starves." - JUVENAL, Satires
"What is more arrogant than honesty?" - URSULA K. LE GUIN, The Left Hand of Darkness
"It is annoying to be honest to no purpose." - OVID, Epistulae ex Ponto
"An honest man's the noblest work of God." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
"Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"Honesty is the best policy, but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man." - RICHARD WHATELY, Thoughts and Apothegms
"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"This above all: To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." - Shakespear, William (1564-1616) spoken by Polonius in Hamlet, I.iii.78-80
##Honour
"'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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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
"Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters." - G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
"In honourable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought." - Cicero
"No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge
"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain
"Honor is like a rugged island without a shore; once you have left it, you cannot return." - NICOLAS BOILEAU, Satires
"Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters." - G.K. CHESTERTON, Heretics
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Conduct of Life
"There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved." - FRANCIS I OF FRANCE, letter (to his mother after the Battle of Pavia, 1525)
"Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honor, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living." - JUVENAL, Satires
"I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more." - RICHARD LOVELACE, To Luscasta, on Going to the Wars
"The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught." - H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices
"Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
"Without money honor is nothing but a malady." - JEAN RACINE, Les Plaideurs
"Set honorin one eye and death i' the other And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death." - SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes." - BARBARA TUCHMAN, The Guns of August
##Hope
"Youth is easily deceived, because it is quick to hope." - Aristotle, Rhetoric
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon, Apophthegms
"If one truly had lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so." - Eric Bentley
"Hope is a risk that must be run." - Georges Bernanos, Last Essays
"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope." - Thomas Carlyle
"Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords." - Samuel Johnson
"Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook." - Ben Jonson
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything." - Arabian Proverb
"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear." - Benedict de Spinoza, Ethics
"Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." - BIBLE, Proverbs 13:12
"Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure." - ABRAHAM COWLEY, The Mistress
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all" - EMILY DICKINSON, Hope is the thing with feathers
"I suppose it can be truthfully said that Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity." - ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, speech (1892)
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
"Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king." - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Hyperion
"Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All-too-Human
"Things which you don't hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope." - PLAUTUS, Mostellaria
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
"More are taken in by hope than by cunning." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maximsqk
"What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life." - Brunner, Emil
##Hospitality
"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?" - AESCHYLUS, The Libation Bearers
"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul." - MAX BEERBOHM, And Even Now
"Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." - BIBLE, Hebrews 13:1
"Fish and guests in three days are stale." - JOHN LYLY, Euphues
"For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest." - ALEXANDER POPE, Imitations of Horace
"Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part I
"A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. Welcome." - SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
##Humanity
"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." - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
"It is better for civilisation to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." - Henry Allen
"The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly." - Chomsky, Noam in 'Language and Problems of Knowledge: the Managua Lectures' 1988
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Einstein, Albert
"If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being. You'd be a game show host." - 'Heathers'
"The subject matter of research is no longer nature in itself, but nature subjected to human questioning . . ." - Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976)
"Man is a dog's idea of what God should be." - Jackson, Holbrook
"Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism." - James, William
"Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves." - Locke, John (1632-1704)
"The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse." - MacLeish, Archibald
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." - Robbins, Tom
"People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future." - Unknown
"The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together." - Yunus, Muhammad [Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh]
##Humans
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Harris, Sydney
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
##Humility
"Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"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
"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
"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." - BIBLE, Matthew 5:5
"'I am well aware that I am the umblest person going,' said Uriah Heep, modestly; 'let the other be where he may. My mother is likewise a very umble person. We live in a numble abode, Master Copperfield, but have much to be thankful for.'" - CHARLES DICKENS, David Copperfield
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." - J. PAUL GETTY, quoted in Robert Lenzner's The Great Getty
"Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"One may be humble out of pride." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity." - JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
##Humor
"The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together." - Eastman, Max
"They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Jefferys, William H.
"It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them." - Jewish Proverb
"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused." - MacLaine, Shirley
"For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out." - Unknown 6-Year Old
"I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?" - Unknown 15-Year Old
"It would be terrible if the Red Cross Bloodmobile got into an accident. No, wait. That would be good because if anyone needed it, the blood would be right there." - Unknown 5-Year Old
"Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number." - Unknown 15-Year Old
"Shift that fat ass, Harry. But slowly, or you'll swamp the damned boat." - Washington, George to General Henry 'Ox' Knox while entering the boat that was to cross the Delaware
##Humour
"He who Laughs, Lasts." - Anonymous
"Wit is educated insolence." - Aristotle
"Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius." - Thomas Carlyle
"Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters." - Cato the Elder, quoted in Plutarch's Moralia: Sayings of Kings and Commanders
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humour?" - Frank Moore Colby, The Colby Essays
"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections." - George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it." - Samuel Johnson
"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." - Samuel Johnson
"The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth." - George Jean Nathan
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance." - W. Somerset Maugham
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?" - FRANK MOORE COLBY, The Colby Essays
"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." - ROMAIN GARY, Promise at Dawn
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money." - ARTHUR MILLER, Death of a Salesman
"Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace
"Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding." - AGNES REPPLIER, In Pursuit of Laughter
"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." - WILL ROGERS, Illiterate Digest
"here's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick." - RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, The School for Scandal
"Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike." - MADAME DE STA, De l'Allemagne
"Satire is asort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own." - JONATHAN SWIFT, The Battle of the Books
"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." - JAMES THURBER, in New York Post
"The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven." - MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
"I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning." - IZAAK WALTON, The Compleat Angler
"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." - Hugo, Victor (1802-1885)
##Humourous
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." - Douglas Adams
"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." - Douglas Adams
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992
"God's final message to his Creation: We Apologise For The Inconvenience" - Douglas Adams, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish
"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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali, quoted in New York Times
"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there." - Fred Allen
"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year." - Marty Allen
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me." - Woody Allen
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night." - Woody Allen
"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen
"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen
"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." - Woody Allen
"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network." - Guy Almes
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction." - Noelie Altito
"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
"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." - Rowan Atkinson, Live in Belfast
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." - Wystan Hugh Auden
"A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't." - Burt Bacharach
"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." - Dave Barry
"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." - Dave Barry
"I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started." - Brendan Behan
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson, Notebook
"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours." - Yogi Berra
"Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
"Be thankful for problems.  If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job." - 'Bits & Pieces'
"If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself." - Eubie Blake
"If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important." - Arther Bloch
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth." - George Burns
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair." - George Burns, quoted in Life
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him." - Cher
"'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!" - Sir Winston Churchill
"I am ready to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Sir Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
"Marriage is a wonderful invention. But, then again, so is the bicycle repair kit." - Billy Connolly
"Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow their children to come back home." - Bill Cosby
"Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places." - E. Joseph Cossman
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." - Clarence S. Darrow
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it." - Clarence S. Darrow
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking big money." - Everett M. Dirksen, attributed
"Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him think." - Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look
"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." - Albert Einstein
"My name is only an anagram of toilets." - T. S. Eliot
"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?" - Edith Evans, quoted in The Observer
"Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's in trouble." - Dennis Fakes
"A woman drove me to drink and I never even had the courtesy to thank her." - W. C. Fields
"Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler." - W. C. Fields
"After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse." - W. C. Fields
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields
"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake-which I also keep handy." - W. C. Fields, quoted in Corey Ford's Time of Laughter
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields, quoted in John Robert Colombo's Popcorn in Paradise
"A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is." - Ed Finkelstein, in New York Times Magazine
"If they try to rush me, I always say, 'I've only got one other speed - and it's slower.'" - Glenn Ford
"I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"The truth will ouch." - Arnold H. Glasow
"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
"We experience moments absolutely free from worry.  These brief respites are called panic." - Cullen Hightower
"I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be." - Benny Hill
"Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon." - Abbie Hoffman
"They asked Jack Benny if he would do something for the actor's orphanage - so he shot both his parents and moved in." - Bob Hope
"Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series." - Bob Hope
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." - Bob Hope
"If you watch a game, it's fun.  If you play it, it's recreation.  If you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope, quoted in Life in the Crystal Palace by Alan Harrington
"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours." - Edgar Watson Howe
"I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake." - Bob Hudson
"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." - Samuel Johnson
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." - Doug Larson
"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." - Bill Lawrence
"A child of five would understand this. Send somebody to fetch a child of five!" - Groucho Marx
"Did I ever tell you how I shot a wild elephant in my pyjamas? How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know." - Groucho Marx
"I never forget a face, but I'll make an exception in your case." - Groucho Marx
"I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx
"Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member." - Groucho Marx
"Send two dozen roses to Room 4 and put 'Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill." - Groucho Marx
"She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon." - Groucho Marx
"Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted." - Bob Monkhouse, Just Say a Few Words
"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." - Willie Nelson
"The two most beautiful words in the English language are : 'Cheque enclosed'." - Dorothy Parker
"If all the girls at the Yale Prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised." - Dorothy Parker
"That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them." - Dorothy Parker
"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out." - Dolly Parton
"I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it." - Edgar Allan Poe
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered." - Edgar Allan Poe
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan
"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." - Helen Rowland
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you." - Franois Sagan
"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned." - George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw
"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." - Henry G. Strauss
"Truman's Law - If you can't convince them, confuse them." - Harry S. Truman
"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." - Harry S. Truman
"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." - Harry S. Truman
"Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson." - Mark Twain
"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." - Mark Twain
"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress." - Mark Twain
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times." - Mark Twain
"I know I can quit smoking because I've done it a thousand times." - Mark Twain
"The report of my death was an exaggeration." - Mark Twain, cable from London to a New York newspaper
"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
"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults." - Gore Vidal
"You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly." - Hank Williams
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
"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
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." - Benfield, John
"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." - Braun, Warner von when asked if man can be replaced by computer in spaceflight
"The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted all the alternatives." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - Crisp, Quentin
"I had to quit my job to have time to read my email." - Curry, Adam [MTV Host and net.legend] his occasional signature quote
"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 we are missing." - Nasser, Gamel Abdel
"Coach: Can I draw you a beer, Norm? Norm: No, I know what they look like. Just pour me one." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'No Help Wanted', 'Cheers'
"Woody: Can I pour you a draft, Mr. Peterson? Norm: A little early, isn't it Woody? Woody: For a beer? Norm: No, for stupid questions." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'Let Sleeping Drakes Lie', 'Cheers'
" 'Students?' barked the Archchancellor.  'Yes, Master. You know? They're the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we're a *university*? They come with the whole thing, like rats...'" - Pratchett, Terry in 'Moving Pictures'
"Why yes, a bulletproof vest!" - Rodgers, James W. ( -1960) (American criminal) his final request before the firing squad
"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." - Seely, Henry
"We not lost, house lost. Don't worry, Henry find." - Seely, Henry
"I always wanted to be somebody. I guess I should have been more specific." - Tomlin, Lily
"College is a fountain of knowledge... and the students are there to drink." - Unknown
"I may not have a perfect body but I have some excellent parts on it." - Unknown
"Seen on the bathroom walls of Concordia University: 'Ignorance is bliss.' and right underneath it... 'I don't know what this means but I'm happy.'" - Unknown
"This is no time to make new enemies." - Voltaire (1694-1778) when asked on his deathbed to forswear Satan
"If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport." - Winters, George
"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" - Wright, Stephen
##Hypocrisy
"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity." - G. K. Chesterton
"Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite." - JEAN KERR, Finishing Touches
"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach." - BERTRAND RUSSELL, Sceptical Essays
"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday." - THOMAS RUSSELL YBARRA, The Christian
"Children, who are closer to their birth and thus to the experience of Oneness, rightly reject hypocrisy." - McClure, Vimalia
##Ideals
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." - Alfred Adler
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive." - William F. Buckley
"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." - G. K. Chesterton, in New York Times
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." - Aldous Huxley
"Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power." - Bertrand Russell
"No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars." - QUINTUS ENNIUS, Iphigenia, quoted in Cicero's De Divinatione
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism." - CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
"If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (1963)
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy
"People are willing to devise and praise Utopias but not to live in them." - DAVID PRYCE-JONES, in The Times
##Ideas
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea." - Alain, Libres-propos
"Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers." - Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun
"One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea." - Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics
"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." - Charles Brower
"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." - Charles Brower
"The wise only possess ideas . . . the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Defoe
"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." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
"To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture." - Anatole France
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." - ELBERT HUBBARD, Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams
"One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas." - VICTOR HUGO, Histoire d'un crime
"Often quoted in forms that correspond only loosely to Hugo's original words, for example: No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of a revelation." - WILLIAM JAMES, The Varieties of Religious Experience
"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it." - DON MARQUIS, in New York Sun
"General notions are generally wrong." - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, letter (to her husband, 1710)
"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, Winds of Doctrine
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - Medawar, P. B.
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'
"Ideas do have consequences and all argument is philosophical. You may try to avoid or hide it, but your line of thinking on any issue is a result of the basic philosophy which you hold." - Otto, John G. [Quote Archivist] 18 July 1994
##Idiots
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992
"Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant 'idiot'." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Color of Magic'
##Ignorance
"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant." - A. B Alcott
"Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson, Notebook
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok
"Gross ignorance : 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance." - Bennett Carf
"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too." - Euripides
"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance." - Anatole France
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." - Galileo
"Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness." - Bhagavad Gita
"If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people." - Graffiti
"The little I know I owe to my ignorance." - Sacha Guitry
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant." - Voltaire
"It iz better tew know nothingthan tew know what ain't so." - JOSH BILLINGS, Encyclopedia of Proverbial Philosophy
"Ignorance is not innocence but sin." - ROBERT BROWNING, The Inn Album
". . . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise." - THOMAS GRAY, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Strength to Love
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite." - KARL POPPER, lecture (1960)
"You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - WILL ROGERS, in New York Times
"Seen on the bathroom walls of Concordia University: 'Ignorance is bliss.' and right underneath it... 'I don't know what this means but I'm happy.'" - Unknown
##Illness
"I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), The Way of All Flesh
"Epidemics have often been more influential than statesmen and soldiers in shaping the course of political history, and diseases may also color the moods of civilizations." - DUBOS AND JEAN DUBOS, The White Plague
"If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Proverbs in Prose
"How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man's self to himself!" - CHARLES LAMB, Last Essays of Elia
"Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us." - JONATHAN MILLER, The Body in Question
"Sick days are the same as vacation days, but with sound effects. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti
##Illusion
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy." - Cyril Connolly
"Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." - AESOP, Fables
"But time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake." - LORD BYRON, Don Juan
"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Victory
"Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness." - HENRIK IBSEN, The Wild Duck
"All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." - EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live." - MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
"When one draws in, on every side, the sense-organs from the objects of sense as a tortoise draws in its limbs from every side--then his wisdom becomes steadfast." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna
"Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"He who knows that this body is like froth, and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage, will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion, and never see the king of death." - Dhammapada, The (c300 B.C.)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Einstein, Albert
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there." - Feynman, Richard
"What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion." - Jacob, Max (1876-1944) in 'Art Po]tique' 1922
"That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'
"The Man of Truth is beyond good and evil .... The Man of Truth has ridden to All-Is-One. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter." - Lovecraft, H. P. spoken by 'a voice that was not a voice' in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key',
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool." - Wagner, Jane
##Imagination
"Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society." - MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON, The Repealers
"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few." - EMILY DICKINSON, To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
"Were it not for imagination, Sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a Duchess." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter." - JOHN KEATS, Ode on a Grecian Urn
"Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!" - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, Second Fig
"The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact." - SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark." - WALLACE STEVENS, Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour
"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art." - TOM STOPPARD, Artist Descending a Staircase
"Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere." - Einstein, Albert
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." - Einstein, Albert
"Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." - Gerard, Ralph
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - Lennon, John quoted on 'The Way It Is,' CBC-TV June 1969
"Roleplaying is an escapist activity that requires a good imagination, but it is not recommended for those with a poor grip on reality. It does not make weirdos, it simply attracts them." - rec.games.frp.* FAQ
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860) in 'Parerga and Paralipomena'
##Imitation
"Imitation is the sincerest flattery." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"No man ever yet became great by imitation." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." - GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, Aphorisms
"Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal." - LIONEL TRILLING, in Esquire
"With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper." - THORSTEIN VEBLEN, The Theory of the Leisure Class
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." - OSCAR WILDE, De Profundis
##Immortality
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
"Immortality:  A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal." - Anatole France
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." - Socrates
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . .I want to achieve it through not dying." - WOODY ALLEN, quoted in Woody Allen and his Comedy by Eric Lax
"The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again." - HEYWOOD BROUN, Pieces of Hate
"Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - SUSAN ERTZ, Anger in the Sky
"Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality." - WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING, The Meaning of Immortality in Human Experience
"Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope." - ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, quoted in Chicago Times
"We feel and know that we are eternal." - BENEDICT DE SPINOZA, Ethics
"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more." - EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
"All men think all men mortal, but themselves." - EDWARD YOUNG, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
"The embodied one within the body of everyone, O Bharata, is ever undestroyable. Therefore you should not grieve for any being." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna
##Impossibilities
"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." - Clarke, Arthur C.
"The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"To accomplish the impossible, we must attempt the absurd." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)
##Inaction
"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
"A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IX, 5
"It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
##Indecision
"We are always getting ready to live, but never living." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals
"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Faust
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision." - WILLIAM JAMES, The Principles of Psychology
"He who hesitates is sometimes saved." - JAMES THURBER, The James Thurber Carnival
##Independence
"He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise" - Blake, William (1757-1827)
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent." - Fromm, Erich
##Indifference
"The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity." - George Bernard Shaw, The Devil's Disciple
"The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference." - Weisel, Elie
##Individuality
"The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Method of Nature
"We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." - CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, speech (1925)
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." - HENRIK IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called." - JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty
"There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
##Infidelity
"What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, Is much more common where the climate's sultry." - LORD BYRON, Don Juan
"Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly Does lecher in my sight." - SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
##Information
"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." - Eliot, T. S.
"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another." - Feynman, Richard
"Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on." - Hubel, David [neuroscientist] 1979
"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Nesen, Ron
##Injury
"An injury engraves itself on metal; a benefit is written on the waves." - JEAN BERTAUT, attributed
"Whom they have injured they also hate." - SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured" - Tacitus, Life of Agricola
"He who injured you was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare yourself." - SENECA, De Iraq
##Innocence
"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." - Elizabeth Bowen, Orion III
"Innocence is always unsuspicious." - Haliburton
"Unto the pure all things are pure." - BIBLE, Titus 1:15
"To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery." - OUIDA, Wisdom, Wit and Pathos
"True, conscious Honor is to feel no sin, He's armed without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass." - ALEXANDER POPE, Imitations of Horace
"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing." - JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, mile
"The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time." - W.B. YEATS, In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
##Insanity
"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Buffet, Jimmy
"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution." - Mencken, H[enry] L[ouis] (1880-1956)
##Inspiration
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path." - BIBLE, Psalms 119:105
"O! for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention!" - SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
"Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: 'Fool,' 0 said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart, and write!'" - PHILIP SIDNEY, Astrophel and Stella
"Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy When I am happy I live and despise writing For my Muse this cannot but be dispiriting." - STEVIE SMITH, My Muse
"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning." - IGOR STRAVINSKY, An Autobiography
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"I am only one, but I am still one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Hale, Edward Everett
##Instinct
"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray." - William Cowper
"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." - Alexander Pope
##Instruction
"Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Integrity
"The Lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean." - H. P. Blavatsky
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton
##Intellect
"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself." - Albert Camus, Notebooks
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality" - Albert Einstein
"One good head is better than a hundred strong hands." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind." - George Moore
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galilei, Galileo
##Intelligence
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness." - Elbert Green Hubbard, The Note Book
"To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word 'Intellectual' suggests straight away A man who's untrue to his wife." - W.H. AUDEN, New Year Letter
"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap." - JACQUES BARZUN, The House of Intellect
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." - REN DESCARTES, Discourse on Method
"A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso." - A.P. HERBERT, The Highbrow
"Intelligence barred . . . quarrelling, sulking, anger, silences of withdrawal, accusations and tears. Above all, intelligence forbids tears." - DORIS LESSING, To Room Nineteen
"The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men." - BLAISE PASCAL, Penses
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Cook. Rich
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Einstein, Albert
"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Ellison, Harlan
"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"What is the hardest task in the world? To think." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"We who came down from out of the forest seek to grow a forest of knowing among the stars." - Ferris, Timothy in 'The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context' 1992
"There are four things that hold back human progress. Ignorance, stupidity, committies and accountants." - Lyall, Charles J. C.
"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." - Martineau, Harriet
"'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully. 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.' 'And he has Brain.' 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.' There was a long silence. 'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'" - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956)
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." - Seely, Henry
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Siddhartha
"The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can`t read them." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Common sense is what tells us that the Earth is flat." - Unknown
"I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that's true, then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS." - Unknown
"Police Officer: We believe foul play was involved. Tommy Patel: Surely you don't think I... Police Officer: I don't think anything, sir. I'm a police officer." - Unknown in 'Splitting Heirs'
##Invention
"Eureka! (I have found it!)" - ARCHIMEDES, quoted by Vitruvius Pollio in De Architectura
"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." - AGATHA CHRISTIE, An Autobiography
"Invention breeds invention." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude
"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien." - JOHN KEATS, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
"Name the greatest of all the inventors: Accident." - MARK TWAIN, Notebooks
##Ireland
"Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen." - W.H. AUDEN, In Memory of W.B. Yeats
"The Irish are a fair people- they never speak well of one another." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it." - SIDNEY LITTLEWOOD, speech (1961)
"The Irish say Your trouble is their trouble and your joy their joy? I wish I could believe it; I am troubled, I'm dissatisfied, I'm Irish." - MARIANNE MOORE, Spenser's Ireland
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave." - W.B. YEATS, September, 1913
##Jealousy
"As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy." - Antisthenes
"Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies." - Elizabeth Bowen
"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others.  He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind." - Buddha
"Jealousy: that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive." - Havelock Ellis, On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"In jealousy there is more of self-love than love." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end." - MAX BEERBOHM, Zuleika Dobson
"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire." - BIBLE, Song of Solomon 8:6
"The ear of jealousy heareth all things." - BIBLE, Wisdom of Solomon 1:10
"Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy
"It is not love that is blind, but jealousy." - LAWRENCE DURRELL, Justine
"Whoever envies another confesses his superiority." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Rambler
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had . . ." - ERICA JONG, How to Save Your Own Life
"Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on." - SHAKESPEARE, Othello
"Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." - SHAKESPEARE, Othello
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." - GORE VIDAL, in Sunday Times Magazine
##Joy
"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." - Eugene Field
"They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." - Merton, Thomas
"Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Judgement
"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." - Grantland Rice
"I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned." - Duke of Wellington
"Judge not, that ye be not judged." - BIBLE, Matthew 7:1
"And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare That truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where." - WILLIAM COWPER, Hope
"Everyone complains of hismemory, and no one complains of his judgment." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss." - JOHN LOCKE, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
"We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Human, All-too-Human
"'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own." - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Criticism
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed." - RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, The Critic
"The more you judge, the less you love." - Balzac, Honore de (1790-1850)
"Judge not that you be judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Einstein, Albert
"Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another." - Feynman, Richard
##Justice
"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws." - Francis Bacon
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." - William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence." - Cicero
"Justice shines by its own light." - Cicero, De Officiis
"There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court." - Clarence S. Darrow
"There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court." - Clarence S. Darrow, quoted in New York Times
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes." - Daniel Defoe, The Shortest Way With The Dissenters
"Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned." - Anatole France, Crainquebille
"Justice delayed, is justice denied." - William Ewart Gladstone
"Fidelity is the sister of justice." - Horace
"Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds in favour of Judas." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical." - Blaise Pascal
"The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer." - Will Rogers
"There is a point at which even justice does injury." - Sophocles
"It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire, Zadig
"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilised beings and civilised nations together." - Daniel Webster
"For justice, though she's painted blind, Is to the weaker side inclined." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1680), Hudibras
"Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice." - H.L. MENCKEN, Prejudices
"Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us." - THOMAS OTWAY, Venice Preserved
"Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it." - PLATO, The Republic
"The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"We love justice greatly, and just men but little." - JOSEPH ROUX, Meditations of a Parish Priest
"Use every man after his desert, and who should `scape whipping?" - SHAKESPEAR, Hamlet
"There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust." - SOPHOCLES, Electra
##Kindness
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - Aesop, Fables
"If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like." - William Feather
"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain." - Douglas Jerrold
"Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." - Walter Savage Londor
"There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers." - Gerald Massey
"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness." - SOPHOCLES, Ajax
"So many gods, so many creeds, !So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs." - ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, World's Need
"One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
". . . that best portion of a good man's life. His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love." - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
##Kissing
"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?" - ROBERT BROWNING, A Toccata of Galuppi's
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine." - BEN JONSON, To Celia
"Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Doctor Faustus
"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." - MISTINGUETT, in Theatre Arts
"Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others." - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Princess
##Knowledge
"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing." - Henri-Frdric Amiel, Journal intime
"Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect." - Averros, Destructio Destructionum
"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." - Francis Bacon
"I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." - Bernard Mannes Baruch
"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." - H. P. Blavatsky
"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." - Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season
"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy." - Thomas Carlyle
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein, On Science
"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." - Bhagavad Gita
"Learning is its own exceeding great reward." - William Hazlitt
"Much learning does not teach understanding." - Heraclitus
"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing." - Herodotus
"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not." - Dr. Samuel Johnson
"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance." - Diogenes Laertius
"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance." - Henry Miller
"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms." - Wendell Phillips
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." - William Shakespeare
"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since." - ABIGAIL ADAMS, letter (1791)
"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn." - HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, On Elemental Instruction in Physiology
"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it." - LAURENCE STERNE, Tristram Shandy
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Bacon, Sir Francis
"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted Truth burns up the world." - Berdyayev, Nikolay
"Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." - Bruner, Kurt D.
"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." - Egyptian Inscription
"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." - Eliot, T. S.
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. T: 'If youth but knew; if [old] age but could.'" - Estienne, Henri in 'Les Pr]mices' 1594
"We who came down from out of the forest seek to grow a forest of knowing among the stars." - Ferris, Timothy in 'The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context' 1992
"The best mirror is an old friend." - Herbert, George (1593-1633)
"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach." - Koppel, Ted
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.) in 'The Confucian Analects'
"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." - Lowell, Abbott L. (1856-1943)
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." - Maurois, Andr] (1885-1967)
"The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite." - Miller, Henry
"Doubt is the key to knowledge." - Persian Proverb
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'The Republic', book VII, 536-E
"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." - Rogers, Will[iam Penn Adair] (1879-1935)
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it." - Siddhartha
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates
"One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly." - Steadman, Edward C.
"When an old person dies, a library is lost." - Swann, Tommy
"It is better to be ignorant then to believe in something untrue." - Unknown
"We all learn from our mistakes. The trick is learn from the mistakes of others." - Unknown
"Education is a an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) in 'Intentions'
"I am not young enough to know everything." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question." - Williams, Tennessee
##Labor
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." - Joubert, Joseph
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - Marquis, Don
##Languages
"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Firth, Robert
"BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing." - Papert, Seymour
##Language
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." - Sir Winston Churchill
"If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things." - Confucius
"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." - Mark Twain
"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Under Western Eyes
"Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons." - ALDOUS HUXLEY, Adonis and the Alphabet
"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word!" - ANDREW JACKSON, quoted in an advertisement (1982)
"Language is the dress of thought." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Lives of the Eminent English Poets: Cowley
"Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world." - H.L. MENCKEN, The American Language
"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work." - CARL SANDBURG, quoted in New York Times
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, quoted in Reader's Digest
"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, . . . I think Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it." - HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Journal
"Why care for grammar as long as we are good?" - ARTEMUS WARD, Artemus Ward in London
". . . English is an almost grammarless language." - RICHARD GRANT WHITE, Words and Their Uses
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world." - LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
"Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim 'I name this ship the 'Mr Stalin'' and for good measure kick away the chocks; but the trouble is, I was not the person chosen to name it..." - Austin, J. L. in 'How to do Things with Words'
"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Burton, Robert
"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." - Egyptian Inscription
"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." - Firth, Robert
"I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC; It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your pleased too no, Its letter perfect in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew." - Minor, Janet 'Spellbound'
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950) from '1984'
"BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing." - Papert, Seymour
"Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past." - Rosten, Leo C. (1908- )
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English--up to fifty words used in correct context--no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"If you travel to the States ... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git'." - Sayle, Alexei
"Aphorism, n.:  A concise, clever statement. Afterism, n.:  A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late." - Thom, James Alexander
"Real Programmers use C since it's the easiest language to spell." - Unknown
##Laughter
"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." - W. H. Auden
"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child." - Henry Ward Beecher
"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
"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species." - Thomas Carlyle
"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more." - Giovanni G. Casanova
"There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh." - Catullus, Carmina
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one." - Christian Morgenstern
"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!" - Agnes Repplier
"To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts." - Frank Tyger
"Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot." - JOSH BILLINGS, Josh Billing's Comical Lexicon
"The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed." - BASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT, Maximes et penses
"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too." - NORMAN COUSINS, Anatomy of an Illness
"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Maxims and Reflections
"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." - THOMAS HOBBES, On Human Nature
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Borge, Victor
"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Buffet, Jimmy
"Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma." - Casseresm, Benjamin de
"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." - Glason, Arnold
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." - Unknown
"Rivendell household rule #2: If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else is going to do it for you, and you're not going to enjoy it nearly as much." - Unknown
##Law
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson
"Litigation:  A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Let the punishment match the offence." - Cicero, De Legibus
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
"And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, Depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief." - William S. Gilbert
"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." - A. E. Housman
"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." - Theodore Roosevelt
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress." - Mark Twain
"Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours everything." - JOHN ARBUTHNOT, The History of John Bull
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." - CHARLES DICKENS, The Old Curiosity Shop
". . . the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - ANATOLE FRANCE, The Red Lily
"All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species." - JOHN W. GARDNER, in San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle
"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people." - HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, speech (1965)
"Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass." - JANE BRYANT QUINN, in Newsweek
"Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because `tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him." - JOHN SELDEN, Table Talk
"Laws do not persuade because they threaten." - SENECA, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part II
"Laws are like spiders' webs: if some light or powerless thing falls into them, it is caught, but a bigger one can break through and get away." - SOLON, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
"The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robber there will be." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test
"This is not an official statement of Hewlett-Packard Corp., and does not necessarily reflect the views of HP. It is provided completely without warranty of any kind. Lawyers take 3d10 damage and roll a saving throw vs. ego attack." - Unknown [but probably 'somebody's' .sig disclaimer]
##Laziness
"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." - George Borrow, Lavengro
"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
"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." - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography
"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair." - Charles Caleb Colton
"That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided." - Horace
"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent." - Samuel Johnson
"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." - Helen Keller, My Religion
"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." - JEROME K. JEROME, The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, letter (to James Boswell, 1779)
"Be not solitary, be not idle. Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, The Idler
"Lazy people are always wanting to do something." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
"For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do." - ISAAC WATTS, Divine Songs for Children
"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual." - OSCAR WILDE, Intentions, The Critic as Artist
##Leadership
"If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem before it becomes an emergency." - Arnold H. Glasow
"The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability." - Fred A. Manske, Jr.
"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." - John C. Maxwell
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself." - Thomas J. Watson
"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting." - Reagan, Ronald
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk." - Setanti, Joaquin de
"I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute." - WILLIAM COWPER, Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, attributed
"A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right." - LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speech (1965)
"A leader is best When people barely know that he exists, Not so good when people obey and acclaim him, Worst when they despise him." - LAO-TZU, The Way of Life
"I have to follow them, I am their leader." - ALEXANDRE-AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN, attributed
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on." - WALTER LIPPMANN, in New York Herald Tribune
"I am the state! (l'tat, c'est moi!)" - LOUIS XIV OF FRANCE, attributed
"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - NICCOL MACHIAVELLI, The Prince
"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." - HENRY MILLER, The Wisdom of the Heart
"A leader is a dealer in hope." - NAPOLEON I, attributed
"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - RICHARD M. NIXON, television interview (with David Frost)
"Contrary to the unsophisticated suggestions of melodrama, to rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as of the firm seat." - ORTEGA Y GASSET, The Revolt of the Masses
"It is impossible to reign innocently." - ELOUIS DE SAINT-JUST, speech (1793) - This comment was made at the sentencing of Louis XVI to death;
"The first art of a monarch is the power to endure hatred." - SENECA, Hercules Furens
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part II
"All kings is mostly rapscallions." - MARK TWAIN, Huckleberry Finn
##Learning
"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." - Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books." - Henry Ward Beecher
"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
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning." - Benjamin Disraeli
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life." - Horace
"Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever." - Chinese Proverb
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." - Bach, Richard in 'The Bridge Across Forever'
"There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
"The only way to learn is by changing your mind." - Card, Orson Scott
"By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
"As long as you live, keep learning how to live." - Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (c.4BC-65AD)
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau, Henry David in 'Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
##Leisure
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure." - Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season
"The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise." - BIBLE, Ecclesiasticus 38:24
"When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy." - ROBERT BROWNING, The Glove
"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." - W.H. DAVIES, Leisure
"You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched." - PHAEDRUS, Fables
"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level." - BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Conquest of Happiness
"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV, Part I
##Lending
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing. Few lend (but fools) Their working tools." - THOMAS TUSSER, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry
##Lessons
"I learned something here today. Nothing I do and nothing I own can remake the past." - Buaku
"It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless." - Weinstein, Howard
##Lies
"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth." - Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror
"Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented." - Georges Brague, Penses sur l'art
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Time
"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another." - Homer
"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." - Samuel Johnson
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All-too-Human
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else." - George Bernard Shaw
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates
"A lie never lives to be old." - Sophocles
"The cruellest lies are often told in silence." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth - unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." - Jerome, Jerome K.
"Mendacem memorem esse opportet. ( 'A liar should have a good memory.')" - Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] in 'De Institutione Oratoria', book I, 8, 14
##Life
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"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." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." - Thomas Carlyle
"Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy." - Cicero
"Life is but thought." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life." - Charles Darwin
"Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable." - Bergen Evans
"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." - William Hazlitt
"So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living." - Edgar Watson Howe
"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." - Franz Kafka
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature." - Helen Keller
"Life's more amusing than we thought." - Andrew Lang
"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." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 3
"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." - Henry Louis Mencken
"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!" - Edna St. Vicent Millay
"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." - Wilson Mizner
"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." - Edwin Arlington Robinson
"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
"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
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." - Mark Twain
"I gave my life to become what I am now. Was it worth it?" - Bach, Richard in 'One'
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.
"Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip.
"I think the best proof of intelligent life on other worlds is that they haven't actually tried to contact us!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip
"We saw our own lives in terms of promise, not pessimism. We thought our job here on Earth was to build up, not tear down; to unite, not to divide." - Clinton, William Jefferson in convocation speech at UCLA, on the death of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
"Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile." - Connery, Sean
"Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist." - Epicurus
"Life is a book on fire, read by the light of its own burning pages." - Ferguson, Tim
"Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living." - Forbes, B. C.
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - France, Anatole
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." - Hansen, Grace
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Hubbard, Elbert (1856-1915)
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." - Jones, William
"The unlived life is not worth examining." - Kopp, Sheldon B. [psychiatrist] (1929- )
"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." - Lowell, Abbott L. (1856-1943)
"Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for Joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live." - Merton, Thomas
"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it." - Morley, Christopher
"Without music, life would be a mistake." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings." - Okakaura, Kakuzo
"Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T: 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'" - Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
"Paul: Hey Norm, how's the world been treating you? Norm: Like a baby treats a diaper." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'Tan 'n' Wash', 'Cheers'
"Well, it's a dog-eat-dog world, and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'The Peterson Principle', 'Cheers'
"'I meant,' said Ipslore bitterly, 'what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?' Death thought about it. 'Cats,' he said eventually, 'Cats are nice.'" - Pratchett, Terry in 'Sourcery'
"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives." - Sachs, A.
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose." - Tehyi, Hsieh
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." - Thoreau, Henry David in 'Walden', II, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Life without love is a shadow of things that might be." - Unknown
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." - VanDyke, Henry
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton
"Life is a long lesson in humility." - JAMES M. BARRIE, The Little Minister
"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real." - JACQUES BARZUN, The House of Intellect
"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo, not for a man." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"Life is one long process of getting tired." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks." - T.S. ELIOT, Sweeney Agonistes
"Life is made up of marble and mud." - NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, The House of Seven Gables
"Life is short, art long, (ars longa, vita brevis) opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult." - HIPPOCRATES, Aphorisms
"Life is just one damned thing after another." - ELBERT HUBBARD, A Thousand and One Epigrams
"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?" - HENRY JAMES, The Ambassadors
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - CARL JUNG, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
"When life is miserable it is painful to endure it; when it is happy it is horrible to lose it; both come to the same thing. Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres
"We are always beginning to live, but are never living." - MARCUS MANILIUS, Astronomica
"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over." - EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY, letter (1930)
"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it." - CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Thunder on the Left
"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Roumania." - DOROTHY PARKER, Comment
"Life is short, but its ills make it seem long." - PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Maxims
"There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." - RAINER MARIA RILKE, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man." - SHAKESPEARE, King John
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." - SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." - SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
"The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains." - MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe." - ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD, Adventures of Ideas
"I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean." - P.G. WODEHOUSE, My Man Jeeves
##Light
"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese Proverb
"Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Reaper Man'
"There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures." - Thurber, James (1894-1961)
"Do not be quick to blame the encroachment of civilization for the lights on the horizon of your night sky; they may be the rising moon." - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 15 May 1994
##Limitations
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860) in 'Parerga and Paralipomena'
##Listening
"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all." - Democritus of Abdera, fragment
"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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." - Gardner, Herb
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
"My girlfriend says I never listen to her. I think that's what she said." - Sather, Drake
"The first duty of love is to listen." - Tillich, Paul
##Literacy
"The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can`t read them." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Half of the American people never read the newspaper. Half never vote for President. One hopes it is the same half." - Vidal, Gore
##Living
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living." - Forbes, B. C.
" Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
##Logic
"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." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
"[W]hen you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan spoken by Sherlock Holmes
##Loquacity
"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." - Saskya Pandita
"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." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
##Loss
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'The Way of All Flesh'
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." - Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
"'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), The Way of All Flesh
"For `tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right." - WILLIAM COWPER, The Retired Cat
"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain." - PLAUTUS, The Captives
"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all." - SHAKESPEARE, Othello
"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms." - SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part III
"Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear." - SHAKESPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well
"And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!" - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Break, Break, Break
"A coin, sleeve-button or a collar-button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find. A handkerchief in bed can't  be found." - MARK TWAIN, Notebooks
##Love
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
"The only way to be happy is to love to suffer." - Woody Allen
"In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." - Janos Arany
"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
"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." - Gamaliel Bailey
"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." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret." - Aphra Behn, The Lover's Watch
"Hell, Madame, is to love no longer." - Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal." - Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:1
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." - Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:13
"Love covers over a multitude of sins." - Bible, 1 Peter 4:8
"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." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"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
"He is not a lover who does not love forever." - Euripides
"Hatred is blind, as well as love." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"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." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life." - George Gordon
"People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy." - Bob Hope
"The love we give away is the only love we keep." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated." - Alphonse de Lamartine, Premires mditations potiques
"Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination." - Napoleon
"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fire." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"If you wished to be loved, love." - Seneca
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment." - William Shakespeare
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else." - George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest pleasure of life is love." - William Temple
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination." - Voltaire
"If it is your time love will track you down like a cruise missile. If you say 'No! I don't want it right now,' that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke." - Barry, Lynda 1983 'Big Ideas'
"IA ORA TE NATURA Nature lives (life to nature) E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI Have pity of the earth (love the earth) UA OAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA The bounty of the land is exhausted TE VAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE But there is still life in the sea" - Buffett, Jimmy (and Bobby Holcomb) from 'One Particular Harbour'
"L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaisance. T: 'Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.'" - Bussy-Rabutin, Compte des
"Where there is great love there are always miracles." - Cather, Willa
"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Collingwood, R. G.
"This fundamental truth--that women are not just men who can have babies and men are not just women who spike footballs--gives marriage its vitality, its dynamics, its delights, and its divorce." - Cosby, Bill in 'Love and Marriage' 1989
"...losing through you what seemed myself, i find selves unimaginably mine; beyond sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears yours is the light by which my spirit's born: yours is the darkness of my soul's return you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars." - cummings, e. e.
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba
"Our two souls, therefore, which are one Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat." - Donne, John (1572-1631) in 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning,' 5th stanza
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." - Fern, Fanny (1811-1872) in 'Willis Parton'
"The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent." - Fromm, Erich
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love." - Guevara, Che from 'Man and Socialism in Cuba'
"Joys divided are increased." - Holland, Josia Gilbert
"Secret forces are bringing compatible spirits together. If the man permits himself to be led by this ineffable attraction, good fortune will come his way. When deep friendships exist, formalities and elaborate preparations are not necessary." - I Ching c1150 B.C.
"Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one." - Japanese proverb
"Freindship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)
"Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)
"Music is love in search of a word." - Lanier, Sidney
"There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love--the first fluttering of its silken wings." - Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution." - Mencken, H[enry] L[ouis] (1880-1956)
"To be loved, be lovable." - Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso] (43 B.C.-A.D. c18) in 'Ars Amatoria', II, 107
"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is the eternal law." - Pali Canon [Sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhists] in 'Suttapitaka', Dhammapada 1:5 c500-c250 B.C
"'All you need is love'? Yeah? Try payin' the fuckin' rent with it." - Richards, Kieth
"'Goodbye,' said the fox. 'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'" - Sainte-Exubery, Antoine de in 'The Little Prince'
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Swift, Jonathan
"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man." - Tagore, Rabindranath
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910) in 'War and Peace', VII:16
"Absence diminishes a mediocre passion and augments a great one. Like the wind blows out the candle and lights the fire." - Unknown
"Spouse, n: Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single in the first place." - Unknown found in Andy Cannon's (andrewc@spider.co.uk) .signature
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - VanDyke, Henry
"Omnia vincit Amor; et nos cedamus Amori. T: 'Love conquers all; Let us too yield to Love.'" - Virgil
"Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
"Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance." - Wilde, Oscar
"One hour of right-down love Is worth an age of dully living on." - APHRA BEHN, The Rover
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." - BIBLE, Proverbs 15:17
"Set me as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death." - BIBLE, Song of Solomon 8:6
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - BIBLE, I John 4:18
"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god." - JORGE LUIS BORGES, Other Inquisitions
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach." - ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, Sonnets from the Portuguese
"God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!" - ROBERT BROWNING, One Word More
"O my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly play'd in tune." - ROBERT BURNS, A Red, Red Rose
"O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!" - THOMAS DEKKER, The Honest Whore
"Love all love of other sights controls, And makes one little room an everywhere." - JOHN DONNE, The Good Morrow
"I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining Poetry." - JOHN DONNE, The Triple Fool
"For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage." - JOHN DRYDEN, Mithridates
"It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armour." - MARGARET FULLER, Summer on the Lakes
"At the beginning and at the end of love the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres
"If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks of it, but few have seen it." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." - THOMAS MANN, The Magic Mountain
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Hero and Leander
"Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields." - CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
"Love is a kind of warfare." - OVID, Ars Amatoria
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - PLATO, Symposium
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction." - ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUP, Wind, Sand, and Stars
"If thou remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved." - SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
"The course of true love never did run smooth." - SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds Or bends with the remover to remove. O, no! it is an ever-fix'd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken." - SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XVI
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate." - SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet XVIII
"All's fair in love and war." - FRANCIS EDWARD SMEDLEY, Frank Fairleigh
"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love." - SOPHOCLES, Oedipus at Colonus
"'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." - ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, In Memoriam
"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion." - MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO, The Tragic Sense of Life
"Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love." - VIRGIL, Eclogues
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!" - OSCAR WILDE, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
##Luck
"Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?" - JEAN COCTEAU, quoted in Look
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - STEPHEN LEACOCK, Literary Lapses
"You can take it as understood That your luck changes only if it's good." - OGDEN NASH, Roulette Us Be Gay
"Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men." - E.B. WHITE, One Man's Meat
##Lying
"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), The Way of All Flesh
"The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one." - ADOLF HITLER, Mein Kampf
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all." - OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
"A liar needs a good memory." - QUINTILIAN, De Institutione Oratoria
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation." - SAKI, The Square Egg
"A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speech (1951)
"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives." - MARK TWAIN, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
##Madness
"Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad." - Laing, R. D.
"There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!" - JOHN DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar
"Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering." - CARL JUNG, attributed
"Insanity is the exception in individuals. In groups, parties, peoples, and times it is the rule." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw." - SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - THOMAS SZASZ, The Second Sin
"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being." - PAUL TILLICH, The Courage To Be
##Magic
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." - Kulawiec, Rich
"A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal sized billiard balls." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Light Fantastic'
"People who used magic without knowing what they were doing usually came to a sticky end. All over the entire room, sometimes." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Moving Pictures'
##Majorities
"One with the law is a majority." - CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech (1920)
"One, on God's side, is a majority." - MWENDELL PHILLIPS, speech (1859)
"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one." - HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Civil Disobedience
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" - MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
##Malapropisms
"I didn't say everything I said." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on his propensity for malapropisms
"It's nothing but rooms." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on his new house
"It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) giving directions
"Thanks. You don't look so hot yourself. summer suit, in 'Yogi, It Ain't Over...' (1990)" - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) when told by the mayor's wife that he looked particularly cool
"The future isn't what it used to be." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- )
"You can see a lot by just looking." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- )
##Management
"The nearer you are to your boss's office, the lower the quality of your assignments. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"The most perilous challenge you will ever face is dealing with the boss's secretary. It may be necessary to offer a live calf or a summer intern as an animal sacrifice. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers on a day to day basis." - EMS Manager Newsletter
"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Young, Edward (1684-1765)
##Mankind
"Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?" - Bible, Malachi 2:10
"It's more comfortable to feel that we're a slight improvement on a monkey thin such a fallin' off fr'm th'angels." - Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley On Making a Will
"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature." - William Hazlitt
"For you are goddesses, inside on everything, know everything. But we mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all." - Homer
"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable." - Samuel Johnson
"Neither sex, without some fertilisation of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavour." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?" - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"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." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom (also known as The Gay Science)
"Man can be scientifically manipulated." - Bertrand Russell
"Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." - Robert H. Schuller
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world." - Socrates
"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." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired." - Mark Twain
"Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us?" - BIBLE, Malachi 2:10
"The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood." - LYNDON B. JOHNSON, speech (1963)
"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., quoted in New York Journal-American
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., speech (1964)
"Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me." - WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass
"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals." - PIERRE-AUGUSTIN CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS, The Marriage of Figaro
"For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine; And Peace, the human dress." - WILLIAM BLAKE, The Divine Image
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." - CHARLES DICKENS, A Tale of Two Cities
"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?" - ISAK DINESEN, Seven Gothic Tales
"No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short." - THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan
"Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species." - WILLIAM JAMES, in Atlantic
"Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human." - ANTONIO MACHADO, Juan de Mairena
"A human being . . . an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing." - CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Human Being
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed." - BLAISE PASCAL, Penses
"All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room." - BLAISE PASCAL, Penses
"Man is a biped without feathers." - PLATO, Politicus
"Man is no man, but a wolf." - PLAUTUS, Asinaria
"Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught." - PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
"Nothing is more wretched or more proud than man." - PLINY THE ELDER, Natural History
"Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest and riddle of the world!" - ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man
"Man is the measure of all things." - PROTAGORAS, attributed
"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs." - (MADAME) JEANNE-MARIE ROLAND, attributed
"How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in `t!" - SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
"We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." - SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
"There are many wonderful things, but none is more wonderful than man." - SOPHOCLES, Antigone
"I am a man; and nothing human is foreign to me." - TERENCE, Heauton Timoroumenos
"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." - Braun, Warner von when asked if man can be replaced by computer in spaceflight
##Manners
"Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
"Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
"Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Letters and Social Aims
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humour, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter (1808)
"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading." - SARAH ORNE JEWETT, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
"There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy." - E.V. LUCAS, Reading, Writing, and Remembering
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." - W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, A Writer's Notebook
"Civility costs nothing and buys everything." - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, letter (1756)
"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts." - ABEL STEVENS, Life of Mme. de Sta
##Marriage
"Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same." - Anonymous
"Marriage:  a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves - making in all two." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him." - Cher
"Oh!  how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring." - Colley Cibber
"Marriage is a wonderful invention. But, then again, so is the bicycle repair kit." - Billy Connolly
"The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three." - Alexandre Dumas, fils
"It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband." - Euripides
"Marriage is the most natural state of man, and...the state in which you will find solid happiness." - Benjamin Franklin
"First get an absolute conquest over thyself, and then thou wilt easily govern thy wife." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished." - Zsa Zsa Gabor
"Marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence." - Graffiti
"Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things." - Heraclitus
"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." - Bill Lawrence
"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." - Walter Raleigh
"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one." - Helen Rowland
"A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever." - Helen Rowland
"Till I have no wife I have nothing." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
"As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent." - Socrates
"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." - Mark Twain
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house." - Kerr, Jean
"The one word above all others that makes marriage successful is 'ours.'" - Quillen, Robert quoted in 'A Treasury of the Art of Living'
"Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rilke, R. M. [Rainer Maria]
"After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him." - Rowland, Helen
"The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness." - Seldon, John (1584-1654)
"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice
"It is better to marry than to burn." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 7:9
"One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague." - ROBERT BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy
"Wedlock - the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue." - MRS. PATRICK CAMPBELL, quoted in Ralph G. Martin's Jennie
"And all the young ladies said . . . that to be sure a love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could anyway afford it." - MARIA EDGEWORTH, Castle Rackrent
"Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
"A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world." - ERICA JONG, Fear of Flying
"There are few women so perfect that their husbands do not regret having married them at least once a day." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres
"So they were married to be the more together And found they were never again so much together, Divided by the morning tea, By the evening paper, By children and tradesmen's bills." - LOUIS MACNEICE, Les Sylphides
"Marriage may be compared to a cage: the birds outside despair to get in and those within despair to get out." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else." - SAMUEL ROGERS, Table Talk
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman, The Revolutionist's Handbook
"Marriage is the only adventure open to the timid." - VOLTAIRE, Penses d'un Philosophe
"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder." - THORNTON WILDER, The Merchant of Yonkers
##Maths
"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics." - Francis Bacon
"There is no royal road to geometry." - Euclid, (said to Ptolemy I), quoted in Proclus, Commentary on Euclid
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination." - Andrew Lang
"A point is the beginning of magnitude." - Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.)
"They told him that every figure of space is but the result of the intersection by a plane of some corresponding figure of one or more dimension--as a square is cut from a cube, or a circle from a sphere." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'
"I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'The Republic', book VII,531-E
"One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty." - MAXIM GORKY, The Zykovs
"The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes." - LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, letter (1753)
"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." - BERTRAND RUSSELL, Mysticism and Logic
"Mathematics . . . possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture." - BERTRAND RUSSELL, The Study of Mathematics
"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?" - SYDNEY SMITH, letter (1835)
##Maturity
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" - Fromm, Erich
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." - Robbins, Tom
"When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." - BIBLE, I Corinthians 13:11
"Youth condemns; maturity condones." - AMY LOWELL, Tendencies in Modern American Poetry
"Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"To be adult is to be alone." - JEAN ROSTAND, A Biologist's Thoughts
"One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full." - MURIEL SPARK, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - WILHELM STEKEL, quoted by J.D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up." - TOM STOPPARD, Where Are They Now?
"When I can look Life in the eyes, Grown calm and very coldly wise, Life will have given me the Truth, And taken in exchange - my youth." - SARA TEASDALE, Wisdom
##Meaning
"'Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.'" - Adams, Douglas
"Until you know that life is interesting--and find it so--you haven't found your soul." - Fisher, Geoffrey
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910) in 'War and Peace', VII:16
"The real meaning of life is not to fret and bug yourself about what the real meaning of life is." - Wall Street Journal Cartoon
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton
##Media
"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." - Clive Barnes
"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." - Clive Barnes, in New York Times
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad." - Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death
"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Lord Jones Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive." - G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." - Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - Ben Johnson
"I hope we never live to see the day when a thing is as bad as some of our newspapers make it." - Will Rogers
"New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's permanent institutions of both law and expectation." - Barlow, John Perry in 'Crime & Puzzlement'
"The depth of interest, sensitivity, and understanding is often much greater on an issue than one imagines judging only by the narrow bandwidth of most human communication." - Freeman, Dr. Peter A.
"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach." - Koppel, Ted
"Television--a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done." - Kovacs, Ernie
"Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it." - Leeper, Mark
"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." - Marx, Groucho [Julius Henry] (1895-1977)
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either." - McLuhan, Marshall
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel." - 'Taxi'
##Medicine
"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms." - Christiaan Barnard, quoted in Time
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine." - Henry Ward Beecher
"After two days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse." - W. C. Fields
"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." - Albert Pike
"I find the medicine worse than the malady." - FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER, Love's Cure
"Physicians of the Utmost Fame Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their Fees, There is no Cure for this Disease." - HILAIRE BELLOC, Henry King
"Physician, heal thyself." - BIBLE, Luke 4:23
"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence." - JAMES BRYCE, speech (1914)
"Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life!" - EMILY DICKINSON, Surgeons must be very careful
"Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases." - HIPPOCRATES, Aphorisms
"One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind." - JEAN KERR, Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid." - LA BRUYERES, Les Caracteres
"Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents." - PETER MERE LATHAM, General Remarks on the Practice of Medicine
"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals." - WILLIAM OSLER, Science and Immortality
"Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician." - MATTHEW PRIOR, The Remedy Worse than the Disease
"There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse." - LAURENCE STERNE, A Sentimental Journey
"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." - THOMAS SZASZ,The Second Sin
"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning." - LEWIS THOMAS, in New York Times Magazine
"It should be the function of medicine to help people die young as late in life as possible." - ERNST WYNDER, quoted in New York Times
##Meetings
"A meeting is an event in which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost." - Gould's Axiom
"Any simple problem can made insoluble if enough meetings are called to discuss it." - Mitchell's Law of Committees
##Memory
"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." - Rowan Atkinson, Live in Belfast
"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution." - Samuel Johnson
"If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered." - Edgar Allan Poe
"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying." - Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
"Memories are hunting horns Whose sound dies on the wind." - GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, Cors de chasse
"And we forget because we must And not because we will." - MATTHEW ARNOLD, Absence
"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence." - SHOLEM ASCH, The Nazarene
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December." - JAMES M. BARRIE, speech (1922)
"O Memory, thou fond deceiver, Still importunate and vain, To former joys recurring ever, And turning all the past to pain." - OLIVER GOLDSMITH, The Captivity
"To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else." - LA BRUYERE, Les Caracteres
"The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten." - CESARE PAVESE, diary entry The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935
"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them." - MARCEL PROUST, Remembrance of Things Past: The Past Recaptured
"Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad." - CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, Remember
"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember." - SENECA, Hercules Furens
##Men
"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen
"You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy." - Erica Jong
"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." - Helen Rowland
"The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." - Fern, Fanny (1811-1872) in 'Willis Parton'
"It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar." - Goodsell, Jane
"If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it." - JANE AUSTEN, Persuasion
"Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don't have to sew buttons." - HEYWOOD BROUN, Seeing Things at Night
"Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." - JOHN DRYDEN, All for Love
"The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail." - oMARC FEIGEN FASTEAU, The Male Machine
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never." - SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
"His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, This was a man!" - SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
"A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, The Irrational Knot
"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son." - GERTRUDE STEIN, Everybody's Autobiography
"It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men." - MAE WEST, in the film I'm No Angel
"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman." - NANCY ASTOR, My Two Countries
"There is more difference within the sexes than between them." - IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Mother and Son
"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made `em to match the men." - GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede
"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out." - GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"I can't live either without you or with you." - OVID, Amores
"Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. . . With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?" - DOROTHY PARKER, General Review of the Sex Situation
"Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take; But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake." - ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays
"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women." - THEODORE REIK, quoted in Esquire
"Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry." - GLORIA STEINEM, speech (1981)
"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel." - WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Henry Esmond
"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." - MARGARET THATCHER, quoted in People
"That . . . man . . . says women can't have as much rights as men, `cause Christ wasn't a woman. . . Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him." - SOJOURNER TRUTH, speech (1851)
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
##Mercy
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes." - SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy." - SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens
##Method
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Bacon, Sir Francis
"[W]hen you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan spoken by Sherlock Holmes
"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly." - Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936) [Russian physiologist]
##Military
"The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision." - Clark, Blake
" Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy." - Helvetius
"No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war." - CALVIN COOLIDGE, speech (1925)
"Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat." - HERMANN GOERING, speech (1936)
"Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"An army marches on its stomach." - NAPOLEON I, attributed
"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them." - NAPOLEON I, attributed
"Our God and soldiers we alike adore Ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted." - FRANCIS QUARLES, Emblems
"Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth." - SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war." - BARBARA TUCHMAN, The Guns of August
"The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." - ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WELLINGTON, attributed
##Mind
"I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment." - Henri Bergson, Introduction to Metaphysics
"Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed." - Christian Nestell Bovee
"The march of the human mind is slow." - Edmund Burke, speech (1775)
"Memory is the thing you forget with." - Alexander Chase, Perspectives
"A great mind becomes a great fortune." - Seneca
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." - Edmund Spenser
"Learning is the eye of the mind." - Drake, Thomas in 'Bibliotheca Scholastica Instructissima' 1633
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office." - Frost, Robert
"The mind does not understand its own reason for being. ," - Magritte, Rene
"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying." - Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
"As long as the brain is a mystery, the universe will also be a mystery." - Rammn y Cajal, Santiago
"The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Heart of Darkness
"My mind to me a kingdom is; Such present joys therein I find That it excels all other bliss That earth affords or grows by kind." - EDWARD DYER, My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is
"The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones." - JULIUS C. HARE AND AUGUSTUS W. HARE, Guesses at Truth
"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace." - ELBERT HUBBARD, Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams
"The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven." - JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
"The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays
"An improper mind is a perpetual feast." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
"Mind is the great lever of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are ultimately answered." - DANIEL WEBSTER, speech (1825)
##Minorities
"Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conduct of Life
"How a minority, Reaching a majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!" - LEONARD H. ROBBINS, attributed
##Mistake
"The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle
"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake." - Confucius
"I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake." - Bob Hudson
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." - John C. Maxwell
"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." - Alexander Pope, Thoughts on Various Subjects
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." - Mark Twain
"Quality isn't about not making mistakes; it's about not making the same mistakes twice." - Eberhart, Clair [custom builder in Boise, Idaho]
##Mistakes
"We made too many wrong mistakes." - Yogi Berra
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." - William Connor Magee, sermon (1868)
"Everything in this book may be wrong." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
"Quality isn't about not making mistakes; it's about not making the same mistakes twice." - Eberhart, Clair [custom builder in Boise, Idaho]
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again." - Jones, Franklin P.
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"Public speaking is very easy." - Quayle, J. Danforth [former vice president of the United States]
##Moderation
"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
"There is moderation even in excess." - Benjamin Disraeli
"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." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues." - JOSEPH HALL, Christian Moderation
"We never repent of having eaten too little." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, A Decalogue of Canons for observation in practical life (in letter, 1825)
"Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative." - HENRY A. KISSINGER, quoted in The Observer
"Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit." - LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
"Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice." - THOMAS PAINE, Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation
"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others." - DBERTRAND RUSSELL, Sceptical Essays
"Nothing in excess." - SOLON, quoted by Diogenes Laertius in Lives of the Philosophers
##Modernity
"We expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighbourly . . . to revere God and to be God." - Daniel J. Boorstin, The Image
"We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavours and furniture polish is made from real lemons..." - Alfred E. Newman
"A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.'" - Charles Dudley Warner
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Marder, Jeff
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., Strength to Love
"We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing." - R.D. LAING, The Politics of Experience
"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation." - NORMAN MAILER, Of a Fire on the Moon
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. WELLS, The Outline of History
##Modesty
"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." - William Hazlitt
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
"A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him." - EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Ventures in Common Sense
"When anyone remains modest, not after praise but after blame, then his modesty is real." - JEAN PAUL RICHTER, Hesperus
"With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy." - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Parerga and Paralipomena
##Money
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune." - Appius Claudius Caecus, quoted by Sallust, 'Speech to Caesar on the State'
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." - Aristotle
"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand." - Aphra Behn, The Rover
"What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?" - Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money." - Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season
"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." - Abraham Cowley
"If you'd know the value of money, go and borrow some." - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
"The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough." - Heinrich Heine
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it." - Bob Hope, quoted in Life in the Crystal Palace by Alan Harrington
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not." - Horace
"No man's credit is as good as his money." - Edgar Watson Howe
"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any." - Edgar Watson Howe
"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles." - Edgar Watson Howe
"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." - Samuel Johnson
"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket." - Frank McKinney Hubbard
"We all belong t' th' union when it comes t' wantin' more money and less work." - Frank McKinney Hubbard
"The two most beautiful words in the English language are : 'Cheque enclosed'." - Dorothy Parker
"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." - George Bernard Shaw
"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." - George Bernard Shaw
"When is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion." - Voltaire
"One man's wage increase is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - Crisp, Quentin
"Any change to the salary plan will result in less money for you. If they wanted to give you 'more' money, they wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of changing the plan. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a decrease in your funding. Big Book of Business', illustrated by Scott Adams" - Dogbert in 'Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 1991
"Wisdom is the wealth of the wise." - Ecclesiasticus (200 B.C.?)
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - Marquis, Don
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - O'Rourke, P. J.
"Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money." - Unknown 13-Year Old
"Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did." - JAMES BALDWIN, Nobody Knows My Name
"I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time." - HILAIRE BELLOC, Fatigued
"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things." - BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 10:19
"The love of money is the root of all evil." - BIBLE, I Timothy 6:10
"What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1680), Hudibras
"It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Erewhon
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." - CHARLES DICKENS, David Copperfield
"Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent." - ROBERT FROST, The Hardship of Accounting
"Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety." - JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH, The Age of Uncertainty
"The Almighty Dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land." - WASHINGTON IRVING, The Creole Village
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson
"It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five." - W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Of Human Bondage
"Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy." - SPIKE MILLIGAN, Puckoon
"I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries." - JULES RENARD, The Journal of Jules Renard, ed. Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget
"Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting." - BILLY ROSE, in New York Post
"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail." - LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH, Afterthoughts
"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, quoted in Bill Adler's The Stevenson Wit
"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can." - MARK TWAIN, Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar
##Morality
"Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions." - Will Durant
"Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them." - Mark Twain
"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation." - JEREMY BENTHAM, The Commonplace Book
"Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it." - A.P. HERBERT, Let's Stop Somebody from Doing Something!
"An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do." - MICHAEL JOSEPHSON, quoted in Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
"Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness." - IMMANUEL KANT, Critique of Practical Reason
"There is . . . but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law." - IMMANUEL KANT, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals
"It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly." - MARGARET MEAD, in Redbook Puritanism
"The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - H.L. MENCKEN, A Mencken Chrestomathy
"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, The Joyful Wisdom
"There are no moral phenomena, only a moral interpretation of phenomena." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral." - MARCEL PROUST, Remembrance of Things Past: Within a Budding Grove
"It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." - ADLAI E. STEVENSON, speech (1952)
"If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong." - ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Across the Plains
"All those men have their price." - ROBERT WALPOLE, quoted in William Coxe's Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole
##Morning
"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)
##Mothers
"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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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
##Mottos
"No matter where you go, there you are." - Banzai, Buckaroo from the movie 'Buckaroo Banzai...'
"Ad Astra Per Aspera. T: 'To the stars, through the hardships.'" - Motto
"Per Angusta Ad Augusta." - Motto
##Music
"The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge." - Cleveland Amory
"No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing." - W. H. Auden, in Time
"Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes." - Beethoven
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. . . . Bodies never lie." - Agnes de Mille, in New York Times Magazine
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong." - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
"Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you." - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956) spoken by Winnie-the-Pooh
"Architecture is music in stone." - Rand, Ayn
"Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below." - JOSEPH ADDISON, Song for St. Cecilia's Day
"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense." - JOSEPH ADDISON, The Spectator
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN, quoted in A.W. Thayer's Life of Beethoven
"Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, 'To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." - WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Mourning Bride
"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." - L COWARD, Private Lives
"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have." - EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - ALDOUS HUXLEY, Music at Night
"Melody is a form of remembrance. . . It must have a quality of inevitability in our ears." - GIAN CARLO MENOTTI, quoted in Time
"Is it not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out of men's bodies?" - SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
"If music be the food of love, play on; 'Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die." - SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman
"Just as my fingers on the keys Make music, so the selfsame sounds On my spirit make a music, too. Music is feeling, then, not sound." - WALLACE STEVENS, Peter Quince at the Clavier
"Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all . . . music expresses itself." - IGOR STRAVINSKY, quoted in Esquire
##Mystery
"Now comes the mystery." - Beecher, Henry Ward
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed." - Einstein, Albert in 'What I Believe' 1930
##Names
"The glory and the nothing of a name." - LORD BYRON, Churchill's Grave
"The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers." - MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media
"Each planet, each plant, each butterfly, each moth, each beetle, becomes doubly real to you when you know its name. Lucky indeed are those who from their earliest childhood have heard all these things named." - JOHN COWPER POWYS, The Meaning of Culture
"What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." - SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
##Nation
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson
" I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." - Adlai E. Stevenson
##Native_indians
"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." - Seely, Henry
"We not lost, house lost. Don't worry, Henry find." - Seely, Henry
##Nature
"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished." - Francis Bacon
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed." - Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
"Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into." - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts
"Do no dishonour to the earth lest you dishonour the spirit of man." - Henry Beston, The Outermost House
"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." - Henry Beston, The Outermost House
"To create a little flower is the labour of ages." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
"Nature abhors annihilation." - Cicero
"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." - Charles Darwin
"Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art." - Baltasar Gracian
"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." - Dorothy Gurney, The Lord God Planted a Garden
"The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle." - Marcus Aurelius
"Nature has perfections, in order to show that she is the image of God;  and defects, to show that she is only his image." - Blaise Pascal
"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God." - Alexander Pope
"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
"Nature, red in tooth and claw." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." - Bible (Romans 1:20)
"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Prophesy
"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare." - Davies, W. H.
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba
"Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things, and no human power can much longer perpetuate it." - Grimke, Angelina
"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Thoreau, Henry David
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it." - Voltaire (1694-1778) in 'Epitre a l'auteur de livre des trois imposteurs' 10 Nov 1770
##Necessity
"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." - Thomas Carlyle
"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity." - Euripides
"Necessity dispenseth with decorum." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
##Neighbours
"The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbours." - F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms
"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbours." - Confucius
"There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say." - Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbour." - Horace
"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours." - Edgar Watson Howe
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours." - Dean William R. Inge
"It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own." - Harry S. Truman
##Numbers
"But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." - Bible (Matthew 5:37)
"Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs." - Lehrer, Tom
##Observation
"You can observe a lot by just watching." - Yogi Berra
"You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra, attributed
"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
"Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics
##Opinions
"The fewer facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion." - Anonymous
"Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know." - Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
"The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion." - Elizabeth Drew, The Modern Novel
"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
"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." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake." - Alexander Pope
"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes." - Voltaire
"I've got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I'm a busy man! 'I' say, either agree with me or take a hike! I'm right, period! End of discussion!" - Calvin in Bill Watterson's 'Calvin & Hobbes' comic strip
"Too often we...enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - Kennedy, John F.
##Opportunity
"It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity." - Arthur H. Vandenberg
"Opportunity lies in the man and not in the job." - Zig Ziglar
"Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power living latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it." - Marden, Orison Swett
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." - Penn, Jack
##Oppression
"Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud." - Mandela, Nelson in his inauguration speech 10 May 1994
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.... And remember that it is forever." - Orwell, George [pseudonym of Eric Blair] (1903-1950)
##Optimism
"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism." - Arnold Bennett, Things that Have Interested Me
"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are." - Chauncey Depew
##Order
"Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things, and no human power can much longer perpetuate it." - Grimke, Angelina
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." - Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
##Organizations
"A meeting is an event in which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost." - Gould's Axiom
"Any simple problem can made insoluble if enough meetings are called to discuss it." - Mitchell's Law of Committees
##Originality
"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." - Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History
"Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism." - Inge, William Ralph [Dean] (1860-1954) in 'Wit and Wisdom'
##Pain
"World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.  We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Pain is no evil unless it conquers us." - George Eliot
"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - Samuel Johnson
"You purchase pain with all that joy can give, and die of nothing but a rage to live." - Alexander Pope
"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own." - Francis Thompson
"I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep." - Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augutin de (1732-1799)
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other `sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is 'not' a sin--just stupid.)" - Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) from 'Time Enough For Love'
"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire." - Nixon, Richard Milhous
##Parents
"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.'" - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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
"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
"The joys of parents are secret: and so are their griefs and fears." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin." - Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children." - Clarence S. Darrow
"If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent." - Bette Davis, The Lonely Life
"The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children." - Edward, Duke of Windsor, quoted in Look
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own." - Doug Larson
##Passion
"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." - Bible (Song of Solomon 8:7)
"God is Love--I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!" - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'Notebooks'
"You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion." - Keillor, Garrison
"Let your mind go and your body will follow." - McDowel, Sara [character played by Steve Martin's wife] to Harris K. Telemacher [played by Steve Mar
"Oh with what passion my heart is burning, I fear you will never know." - Nineteen Poems
"Few love to hear the sins they love to act." - Shakespear, WIlliam (1564-1616)
"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)
##Past
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause." - Bergson, Henri Louis (1859-1941)
"The future isn't what it used to be." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- )
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." - Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about ... things that are past, it is needless to blame." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
##Patience
"Patience is a flatterer, sir - and an ass, sir." - Aphra Behn, The Feigned Curtezans
"PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"He preacheth patience that never knew pain." - Henry George Bohn, Handbook of Proverbs
"Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform." - Homer
"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." - Francis de Sales
"Do not be quick to blame the encroachment of civilization for the lights on the horizon of your night sky; they may be the rising moon." - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 15 May 1994
##Patriotism
"'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.'" - G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." - Adams, John in 'Novanglus', 'Boston Gazette' 06 Feb 1775
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." - Carlin, George
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." - Hale, Nathan (1755-1776) speech before being executed as a spy by the British 22 Sep 1776
"Gentlemen may cry 'Peace! Peace!' but there is no peace... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains & slavery?... I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" - Henry, Patrick at the Virginia Convention 23 Mar 1775
"If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is WITH representation." - Old Farmers Almanac
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Paine, Thomas (1737-1809) in 'The American Crisis' 23 December 1776
"Our true nationality is mankind." - Wells, H. G.
##Peace
"The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war." - Desiderius Erasmus
"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." - The Talmud
"There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy." - George Washington
"'Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.'" - Adams, Douglas
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"Freindship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace." - Lamartine, Alphonse de (1790-1869)
##People
"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
"We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people." - Daniel Webster
"If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can bet that everyone else is doing so." - Johnston, Ed
##Perseverance
"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes from a strong will,  and the other from a strong won't." - Henry Ward Beecher
"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." - Edmund Burke
"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." - Thomas English
"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." - Owen Feltham
"Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow." - Plutarch
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy in a bad one." - Laurence Sterne
"No rock so hard but a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
##Pessimism
"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself." - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
"Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it." - George Bernard Shaw
"We saw our own lives in terms of promise, not pessimism. We thought our job here on Earth was to build up, not tear down; to unite, not to divide." - Clinton, William Jefferson in convocation speech at UCLA, on the death of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
##Phenomenology
"A man said to the Universe, 'Sir, I exist.' 'However,' replied the Universe, 'That fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'" - Crane, Stephen (1871-1900)
"The mind does not understand its own reason for being. ," - Magritte, Rene
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat." - Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
##Philosophy
"Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct." - F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality
"The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"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." - Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
"Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the soul." - Alexander Chase, Perspectives
"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." - Cicero, De Divinatione
"The first step towards philosophy is incredulity." - Denis Diderot, attributed (last words)
"Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible." - Henry Louis Mencken, Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks
"Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates." - Henry David Thoreau
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." - Hume, David in 'A Treatise of Human Nature' 1739
"Ideas do have consequences and all argument is philosophical. You may try to avoid or hide it, but your line of thinking on any issue is a result of the basic philosophy which you hold." - Otto, John G. [Quote Archivist] 18 July 1994
"All work is an act of philosophy." - Rand, Ayn
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Harris, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Road Sign to Harris K. Telemacher [played by Steve Martin] in 'L.A. Story'
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Shakespear, William (1564-1616)
##Physics
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Einstein, Albert
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." - Einstein, Albert in 'Evolution of Physics' 1938
"The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - Ellison, Harlan
"They told him that every figure of space is but the result of the intersection by a plane of some corresponding figure of one or more dimension--as a square is cut from a cube, or a circle from a sphere." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'
##Plagiarism
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research." - Wilson Mizner
"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before." - Mark Twain
##Planning
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, 1992
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - Lennon, John
##Plans
"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." - Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." - Daniel H. Burnham, quoted in Charles Moore's Daniel H. Burnham
"I would rather have a good plan today than a perfect plan two weeks from now." - General George S. Patton
##Play
"God is Love--I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!" - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'Notebooks'
"Roleplaying is an escapist activity that requires a good imagination, but it is not recommended for those with a poor grip on reality. It does not make weirdos, it simply attracts them." - rec.games.frp.* FAQ
##Pleasure
"Variety is the soul of pleasure." - Aphra Behn, The Rover
"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." - Thomas Carlyle
"In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures." - Cicero
"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
"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." - Bhagavad Gita
"Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain." - William Henley
"Men seldom give pleasure where they are not pleased themselves." - Samuel Johnson
"To love is find pleasure in the happiness of the person loved." - Leibnitz, Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von
##Poetry
"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." - W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
"Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry." - Georges Brague, quoted in The Times
"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly." - T. S. Eliot
"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." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter (1940)
"Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls." - Voltaire
"Love is the poetry of the senses." - Balzac, Honore de (1790-1850)
"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." - Nash, Ogden
##Police
"Deus ex machina. T: 'A god from the machine.'" - Menander (c342-292 B.C.) in 'The Woman Possesed with a Divinity', fragment 227
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Moore, Dudley
"Remember folks. Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph." - Samuels, Jim
##Politics
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"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." - Franklin P. Adams, Nods and Becks
"I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle." - Henry Addington
"Man is by nature a political animal." - Aristotle, Politics, book I, ch. 2
"CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them." - Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." - Sir Winston Churchill
"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." - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1947)
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it." - Clarence S. Darrow
"A conservative government is an organised hypocrisy." - Benjamin Disraeli, speech (1845)
"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money." - Carter Glass, quoted in New York Times
"Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon." - Abbie Hoffman
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical." - Thomas Jefferson
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger
"Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet." - Abraham Lincoln, letter (1863)
". . . government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - Abraham Lincoln, speech (address at Gettysburg, 1863)
"'A Foreign Secretary' is forever poised between the clich and the indiscretion." - Harold MacMillan, comment made in Parliament
"Communism destroys democracy.  Democracy can also destroy Communism." - Andre Malraux
"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground." - Henry Louis Mencken
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major
"Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail." - Benito Mussolini
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - George Orwell, Animal Farm
"As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents." - George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense
"To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as mortals." - William Penn
"Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel." - Boise Penrose
"I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money." - Will Rogers
"Communism is like Prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force." - George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 'The Revolutionist's Handbook'
"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy." - Alfred E. Smith, speech (1933)
"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." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice." - Adlai E. Stevenson, speech (1951)
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"There is no distinctly American criminal class, except Congress." - Mark Twain
"[democracy]. . . the people's government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." - Daniel Webster, speech (1830)
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." - Elwyn Brooks White, in New Yorker
"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." - Walter Williams
"The world must be made safe for democracy." - Woodrow Wilson, speech (to Congress, seeking a declaration of war, 1917)
"We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it." - Barry, Dave
"Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends." - Carville, James [advisor to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign]
"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" - DeGaulle, Charles
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- )
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Hardiman, Larry
"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 we are missing." - Nasser, Gamel Abdel
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test
" Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Reagan, Ronald
"Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritative regime.-- Stewart, Potter [Supreme Court Justice]" - 
"CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others." - AMBROSE BIERCE, The Devil's Dictionary
"The healthy stomach is nothing if not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions." - SAMUEL BUTLER (d 1902), Note-Books
"There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Conservative
"To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell." - MICHAEL FRAYN, in The Observer
"I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old." - ROBERT FROST, Precaution
"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past." - JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, The End of Laissez-Faire
##Poverty
"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell." - Walter Bagehot
"You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich." - Henry Ward Beecher
"Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse." - Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil." - Samuel Johnson
"Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness;  it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult." - Samuel Johnson
"You cannot feed the hungry on statistics." - David Lloyd George
"Poverty is the mother of crime." - Marcus Aurelius
"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." - Albert Pike
##Power
"He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled." - Aristotle, Politics
"For knowledge, too, is itself power." - Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae
"The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom." - Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." - Edmund Burke, speech (1771)
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
"He who has great power should use it lightly." - Seneca
"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"He never sold the truth to serve the hour,  Nor paltered with Eternal God for power." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah'
"Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." - Bible (Song of Solomon 8:7)
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee--that will do them in." - Bradley's Bromide
"Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin." - Edwards, Tryon (1809-1894)
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - Einstein, Albert
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)
"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams? By being lower than they." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. T: Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900) in 'Twilight of the Idols' 1889
"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - O'Rourke, P. J.
"'Slave is an Ephebian word. In Om we have no word for slave,' said Vorbis. 'So I understand,' said the Tyrant. 'I imagine that fish have no word for water.'" - Pratchett, Terry in 'Small Gods'
"Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love." - Rockefeller, Nelson
##Practice
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- )
"Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
##Praise
"From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise." - Bible, Psalms 8:2
"The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us." - Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey
"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." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
##Prayer
"To him who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear." - Homer
"Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers." - Seneca
"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." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money." - Unknown 13-Year Old
##Prediction
"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"I have long considered it it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If were not, life would surely be unbearable." - Forsey, Eugene
##Prejudice
"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." - Charlotte Bront, Jane Eyre
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally." - W. C. Fields
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." - William James
##Pride
"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
"Shame is Pride's cloak." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"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." - William S. Gilbert
"The truly proud man knows neither superiors nor inferiors.  The first he does not admit of;  the last he does not concern himself about." - William Hazlitt
"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man." - C. S. Lewis
"The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism." - Henry Louis Mencken
"What is pride?  A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star." - William Wordsworth
"Our true nationality is mankind." - Wells, H. G.
##Problems
"Be thankful for problems.  If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job." - 'Bits & Pieces'
"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS." - Bastard Operator from Hell [Anke Bodzin]
"The social problems raised by science must be faced and solved by the humanities." - Dodd, Harold
"It is better to laugh about your problems than to cry about them." - Jewish Proverb
##Procrastination
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - Lennon, John
"Fall behind early so you'll have more time to catch up later." - Unknown
##Programming
"Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming." - Kernigan
"That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers." - Niven, Larry, and Jerry Pournelle in 'Oath of Fealty'
"BASIC is to computer programming as QWERTY is to typing." - Papert, Seymour
"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." - Sinz, Michael [Commodore-Amiga Inc.]
"Real Programmers never work from 9 to 5. If any real programmer is around at 9 a.m., it's because they were up all night." - Some Computer Geek
"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea." - Unknown
"If builders built buildings they way computer programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed all civilization." - Weinberg's Law
##Progress
"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." - Confucius
"What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." - Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments
"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions." - Adlai E. Stevenson
"Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo." - Byrne, Robert
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.... Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate confrontation, are people who want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters." - Douglass, Frederick (c1817-1895)
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." - Einstein, Albert
"We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on." - Hubel, David [neuroscientist] 1979
"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." - Nash, Ogden
"Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long." - Nash, Ogden
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." - Robbins, Tom
##Prosperity
"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
"Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." - Calvin Coolidge
"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.'" - Mark Twain
"Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know." - Mark Twain
##Proverbs
"Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave." - Chinese Proverb
"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not." - Chinese Proverb
"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion." - Chinese Proverb
"Laws control the lesser man...Right conduct controls the greater one." - Chinese Proverb
"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat." - Chinese Proverb
"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words." - Chinese Proverb
"Climb mountains to see lowlands." - Chinese Proverb
"He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." - Chinese Proverb
"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead." - Chinese Proverb
"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own." - Chinese Proverb
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." - Chinese Proverb
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." - Chinese Proverb
"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." - Chinese Proverb
"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." - Chinese Proverb
"The tongue like a sharp knife...Kills without drawing blood." - Chinese Proverb
"Not wine...men intoxicate themselves; Not vice...men entice themselves." - Chinese Proverb
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years." - Chinese Proverb
"The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship." - Chinese Proverb
"A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs." - German Proverb
"If one branch doesn't move, the many branches won't stir. T: 'If someone does not lead, no one will follow.'" - Chinese Proverb
"Better late than never." - Heywood, John c1565
"The Windy day is not a day for scallops (thatching)" - Irish Proverb
"People live in each other's shelter" - Irish Proverb
"The world would not make a racehorse of a donkey" - Irish Proverb
"There is no fireside like your own fireside" - Irish Proverb
"You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail," - Irish Proverb
"and you have not built a wall unless you have rounded a corner." - Irish Proverb
"There is no strength without unity." - Irish Proverb
"You must live with a person to know a person.  If you want to know me come and live with me." - Irish Proverb
"Praise the young and they will blossom" - Irish Proverb
"The raggy colt often made a powerful horse." - Irish Proverb
"Age is honorable and youth is noble." - Irish Proverb
"Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever." - Irish Proverb
"When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it.  Every beginning is weak." - Irish Proverb
"Youth does not mind where it sets its foot." - Irish Proverb
"It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while." - Irish Proverb
"Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die." - Irish Proverb
"The smallest thing outlives the human being." - Irish Proverb
"The well fed does not understand the lean." - Irish Proverb
"He who comes with a story to you brings two away from you" - Irish Proverb
"It is not a secret if it is known by three people." - Irish Proverb
"It is the quiet pigs that eat the meal." - Irish Proverb
"Quiet people are well able to look after themselves." - Irish Proverb
"If you hit my dog you hit myself." - Irish Proverb
"A friends eye is a good mirror." - Irish Proverb
"It is the good horse that draws its own cart." - Irish Proverb
"A lock is better than suspicion." - Irish Proverb
"Even a small thorn causes festering." - Irish Proverb
"Two shorten the road." - Irish Proverb
"It is better to exist unknown to the law." - Irish Proverb
"If you want to be criticized, marry." - Irish Proverb
"What fills they fills the heart." - Irish Proverb
"A trade not properly learned is an enemy." - Irish Proverb
"Two thirds of the work is the semblance." - Irish Proverb
"It is a bad hen that does not scratch herself." - Irish Proverb
"He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday." - Irish Proverb
"It takes time to build castles.  Rome wan not built in a day." - Irish Proverb
"Mere words do not feed the friars." - Irish Proverb
"The work praises the man." - Irish Proverb
"If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn." - Irish Proverb
"A drink precedes a story." - Irish Proverb
"Good as drink is, it ends in thirst." - Irish Proverb
"When the drop (drink) is inside the sense is outside." - Irish Proverb
"When the liquor was gone the fun was gone." - Irish Proverb
"It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for." - Irish Proverb
"Thirst is the end of drinking and sorrow is the end of drunkenness." - Irish Proverb
"Wine divulges truth." - Irish Proverb
"As the big hound is, so will the pup be." - Irish Proverb
"Put silk on a goat, and it's still a goat." - Irish Proverb
"You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear." - Irish Proverb
"Instinct is stronger than upbringing." - Irish Proverb
"A poor person is often worthy." - Irish Proverb
"A barrel that contains the wine will retain the drop in its staves." - Irish Proverb
"It is often that a cow does not take after its breed." - Irish Proverb
"Listen to the sound of the river and you will get a trout." - Irish Proverb
"A hounds food is in its legs." - Irish Proverb
"A persons heart is in his feet." - Irish Proverb
"The day will come when the cow will have use for her tail." - Irish Proverb
"It is a long road that has no turning." - Irish Proverb
"Spalds (small stones) suit walls as well as big stones." - Irish Proverb
"When fire is applied to a stone it cracks." - Irish Proverb
"Necessity knows no law." - Irish Proverb
"Need teaches a plan." - Irish Proverb
"Necessity is the mother of invention." - Irish Proverb
"Lack of resource has hanged many a person." - Irish Proverb
"The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches." - Irish Proverb
"The mills of God grind slowly but they grind finely." - Irish Proverb
"There is no luck except where there is discipline." - Irish Proverb
"A hen is heavy when carried far." - Irish Proverb
"The hole is more honorable than the patch." - Irish Proverb
"Time is a great story teller." - Irish Proverb
"Patience is poultice for all wounds." - Irish Proverb
"There is no need like the lack of a friend." - Irish Proverb
"The man with the boots does not mind where he places his foot." - Irish Proverb
"The light heart lives long." - Irish Proverb
"Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab." - Irish Proverb
"May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son." - Irish Proverb
"Three diseases without shame: Love, itch and thirst." - Irish Proverb
"Proverbs are short sayings drawn from long experience." - MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote de la Mancha
"Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people." - JAMES HOWELL, Proverbs
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it." - JOHN KEATS, letter (1819)
"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim." - THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, Literary Essays contributed to the Edinburgh Review
"The platitude turned on its head is still a platitude." - NORMAN MAILER, Advertisements for Myself
"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom." - JOHN RUSSELL, quoted in James Mackintosh's Memoirs
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." - GEORGE SANTAYANA, Little Essays
##Prudence
"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
"The first years of man make provision for the last." - Samuel Johnson
##Psychology
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Szasz, Thomas from 'Schizophrenia' in 'The Second Sin' 1973
"The Self is not something you find, it is something you create." - Unknown
##Public
"Public opinion is no more than this: What people think that other people think." - Alfred Austin, Prince Lucifer
"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." - Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
##Punishment
"Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught." - Elbert Green Hubbard
"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Questions
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
"To ask the hard question is simple." - W. H. Auden, The Question
"'Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?' said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. 'Forty-two!' he said with a malicious grin, 'No, doesn't work. Never mind.'" - Adams, Douglas
"Woody: Can I pour you a draft, Mr. Peterson? Norm: A little early, isn't it Woody? Woody: For a beer? Norm: No, for stupid questions." - Peterson, Norman [Norm!] in 'Let Sleeping Drakes Lie', 'Cheers'
"The secret to finding the answer lies in asking the right question. If you ask the right question, the answer takes care of itself." - Shigan, Jeriba
"The only stupid question is the one that is never asked, except maybe 'Don't you think it is about time you audited my return?' or 'Isn't it morally wrong to give me a warning when, in fact, I was speeding?'" - Unknown 15-Year Old
##Quotations
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." - Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965) from 'The Creative Impulse,' in 'Six stories written in the fi
"I quote others only the better to express myself." - Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
##Quotes
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"Ad Astra Per Aspera. T: 'To the stars, through the hardships.'" - Motto
"Per Angusta Ad Augusta." - Motto
"A rolling stone gathers no moss." - Publilius Syrus [Publius] Maxim 524
"Words sing. They hurt. They teach. They sanctify. They were man's first, immeasurable feat of magic. They liberated us from ignorance and our barbarous past." - Rosten, Leo C. (1908- )
"Nothing is said that has not been said before." - Terence (185 B.C - 159 B.C.)
##Racism
"To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white." - Edward Estlin Cummings
"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery." - Frederick Douglass, The North Star
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line." - W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk
"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." - Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
"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." - William Faulkner
"The so-called white races are really pinko-grey." - E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
"Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because--what with trolls and dwarfs and so on--speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Witches Abroad'
##Reading
"Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?" - Kraus, Karl
"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." - Marx, Groucho [Julius Henry] (1895-1977)
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man that can`t read them." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
##Reality
"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." - Douglas Adams
"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." - Douglas Adams
"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." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen
"I gave my life to become what I am now. Was it worth it?" - Bach, Richard in 'One'
"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- )
"Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- )
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." - Blake, William (1757-1827) in 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' 1790-1793
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Cocteau, Jean
"We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy." - Connolly, Cyril
"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." - DePree, Max quoted in 'Communicator' September 1992
"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." - Einstein, Albert
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." - Einstein, Albert in 'Evolution of Physics' 1938
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Einstein, Albert
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Einstein, Albert
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which 'are' there." - Feynman, Richard
"Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop thinking about it." - Goebel, Greg
"'There is no truth beyond magic' ... reality is strange. Many people think reality is prosaic. I don't. We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery." - Goodwin, Brian quoted by Roger Lewin in 'Complexity' 1992
"If it's there and you can see it - it's real. If it's not there and you can see it - it's virtual. If it's there and you can't see it - it's transparent. If it's not there and you can't see it - you erased it!" - Hammer, Scott an old IBM VM statement
"God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." - Hawking, Stephen
"What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion." - Jacob, Max (1876-1944) in 'Art Po]tique' 1922
"In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert." - Johnson, Samuel
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - Lennon, John
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." - Lennon, John quoted on 'The Way It Is,' CBC-TV June 1969
"That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality." - Lovecraft, H. P. in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key', 'Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness'
"The Man of Truth is beyond good and evil .... The Man of Truth has ridden to All-Is-One. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter." - Lovecraft, H. P. spoken by 'a voice that was not a voice' in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key',
"Reality is something you rise above." - Minnelli, Liza
"We may begin to see reality differently simply because the computer ... provides a different angle on reality." - Pagels, Heinz
"Roleplaying is an escapist activity that requires a good imagination, but it is not recommended for those with a poor grip on reality. It does not make weirdos, it simply attracts them." - rec.games.frp.* FAQ
"'Goodbye,' said the fox. 'And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.'" - Sainte-Exubery, Antoine de in 'The Little Prince'
"The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat." - Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
"The world is but a canvas to our imagination." - Thoreau, Henry David
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool." - Wagner, Jane
"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." - Whorf, Benjamin
"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it." - Whorf, Benjamin
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton
"Reality: What a concept!" - Williams, Robin
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question." - Williams, Tennessee
"If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world." - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
##Reason
"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." - Bolingbroke
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it." - Thomas Paine
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use." - Galilei, Galileo
"Question with boldness even the existance of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfold fear." - Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
"Le coeur a ses raisons dont le cerveau ne sait nul. T: 'The heart has its reasons, of which the mind knows nothing.'" - Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662)
##Rebellion
"What is a rebel? A man who says no." - Albert Camus, The Rebel
"You non-conformists are all alike." - 'Deadlock'
##Reform
"Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly." - Desiderius Erasmus
"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me." - Edgar Watson Howe
##Regret
"Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 10
"There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go." - Bach, Richard in 'The Bridge Across Forever'
"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about ... things that are past, it is needless to blame." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back." - Turkish proverb
##Reincarnation
"As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." - France, Anatole
##Relationships
"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah' 1977
"My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy." - Barnes, J.
"Relationships: we all got 'em, we all want 'em, what do we do with them?!" - Buffett, Jimmy
"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Buscaglia, Leo
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" - Fromm, Erich
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations." - Gibran, Khalil
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance." - Wilde, Oscar
##Relativity
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." - Einstein, Albert in 'Evolution of Physics' 1938
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Einstein, Albert
##Religion
"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." - Fred Allen
"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen
"A belief is not true because it is useful." - Henri-Frdric Amiel
"Beware, the man of one book." - St. Thomas Aquinas
"Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence." - Aristotle
"All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation." - W. H. Auden, A Certain World
"No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine." - A. J. Ayer, Essay on Humanism
"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself." - Georges Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest
"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see." - Bible, Hebrews 11:1
"'You of little faith,' he said, 'why did you doubt?'" - Bible, Matthew 14:31
"Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based." - Ambrose Bierce
"PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, No Rusty Swords
"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - General Omar Bradley, speech (1948)
"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
"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity." - Edmund Burke
"It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery." - Edmund Burke
"Don't wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day." - Albert Camus, The Fall
"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion." - Alexander Chase, Perspectives
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." - G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
"Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"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." - Clarence S. Darrow, courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925)
"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." - Clarence S. Darrow, courtroom argument (at Scopes trial, 1925)
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." - Havelock Ellis
"Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed." - Epicetus
"All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven in his own way." - Frederick II
"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy." - Giuseppe Garibaldi
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel." - Frederick Harrison
"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." - Heinrich Heine
"I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality." - Bob Hope
"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." - Victor Hugo
"The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing." - Bernard Levin, The Pendulum Years
"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.'" - C. S. Lewis, paraphrased
"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?" - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature." - Alfred North Whitehead
"The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank." - Dante Gabriel Rossetti
"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." - Bertrand Russell
"Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace." - George Santayana
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." - Seneca
"Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man.  Man is not a finished creation." - Sivananda
"No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man." - Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
"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
"By night an atheist half believes in a God." - Edward Young, Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality
"This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past." - Agathon (c448-c400 B.C.) from 'Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics', book VI, ch. 2
"Watch?? I'm gonna pray, Man! Know any good religions?" - Beeblebrox, Zaphod [character in 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'] by Douglas Adams
"For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'], 2:27 (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna
"I am that I am. /" - Bible (Exodus 3:14) spoken by God to Moses in reply to the question: 'When I come unto the children
"Prayer - to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - Bradly, General Omar N.
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself." - Burton, Sir Richard F.
"God is Love--I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!" - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'Notebooks'
"He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules!" - Butz, Earl on the Pope and birth control
"[A computer is] like an Old Testament god; lots of rules and no mercy." - Campbell, Joseph
"Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde." - Chaucer, Geoffrey (c1343-1400) in 'The Parliament of Fowls', line 379
"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Cocteau, Jean
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Einstein, Albert
"Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those who have found it." - Havel, Vaclav [president, Czech Republic] as quoted by Deepak Chopra
"God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen." - Hawking, Stephen
"Love is a pure dew which drops from heaven into our heart, when God wills." - Houssaye, Arsene
"Love is my religion--I could die for that." - Keats, John (1795-1821) in a letter to Fanny Brawne 13 Oct 1819
"Fiat justitia, ruit coelum.  T: 'Let justice be done, even if Heaven falls.'" - Legal saying
"Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is. T: also seen as 'Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.'^ History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion--i.e. none to speak of." - Long, Lazarus
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education." - Mizner, Wilson
"The last Christian died on the cross." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's?" - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900)
"All that is comes from the mind; it is based on the mind, it is fashioned by the mind." - Pali Canon [Sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhists] in 'Suttapitaka', Dhammapada 1:1 c500-c250 B.C
"For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is the eternal law." - Pali Canon [Sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhists] in 'Suttapitaka', Dhammapada 1:5 c500-c250 B.C
"This noble eightfold path ... right views, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right contemplation." - Pali Canon [Sacred scriptures of Theravada Buddhists] in 'Suttapitaka', Dhammacakkappavattanasutta,
"All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven." - Pope, Alexander
"Loud speech, profusion of words and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation." - Shankaracharya
"Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off." - Short, Solomon
"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." - Szasz, Thomas from 'Schizophrenia' in 'The Second Sin' 1973
"Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundry condition." - Turing, Alan
"Baseball is like church: many people attend but few understand." - Unknown
"My young brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth--that most of us go to hell and burn eternally--but I didn't want to upset him." - Unknown 10-Year Old
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." - Zuka, Gary in 'The Dancing Wu Li Masters'
##Repetition
"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
"Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it." - Santayana, George (1863-1952) in 'Life of Reason'
##Representation
"What we should have fought for was representation without taxation." - Levenson, Sam
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'" - Wittgenstein, Ludwig
##Respect
"Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned" - 'Bits & Pieces'
"You say that you have a great respect for truth. Is that why you always place yourself at such a respectful distance from it?" - Escriva
##Revenge
"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
"You cannot get ahead while you are getting even." - Dick Armey
"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Revenge is an act of passion;  vengeance of justice.  Injuries are revenged;  crimes are avenged." - Samuel Johnson
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated." - George Bernard Shaw
##Reviews
"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." - Costello, Elvis [Musician] on music reviewers
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Parker, Dorothy
##Revolution
"It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt, in New Yorker
"Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles." - Aristotle, Politics
"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic." - Albert Camus
"A revolution is not a bed of roses ... a revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." - Fidel Castro, speech (1961)
"At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned." - Georges Jacques Danton
"When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right." - Victor Hugo
##Righteousness
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"I'd rather be happy than right, any day." - Slartibartfast [Designer of Coastlines] in 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams
##Rights
"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." - Douglas Adams
"He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist." - Unknown
"It's easier to apologize than ask for permission." - Unknown
##Risk
"Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down." - Bradbury, Ray
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all." - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'The Way of All Flesh'
"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." - Jong, Erica (1942- )
##Romance
"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked." - OVID, Ars Amatoria
"Brevity may be the soul of wit, but not when someone's saying, 'I love you'." - JUDITH VIORST, in Redbook
"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - OSCAR WILDE, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
##Rumour
"When rumours increase, and when there is an abundance of noise and clamour, believe the second report." - Alexander Pope
"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." - Virgil, Aeneid
##Safety
"They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Franklin, Benjamin
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Moore, Dudley
##Sanity
"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." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses." - Bachman, Richard [a.k.a. Stephen King] in 'Rage'
##Science
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny....'" - Isaac Asimov
"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus." - William Blake
"Art is meant to upset people, science reassures them." - Georges Brague, Illustrated Notebooks
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." - Wernher von Braun, in Chicago Sun Times
"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste
"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.'" - Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in New Yorker
"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." - Charles Darwin
"In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs." - Francis Darwin, in Eugenics Review
"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." - Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
"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." - Albert Einstein
"A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it." - Albert Einstein, attributed
"I, at any rate, am convinced that He 'God' is not playing at dice." - Albert Einstein, letter (1926)
"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." - Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility." - Albert Einstein, quoted in Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers
"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." - Harry Emerson Fosdick, Riverside Sermons
"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." - Adam Smith
"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms." - George Wald
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount." - Bradly, General Omar N.
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William
"I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that." - Dick, Philip K. in 'Self Portrait' 1968
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Einstein, Albert
"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have." - Einstein, Albert
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." - Einstein, Albert
"He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"'There is no truth beyond magic' ... reality is strange. Many people think reality is prosaic. I don't. We don't explain things away in science. We get closer to the mystery." - Goodwin, Brian quoted by Roger Lewin in 'Complexity' 1992
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." - Holton, Gerald
"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous." - Hume, David in 'A Treatise of Human Nature' 1739
"By the time a social science theory is formulated in such a way that it can be tested, changing circumstances have already made it obsolete." - Issawi, Charles P.
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - King Jr., Martin Luther (1929-1968)
"If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion." - Long, Lazarus
"Oh no. We're in the hands of engineers!" - Malcolm, Ian [a chaos theorist] in 'Jurassic Park'
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." - Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967)
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
"Parkinson's Finding on Journals: The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published." - Unknown
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." - Zuka, Gary in 'The Dancing Wu Li Masters'
##Scientific
"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Bacon, Sir Francis
"[W]hen you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan spoken by Sherlock Holmes
"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly." - Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936) [Russian physiologist]
##Secrecy
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon
"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere." - William Congreve, Love for Love
"The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident." - Charles Lamb, Table Talk
##Self
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash
"The trouble with this world is that God needs to self-actualize." - Buchanan, William G.
"What is a friend? I will tell you . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself." - Crane, Frank
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
##Selfishness
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it is bad economics." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
##Sex
"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions." - Woody Allen
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night." - Woody Allen
"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen
"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen
"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." - Woody Allen
"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best." - Woody Allen
"Mummy, mummy, what's an orgasm? I dunno. Ask your father." - Anonymous
"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." - Havelock Ellis
"I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be." - Benny Hill
"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." - Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye
"If all the girls at the Yale Prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised." - Dorothy Parker
"That woman speaks eighteen languages and she can't say 'no' in any one of them." - Dorothy Parker
"I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults." - Gore Vidal
"God is Love--I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!" - Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) in 'Notebooks'
"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese Proverb
"In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact." - Dietrich, Marlene (1901-????)
"Don't explain computers to laymen. [It's] Simpler to explain sex to a virgin." - Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) from 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' c1966
"Platonic friendship: The interval between the introduction and the first kiss." - Loeb, Sophie Irene
"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy." - Martin, Steve
"Programming is like sex, one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." - Sinz, Michael [Commodore-Amiga Inc.]
"I may not have a perfect body but I have some excellent parts on it." - Unknown
##Shakespeare
"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment." - William Shakespeare
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"In a false quarrel there is no true valour." - William Shakespeare
"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." - William Shakespeare
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness." - William Shakespeare
"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired." - William Shakespeare
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare
"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause." - William Shakespeare
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare
"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear." - William Shakespeare
"The love of heaven makes one heavenly." - William Shakespeare
"To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare
"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." - William Shakespeare
"Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms." - William Shakespeare
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." - William Shakespeare
"To be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with the gods above." - William Shakespeare
"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better." - William Shakespeare
"Love is merely a madness." - William Shakespeare
"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything." - William Shakespeare
"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils." - William Shakespeare
"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing." - William Shakespeare
"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones." - William Shakespeare
"My patience to his fury, and am arm'd to suffer, with a quietness of spirit, the very tyranny and rage of his." - William Shakespeare
"There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself." - William Shakespeare
"Men are as the time is." - William Shakespeare
"When we are born, we cry that we are come To this great stage of fools." - William Shakespeare
"We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion." - William Shakespeare
"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stoln, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all." - William Shakespeare
"Trifles, light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ." - William Shakespeare
"Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise." - William Shakespeare
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare
"This above all: to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare
"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare
"Brevity is the soul of wit." - William Shakespeare
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." - William Shakespeare
"The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
"Do you now know that I am a woman? when I think, I must speak." - William Shakespeare
"Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard." - William Shakespeare
"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions." - William Shakespeare
"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue." - William Shakespeare
"Thought is free." - William Shakespeare
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
"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." - William Shakespeare
"Lawless are they that make their wills their law." - William Shakespeare
"Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done." - William Shakespeare
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Ay, me. You juggler! You canker blossom!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"You maid of hindering knot grass. You bead! You acorn!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Fie, fie, you counterfeit. You puppet, you!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"Get gone, you dwarf!" - William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
"You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
"One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
"Till I have no wife I have nothing." - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"It is my study to seem despiteful and ungentle to you." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"'Tis such fools as you that makes the world full of ill-favour'd children." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"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." - William Shakespeare, As You Like It
"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"For to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks." - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"You sir, are a fishmonger!" - William Shakespeare, Hamlet
"I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2
"I am well acquainted with your manner of wrenching the true cause the false way." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2
"What a disgrace it is to me to remember thy name." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 2
"Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety." - William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part I
"Your horse would trot as well were some of your brags dismounted." - William Shakespeare, Henry V
"True nobility is exempt from fear." - William Shakespeare, Henry VI
"Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought." - William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 1
"Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither." - William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 3
"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." - William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
"Et tu, Brute!" - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
"When our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"[Your] horrid image doth unfix my hair." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"All that is within him does condemn itself for being there." - William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"When the age is in, the wit is out." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"For there was never yet a philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"They that touch pitch will be defiled." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"In our last conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one." - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
"We cannot all be masters, nor all masters can be truly followed." - William Shakespeare, Othello
"You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell!" - William Shakespeare, Othello
"If thy offences were upon record, Would it not shame thee, in so fair a troop, To read a lecture of them?" - William Shakespeare, Richard II
"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" - William Shakespeare, Richard III
"Thy mother's name is ominous to children." - William Shakespeare, Richard III
"Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
"Sweets grown common lose their dear delight." - William Shakespeare, Sonnet CII
"The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth." - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"As from a bear a man would run for life, So fly I from her that would be my wife." - William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
"All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"[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." - William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that's in [you] should set hell on fire." - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care." - William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim
"There's small choice in rotten apples." - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
"Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love." - William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
"Though [he] is not naturally honest, [he] is so sometimes by chance." - William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
"Were I like thee I'd throw away myself." - William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
"But be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon `em." - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
##Shopping
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen
"'It's no good, it's no good!' says the buyer; then off he goes and boasts about his purchase." - Bible, Proverbs 20:14
"The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one." - George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum
##Shoulders
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." - Hal Abelson
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." - Holton, Gerald
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. C; in 'Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/1676'" - Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." - Reid, Brian K.
##Sight
"In a dark time, the eye begins to see." - Roethke, Theodore
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible." - Swift, Jonathan
##Silence
"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
"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." - Thomas Carlyle
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact." - George Eliot
"Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted." - Bob Monkhouse, Just Say a Few Words
"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn." - George Bernard Shaw
"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own." - Zeno
"The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass. So we, too, pass silently." - George, Chief Dan
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable." - Gentry, Dave Tyson
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Lincoln, Abraham
"Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve." - Madan, Geoffrey
##Simplicity
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Seek simplicity, and distrust it." - Whitehead, Alfred North (1861-1947)
##Sincerity
"Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not." - Graffiti
"Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all." - TRISTAN BERNARD, Ce que l'on dit aux femmes
"Give me the avowed, erect and manly foe; Firm I can meet, perhaps return the blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend." - GEORGE CANNING, New Morality
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof." - JOHN F. KENNEDY, speech (inaugural address, 1961)
"The greatest horrors of our world, from the executions in Iran to the brutalities of the IRA, are committed by people who are totally sincere." - JOHN MORTIMER, quoted in The Observer
"Plain-dealing is a jewel, and he that useth it shall die a beggar." - HENRY PORTER, The Two Angrie Women of Abington
"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." - OSCAR WILDE, Intentions, The Critic as Artist
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." - TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
##Sleep
"Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night." - George Allen
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton
"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." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming, like the passengers in his car." - Handey, Jack [Saturday Night Live persona] in 'Deep Thoughts'
"Death the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening." - Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
##Small
"Little drops of water, little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. So the little moments, humble though they be, Make the mighty ages of eternity." - JULIA A. CARNEY, Little Things
"He who can take no interest in what is small, will take false interest in what is great . . .; he who cannot make a bank sublime, will make a mountain ridiculous." - JOHN RUSKIN, Modern Painters
##Smile
"A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities." - HERMAN MELVILLE, Pierre
"There's daggers in men's smiles." - SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
"I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh, but smile. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth." - MURIEL SPARK, quoted in The Times
##Society
"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." - Aristotle, Politics
"Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilisation." - Henri Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
"Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it." - William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England
"The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law." - Cicero
"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." - Charles Evans Hughes
"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
"Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetner of life! and solder of society!" - Blaire, Robert
"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together." - Eastman, Max
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"All progress means war with society." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
##Software
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Cook. Rich
"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea." - Unknown
##Solitude
"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." - William Cowper
"By all means use some time to be alone." - Edward Young
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I.... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Frost, Robert in 'The Road Not Taken'
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Love consists in this: that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." - Rilke, R. M. [Rainer Maria]
##Sorrow
"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
"Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal." - THOMAS MOORE, Come, Ye Disconsolate
"All religions are therapies for the sorrows and disorders of the soul." - Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)
##Soul
"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." - Cicero
"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go." - Frederick Faber
"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." - Bhagavad Gita
"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat." - Marcus Aurelius
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark Twain, Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame.
"Until you know that life is interesting--and find it so--you haven't found your soul." - Fisher, Geoffrey
##Space
"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." - Braun, Warner von when asked if man can be replaced by computer in spaceflight
"The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in." - Clarke, Arthur C.
"It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract." - Shepherd, Alan
##Speech
"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." - Rowan Atkinson, Live in Belfast
"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill." - Buddha
"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
"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
"Nature has given men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as we speak." - Epicetus, fragment
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin
"I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses." - Heinrich Heine
"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure." - Horace
"The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word." - Mark Twain
"Your mind is on vacation, but your mouth is workin' overtime." - Allison, Mose [jazz piano-vocalist]
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"If you travel to the States ... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git'." - Sayle, Alexei
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
##Speed
"Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out the window!" - Anonymous
"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8 m/sec/sec." - Dolengo, Marcus
##Spelling
"How long have you known me, Jack? And you 'still' can't spell my name." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter[ (1925- ) When Jack Buck, St Louis sportscaster, paid Yogi for an interv
"I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC; It plainly marks four my revue Mistakes I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your pleased too no, Its letter perfect in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew." - Minor, Janet 'Spellbound'
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Real Programmers use C since it's the easiest language to spell." - Unknown
##Spirituality
"Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." - Bruner, Kurt D.
"We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot." - St. Augustine
##Sport
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali, quoted in New York Times
"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." - Dave Barry
"Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical." - Yogi Berra
"Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, speech (1873)
"If you watch a game, it's fun.  If you play it, it's recreation.  If you work at it, it's golf." - Bob Hope
"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." - Willie Nelson
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Lombardi, Vince (1913-1970)
"If I had known that I was gonna live this long I'd have taken better care of myself." - Mantle, Mickey
"Golf: a game where the ball always lies poorly and the player well." - Readers Digest
"It's not who wins or loses that counts--it's who keeps score." - Short, Solomon
##Strength
"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
"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
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." - Einstein, Albert
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution." - Gibran, Kahlil
"Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. T: Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger." - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900) in 'Twilight of the Idols' 1889
"Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money." - Unknown 13-Year Old
"Love many things, for therin lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done." - van Gogh, Vincent
##Struggle
"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." - Muhammad Ali
"It ain't over til it's over." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on playing hard, in 'Yogi, It Ain't Over...' (1990) 1973
"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it." - Stewart, Jimmy in 'Harvey' 1950
"He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist." - Unknown
##Study
"I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic." - William Frummond
"Iron sharpens iron;  scholar, the scholar." - The Talmud
##Stupidity
"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch." - BIBLE, Matthew 15:14
"Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain." - FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER, Joan of Arc
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Diamos, Nick
"It's too nice a day to be stupid indoors!" - Hoek, Ren in 'Ren & Stimpy'
"I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that's true, then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running DOS." - Unknown
"In science, it doesn't matter if you're wrong, as long as you're not stupid. In business, it doesn't matter if you're stupid, so long as you're not wrong." - Unknown
##Subjectivity
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world." - Einstein, Albert in 'Evolution of Physics' 1938
"The subject matter of research is no longer nature in itself, but nature subjected to human questioning . . ." - Heisenberg, Werner Karl (1901-1976)
"A picture without a frame is not a picture." - Wheeler, John Archibald
##Success
"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
"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
"All rising to great place is by a winding stair." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target." - Ashleigh Brilliant
"It takes 20 years to make an overnight success." - Eddie Cantor
"Nothing succeeds like success." - Alexandre Dumas, pre, Ange Pitou
"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." - W. C. Fields
"If at first you don't succeed, cheat!" - Graffiti
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater." - William Hazlitt
"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." - William James
"Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood
"I can give you a six-word formula for success: 'Think things through - then follow through.'" - Edward Rickenbacker
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"When it comes to winning, you need the skill and the will." - Frank Tyger
"If at first you don't succeed, don't take any more stupid chances." - Unknown
"Success is more attitude than aptitude." - Unknown
"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail." - Gore Vidal
"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." - Earl Wilson
"If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything." - Collins, Marva
"Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home." - Dhammapada, The (c300 B.C.)
"By the time we've made it, we've had it." - Forbes, Malcolm
"In school the external nightmare is internalized for life. Boris was not learning arithmetic only; he was learning the essential nightmare also. To be successful in our culture one must learn to dream of failure." - Henry, J. in 'Culture Against Men'
"If you have love you will do all things well." - Merton, Thomas
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people." - Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
"Never think you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning." - Trollope, Anthony
"If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving." - Unknown
##Suffering
"The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales." - Aesop, Fables
"The only way to be happy is to love to suffer." - Woody Allen
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive." - W. Somerset Maugham
"I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep." - Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augutin de (1732-1799)
##Survival
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool." - Wagner, Jane
"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." - Wilder, Thornton
##Suspicion
"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
"Suspicion follows close on mistrust." - Gotthold Lessing
##System
"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS." - Bastard Operator from Hell [Anke Bodzin]
"Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work." - Redman, Brian
##Talent
"Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is." - JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Literary Essays
"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can." - OWEN MEREDITH, Last Words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet
##Taoism
"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. Reversion is the action of Tao. Weakness is the function of Tao. All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Non-being penetrates that in which there is no space. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"The spirit of the valley never dies. It is called the subtle and profound female. The gate of the subtle and profound female Is the root of Heaven and Earth. It is continuous, and seems to be always existing. Use it and you will never wear it out." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"To beget, to nourish, to beget but not to claim, to achieve but not to cherish, to be leader but not master--this is called the Mystic Virtue." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
"To yield is to be preserved whole. To be bent is to become straight. To be empty is to be full. To be worn out is to be renewed. To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)
##Taste
"Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste." - Arnold Bennett, in Evening Standard
"Genius creates, and taste preserves.  Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly." - Chateaubriand
"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.  Their tastes may not be the same." - George Bernard Shaw
##Tax
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." - Edmund Burke, speech (1774)
"There is no such thing as a good tax." - Sir Winston Churchill
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein
##Teachers
"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary." - Carruthers, Thomas
"Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number." - Unknown 15-Year Old
##Teaching
"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning." - Anonymous
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." - Minna Antrim, Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions, 1902
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." - Wystan Hugh Auden
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition." - Barzun, Jacques
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
"One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly." - Steadman, Edward C.
"Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number." - Unknown 15-Year Old
"Education is a an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) in 'Intentions'
"Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Technology
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke, The Lost Worlds of 2001
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Einstein, Albert
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." - Kulawiec, Rich
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )
##Temptation
"It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations." - Walter Bagehot
"No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object." - Colette, Earthly Paradise
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice." - Mark Twain
##Theater
"One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duck tape to make them stop." - Weilacher, G. M.
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...." - Zwanzig, Carl
##Thought
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious." - Henri-Frdric Amiel
"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think." - Hannah Arendt, quoted in W.H. Auden's A Certain World
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"The actuality of thought is life." - Aristotle, Metaphysics, book XII, ch. 7
"If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash
"Write down the thoughts of the moment.  Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable." - Francis Bacon
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought." - Henri Bergson
"I reject 'get it done', 'make it happen' thinking. I want to slow things down so I understand them better." - Governor Jerry Brown
"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it." - Cicero
"What was once thought can never be unthought." - Friedrich Drrenmatt, The Physicists
"Some people read because they are too lazy to think." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 3
"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." - Thomas Paine
"A Human Thought is an actual EXISTENCE, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind." - Albert Pike
"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." - Bertrand Russell
"Be great in act, as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare
"Time to me this truth has taught,  (Tis a treasure worth revealing)  More offend from want of thought  Than from want of feeling." - Charles Swain
"Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts." - Voltaire
"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." - Thomas J. Watson
"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived." - Bach, Richard
"No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical." - Bohr, Neils (1885-1962)
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William
"The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly." - Chomsky, Noam in 'Language and Problems of Knowledge: the Managua Lectures' 1988
"Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and ruin." - Edwards, Tryon (1809-1894)
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking." - Einstein, Albert
"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers." - Harris, Sydney
"A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without books, without friends, without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts." - Munth, Axel
"As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." - Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967)
"We come to feel as we behave." - Pearsall, Paul
"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.)
"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates
"Brood about death and you hasten your demise." - Unknown
"If you think about disaster, then you will get it." - Unknown
"Police Officer: We believe foul play was involved. Tommy Patel: Surely you don't think I... Police Officer: I don't think anything, sir. I'm a police officer." - Unknown in 'Splitting Heirs'
"Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about." - Whorf, Benjamin
"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational." - Wilson, A. N.
##Time
"Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so." - Douglas Adams
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz, quoted in Almanach des lettres franaises
"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." - H. Jackson Brown
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it." - Charles Buxton
"Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked." - Euripides, fragment
"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendour." - Horace
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
"Time heals what reason cannot." - Seneca
"Time discovers truth." - Seneca
"The hour which gives us life begins to take it away." - Seneca, Hercules Furens
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me." - William Shakespeare
"Time is but the stream I go a fishing in." - Henry David Thoreau
"As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old age, even so is there the taking on of another body." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
"Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Einstein, Albert
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity." - Einstein, Albert
"Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth, for it is the representative of a whole eternity." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." - Lennon, John
"The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Lords and Ladies'
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." - Rodin
"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Young, Edward (1684-1765)
##Travel
"The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking." - George Ade, Forty Modern Fables
"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any." - Emma Albani
"Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here, after seeing Italy." - Fanny Burney, Cecilia
"The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before." - G. K. Chesterton
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
"A wise traveller never despises his own country." - Carlo Goldoni
"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." - William Hazlitt
"One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Everywhere is nowhere.  When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends." - Seneca
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." - Elwyn Brooks White
"The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in." - Clarke, Arthur C.
"Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant 'idiot'." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Color of Magic'
##Trees
"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." - Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
"Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now." - George Pope Morris, Woodman, Spare That Tree
"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree . . . Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree." - JOYCE KILMER, Trees
##Trouble
"Spouse, n: Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single in the first place." - Unknown found in Andy Cannon's (andrewc@spider.co.uk) .signature
"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." - Unknown
##Truth
"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth." - Alfred Adler, Problems of Neurosis
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains." - Henri-Frdric Amiel, Journal intime
"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold." - Aristotle, On the Heavens, book I, ch. 5
"Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth." - Gertrude Atherton, The Conqueror
"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion." - Francis Bacon
"Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." - Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Time
"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." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
"There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil." - Clarence S. Darrow
"Now, what I want is, Facts . . . Facts alone are wanted in life." - Charles Dickens, Hard Times
"I say that justice is truth in action." - Benjamin Disraeli, speech (1851)
"Facts are stubborn things." - Ebenezer Elliott, Field Husbandry
"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'" - Aulus Gellius
"The truth will ouch." - Arnold H. Glasow
"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment." - Celia Green, The Decline and Fall of Science
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies
"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." - Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop
"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." - Samuel Johnson
"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." - Abraham Lincoln
"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All-too-Human
"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible." - Dagobert D. Runes
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on it's shoes." - Mark Twain
"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economise it." - Mark Twain
"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." - Gore Vidal, in Encounter
"The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent." - Blake, William (1757-1827)
"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Bragg, Sir William
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." - Einstein, Albert
"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo
"I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them." - Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) 16 Feb 1934
"In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." - Gould, Stephen Jay
"The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity--love. And the story of a love is not important--what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity." - Hayes, Helen
"Let us learn to dream, gentlemen; then we shall perhaps find the truth." - Kekule, Friedrich
"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true." - Lilly, John
"Hell is truth seen too late." - Locke, John (1632-1704)
"Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is. T: also seen as 'Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.'^ History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion--i.e. none to speak of." - Long, Lazarus
"The Man of Truth is beyond good and evil .... The Man of Truth has ridden to All-Is-One. The Man of Truth has learned that Illusion is the One Reality, and that Substance is the Great Imposter." - Lovecraft, H. P. spoken by 'a voice that was not a voice' in 'Through the Gates of the Silver Key',
"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source." - Nesen, Ron
"Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly." - Pavlov, Ivan (1849-1936) [Russian physiologist]
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." - Twain, Mark [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"Read nature; nature is a friend to truth." - Young, Edward (1684-1765)
##Tyranny
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." - Aesop, Fables
"You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour." - Walter Bagehot, in National Review
##Uncertainty
"We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty." - Douglas Adams
"Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself." - Unamuno, Miguel de (1864-1936)
##Understanding
"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." - Douglas Adams
"The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds." - Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
"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." - Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
"Do we know much about women? Do we? We don't. We know when they're happy, we know when they're crying, we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know what order those are gonna come at us." - Davis, Evan
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." - Dioum, Baba
"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"Understanding someone, 'and loving him despite that understanding,' is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind." - Lowell, Elizabeth [Author] in 'Untamed' 1993
"The mind does not understand its own reason for being. ," - Magritte, Rene
"'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully. 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.' 'And he has Brain.' 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.' There was a long silence. 'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'" - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956)
"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)
"I'm sure what you're saying makes sense in some frame of reference; I just don't happen to be in that frame of reference." - Sexton, J. Andrew
"The first duty of love is to listen." - Tillich, Paul
"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love." - Tolstoy, Leo Nikolaevich (1828-1910) in 'War and Peace', VII:16
"There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed." - Wein, Len
##Unhappiness
"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery." - Dante, Inferno
"The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so." - David Hume
##Unity
"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
"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." - Bhagavad Gita
"We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we will all hang separately." - Franklin, Benjamin remark on signing the Declaration of Independence 4 July 1776
"All things are one." - Heraclitus (c540-c480)
##Universe
"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, IV, 3
"As long as the brain is a mystery, the universe will also be a mystery." - Rammn y Cajal, Santiago
##University
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep." - Wystan Hugh Auden
"Don't let the University get in the way of your education." - Brown, Raymond [Director of the Penn State University Choirs]
"Some of my fellow academics are very hostile, but I sympathize with them. They've been asleep for 500 years and they don't like anybody who comes along and stirs them up." - McLuhan, Marshall quoted in Phillip Marchand's biography of him
"If this is an ivory tower, then I must be in the basement!" - Van Hoosear, Todd Ellis (1969- ) 9 August 1995
##Unix
"If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command." - Lye, Bill
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Unix, for it is subtle and quick to core dump." - Unknown
##Usa
"Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." - Carlin, George
"America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top." - King, Charlie
##Validity
"In economics, the majority is always wrong." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- ) in 'Saturday Evening Post' 1968
"He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying." - Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592)
##Vanity
"Vanity, like murder, will out." - Hannah Cowley, The Belle's Stratagem
"The vanity of others runs counter to our taste only when it runs counter to our vanity." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"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." - Blaise Pascal
"Self-love seems so often unrequited." - Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World
"We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers." - Franois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
"No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself." - Anthony Trollope, The Bertrams
"To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself." - MAX BEERBOHM, And Even Now
"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory." - JOSEPH CONRAD, Lord Jim
"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for." - MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH, Aphorisms
##Victory
"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." - Muhammad Ali
"It ain't over til it's over." - Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925- ) on playing hard, in 'Yogi, It Ain't Over...' (1990) 1973
"Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma." - Casseresm, Benjamin de
"It's not who wins or loses that counts--it's who keeps score." - Short, Solomon
"Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory." - Steinbeck, John
"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it." - Stewart, Jimmy in 'Harvey' 1950
##Violence
"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." - Edmund Burke, speech (1775)
"Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other `sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is 'not' a sin--just stupid.)" - Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) from 'Time Enough For Love'
"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." - Will, George [Columnist]
##Virtue
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong." - Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage
"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart." - Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good." - Cervantes
"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason." - Cicero
"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
"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire." - Gustave Le Bon
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary." - Thomas Paine
"The love of economy is the root of all virtue." - George Bernard Shaw
"Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . comes from virtue." - Socrates
"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue.... [They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.) The Five Virtues
"One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter." - Sagan, Francoise
##Vision
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders." - Hal Abelson
"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." - William Blake
"The eye sees what it brings the power to see." - Thomas Carlyle
"In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand." - Holton, Gerald
"An age is called 'dark', not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it." - Michener, James
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. C; in 'Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675/1676'" - Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727)
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet." - Reid, Brian K.
##War
"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale." - Bernard Mannes Baruch
"War is like love, it always finds a way." - Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage
"You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them." - Camillo di Cavour Cavour
"All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means." - Chou En-Lai, quoted in Saturday Evening Post
"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him." - Sir Winston Churchill
"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war." - Sir Winston Churchill, speech (1954)
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." - Sir Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed." - Cicero, De Officiis
"Laws are silent in time of war." - Cicero, Pro Milone
"All great civilisations, in their early stages, are based on success in war." - Kenneth Clark, Civilization
"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will." - Carl de Clausewitz
"Defence is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object." - Carl de Clausewitz
"War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers." - Georges Clemenceau, quoted by J. Hampden Jackson in Clemenceau and the Third Republic
"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." - Desiderius Erasmus
"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." - Thomas Hardy
"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." - Ernest Miller Hemmingway
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong;  and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses." - Thomas Jefferson
"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." - General Douglas MacArthur
"Wars are caused by undefended wealth." - General Douglas MacArthur
"Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." - Guy de Maupassant
"March to the battle-field, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us." - Barry O'Meara
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." - General George S. Patton
"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." - Albert Pike
"You can't say civilisation don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." - Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers
"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." - George Washington
"Only the winners decide what were war crimes." - Gary Wills
"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven." - Bible (Matthew ?:?) Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Burton, Robert
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." - Coleridge, Samuel (1772-1834)
"The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line." - Montague, Charles Edward
"I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: 'I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." - Oppenheimer, J. Robert (1904-1967) spoken, according to stories, approximately 8 seconds after the d
"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." - Patton, George S.
"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp." - Pratchett, Terry in 'The Light Fantastic'
"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes." - Reagan, Ronald in a radio broadcast test
"Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war." - Shakespear, William (1564-1616)
"All progress means war with society." - Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950)
"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best." - Webster, John
"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)
##Weakness
"Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes." - LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters to His Son
"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear." - Burke, Edmund (1729-1797) Speech on Conciliation with America (House of Commons) 22 Mar 1775
"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution." - Gibran, Kahlil
##Wealth
"Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress." - Francis Bacon, De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum
"No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan
"It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore." - Alex Carey
"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men." - Charles Caleb Colton
"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." - Charles Caleb Colton
"It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth." - Charles Caleb Colton
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking big money." - Everett M. Dirksen, attributed
"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
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it." - Benjamin Franklin
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments." - Samuel Johnson
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?" - Don Marquis
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion." - Henry David Thoreau
"In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?" - Mark Twain
"Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper." - Crisp, Quentin
"Wisdom is the wealth of the wise." - Ecclesiasticus (200 B.C.?)
"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'" - Marquis, Don
##Weapons
"A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword." - Burton, Robert
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Einstein, Albert
"It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy." - Pratchett, Terry from 'Lords and Ladies'
##Weeping
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed." - William Temple
"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." - Frederick Tennyson
##Will
"There is nothing good or evil save in the will." - Epicetus
"Will is the dynamic soul-force." - Sivananda
##Winning
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in that gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Roosevelt, Theodore
"It's not who wins or loses that counts--it's who keeps score." - Short, Solomon
##Wisdom
"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide." - Anacharsis
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
"It is impossible to love and to be wise." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?" - Bible, Job 12:12
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
"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." - Cato the Elder, quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives
"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides, Hippolytus
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him." - Samuel Johnson
"Wisdom comes by disillusionment." - George Santayana
"The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare
"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool." - The Talmud
"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon, Sir Francis
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.
"The highest form of wisdom is kindness." - Berman, Linda
"When one draws in, on every side, the sense-organs from the objects of sense as a tortoise draws in its limbs from every side--then his wisdom becomes steadfast." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna
"Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." - Bruner, Kurt D.
"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Butterworth, Eric
"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." - Chinese Proverb
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." - Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." - Eliot, T. S.
"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf." - Fuller, Thomas
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- ) in 'Time' 1961
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)
"Force without wisdom fall of its own weight." - Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.) in 'Odes', book I, ode iv, line 65 23 B.C.
"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." - Martineau, Harriet
"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965)
"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." - Maurois, Andr] (1885-1967)
"'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully. 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.' 'And he has Brain.' 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.' There was a long silence. 'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'" - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956)
"Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be your superior in wisdom, and the noble endowment of mind." - Shelley, George
"One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly." - Steadman, Edward C.
"Nothing is said that has not been said before." - Terence (185 B.C - 159 B.C.)
"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." - Unknown
"It is better to be ignorant then to believe in something untrue." - Unknown
"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." - Unknown
"Education is a an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) in 'Intentions'
"But, by all thy nature's weakness,  Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil,  Conscious of thine own." - Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
##Women
"Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman." - Woody Allen
"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats." - Woody Allen
"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." - Dave Barry
"Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him." - Cher
"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd.  Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - Congreve, The Mourning Bride
"A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are." - Chauncey Depew
"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
"When a woman behaves like a man, why doesn't she behave like a nice man?" - Edith Evans, quoted in The Observer
"A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle." - Edna Ferber
"To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends." - Benjamin Franklin
"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?'" - Sigmund Freud, quoted in Ernest Jones' Sigmund Freud: Life and Work
"All women are bitches except my mother - not trusting her but respecting her." - Nizar Gabani
"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections." - Washington Irving
"You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy." - Erica Jong
"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." - Henry Louis Mencken
"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." - Helen Rowland
"Do you now know that I am a woman? when I think, I must speak." - William Shakespeare
"Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal, high enough so you can look up her dress." - Martin, Steve
"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on woman." - NANCY ASTOR, My Two Countries
"There is more difference within the sexes than between them." - IVY COMPTON-BURNETT, Mother and Son
"I'm not denyin' the women are foolish: God Almighty made `em to match the men." - GEORGE ELIOT, Adam Bede
"I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out." - GEORGE ELIOT, The Mill on the Floss
"The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another." - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, Beyond Good and Evil
"I can't live either without you or with you." - OVID, Amores
"Woman wants monogamy; Man delights in novelty. Love is woman's moon and sun; Man has other forms of fun. . . With this the gist and sum of it, What earthly good can come of it?" - DOROTHY PARKER, General Review of the Sex Situation
"Men, some to bus'ness, some to pleasure take; But ev'ry woman is at heart a rake." - ALEXANDER POPE, Moral Essays
"In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women." - THEODORE REIK, quoted in Esquire
"Now, we are becoming the men we wanted to marry." - GLORIA STEINEM, speech (1981)
"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel." - WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY, Henry Esmond
"In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman." - MARGARET THATCHER, quoted in People
"That . . . man . . . says women can't have as much rights as men, `cause Christ wasn't a woman. . . Where did your Christ come from? . . . From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him." - SOJOURNER TRUTH, speech (1851)
"LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations." - OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
"Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." - VIRGINIA WOOLF, A Room of One's Own
##Words
"The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men." - Dionysius Cato
"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words." - T. S. Eliot
"Words are but the signs of ideas." - Samuel Johnson
"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." - Alexander Pope
"Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim 'I name this ship the 'Mr Stalin'' and for good measure kick away the chocks; but the trouble is, I was not the person chosen to name it..." - Austin, J. L. in 'How to do Things with Words'
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.)
"My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places." - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956) in 'Winnie the Pooh'
"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind." - Pratchett, Terry in 'Reaper Man'
##Work
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
"It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself." - Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur mis  nu
"Be thankful for problems.  If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job." - 'Bits & Pieces'
"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week." - H. Jackson Brown Jr
"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green." - Thomas Carlyle
"Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses." - Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura
"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
"When you are labouring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself." - Confucius
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom." - Albert Einstein
"Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles." - William Feather
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another." - Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
"Plough deep while sluggards sleep." - Benjamin Franklin
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought.  There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour." - Victor Hugo
"For his heart was in his work, and the heart Giveth grace unto every Art." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"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." - Saskya Pandita
"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan
"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." - Adam Smith
"Without labour nothing prospers." - Sophocles
"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.
"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee--that will do them in." - Bradley's Bromide
"Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do." - Collingwood, R. G.
"Work is love made visible." - Gibran, Kahlil
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair." - Johnson, Samuel
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." - Joubert, Joseph
"Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then--we elected them." - Tomlin, Lily
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars." - VanDyke, Henry
"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." - Will, George [Columnist]
##World
"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." - Francis Palgrave
"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
##Worry
"We experience moments absolutely free from worry.  These brief respites are called panic." - Cullen Hightower
"How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!" - Thomas Jefferson, A Decaloque of Canons for observation in practical life (in letter, 1825)
"There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca, Epistulae ad Lucilium
"Hakuna matata. T: 'No worries!'" - Lion King
##Worth
"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." - Chinese Proverb
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." - Monroe, Marilyn (1926-1962)
##Writing
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer." - Dean Acheson
"The paper burns, but the words fly away." - Ben Joseph Akiba
"The pen is the tongue of the mind." - Cervantes
"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
"The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post." - Cyril Connolly
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." - Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise
"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson
"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least." - Horace
"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well." - Donald R. Perry Marquis
"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads." - George Bernard Shaw
"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time." - George Bernard Shaw
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon, Sir Francis
"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say." - O'Connor, Flannery quoted by Richard E. Cytowic in 'The Man Who Tasted Shapes' 1993
##Wrong
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it." - Thomas Fuller, M. D.
"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy." - Edgar Watson Howe
##Youth
"Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business." - Francis Bacon, Essays
"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." - Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
"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." - Thomas Carlyle
"If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on." - Willa Cather, Song of the Lark
"Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it." - Coco Chanel, quoted in Marcel Haedrich's Coco Chanel, Her Life, Her Secrets
"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." - George Eliot, Middlemarch
"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor." - Euripides
"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence." - Seneca
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw
"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age." - Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)
"Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do." - La Bruy\re in 'Les Caracteres'
"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. T: 'If youth but knew; if [old] age but could.'" - Estienne, Henri in 'Les Pr]mices' 1594
"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965)
"The idea is to die young as late as possible." - Montagu, Ashley
"You're never too old to have a happy childhood." - Unknown
