Well I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. - John Locke (1632-1704
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"It's like deja vu all over again." -Yogi Berra
"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese" -Former French President Charles De Gaulle
"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." -Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower
"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is." -Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle at a fundraising event for the United Negro College Fund. He was attempting to quote the line "a mind is a terrible thing to waste"
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. - Theodor S. Geisel, AKA Dr. Seuss
I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. - Bern Williams
I shall return. - Douglas MacArthur, General
I still live. - Daniel Webster, Last words
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug MacLeod
I think it would be a good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. - Don Mazankowski, former Candian Minister of Finance
I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough. - Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate
I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. - Rita Rudner
I think, therefore I am - I think. - Howard Schneider
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. - Hunter S. Thompson
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. - George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Mickey Mantle
If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. - Haythum R. Khalid
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. - Robert Graves
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people? - Anonymous
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. - Dennis Roch
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. - Wilfred Sheed
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. - Samuel Butler
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. - Latin Proverb
If we were directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should all want bread. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? - Vince Lombardi
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. - Lin Yutang
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. - Ashleigh Brilliant
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. - Thomas Szasz
If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first. – Anonymous
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet. - Japanese Proverb
If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. - Henny Youngman
I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. - Sigmund Freud
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four. - Joel Rosenberg- The Warrior Lives
I'm defeated and I know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. - George Herbert Palmer
Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb
In my end is my beginning. - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
In short, the habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference. - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. - Cesare Chavez
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. - Kathy Norris
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! - Orson Welles
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. - Mignon McLaughlin
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best. - Frank Zappa
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke
It is a good day to die! Strong hearts to the front, weak hearts to the rear! - Crazy Horse, battle of the Little Big Horn
It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and to die leaving behind everlasting renown. - Alexander The Great
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S. Truman
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. - Arthur Calwell
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)- The Prince
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. - Andre Gide
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. - Mark Twain (1835-1910), 1897
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. - William G. McAdoo
It is much more comforable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin
It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce. - Voltaire (1694-1778)
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. - Gore Vidal
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,...that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure. - George McGovern
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. - Francois de La Rouchefoucauld
It isn't what they say about you; it's what they whisper. - Errol Flynn
It revolts me but I do it! - W. S. Gilbert, Sir
It takes less time to do a thing right than explain why you did it wrong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It was involuntary. They sank my boat. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), when asked how he became a Navy hero
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. Hit it. - Blues Brothers
It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. - Millard Fuller
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. - Flower A. Newhouse
Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way. - George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve. - Tom Landry
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. - Chinese Proverb
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. - Anonymous
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 success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning. Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. - Oliver Goldsmith
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. - Walter Prager
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)- The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Seen on a bumper sticker
Love and stoplights can be cruel. - Sesame Street, U.S. children's television show
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost (1874-1963)
Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)- The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. - Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell. - Aldous Huxley
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. - Thomas Dewar
Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. - Horace
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. - Anonymous
Modified rapture! - W. S. Gilbert, Sir
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
More light! - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Last words
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. - Woody Allen (Born 1935)
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Music is Love in search of a word. - Sidney Lanier
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all. - Stephen Hawking
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Vladimir Nabokov
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. - Ashleigh Brilliant
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
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. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference. - Anonymous
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. - Mathew Browne
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. - Millicent Fenwick
Never frown because you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. - Justine Milton
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov
Never mistake motion for action. - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Anonymous
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country. - George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. - Ron Nesen
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955), sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton
Number 3 pencils and quadrille pads. - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996), when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. - Anonymous
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo da Vinci- Notebooks
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. - Moliere
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. - Herbert Hoover, 1944
On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength. - Billy Bishop, WWI Ace
Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. - Thomas De Quincey
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. - Horace
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. - Michel de Montaigne
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
One man with courage is a majority. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. - Vincent Van Gogh
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
One should dies proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. - Sun Tzu
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-resurrection" coverage. He later amended that to "cradle to grave." - News report
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley, General
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Pro is to con as progress is to congress. - Anonymous
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt
Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. - Confucius
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems. - Billy Joel
So foul and fair a day I have not seen. - William Shakespeare- Macbeth
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Start slow and taper off. - Walt Stack, marathon runner
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. - Adolf Hitler
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. - Joe Paterno
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
That government is best which governs least. - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)- Civil Disobedience, 1849
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
The aeroplane will never fly. - Lord Haldane, Minister of War, Britain, 1907, four years after Kitty Hawk
The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives. - Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The doer alone learneth. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. - Adolf Hitler
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. - James Branch Cabell- The Silver Stallion
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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 trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
There never was a good war, or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), 1783
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm. - Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. - Anonymous
We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses. - Bonnie Lin
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. - Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone (1899-1947)
Start slow and taper off. - Walt Stack, marathon runner
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Absence lessens ordinary passions and augments great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and makes a fire blaze. ~ La Rochefoucauld ~
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