Rabindranath Tagore
Bert Leston Taylor
James Taylor
Norman Tebbit
Shirley Temple
William Temple
Mother Teresa
William Makepeace Thackerey
Margaret Thatcher
Dylan Thomas
Henry David Thoreau
James Thurber
Leo Tolstoy
Lily Tomlin
Polly Toynbee
Lee Trevino
Calvin Trillin
Leon Trotsky
Harry S Truman
Sojourner Truth
Sophie Tucker
Martin Tupper
A. Robert Turgot
Mark Twain
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time, like the dew on the tip of a leaf.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
We cannot ignore the price that unemployment today is exacting from the failures of the past. I have known about these things. I grew up in the Thirties with our unemployed father. He did not riot, he got on his bike and looked for work.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked me for my autograph.
In place of the conception of the power-state we are led to that of the welfare-state.
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with religion.
Christianity is the most materialistic of all great religions.
We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, as long as they do what I say.
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.
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.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? I think that we must be men first, and subjects afterward.
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
I went into the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
You can fool too many people too much of the time.
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but noone thinks of changing himself.
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.
We're all in this alone.
The problem with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Feminism is the most revolutionary idea there has ever been. Equality for women demands a change in the human psyche more profound than anything Marx dreamed of. It means valuing parenthood as much as we value banking.
Fame is vapor, popularity is an accident, money takes wings. Those who cheer you today may curse you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character.
The poor in Resurrection City have come to Washington to show that the poor in America are sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless--and they are criticized for being sick, dirty, disorganized, and powerless.
I know that one must not be right against the party. One can be right only with the party, and through the party, because history has created no other road for the realization of what is right.
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
It is impossible to build a socialist paradise as an oasis amid the inferno of world capitalism.
There is not really anything new, if you know what has gone before. What is new to people is what they do not know about their history or the history of the world.
It's not enough to know history without doing something about the future.
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with it.
From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash. I'm saving my money.
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.
A banker: the person who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it rains.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
We need not worry so much about what man descends from--it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
All say "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
Have a place for everything and keep the thing someplace else; this is not a piece of advice, it is merely a custom.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water.
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty--the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one--to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.
It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. To be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God and not by your own effort transfers the distinction to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction but it leaves you empty and bankrupt.
Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him heavily to the ground on top of me.
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of even the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
