Old Mac User Quotes

Action

People will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - but so does a hard-boiled egg.: Anon

After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done.: Anon

If ifs were gifts, every day would be Christmas.: Charles Barkley

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.: Edmund Burke

Talk doesn't cook rice.: Chinese Proverb

He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.: Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.: Benjamin Franklin

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.: Arnold Glasow

Never mistake motion for action.: Ernest Hemingway

The shortest answer is doing.: Lord Herbert

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.: Washington Irving

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.: Peter Marshall

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.: Mignon McLaughlin

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.: Ernest Newman

We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.: Harold Nicolson

Action is eloquence.: William Shakespeare

Men expect too much, do too little.: Allen Tate

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.: Frank Tibolt

Adversity

Adversity introduces a man to himself.: Anon

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.: Anon

Sometimes the littlest things in life are the hardest to take. You can sit on a mountain more comfortably than on a tack.: Anon

We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.: Anon

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.: Anon

Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll.: Anon

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.: Anon

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity… when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.: Anon

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.: African Proverb

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.: From the movie The African Queen

God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.: John Aughey

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.: Maltbie D. Babcock

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.: Francis Bacon

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.: Francis Bacon

The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul.: Rona Barrett

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.: Bernard M. Baruch

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.: Henry Ward Beecher

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.: Henry Ward Beecher

Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. The Devil's Dictionary: Ambrose Bierce

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.: Josh Billings

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.: Barbara Bloom

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. The Revolution in France, 1790: Edmund Burke

The course of true anything never does run smooth.: Samuel Butler

Adversity is the first path to truth.: Lord Byron

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.: Truman Capote

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.: Nicolas Chamfort

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Orthodoxy, 1909: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

May you get what you wish for.: Old Chinese Curse

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.: Agatha Christie

If you're going through hell, keep going.: Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.: Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.: Winston Churchill

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.: Cicero

We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don't.: Frank A. Clark

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.: Frank A. Clark

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

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage.: Robert Collier

My strength is made perfect in weakness.: II Corinthians

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.: Harry Crews

There is no education like adversity.: Disraeli

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.: Duke Ellington

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.: Mary Engelbreit

Every path has its puddle.: English Proverb

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.: William Faulkner

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.: James K. Feibleman

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.: Henry Fielding

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. Satires: Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.: Robert Fulghum

Problems are messages.: Shakti Gawain

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.: André Gide

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. Memoirs of a Geisha: Arthur Golden

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.: Leslie Grossman

How can something bother you if you won't let it?: Terri Guillemets

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Maxims and Reflections: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.: Josephine Hart

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.: William Hazlitt

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures. Characteristics, 1823: William Hazlitt

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.: O. Henry

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.: Robert Herrick

For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man! Odyssey: Homer

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.: Frank McKinney Hubbard

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. The Sketch Book, 1820: Washington Irving

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.: William James

I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders.: Jewish Proverb

When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity From an address April 12, 1959: John F. Kennedy

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?: Rose F. Kennedy

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. The Unfinished Country, 1950: Max Lerner

Watch a man in times of… adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. On the Nature of Things: Lucretius

The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.: Morris Mandel

Search for the seed of good in every adversity.: Og Mandino

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.: Edwin Markham

People don't ever seem to relate that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune. Casuals of the Sea, 1916: William McFee

Despair is anger with no place to go. The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960: Mignon McLaughlin

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960: Mignon McLaughlin

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. Snow on the Wind: Hugh Miller

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.: Kenji Miyazawa

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.: Sa'di Musharrif–uddin

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.: Friedrich Nietzsche

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.: Violeta Parra

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.: Norman Vincent Peale

Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. The Past Recaptured, Remembrance of Things Past: Marcel Proust

Sleep, riches, and health to be truly enjoyed must be interrupted. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn>: Johann Paul Friedrich Richter

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet–smelling flower.: Jean Paul Richter

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.: Rainer Maria Rilke

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.: Theodore Rubin

However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my traditional manner … sulking and nausea.: Tom K. Ryan

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.: Russian Proverb

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity. Wartime Writings 1939–1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell: Antoine de Saint–Exupéry

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.: Walt Schmidt

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!: Dr. Seuss

Fire is the test of gold, adversity of strong men.: Seneca

Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse. Henry IV: William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. King Henry the Sixth: William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. Othello: William Shakespeare

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Ode to a Sky Lark: Percy Bysshe Shelley

If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.: John A. Simone, Sr.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.: Alexander Smith

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.: Socrates

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.: Sophocles

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.: William Stafford

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. Maxims: Stanislaus I

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.: John Steinbeck

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.: Henry David Thoreau

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.: John Updike

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.: Charles C. West

They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog – keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.: Edward Westcott

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896: Oscar Wilde

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.: Oscar Wilde

Turn your wounds into wisdom.: Oprah Winfrey

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. A Room of One's Own, 1929: Virginia Woolf

I bear a little more than I can bear. Angels and Earthly Creatures. One Person. Sonnet XVI: Elinor Hoyt Wylie

God gave burdens, also shoulders.: Yiddish Proverb

Bygone troubles are good to tell.: Yiddish Proverb

That was rough…. Thing to do now is try and forget it… I guess I don't quite mean that. It's not a thing you can forget. Maybe not even a thing you want to forget… Life's like that sometimes… Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin' the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it's not all like that. A lot of it's mighty fine, and you can't afford to waste the good part frettin' about the bad. That makes it all bad… Sure, I know – sayin' it's one thing and feelin' it's another. But I'll tell you a trick that's sometimes a big help. When you start lookin' around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it.: From the movie Old Yeller

Advertising

Advertisers constantly invent cures to which there is no disease.: Anon

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.: Erma Bombeck

When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded. Quoted in Ogilvy on Advertising, 1985: Pat Brown

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.: Leonard Bernstein

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. South Wind: Norman Douglas

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness. The Plot to Make You Buy, 1968: John Fisher

It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.: Nicholas Johnson

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 trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy.: Louis Kronenberger

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Quoted in Crown's Book of Political Quotations, 1982: Stephen Butler Leacock

Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills, or the bottle. But Will It Sell?, 1964: Marya Mannes

I have… had a disturbing dream in which I break through a cave wall near Nag Hammadi and discover urns full of ancient Coptic scrolls. As I unfurl the first scroll, a subscription card to some Gnostic exercise magazine flutters out.: Colin McEnroe

Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Introduction to Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America, 1974: Marshall McLuhan

History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." Quoted in The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988: Malcolm Muggeridge

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. Song of the Open Road, 1933: Ogden Nash

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.: David Ogilvy

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.: George Orwell

When the historian of the Twentieth Century shall have finished his narrative, and comes searching for the subtitle which shall best express the spirit of the period, we think it not at all unlikely that he may select "The Age of Advertising" for the purpose.: Printers' Ink, 27 May 1915

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.: B. Earl Puckett

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.: Will Rogers

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.: Sears, Roebuck and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897

Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency – she thinks I play piano in a whorehouse.: Jacques Seguela

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.: R. Serling

Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths.: Edgar A. Shoaff

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public, ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.: Vilhjalmur Stefansson

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.: George Will

Advertising Jargon

NEW: Different color from previous design

ALL NEW: Parts not interchangeable with previous design

EXCLUSIVE: Imported product

UNMATCHED: Almost as good as the competition

DESIGN SIMPLICITY: Manufacturer's cost cut to the bone

FOOLPROOF OPERATION: No provision for adjustments

ADVANCED DESIGN: The advertising agency doesn't understand it

IT'S HERE AT LAST: Rush job; Nobody knew it was coming

FIELD–TESTED: Manufacturer lacks test equipment

HIGH ACCURACY: Unit on which all parts fit

DIRECT SALES ONLY: Factory had big argument with distributor

YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT: We finally got one that works

REVOLUTIONARY: It's different from our competitors

BREAKTHROUGH: We finally figured out a way to sell it

FUTURISTIC: No other reason why it looks the way it does

DISTINCTIVE: A different shape and color than the others

MAINTENANCE–FREE: Impossible to fix

RE–DESIGNED: Previous faults corrected, we hope...

HAND–CRAFTED: Assembly machines operated without gloves on

PERFORMANCE PROVEN: Will operate through the warranty period

MEETS ALL STANDARDS: Ours, not yours

ALL SOLID–STATE: Weighs a Ton!

BROADCAST QUALITY: Gives a picture and produces noise

HIGH RELIABILITY: We made it work long enough to ship it

SMPTE BUS COMPATIBLE: When completed, will be shipped by Greyhound

NEW GENERATION: Old design failed, maybe this one will work

MIL–SPEC COMPONENTS: We got a good deal at a government auction

CUSTOMER SERVICE ACROSS THE COUNTRY: You can return it from most airports

UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE: Nothing we ever had before worked THIS way

BUILT TO PRECISION TOLERANCES: We finally got it to fit together

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: Manufacturer's, upon cashing your check

MICROPROCESSOR CONTROLLED: Does things we can't explain

LATEST AREOSPACE TECHNOLOGY: One of our techs was laid off by Boeing

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Advice

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.: Ansel Adams

If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.: Jack Adams

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.: Aeschylus

Don't count the days - make the days count.: Ed Agresta

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.: Leo Aikman

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.: John R. Amos

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.: Anon

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.: Anon

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reigns.: Anon

If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.: Anon

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.: Anon

Life Is Boring, But So Is Death! Life is optional. Death is Mandatory.: Anon

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.: Minna Antrim

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.: Roger Babson

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.: Francis Bacon

When one door closes another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us. (Also attributed to Helen Keller): Alexander Graham Bell

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.: Yogi Berra

When you come to a fork in the road … Take it.: Yogi Berra

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.: Josh Billings

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.: Erma Bombeck

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.: Marlon Brando

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 Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. (Life's Little Instruction Book): H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

There are some men who turn a deaf ear to reason and good advice, and willfully go wrong for fear of being controlled.: Jean De La Bruyere

Do not walk behind me, I may not lead. Do not walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.: Albert Camus

I shall tell you a great secret, my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.: Albert Camus

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop." (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland): Lewis Carroll

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.: Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.: Winston Churchill

Shame to him who evil thinks. [Honi soit qui mal y pense.]: Coat of Arms

He conquers twice who conquers himself.: Coat of Arms

Lay restraint on thy tongue or thy tongue will lay it on thee. [Vincula de linguae vel tibi linguae dabit.]: Coat of Arms

Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Do only what only you can do.: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.: Albert Einstein

Every thing should be made as simple as possible but not simpler.: Albert Einstein

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

No change of circumstances can repair a defect in character.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said.: Benjamin Franklin

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.: Baltasar Gracian

Take the gentle path.: George Herbert

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.: Goethe

If at first you don't succeed destroy all evidence that you ever tried.: Damien Hope

Never explain yourself. Your friends don't need it and your enemies won't believe it.: Belgicia Howell

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.: Erica Jong

When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. (Also attributed to Alexander Graham Bell): Helen Keller

A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper.: Barry Neil Kaufman

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take.: Lothar Kaul

Advice is probably the only free thing which people won't take.: Lothar Kaul

Success never comes to look for you while you wait around. You've got to get up and work at it to make your dreams come true.: Poh Yu Khing

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.: Jonathan Kozel

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.": Ann Landers

Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - and then do it.: Ann Landers

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.: Arnold Lobel

Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.: Henry W. Longfellow

Invest yourself in everything you do. There's fun in being serious.: Wynton Marsalis

This is the gist of what I know: Give advice and buy a foe.: Phyllis McGinley

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.: Wilson Mizner

There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley

You can teach an elephant to dance, but the likelihood of its stepping on your toes is very high.: Gary Moss

Where patience fails, force prevails.: One of Murphy's Laws

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.: One of Murphy's Laws

The best advice you can ever give or recieve is to be yourself.: Tesha Olivas

Don't compromise on yourself, your all you've got.: Plato

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.: Sam Rayburn

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: La Rochefoucauld

The key to success is sincerity, and if you can fake that you can do anything: When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?": Henry Rollins

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.: Eleanor Roosevelt

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.: Theodore Isaac Rubin

We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.: Henry Wheeler Shaw

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.: Shakespeare

Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history.: Ben Sobel

The unexamined life is not worth living.: Socrates

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.: Robert Louis Stevenson

Kind words are short and easy to say but their echos last a lifetime.: Mother Teresa

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.: Mother Teresa

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.: Mother Teresa

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater developments and greater wishes and so on; so that children have very little time for their parents; Parents have very little time for each other; and the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.: Mother Teresa

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.: Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.: James Thurber

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.: Mark Twain

It is better to give than receive... especially advice.: Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.: Mark Twain

Start writing a new chapter, for if you live by the book you'll never make history.: Ben Sobel

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

When in danger, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.: Robert Ferdinand Wagner, Jr.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.: Andy Warhol

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.: George Washington

If we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.: Edith Wharton

Everything popular is wrong.: Oscar Wilde

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.: H. H. Williams

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.: Margaret Young

Aging

The man who views his life at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.: Muhammad Ali

Middle age – when you want to see how long your car will last instead of how fast it will go.: Anon

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.: Anon

Most people like the old days best – they were younger then.: Anon

In this life the old believe everything, the middle–aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.: Anon

Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.: Jack Benny

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.: Bernard Baruch on his 85th birthday

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. (The Coming of Age): Simone de Beauvoir

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.: Eubie Blake

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!" (Rabbi Ben Ezra): Robert Browning

As a white candle In a holy place, So is the beauty Of an aged face. (The Old Woman): Joseph Campbell

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.: Coco Chanel

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.: Maurice Chevalier

Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.: E. Joseph Cossman

When you're young, you can take a certain amount of comfort knowing that a lot of your life is mapped out for you, but as you get older, the map goes out the window and you have to find your own way.: Howie Day

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.: Emily Dickinson

If youth knew; if age could. (Les Primices): Henri Estienne

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old — or being young, for that matter.: Katharine Hepburn

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.: Bob Hope

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. (Bracebridge Hall): Washington Irving

Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?: Job 12:12

I have everything now I had twenty years ago except now it's all lower.: Gypsy Rose Lee

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.: Abraham Lincoln

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence and obsolescence. (A Child's Garden of Misinformation): Art Linkletter

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

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.: Andrew Marvel

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. (Sonnet): Edna St. Vincent Millay

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. (Last words written in his notebook.): George Orwell

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. (Formula for Staying Young): Satchel Paige

Age is not a handicap. Age is nothing but a number. It is how you use it.: Diesel Payne

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed. (A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings): Anthony Powell

Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples (Maxims): La Rochefoucauld

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Reginald Saki

Old age is an incurable disease. (Epistulae ad Lucilium): Seneca

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. (As You Like It): Shakespeare

Nobody loves life like him that's growing old.(Acrisius): Sophocles

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood. (Afterthoughts): Logan Pearsall Smith

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.: Jonathan Swift

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.: AJP Taylor

The counsels of old age give light without heat, like the sun in winter.: Marquis de Vauvenargues

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.: Watterson

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? (A Song): W.B. Yeats

Attitude

A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.: Herm Albright

My attitude towards life will determine life's attitude towards me.: Anon

We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.: Anon

You never find yourself until you face the truth.: Pearl Bailey

Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.: Roger W. Babson

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty–four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.: Tom Blandi

You must take action now that will move you toward your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.: Les Brown

The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now … Your life will always be filled with challenges.: Richard Carlson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.: E. Joseph Cossman

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say "We'll just have to see." (Remarks made after he won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games where he employed a revolutionary high–jump technique he had developed.): Dick Fosbury

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.: Robert Frost

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.: Zina Garrison

Success is just a matter of attitude.: Darcy E. Gibbons

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.: Lou Holtz

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.: William James

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.: John Homer Miller

We should always be booted and spurred, and ready to go.: Montaigne

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.: Earl Nightingale

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short–winded.: Sandra Day O'Connor

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.: Norman Vincent Peale

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.: M. Scott Peck

It is not enough to have great qualities. We should also have the management of them.: Duc Francois de La Rochefouchaud

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.: Scottish Proverb

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.: Amy Tan

The memories of tomorrow depend on your attitude today.: Dave Weinbaum

One ship sails east, another west, By the self same winds that blow. It isn't the gales, it's the set of the sails, That determines the way we go.: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Experiences don't make life; they are life. Write that down.: Van Wilder

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.: John Wooden

Think clearly for a moment about the opinion you hold of yourself, and then note how incredibly inflated it is.: Burt Zackey

Bravery

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.: Aesop

A man of courage never wants weapons.: Anon

A brave arm makes a short sword long.: Anon

Fear and courage are brothers.: Anon

I'm not funny. What I am is brave.: Lucille Ball

Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.: David Ben-Gurion

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.: Dorothy Bernard

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.: Ambrose Bierce

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.: H.G. Bohn

Necessity does the work of courage.: Nicholas Murray Butler

Optimism is the foundation of courage.: Nicholas Murray Butler

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.: Albert Camus

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.: G.K. Chesterton

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.: Winston Churchill

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.: Robert Cody

You can't test courage cautiously.: Anne Dillard

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third.: Joseph Epstein

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.: Thomas Fuller

Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.: Kurt Goldstein

Courage is tiny pieces of fear all glued together.: Terri Guillemets

Underneath courage shouts fear but of a hoarse voice.: Terri Guillemets

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.: Henry S. Haskins

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.: Ernest Hemingway, Men at War, 1942

One man with courage makes a majority.: Andrew Jackson

Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.: Samuel Johnson

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.: Franklin P. Jones

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.: Marvin Kitman

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.: Charles Kennedy

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.: John F. Kennedy

For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.: John F. Kennedy

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.: Arthur Koestler

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.: Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.: C.S. Lewis

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.: Raymond Lindquist

Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living.: Douglas Malloch

People are made of flesh and blood and a miracle fibre called courage.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.: Michel de Montaigne

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.: Coventry Patmore

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.: Gen. George S. Patton

Courage is knowing what not to fear.: Plato

Courage is a kind of salvation.: Plato

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.: Diane de Poitiers

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.: Mary Anne Radmacher

Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.: Lauren Raffo

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.: Ambrose Redmoon

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.: Jean Paul Richter

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.: Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.: Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.: Mark Rutherford

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure if they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.: Carl Sandburg

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.: Horace Smith

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.: Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.: Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, 1894

In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.: Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.: John Wainwright

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.: John Wayne

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.: Edward Weeks

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.: Alfred North Whitehead

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.: Sultana Zoraya

Censorship

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor's prohibited list.: John Aikin

Censorship offends me.: Anon

You can cage the singer but not the song. International Herald Tribune, October 3, 1988: Harry Belafonte

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.: David Ben–Gurion

A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad.: Albert Camus

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!: Thomas Carlyle

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.: Dick Cavett

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.: Noam Chomsky

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.: Henry Steele Commager

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.: Sigmund Freud

The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship. And censorship, that by–product of fear – stemming as it does not from some positive agenda, but from the desire to escape our own terrors and superstitions by imposing them on others – must surely be resisted.: Jonathon Green

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 weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. New York Times,February 24, 1959: Alfred Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned – Ideas won't go to jail.: Alfred Whitney Griswold

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. Almansor, 1823: Heinrich Heine

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.: Claude–Adrien Helvétius

Did you ever hear anyone say, "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?": Joseph Henry Jackson

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.: John F. Kennedy

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.: Harold R. Medina

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. On Liberty, 1859: John Stuart Mill

The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. On Liberty, 1859: John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one were of one 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. On Liberty, 1859: John Stuart Mill

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.: Potter Stewart

Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them. Notebook, 1935: Mark Twain

I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.: Mae West

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.: Rebecca West

The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.: Walt Whitman

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.: Voltaire

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.: Voltaire

Computers

Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks.: Anon

Mac users swear by their Mac, PC users swear at their PC.: Anon

Saying a particular OS is the best in the world because more people use it is like saying McDonalds makes the best food in the world because more people eat it.: Anon

User, n. The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot.": Dave Barry

640 K oughtta be enough.: Bill Gates, 1984

The Internet is not a primary goal for PC usage.: Bill Gates, 1995

Linux has no impact on Microsoft's strategy.: Bill Gates, 1999

Gray's Law of Programming: 'n+1' trivial tasks are expected to be completed in the same time as 'n' tasks. Long's Rebuttal to Gray's Law: 'n+1' trivial tasks take twice as long as 'n' trivial tasks.: Gray and Long

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.: Stephen W. Hawking

Hackers are more likely to have cats than dogs (in fact, it is widely grokked that cats have the hacker nature). Many drive incredibly decrepit heaps and forget to wash them; richer ones drive spiffy Porsches and RX-7s and then forget to have them washed. Almost all hackers have terribly bad handwriting, and often fall into the habit of block-printing everything like junior draftsmen.: Jargon File 4.2.0

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.: Doug Larson

If you don't know where you want to go, we will make sure you get there.: Microsoft slogan translated in Japanese.

Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.: Erik Naggum

Hardware: The parts of a computer that can be kicked.: Jeff Pesis

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.: Emo Philips

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.: John Pierce

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.: Andy Rooney

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.: M.G. Siriam

If it wasn't backed-up, then it wasn't important.: The Sysadmin's Moto.

Every time I design a site in CSS I hit the same wall where the logic works, the CSS and XHTML validate, and the display is perfect except in Browser X, where it is so bad I need to start over. Every time I hit that wall I curse Browser X and myself and the client and the W3C and Ben and J-Lo, just because. Then I get back to work.: Jeffrey Zeldman

Death

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.: Stewart Alsop

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.: Francis Bacon

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

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.: Samuel Butler

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.: Lord Byron

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.: Willa Cather

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.: Clarence Darrow

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.: Epicurus

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.: Erik H. Erikson

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.: Susan Ertz

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.: Euripides

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.: Medgar Evers

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.: Kahlil Gibran

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.: Edward W. Howe

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.: Helen Keller

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.: W. Somerset Maugham

The idea is to die young as late as possible.: Ashley Montagu

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.: Edvard Munch

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.: J. Robert Oppenheimer

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.: William Penn

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.: Albert Pike

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.: David Sarnoff

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.: Arthur Schopenhauer

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.: Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.: Mark Twain

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.: Henry Van Dyke

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.: Leonardo da Vinci

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.: Alice Walker

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.: Tennessee Williams

Dreams

Far away there in the sunshine Are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them … But I can look up and See their beauty…believe in them, And try to follow where they lead.: Louise May Alcott

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.: Anon

It's better to have an impossible dream than no dream at all.: Anon

Believe in your dreams, For even those that seem out of reach, Are safe in unseen hands.: Anon

A dream becomes a reality in 4 stages; dreaming, wanting, planning, and doing. Courage is the glue. If you don't have courage you will never want it bad enough to plan. If you don't have courage you will never plan it well enough to do. If you don't have courage you will never fulfill your dreams. If you do not fulfill your dreams, you may not have the courage to dream again.: Anon

Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.: Anon

The image is a dream. The beauty is real. Can you see the difference?: Richard Bach

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.: Toni Cade Bambara

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.: Toni Cade Bambara

Dreams do come true, if we only wish enough. You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.: James Matthew Barrie

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.: John Barrymore

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.: Erma Bombeck

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.: Ashleigh Brilliant

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. (Life's Little Instruction Calendar): H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.: Les Brown

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.: Michael Brown

Dreams are wishes cast upon stars, so catch a shining one - take your friend's hand - and hold on forever.: Traci Brown

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, then bugger it. Go back to the factory, or go back to the desk.: Eric Burdon

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go.: Carol Burnett

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.: Steven Patrick Callahan

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.: Edgar Cayce

If you don't have a dream, how can you have a dream come true?: Jiminy Cricket

Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.: James Dean

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.: Charles William Dement

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.: Sue Atchley Ebaugh

We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.: Harry Edwards

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.: Douglas H. Everett

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.: William Faulkner

In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.: Ann Faraday

If you believe that dreams can come true, be prepared for the occasional nightmare.: French Proverb

A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul.: Erich Fromm

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.: Erich Fromm

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.: James A. Froude

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.: Kahlil Gibran

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.: Gail Godwin

When we can't dream any longer, we die.: Emma Goldman

For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.: Vincent van Gogh

I dream my painting, and then I paint my dreams.: Vincent van Gogh

Any dream worth dreaming, is worth the effort to make it some true.: Evan Gourley

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.: Napoleon Hill

It was a long time ago. I have almost forgotten my dream. But it was there then, In front of me, Bright like a sun - My dream.: Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.: Langston Hughes

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.: Thomas Jefferson

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.: Carl Jung

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.: Harry Kemp

If I can dream, I can act. And if I can act, I can become.: Poh Yu Khing

In the real world as in dreams, nothing is quite what it seems. (The Book of Counted Sorrows): Dean R. Koontz

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 out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom): T.E. Lawrence

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. (365 Days and One More): E. V. Lucas

Dreams are wonderful if you follow through with them, you can be anything you want to be.: Karen S. Magee

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.: René Magritte

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.: Patricia McKillip

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.: Anais Nin

Dreams are … illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.: Marsha Norman

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.: Marcel Proust

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.: Christopher Reeve

What's the purpose of living if you don't go after your dreams?: Samson Reiny

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.: Eleanor Roosevelt

I have had dreams, and I've had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams: Jonas Salk

Nothing happens unless first a dream.: Carl Sandburg

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

A dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned to ask.: Dana Scully

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.: Tupac Shakur

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.: Barbara Sher

There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.: Barbara Sher

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.: Susan Sontag

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.: Pamela Vaull Starr

The dream follows the interpretation.: Talmud

A dream that is not interpreted is like a letter that has not been opened.: Talmud

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.: Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, And endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.: Henry David Thoreau

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.: Henry David Thoreau

Enthusiasm

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.: Sir Edward Appleton

The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.: H. W. Arnold

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.: Mary Kay Ash

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.: Edward B. Butler

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.: Thomas Carlyle

Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.: Steve Droke

Examine what you believe to be impossible, then change your belief.: Dr. Wayne Dyer

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.: Leigh Mitchell Hodges

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.: Aldous Huxley

If you aren 't fired with enthusiasm, then you will be fired with enthusiasm.: Vince Lombardi

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no mater how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed.: Og Mandino

No one keeps his enthusiasm automatically. Enthusiasm must be nourished with new actions, new aspirations, new efforts, new vision.: Papyrus

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.: Charles Schwab

Enthusiasm is the daily food for successful people.: Marie Svistunovs

If you don't have enthusiasm, you don't have anything.: Kemmons Wilson, Sr.

Friendship

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.: Joseph Addison

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.: Muhammad Ali

True friends are the people that are there for you unconditionally. They are the people that never question you and support you no matter what the circumstances are. They are the people worth living for.: Anon

Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.: Anon

The secret to friendship is being a good listener.: Anon

A simple friend thinks the friendship over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight.: Anon

When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship.: Anon

True friendship starts the moment one person says to another, "What? You too? I thought I was the only one!": Anon

Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together.: Anon

Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.: Aristotle

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.: Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.: Charles Caleb Colton

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.: Francis Marion Crawford

The road to a friend's house is never long.: Danish proverb

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.: George Eliot

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 with his friendship.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.: Dave Tyson Gentry

Friendship is a horizon which expands whenever we approach it.: E. R. Hazlip

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.: Oliver Wendell Holmes

The friendship which is to be practiced or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.: Samuel Johnson

It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.: Mignon McLaughlin

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.: Anais Nin

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue. (Fruits of Solitude): William Penn

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. (In a treaty with Native Americans): William Penn

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.: Francis Quareles

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.: G. Randolf

Friendship with oneself is all–important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.: Eleanor Roosevelt

Good friends must not always be together. It is the feeling of oneness when distant that proves a lasting friendship.: Susan P. Schultz

True friendship is never serene.: Marquise de Sevigne

A new friendship is like an unripened fruit – it may become either an orange or a lemon.: Emma Stacey

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. (Pudd'nhead Wilson): Mark Twain

Friends. A simple word isn't it? It's uttered everyday to almost every person imaginable. Who are your friends? I used to think that friends were the people that you could laugh and talk to. Now I know that friends aren't that, they're the people that touch your heart. You could spend hours with them doing nothing at all and it can be the best time of your life, just because it was with them. They're the people you can share your secrets with, cry with, laugh with, and just have fun with. They don't judge you or make you change. They accept you exactly as you are. They look at you and they see a great person, one they love spending time with. You all share something in common and are tied together by memories, tears, laughs and smiles. You're tied together by love for the other. Friendship is the strangest but greatest thing in the world. I find my time with my friends, the best times of my life. My friends are my heart, my soul, my fun, my laughter, tears, love and my life.: Kate Tierney

A friend is one who knows all about you and likes you anyway.: Christi Mary Warner

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they would rather be someplace else.: Len Wein

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.: Walter Winchell

Goals

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.: Thomas Alva Edison

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.: Arnold H. Glasgow

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.: William Hazlitt

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.: Helen Keller

All the miles of a hard road are worth a moment of true happiness.: Arnold Lobel

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustains life, not the top. But of course, without the top, you can't have any sides. (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance): Robert M. Pirsig

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.: Ronald Reagan

This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything.: Scott Reed

You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.: Kathy Seligman

You can't climb to the second floor without a ladder.: Emil Zatopek

Happiness

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.: Robert Anthony

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.: St. Augustine

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close knit family in another city.: George Burns

One joy scatters a hundred griefs.: Chinese Proverb

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.: Emily Dickinson

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.: Eric Hoffer

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.: Abraham Lincoln

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.: James Openheim

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.: Seneca

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.: C. P. Snow

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.: Mother Teresa

If you want to be happy, be.: Leo Tolstoy

If I spend my life searching for happiness through drugs, comfort and luxury, it will elude me. Happiness recedes from those who pursue her. Happiness will come upon me unexpectedly as a by product, a surprising bonus for something I have invested myself in. And, most likely, that investment will include pain. It is hard to imagine pleasure without it.: Phillip YancyWhere Is God When It Hurts

Humanity

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.: Douglas Adams

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he 'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he 'll have to touch to be sure.: Anon

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.: Anon

People are like teabags… you never know how strong they are until you drop them in hot water.: Anon

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true.: Anon

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.: Marcus Aurelius

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen–garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. The Devil's Dictionary: Ambrose Bierce

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.: Joan Borysenko

Every man is the son of his works. [Cada uno es hijo de sus obras.]: Coat of Arms

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.: Meister Eckhart

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.: Albert Einstein

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.: George Eliot

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.: Anatole France

And he who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.: Gandalf, Lord Of The Rings

That's what you always said, success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight, and you were right.: Lillian Hellman

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.: Jurassic Park

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.: Mary Ellen Kelly

Many people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.: Henry Miller

You bind the goods and trappings of your life together with your dreams to make a place that is uniquely your own.: Charles W. Moore

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed.: Bertrand Russell

It's important to be nice but more nice to be important.: Reggae Singer

The bulk of humanity is as well qualified for flying as for thinking.: Jonathan Swift

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.: Henry David Thoreau

Not all who wander are lost.: J.R.R. Tolkien

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain

hen we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.: Mark Twain

Nothing so needs reforming as other people 's habits.: Mark Twain

What is tolerance? — it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other 's folly — that is the first law of nature.: Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to open up the still largely unexplored human mind.: David Rains Wallace

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.: Mae West

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.: Colin Wilson

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.: Oscar Wilde

There are too many people, and too few human beings.: Robert Zend

Humility

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.: African Proverb

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.: Leo Aikman

Yet some things you miss and some things you lose by keeping your arm outstretched.: Anon

If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U–turns.: Anon

God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me. Variation of an excerpt from "The Serenity Prayer" by Reinhold Neibuhr: Anon

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.: Anon

Sometimes the best way to hold onto something is to let it go.: Anon

It's better to fight for something than against something.: Anon

Aspire to a lower level of harm.: Anon

Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.: Anon

The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.: Anon

Promise only what you can deliver. Then deliver more than you promise.: Anon

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.: Anon

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.: Brecht

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it – torn up to irrecoverable tatters.: Samuel Butler

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. The Fall: Albert Camus

Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.: Kathryn Carpenter

Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.: Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.: Chinese Proverb

The day will happen whether or not you get up.: John Ciardi

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.: John C. Collins

On the bathing–tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation.": Confucian Analects

Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?: Coleman Cox

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.: Dandemis

The best way to predict your future is to create it.: Peter Drucker

Beware of a man of one book.: English Proverb

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you're the easiest person to fool.: Richard Feynman

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.: Malcolm S. Forbes

Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.: Benjamin Franklin

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.: John W. Gardner

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.: Goethe

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.: Baltasar Gracian

Remedy it, or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.: Terri Guillemets

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ne Chronicles: Frank Herbert

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.: Hippocrates

While seeking revenge, dig two graves – one for yourself.: Doug Horton

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.: Elbert Hubbard

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.: Victor Hugo

We must have passed through life unobservantly, if we have never perceived that a man is very much himself what he thinks of others.: Frederick W. Faber

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.: Irish Proverb

I used to believe that anything was better than nothing. Now I know that sometimes nothing is better.: Glenda Jackson

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.: William James

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.: Pope John XXIII

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.: Jimmy Johnson

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.: Samuel Johnson

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.: Janis Joplin

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Imitation of Christ, c.1420: Thomas à Kempis

Nature gave men two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.: George R. Kirkpatrick

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.: Jonathan Kozel

Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when you're tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.: Bruce Lee

Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. Actions and Passions: Max Lerner

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.: G.C. Lichtenberg

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?: Abraham Lincoln

Whatever you are be a good one.: Abraham Lincoln

Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. The Summing Up: W. Somerset Maugham

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched–out pages. The Neurotic's Notebook: Mignon McLaughlin

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing. The Neurotic's Notebook: Mignon McLaughlin

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate. The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966: Mignon McLaughlin

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. The Second Neurotic's Notebook: Mignon McLaughlin

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. The Books in My Life: Henry Miller

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.: Plato

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. Wind, Sand and Stars: Thee de Saint–Exupéry

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.: Albert Schweitzer

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.: Odell Shepherd

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Betty Smith

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.: Swedish Proverb

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.: Robert Louis Stevenson

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.: Tom Stoppard

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. The Philosopher: Sara Teasdale

The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself.: Alfred Lord Tennyson

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.: Texan Proverb

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.: Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.: Henry David Thoreau

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.: James Thurber

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.: Frank Tyger

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.: William Hale White

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.: Tennessee Williams

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.: Tad Williams

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.: Steven D. Woodhull

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.: Brigham Young

Humor

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

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.: Woody Allen

94.5% of all statistics are made up.: Woody Allen

Why ruin a good story with the truth?: Woody Allen

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs–and–ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' – the pig was 'committed'.: Anon

It could be worse; it could be Monday all week.: Anon

If women knew what we were thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.: Anon

Politicians are like diapers: they both need to be changed frequently and for the same reason.: Anon

All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.: Anon

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.: Yogi Berra

Nobody goes where the crowds are anymore. It's too crowded.: Yogi Berra

If you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else.: Yogi Berra

The covers of this book are too far apart.: Ambrose Bierce

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.: Bill Cosby

The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable.: Paul Dean

Pair up in threes.: Joe DiMaggio

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.: T. S. Eliot

You are a poor, pathetic, gullible fool who seeks advice from bakery products.: Found in a fortune cookie

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.: Robert Frost

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.: Robert Frost

Sex and politics are a lot alike. You don't have to be good at them to enjoy them.: Senator Barry Goldwater

Television has raised writing to a new low.: Samuel Goldwyn

I felt like Dolly Parton's baby: 'Is all this for me?': Mickey Mantle

There is one thing I would break up over and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wouldn't stand for that.: Steve Martin

My idea of long–range planning is lunch.: Frank Ogden

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.: Dorothy Parker

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.: François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld

There are lies, damn lies and statistics.: Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.: Charles D. Warner

Ideas

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.: Howard Aiken

Great minds talk about ideas. Average minds talk about events. Small minds talk about people.: Anon

An idea is worth nothing if it has no champion.: Anon

An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality. You must, nevertheless, suffer for it.: Richard Bach

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.: Warren Bennis

We like to test things… no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.: Henry Block

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.: Elizabeth Bowen

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.: Sir William Bragg

Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!: Les Brown

Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.: Ron Brown

Believe in something larger than yourself… Get involved in the big ideas of your time.: Barbara Bush

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes.: Elias Canetti

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.: Steven Patrick Callahan

I got a lot of ideas. Trouble is, most of them suck.: George Carlin

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.: Marie Curie

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.: Anthony D'Angelo

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.: Charles Fillmore

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.: Goethe

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.: Remy De Gourmont

Go out and buy yourself a five–cent pencil and a ten–cent notebook and begin to write down some million–dollar ideas for yourself.: Bob Grinde

The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.: Alfred Whitney Griswold

Books won't stay banned – Ideas won't go to jail.: Alfred Whitney Griswold

Ideas… they have the power.: Napoleon Hill

Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.: Job E. Hodges

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.: Elbert Hubbard

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.: Elbert Hubbard

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.: Victor Hugo

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.: Victor Hugo

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.: Barry Jones

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.: John F. Kennedy

Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the grass, or they are gone.: Thomas F. Kennedy

A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.: Ted Koysis

I'm not impressed with the power of a corporate president. I am impressed with the power of ideas.: Ken Mason

You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack–square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.: Sean O'Casey

If you don't execute your ideas, they die.: Roger von Oech

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.: Linus Pauling

You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.: Irvine Robbins

Ideas can be life–changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.: Jim Rohn

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.: Richard Saunders

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.: George Bernard Shaw

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin. It should make you jump up and do something.: E. L. Simpson

If you pray for only one thing, let it be for an idea.: Percy Sutton

An idea discovered is much better possessed.: Young

Kindness

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. The Lion And The Mouse: Aesop

Always be a little kinder than necessary.: James M. Barrie

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.: James M. Barrie

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn: Dave Barry

Real charity doesn't care if it's tax–deductible or not.: Dan Bennett

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.: H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Til in Heaven the deed appears – Pass it on. Pass It On: Henry Burton

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.: Leo Buscaglia

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.: George Washington Carver

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.: Winston Churchill

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.: Willie Davis

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.: Dalai Lama

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.: Marian Wright Edelman

How beautiful a day can be When kindness touches it!: George Elliston

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first and highest law must be the love of man to man. Homo homini Deus est – this is the supreme practical maxim, this is the turning point of the world's History. The Essence of Christianity: Ludwig Feuerbach

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.: Malcolm S. Forbes

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.: Adam Lindsay Gordon

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.: Nelson Henderson

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.: Bob Hope

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.: Samuel Johnson

During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.: Joann C. Jones

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. On the Road With Charles Kuralt: Charles Kuralt

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.: Og Mandino

Don't be yourself – be someone a little nicer. The Second Neurotic's Notebook: Mignon McLaughlin

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.: William Penn

A kind word is like a Spring day.: Russian Proverb

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.: Seneca

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.: William Shakespeare

The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you.: John E. Southard

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget–me–nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.: Charles H. Spurgeon

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.: Mark Twain

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.: Booker T. Washington

Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Attributed to both T.H. Thompson and John Watson

The best portion of a good man's life – his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.: William Wordsworth

Laughter

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.: Alan Alda

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.: Woody Allen

As long as you can laugh at yourself, you will never cease to be amused.: Anon

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.: Ambrose Bierce

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.: Josh Billings

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.: Victor Borge

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.: Abraham Lincoln

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.: Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.: Kurt Vonnegut

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.: Mort Walker

"Laws"

Everything takes longer and costs more.: Anderson's Law

Obey gravity … it's the law.: First Law of Gravity

The farther a seat is from the aisle, the later the patron arrives.: Borkson's Law

Thinly sliced cabbage.: Cole's Law

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; To steal from many is research.: Felson's Law

Anything that can go wrong, will. Pessimistic version of "Murphy's Law": Finagle's Law

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. A corollary of "Finagle's Law", similar to "Ockham's Razor": Hanlon's Razor

For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.: Harrison's Law

Regardless of the amount of paint left in the can it's never enough to finish the job.: Bill Humphrey's Corollary

The chance of bread falling jelly side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.: Jenning's Corollary

The harder one works at a problem, the harder the problem gets.: Jenning's Work Law

The first car to see the traffic light turn green is the second car back.: MacGregor's Law

The longer the title, the less important the job.: McGovern's Law

If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.: Murphy's Law

Entities must not be multiplied beyond what is necessary. One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything: Ockham's Razor (Also Occam's)

Work expands to fill the time alloted it.: Parkinson's Law

You can't fall off the floor.: Paul's Law

Help a man when he's in trouble and he'll remember you when he's in trouble again.: The Law of Philanthropy

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.: Pohl's Law

A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.: Segal's Law

An object will fall so as to do the most damage.: The Law of Selective Gravity

Ninety percent of everything is crud. Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud.": Sturgeon's Law

If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.: Thoreau's Law

The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.: Toffler's Law

The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.: Toffler's Law of Rasberry Jam

Nobody notices when things go right.: Zimmerman's Law of Complaints

Literature

Literature is the question minus the answer.: Roland Barthes

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.: Italo Calvino The Literature Machine

The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight.: Samual McChord Crothers

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.: Clifton Fadiman

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.: E.M. Forster Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.: Anatole France

The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.: Anatole France

Every man's memory is his private literature.: Aldous Huxley

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.: Richard Livingstone

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.: Samuel Lover Handy Andy, 1842

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!: James Russell Lowell

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.: Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.: Ezra Pound ABC of Reading, 1934

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain

The difference between journalism and literature is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.: Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Love

How beautiful life can be when touched by love.: Tiffany Anderson

I could not tell fact from fiction Or if my dream was true The only sure prediction In this whole world was you.: Maya Angelou

You know when you truly love someone, when you miss them before they even leave.: Anon

Love will pass by many times, but true love will stop to look.: Anon

Love is not blind, it has the sharpest eyes and because it sees more, it is willing to see less.: Anon

Love is not finding the perfect person, but finding the imperfect person perfect.: Anon

I wrote your name in the sand and the waves washed it away. I wrote your name in my heart and forever it will stay.: Anon

To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.: Anon

Never frown when you're down, you never know who's falling in love with your smile.: Anon

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with…: Anon

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.: St. Augustine

Love is your best–friend, love is your worst enemy, love is what you live for, love is what you die for.: John Bailey

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.: Ray Bradbury

A hug from someone you love is like a warm blanket on a lost soul.: McKenzie Brennen

There is one pain I often feel, Which you'll never know. It's caused by absence of you.: Ashleigh Brilliant

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in His hand Who saith 'A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!' Rabbi Ben Ezra: Robert Browning

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.: Robert Browning

You can give without loving, But you cannot love without giving.: Amy Carmichael

Married couples who love each other tell each other a thousand things without talking.: Chinese Proverb

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.: 1 Corinthians 13:7–8 (Phillips)

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is not to love, but love in vain.: Abraham Crowley

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.: Antoine DeSaint–Expery

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.: Ann Douglas

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.: Lawrence Durrell

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.: Albert Einstein

Love can make the wisest of men turn into small minded idiots. And idiots into the best lovers.: Timothy L. Fields

It isn't possible to love and part ... You can transmutate love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know from experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.: E. M. Forester

You cannot make someone love you. You can only make yourself someone who can be loved.: Derek Gamba

Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.: Louis Ginsberg

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving unites all creatures; none is by or for itself, but all things exist in continual reciprocity—the one for the all; the all for the one.: Samson Raphael Hirsch, Nineteen Letters

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.: Washington Irving

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.: Hoosier Farmer

To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables: Victor Hugo,

There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today.: Jonathan Larson

To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another.: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the never–ending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.: Marlin Finch Lupus

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.: W. Somerset Maugham

Love isn't a word it's a feeling. I want to share that feeling with you forever.: Andy Moore

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.: John Ruskin

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1.1.231–2: Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into, Thou hast not loved. (As You Like It, 2.4.33–5): Shakespeare

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. (As You Like It, 3.4.54): Shakespeare

Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. (Hamlet, 2.2.123–6): Shakespeare

But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain; But, with the motion of all elements, Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices. Love's Labours Lost, 4.3.327–55: Shakespeare

One half of me is yours, the other half yours Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours. (The Merchant of Venice, 3.2.17–9): Shakespeare

His bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. (Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.121–2): Shakespeare

My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. (Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.139–4): Shakespeare

See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek. (Romeo and Juliet, 2.2.23–5): Shakespeare

Loves goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; But love from love, towards school with heavy looks. (Romeo and Juliet, II.2:157–8): Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. (Sonnet 18): Shakespeare

For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings. (Sonnet 29): Shakespeare

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. (Sonnet 43): Shakespeare

Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong. (Sonnet 88): Shakespeare

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–fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (Sonnet 116): Shakespeare

Hear my soul speak: The very instant that I saw you, did My heart fly to your service. (The Tempest, 3.1.60–3): Shakespeare

I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride, Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide. Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause But rather reason thus with reason fetter, Love sought is good, but given unsought better. (Twelfth Night, 3.1.151–6): Shakespeare

Love is a spirit all compact of fire. (Venus and Adonis, 151): Shakespeare

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.: Alexander Smith

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. In Memoriam:21: Alfred Tennyson

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.: Mother Teresa

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream–world into reality.: Henry David Thoreau

Infatuation is when you think he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he's as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you'll take him anyway. (Redbook, 1975): Judith Viorst

Love is not about getting what you want, but rather wanting it after you have it.: Scott Williams

Luck

Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.: Arab Proverb

Good luck needs no explanation.: Shirley Temple Black

The champion makes his own luck.: Red Blaik

Men of action are favored by the Goddess of luck.: George S. Clason

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?: Jean Cocteau

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck—who keeps right on going—is the man who is there when the good luck comes—and is ready to receive it.: Robert Collier

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.: Democritus

Luck is not chance – It's Toil – Fortune's expensive smile Is earned.: Emily Dickinson

Shallow men believe in luck.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world the lucky person passes for a genius.: Euripedes

Luck's always to blame.: Jean de la Fontaine

Diligence is the mother of good luck.: Benjamin Franklin

No gulls, no luck.: French Proverb

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.: German Proverb

No one is luckier than him who believes in his luck.: German Proverb

Some folk want their luck buttered.: Thomas Hardy

Every dog has his day in luck.: Japanese Proverb

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson

If a man who cannot count finds a four–leaf clover, is he lucky?: Stanislaw J. Lec

Successful people are very lucky, just ask any failure.: Michael Levine

Good luck has its storms.: George Lucas

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.: Wilson Mizner

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life; but only a fool trusts either of them.: P.J. O'Rourke

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast. In the stream where you least expect it, there will be fish.: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Luck never gives; it only lends.: Proverb

Luck never made a man wise.: Seneca

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.: R. E. Shay

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.: William Shakespeare

I believe in luck. The harder I work the luckier I get.: Sam Shoen

Fortune favours the bold.: Terence 190–159 BC

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.: Orson Welles

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self–made men.: E.B. White

Better an ounce of luck than a pound of gold.: Yiddish Proverb

Marriage

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.: Woody Allen

A husband's last words should always be 'OK buy it'.: Anon

Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship united forever in love.: Anon

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, a church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for. He said one that would make me his wife.: Anon

The only thing perfect about marriage is the air–brushed wedding photos in the album.: Anon

A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.: Anon

Marriage is one of the chief causes of divorce.: Anon

A good marriage develops not only by marrying the right person, but also by being the right partner.: Anon

You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you can't live without.: Anon

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.: W. H. Auden

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.: W.H. Auden

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.: Jane Austen

The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it.: Ann Bancroft

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.: Milton Berle

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.: Erma Bombeck

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.: Erma Bombeck

Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him.: Erma Bombeck

People are always asking couples whose marriages have endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman.: Erma Bombeck

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.: Dr. Karl Bowman

I struggled with getting married. I was afraid of closing all those doors... What I didn't realize was that its like opening a door to a whole other batch of doors.: Jeff Bridges

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.: Pearl Buck

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.: Lord Byron

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.: G. K. Chesterton

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.: Agatha Christie

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.: Sir Winston Churchill

Any husband who says. "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.: Bill Cosby

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.: Bill Cosby

To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule: keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.: Marnie Reed Crowell

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.: Cyril Connolly

I never married because I have three pets at home that answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog that growls every morning, a parrot that swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.: Marie Corelli

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.: Rodney Dangerfield

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.: Rodney Dangerfield

A married man should forget his mistakes; no use two people remembering the same thing.: Duane Dewel

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.: Isadora Duncan

The kind of marriage you make depends upon the kind of person you are. If you are a happy, well–adjusted person, the chances are your marriage will be a happy one. If you have made adjustments so far with more satisfaction than distress, you are likely to makeyour marriage and family adjustments satisfactorily. If you are discontented and bitter about your lot in life, you will have to change before you can expect to live happily ever after. When You Marry: Evelyn Duvall and Reuben Hill

There is a French saying: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.: De Finod

One good husband is worth two good wives; for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.: Benjamin Franklin

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.: Robert Frost

What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds.: Cindy Garner

Among intelligent people the surest basis for marriage is friendship – the sharing of real interests – the ability to fight out ideas together and understand each other's thoughts and dreams.: Khalil Gibran

When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.: Sacha Guitry

Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother–in–law.: Brooks Hays

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.: Katharine Hepburn

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.: Homer

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.: Samuel Johnson

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.: Alan King

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.: Ann Landers

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.: John D. MacDonald

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.: Mark 10:9

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?: Groucho Marx

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.: Groucho Marx

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.: Groucho Marx

What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down – that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off. Secrets of Loving: Josh McDowell

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.: James Holt McGavran

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.: Mignon McLaughlin

A man may be a fool and not know it – but not if he is married.: H.L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.: H. L. Mencken

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.: Dave Meurer

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.: Michel de Montaigne

Marriage – as its veterans know well – is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.: Tom Mullen

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.: Tom Mullen

Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps.: Joe Murray

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.: Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.: Ogden Nash

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw in his job and go to work in the brewery.: George Nathan

You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.: Richard Needham

A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.: Nanette Newman

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.: Paul Newman, Winning

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.: Nietzsche

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.: Proverbs 18:22

Before marriage a man will lay awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage he'll fall asleep before you have finished saying it.: Helen Rowland

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.: Rita Rudner

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.: Rita Rudner

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.: George Bernard Shaw

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions. They are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.: George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is like a pair of shears. Oft times working in opposite directions, but punishing anyone that comes between them.: Sydney Smith

Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable?: Carrie Snow

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy – If you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.: Socrates

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognized by the police.: Robert Louis Stevenson

Love is blind – marriage is the eye–opener.: Pauline Thomason

The middle years of marriage are the most crucial. In the early years, spouses want each other and in late years, they need each other.: Rebecca Tilly

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.: Leonardo Di Vinci

One advantage of marriage it seems to me is that when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you it keeps you together until maybe you fall in again.: Judith Viorst

The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him.: Oscar Wilde

No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.: Oscar Wilde

The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs.: Oscar Wilde

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.: Oscar Wilde

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.: Henny Youngman

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.: Henny Youngman

Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.: Henny Youngman

Medicine

Truth in medicine is an unattainable goal, and the art as described in books is far beneath the knowledge of an experienced and thoughtful physician.: Al–Razi

The remedy is worse than the disease.: Francis Bacon

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.: Bernard Baruch

Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.: Samuel Butler

Some medical beast had revived tar–water in those days as a fine medicine, and Mrs. Joe always kept a supply of it in the cupboard; having a belief in its virtues correspondent to its nastiness. At the best of times, so much of this elixir was administered to me as a choice restorative, that I was conscious of going about, smelling like a new fence.: Charles Dickens

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.: Hippocrates

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.: Hippocrates

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.: Elizabeth Kenny

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.: Thomas Mann

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.: Ovid

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.: Paracelsus

We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.: Elisabeth Kuebler–Ross

Prevention of disease must become the goal of every physician.: Henry E. Sigerist

A man is as old as his arteries.: Thomas Sydenham

Any mummery will cure if the patient's faith is strong in it.: Mark Twain

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.: Voltaire

Medical education is not completed at the medical school: it is only begun.: William H. Welch

Men

Women have many faults, men have only two, everything they say and everything they do.: Anon.

A wise man washes his hands after he pees. A wiser man doesn't pee on his hands.: Anon.

The fastest way to a man's heart is through his chest.: Roseanne Barr

Men weren't really the enemy — they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.: Betty Friedan

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.: Robert Frost

Macho isn’t mucho.: Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.: Zsa Zsa Gabor

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.: Robert A. Heinlein

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.: Katharine Hepburn

A man’s greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness: Elmer G. Letterman

Masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.: H.L. Mencken

All husbands are alike, but they have different faces so you can tell them apart.: Ogden Nash

If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.: Yoko Ono

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.: La Rochefoucauld

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.: Helen Rowland

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.: Marie de Rabutin–Chantal de Sevigne

A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure.: Margaret Thatcher

If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.: Margaret Thatcher

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.: Mae West

No nice men are good at getting taxis.: Katherine Whitehorn

Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?: Virginia Woolf

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.: Virginia Woolf

Money

What this country needs is a good five–cent nickel.: Frank Adams

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.: Woody Allen

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.: Woody Allen

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.: Jane Austen

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.: Francis Bacon

I've never sought success in order to get fame and money; it's the talent and the passion that count in success.: Ingrid Bergman

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.: Garth Brooks

Money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love: Whose arrows, learned poets hold, That never miss, are tipped with gold.: Samuel Butler

One must choose, in life, between making money and spending it. There's no time to do both.: Edouard Bourdet

Investing is simple, but not easy.: Warren Buffet

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.: Gabrielle Chanel

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.: Mason Cooley

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.: Clarence Day

A billion here and a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money.: Everett Dirksen

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.: Marian Wright Edelman

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Money often costs too much.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce?: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.: Euripedes

Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.: Benjamin Franklin

Remember that time is money.: Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned. Poor Richard's Almanac: Benjamin Franklin

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

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.: Robert Frost

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.: Mohandas K. Gandhi

Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.: Jerry Gellis

Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman.: George Gissing

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.: Billy Graham

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, money takes wings, those who cheer you today may curse you tomorrow. The only thing that endures is character.: Horace Greeley

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty — to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.: Gourmont

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.: A. P. Gouthey

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.: Cullen Hightower

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.: Edgar Watson Howe

The trick is to stop thinking of it as "your" money.: IRS Auditor

A fool and his money are soon parted. [Uno sciocco e il suo denaro son presto separati.]: Italian Proverb

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy.: George Lorimer

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.: James Russell Lowell

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: "Whose?": Don Marquis

Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.: Spike Milligan

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.: P. J. O'Rourke

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.: Dorothy Parker

You cannot motivate the best people with money. Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion.: Eric S. Raymond

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.: Arthur Schopenhauer

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.: Logan Pearsall Smith

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money amongst themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.: Christina Stead

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.: Adlai Stevenson

Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, once they have found a way to take our money, they never let it go.: Cal Thomas

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring in nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.: Mark Twain

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in "Old Maid"; the player who is finally left with it has lost.: Evelyn Waugh

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.: Izaak Walton

The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.: Katherine Whitehorn

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.: Oscar Wilde

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. The Matchmaker: Thornton Wilder

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.: Thomas Wolfe

When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.: Voltaire

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome and you sing well too.: Yiddish Proverb

I've got all the money I'll ever need, if I die by four o clock.: Henny Youngman

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.: Henny Youngman

Mothers

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.: Ambrose Bierce

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.: Theodore Hesburgh

Maternal love: a miraclulous substance which God multiplies as He divides it.: Victor Hugo

God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers.: Jewish Proverb

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.: Michael Levine

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.: Abraham Lincoln

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle–aged children for signs of improvement.: Florida Scott–Maxwell

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Her children arise up, and call her blessed.: Proverbs 31:28

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.: Jane Sellman

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.: Spanish Proverb

Who is best taught? He who has first learned from his mother.: The Talmud

Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.: Ann Taylor

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.: William Makepeace Thackeray

Music

It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I should say play, because if you love it, that's what it amounts to. I haven't found any shortcuts, and I've been looking for a long time.: Chet Atkins

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.: Maya Angelou

Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.: Anon.

There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.: M. Aumonier

Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. Commenting on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony: Mikhail Bakunin

Whether angels play only Bach in praising God, I am not sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart.: Karl Barth

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.: Ludwig von Beethoven

Soft rain falls gently on my weary eyes, As if to hide a single tear, My life will be forever autumn, Because you're not here.: Moody Blues

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.: William F. Buckley, Jr.

Where there's music, there can be no evil.: Miguel de Cervantes

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.: Pat Conroy

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?: John Cusack

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.: Victor Hugo

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.: Yehudi Menuhin

It's far easier for a musician to play well quickly than slowly.: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.: Elvis Presley

Life without music would be a mistake.: Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is never enough for music.: Sergei Rachmaninov

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.: Igor Stravinsky

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.: George Szell

Political

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.: Freda Adler

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. "This quote is bogus; Burke never said it. It is a pseudo–quote, and corresponds to real quotes in the same way that urban legends about the ghost hitch–hiker vanishing in the back of the car and alligators in the sewers correspond to true news stories." See full article by Martin Porter.: Falsely attributed to Edmund Burke

A country that is big enough to give you anything you want is large enough to take everything you have, including, perhaps, your life: Gene Burns

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.: Clarence Darrow

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.: David Friedman

It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.: George Gissing, 1857–1903

You threaten your own freedoms by trying to hinder the harmless freedoms of others.: Duane Alan Hahn

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.: Robert Heinlein

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.: Eric Hoffer

To anyone who thinks that a politician will solve our country's problems, be reminded that George Washington is dead.: Bill Humphrey

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.: Thomas Jefferson

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Letter to Charles Yancey, 1816: Thomas Jefferson

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.: Thomas Jefferson

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State. Letter to Danbury Baptist Association, CT., Jan. 1, 1802. This statement is the origin of the often used phrase "separation of Church and State.": Thomas Jefferson

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.: Thomas Jefferson

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.: Thomas Jefferson

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Inaugural address, 1961: John F. Kennedy

The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work.: Sy Leon

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. First Inaugural Address, 1861: Abraham Lincoln

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.: Walter Lippmann

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.: H. L. Mencken

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. My Uncle Sosthenes: Guy de Maupassant

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.: Edward R. Murrow

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.: P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.: P. J. O'Rourke

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.: P. J. O'Rourke

Let us resolve tonight that young Americans will always … find there a city of hope in a country that is free. And let us resolve they will say of our day and our generation, we did keep the faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill. Speech Nov. 3, 1980: Ronald Reagan

When people tell me I became president on January 20, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become president of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the presidency, which belongs to our people.: Ronald Reagan

Government exists to protect us from each other, we can not afford enough government to protect us from ourselves.: Ronald Reagan

If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Speech near the Berlin Wall, 1987: Ronald Reagan

The other day someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.: Ronald Reagan

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of this world can be cured by legislation.: Thomas B. Reed

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.: Will Rogers

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own. Letter to Lucilius: Seneca

Only a small percentage of criminals do any real time … The rest are re–elected.: From a "Shoe" Cartoon

Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.: George Washington

The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. An American Programme: Wendell Willkie

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. Speech founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630: John Winthrop

Quotations

Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated. The Devil's Dictionary: Ambrose Bierce

Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.: Robert Byrne

Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. Maxims, 1825: Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations… The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.: Winston Churchill

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.: David H. Comins

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.: Marlene Dietrich

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.: Ralph Waldo Emerson

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.: Anatole France

It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words – almost as though one were inventing them.: Rupert Hart–Davis

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.: Franklin P. Jones

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.: James Murray

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things.: Dorothy Parker

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.: Hesketh Pearson

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.: Leo Rosten

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.: Orson Welles

Religious

May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you.: Edward Abbey

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.: Isaac Asimov

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what God is.: St. Augustine

I'd rather know the harsh truth than be living a lie.: Melissa Benson

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it the life of that man is one long sin against mankind.: William Clifford

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.: Mason Cooley

You can safely say that you have made God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.: Reverend Robert Cromey

Gentleman … look around you at the gifts of God, the clear sky, the pure air, the tender grass, the birds; nature is beautiful and sinless, and we, only we, are godless and foolish, and we don't understand that life is a paradise, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep. The Brothers Karamazov: Fyodor Dostoevsky

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.: Galileo Galilei

The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science–or any honest intellectual inquiry.: Stephen J. Gould

When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motive.: Robert Heinlein

Death is but the life to which we have yet to be born.: Bill Humphrey

It appears that there are many Christians who feel that this country is, or at least should be, a theocracy. Do we really want the government involved in religion? Some of the most malevolent episodes in all of recorded history have involved the mixing of religion with government. The Spanish Inquisition comes immediately to mind as does the more recent example of 1930's Germany, both supposedly Christian countries. We may never know the full extent of the culpability of the church in the 1994 genocidal massacres against Rwandan Tutsis. I won't even touch upon the present state of affairs in most Middle Eastern countries. From an Essay: Bill Humphrey

I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, not ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose and at least tried to make a difference in this world.: J. Jaworski

I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.: C.S. Lewis

A man may have to die for [his] country; but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.: C.S. Lewis

Finally, brothers [and sisters], whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.: Philippians 4:8, ESV

A monk asks: Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature? The master answers: Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.: Angelus Silesius

We can do no great things; only small things with great love.: Mother Teresa

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

Science

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...': Isaac Asimov

In science truth, in art honour. 'In scientia veritas in arte honestas.': Coat of Arms

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.: Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?: Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe.: Albert Einstein

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.: Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.: Albert Einstein

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.: Buckminster Fuller

I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.: Ken Jenkins

No degree of acceptance can ever change the facts. Translation: You may come to terms with being screwed, but nevertheless you're still screwed.: Oliver McFalls

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue. Social Theory, 1957: Robert K. Merton

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. Whence we get 'Ockham's Razor': William of Ockham , 1285–1349

Chaos always wins because it's better organized.: Terry Pratchett

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. The Wealth of Nations, 1776: Adam Smith

Black holes are where God divided by zero.: Steven Wright

Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. Kilgore Trout in 'Time Quake': Kurt Vonnegut

Sports

I am going to turn this team around 360 degrees.: Jerome Bettis–

Every ball is for me the first ball, whether my score is 0 or 200, and I never visualize the possibility of anybody getting me out.: Sir Don Bradman

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.: Duffy Daugherty

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.: John Donne, 1623

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.: Peter Dunne

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.: Steve Garvey

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20–20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.: Jay Leno

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.: Vince Lombardi

Inches make a champion.: Vince Lombardi

Cricket – a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.: Lord Mancroft

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.: Al McGuire

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.: Rita Rudner

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day–to–day. Aren't we all?: Vin Scully

Most games are lost, not won.: Casey Stengel

Some people think football is a matter of life and death, I can assure them it is much more serious than that.: Bill Shankly

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.: Joe Theismann

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.: Pat Williams

Stupidity

You know that old saying, 'Strike while the iron is hot?' Well, I think that's a pretty dumb saying, 'cause I'll betcha a cold iron will hurt like hell, too.: Charlie Acord

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?: Scott Adams

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.: Konrad Adenauer

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. [Roughly translated]: Aristophanes

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.: Dean Cain

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.: Albert Camus

Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them are even stupider!: George Carlin

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.: Confucius

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.: Bill Cosby

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.: Albert Einstein

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.: Malcolm Forbes

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.: Benjamin Franklin

They've been treating these chimpanzees less than human.: New Mexico Senator Mary Jane Garcia

China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there.: Charles De Gaulle

It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.: George Gissing, 1857-1903

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.: Heinlein's Razor

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.: Robert Heinlein — Time Enough for Love

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.: Elbert Hubbard

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.: Jewish Proverb

Human beings can always be counted on to assert with vigor their God—given right to be stupid.: Dean Koontz – False Memory

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.: Anton Szandor LaVey

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.: Sam Levenson

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.: Sam Levenson

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.: Abraham Lincoln

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs. We should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power.: P.J. O'Rourke

The American people are very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.: Will Rogers

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?: Will Rogers

As crazy as carrying timber into the woods.: Roman idiom for stupidity

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.: Bertrand Russell

Against stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain.: Friedrich von Schiller

The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.: Herbert Spencer

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.: Mark Twain

Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.: Mark Twain

If all the fools of the world should die, lordly God how lonely I would be.: Mark Twain

The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.: Voltaire

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.: Voltaire

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.: John Wayne

There is no sin except stupidity.: Oscar Wilde

It's not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you.: Frank Zappa

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.: Frank Zappa

Success

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.: George E. Allen

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.: David Bly

One's best success comes after one's greatest disappointments.: Henry Ward Beecher

Hope is the companion of power and the mother of success. For those of us who hope strongest have within us the gift of miracles.: Sydney Bremer

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.: Bob Brown

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.: Eddie Cantor

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.: Robert Collier

The vital, successful people I have met all had one common characteristic. They all had a plan.: Marilyn Von Derbur

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.: Thomas Edison

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.: T. S. Eliot

My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.: Paul Getty

If you want to enjoy success, fantasize about it. If you want a special love, fantasize about that, too. When it comes along you will be more comfortable. It won't be a new experience.: Dr. Madeline Hirschfeld

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.: Jennifer James

The only honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential.: Paul J. Meyer

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.: Earl Nightingate

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.: General Colin Powell

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of you life. If you don't, life controls you.: Anthony Robbins

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.: Albert Schweitzer

When I was young I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.: Bernard Shaw

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.: Margaret Thatcher

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.: Brian Tracy

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.: Booker T. Washington

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to happen.: Frank Lloyd Wright

Thought-Provoking

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play–it–safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.: Sir Cecil Beaton

If I understood too clearly what I was doing, where I was going, then I probably wasn't working on anything very interesting.: Peter Carruthers

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.: Winston Churchill

The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.: E. Joseph Cossman

The eyes of my eyes are opened.: E. E. Cummings

Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.: Dandemis

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.: Philip K. Dick

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.: Mahatma Gandhi

I think it would be a good idea. When asked what he thought of Western civilization.: Mahatma Gandhi

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness that I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.: Stephen Grellet (1773–1855)

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.: Eric Hoffer

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good. Letter to Benjamin Rush, 1800.: Thomas Jefferson

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.: Samuel Johnson

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.: Jean Kerr

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling

Without a doubt, there is such a thing as too much order.: Arnold Lobel

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.: Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.: Nietzsche

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.: Dennis Wholey

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.: Xenocrates, 396–314BC

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.': William Butler Yeats

Women

Women get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.: Anon

They call it PMS because Mad Cow Disease was already taken.: Anon

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.: Nancy Astor

I married beneath me - all women do.: Nancy Astor

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

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing – and then marry him.: Cher

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.: Joseph Conrad

Women are like elephants to me. I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one.: W.C. Fields

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.: Oliver Goldsmith

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.: Arnold Haultain

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.: Erica Jong

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls. The Second Neurotic's Notebook: Mignon McLaughlin

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. The Second Neurotic's Notebook: Mignon McLaughlin

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.: H.L. Mencken

You know, women always could endure more than men. Not only physically, but mentally – did you ever get a peek at some of the husbands?: Will Rogers

Women speak two languages – one of which is verbal.: William Shakespeare

Women deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of twenty–eight and forty.: James Thurber

Young women in America will continue to look for love and excitement in places that are as dangerous as hell. I salute them for their optimism and their nerve. There's a Maniac Loose Out There: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.: Edgar Wallace

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.: Oscar Wilde

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