Quotes

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
2 Timothy 4:7 : 11325 : 2 Timothy 4:7


It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.
Alvar Aalto : 10822 : Aalto, Alvar


Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was to keep swinging.
Hank Aaron : 6821 : Aaron, Hank


It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. l did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron : 8994 : Aaron, Hank


The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron : 9320 : Aaron, Hank


There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not that tough.
Hank Aaron : 11320 : Aaron, Hank


Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey : 10287 : Abbey, Edward


Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
Edward Abbey : 12833 : Abbey, Edward


The lens freezes time and space in what may be an optical slavery or, contrarily, the crystallization of meaning. The limits of the lens's vision are esthetically often a virtue.
Berenice Abbott : 10638 : Abbott, Berenice


Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; It has to be itself.
Berenice Abbott : 12524 : Abbott, Berenice


Photography doesn't teach you how to express your emotions; It teaches you how to see.
Bereniece Abbott : 12567 : Abbott, Bereniece


Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.
Charles F. Abbott : 2025 : Abbott, Charles F.


Being an MP is the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children - clean, indoors and no heavy lifting.
Diane Abbott : 12525 : Abbott, Diane


The Rite of Spring is an exciting piece of music, but I don't believe that it has any future as a Broadway musical.
George Abbott : 9375 : Abbott, George


We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.
Shirley Abbott : 10637 : Abbott, Shirley


No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
Sheik Abd-al-Kadir : 4016 : Abd-al-Kadir, Sheik


I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell : 12356 : Abell, Sam


If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson : 6710 : Abelson, Hal


The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug : 8154 : Abzug, Bella


The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in somebody else's.
Goodman Ace : 750 : Ace, Goodman


Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
Goodman Ace : 7734 : Ace, Goodman


Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Marcel Achard : 10557 : Achard, Marcel


Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.
Marcel Achard : 11177 : Achard, Marcel


The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, do not stand in one place.
Chinua Achebe : 12527 : Achebe, Chinua


We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
Chinua Achebe : 13207 : Achebe, Chinua


I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson : 2698 : Acheson, Dean


The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson : 9183 : Acheson, Dean


Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, but no one can agree on what it is.
Diane Ackerman : 2211 : Ackerman, Diane


I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman : 4245 : Ackerman, Diane


Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
Diane Ackerman : 7872 : Ackerman, Diane


I'd rather be a host than a guest. As Beerbohm observed, a happy host is a sad guest.
Harold Acton : 797 : Acton, Harold


If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
John Acton : 11580 : Acton, John


Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion, and it stands to the domestic feelings and to homesickness as faith to fanaticism and to superstition.
Lord Acton : 5102 : Acton, Lord


Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton : 8244 : Acton, Lord


No error is so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
Lord Acton : 12031 : Acton, Lord


I will never consent to have our sex considered in an inferior point of light. Let each planet shine in their own orbit. God and nature designed it so - if man is Lord, women is Lordess - that is what I contend for.
Abigail Adams : 2665 : Adams, Abigail


Justice, humanity, and benevolence are the duties you owe to society in general. To your country the same duties are incumbent upon you with the additional obligation of sacrificing ease, pleasure, wealth, and life itself for its defense and security.
Abigail Adams : 3384 : Adams, Abigail


We have too many high-sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
Abigail Adams : 4030 : Adams, Abigail


Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
Abigail Adams, to John Adams : 10436 : Adams, Abigail


Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams : 10932 : Adams, Abigail


A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
Abigail Adams : 11810 : Adams, Abigail


Yosemite valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams : 2724 : Adams, Ansel


A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
Ansel Adams : 4202 : Adams, Ansel


Not everybody trusts paintings, but people believe photographs.
Ansel Adams : 9177 : Adams, Ansel


In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams : 10616 : Adams, Ansel


When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
Ansel Adams : 11244 : Adams, Ansel


A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
Ansel Adams : 13526 : Adams, Ansel


Executive? A man who talks to visitors so the other employees can get their work done.
Cedric Adams : 9430 : Adams, Cedric


All right, so I spend money. Can you name one other extravagance I have?
Cindy Adams : 384 : Adams, Cindy


Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams : 3037 : Adams, Douglas


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 : 3490 : Adams, Douglas


Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams : 6806 : Adams, Douglas


I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Douglas Adams : 8423 : Adams, Douglas


Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
Douglas Adams, from "The Salmon of Doubt" : 8569 : Adams, Douglas


He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams : 8933 : Adams, Douglas


I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer.
Douglas Adams : 9443 : Adams, Douglas


The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams : 10242 : Adams, Douglas


I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams : 11438 : Adams, Douglas


It's nice to think that one could, even here and now, be whisked away just by hitchhiking.
Douglas Adams : 11756 : Adams, Douglas


Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules.
Douglas Adams : 11956 : Adams, Douglas


The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Douglas Adams : 12441 : Adams, Douglas


If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
Douglas Adams : 12452 : Adams, Douglas


To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams : 12717 : Adams, Douglas


I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams : 13468 : Adams, Douglas


Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business.
Franklin P. Adams : 627 : Adams, Franklin P.


In the order named, these are the hardest to control: wine, women, and song.
Franklin P. Adams : 628 : Adams, Franklin P.


Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams : 2155 : Adams, Franklin P.


The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
Franklin P. Adams : 2530 : Adams, Franklin P.


Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams : 2730 : Adams, Franklin P.


I hate the pollyanna pest who says all is for the best.
Franklin P. Adams : 5250 : Adams, Franklin P.


I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams : 5967 : Adams, Franklin P.


There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams : 11602 : Adams, Franklin P.


The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant is alone enough to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams : 9405 : Adams, Henry


Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams : 10568 : Adams, Henry


We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams : 10779 : Adams, Henry


One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams : 12030 : Adams, Henry


Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams : 826 : Adams, Henry Brooks


No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Brooks Adams : 3489 : Adams, Henry Brooks


It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry B. Adams : 4940 : Adams, Henry Brooks


A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams : 5305 : Adams, Henry Brooks


No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Brooks Adams : 6544 : Adams, Henry Brooks


A man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Adams : 914 : Adams, James


There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams : 9988 : Adams, James Truslow


The most popular labor saving device today is still a husband with money.
Joey Adams : 982 : Adams, Joey


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams : 4810 : Adams, Joey


Science is really going at a rapid pace. Now it's only a hundred years behind the comic strips.
Joey Adams : 8678 : Adams, Joey


Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams : 9586 : Adams, Joey


If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.
Joey Adams : 9687 : Adams, Joey


If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.
John Adams : 1990 : Adams, John


Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams : 3961 : Adams, John


The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams : 8292 : Adams, John


Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams : 9519 : Adams, John


Posterity, you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.
John Adams : 13351 : Adams, John


I can scarcely recollect a single instance of success to anything that I ever undertook. Yet, with fervent gratitude to God, I confess that my life has been equally marked by great and signal success which I neither aimed at nor anticipated.
John Quincy Adams : 1014 : Adams, John Quincy


Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear, and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams : 3541 : Adams, John Quincy


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams : 5295 : Adams, John Quincy


The great crises of life are not, I think, necessarily those which are in themselves the hardest to bear, but those for which we are least prepared.
Mary Adams : 7229 : Adams, Mary


Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams : 3747 : Adams, Patch


Who looks after the psychoanalyst's wife while the psychoanalyst is away being psychoanalyzed?
Scarritt Adams : 1630 : Adams, Scarritt


Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams : 1632 : Adams, Scott


If you hawe any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams : 10240 : Adams, Scott


There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Scott Adams : 10559 : Adams, Scott


Energy is equal to desire and purpose.
Sheryl Adams : 8102 : Adams, Sheryl


Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock : 10315 : Adcock, Joe


Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Addair : 13033 : Addair, George


Normal is an illusion. What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly.
Morticia Addams : 12776 : Addams, Morticia


I'll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.
Wednesday Addams : 13347 : Addams, Wednesday


What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison : 1035 : Addison, Joseph


Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.
Joseph Addison : 1036 : Addison, Joseph


It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
Joseph Addison : 1037 : Addison, Joseph


We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.
Joseph Addison : 1038 : Addison, Joseph


Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism.
Joseph Addison : 1988 : Addison, Joseph


Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.
Joseph Addison : 2030 : Addison, Joseph


A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison : 3083 : Addison, Joseph


Silence never shows itself to so great advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation.
Joseph Addison : 4563 : Addison, Joseph


A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison : 5430 : Addison, Joseph


A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
Joseph Addison : 7690 : Addison, Joseph


There is nothing truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor.
Joseph Addison : 7744 : Addison, Joseph


I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison : 8278 : Addison, Joseph


When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gout and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambush among the dishes.
Joseph Addison : 8524 : Addison, Joseph


Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.
Joseph Addison : 10839 : Addison, Joseph


What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Joseph Addison : 12265 : Addison, Joseph


A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Joseph Addison : 12480 : Addison, Joseph


Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade : 4902 : Ade, George


For parlor use, the vague generality is a lifesaver.
George Ade : 5462 : Ade, George


A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
George Ade : 6100 : Ade, George


There is everything in a name. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.
George Ade : 8600 : Ade, George


I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
Adele : 12267 : Adele


We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer : 10585 : Adenauer, Konrad


An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
Konrad Adenauer : 11085 : Adenauer, Konrad


Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time and money to do it right.
Kurt H. Adler : 4499 : Adler Kurt H.


It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler : 3587 : Adler, Alfred


Man knows more than he understands.
Alfred Adler : 8105 : Adler, Alfred


The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Felix Adler : 4651 : Adler, Felix


Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. They have no use for helicopters!
Judi Adler : 8611 : Adler, Judi


There is no point in our ancestors speaking to us unless we know how to listen.
Mortimer Adler : 1324 : Adler, Mortimer


Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler : 4064 : Adler, Stella


The theater was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler : 7441 : Adler, Stella


Real giving had its joy in imagining the joy of the receiver. It means choosing, expending time, going out of one's way, thinking of the other as a subject: the opposite of distraction.
Thodor W. Adorno : 1763 : Adorno, Thodor W.


Human prosperity never rests but always craves more, till blown up with pride it totters and falls. From the opulent mansions pointed at by all passers-by none warns it away, none cries, "Let no more riches enter!"
Aeschylus : 4682 : Aeschylus


Make sure of the bear before you sell his skin.
Aesop's Fables : 21 : Aesop


Every truth has two sides; it is well to look at both sides before we commiit ourselves to either.
Aesop's Fables : 4953 : Aesop


A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop : 5141 : Aesop


The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our destruction.
Aesop : 6305 : Aesop


He who always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop : 6477 : Aesop


It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock : 6761 : Aesop


What a splendid head, yet no brain.
Aesop : 6816 : Aesop


It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Aesop : 6994 : Aesop


The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
Aesop : 7089 : Aesop


Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
Aesop : 7397 : Aesop


Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop : 7727 : Aesop


Beware, lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop : 7748 : Aesop


It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
Aesop : 8103 : Aesop


While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again.
Aesop, from "The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts" : 8579 : Aesop


To watch updates of your relationships on CNN is bizarre in a way I cannot explain. You think, "Isn't there something happening in Bosnia?"
Ben Affleck : 11537 : Affleck, Ben


The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar : 6417 : Agar, Herbert


You should never trifle with Nature.
Jean Louis Agassiz : 11377 : Agassiz, Jean Louis


A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his job when he does feel like it.
James Agate : 2368 : Agate, James


I wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.
James Agate : 4658 : Agate, James


I have views on most matters, and I am as willing as a politician to change most of them.
James Agate : 5245 : Agate, James


New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
James Agate : 6885 : Agate, James


Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
James Agate : 8389 : Agate, James


In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again.
James Agee : 2302 : Agee, James


We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.
Jonis Agee : 8247 : Agee, Jonis


The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated into a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
Spiro T. Agnew : 11934 : Agnew, Spiro T.


A rumor will travel fastest to the place where it will cause the greatest harm.
Gustavo Agrait : 12503 : Agrait, Gustavo


How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.
June Ahern : 13203 : Ahern, June


It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
Ama Ata Aidoo : 8328 : Aidoo, Ama Ata


If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken : 7404 : Aiken, Howard


At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation.
Howard Aiken : 7529 : Aiken, Howard


You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Leo Aikman : 9733 : Aikman, Leo


I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.
Alvin Ailey : 13221 : Ailey, Alvin


If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.
Catherine Aird : 3806 : Aird, Catherine


Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
John Akers : 5084 : Akers, John


In human intimacy there is a secret boundary; neither the experience of being in love nor passion can cross it, though lips be joined together in awful silence, and the heart break asunder with love.
Anna Akhmatova : 2179 : Akhmatova, Anna


Life on the farm is a school of patience: you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
Henri Alain : 26 : Alain, Henri


Posy and pearls, amethyst and gold, forever you and I, our precious love to hold.
Astrid Alauda : 4835 : Alauda, Astrid


It's so much better to promote what you love than to bash what you hate.
Jessica Alba : 12996 : Alba, Jessica


Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.
Anni Albers : 12971 : Albers, Anni


He slept beneath the moon, he basked in the sun; he lived a life of going-to-do, and died with nothing done.
James Albery : 4965 : Albery, James


The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
Mitch Albom : 8171 : Albom, Mitch


A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright : 3856 : Albright, Herm


Summer vacation: When parents suddenly realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
Herm Albright : 10783 : Albright, Herm


Only in America could a refugee girl from Europe become secretary of state.
Madeleine Albright : 2855 : Albright, Madeleine


That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.
A. B. Alcott : 3 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 83 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


There is virtue in country houses, in gardens and orchards, in fields, streams, and groves, in rustic recreations and plain manners, that neither cities nor universities enjoy.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 84 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
Bronson Alcott : 3958 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 4524 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 10619 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott : 11953 : Alcott, Amos Bronson


Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.
Amy Strum Alcott : 5973 : Alcott, Amy Strum


My definition of a philosopher is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.
Louisa May Alcott : 3026 : Alcott, Louisa May


I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.
Louisa May Alcott : 4532 : Alcott, Louisa May


I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott : 5122 : Alcott, Louisa May


I don't think secrets agree with me; I feel rumpled up in my mind since you told me that.
Louisa May Alcott : 7312 : Alcott, Louisa May


Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.
Louisa May Alcott : 12528 : Alcott, Louisa May


It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Alan Alda : 2021 : Alda, Alan


Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda : 7453 : Alda, Alan


No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
Alan Alda : 8177 : Alda, Alan


It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
Alan Alda : 8506 : Alda, Alan


If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
Alan Alda : 11369 : Alda, Alan


The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
Alan Alda : 12526 : Alda, Alan


You keep going until you get it right, then you keep going until you can't get it wrong.
Monica Aldama : 13155 : Aldama, Monica


There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden : 3167 : Alden, Robert


Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Brian Aldiss : 285 : Aldiss, Brian


Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?
Brian Aldiss : 12529 : Aldiss, Brian


What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, stardust, or sea foam, flower or winged air.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich : 6030 : Aldrich, Thomas Bailey


Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.
Buzz Aldrin : 13553 : Aldrin, Buzz


How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.
Alexander the Great : 6108 : Alexander the Great


Harold (Robbins) could be the best conversationalist in the world - if he ever found anyone he thought worth talking to.
H. Alexander : 2491 : Alexander, H.


All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
Scott Alexander : 7957 : Alexander, Scott


A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Shana Alexander : 6056 : Alexander, Shana


Letters are expectation packed in an envelope.
Shana Alexander : 6154 : Alexander, Shana


Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
Shana Alexander : 10214 : Alexander, Shana


Providence sees to it that no man gets happiness out of crime.
Vittorio Alfieri : 5506 : Alfieri, Vittorio


Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
Alfonso, King of Castile, on studying the Ptolemaic system : 8216 : Alfonso, King of Castile


Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
Henry Alford : 10241 : Alford, Henry


If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.
Hannes Alfven : 3458 : Alfven, Hannes


After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
William R. Alger : 10003 : Alger, William R.


The flower we do not pluck is the only which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
W. R. Alger : 1850 : Alger, William Rounseville


False eloquence is exaggeration: true eloquence is emphasis.
William Rounseville Alger : 9547 : Alger, William Rounseville


The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
Nelson Algren : 1338 : Algren, Nelson


I have said I am the greatest. Ain't nobody ever heard me say I was the smartest.
Muhammad Ali : 1313 : Ali, Muhammad


The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali : 1314 : Ali, Muhammad


To be a great champion, you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali : 1329 : Ali, Muhammad


Advice to a young man: Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they sure can make something out of you.
Muhammad Ali : 2239 : Ali, Muhammad


I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.
Muhammad Ali : 7118 : Ali, Muhammad


It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali : 7812 : Ali, Muhammad


Inside a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali : 8690 : Ali, Muhammad


If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
Muhammad Ali : 10901 : Ali, Muhammad


Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali : 10978 : Ali, Muhammad


Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali : 13500 : Ali, Muhammad


Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri : 4272 : Alighieri, Dante


The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri : 8700 : Alighieri, Dante


Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri : 11435 : Alighieri, Dante


The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Alito : 10825 : Alito, Noelie


You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
Gary Allan : 12890 : Allan, Gary


No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
Gary Allan : 13437 : Allan, Gary


If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.
Fred Allen : 630 : Allen, Fred


I like long walks. Especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen : 631 : Allen, Fred


Was she old? When they lit the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome by the heat.
Fred Allen : 632 : Allen, Fred


The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
Fred Allen : 2309 : Allen, Fred


He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in the goose.
Fred Allen : 2549 : Allen, Fred


I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen : 3849 : Allen, Fred


A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide nothing can be done.
Fred Allen : 4422 : Allen, Fred


An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen : 4438 : Allen, Fred


The penguin flies backwards because he doesn't care to see where he's going, but wants to see where he's been.
Fred Allen : 4703 : Allen, Fred


Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen : 5396 : Allen, Fred


The head of our advertising agency suffered from claustrophobia so he had to stay out of Rhode Island.
Fred Allen : 5532 : Allen, Fred


I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
Fred Allen : 6043 : Allen, Fred


I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen : 6428 : Allen, Fred


Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
Fred Allen : 6528 : Allen, Fred


An advertising agency is eighty-five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission.
Fred Allen : 7174 : Allen, Fred


His hobby is collecting old echoes.
Fred Allen : 7735 : Allen, Fred


I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen : 9854 : Allen, Fred


You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
Fred Allen : 10656 : Allen, Fred


Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; He should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen : 12584 : Allen, Fred


Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.
George Allen, Sr. : 8831 : Allen, George, Sr.


Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
George Allen, Sr. : 9154 : Allen, George, Sr.


I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half.
Gracie Allen : 12341 : Allen, Gracie


Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for the big one to come along.
Hugh Allen : 5436 : Allen, Hugh


If I can't blow up the world in the first ten seconds, then the show is a flop.
Irwin Allen : 6086 : Allen, Irwin


Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will bring about right results.
James L. Allen : 931 : Allen, James L.


You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen : 5276 : Allen, James L.


Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen : 7846 : Allen, James L.


Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen : 7947 : Allen, James L.


Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam - and I'll show you a house full of dirt.
Marty Allen : 10095 : Allen, Marty


A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year.
Marty Allen : 10897 : Allen, Marty


Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
Robert Allen : 5145 : Allen, Robert


While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.
Tom Allen : 11417 : Allen, Tom


They reside with my father - who polishes them. Well, I'm certainly not going to put Oscars in my house.
Woody Allen : 1943 : Allen, Woody


How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
Woody Allen : 1944 : Allen, Woody


There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen : 1945 : Allen, Woody


Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
Woody Allen : 2257 : Allen, Woody


If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen : 2689 : Allen, Woody


I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen : 3206 : Allen, Woody


Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen : 3213 : Allen, Woody


Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen : 5661 : Allen, Woody


Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen : 6692 : Allen, Woody


It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen : 6729 : Allen, Woody


I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen : 6931 : Allen, Woody


My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen : 6998 : Allen, Woody


I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen : 7087 : Allen, Woody


How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
Woody Allen : 7328 : Allen, Woody


Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen : 7379 : Allen, Woody


My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen : 7714 : Allen, Woody


I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen : 7970 : Allen, Woody


What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Woody Allen : 7981 : Allen, Woody


I'd rather die than live in the country. I've always been at two with nature.
Woody Allen : 9069 : Allen, Woody


When I was born, my family was so poor my mother couldn't afford to use talcum powder on me. So she used to douse me with kitchen baking soda. About once every month I'd break out in a severe case of cookies.
Woody Allen : 9933 : Allen, Woody


I do not believe in an afterlife, but I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen : 10239 : Allen, Woody


It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
Woody Allen : 11252 : Allen, Woody


All people know the same truth; Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Woody Allen : 12194 : Allen, Woody


The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New Jersey.
Woody Allen : 12579 : Allen, Woody


We don't know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
Isabel Allende : 13085 : Allende, Isabel


Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
Isabelle Allende : 13470 : Allende, Isabelle


His mistaken belief in his own superiority cuts him off from reality as completely as if he were living in a colored glass jar.
Margery Allingham : 6590 : Allingham, Margery


Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.
Margery Allingham : 9307 : Allingham, Margery


There's a lot of terrible things goin' on all the time, but you gotta try and have some fun in the end.
Mose Allison : 7751 : Allison, Mose


There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
Gordon Allport : 4774 : Allport, Gordon


Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child's growth as vitamins.
Joyce Allston : 13054 : Allston, Joyce


There's a kind of blackmail that only the family can exercise over you and it is more powerful than anything the whole of society can do to you.
Pedro Almodovar : 1444 : Almodovar, Pedro


We begin by fooling others and end by fooling ourselves.
Eric Alterman : 2923 : Alterman, Eric


If this was adulthood, the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.
Lisa Alther : 7240 : Alther, Lisa


That's the risk you take if you change; that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
Lisa Alther : 7897 : Alther, Lisa


I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
Lisa Alther : 8907 : Alther, Lisa


I've about had it - the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy - it's an advertising medium.
Robert Altman : 6272 : Altman, Robert


I got fired for many years for doing a lot of the things that I'm now getting accolades for.
Robert Altman : 9024 : Altman, Robert


The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.
Michael Altshuler : 12606 : Altshuler, Michael


Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
Amarillo Slim : 3182 : Amarillo Slim


No man can be a sound lawyer who is not well-read in the laws of Moses.
Fisher Ames : 602 : Ames, Fisher


Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Amiel : 82 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda. As far as lies in its power, it tends to transform the universe and humanity into its own image.
Henri Amiel : 821 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 822 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri F. Amiel : 2103 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.
Henri Amiel : 2448 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 4722 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Amiel : 6073 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 6287 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Music is harmony; Harmony is perfection; Perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 6553 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Amiel : 6907 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Life is short, and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to live, make haste to be kind!
Henri Frederic Amiel : 7517 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


To surrender what is most profound and mysterious in one's being and personality at any price less than that of absolute reciprocity is profanation.
Henri Amiel : 9315 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and wait, more information than a library.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 10060 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - that is to say, over fear. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
Henri Amiel : 11199 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.
Henri Amiel : 11711 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.
Henri Frederic Amiel : 12024 : Amiel, Henri Frederic


If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing.
Kingsley Amis : 5367 : Amis, Kingsley


A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.
Kingsley Amis : 6996 : Amis, Kingsley


The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.
John Amodeo : 10384 : Amodeo, John


You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory : 9701 : Amory, Cleveland


I think NASCAR would be much more exciting if, like in a skating rink, every fifteen minutes someone announced it was time to reverse direction.
Jeffrey Anbinder : 9991 : Anbinder, Jeffrey


Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen : 7153 : Andersen, Hans Christian


But the Emperor has nothing on at all! cried a little child.
Hans Christian Andersen : 8363 : Andersen, Hans Christian


I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.
Sherwood Andersen : 4231 : Andersen, Sherwood


Speeches are like steer horns - a point here, a point there and a lot of bull in between.
Evelyn Anderson : 8502 : Anderson, Evelyn


Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson : 13076 : Anderson, Greg


Tattoo - what a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
Jon Anderson : 3906 : Anderson, Jon


Why does everybody stand up and sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" when they're already there?
Larry Anderson : 9414 : Anderson, Larry


My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.
Margaret Anderson : 4941 : Anderson, Margaret


As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson : 9317 : Anderson, Marian


The interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest he finds in himself, the values he attributes to his own being?
Sherwood Anderson : 3002 : Anderson, Sherwood


The whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
Sherwood Anderson : 9705 : Anderson, Sherwood


The first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson : 9903 : Anderson, Walter


It's a mystery. All I did was wear this bikini in "Dr. No" - not even a small one - and whoosh! Overnight I've made it.
Ursula Andress : 5211 : Andress, Ursula


I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
Ursula Andress : 9187 : Andress, Ursula


If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti : 10814 : Andretti, Mario


O can't you see, brother - death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label.
C. D. Andrews : 7767 : Andrews, C. D.


All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews : 8189 : Andrews, Julie


Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Julie Andrews : 10489 : Andrews, Julie


All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.
Julie Andrews : 12465 : Andrews, Julie


Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou : 1290 : Angelou, Maya


The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou : 1291 : Angelou, Maya


You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.
Maya Angelou : 1292 : Angelou, Maya


I always knew that fury was my natural enemy. It clotted my blood and clogged my pores. It literally blinded me so that I lost my peripheral vision.
Maya Angelou : 2292 : Angelou, Maya


There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou : 3936 : Angelou, Maya


Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou : 5172 : Angelou, Maya


Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou : 6057 : Angelou, Maya


If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou : 7785 : Angelou, Maya


In all my work what I try to say is that as human beings we are more alike than we are unalike.
Maya Angelou : 8673 : Angelou, Maya


If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.
Maya Angelou : 8895 : Angelou, Maya


If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou : 9224 : Angelou, Maya


History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya Angelou : 9875 : Angelou, Maya


I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Maya Angelou : 9890 : Angelou, Maya


I don't believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.
Maya Angelou : 10629 : Angelou, Maya


There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou : 10942 : Angelou, Maya


You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou : 11043 : Angelou, Maya


There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou : 11346 : Angelou, Maya


I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou : 11387 : Angelou, Maya


Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.
Maya Angelou : 11626 : Angelou, Maya


The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.
Maya Angelou : 11742 : Angelou, Maya


Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
Maya Angelou : 11835 : Angelou, Maya


Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou : 11930 : Angelou, Maya


If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou : 12028 : Angelou, Maya


How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou : 12091 : Angelou, Maya


No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Maya Angelou : 12185 : Angelou, Maya


We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou : 12218 : Angelou, Maya


As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.
Maya Angelou : 12238 : Angelou, Maya


I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.
Maya Angelou : 12263 : Angelou, Maya


For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter.
Maya Angelou : 12291 : Angelou, Maya


Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
Maya Angelou : 12487 : Angelou, Maya


I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; You need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou : 12555 : Angelou, Maya


Pick up the battle and make it a better world just where you are. It can be better and it must be better, but it's up to us.
Maya Angelou : 12689 : Angelou, Maya


If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Maya Angelou : 12701 : Angelou, Maya


Pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou : 12872 : Angelou, Maya


Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya Angelou : 12941 : Angelou, Maya


The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.
Maya Angelou : 13005 : Angelou, Maya


Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
Maya Angelou : 13454 : Angelou, Maya


You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - It's all there.
Maya Angelou : 13455 : Angelou, Maya


When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou : 13487 : Angelou, Maya


The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.
Jennifer Aniston : 7415 : Aniston, Jennifer


Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.
Jennifer Aniston : 12330 : Aniston, Jennifer


Knowledge is power. Information is liberating.
Kofi Annan : 13018 : Annan, Kofi


Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan : 13179 : Annan, Kofi


Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day but it has one archenemy, and that is life.
Jean Anouilh : 1971 : Anouilh, Jean


Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
Jean Anouilh : 3340 : Anouilh, Jean


Real miracles are created by men when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Jean Anouilh : 11303 : Anouilh, Jean


The spring is wound up tight. It will uncoil of itself. That is what is so convenient in tragedy. The least little turn of the wrist will do the job. Anything will set it going.
Jean Anouilh : 11493 : Anouilh, Jean


Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings. affairs of state - everything is a pretext for a good dinner.
Jean Anouith : 7222 : Anouith, Jean


What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
John Anster : 13099 : Anster, John


Some people are willing to work only if they can start at the top and work up.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 475 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Others can stop you temporarily. Only you can do it permanently.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 476 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Your enemy might become your friend, if you allow him to become who he is.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 477 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Your interpretation of what you see and hear is just that - your interpretation.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 5297 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


If you are honest because honesty is the best policy, then your honesty is corrupt.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 5487 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


If you are honest because honesty is the best policy, then your honesty is corrupt.
Dr. Robert Anthony : 5488 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony : 11441 : Anthony, Dr. Robert


Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
Susan B. Anthony : 7557 : Anthony, Susan B.


When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll.
Susan B. Anthony : 9389 : Anthony, Susan B.


The true Republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony : 11290 : Anthony, Susan B.


The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation.
Susan B. Anthony : 12094 : Anthony, Susan B.


Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.
Susan B. Anthony : 12395 : Anthony, Susan B.


There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
Marie Antoinette : 8082 : Antoinette, Marie


When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important.
Susan Anton : 10312 : Anton, Susan


Nature and certainty are very hard to come at, and infallibility is mere vanity and pretense.
Marcus Antonius : 1216 : Antonius, Marcus


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Marcus Antonius : 9343 : Antonius, Marcus


Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.
Minna Antrim : 12040 : Antrim, Minna


A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Minna Antrim : 12308 : Antrim, Minna


Nothing happens in the "real" world unless it first happens in the images in our heads.
Gloria Anzaldua : 12690 : Anzaldua, Gloria


Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire : 12793 : Apollinaire, Guillaume


I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton : 2781 : Appleton, Sir Edward


If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. There would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.
Saint Thomas Aquinas : 11875 : Aquinas, Saint Thomas


He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
Thomas Aquinas : 1765 : Aquinas, Thomas


To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
Thomas Aquinas : 11048 : Aquinas, Thomas


A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus : 13215 : Arbus, Diane


I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
Jeffery Archer : 10458 : Archer, Jeffery


Pull off a coup and you're a national hero, fail and you're an evil criminal; in business it's the same difference between bankruptcy and making a fortune.
Jeffrey Archer : 8218 : Archer, Jeffrey


Dear, never forget one little point. It's my business. You just work here.
Elizabeth Arden, To Her Husband : 537 : Arden, Elizabeth


Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
Hannah Arendt : 795 : Arendt, Hannah


Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt : 2041 : Arendt, Hannah


It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt : 2718 : Arendt, Hannah


Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt : 5968 : Arendt, Hannah


It is far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.
Hannah Arendt : 8057 : Arendt, Hannah


Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful; not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.
Hannah Arendt : 9625 : Arendt, Hannah


As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself.
Hannah Arendt : 9982 : Arendt, Hannah


Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Hannah Arendt : 10543 : Arendt, Hannah


No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
Hannah Arendt : 11288 : Arendt, Hannah


Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
Hannah Arendt : 12672 : Arendt, Hannah


Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
Pietro Aretino : 13151 : Aretino, Pietro


Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Aristophanes : 9213 : Aristophanes


He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle : 164 : Aristotle


So poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.
Aristotle : 165 : Aristotle


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle : 166 : Aristotle


Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle : 2060 : Aristotle


The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but the inward significance.
Aristotle : 2484 : Aristotle


Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle : 2843 : Aristotle


Young people have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things.
Aristotle : 2973 : Aristotle


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle : 3176 : Aristotle


He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle : 3511 : Aristotle


Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle : 3568 : Aristotle


Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle : 3642 : Aristotle


The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
Aristotle : 4032 : Aristotle


The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle : 6138 : Aristotle


Most people would rather get than give affection.
Aristotle : 6509 : Aristotle


Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
Aristotle : 6667 : Aristotle


It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Aristotle : 6717 : Aristotle


The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Aristotle : 6746 : Aristotle


We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle : 7097 : Aristotle


Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
Aristotle : 7371 : Aristotle


Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle : 8096 : Aristotle


Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle : 8248 : Aristotle


All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.
Aristotle : 8603 : Aristotle


Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle : 9084 : Aristotle


The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle : 9692 : Aristotle


Comedy aims at representing men as worse, and tragedy as better, than in real life.
Aristotle : 9786 : Aristotle


That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a disputable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
Aristotle : 10443 : Aristotle


What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle : 10620 : Aristotle


When they are asleep you cannot tell a good man from a bad one, whence the saying that for half their lives there is no difference between the happy and the miserable.
Aristotle : 11185 : Aristotle


All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle : 11691 : Aristotle


My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle : 11723 : Aristotle


Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle : 11814 : Aristotle


Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle : 12469 : Aristotle


It is amazing how nice people are to you when they know you are going away.
Michael Arlen : 1300 : Arlen, Michael


Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Dick Armey : 7098 : Armey, Dick


Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey : 7116 : Armey, Dick


Hard labor: a redundancy, like "working mother."
Joyce Armor : 1064 : Armor, Joyce


There may be luck in getting a job, but there's no luck in keeping it.
Ogden Armour : 1371 : Armour, Ogden


When it comes to eating, you can sometimes help yourself more by helping yourself less.
Richard Armour : 1518 : Armour, Richard


Here is where people, 0ne frequently finds, Lower their voices And raise their minds.
Richard Armour, "Library" : 4321 : Armour, Richard


The conscience is a built-in feature / That haunts the sinner, helps the preacher. / Some sins it makes us turn and run from, / But most it simply takes the fun from.
Richard Armour : 7206 : Armour, Richard


I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.
Edith Armstrong : 4172 : Armstrong, Edith


Toil and be strong. By toil the flaccid nerves grow firm, and gain a more compacted tone.
J. Armstrong : 898 : Armstrong, J.


When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.
Kristin Armstrong : 12514 : Armstrong, Kristin


The main thing is to live for that audience. What you're there for is to please people the best you can. Those few moments belong to them.
Louis Armstrong : 9662 : Armstrong, Louis


A lotta cats copy the "Mona Lisa," but people still line up to see the original.
Louis Armstrong : 10094 : Armstrong, Louis


Man, if you gotta ask, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong : 11687 : Armstrong, Louis


Houston, tranquility base here. The "Eagle" has landed.
Neil A. Armstrong : 2918 : Armstrong, Neil A.


I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
Neil A. Armstrong : 11081 : Armstrong, Neil A.


This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong : 12171 : Armstrong, Neil A.


A cat refuses to be the object of sentimentality - If she doesn't want to be cuddled. that's it.
Samantha Armstrong : 7151 : Armstrong, Samantha


Comedy needs heart and warmth, even a tear or two, not just a lot of slapstick laughs.
Desi Arnaz : 12011 : Arnaz, Desi


I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.
Mary Arnim : 5023 : Arnim, Mary


The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
H. W. Arnold : 784 : Arnold, H. W.


France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
Mathew Arnold : 3331 : Arnold, Mathew


The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
Matthew Arnold : 1284 : Arnold, Matthew


The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
Matthew Arnold : 3082 : Arnold, Matthew


Culture is "to know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
Matthew Arnold : 5315 : Arnold, Matthew


We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought, that chance will bring us through.
Matthew Arnold : 6928 : Arnold, Matthew


One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common - discontent.
Matthew Arnold : 7963 : Arnold, Matthew


Now the great winds shorewards blow; Now the salt tides seawards flow; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Matthew Arnold : 8925 : Arnold, Matthew


Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Matthew Arnold : 9366 : Arnold, Matthew


Journalism is literature in a hurry.
Matthew Arnold : 9510 : Arnold, Matthew


Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.
Matthew Arnold : 10892 : Arnold, Matthew


The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Matthew Arnold : 11364 : Arnold, Matthew


My love for any place, or person, or institution, is exactly the measure of my desire to reform them.
Thomas Arnold : 11283 : Arnold, Thomas


I never had a huge need to be a big movie star or a billionaire.
Patricia Arquette : 6107 : Arquette, Patricia


The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
Gloria M. Arroyo : 12322 : Arroyo, Gloria Macapagal


All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful, and five feet two inches tall.
Beatrice Arthur : 9425 : Arthur, Beatrice


The best way you can surprise a woman with an anniversary gift is to give her just what she wanted.
Arbuth Arundale : 6956 : Arundale, Arbuth


Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch : 4276 : Asch, Sholem


There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
Roger Ascham : 7304 : Ascham, Roger


Through politics men can learn to use ballots instead of bullets, symbols instead of weapons.
M. Ascoli : 1199 : Ascoli, M.


If you think you can, you're right. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash : 5091 : Ash, Mary Kay


Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash : 5415 : Ash, Mary Kay


There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery : 9334 : Ashbery, John


True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to server others at whatever cost.
Arthur Ashe : 2273 : Ashe, Arthur


I learned to play tennis because the tennis courts were the closest athletic facility to my house.
Arthur Ashe : 7643 : Ashe, Arthur


There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.
Arthur Ashe : 9329 : Ashe, Arthur


You have to get to the point where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
Arthur Ashe : 12420 : Ashe, Arthur


I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
Evelyn Ashford : 9521 : Ashford, Evelyn


In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Elizabeth Ashley : 6069 : Ashley, Elizabeth


People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.
Elizabeth Ashley : 7506 : Ashley, Elizabeth


We must find methods of maintaining a healthy ecological balance on earth. If there is any spare effort left over from these absolute necessities, we can put them into other projects - otherwise not.
Isaac Asimov : 891 : Asimov, Isaac


I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov : 6157 : Asimov, Isaac


The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."
Isaac Asimov : 8961 : Asimov, Isaac


Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov : 9476 : Asimov, Isaac


Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov : 10900 : Asimov, Isaac


It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Isaac Asimov : 12673 : Asimov, Isaac


Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Herbert Henry Asquith : 860 : Asquith, Herbert Henry


He's very clever, but sometimes his brains go to his head.
Margot Asquith : 1233 : Asquith, Margot


She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith : 1234 : Asquith, Margot


I have always wanted to be a man, if only for the reason that I would like to have been gauged by the value of my intellect.
Margot Asquith : 7920 : Asquith, Margot


Klee's pictures seem to me to resemble, not pictures, but a sample book of patterns for linoleum.
Sir Cyril Asquith : 10483 : Asquith, Sir Cyril


Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
Fred Astaire : 5060 : Astaire, Fred


Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
Mary Astell : 7308 : Astell, Mary


In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.
Thea Astley : 6952 : Astley, Thea


It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.
Lady Nancy Astor : 1130 : Astor, Lady Nancy


We women do talk too much, but even then we don't tell half of what we know.
Nancy Astor : 2046 : Astor, Lady Nancy


From the American newspapers you'd think America was populated solely by naked women and cinema stars.
Lady Astor : 2473 : Astor, Lady Nancy


I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Lady Astor : 6063 : Astor, Lady Nancy


The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
Nancy Astor : 8335 : Astor, Lady Nancy


In every age "the good old days" were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Brooks Atkinson : 2668 : Atkinson, Brooks


It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson : 3155 : Atkinson, Brooks


This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid
Brooks Atkinson : 4683 : Atkinson, Brooks


The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
Brooks Atkinson : 9696 : Atkinson, Brooks


Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to Utopia.
Brooks Atkinson : 11156 : Atkinson, Brooks


You've got friends, then you've got your best friend. Big difference. To me, a friend is a guy who will help you move. A best friend is a guy who will help you move a body.
Dave Attell : 11864 : Attell, Dave


Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee : 390 : Attlee, Clement


I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
Clement Attlee : 10683 : Attlee, Clement


Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Margaret Atwood : 8826 : Atwood, Margaret


Falling in love, we said; I fell for him. We were falling women. We believed in it, this downward motion; so lovely, like flying, and yet at the same time so dire, so extreme, so unlikely.
Margaret Atwood : 10357 : Atwood, Margaret


In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood : 10971 : Atwood, Margaret


Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
Margaret Atwood : 11955 : Atwood, Margaret


The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.
Margaret Atwood : 13025 : Atwood, Margaret


Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
Margaret Atwood : 13031 : Atwood, Margaret


All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people.
Margaret Atwood : 13171 : Atwood, Margaret


When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden : 1845 : Auden, W. H.


Your cameraman might enjoy himself, because my face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain.
W. H. Auden : 1846 : Auden, W. H.


And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching the apple falling towards England, became aware between himself and her of an eternal tie.
W. H. Auden : 1847 : Auden, W. H.


Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden : 1848 : Auden, W. H.


No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.
W. H. Auden : 1849 : Auden, W. H.


LSD? Nothing much happened, but I did get the distinct impression that some birds were trying to communicate with me.
W. H. Auden : 2732 : Auden, W. H.


Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
W. H. Auden : 4377 : Auden, W. H.


The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel, and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden : 4645 : Auden, W. H.


It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ.
W. H. Auden : 6298 : Auden, W. H.


Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden : 6311 : Auden, W. H.


A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden : 7218 : Auden, W. H.


The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.
W. H. Auden : 7713 : Auden, W. H.


To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith.
W. H. Auden : 8358 : Auden, W. H.


Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden : 9007 : Auden, W. H.


Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
W. H. Auden : 9382 : Auden, W. H.


Because of impatience, we were driven out of paradise; Because of impatience, we cannot return.
W. H. Auden : 9559 : Auden, W. H.


The quality common to all the great operatic roles, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.
W. H. Auden : 9605 : Auden, W. H.


If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. Auden : 11983 : Auden, W. H.


Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for young men.
W. H. Auden : 13008 : Auden, W. H.


A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
J. J. Audubon : 11745 : Audubon, John James


The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Fred Auerbach : 11332 : Auerbach, Fred


God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
John Aughey : 4069 : Aughey, John


Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
David Augsburger : 7821 : Augsburger, David


He who is good is free, even if he is a slave. He who is evil is a slave, even if he is a king.
Augustine of Hippo : 3714 : Augustine of Hippo


Bulls do not win bullfights. People do. People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.
Norman R. Augustine : 2567 : Augustine, Norman R.


Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
Norman R. Augustine : 13073 : Augustine, Norman R.


I found Rome built of bricks; I leave her clothed in marble.
Augustus : 12057 : Augustus


A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission
Marcus Aurelius : 2066 : Aurelius, Marcus


Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius : 3147 : Aurelius, Marcus


Nothing is so conducive to greatness of mind as the ability to examine systematically and honestly everything that meets us in life.
Marcus Aurelius : 3442 : Aurelius, Marcus


The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius : 5147 : Aurelius, Marcus


Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
Marcus Aurelius : 6873 : Aurelius, Marcus


Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. be one.
Marcus Aurelius : 6879 : Aurelius, Marcus


A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another.
Marcus Aurelius : 7694 : Aurelius, Marcus


Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them if you had them not.
Marcus Aurelius : 8590 : Aurelius, Marcus


Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no
Marcus Aurelius : 9215 : Aurelius, Marcus


Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius : 9582 : Aurelius, Marcus


Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.
Marcus Aurelius : 10013 : Aurelius, Marcus


We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
Marcus Aurelius : 11867 : Aurelius, Marcus


Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog, or man. There is no difference there between a cat and a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
Sri Aurobindo : 9597 : Aurobindo, Sri


Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.
Ausonius : 6545 : Ausonius


He and I should not in the least agree of course, in our ideas of nobels and heroines; pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.
Jane Austen : 944 : Austen, Jane


One man's way may be as good as another, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen : 945 : Austen, Jane


We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.
Jane Austen : 1956 : Austen, Jane


Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.
Jane Austen : 2099 : Austen, Jane


A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
Jane Austen : 2319 : Austen, Jane


There is not one in a hundred of either sex who is not taken in when they marry... It is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves.
Jane Austen : 2955 : Austen, Jane


Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.
Jane Austen : 3899 : Austen, Jane


The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
Jane Austen : 4108 : Austen, Jane


One cannot always be laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen : 5045 : Austen, Jane


Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen : 6047 : Austen, Jane


I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen : 6724 : Austen, Jane


Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park" : 6904 : Austen, Jane


Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.
Jane Austen, "Emma" : 6975 : Austen, Jane


One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen, "Emma" : 7037 : Austen, Jane


She was not a woman of many words: for, unlike people in general, she proportioned them to the number of her ideas.
Jane Austen : 7610 : Austen, Jane


For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen : 8020 : Austen, Jane


Solemn history, I cannot be interested in: the quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences on every page, and hardly any women at all.
Jane Austen : 8582 : Austen, Jane


Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen : 9005 : Austen, Jane


What is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent move? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?
Jane Austen : 9671 : Austen, Jane


The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane Austen : 9910 : Austen, Jane


It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.
Jane Austen : 10391 : Austen, Jane


I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen : 10944 : Austen, Jane


Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen : 11437 : Austen, Jane


A woman especially, if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen : 11592 : Austen, Jane


Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane Austen : 12075 : Austen, Jane


Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.
Jane Austen : 12353 : Austen, Jane


To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Jane Austen : 12687 : Austen, Jane


If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.
Jane Austen : 13166 : Austen, Jane


One of the conditions of being human is that, even if we're surrounded by others, we essentially live our lives alone: Real life takes place inside us.
Paul Auster : 7554 : Auster, Paul


There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin : 3915 : Austin, Alfred


To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Alfred Austin : 12279 : Austin, Alfred


The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature.
Alfred Austin : 12295 : Austin, Alfred


This is when we say "words fail" and mean this literally. We should need new words. The old ones just would not fit. They aren't meant to cover this kind of case.
John Austin, on Kafka's "Metamorphosis" : 6575 : Austin, John


People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.
Mary Austin : 6238 : Austin, Mary


I should like my epitaph to say, "He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh."
Rev. W. Awdry : 2369 : Awdry, Rev. W.


I honestly don't think you possibly share a small tent for any length of time with someone who's ebullient.
Alan Ayckbourn : 3829 : Ayckbourn, Alan


If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.
Alan Ayckbourn : 9993 : Ayckbourn, Alan


If I had been someone not very clever, I would have done an easier job like publishing. That's the easiest job I can think of.
A. J. Ayer : 8966 : Ayer, A. J.


Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.
M. D. Babcock : 1200 : Babcock, Maltbie D.


Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Maltbie D. Babcock : 4773 : Babcock, Maltbie D.


Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson : 7455 : Babson, Roger


Your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall : 4837 : Bacall, Lauren


I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall : 5107 : Bacall, Lauren


What I learned from Mr. Bogart - I learned from a master, and that, God knows, has stood me in very good stead.
Lauren Bacall : 6034 : Bacall, Lauren


There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Bach : 213 : Bach


To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
John Bach : 8786 : Bach, John


The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach : 2233 : Bach, Richard


The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.
Richard Bach : 3889 : Bach, Richard


Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach : 7793 : Bach, Richard


A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach : 9159 : Bach, Richard


In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
Richard Bach : 10754 : Bach, Richard


The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach : 10973 : Bach, Richard


The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
Richard Bach : 12377 : Bach, Richard


A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach : 9439 : Bacharach, Burt


A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
Gaston Bachelard : 8224 : Bachelard, Gaston


Take only pictures and leave only footprints.
The Backpacker's Code : 7472 : Backpacker's Code, The


Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
Jim Backus : 3405 : Backus, Jim


Houses are built to live in and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
Francis Bacon : 10437 : Bacon, Francis


Some books are to be tasted, others to be swllowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon : 11136 : Bacon, Francis


The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Francis Bacon : 11496 : Bacon, Francis


The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists.
Francis Bacon : 11754 : Bacon, Francis


Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!
Josephine Bacon : 9138 : Bacon, Josephine


I've been a film star so long that I don't know what it would feel like not to be one.
Kevin Bacon : 6074 : Bacon, Kevin


Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt.
Roger Bacon : 2312 : Bacon, Roger


In taking revenge a man is equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
Bacon : 214 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon : 612 : Bacon, Sir Francis


The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
Francis Bacon : 613 : Bacon, Sir Francis


It is in life as it is in ways. The shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon : 614 : Bacon, Sir Francis


I knew one that when he wrote a letter he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a bymatter.
Francis Bacon : 615 : Bacon, Sir Francis


The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.
Francis Bacon : 2133 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds; they ever fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon : 2436 : Bacon, Sir Francis


A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal.
Francis Bacon : 2852 : Bacon, Sir Francis


He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon : 3073 : Bacon, Sir Francis


The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis Bacon : 4125 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon : 4559 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Sir Francis Bacon : 6650 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.
Sir Francis Bacon : 6673 : Bacon, Sir Francis


A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Sir Francis Bacon : 6785 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Sir Francis Bacon : 7078 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Love can find an entrance, not only into an open heart, but also into a heart well fortified, if watch be not well kept.
Francis Bacon : 7268 : Bacon, Sir Francis


He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon : 7380 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Without friends, the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon : 7384 : Bacon, Sir Francis


As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all innovations, which are the birth of time.
Francis Bacon : 7611 : Bacon, Sir Francis


If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon : 7798 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
Francis Bacon : 7931 : Bacon, Sir Francis


If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon : 8941 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Sir Francis Bacon : 9901 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon : 9915 : Bacon, Sir Francis


But no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.
Francis Bacon : 12440 : Bacon, Sir Francis


Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Arthur Baer : 5166 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


You can take a boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.
Arthur "Bugs" Baer : 6218 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence but doesn't climb over it.
Arthur "Bugs" Baer : 6229 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
Arthur "Bugs" Baer : 6552 : Baer, Arthur "Bugs"


What's good economics is bad politics; what's bad economics is good politics.
Eugene W. Baer : 8037 : Baer, Eugene W.


The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez : 976 : Baez, Joan


It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
Joan Baez : 8544 : Baez, Joan


Screaming at people may not be the most efficient way. I'm going to stay back a little from now on. I'm learning how to listen to people instead of preaching at them so much.
Joan Baez : 9607 : Baez, Joan


The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.
Walter Bagehot : 1860 : Bagehot, Walter


An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot : 1861 : Bagehot, Walter


The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot : 2609 : Bagehot, Walter


Public opinion requires us to think other men's thought, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot : 3130 : Bagehot, Walter


Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
Walter Bagehot : 5202 : Bagehot, Walter


Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot : 7998 : Bagehot, Walter


The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
Walter Bagehot : 11234 : Bagehot, Walter


Why do birds sing in the morning? It's the triumphant shout: "We got through another night."
Enid Bagnold : 2457 : Bagnold, Enid


The fear is worse than the pain.
Shannon Bahr : 5620 : Bahr, Shannon


When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Bernard Bailey : 7950 : Bailey, Bernard


Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
F. Lee Bailey : 10033 : Bailey, F. Lee


The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.
H. C. Bailey : 769 : Bailey, H. C.


Any young man with good health and a poor appetite can save up money.
J. Bailey : 899 : Bailey, J.


Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.
Liberty Hyde Bailey : 12967 : Bailey, Liberty Hyde


What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
Pearl Bailey : 3626 : Bailey, Pearl


There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
Pearl Bailey : 7519 : Bailey, Pearl


One is tempted to say that old myths never die; they just become embedded in the textbooks.
Thomas A. Bailey : 2611 : Bailey, Thomas A.


Look, daddy, teacher says every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.
Zuzu Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life : 10912 : Bailey, Zuzu


Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
Beryl Bainbridge : 8144 : Bainbridge, Beryl


October's poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Nova S. Bair : 12845 : Bair, Nova S.


Son, you have to guard against speaking more clearly than you think.
Howard Baker's Father : 879 : Baker, Howard's Father


Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
Karle Wilson Baker : 13467 : Baker, Karle Wilson


Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
Kenneth Baker : 8563 : Baker, Kenneth


The magic of children is their ability to cloud our memories so that when we look back we recall only the golden moments, the sweet laughter and the sentimental tears, and none of the awful trials.
Russell Baker : 2240 : Baker, Russell


While edging toward a coma during the endless years of baseball this weekend, I suddenly realized I didn't know what a slider was.
Russell Baker : 2710 : Baker, Russell


Lobbies exist to behave swinishly on behalf of people too delicate to behave swinishly for themselves.
Russell Baker : 2769 : Baker, Russell


Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost.
Russell Baker : 3065 : Baker, Russell


Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Russell Baker : 4316 : Baker, Russell


When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword-swallower gag.
Russell Baker : 4448 : Baker, Russell


In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Russell Baker : 8079 : Baker, Russell


The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
Russell Baker : 9423 : Baker, Russell


When we moved to New York we had to get rid of the children. Landlords didn't like them and, in any case, rents were so high. Who could afford an apartment big enough to contain children?
Russell Baker : 10361 : Baker, Russell


Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker : 11776 : Baker, Russell


First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty - if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
George Balanchine : 11970 : Balanchine, George


A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.
Letitia Baldrige : 10044 : Baldrige, Letitia


Be faithful to your own taste, because nothing you really like is ever out of style.
Billy Baldwin : 12595 : Baldwin, Billy


One thing I know about march - whether it storms or shines, it is the key to spring.
Faith Baldwin : 592 : Baldwin, Faith


Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Faith Baldwin : 5108 : Baldwin, Faith


It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin : 13425 : Baldwin, James


The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
James Baldwin : 13444 : Baldwin, James


We live in an age when silence is not only criminal but suicidal. If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.
James Baldwin : 915 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
James Baldwin : 916 : Baldwin, James Arthur


The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin : 917 : Baldwin, James Arthur


When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James Baldwin : 2009 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin : 4355 : Baldwin, James Arthur


I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
James Baldwin : 4684 : Baldwin, James Arthur


The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin : 6407 : Baldwin, James Arthur


The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons.
James Baldwin : 6686 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin : 7412 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin : 7465 : Baldwin, James Arthur


It's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James Baldwin : 9604 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men.
James A. Baldwin : 12896 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin : 12925 : Baldwin, James Arthur


Silence never won rights. They are not handed down from above; they are forced by pressure from below.
Roger Baldwin : 11967 : Baldwin, Roger


I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
Arthur James Balfour : 6401 : Balfour, Arthur James


Civilization is the upward struggle of mankind, in which millions are trampled to death that thousands may mount on their bodies.
Charles Balfour : 338 : Balfour, Charles


He who fishes for compliments can expect to be handed a line.
Ivern Ball : 5286 : Ball, Ivern


Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?
Ivern Ball : 7689 : Ball, Ivern


In life, all things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball : 1195 : Ball, Lucille


I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball : 6911 : Ball, Lucille


Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball : 8184 : Ball, Lucille


The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball : 9245 : Ball, Lucille


Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
Lucille Ball : 9918 : Ball, Lucille


Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball : 11796 : Ball, Lucille


I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball : 11813 : Ball, Lucille


In my ballets, woman is first, men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men; they are better.
George Ballanchine : 5939 : Ballanchine, George


Californians are good at planning for the earthquake, while simultaneously denying it will happen.
Sheila Ballantyne : 7299 : Ballantyne, Sheila


A single bad habit will mar an otherwise flawless character as a single ink drop soils the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou : 6534 : Ballou, Hosea


Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou : 10272 : Ballou, Hosea


Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou : 12505 : Ballou, Hosea


He stood spellbound, like a child to whom his nurse is telling him some wonderful story.
Honere De Balzac : 5312 : Balzac, Honere De


Society, like the Roman youth at the circus, never shows mercy to the fallen gladiator.
Balzac : 216 : Balzac, Honore De


In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore De Balzac : 874 : Balzac, Honore De


Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.
Honore Balzac : 2010 : Balzac, Honore De


It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.
Honore de Balzac : 2280 : Balzac, Honore De


She walked with a proud, defiant step, like a martyr to the coliseum.
Honore De Balzac : 3692 : Balzac, Honore De


Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac : 3959 : Balzac, Honore De


Talent, like gout, sometimes skips two generations.
Honore De Balzac : 5463 : Balzac, Honore De


An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore De Balzac : 8434 : Balzac, Honore De


The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore De Balzac : 9328 : Balzac, Honore De


Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore De Balzac : 9883 : Balzac, Honore De


Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.
Stefan Banach : 12724 : Banach, Stefan


The voices of women need to be heard, the volume needs to be turned up.
Anne Bancroft : 13154 : Bancroft, Anne


The measure of the progress of civilization is the progress of the people.
George Bancroft : 677 : Bancroft, George


By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
George Bancroft : 3954 : Bancroft, George


It's one of the tragic ironies of the theater that only one man in it can count on steady work, the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead : 1753 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I was a hedonist long before I knew what a hedonist was.
Tallulah Bankhead : 2096 : Bankhead, Tallulah


The less I behave like Whistler's Mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
Tallulah Bankhead : 3237 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Tallulah Bankhead : 6506 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I read Shakespeare and the Bible and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tallulah Bankhead : 7302 : Bankhead, Tallulah


Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny, in which case I definitely said it.
Tallulah Bankhead : 7922 : Bankhead, Tallulah


I'm miserable if I'm not in love and, of course, I'm miserable if I am.
Tallulah Bankhead : 8727 : Bankhead, Tallulah


If I had to live my life again, I'd make all the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead : 9214 : Bankhead, Tallulah


Since we court public display we're the foes of privacy. The glass house is our favorite residence.
Tallulah Bankhead : 10738 : Bankhead, Tallulah


It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead : 11330 : Bankhead, Tallulah


Facts do not make history; facts do not even make events. A fact is an isolated particle of experience, is reflected light without a source, planet with no sun, star without constellation, constellation beyond galaxy, galaxy outside the universe - fact is
Russell Banks : 5898 : Banks, Russell


The kilt, being a practical outdoor garment, failed him only once, and that occurred during a short-lived interest in beekeeping.
J. M. Bannerman : 9352 : Bannerman, J. M.


She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.
Margaret Culkin Banning : 1218 : Banning, Margaret Culkin


The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister : 1567 : Bannister, Roger


Athletics is a luxury.
Roger Bannister : 4144 : Bannister, Roger


The reason that good women flock to see my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Theta Bara : 4892 : Bara, Theta


God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air-conditioning.
Imamu Amiri Baraka : 2787 : Baraka, Imamu Amiri


I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot : 3555 : Bardot, Brigitte


The cinema means nothing to me, I cannot remember it.
Brigitte Bardot : 6129 : Bardot, Brigitte


The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
Ronnie Barker : 9029 : Barker, Ronnie


They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest of us go around them.
S. Omar Barker : 2581 : Barker, S. Omar


The best audience is intelligent, well educated and a little drunk.
Alben W. Barkley : 4507 : Barkley, Alben W.


If I weren't earning three million dollars a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley : 7562 : Barkley, Charles


I am not a role model. I am paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court. Parents should be role models. Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
Charles Barkley : 8541 : Barkley, Charles


If "ifs" were gifts, every day would be Christmas.
Charles Barkley : 11677 : Barkley, Charles


We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes : 4833 : Barnes, Djuna


Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney : 12228 : Barney, Natalie Clifford


There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. Barnum : 2651 : Barnum, P. T.


Money is, in some respects, like fire; it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. Barnum : 3675 : Barnum, P. T.


More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
P. T. Barnum : 6547 : Barnum, P. T.


It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; In joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr : 9588 : Barr, Amelia


Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.
Amelia Barr : 12655 : Barr, Amelia


Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
Roseanne : 1578 : Barr, Roseanne


There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne : 8266 : Barr, Roseanne


If you do every job like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, that's when you get noticed.
Mary Barra : 12296 : Barra, Mary


A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan : 9251 : Barragan, Luis


It's not that diamonds are a girl's best friend, but it's your best friends who are your diamonds.
Gina Barreca : 12790 : Barreca, Gina


When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett : 7322 : Barrett, Colleen C.


An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.
Lawrence Barrett : 10167 : Barrett, Lawrence


Nothing can be accomplished by denying that man is an essentially troubled being, except to make more trouble.
William Barrett : 3133 : Barrett, William


The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
James M. Barrie : 2333 : Barrie, James Matthew


You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
J. M. Barrie : 4280 : Barrie, James Matthew


The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J. M. Barrie : 4360 : Barrie, James Matthew


When the first baby laughed for the first time, his laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.
J. M. Barrie : 5927 : Barrie, James Matthew


The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
James M. Barrie : 8698 : Barrie, James Matthew


Charm is a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what else you have.
James M. Barrie : 9304 : Barrie, James Matthew


Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
J. M. Barrie : 9979 : Barrie, James Matthew


If we unlock the rooms of the far past we can peer in and see ourselves, busily occupied in beginning to become you and me.
James M. Barrie : 10439 : Barrie, James Matthew


Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J. M. Barrie : 11781 : Barrie, James Matthew


Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
J. M. Barrie : 13477 : Barrie, James Matthew


The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
Frank Barron : 9302 : Barron, Frank


Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow.
T. A. Barron : 10920 : Barron, T. A.


Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.
Isaac Barrow : 9000 : Barrow, Isaac


I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry : 425 : Barry, Dave


Both of your socks should always be the same color, or they should at least both be fairly dark.
Dave Barry : 426 : Barry, Dave


The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside we all believe that we are above-average drivers.
Dave Barry : 2512 : Barry, Dave


If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."
Dave Barry : 3226 : Barry, Dave


Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons.
Dave Barry : 3933 : Barry, Dave


No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
Dave Barry : 4104 : Barry, Dave


I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called, "A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark."
Dave Barry : 5190 : Barry, Dave


Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry : 6766 : Barry, Dave


The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave Barry : 6858 : Barry, Dave


A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter is not a nice person.
Dave Barry : 9147 : Barry, Dave


If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry : 9592 : Barry, Dave


The groom's party should wear pastel senior prom style outfits rented at the shopping mall. The bride's party should wear expensive dresses so unattractive that they can never be used again, even as tourniquets.
Dave Barry : 10342 : Barry, Dave


Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.
Lynda Barry : 6165 : Barry, Lynda


If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
Lynda Barry : 10250 : Barry, Lynda


Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore : 12372 : Barrymore, Drew


The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal, they don't smell. The fruit is unreal, it doesn't taste of anything. The whole place is a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set, built up in the desert.
Ethel Barrymore, on Hollywood : 2185 : Barrymore, Ethel


The trouble with this life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore : 987 : Barrymore, John


Happiness sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore : 2157 : Barrymore, John


If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company. I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore : 4691 : Barrymore, John


It (rain) sounds like all the little beggars of the world, tapping their canes and crutches on the roof as they go out to ask for bread.
John Barrymore : 4752 : Barrymore, John


Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.
John Barrymore : 5358 : Barrymore, John


The good die young - because they see no point in living if you have to be good.
John Barrymore : 6078 : Barrymore, John


Audiences? No, the plural is impossible. Whether it be in Butte, Montana, or Broadway, it's an audience. The same great hulking monster with four thousand eyes and forty thousand teeth.
John Barrymore : 9948 : Barrymore, John


I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John Barrymore : 11579 : Barrymore, John


I like to be introduced as America's foremost actor. It saves the necessity of further effort.
John Barrymore : 11980 : Barrymore, John


If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk to national unity, intolerance involves a certainty that unity will be destroyed.
Alan Barth : 7239 : Barth, Alan


All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideo
Roland Barthes : 1568 : Barthes, Roland


To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.
Roland Barthes : 2680 : Barthes, Roland


Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals, the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists.
Roland Barthes : 7552 : Barthes, Roland


What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes : 8742 : Barthes, Roland


The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Albert A. Bartlett : 5459 : Bartlett, Albert A.


I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Bela Bartok : 9483 : Bartok, Bela


Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton : 11548 : Barton, Bruce


No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.
Bernard Baruch : 210 : Baruch, Bernard M.


I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Bernard Baruch : 240 : Baruch, Bernard M.


If you get all the facts, your judgment can be right; if you don't get all the facts, it can't be right.
Bernard M. Baruch : 2382 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done - except by liars.
Bernard Baruch : 2455 : Baruch, Bernard M.


An elder statesman is somebody old enough to know his own mind and to keep quiet about it.
Bernard M. Baruch : 2797 : Baruch, Bernard M.


The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Bernard M. Baruch : 4025 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day letting tomorrow bring what it will, putting off the unpleasant and unpopular.
Bernard M. Baruch : 4192 : Baruch, Bernard M.


I am a speculator. The word comes from the latin "speculari," which means "observe." I observe.
Bernard Baruch : 4909 : Baruch, Bernard M.


We can't cross a bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.
Bernard Baruch : 5869 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch : 6475 : Baruch, Bernard M.


I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant, only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men.
Bernard Baruch : 9593 : Baruch, Bernard M.


None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread.
Bernard Baruch : 9690 : Baruch, Bernard M.


A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.
Bernard Baruch : 9964 : Baruch, Bernard M.


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun : 10251 : Barzun, Jacques


All through history the rogues are the ones who live forever in people's minds and imaginations. Eventually they'll do a musical on Imelda Marcos, the way they did on Evita.
Lina Basquette : 9956 : Basquette, Lina


Everyone looks better and more alive in a pink shirt.
Michael Bastian : 12897 : Bastian, Michael


I teach the art of turning anguish into delight.
Georges Bataille : 9114 : Bataille, Georges


O beautiful for heroes proved, in liberating strife, who more than self, their country loved, and mercy more than life.
Katharine Lee Bates : 12787 : Bates, Katharine Lee


What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
Mary Catherine Bateson : 5974 : Bateson, Mary Catherine


The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary Catherine Bateson : 7854 : Bateson, Mary Catherine


Of any stopping place in life. it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson : 8236 : Bateson, Mary Catherine


A Jaywalker is a bird of the Schmo Family who can be found in traffic jams and morgues.
Phyllis Battelle : 3251 : Battelle, Phyllis


If you haven't at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
Phyllis Battelle : 6395 : Battelle, Phyllis


A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. if he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!
Phyllis Battelle : 9591 : Battelle, Phyllis


A smart wife is one who knows how to retie the Christmas package her husband has hidden from her.
O. A. Battista : 1354 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The trait most people enjoy inheriting from their ancestors is trust in the form of an estate
O. A. Battista : 1355 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The man in the greatest danger always is the one who has climbed to the top of the ladder.
O. A. Battista : 1356 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


A sick boy is one who comes down with a bug on Saturday morning.
O. A. Battista : 1357 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Marriage will fast disappear unless it is limited strictly to only one to a customer.
O. A. Battista : 1358 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


An easy chair is one that is hard to get in and even harder to get out of.
O. A. Battista : 1359 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


A great speaker is one who rises to the occasion, and promptly sits down.
O. A. Battista : 1360 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech.
O. A. Battista : 1361 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


When it comes to visitors, the most hospitable ones are those who like to listen.
O. A. Battista : 1362 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


There is no flower in the world that breathes a sweeter fragrance than a freshly bathed baby.
O. A. Battista : 1363 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The trouble with some mothers who raise their children by the books is they use the comic books.
O. A. Battista : 1364 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


There is no better medicine for ailing grandparents than baby grandchildren.
O. A. Battista : 1365 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Frequently the fellow who doesn't let grass grow under his feet is too lazy to plant some.
O. A. Battista : 1366 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


One time you can be sure you have twenty-twenty vision is when you go looking for trouble.
O. A. Battista : 1367 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Each time the November elections are over, it's easy to understand why Thanksgiving Day always follows them.
O. A. Battista : 3833 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Tolerance consists in seeing things with your heart instead of with your eyes.
O. A. Battista : 4517 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


The only fair way to talk about somebody is to imagine he is listening to every word you say.
O. A. Battista : 4521 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Neighbor: A person who can get to your house in less than a minute and take two hours to go back home.
O. A. Battista : 10478 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
O. A. Battista : 11300 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando Aloysius Battista : 12430 : Battista, Orlando Aloysius


Many times I am asked, "How can you be from a small town in the Midwest and sing Mozart?" Mozart was a human being with emotions and a sense of humor. We all share these qualities as human beings.
Kathleen Battle : 7829 : Battle, Kathleen


[Victor] Hugo, like a priest, always has his head bowed - bowed so low that he can see nothing except his own navel.
Charles Baudelaire : 339 : Baudelaire, Charles


Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holy and divine. God is the only being who, in order to reign, need not even exist.
Charles Baudelaire : 340 : Baudelaire, Charles


Now is the time to get drunk! To stop being the martyred slaves of time to get absolutely drunk - on wine, poetry, or on virtue, as you please.
Charles Baudelaire : 4226 : Baudelaire, Charles


A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it.
Charles Baudelaire, on hatred : 4665 : Baudelaire, Charles


Anyone, provided he can be amusing, has the right to talk to himself.
Charles Baudelaire : 9174 : Baudelaire, Charles


A sweetheart is a bottle of wine; a wife is a wine bottle.
Charles Baudelaire : 10252 : Baudelaire, Charles


The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music.
Charles Baudelaire : 12924 : Baudelaire, Charles


Artificial intelligence is devoid of intelligence because it is devoid of artifice.
Jean Baudrillard : 13433 : Baudrillard, Jean


Hard work never kills anybody who supervises it.
Harry Bauer : 8844 : Bauer, Harry


What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.
Henry C. Bauer : 9782 : Bauer, Henry C.


Thou shall not be a perpetrator, thou shall not be a victim, and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
Yehuda Bauer : 12721 : Bauer, Yehuda


I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
Bruce Baum : 5715 : Baum, Bruce


I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, "Whoa, I'm way too high!"
Bruce Baum : 5736 : Baum, Bruce


The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Stephen Bayley : 8924 : Bayley, Stephen


I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp: I know what I ought to do, but I don't know where to begin.
Stephen Bayne : 8999 : Bayne, Stephen


Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.
E. R. Beadle : 13042 : Beadle, Elias Root


Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Louise Beal : 9172 : Beal, Louise


And finally winter, with its bitin' whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean : 11413 : Bean, Roy


Too few people truly understand a good sandwich.
James Beard : 4137 : Beard, James


The artist with vision sees his material, chooses, changes, and by integrating what he has learned with his own experiences, finally molds something distinctly personal.
Romare Bearden : 9611 : Bearden, Romare


The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.
Cecil Beaton : 4847 : Beaton, Cecil


Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Cecil Beaton : 5099 : Beaton, Cecil


In all those expressions of conscious beauty, which when imitated become clumsy, or arrogant, or ridiculous, there is a manifestation of what Hollywood cannot destroy.
Cecil Beaton, on Greta Garbo : 7503 : Beaton, Cecil


Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
Cecil Beaton : 12702 : Beaton, Cecil


All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.
Cecil Beaton : 12716 : Beaton, Cecil


There are things that get whispered about that writers are there to overhear.
Ann Beattie : 8051 : Beattie, Ann


Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.
Melody Beattie : 11351 : Beattie, Melody


Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie : 11401 : Beattie, Melody


Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.
Melody Beattie : 12260 : Beattie, Melody


Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
Melody Beattie : 12578 : Beattie, Melody


Oscar night is enjoyable in the way that bobbing for apples is enjoyable. You can't take the game seriously.
Warren Beatty : 8991 : Beatty, Warren


It is not necessary to believe things in order to reason about them.
Beaumarchais : 221 : Beaumarchais


The ideal of the average western man is a woman who freely accepts his domination, who does not accept his ideas without discussions, but who yields to his arguments, who resists him intellectually, and ends by being convinced.
Simone de Beauvoir : 1654 : Beauvoir, Simone de


One's life has value so long as one attribute value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir : 2322 : Beauvoir, Simone de


When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.
Simone de Beauvoir : 4987 : Beauvoir, Simone de


In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.
Simone de Beauvoir : 6426 : Beauvoir, Simone de


It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself.
Simone de Beauvoir : 9198 : Beauvoir, Simone de


Garbo's visage had a kind of emptiness into which anything could be projected - nothing can be read into Bardot's face.
Simone de Beauvoir : 10697 : Beauvoir, Simone de


I quickly realized that friendships without tomorrows, and the little anguishes of parting, were part of the pleasures of traveling.
Simone de Beauvoir : 12138 : Beauvoir, Simone de


No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.
Earl R. Beck : 8533 : Beck, Earl R.


No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
Martha Beck : 12404 : Beck, Martha


Stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.
Martha Beck : 12883 : Beck, Martha


Better are the blows of a friend than the false kisses of an enemy.
Thomas a Becket : 2080 : Becket, Thomas a


Don't look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.
Michael Beckwith : 10186 : Beckwith, Michael


There are two golden rules for an orchestra; start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.
Thomas Beecham : 3445 : Beecham, Thomas


Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty.
Thomas Beecham : 3536 : Beecham, Thomas


When inviting company, do not tempt the palate with a great variety of unhealthful dainties.
Catherine Beecher : 3208 : Beecher, Catherine


A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the nation itself.
H. W. Beecher : 785 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Fear is a kind of bell ...it is the soul's signal for rallying.
H. W. Beecher : 786 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
H. W. Beecher : 787 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
H. W. Beecher : 788 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Conceit is the most incurable disease that is known to the human soul.
Henry Ward Beecher : 857 : Beecher, Henry Ward


I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher : 858 : Beecher, Henry Ward


In this world, often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward Beecher : 859 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one.
Henry Ward Beecher : 1964 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2199 : Beecher, Henry Ward


We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2395 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2397 : Beecher, Henry Ward


God pardons like a mother kisses away the tears of a repentant child.
Henry Ward Beecher : 2506 : Beecher, Henry Ward


You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him take care of himself. He will make mistakes, and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
Henry Ward Beecher : 3013 : Beecher, Henry Ward


It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secrets acids; but love and trust
Henry Ward Beecher : 3223 : Beecher, Henry Ward


A proud man is seldom a grateful man for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
H. W. Beecher : 3673 : Beecher, Henry Ward


There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher : 3709 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
H. W. Beecher : 3734 : Beecher, Henry Ward


He who hunts for flowers will find flowers; and he who loves weeds may find weeds.
H. W. Beecher : 3744 : Beecher, Henry Ward


We grow best when clouds hang over us because clouds bear rain and rain refreshes us.
H. W. Beecher : 3749 : Beecher, Henry Ward


I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Henry Ward Beecher : 4336 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The cynic puts all human actions into two classes: openly bad and secretly bad.
Henry Ward Beecher : 5056 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Nowhere can one find so miscellaneous, so various an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.
Henry Ward Beecher : 5219 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor; and no man can tell what becomes of his influence.
Henry W. Beecher : 5477 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6060 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6237 : Beecher, Henry Ward


When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6449 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6543 : Beecher, Henry Ward


It is not what we intend but what we do that makes us useful.
Henry Ward Beecher : 6836 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher : 7148 : Beecher, Henry Ward


A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher : 7345 : Beecher, Henry Ward


A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not publicity rather than charity, which he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?
Henry Ward Beecher : 7827 : Beecher, Henry Ward


The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher : 8393 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher : 8836 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every charitable act is a stepping-stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher : 8860 : Beecher, Henry Ward


In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher : 9042 : Beecher, Henry Ward


What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher : 9217 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher : 9578 : Beecher, Henry Ward


Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher : 11116 : Beecher, Henry Ward


We sleep, but the loom of life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomorrow.
Henry Ward Beecher : 11530 : Beecher, Henry Ward


No great advance has been made in science, politics or religion without controversy.
Lyman Beecher : 3718 : Beecher, Lyman


Never chase a lie; let it alone and it will soon run itself to death.
Lyman Beecher : 5323 : Beecher, Lyman


You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
Max Beerbohm : 9667 : Beerbohm, Max


Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
Max Beerbohm : 11598 : Beerbohm, Max


I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Sir Max Beerbohm : 2691 : Beerbohm, Sir Max


To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Max Beerbohm : 4343 : Beerbohm, Sir Max


There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Max Beerbohm : 9074 : Beerbohm, Sir Max


Man sinks almost to the level of an animal when eating becomes his chief pleasure.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : 1196 : Beethoven, Ludwig Van


I will seize Fate by the throat; It shall certainly not bend and crush me completely.
Ludwig van Beethoven : 7318 : Beethoven, Ludwig Van


Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Ludwig Van Beethoven : 13332 : Beethoven, Ludwig Van


New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment; it is a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
Brendan Behan : 9351 : Behan, Brendan


Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
Aphra Behn : 3593 : Behn, Aphra


You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
Daniel Behrman : 4330 : Behrman, Daniel


You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte : 4134 : Belafonte, Harry


If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco : 4315 : Belasco, David


Evaluate what you want - because what gets measured, gets produced.
James A. Belasco : 8058 : Belasco, James A.


Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell : 3312 : Bell, Alexander Graham


When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell : 3430 : Bell, Alexander Graham


Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander G. Bell : 11701 : Bell, Alexander Graham


Comics can be an extremely powerful way to express a message.
Sandra Bell-Lundy : 13030 : Bell-Lundy, Sandra


Don't worry if you forget something important - someone else will be sure to remember to point it out to you.
Guy Belleranti : 9709 : Belleranti, Guy


A man who talks a great deal talks a great deal of nonsense; he who talks very little hardly ever talks sense.
Hilaire Belloc : 5260 : Belloc, Hilaire


I'm tired of love, I'm still more tired of rhyme, but money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc : 5432 : Belloc, Hilaire


We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc : 12242 : Belloc, Hilaire


Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.
Hilaire Belloc : 12339 : Belloc, Hilaire


She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Saul Bellow : 5381 : Bellow, Saul


The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absentmindedness is spurious innocence.
Saul Bellow : 7292 : Bellow, Saul


A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow : 8117 : Bellow, Saul


Nobody likes being written about in their lifetime. It's as though the FBI and the CIA were suddenly to splash your files in the paper.
Saul Bellow : 8599 : Bellow, Saul


Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow : 12948 : Bellow, Saul


There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
Eleanor Robson Belmont : 4708 : Belmont, Eleanor Robson


In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion : 2904 : Ben-Gurion, David


There seems to be no limits to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them. They can't believe that anything could be so funny just on its own hook.
Robert Benchley : 1533 : Benchley, Robert


In America there are two classes of travel; first class and with children.
Robert Benchley : 1534 : Benchley, Robert


Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment.
Robert Benchley : 1535 : Benchley, Robert


My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.
Robert Benchley : 3394 : Benchley, Robert


I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.
Robert Benchley : 4668 : Benchley, Robert


England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
Robert Benchley : 4760 : Benchley, Robert


Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley : 5543 : Benchley, Robert


If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.
Robert Benchley : 8990 : Benchley, Robert


There are several ways to apportion the family income - all of them unsatisfactory.
Robert Benchley : 10086 : Benchley, Robert


Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley : 10459 : Benchley, Robert


Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
Betty Bender : 13108 : Bender, Betty


The extra calories needed for one hour of intense mental effort would be completely met by the eating of one oyster cracker or one half of a salted peanut.
Francis G. Benedict : 11489 : Benedict, Francis G.


Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict : 4393 : Benedict, Ruth


A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.
Ruth Benedict : 6301 : Benedict, Ruth


If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Ruth Benedict : 11171 : Benedict, Ruth


We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We though because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent Benet : 2421 : Benet, Stephen Vincent


Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin : 9572 : Benjamin, Walter


Our age will be known as the age of committees.
Ernest Benn : 9846 : Benn, Ernest


It is well, when judging a friend, to remember he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
A. Bennett : 4 : Bennett, A.


We were put to dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Alan Bennett : 28 : Bennett, Alan


We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
Alan Bennett : 7994 : Bennett, Alan


I've always felt that the past was over and somehow I'd missed it. Now it's starting all over again.
Alan Bennett : 10486 : Bennett, Alan


Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.
Alan Bennett : 11502 : Bennett, Alan


Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett : 167 : Bennett, Arnold


To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
Arnold Bennett : 168 : Bennett, Arnold


You are not in charge of the universe; you are in charge of yourself.
Arnold Bennett : 169 : Bennett, Arnold


A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels and one must be prepared to suffer for it. -- Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett : 2854 : Bennett, Arnold


A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Arnold Bennett : 6087 : Bennett, Arnold


Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett : 6570 : Bennett, Arnold


The man of thirty who loves for the first time is usually the embodiment of cautious discretion. He does not fall in love with a violent descent, but rather lets himself gently down, continually testing the rope.
Arnold Bennett : 6571 : Bennett, Arnold


I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Arnold Bennett : 7843 : Bennett, Arnold


It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Arnold Bennett : 8715 : Bennett, Arnold


The moment you're born, you're done for.
Arnold Bennett : 9849 : Bennett, Arnold


Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett : 11717 : Bennett, Bo


As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
Bo Bennett : 11718 : Bennett, Bo


I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
James Gordon Bennett : 9893 : Bennett, James Gordon


Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Roy T. Bennett : 12943 : Bennett, Roy T.


The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Thomas Arnold Bennett : 1766 : Bennett, Thomas Arnold


I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
Tony Bennett : 9012 : Bennett, Tony


Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.
W. C. Bennett : 2879 : Bennett, W. C.


Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it, it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business, you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett : 1894 : Bennett, William


Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.
Warren Bennis : 8640 : Bennis, Warren


Leaders learn by leading, and they learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.
Warren Bennis : 10424 : Bennis, Warren


Managers are people who do things right, and leaders are people who do the right thing.
Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus : 4504 : Bennis, Warren and Nanus, Burt


Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny : 7115 : Benny, Jack


A recipe is only a theme which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.
Madame Benoit : 5275 : Benoit, Madame


It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps on to see, not, perhaps, the way out, but the way in.
A. C. Benson : 3078 : Benson, A. C.


I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A. C. Benson : 3951 : Benson, A. C.


One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson : 9181 : Benson, A. C.


They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains.
Dianne Benson : 4211 : Benson, Dianne


None of us wants to be average. That we are so is a melancholy fact borne in upon us in middle life, and we do not always relish it.
Margaret Benson : 6291 : Benson, Margaret


If we all wore crowns, the kings would go bareheaded.
R. H. Benson : 4869 : Benson, R. H.


A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old.
Jeremy Bentham : 2301 : Bentham, Jeremy


The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham : 8008 : Bentham, Jeremy


One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.
Nicolas Bentley : 8629 : Bentley, Nicolas


Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Timothy Bentley : 9612 : Bentley, Timothy


The good may prove to be a hidden form of evil. The evil may prove to be a new and not yet recognized form of good.
Nicholas Berdyaev : 2423 : Berdyaev, Nicholas


The gain is not the having of children; It is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Polly Berrien Berends : 12630 : Berends, Polly Berrien


Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson : 5105 : Berenson, Bernard


I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
Bernard Berenson : 5363 : Berenson, Bernard


All of the arts - poetry, music, ritual, the visible arts, the theater - must singly and together create the most comprehensive art of all: a humanized society, and its masterpiece, free man.
Bernard Berenson : 5911 : Berenson, Bernard


Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity.
Yehuda Berg : 12710 : Berg, Yehuda


Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
Yehuda Berg : 12720 : Berg, Yehuda


A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Jose Bergamin : 5330 : Bergamin, Jose


I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one.
Candice Bergen : 11282 : Bergen, Candice


At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger : 3016 : Berger, John


At times, failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
John Berger : 8539 : Berger, John


Reinhart was never his mother's favorite - and he was an only child.
Thomas Berger : 4497 : Berger, Thomas


A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac : 7809 : Bergerac, Cyrano de


A kiss is a rosy dot over the "I" of loving.
Cyrano de Bergerac : 9200 : Bergerac, Cyrano de


Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.
George E. Bergman : 7484 : Bergman, George E.


I am not a writer. My plays and scripts are skeletons awaiting sinew.
Ingmar Bergman : 6102 : Bergman, Ingmar


Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
Ingmar Bergman : 6891 : Bergman, Ingmar


After years of playing with images of life and death, life has made me shy.
Ingmar Bergman : 7342 : Bergman, Ingmar


Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
Ingmar Bergman : 10247 : Bergman, Ingmar


I always wanted to do comedies but nobody discovered this until my old age. They think all Swedes are like Garbo.
Ingrid Bergman : 887 : Bergman, Ingrid


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 : 6640 : Bergman, Ingrid


Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in.
Ingrid Bergman, to daughter Isabella Rossellini : 9703 : Bergman, Ingrid


Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled, and thus baffles all calculation.
Henri Bergson : 9303 : Bergson, Henri


It is the emotion which drives the intelligence forward in spite of obstacles.
Hens Bergson : 8042 : Bergson, Hens


A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle : 4554 : Berle, Milton


If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle : 13016 : Berle, Milton


The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in business. You've got to keep working that talent.
Irving Berlin : 889 : Berlin, Irving


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.
Irving Berlin : 8173 : Berlin, Irving


Syncopation is the soul of every true American.
Irving Berlin : 10846 : Berlin, Irving


Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
Isaiah Berlin : 2442 : Berlin, Isaiah


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Louis Berlioz : 3596 : Berlioz, Hector Louis


The sooner you are there (at the airport), the sooner you will find out how long you will be delayed.
Shelley Berman : 4903 : Berman, Shelley


To be able to find joy in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.
Georges Bernanos : 7146 : Bernanos, Georges


Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
Jeffrey Bernard : 7706 : Bernard, Jeffrey


In the theater, the audience wants to be surprised, but by things that they expect.
Tristan Bernard : 10304 : Bernard, Tristan


Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sandra Bernhardt : 4604 : Bernhardt, Sandra


If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein : 10248 : Bernstein, Al


The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing.
Carl Bernstein : 309 : Bernstein, Carl


The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed garbage.
Carl Bernstein : 310 : Bernstein, Carl


It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.
Leonard Bernstein : 2771 : Bernstein, Leonard


A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein : 10686 : Bernstein, Leonard


You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra : 1950 : Berra, Yogi


You can't win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.
Yogi Berra : 3774 : Berra, Yogi


It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.
Yogi Berra : 6195 : Berra, Yogi


You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra : 9458 : Berra, Yogi


You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra : 10859 : Berra, Yogi


In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
Yogi Berra : 11008 : Berra, Yogi


A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
John Berry : 8123 : Berry, John


The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry : 8428 : Berry, John


Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Mary Frances Berry : 3656 : Berry, Mary Frances


The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry : 4678 : Berry, Wendell


Our hair turns white with our ripening as though to fly away to some coming wind, bearing the seed lot what we know.
Wendell Berry : 11935 : Berry, Wendell


Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so... And moreover my mother taught me as a boy (repeatingly) "ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner resources."
John Berryman : 988 : Berryman, John


We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.
Andre Berthiaume : 4262 : Berthiaume, Andre


For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.
Henry Beston : 2947 : Beston, Henry


Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune : 7686 : Bethune,Mary McLeod


Friendly attacks should begin with faint praise, but be careful not to use adjectives or phrases of which the publisher can make use in advertisements.
John Betjeman : 8226 : Betjeman, John


Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.
Ugo Betti : 3074 : Betti, Ugo


Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
Ugo Betti : 9421 : Betti, Ugo


We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance; we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.
Ugo Betti : 10712 : Betti, Ugo


We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road: they get run over.
Aneurin Bevan : 103 : Bevan, Aneurin


He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination.
Aneurin Bevan, on Neville Chamberlain : 7501 : Bevan, Aneurin


If you have one chink in your psychological armor, playing the horses will bring it out.
Andrew Beyer : 10772 : Beyer, Andrew


There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.
Bhagavad-Gita : 8095 : Bhagavad-Gita


Much better to do one's own work, even if you have to do it imperfectly, than it is to do somebody else's work perfectly.
Bhagavad-Gita : 8623 : Bhagavad-Gita


Love is the crocodile on the river of desire.
Bhartrihari : 12070 : Bhartrihari


When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.
Vinoba Bhave : 6886 : Bhave, Vinoba


He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Elizabeth Bibesco : 4331 : Bibesco, Elizabeth


The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Georges Bidault : 8049 : Bidault, Georges


Consul: in American politics, a person who, having failed to secure an office from the people, is given one by the administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce : 79 : Bierce, Ambrose


International arbitration can be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one.
Ambrose Bierce : 80 : Bierce, Ambrose


Future: that period of time when our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Ambrose Bierce : 81 : Bierce, Ambrose


The gambling known as business looks with austere displeasure upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce : 2601 : Bierce, Ambrose


Knowledge: The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
Ambrose Bierce : 3554 : Bierce, Ambrose


When Eve first saw her reflection in a pool, she sought Adam and accused him of infidelity.
Ambrose Bierce : 3706 : Bierce, Ambrose


Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce : 3842 : Bierce, Ambrose


Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Ambrose Bierce : 3955 : Bierce, Ambrose


Patience: A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce : 4117 : Bierce, Ambrose


Ocean: A body of water occupying two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce : 4364 : Bierce, Ambrose


Hospitality: The virtue that induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
Ambrose Bierce : 4534 : Bierce, Ambrose


Responsibility: a detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce : 4664 : Bierce, Ambrose


Dentist: a prestidigitator who, putting metal into your mouth, pulls coins out of your pocket.
Ambrose Bierce : 4786 : Bierce, Ambrose


The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce : 4983 : Bierce, Ambrose


Clergyman: A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
Ambrose Bierce : 5212 : Bierce, Ambrose


Politics - a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce : 5636 : Bierce, Ambrose


Peace - in international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Ambrose Bierce : 5639 : Bierce, Ambrose


Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce : 6051 : Bierce, Ambrose


An international political alliance is the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce : 6262 : Bierce, Ambrose


To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary : 6715 : Bierce, Ambrose


Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary : 6735 : Bierce, Ambrose


Absurdity, noun: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" : 6935 : Bierce, Ambrose


The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" : 7047 : Bierce, Ambrose


Beauty: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce : 7346 : Bierce, Ambrose


Day: n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce : 7454 : Bierce, Ambrose


Here's to woman! Would that we could fall into her arms without falling into her hands.
Ambrose Bierce : 7656 : Bierce, Ambrose


Optimism: The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce : 8331 : Bierce, Ambrose


Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce : 8592 : Bierce, Ambrose


Fashion: A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Ambrose Bierce : 8766 : Bierce, Ambrose


Philosophy: a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
Ambrose Bierce : 8802 : Bierce, Ambrose


There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" : 9393 : Bierce, Ambrose


Opera: A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures, and no postures but attitudes.
Ambrose Bierce : 9653 : Bierce, Ambrose


Chop: A piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.
Ambrose Bierce : 10736 : Bierce, Ambrose


Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce : 11375 : Bierce, Ambrose


Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime, and a fool's excuse for failure.
Ambrose Bierce : 11646 : Bierce, Ambrose


Advice: The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit.
Ambrose Bierce : 11789 : Bierce, Ambrose


Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
Ambrose Bierce : 11976 : Bierce, Ambrose


Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce : 12310 : Bierce, Ambrose


I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.
Kathryn Bigelow : 10203 : Bigelow, Kathryn


No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
Theodore Bikel : 10958 : Bikel, Theodore


The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force, but of dedication, of moral persuasion.
Steve Biko : 8555 : Biko, Steve


Better that a girl has beauty than brains, because boys see better than they think.
Josh Billings : 1050 : Billings, Josh


Solitude: a good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
Josh Billings : 1051 : Billings, Josh


About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
Josh Billings : 1052 : Billings, Josh


As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Josh Billings : 1053 : Billings, Josh


Most people repent of their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
Josh Billings : 1054 : Billings, Josh


Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
Josh Billings : 1055 : Billings, Josh


Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing well those cards you hold.
Josh Billings : 1056 : Billings, Josh


There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together
Josh Billings : 1057 : Billings, Josh


There are people so addicted to exaggeration they can't tell the truth without lying.
Josh Billings : 1058 : Billings, Josh


If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Josh Billings : 1059 : Billings, Josh


The road to ruin is always kept in good repair, and the travelers pay the expense of it.
Josh Billings : 1060 : Billings, Josh


Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
Josh Billings : 1061 : Billings, Josh


Genuine grief is like penitence, not glamorous, but subdued.
Josh Billings : 1062 : Billings, Josh


The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Josh Billings : 2381 : Billings, Josh


Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Josh Billings : 2962 : Billings, Josh


Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful uneasy to take.
Josh Billings : 3321 : Billings, Josh


The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings : 4353 : Billings, Josh


As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings : 4494 : Billings, Josh


A man with a small head is like a pin without any, very apt to get into things beyond his depth.
Josh Billings : 4533 : Billings, Josh


Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
Josh Billings : 4541 : Billings, Josh


Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
Josh Billings : 4544 : Billings, Josh


Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings : 4586 : Billings, Josh


There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
Josh Billings : 4744 : Billings, Josh


When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
Josh Billings : 4877 : Billings, Josh


Friendship is like earthenware, once broken it can be mended; Love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.
Josh Billings : 4897 : Billings, Josh


The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings : 5097 : Billings, Josh


The best time to hold your tongue is the time when you feel you must say something or bust.
Josh Billings : 5337 : Billings, Josh


Fame is climbing a greasy pole for ten dollars and ruining trousers worth fifteen dollars.
Josh Billings : 5349 : Billings, Josh


I don't care how much a man talks if he only says it in a few words.
Josh Billings : 5409 : Billings, Josh


In youth, we run into difficulties. And in old age, difficulties run into us.
Josh Billings : 5501 : Billings, Josh


The morning paper is just as necessary to an American as dew is to the grass.
Josh Billings : 5511 : Billings, Josh


It is very easy to manage your neighbor's business, but our own sometimes bothers us.
Josh Billings : 5608 : Billings, Josh


There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Josh Billings : 5657 : Billings, Josh


Every man has a perfect right to his opinion, provided it agrees with ours.
Josh Billings : 5876 : Billings, Josh


It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; We can dodge an elephant but we can't dodge a fly.
Josh Billings : 6209 : Billings, Josh


There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared, and that is twins.
Josh Billings : 6213 : Billings, Josh


I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Josh Billings : 6242 : Billings, Josh


The Devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea. and the business now suffers from competition.
Josh Billings : 6330 : Billings, Josh


I have seen hypocrisy that was so artful that it was good judgment to be deceived by it.
Josh Billings : 7658 : Billings, Josh


Genuine laughter is a vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and it is just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.
Josh Billings : 9985 : Billings, Josh


Consider the postage stamp: Its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings : 10054 : Billings, Josh


Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
Josh Billings : 10299 : Billings, Josh


Good breeding is the art of making everybody satisfied with themselves and pleased with you.
Josh Billings : 10496 : Billings, Josh


There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings : 10610 : Billings, Josh


Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Josh Billings : 11420 : Billings, Josh


Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.
Josh Billings : 12035 : Billings, Josh


Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings : 12780 : Billings, Josh


Fiftieth birthdays should be times of huge goodwill. Only people who put on fake tan and pretend to be younger than they are don't get to join the party.
Maeve Binchy : 4640 : Binchy, Maeve


I had to face the facts. I was pear shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.
Charlotte Bingham : 366 : Bingham, Charlotte


Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird : 3263 : Bird, Larry


A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird : 4509 : Bird, Larry


I've got a theory that if you give a hundred percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird : 10211 : Bird, Larry


I do not object to people looking at their watches when I am speaking. But I strongly object when they start shaking them to make certain they are still going.
Lord Birkett : 2686 : Birkett, Lord


Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.
Augustine Birrell : 7816 : Birrell, Augustine


(Those born in November) ... should prize the topaz's amber hue - emblem of friends and lovers true.
Birthstone Rhymes : 4946 : Birthstone Rhymes


We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves.
Jim Bishop : 6336 : Bishop, Jim


When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
Otto von Bismarck : 1419 : Bismarck, Otto von


People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.
Otto von Bismarck : 1420 : Bismarck, Otto von


Passions are like the trout in a pond; one devours the others until only one fat old trout is left.
Otto von Bismarck : 4713 : Bismarck, Otto von


With a gentleman, I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Otto von Bismarck : 6542 : Bismarck, Otto von


A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.
Otto von Bismarck : 6569 : Bismarck, Otto von


Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck : 8403 : Bismarck, Otto von


Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
Otto von Bismarck : 10540 : Bismarck, Otto von


A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset : 10014 : Bisset, Jacqueline


The chance of bread falling with the buttered side up is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
Arthur Black : 173 : Black, Arthur


It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone : 1895 : Blackstone, William


It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffers.
William Blackstone : 2387 : Blackstone, William


For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.
Elizabeth Blackwell : 7916 : Blackwell, Elizabeth


We wanted something for ourselves and for our children, so we took a chance with our lives.
Unita Blackwell : 10757 : Blackwell, Unita


The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
Tony Blair : 1803 : Blair, Tony


This is not the time for sound bites. I can feel the hand of history on our shoulders.
Tony Blair, on talks with Northern Ireland : 2336 : Blair, Tony


Most of the worthwhile, the beautiful, the progressive, and the useful achievements of Homo sapiens had been produced by introverted neurotics.
Anne Blaisdell : 7564 : Blaisdell, Anne


If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.
Eubie Blake : 2825 : Blake, Eubie


Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind; listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.
Eubie Blake : 8864 : Blake, Eubie


East side, west side, all around the town
James W. Blake and Charles B. Lawlor : 10821 : Blake, James W.


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake : 1896 : Blake, William


No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
William Blake : 1897 : Blake, William


A robin red breast in a cage puts all heaven in a rage.
William Blake : 3326 : Blake, William


When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.
William Blake : 6293 : Blake, William


When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
William Blake : 9524 : Blake, William


To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake : 11743 : Blake, William


The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
William Blake : 11958 : Blake, William


It's not that women try to do too much. It's that women have too much to do.
Mary Kay Blakely : 1280 : Blakely, Mary Kay


If somebody can do something eighty percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.
Sara Blakely : 12466 : Blakely, Sara


Embrace what you don't know ... because what you don't know can become your greatest asset.
Sara Blakely : 13429 : Blakely, Sara


A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.
Dr. Smiley Blanton : 12231 : Blanton, Dr. Smiley


The obstacles you face are ... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach.
Clarence Blasier : 7959 : Blasier, Clarence


When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our being too fully comprehended.
Countess of Blessington : 10640 : Blessington, Countess of


Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.
Lady Blessington : 1128 : Blessington, Lady


Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
Lady Blessington : 5426 : Blessington, Lady


Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.
Marguerite Blessington : 10045 : Blessington, Marguerite


All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) : 12712 : Blixen, Karen


There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan Bloom : 6292 : Bloom, Allan


Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Allan Bloom : 10571 : Bloom, Allan


You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom : 12782 : Bloom, Amy


Fashion matters considerably more than horoscopes, rather more than dog shows, and slightly more than hockey.
Roy Blount, Jr. : 8283 : Blount, Roy, Jr.


If you were a member of Jesse James' band and, people asked you what you were, you wouldn't say, "Well, I'm a desperado." You'd say "I work in banks" or "I've done some railroad work"
Roy Blount, Jr. : 10355 : Blount, Roy, Jr.


As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep, so fancies are but the dreams of those awake.
Sir Thomas Pope Blount : 3710 : Blount, Sir Thomas Pope


I have a great diet. Eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.
Ed Bluestone : 495 : Bluestone, Ed


If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.
Judy Blume : 8415 : Blume, Judy


I learned to trust my obsessions. It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly : 2779 : Bly, Robert


Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
G. D. Boardman : 655 : Boardman, G. D.


Much of what we ascribe to human nature is no more than a reaction to the restraints put upon us by our civilization.
Franz Boas : 10716 : Boas, Franz


All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
Michael John Bobak : 12871 : Bobak, Michael John


They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett : 8260 : Bodett, Tom


In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett : 11091 : Bodett, Tom


The good life is the healthful life, the merry life. Life is health, joy, laughter.
Jean Bodin : 5475 : Bodin, Jean


Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese : 9250 : Boese, Paul


Actors have always been a suspect breed. Socially, I find myself more admissible now in England because I've written books.
Dirk Bogarde : 442 : Bogarde, Dirk


A hot dog at the ball game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart : 4118 : Bogart, Humphrey


Money has only one use - to give one independence from his enemies.
Humphrey Bogart : 5120 : Bogart, Humphrey


The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart : 7150 : Bogart, Humphrey


Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.
Humphrey Bogart : 8760 : Bogart, Humphrey


A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart : 11355 : Bogart, Humphrey


When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
John B. Bogart : 6643 : Bogart, John B.


If you hype something and it succeeds you're a genius, it wasn't hype; If you hype it and it fails, then it's just a hype.
Neil Bogart : 12680 : Bogart, Neil


In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.
David Bohm : 7912 : Bohm, David


One of the favorite maxims of my father was the distinction between the two sorts of truths, profound truths recognized by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth, in contrast to trivialities where opposites are obviously absurd.
Niels Bohr : 1342 : Bohr, Niels


Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr : 8853 : Bohr, Niels


An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr : 9528 : Bohr, Niels


The opposite of a great truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr : 12195 : Bohr, Niels


Gold gives even to plainness the color of beauty.
Nicolas Boileau : 1341 : Boileau, Nicolas


There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
Derek Bok : 11708 : Bok, Derek


Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
Gary Bolding, in a commencement speech : 3019 : Bolding, Gary


The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to a martyr.
Anne Boleyn : 112 : Boleyn, Anne


Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska : 7195 : Boliska, Al


One of the saddest lines in the world is, "Oh come now - be realistic." The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Richard Nelson Bolles : 6245 : Bolles, Richard Nelson


There are better starters than me but I'm a strong finisher.
Usain Bolt : 12368 : Bolt, Usain


A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Bolton : 1536 : Bolton, Robert


To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans : 3175 : Bomans, Godfried


I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away.
Erma Bombeck : 576 : Bombeck, Erma


In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.
Erma Bombeck : 577 : Bombeck, Erma


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 room to grow.
Erma Bombeck : 578 : Bombeck, Erma


If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck : 579 : Bombeck, Erma


Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class.
Erma Bombeck : 580 : Bombeck, Erma


Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.
Erma Bombeck : 581 : Bombeck, Erma


What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Erma Bombeck : 1962 : Bombeck, Erma


The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
Erma Bombeck : 3357 : Bombeck, Erma


The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Erma Bombeck : 3740 : Bombeck, Erma


As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
Erma Bombeck : 5998 : Bombeck, Erma


I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill.
Erma Bombeck : 7032 : Bombeck, Erma


Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck : 7108 : Bombeck, Erma


For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays "Holiday for Strings" on water glasses.
Erma Bombeck : 7512 : Bombeck, Erma


When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.
Erma Bombeck : 8311 : Bombeck, Erma


When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
Erma Bombeck : 8915 : Bombeck, Erma


I work ridiculous hours every day, and people always ask me how I do it. But fourteen years of unemployment kind of rests a guy.
Danny Bonaduce : 10432 : Bonaduce, Danny


There is no legitimacy on earth but in a government which is the choice of the nation.
Joseph Bonaparte : 8689 : Bonaparte, Joseph


Why and how are words so essential that they cannot be too often used.
Napoleon : 1332 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon I : 1333 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Constitutions are the work of time; one cannot leave too large a space for improvements.
Napoleon I : 1334 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
Napoleon I : 1335 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


What a delightful thing rest is! The bed has become a place of luxury to me. I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
Napoleon I : 1336 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Circumstances! - I make circumstances!
Napoleon I : 2127 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon I : 2189 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Great men are like meteors: they glitter and are consumed to enlighten the world.
Napoleon : 2508 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


I defy anyone to trick me. Men would have to be exceptional rascals to be as bad as I assume them to be.
Napoleon I : 2776 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon I : 3334 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon I : 3618 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Water, air, and cleanliness are the chief articles in my pharmacopoeia.
Napoleon I : 4394 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon I : 4796 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
Napoleon I : 5076 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon I : 6091 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. I love it as an artist.
Napoleon I : 6266 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Soldiers win battles and generals get the credit.
Napoleon I : 6508 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Soldiers are made on purpose to be killed.
Napoleon : 8407 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


If you wish to keep your private affairs secret, keep your servants well paid
Napoleon I : 9067 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon I : 9364 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Men are like ciphers: They acquire their value merely from their position.
Napoleon I : 9455 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


A leader is a dealer of hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte : 10178 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents.
Napoleon I : 10778 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon I : 11233 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; In life it has an even chance.
Napoleon Bonaparte : 11714 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


The old nobility would have survived if they had known enough to become masters of printing materials.
Napoleon I : 11975 : Bonaparte, Napoleon


Come, let us give a little time to folly, and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.
Saint Bonaventura : 6627 : Bonaventura, Saint


The test of morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 438 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 5086 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 7886 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 8061 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer : 9534 : Bonhoeffer, Dietrich


It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano : 4820 : Bonnano, Margaret


You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
Pierre Bonnard : 13212 : Bonnard, Pierre


The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bono : 12766 : Bono


The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
Grady Booch : 10592 : Booch, Grady


Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, o Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night.
Book of Common Prayer : 2705 : Book of Common Prayer


Give, and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.
Book of Luke : 7445 : Book of Luke


All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
Daniel Boone : 416 : Boone, Daniel


I can't say as ever I was lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
Daniel Boone : 12679 : Boone, Daniel


Although politicians hold no monopoly on speaking without thinking, they certainly have a knack for it.
Louis E. Boone : 1190 : Boone, Louis E.


Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep him properly in the public eye.
Daniel Boorstin : 3032 : Boorstin, Daniel


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin : 6420 : Boorstin, Daniel


Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel Boorstin : 7783 : Boorstin, Daniel


When the gods wish to punish us, they make us believe our own advertising.
Daniel Boorstin : 8443 : Boorstin, Daniel


Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet, we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models.
Daniel J. Boorstin : 9951 : Boorstin, Daniel J.


I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me.
Elayne Boosler : 4990 : Boosler, Elayne


I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.
Elayne Boosler : 5709 : Boosler, Elayne


My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
Elayne Boosler : 7579 : Boosler, Elayne


Laundry's easier when you live alone. Fifteen minutes before a date, put 'em on, dry 'em with a hair blower.
Elayne Boosler : 8993 : Boosler, Elayne


A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren : 4388 : Boren, James H.


Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge : 10150 : Borge, Victor


My father invented the burglar alarm - which unfortunately was stolen from him.
Victor Borge : 12022 : Borge, Victor


The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
Jorge Luis Borges : 1033 : Borges, Jorge Luis


You can't measure life in days the way you do money in dollars, because every day is different.
Jorge Luis Borges : 2534 : Borges, Jorge Luis


There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges : 3600 : Borges, Jorge Luis


Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Jorge Luis Borges : 6153 : Borges, Jorge Luis


In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
Jorge Luis Borges : 7527 : Borges, Jorge Luis


I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges : 9600 : Borges, Jorge Luis


So you plant your own garden and embellish your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring flowers to you.
Jorge Luis Borges : 12834 : Borges, Jorge Luis


You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland : 4709 : Borland, Hal


Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland : 9877 : Borland, Hal


If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland : 13213 : Borland, Hal


July is hot afternoons and sultry nights and mornings when it's joy just to be alive.
Hal Borland : 13541 : Borland, Hal


Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
Ludwig Borne : 10296 : Borne, Ludwig


I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.
Robert Bosch : 11115 : Bosch, Robert


I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
James Boswell : 4270 : Boswell, James


Nothing really sets human nature free but self-control.
Paul Bottome : 9108 : Bottome, Paul


There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
Phyllis Bottome : 6540 : Bottome, Phyllis


Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome : 9088 : Bottome, Phyllis


Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.
Nadia Boulanger : 11272 : Boulanger, Nadia


A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger : 13060 : Boulanger, Nadia


Anyone who believes the exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.
Kenneth Boulding : 5460 : Boulding, Kenneth


Barbecue may not be the road to world peace, but it's a start.
Anthony Bourdain : 13438 : Bourdain, Anthony


An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.
Anthony Bourdain : 13534 : Bourdain, Anthony


When a man can observe himself suffering, and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, that means he was born for literature.
Edouard Bourdet : 3066 : Bourdet, Edouard


It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Alec Bourne : 10923 : Bourne, Alec


Good talk is like good scenery - continuous, yet constantly varying, and full of the charm of novelty and surprise.
Randolph Bourne : 1506 : Bourne, Randolph


Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton : 8960 : Bouton, Jim


How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always right?
Jim Bouton : 10539 : Bouton, Jim


You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton : 11898 : Bouton, Jim


Active natures are rarely melancholy; Activity and sadness are incompatible.
C. N. Bovee : 5613 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Kindess is a language the mute can speak and the deaf can hear.
Christian Bovee : 5614 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
C. N. Bovee : 5874 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
C. N. Bovee : 6240 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Honesty is not only the first step toward greatness - it is greatness itself.
C. N. Bovee : 6518 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.
Christian Nestell Bovee : 9189 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
Christian Nestell Bovee : 9193 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.
Christian Bovee : 9194 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
C. N. Bovee : 9195 : Bovee, Christian Nestell


Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen : 11150 : Bowen, Catherine Drinker


On the subject of dress almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes do not concern them, somebody else's do.
Elizabeth Bowen : 3903 : Bowen, Elizabeth


The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Elizabeth Bowen : 5905 : Bowen, Elizabeth


It is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen : 8262 : Bowen, Elizabeth


When I hear of an "equity" in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
Lord Bowen : 2307 : Bowen, Lord


Common exercises indulged in by the average middle-aged American male are running down their friends, jumping to conclusions, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck.
W. J. Bowerman and W. E. Harris : 9941 : Bowerman, W. J. & Harris, W. E.


I want to be a Frank Sinatra figure. And I will succeed.
David Bowie : 427 : Bowie, David


It wasn't why he painted a Campbell's soup can. It was "What sort of man paints a Campbell's soup can?" That's what aggravates people.
David Bowie, on Andy Warhol : 7556 : Bowie, David


I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
David Bowie : 8465 : Bowie, David


I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
David Bowie : 12681 : Bowie, David


However crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.
David Bowie : 13156 : Bowie, David


Anyone who eats three meals a day should understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one.
L. M. Boyd : 4527 : Boyd, L. M.


You are not as bright as you feel after the second drink.
Peg Bracken : 1294 : Bracken, Peg


What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.
Peg Bracken : 6027 : Bracken, Peg


A slight tax increase costs you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents.
Peg Bracken : 10070 : Bracken, Peg


Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry christmas.
Peg Bracken : 12652 : Bracken, Peg


I've noticed your hostility towards him - I ought to have guessed you were friends.
Malcolm Bradbury : 3185 : Bradbury, Malcolm


The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury : 6418 : Bradbury, Malcolm


You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
Ray Bradbury : 5292 : Bradbury, Ray


Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.
Ray Bradbury : 7444 : Bradbury, Ray


I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
Ray Bradbury : 7865 : Bradbury, Ray


There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
Ray Bradbury : 8420 : Bradbury, Ray


Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.
Ray Bradbury : 8893 : Bradbury, Ray


You've got to jump off the cliff all the time, and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury : 12334 : Bradbury, Ray


My stories run up and bite me in the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite.
Ray Bradbury : 12683 : Bradbury, Ray


Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen.
Ray Bradbury : 12950 : Bradbury, Ray


I've found two gray hairs in my head the week before last, and an impertinent crow has planted a delicate impression of his foot under my right eye.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon : 1278 : Braddon, Mary Elizabeth


Ambition is the path to success persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Bill Bradley : 13417 : Bradley, Bill


Far from being a handicap to command, compassion is the measure of it. For unless one values the lives of his soldiers and is tormented by their ideals, he is unfit to command.
Omar N. Bradley : 3010 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 6847 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 6854 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 6861 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Gen. Omar N. Bradley : 13447 : Bradley, Gen. Omar N.


Science fiction encourages us to explore ... all the futures, good and bad that the human mind can envision.
Marion Zimmer Bradley : 12678 : Bradley, Marion Zimmer


I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities.
Preston Bradley : 7635 : Bradley, Preston


If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. If we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Anne Bradstreet : 2132 : Bradstreet, Anne


Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Anne Bradstreet : 2828 : Bradstreet, Anne


Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; And anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.
Anne Bradstreet : 12685 : Bradstreet, Anne


Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker : 8710 : Braiker, Harriet


Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
Berton Braley : 243 : Braley, Berton


Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.
Lord Bramwell : 5686 : Bramwell, Lord


Why is the king of hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?
James Branch : 918 : Branch, James


When fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
Stewart Brand : 8682 : Brand, Stewart


Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Louis Brandeis : 1187 : Brandeis, Louis D.


If we would be guided by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.
Louis D. Brandeis : 1188 : Brandeis, Louis D.


I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis : 8887 : Brandeis, Louis D.


Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Louis Brandeis : 9537 : Brandeis, Louis D.


The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
Marlon Brando : 7317 : Brando, Marlon


If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
Marlon Brando : 8633 : Brando, Marlon


Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando : 10508 : Brando, Marlon


Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt : 10329 : Brandt, Anthony


There would be no pleasure properly so called if a man were sure to win. It is the reconciling of uncertainty to our desires that creates the satisfaction.
Frederick Brandt : 8912 : Brandt, Frederick


A heretic is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
William Cowper Brann : 2464 : Brann, William Cowper


If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: Get there on time.
Richard Branson : 12478 : Branson, Richard


Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude : 10924 : Braude, Jacob Morton


The fence that makes good neighbors needs a gate to make good friends.
Jacob M. Braude : 12518 : Braude, Jacob Morton


Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share, and sought advantage over no one.
Robert Brault : 2393 : Brault, Robert


Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.
Robert Brault : 4248 : Brault, Robert


Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Robert Brault : 10321 : Brault, Robert


There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly lit front porch.
Robert Brault : 11128 : Brault, Robert


I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
Robert Brault : 13357 : Brault, Robert


Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.
Carol Moseley Braun : 13209 : Braun, Carol Moseley


With every new answer unfolded, science has consistently discovered at least three new questions.
Wernher Von Braun : 1878 : Braun, Wernher von


For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher Von Braun : 2255 : Braun, Wernher von


I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun : 8360 : Braun, Wernher von


Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher Von Braun : 9522 : Braun, Wernher Von


We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork gets to be overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun : 12014 : Braun, Wernher von


The source of status is no longer the ability to make things but simply the ability to purchase them.
Harry Braverman : 2765 : Braverman, Harry


A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.
Sarah Ban Breathnach : 11260 : Breathnach, Sarah Ban


Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.
Sarah Ban Breathnach : 12904 : Breathnach, Sarah Ban


New Year's Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written.
Sarah Ban Breathnach : 12908 : Breathnach, Sarah Ban


Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States.
J. Bartlet Brebner : 6002 : Brebner, J. Bartlet


Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht : 3281 : Brecht, Bertolt


The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
Bertolt Brecht : 3965 : Brecht, Bertolt


Because I don't trust him, we are friends.
Bertolt Brecht : 7723 : Brecht, Bertolt


Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht : 7775 : Brecht, Bertolt


He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
Bertolt Brecht : 9492 : Brecht, Bertolt


Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Marjorie Barstow Breenbie : 3781 : Breenbie, Marjorie Barstow


Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
Drew Brees : 12698 : Brees, Drew


Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. the poor know that it is money.
Gerald Brenan : 3817 : Brenan, Gerald


Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is so say, their own ideas and other people's values.
Gerald Brenan : 10669 : Brenan, Gerald


A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.
David Brenner : 3350 : Brenner, David


Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors.
David Brenner : 11396 : Brenner, David


As a reporter, I like to keep in the middle and be disliked by both sides.
Jimmy Breslin : 2622 : Breslin, Jimmy


Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
Jimmy Breslin : 9894 : Breslin, Jimmy


Media, the plural of mediocrity.
Jimmy Breslin : 12082 : Breslin, Jimmy


An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
Robert Bresson : 6469 : Bresson, Robert


When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.
Robert Bresson : 8663 : Bresson, Robert


All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton : 8458 : Breton, Andre


We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
Regina Brett : 11825 : Brett, Regina


If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
Regina Brett : 12358 : Brett, Regina


If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
Regina Brett : 12899 : Brett, Regina


Diligence is that energy and industry which we show when we do what we like.
E. C. Brewer : 3834 : Brewer, E. C.


Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard, indisputable, factual information.
Kingman Brewster : 10690 : Brewster, Kingman


Memory is the storehouse in which the substance of our knowledge is treasured up.
Charles Bridges : 12170 : Bridges, Charles


I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
Robert Bridges : 4830 : Bridges, Robert


Conduct lies in masterful administration of the unforeseen.
Robert Bridges : 10546 : Bridges, Robert


Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.
Ruby Bridges : 13331 : Bridges, Ruby


Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
William Bridges : 9338 : Bridges, William


There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Percy Williams Bridgman : 8005 : Bridgman, Percy Williams


Animals feed; man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.
Brillat-Savarin : 286 : Brillat-Savarin


I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 183 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 184 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


No man is an island, but some of us are pretty long peninsulas.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 3609 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 4000 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant : 10767 : Brilliant, Ashleigh


When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.
Christie Brinkley : 3022 : Brinkley, Christie


A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley : 5435 : Brinkley, David


To be constantly skeptical is to believe in doubt, which is after all a form of faith.
Crane Brinton : 8019 : Brinton, Crane


Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
Steuart Henderson Britt : 11791 : Britt, Steuart Henderson


The horse is a companion like a dog or cat and can go places a car cannot.
Debbie Britt-Hay : 10799 : Britt-Hay, Debbie


The vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
William Broad : 4081 : Broad, William


Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Lou Brock : 3270 : Brock, Lou


You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
Lou Brock : 11494 : Brock, Lou


Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder : 2694 : Broder, David


Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off.
Paul Brodeur : 4857 : Brodeur, Paul


In Scotland we have a verdict "not proven." That means "not guilty, but don't do it again."
Andrew Brodie : 9420 : Brodie, Andrew


A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie : 6282 : Brodie, Fawn M.


Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie : 8249 : Brodie, Fawn M.


There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky, at a press conference, Washington, D.C. : 10707 : Brodsky, Joseph


No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.
Joseph Brodsky : 11227 : Brodsky, Joseph


The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
Jacob Bronowski : 2762 : Bronowski, Jacob


The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Jacob Bronowski : 7570 : Bronowski, Jacob


Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski : 9631 : Bronowski, Jacob


Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.
Jacob Bronowski : 10412 : Bronowski, Jacob


I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
Charlotte Bronte : 6150 : Bronte, Charlotte


A memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment.
Charlotte Bronte : 10034 : Bronte, Charlotte


No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mold, and tilled with manure.
Charlotte Bronte : 10639 : Bronte, Charlotte


Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte : 11951 : Bronte, Charlotte


I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
Charlotte Bronte : 12273 : Bronte, Charlotte


Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte : 9874 : Bronte, Emily


It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.
Beth Brooke : 11455 : Brooke, Beth


A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke : 7486 : Brooke, Rupert


Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
Rupert Brooke : 10158 : Brooke, Rupert


Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.
Charlie Brooker : 13114 : Brooker, Charlie


Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman : 11780 : Brookman, Adele


Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
Bellamy Brooks : 3172 : Brooks, Bellamy


Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks : 7464 : Brooks, Fred


Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks : 4142 : Brooks, Garth


With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
Gwendolyn Brooks : 4404 : Brooks, Gwendolyn


To be in love is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Gwendolyn Brooks : 13439 : Brooks, Gwendolyn


Directing is preventing the bad picture from happening, rather than making the good movie.
James L. Brooks : 8679 : Brooks, James L.


Hope for the best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.
Mel Brooks : 1295 : Brooks, Mel


I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.
Mel Brooks : 8643 : Brooks, Mel


As long as the world is turning, we're going to be dizzy.
Mel Brooks : 10154 : Brooks, Mel


My Uncle Joe was a philosopher, very deep, very serious. Never eat chocolate after chicken, he'd tell us, wagging his finger. Don't buy a cardboard belt.
Mel Brooks : 10660 : Brooks, Mel


It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
Phillips Brooks : 5031 : Brooks, Phillips


Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks : 9146 : Brooks, Phillips


Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
Phillips Brooks : 9326 : Brooks, Phillips


Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Phillips Brooks : 13058 : Brooks, Phillips


Emerson advised his fellow townsmen to manufacture schoolteachers and make them the best in the world.
Van Wyck Brooks : 3689 : Brooks, Van Wyck


Joe Garagiola is considered a humorist, like Mark Twain, who also came from Missouri. The resemblance is purely residential.
Jim Brosnan : 11921 : Brosnan, Jim


Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Dr. Joyce Brothers : 3245 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Joyce Brothers : 4338 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


Marriage is not just spiritual communion; It is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers : 5887 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


Listening, not imitation, may be the sheerest form of flattery.
Joyce Brothers : 6485 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
Joyce Brothers : 12209 : Brothers, Dr. Joyce


My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my needs.
Brotherton : 287 : Brotherton


Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
Henry Brougham : 6361 : Brougham, Henry


Loving kindness, warm hearts and the stretched out hand of tolerance. All the shining gifts that make peace on earth.
Bishop Henry Brougham ("The Bishop's Wife") : 10911 : Brougham, Henry


All there is to be said for work as opposed to dancing is that it is so much easier.
Heywood Broun : 9772 : Broun, Heywood


Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
Heywood Broun : 10068 : Broun, Heywood


Almost nobody means precisely what he says when he makes the declaration, "I'm in favor of free speech."
Heywood Broun : 871 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Repartee is what you wish you'd said.
Heywood Broun : 2652 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
Heywood Broun : 3200 : Broun, Heywood Hale


The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Broun : 3839 : Broun, Heywood Hale


The underdog can and will lick his weight in the wildcats of the world.
Heywood Broun : 4429 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Brotherhood is not just a bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun : 5609 : Broun, Heywood Hale


Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Hale Broun : 8086 : Broun, Heywood Hale


A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Charlie Brower : 3890 : Brower, Charlie


I have always thought the nuclear threat was blown way out of proportion. I have a feeling our descendants are going to look back at all this nuclear hysteria from the bottom of their toxic waste dumps and laugh their feelers off. Philosophically, I would
A. Whitney Brown : 5648 : Brown, A. Whitney


Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
A. Whitney Brown : 5703 : Brown, A. Whitney


Actually, I became a vegetarian not so much because I love animals but because I hate plants. I still like to hunt though. In fact, I've found that plants are a lot easier than animals to sneak up on.
A. Whitney Brown : 6253 : Brown, A. Whitney


That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail, no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown : 12262 : Brown, A. Whitney


The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown : 12292 : Brown, A. Whitney


Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.
Brene Brown : 12443 : Brown, Brene


Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Brene Brown : 12980 : Brown, Brene


There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters - I could be their leader.
Charlie Brown : 7126 : Brown, Charlie


Journalism could be described as turning one's enemies into money.
Craig Brown : 10820 : Brown, Craig


The only reason you were born was to be better than your parents and to make this world better for your children.
Drew Brown : 8295 : Brown, Drew


Spy and the world spies with you; get caught and you're on your own.
G. Brown : 651 : Brown, G.


Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 7133 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 7155 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. : 9869 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. : 10136 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 10284 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. : 10446 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


My mother said, "No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs you back."
H. Jackson Brown : 12186 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
H. Jackson Brown : 12375 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
H. Jackson Brown Jr. : 12719 : Brown, H. Jackson, Jr.


Time is God's way to keep everything from happening at once.
James Brown : 3613 : Brown, James


The insatiable appetite for campaign dollars virtually has turned the government into a stop-and-shop for every greed and special interest in the country.
Jerry Brown : 9648 : Brown, Jerry


How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington D. C. as a city that goes around in circles.
John Mason Brown : 1009 : Brown, John Mason


Reasoning with a child is fine, If you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.
John Mason Brown : 5254 : Brown, John Mason


You cannot be wimpy out there on the dream-seeking trail. Dare to break through barriers, to find your own path.
Les Brown : 7956 : Brown, Les


Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Les Brown : 8716 : Brown, Les


Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Les Brown : 9047 : Brown, Les


Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
Les Brown : 9080 : Brown, Les


Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown : 9120 : Brown, Les


Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown : 10182 : Brown, Les


When life knocks you down, try to fall on your back because if you can look up, you can get up.
Les Brown : 10764 : Brown, Les


Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown : 12374 : Brown, Les


Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les Brown : 12989 : Brown, Les


You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown : 13124 : Brown, Les


You know you're old when you have lost all your marvels.
Merry Brown : 5424 : Brown, Merry


Sisters don't need words. They have perfected a language of snarls and smiles and frowns and winks - expressions of shocked surprise and incredulity and disbelief. Sniffs and snorts and gasps and sighs - that can undermine any tale you're telling.
Pam Brown : 3876 : Brown, Pam


If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Pam Brown : 4694 : Brown, Pam


When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of fifty bucks. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.
Pat Brown : 11504 : Brown, Pat


Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Rita Mae Brown : 1529 : Brown, Rita Mae


Once you know what women are like, men get kind of boring.
Rita Mae Brown : 2919 : Brown, Rita Mae


The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
Rita Mae Brown : 3005 : Brown, Rita Mae


You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
Rita Mae Brown : 3608 : Brown, Rita Mae


Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of
Rita Mae Brown : 5897 : Brown, Rita Mae


You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If somebody drives it off a cliff, that's it.
Rita Mae Brown : 6176 : Brown, Rita Mae


A peacefulness follows any decision, even the wrong one.
Rita Mae Brown : 6497 : Brown, Rita Mae


About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown : 7205 : Brown, Rita Mae


Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
Rita Mae Brown : 7707 : Brown, Rita Mae


The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.
Ruth Brown : 2833 : Brown, Ruth


The blues itself knows no color line. It is about people learning how to go inside themselves and touch something. The blues is like vocal crying. It is a way for a man to cry with dignity.
Ruth Brown : 7185 : Brown, Ruth


Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brown : 3601 : Brown, Sam


It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.
Sherrill Brown : 4841 : Brown, Sherrill


Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Steve Brown : 8059 : Brown, Steve


A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
T. E. Brown : 10176 : Brown, T. E.


The sweetest sounds to mortals given; are heard in mother, home and heaven.
William Goldsmith Brown : 7410 : Brown, William Goldsmith


Character is the trademark of the trustworthy.
Merry Browne : 11683 : Browne, Merry


It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces, there should be none alike
Thomas Browne : 3993 : Browne, Sir Thomas


It is a brave act to despise death; but where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne : 5981 : Browne, Sir Thomas


But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Sir Thomas Browne : 7568 : Browne, Sir Thomas


A man may be in as just possession of truth as a city, and yet be forced to surrender.
Sir Thomas Browne : 8009 : Browne, Sir Thomas


I was only a poor poet, made for singing at her casement, as the finches or the thrushes, while she thought of other things.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 2415 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 3165 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chiefly.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 4075 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 6131 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


Love me sweet, With all thou art, Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 9686 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning : 11060 : Browning, Elizabeth Barrett


When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
Robert Browning : 6486 : Browning, Robert


Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Robert Browning : 10622 : Browning, Robert


Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth.
Robert Browning : 10843 : Browning, Robert


All we have gained then by our unbelief! Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt; We called the chess-board white - we call it black.
Robert Browning : 11174 : Browning, Robert


Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning : 13361 : Browning, Robert


The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce : 2883 : Bruce, Lenny


If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed.
Beau Brummel : 10922 : Brummel, Beau


You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
Jerome Brunner : 8694 : Brunner, Jerome


There's just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on.
Carol Rifka Brunt : 12658 : Brunt, Carol Rifka


New Yorkers are nice about giving street directions - in fact, they seem proud of knowing where they are themselves.
Katherine Brush : 4982 : Brush, Katherine


The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
Kobe Bryant : 11400 : Bryant, Kobe


Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
Kobe Bryant : 12927 : Bryant, Kobe


Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
William Cullen Bryant : 6341 : Bryant, William Cullen


Medicine: the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
James Bryce : 920 : Bryce, James


Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity. Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
James Bryce : 4599 : Bryce, James


The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
James Bryce : 11141 : Bryce, James


I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container.
Bill Bryson : 3439 : Bryson, Bill


It is the mistake of youth to think imagination a substitute for experience; it is the mistake of age to think experience a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson : 7550 : Bryson, Lyman


True ecstasy hails neither from spirit nor from nature, but from the union of these two.
Martin Buber : 2445 : Buber, Martin


The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
Martin Buber : 5221 : Buber, Martin


Solitude is the place of purification.
Martin Buber : 7398 : Buber, Martin


The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
John Buchan : 8531 : Buchan, John


The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
John Buchan : 12457 : Buchan, John


I always warn aspiring reporters to observe three basic rules: 1. Never trust an editor; 2. Never trust an editor; 3. Never trust an editor.
Edna Buchanan : 518 : Buchanan, Edna


True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Edna Buchanan : 519 : Buchanan, Edna


There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman : 2805 : Buchman, Frank


Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
Art Buchwald : 4366 : Buchwald, Art


This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.
Art Buchwald : 10501 : Buchwald, Art


I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
Art Buchwald : 12008 : Buchwald, Art


It is indeed exasperating to have a memory that begins too young and continues too long.
Pearl Buck : 2495 : Buck, Pearl S.


None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck : 2712 : Buck, Pearl S.


Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
Pearl S. Buck : 6711 : Buck, Pearl S.


One faces the future with one's past.
Pearl S. Buck : 8406 : Buck, Pearl S.


Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Pearl S. Buck : 9609 : Buck, Pearl S.


The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck : 10427 : Buck, Pearl S.


Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck : 12726 : Buck, Pearl S.


Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
Mary Buckley : 10921 : Buckley, Mary


All civilized men want peace. And all truly civilized men must despise pacifism.
William F. Buckley : 1902 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
William F. Buckley, Jr. : 1903 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


The Beatles are not merely awful ... they are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of antimusic.
William F. Buckley, Jr. : 7822 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks, and extremists this side of the giggle house.
William F. Buckley, Jr. : 11900 : Buckley, William F., Jr.


Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust the greatest of qualities.
Buddha : 291 : Buddha


Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Buddha : 3754 : Buddha


Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred - this is the law eternal.
The Buddha : 3996 : Buddha


As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise persons remain unaffected by praise or censure.
Buddha : 4735 : Buddha


Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha : 6844 : Buddha


Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha : 7782 : Buddha


The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha : 8203 : Buddha


If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Buddha : 8355 : Buddha


Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
Buddha : 8646 : Buddha


There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha : 10877 : Buddha


Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Buddha : 10908 : Buddha


No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
Buddha : 11834 : Buddha


If a man can control his mind he can find the way to enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha : 12951 : Buddha


You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha : 13092 : Buddha


Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha : 13550 : Buddha


Isn't it refreshing to know that just because we've always been a certain way, it doesn't mean we have to stay that way forever? Our beliefs are merely stories in our minds that we ourselves wrote long ago. Knowing that, don't you feel empowered to rewrit
Buddhist Boot Camp : 10267 : Buddhist Boot Camp


We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns and syrup.
Buddy the elf in Elf : 10913 : Buddy


When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far.
Eustace Budgell : 7369 : Budgell, Eustace


You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
Frederick Buechner : 4656 : Buechner, Frederick


It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sheriock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner : 8214 : Buechner, Frederick


It has been said that cigarettes are the only product that, if used according to the manufacturer's instructions, have a very high chance of killing you.
Michael Buerk : 3396 : Buerk, Michael


Advertising - the driving force behind supply-and-demand economics: the stimulation of demand for useless products through the supply of misleading claims.
Chaz Bufe : 5643 : Bufe, Chaz


We're not the descendants of philosophers. We're the children of court jesters.
Jimmy Buffet : 12026 : Buffet, Jimmy


It didn't matter how big our house was; It mattered that there was love in it.
Peter Buffett : 11404 : Buffett, Peter


Wall street is the only place people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from people who take the subway.
Warren Buffett : 1868 : Buffett, Warren


Investment must be rational. If you can't understand it, don't do it.
Warren Buffett : 2898 : Buffett, Warren


In the insurance business, there is no statute of limitations on stupidity.
Warren Buffett : 5100 : Buffett, Warren


Rule Number One: Never lose money. Rule Number Two: Never forget Rule Number One.
Warren Buffett : 8030 : Buffett, Warren


You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
Warren Buffett : 10227 : Buffett, Warren


Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
Warren Buffett : 11343 : Buffett, Warren


Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett : 12802 : Buffett, Warren


It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Warren Buffett : 13071 : Buffett, Warren


It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett : 13167 : Buffett, Warren


We might have had a two party system, but one of the two parties would be in office and the other in prison.
Nikolai Bukharin : 1344 : Bukharin, Nikolai


The difference between a Democracy and a Dictatorship is that in a Democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a Dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski : 8195 : Bukowski, Charles


Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine, I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski : 8576 : Bukowski, Charles


Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski : 12130 : Bukowski, Charles


You must have the score (music) in your head, not your head in the score.
Hans von Bulow : 5557 : Bulow, Hans von


Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; Every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 12700 : Bulwer-Lyton, Edward George


Strike from mankind the principle of faith, and men would have no more history than a flock of sheep.
Bulwer : 292 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


A fool flatters himself; the wise man flatters the fool.
Bulwer-Lytton : 293 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Bulwer-Lytton : 294 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Everyone who observes vigilantly and observes steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 521 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


It is astonishing how little one feels poverty when he loves.
Baron Bulwer-Lytton : 2147 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 2594 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 3786 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 3963 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 4578 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom themselves, either in imagination or practice.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : 7595 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 8613 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 8653 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 9164 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton : 9180 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 9994 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : 10954 : Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George


There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
Henry Bulwer-Lytton : 4614 : Bulwer-Lytton, Henry


We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act. it is often only through taking action that we can discover some of them.
Charlotte Bunch : 11198 : Bunch, Charlotte


Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than winning an Oscar. Nothing in the world would make me accept it. I wouldn't have it in my home.
Luis Bunuel : 7575 : Bunuel, Luis


Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
Luis Bunuel : 12968 : Bunuel, Luis


There was a man, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away, the more he had.
John Bunyan : 5320 : Bunyan, John


When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan : 11313 : Bunyan, John


Dust is a protective coating for fine furniture.
Mario Burata : 8093 : Burata, Mario


Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
Luther Burbank : 2537 : Burbank, Luther


Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; They are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank : 12553 : Burbank, Luther


Buckle up, and know that it's going to be a tremendous amount of work, but embrace it.
Tory Burch : 12551 : Burch, Tory


The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Robert Burchfield : 2316 : Burchfield, Robert


Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill : 7768 : Burchill, Julie


Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
Virginia Burden : 8672 : Burden, Virginia


There are two days in the week when I never worry: one is yesterday, the other is tomorrow.
Robert Burdette : 1537 : Burdette, Robert


You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.
Eric Burdon : 7927 : Burdon, Eric


Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone
Anthony Burgess : 158 : Burgess, Anthony


A work of fiction should be, for its author, a journey into the unknown, and the prose should convey the difficulties of the journey.
Anthony Burgess : 10006 : Burgess, Anthony


When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
Gelett Burgess : 674 : Burgess, Gelett


When a person visits you, remember he's your guest; receive him very kindly, and be sure he has the best.
Gelett Burgess : 675 : Burgess, Gelett


A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
Gelett Burgess : 8413 : Burgess, Gelett


If you stop and think about it, you'll realize that three out of four persons do not know exactly what they're doing a large part of the time.
Gelett Burgess : 8929 : Burgess, Gelett


It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
G. B. Burgin : 9426 : Burgin, G. B.


If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: I'm cheap."
Delta Burke : 2085 : Burke, Delta


I wanted to be Miss America so bad. I didn't make it to the top ten and I'm listening to all the names ... and I thought, I bet if I ran down there and ripped the crown off her head, I'd get on Johnny Carson.
Delta Burke : 9934 : Burke, Delta


A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke : 515 : Burke, Edmund


The people have been in the wrong, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favor of the people.
Edmund Burke : 516 : Burke, Edmund


Manners are of more importance than laws. Upon them, in a great measure, the laws depend.
Edmund Burke : 1997 : Burke, Edmund


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke : 2167 : Burke, Edmund


People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke : 2209 : Burke, Edmund


No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke : 2814 : Burke, Edmund


Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke : 3279 : Burke, Edmund


Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke : 5173 : Burke, Edmund


Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke : 5368 : Burke, Edmund


Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke : 6141 : Burke, Edmund


He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke : 6960 : Burke, Edmund


In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish. But the works of malice and injustice are finished with a bold, masterly hand.
Edmund Burke : 7237 : Burke, Edmund


To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke : 7469 : Burke, Edmund


Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke : 8400 : Burke, Edmund


The elevation of the mind ought to be the principal end of all our studies.
Edmund Burke : 9073 : Burke, Edmund


An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke : 10082 : Burke, Edmund


All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke : 10114 : Burke, Edmund


The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again.
Edmund Burke : 11556 : Burke, Edmund


The husband who doesn't tell his wife everything probably reasons that what she doesn't know won't hurt him.
Leo Burke : 2469 : Burke, Leo


People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Leo Burke : 9826 : Burke, Leo


Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Michael Burke : 5294 : Burke, Michael


We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
Carol Burnett : 12613 : Burnett, Carol


You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it.
Carol Burnett : 13024 : Burnett, Carol


Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
Carol Burnett : 13469 : Burnett, Carol


If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett : 13475 : Burnett, Frances Hodgson


When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett : 6360 : Burnett, Leo


It's a delightful thing to think of perfection; but it's vastly more amusing to talk of errors and absurdities.
Fanny Burney : 3504 : Burney, Fanny


The cure of a romantic first flame is a better surety to subsequent discretion, than all the exhortations of all the fathers, and mothers, and guardians, and maiden aunts in the universe.
Fanny Burney : 10362 : Burney, Fanny


Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham : 10466 : Burnham, Daniel H.


Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.
Sophy Burnham : 1677 : Burnham, Sophy


A warless world will come as men develop warless hearts.
Charles Wesley Burns : 4831 : Burns, Charles Wesley


Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns : 687 : Burns, George


There were twelve kids in my family, and my mother's idea of liberation was to get into the kitchen.
George Burns : 688 : Burns, George


You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns : 689 : Burns, George


When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.
George Burns : 690 : Burns, George


Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns : 2526 : Burns, George


I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.
George Burns : 4435 : Burns, George


I smoke cigars because at my age, if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.
George Burns : 4477 : Burns, George


It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns : 4772 : Burns, George


When I went to school, I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
George Burns : 5389 : Burns, George


I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be a success at something I hate.
George Burns : 5410 : Burns, George


Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal. a good cigar, and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George Burns : 6289 : Burns, George


Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns : 10880 : Burns, George


Ignorance is when you don't know something and somebody finds it out.
Jethro Burns : 10301 : Burns, Jethro


I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the St. Lawrence. That is crystal water. But the Thames is liquid history.
John Burns : 7583 : Burns, John


Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn.
Robert Burns : 1538 : Burns, Robert


Those who think that composing a Scotch song is a trifling business - let them try.
Robert Burns : 9434 : Burns, Robert


Some parents get better children than they deserve.
Raymond Burr : 4115 : Burr, Raymond


All that I have accomplished has been by that plodding, patient, persevering process of accretion which builds the ant heap particle by particle, thought by thought, fact by fact.
Elihu Burritt : 3018 : Burritt, Elihu


A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs : 989 : Burroughs, John


The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
John Burroughs : 11014 : Burroughs, John


I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
John Burroughs : 11964 : Burroughs, John


Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs : 12417 : Burroughs, John


How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs : 12846 : Burroughs, John


Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
William Burroughs : 6317 : Burroughs, William Seward


Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
W. S. Burroughs : 12937 : Burroughs, William Seward.


I am an American and therefore what I do, however small, is of importance.
Maxwell Struthers Burt : 5615 : Burt, Maxwell Struthers


If there is a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
Robert Burton : 1539 : Burton, Robert


A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Robert Burton : 2097 : Burton, Robert


One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton : 9789 : Burton, Robert


Cookery is become an art, a noble science; Cooks are gentlemen.
Robert Burton : 10279 : Burton, Robert


When the chips are not exactly down but just scattered about, you discover who your real friends are.
Richard Burton : 1520 : Burton, Sir Richard


Of all the vanities and fopperies, the vanity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth.
Sir Richard Burton : 10682 : Burton, Sir Richard


The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.
Sir Richard Burton : 12405 : Burton, Sir Richard


Don't brood, get on with living and loving, you don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia : 10879 : Buscaglia, Leo


A single rose can be my garden ... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia : 10881 : Buscaglia, Leo


Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation.
Leo Buscaglia : 13411 : Buscaglia, Leo


Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.
Wilhelm Busch : 9523 : Busch, Wilhelm


Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.
Barbara Bush : 8591 : Bush, Barbara


Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush : 8898 : Bush, Barbara


I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
Barbara Bush : 10256 : Bush, Barbara


I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
Barbara Bush : 12103 : Bush, Barbara


Giving peace a chance does not mean taking a chance on peace.
George Bush : 7065 : Bush, George


I've watched so much Olympics that when Barbara asked me to move a piece of furniture, I asked her, "What's the degree of difficulty?"
George Bush : 691 : Bush, George H. W.


I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.
George H. W. Bush : 9437 : Bush, George H. W.


Let the others have the charisma. I've got the class.
George H. W. Bush : 11367 : Bush, George H. W.


I don't want to win? If that were the case, why the heck am I on the bus sixteen hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundred of speeches, getting pilloried in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?
George W. Bush : 4611 : Bush, George W.


Chew before you swallow.
George W. Bush, about his passing out while eating a pretzel : 6742 : Bush, George W.


No matter how old you are and no matter what you do, you can never escape your mother.
George W. Bush : 6993 : Bush, George W.


I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.
George W. Bush : 7309 : Bush, George W.


By being myself I will distinguish myself from my father, because we're two separately different people.
George W. Bush : 7625 : Bush, George W.


The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.
George W. Bush : 8193 : Bush, George W.


You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush : 8934 : Bush, George W.


I'm not going to be the guy who promises something he can't deliver. I don't believe in "ready, fire, aim."
George W. Bush : 11268 : Bush, George W.


Once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
Laura Bush : 11811 : Bush, Laura


Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
Nolan Bushnell : 10072 : Bushnell, Nolan


The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing should be taken too seriously.
Nicholas Murray Butler : 1339 : Butler, Nicholas Murray


Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler : 1603 : Butler, Samuel


The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Samuel Butler : 1604 : Butler, Samuel


The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan, and the whole fixed upon stilts.
Samuel Butler : 1605 : Butler, Samuel


He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. It is in strife that life lies, and were there no opposing forces there would be neither moral nor immoral, neither victory nor defeat.
Samuel Butler : 1606 : Butler, Samuel


If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler : 1607 : Butler, Samuel


Example is not only the best way of propagating an opinion, but it is the only way worth taking into account.
Samuel Butler : 1608 : Butler, Samuel


The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler : 1609 : Butler, Samuel


To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.
Samuel Butler : 2082 : Butler, Samuel


The lions would not eat Daniel; they would eat most anything but they drew the line at prophets.
Samuel Butler : 2145 : Butler, Samuel


An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler : 2714 : Butler, Samuel


Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler : 3407 : Butler, Samuel


Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
Samuel Butler : 3441 : Butler, Samuel


The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called "The Old Sailor."
Samuel Butler : 4341 : Butler, Samuel


A definition is the enclosing of a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
Samuel Butler : 4392 : Butler, Samuel


All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler : 4452 : Butler, Samuel


Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
Samuel Butler : 4652 : Butler, Samuel


Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
Samuel Butler : 5063 : Butler, Samuel


An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him.
Samuel Butler : 5144 : Butler, Samuel


If the better part of valor is discretion, how much more is not discretion the better part of vice?
Samuel Butler : 6055 : Butler, Samuel


One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Samuel Butler : 6347 : Butler, Samuel


It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler : 6665 : Butler, Samuel


The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel Butler : 8252 : Butler, Samuel


Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler : 8487 : Butler, Samuel


America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.
Samuel Butler : 8880 : Butler, Samuel


Life is like music; It must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler : 10266 : Butler, Samuel


Imagination depends mainly on memory, but there is a small percentage of creation of something out of nothing with it. We can invent a trifle more than can be got at by mere combination of remembered things.
Samuel Butler : 10343 : Butler, Samuel


There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
Samuel Butler : 11243 : Butler, Samuel


Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Samuel Butler : 11790 : Butler, Samuel


Every man's work, whether it is literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel Butler : 11914 : Butler, Samuel


Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Samuel Butler : 12076 : Butler, Samuel


Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum : 4252 : Buxbaum, Martin


The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton : 2034 : Buxton, Charles


Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.
Charles Buxton : 2119 : Buxton, Charles


You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being cheerful and pleasant.
C. Buxton : 2812 : Buxton, Charles


Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton : 8947 : Buxton, Charles


A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
Richard E. Byrd : 6970 : Byrd, Richard E.


A library, a garden, a grove, a purling stream, are the innocent scenes that divert our leisure
William Byrd : 1899 : Byrd, William


There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne : 12739 : Byrne, Robert


Science has not yet found a cure for the pun.
Robert Byrne : 12748 : Byrne, Robert


No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.
Byron : 297 : Byron, Lord


Man's love is of man's life a part; it is woman's whole existence.
Byron : 298 : Byron, Lord


All is to be feared where all is to be lost.
Lord Byron : 2125 : Byron, Lord


Society is now one polish'd horde, formed of two might tribes, the bores and the bored.
Lord Byron : 2849 : Byron, Lord


It is to be hoped that, with all the modern improvements, a mode will be discovered of getting rid of bores.
Lord Byron : 4567 : Byron, Lord


Here's a sigh to those who love me, and a smile to those who hate; and whatever sky's above me, here's a heart for every fate.
Lord Byron : 4768 : Byron, Lord


It is the hour when from the boughs the nightingale's high note is heard.
Lord Byron : 6101 : Byron, Lord


I wish he would explain his explanation.
Lord Byron : 6170 : Byron, Lord


We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron : 6468 : Byron, Lord


All who would win joy must share it - Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron : 7139 : Byron, Lord


'Tis strange - but true, for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron : 8052 : Byron, Lord


But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron : 8551 : Byron, Lord


As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron : 8935 : Byron, Lord


Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron : 11047 : Byron, Lord


When one subtracts from life infancy - which is vegetation, sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
Lord Byron : 11488 : Byron, Lord


The American dream is that any citizen can rise to the highest office in the land. The British dream is that the Queen drops in for tea.
Michael Bywater : 2345 : Bywater, Michael


The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell : 919 : Cabell, James Branch


Virtue has always been conceived of as victorious resistance to one's vital desire.
James Branch Cabell : 3988 : Cabell, James Branch


I regret that I have but one life to live in San Francisco.
Herb Caen : 2639 : Caen, Herb


The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb Caen : 12707 : Caen, Herb


Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar : 11888 : Caesar, Julius


The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.
Sid Caesar : 4588 : Caesar, Sid


Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar : 7753 : Caesar, Sid


The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
Sid Caesar : 9004 : Caesar, Sid


I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage : 10254 : Cage, John


With me, a career was the simple matter of putting groceries on the table.
James Cagney : 5115 : Cagney, James


A song-and-dance man is what I am basically. I think dancing is a primal urge coming to life at the first moment we need to express joy.
James Cagney : 10005 : Cagney, James


It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.
Michael C. Cahill : 1301 : Cahill, Michael C.


Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim Cahill : 10929 : Cahill, Tim


Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.
Sammy Cahn : 1602 : Cahn, Sammy


There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.
Susan Cain : 12983 : Cain, Susan


The sins of the flesh have always been very attractive to me - all of them.
Michael Caine : 5089 : Caine, Michael


Our children are not going to be just "our children" - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
Mary S. Calderone : 10397 : Calderone, Mary S.


The secret of negotiation is to harmonize the real interests of the parties concerned.
Francois de Calieres : 2613 : Calieres, Francois de


A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Hortense Calisher : 8981 : Calisher, Hortense


A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has its boots on.
James Callaghan : 921 : Callaghan, James


I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.
Italo Calvino : 7521 : Calvino, Italo


A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Italo Calvino : 7961 : Calvino, Italo


When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.
Helder Camara : 3534 : Camara, Helder


It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
James Cameron : 9720 : Cameron, James


In order to have a real relationship with our creativity, we must take the time and care to cultivate it.
Julia Cameron : 10196 : Cameron, Julia


Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
Julia Cameron : 11015 : Cameron, Julia


You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella : 4998 : Campanella, Roy


Quality isn't something that can be argued into an article or promised into it. It must be put there. If it isn't put there, the finest sales talk in the world won't act as a substitute.
C. G. Campbell : 7841 : Campbell, C. G.


Let me be a little kinder, let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
Glenn Campbell : 3672 : Campbell, Glenn


The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.
Joseph Campbell : 1039 : Campbell, Joseph


Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall.
Joseph Campbell : 8819 : Campbell, Joseph


Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
Joseph Campbell : 10943 : Campbell, Joseph


Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Joseph Campbell : 11465 : Campbell, Joseph


Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell : 12017 : Campbell, Joseph


I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell : 12253 : Campbell, Joseph


Tallulah Bankhead is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell : 1328 : Campbell, Mrs. Patrick


Wedlock: The deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell : 7315 : Campbell, Mrs. Patrick


Golf is the only game in the world in which a precise knowledge of the rules can earn you a reputation for bad sportsmanship.
Patrick Campbell : 7257 : Campbell, Patrick


An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus : 32 : Camus, Albert


You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having to ask any clear question.
Albert Camus : 33 : Camus, Albert


If there is a sin against life, it lies perhaps less in despairing of it than in hoping for another and evading the implacable grandeur of the one we have.
Albert Camus : 34 : Camus, Albert


I don't want to be a genius; I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Albert Camus : 35 : Camus, Albert


Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
Albert Camus : 2224 : Camus, Albert


With freedom of the press, nations are not sure of going toward justice and peace. But without it, they are sure of not going there.
Albert Camus : 2411 : Camus, Albert


I have said the world is absurd but I spoke too soon. All we can say is that this world in and of itself is not reasonable. What is absurd, though, is the conflict between this irrationality and man's desperate wish for intelligibility.
Albert Camus : 2943 : Camus, Albert


A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but most certainly, without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus : 5199 : Camus, Albert


It is indeed true that we live in tragic times, but too many people confuse tragedy with despair.
Albert Camus : 5304 : Camus, Albert


You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus : 5576 : Camus, Albert


Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and "historical tasks" is an actual or potential assassin.
Albert Camus : 5983 : Camus, Albert


There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
Albert Camus : 6230 : Camus, Albert


But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus : 6872 : Camus, Albert


A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus : 6881 : Camus, Albert


Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom.
Albert Camus : 7986 : Camus, Albert


Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus : 8084 : Camus, Albert


If it is true that talent recreates life while genius has the additional gift of crowning it with myths, Melville is first and foremost a creator of myths.
Albert Camus : 8221 : Camus, Albert


Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into a liar than into a person telling the truth. Truth, like light, is blinding. Falsehood, on the other hand, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus : 8521 : Camus, Albert


Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worst.
Albert Camus : 8668 : Camus, Albert


Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus : 8762 : Camus, Albert


A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
Albert Camus : 9484 : Camus, Albert


Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus : 10138 : Camus, Albert


Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
Albert Camus : 10253 : Camus, Albert


Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus : 10303 : Camus, Albert


Real nobility is based on scorn, courage and profound indifference.
Albert Camus : 10982 : Camus, Albert


Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus : 11009 : Camus, Albert


As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our means.
Albert Camus : 11269 : Camus, Albert


Truth is mysterious, elusive, ever to be won anew. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.
Albert Camus : 11569 : Camus, Albert


Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus : 12060 : Camus, Albert


Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
Albert Camus : 13211 : Camus, Albert


If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respect for others' talents.
Hortense Canady : 7881 : Canady, Hortense


We are drawn to our television sets each year the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Vincent Canby on the Academy Awards Show : 4500 : Canby, Vincent


When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.
Elias Canetti : 7306 : Canetti, Elias


All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti : 7703 : Canetti, Elias


Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word "I."
Elias Canetti : 8843 : Canetti, Elias


All the pessimists in world history are nothing against reality.
Elias Canetti : 9565 : Canetti, Elias


I would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?
Elias Canetti : 12059 : Canetti, Elias


Some people think doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Dorothy Canfield : 4916 : Canfield, Dorothy


When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?
George Canning : 9895 : Canning, George


I know one star in Hollywood who hasn't been spoiled by success and that is Mickey Mouse.
Eddie Cantor : 501 : Cantor, Eddie


The two most common causes of divorce? Men and women.
Eddie Cantor : 502 : Cantor, Eddie


It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor : 7715 : Cantor, Eddie


Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
Eddie Cantor : 11041 : Cantor, Eddie


Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
Jerry Cantrell : 13175 : Cantrell, Jerry


There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist - the taxidermist leaves the hide.
Mortimer Caplan : 11279 : Caplan, Mortimer


Many women are poor cooks only because their native greatness has been beaten down by ingratitude.
Robert Capon : 1540 : Capon, Robert


You can get much further with a kind word and a gun that you can get with a kind word alone.
Al Capone : 2847 : Capone, Al


Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for a the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the p
Truman Capote : 1806 : Capote, Truman


Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote : 6127 : Capote, Truman


Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote : 7806 : Capote, Truman


The art of dealing with one's enemies is an art no less necessary than knowing how to appreciate one's friends.
Truman Capote : 9711 : Capote, Truman


Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp : 4901 : Capp, Al


Art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
Al Capp : 9052 : Capp, Al


Make a blockbuster - you're the lion of the cocktail circuit. Make a bomb - you buy your own drinks.
Frank Capra : 8660 : Capra, Frank


I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.
Frank Capra : 9407 : Capra, Frank


We give them the love we can spare, the time we can spare. In return dogs have given us their absolute all. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.
Roger Caras : 8560 : Caras, Roger


All living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the luxury of freedom, and then only because they want nothing, and therefore can't be thwarted.
Orson Scott Card : 3873 : Card, Orson Scott


Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
Orson Scott Card : 12570 : Card, Orson Scott


If you're not English, you're a foreigner, so you must be sexy. It's an old British film cliche.
Claudia Cardinale : 389 : Cardinale, Claudia


Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
Benjamin Cardozo : 7470 : Cardozo, Benjamin


Unaccompanied Bach is for me one of the severest hardships of the calling of musical critic. It is probably good, even jolly, to play, but to have to listen to it is worse than breaking stones.
Neville Cardus : 7181 : Cardus, Neville


I see my face in the mirror and go, "I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?"
Drew Carey : 5042 : Carey, Drew


I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
Drew Carey : 5722 : Carey, Drew


The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight - And yet no man would foolishly contend. That where he sees it not, it makes an end.
Emma Carleton : 7847 : Carleton, Emma


I saw a sign that said, "coming soon - a 24-hour restaurant." and I thought, "well, that's unusual. At least try it for a week or two, and see if you can build a clientele."
George Carlin : 692 : Carlin, George


As grown-ups, we never get to "wave bye-bye." I think it would be fun. "Steve, the boss is sailing for Europe; we're all going down to the dock to wave bye-bye."
George Carlin : 693 : Carlin, George


My parents chose what, at the time, was the very latest method of childbirth. You've heard of Lamaze? This was La Paz. The mother receives powerful narcotics, the father is sent to Bolivia, and the nurse does all the screaming.
George Carlin : 694 : Carlin, George


The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
George Carlin : 1987 : Carlin, George


I think when you eat out you should have a little fun; it's good for digestion. Simple things. After the waiter recites a long list of specials, ask him if they serve cow feet.
George Carlin : 2184 : Carlin, George


I don't like to lose my bearings, so I keep them in the cabinet near my bed.
George Carlin : 3572 : Carlin, George


The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
George Carlin : 4092 : Carlin, George


Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin : 5028 : Carlin, George


I enjoy chaos and disorder, and not just because they help me professionally.
George Carlin : 5087 : Carlin, George


Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. "200 dead as Number Three slams ashore" is not nearly as interesting a headline as "Charlie kills 200." Death
George Carlin : 5645 : Carlin, George


There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin : 6713 : Carlin, George


As a matter of principle. I never attend the first annual anything.
George Carlin : 6762 : Carlin, George


If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
George Carlin : 6919 : Carlin, George


It is impossible to know accurately how you look in your sunglasses.
George Carlin : 7045 : Carlin, George


Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.
George Carlin : 7245 : Carlin, George


I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
George Carlin : 8194 : Carlin, George


They keep saying you can't compare apples and oranges. I can. An apple is red and distinctly non-spherical; an orange is orange and nearly spherical. So, what's the big problem?
George Carlin : 8540 : Carlin, George


Sometimes, when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back.
George Carlin : 8614 : Carlin, George


If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin : 8937 : Carlin, George


The other night, I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
George Carlin : 9756 : Carlin, George


I could mention plenty of things that contribute to violence. One is simply the condition of being violent; the predisposition. Everyone knows this is a cranky species.
George Carlin : 10382 : Carlin, George


The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin : 11122 : Carlin, George


Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.
George Carlin : 11564 : Carlin, George


I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin : 11913 : Carlin, George


If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.
George Carlin : 12167 : Carlin, George


Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin : 12198 : Carlin, George


After the Go-Gos sold three or four million albums, we thought we wouldn't be treated like an all-girl band anymore, but as a rock 'n' roll band. That never really worked.
Belinda Carlisle : 5917 : Carlisle, Belinda


TV cameras seem to add ten pounds to me. So I make it a point never to eat TV cameras.
Kitty Carlisle : 1111 : Carlisle, Kitty


Happiness is the result of my decision to be happy. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Richard Carlson : 9913 : Carlson, Richard


The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Richard Carlson : 12332 : Carlson, Richard


Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
Carlyle : 316 : Carlyle, Thomas


Thought works in silence, so does virtue. One might erect statues to silence.
Thomas Carlyle : 1769 : Carlyle, Thomas


Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle : 1770 : Carlyle, Thomas


Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle : 2124 : Carlyle, Thomas


Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle : 2327 : Carlyle, Thomas


Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle : 2399 : Carlyle, Thomas


It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle : 2916 : Carlyle, Thomas


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 : 3898 : Carlyle, Thomas


Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle : 4560 : Carlyle, Thomas


Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
Thomas Carlyle : 4780 : Carlyle, Thomas


If a book come from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and authorcraft are of small amount to that.
Thomas Carlyle : 5195 : Carlyle, Thomas


If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
Thomas Carlyle : 7613 : Carlyle, Thomas


The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Thomas Carlyle : 8088 : Carlyle, Thomas


Music is well-said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle : 9842 : Carlyle, Thomas


A man lives by believing, not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle : 10113 : Carlyle, Thomas


The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle : 13063 : Carlyle, Thomas


A "fact" merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman : 7962 : Carman, Bliss


No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Andrew Carnegie : 2065 : Carnegie, Andrew


People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Andrew Carnegie : 3310 : Carnegie, Andrew


Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.
Andrew Carnegie : 3379 : Carnegie, Andrew


As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie : 4053 : Carnegie, Andrew


Concentrate your energy, thought, and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is all wrong. I tell you "put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket."
Andrew Carnegie : 4607 : Carnegie, Andrew


There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Andrew Carnegie : 4661 : Carnegie, Andrew


You cannot push a man up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie : 5324 : Carnegie, Andrew


The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie : 5519 : Carnegie, Andrew


Eight hours to work; Eight hours to play; Eight hours to sleep; seems the ideal division.
Andrew Carnegie : 6212 : Carnegie, Andrew


Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie : 6309 : Carnegie, Andrew


People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie : 10950 : Carnegie, Andrew


No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie : 11044 : Carnegie, Andrew


Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie : 11521 : Carnegie, Andrew


You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
Dale Carnegie : 2238 : Carnegie, Dale


The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Dale Carnegie : 3241 : Carnegie, Dale


Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie : 4690 : Carnegie, Dale


The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie : 6191 : Carnegie, Dale


Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie : 6337 : Carnegie, Dale


If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie : 8153 : Carnegie, Dale


The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Dale Carnegie : 8169 : Carnegie, Dale


Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie : 10001 : Carnegie, Dale


Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie : 10941 : Carnegie, Dale


We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie : 11211 : Carnegie, Dale


Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Dale Carnegie : 12886 : Carnegie, Dale


Little acts of kindness, little words of love make our earth an Eden like heaven above.
Julia Carney : 5725 : Carney, Julia


Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree.
Charlotte Carpenter : 9916 : Carpenter, Charlotte


What the historian is called on to investigate is what lies behind the act; and to this the conscious thought or motive of the individual actor may be quite irrelevant.
Edward Hallett Carr : 2225 : Carr, Edward Hallett


After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.
Emily Carr : 553 : Carr, Emily


Every day we have some weather, and yesterday was no exception.
John Carr : 11779 : Carr, John


All students are gifted; Some just open their packages earlier than others.
Michael Carr : 5288 : Carr, Michael


The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
Alexis Carrel : 3009 : Carrel, Alexis


All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel : 13381 : Carrel, Alexis


You can fail at what you don't want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Jim Carrey : 12760 : Carrey, Jim


Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
Jim Carrey : 13504 : Carrey, Jim


The difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism is simple: any criticism you give is constructive; any criticism you get is destructive.
Jon Carroll : 5659 : Carroll, Jon


Curtsy while you're thinking what to say. It saves time.
Lewis Carroll : 1155 : Carroll, Lewis


They drew all manner of things - everything that begins with M, such as mousetraps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness.
Lewis Carroll : 3086 : Carroll, Lewis


Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll : 6472 : Carroll, Lewis


If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll : 6855 : Carroll, Lewis


Begin at the beginning ... and go on till you come to the end: Then stop.
Lewis Carroll : 7350 : Carroll, Lewis


Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, the Mock Turtle replied, "and then the different branches of Arithmetic, Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."
Lewis Carroll : 9271 : Carroll, Lewis


Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll : 10162 : Carroll, Lewis


If everybody minded their own business, the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does."
Lewis Carroll : 10679 : Carroll, Lewis


I said it very loud and clear; I went and shouted in his ear.
Lewis Carroll : 10826 : Carroll, Lewis


If you drink much from a bottle marked "POISON", it is almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll : 11793 : Carroll, Lewis


I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll : 11843 : Carroll, Lewis


No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always be used as a bad example.
Johnny Carson : 1027 : Carson, Johnny


If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
Johnny Carson : 2541 : Carson, Johnny


If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson : 5734 : Carson, Johnny


Any time four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has taken place.
Johnny Carson : 8665 : Carson, Johnny


Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
Johnny Carson : 9009 : Carson, Johnny


The best things in life are free. And the cheesiest things in life are free with a paid subscription to "Sports Illustrated."
Johnny Carson : 9682 : Carson, Johnny


Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Johnny Carson : 9897 : Carson, Johnny


The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "Sucking up to the Stars."
Johnny Carson : 12958 : Carson, Johnny


It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
Rachel Carson : 1484 : Carson, Rachel


For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
Rachel Carson : 5188 : Carson, Rachel


The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
Rachel Carson : 6003 : Carson, Rachel


In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
Rachel Carson : 6819 : Carson, Rachel


When we recognize that we don't have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly.
Laura Carstensen : 10740 : Carstensen, Laura


Not knowing you can't do something is sometimes all it takes to do it.
Ally Carter : 13126 : Carter, Ally


But you have no silver linings without a cloud.
Angela Carter : 10570 : Carter, Angela


There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Angela Carter, on being a mother : 11192 : Carter, Angela


There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings.
Hodding Carter : 8305 : Carter, Hodding


The sheltering of upper-income children in private schools not only accelerates the deterioration of public education, it hides its consequences from precisely those people who could do something about it.
Hodding Carter : 8870 : Carter, Hodding


A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.
Jimmy Carter : 3447 : Carter, Jimmy


The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter : 8180 : Carter, Jimmy


America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter : 10078 : Carter, Jimmy


We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
Jimmy Carter : 11571 : Carter, Jimmy


Always remember the distinction between contribution and commitment. Take the matter of bacon and eggs. The chicken makes a contribution. The pig makes a commitment.
John Mack Carter : 9963 : Carter, John Mack


I wanted to give our community permission to dream, to plan for healthy air, healthy jobs, healthy children, and safe streets.
Majora Carter : 12731 : Carter, Majora


Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion of his own.
Mark Bonham Carter : 1247 : Carter, Mark Bonham


First Ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.
Rosalyn Carter : 1576 : Carter, Rosalynn


Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
Rosalynn Carter : 4762 : Carter, Rosalynn


A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter : 10011 : Carter, Rosalynn


Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.
Rosalynn Carter : 10934 : Carter, Rosalynn


You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter : 11850 : Carter, Rosalynn


The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.
Henri Cartier-Bresson : 4804 : Cartier-Bresson, Henri


The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.
Margaret Carty : 8724 : Carty, Margaret


Watermelon, it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face.
Enrico Caruso : 564 : Caruso, Enrico


I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast, but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver : 6006 : Carver, George Washington


Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
George Washington Carver : 8200 : Carver, George Washington


Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
George Washington Carver : 10261 : Carver, George Washington


When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver : 11940 : Carver, George Washington


There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.
Alice Cary : 12640 : Cary, Alice


It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know; and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.
Joyce Cary : 10676 : Cary, Joyce


Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make.
Joyce Cary : 12317 : Cary, Joyce


The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals : 4824 : Casals, Pablo


The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
Pablo Casals : 10151 : Casals, Pablo


The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
Pablo Casals : 10554 : Casals, Pablo


Poison put to sound - a brutalization of both life and art.
Pablo Casals, on rock-and-roll : 10801 : Casals, Pablo


It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless.
Giacomo Casanova : 10940 : Casanova, Giacomo


I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Casanova : 11891 : Casanova, Giacomo


A woman broke up with me and sent me pictures of her and her new boyfriend in bed together. Solution? I sent them to her dad.
Christopher Case : 5695 : Case, Christopher


Nightclubs are places where the tables are reserved and the guests aren't.
Frank Caspar : 6096 : Caspar, Frank


The biggest word in the language of business is not gross, but net.
Herbert Casson : 6227 : Casson, Herbert


The more parking spaces you provide, the more cars will come to fill them. It's like feeding pigeons.
Sir Hugh Casson : 1662 : Casson, Sir Hugh


The one big target for the crusaders was the tango. I suppose its opponents objected to the man bending the woman over backwards and peering into her eyes with a smoldering passionate look.
Irene Castle : 8879 : Castle, Irene


I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.
Fidel Castro : 7531 : Castro, Fidel


The Cuban movement is not a Communist movement. Its members are Roman Catholics, mostly.
Fidel Castro : 11620 : Castro, Fidel


I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather : 1891 : Cather, Willa


In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Willa Cather : 1980 : Cather, Willa


Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather : 2236 : Cather, Willa


Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather : 2443 : Cather, Willa


What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
Willa Cather : 4177 : Cather, Willa


That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cather : 6110 : Cather, Willa


To simplify is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process, finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without - and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.
Willa Cather : 8885 : Cather, Willa


I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather : 9924 : Cather, Willa


Where there is great love, there are always miracles.
Willa Cather : 10558 : Cather, Willa


The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather : 12132 : Cather, Willa


The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great : 11368 : Catherine the Great


To see men admitting that you are what you believe yourself to be, is one of the triumphs of existence.
Mary Catherwood : 10734 : Catherwood, Mary


The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato : 325 : Cato


The wise man does no wrong in changing his habits with the times.
Cato : 326 : Cato


We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Cato : 327 : Cato


Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder : 9096 : Cato the Elder


There are two kinds of restrictions upon human liberty - the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt : 10351 : Catt, Carrie Chapman


Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.
Bruce Catton : 9085 : Catton, Bruce


When I finished school I took one of those career aptitude tests and, based on my verbal ability score, they suggested I become a mime.
Tim Cavanagh : 10425 : Cavanagh, Tim


If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Dick Cavett : 5699 : Cavett, Dick


The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.
Camillo Di Cavour : 307 : Cavour, Camillo Di


A contemplative life has more the appearance of piety than any other; but the divine plan is to bring faith into activity and exercise.
Richard Cecil : 11540 : Cecil, Richard


Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
William Cecil : 10572 : Cecil, William


I have a great dog. She's half Lab, half pit bull. A good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
Jim Celeste : 4680 : Celeste, Jim


I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever.
Brian Celio : 12542 : Celio, Brian


Good Manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.
Bennett Cerf : 3848 : Cerf, Bennett


Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Cervantes : 330 : Cervantes, Miguel de


A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Cervantes : 331 : Cervantes, Miguel de


There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.
Cervantes : 332 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Cervantes : 333 : Cervantes, Miguel de


By the street of by-and-by one arrives at the house of never.
Cervantes : 334 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Miguel Cervantes : 1306 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Delay always breeds danger, and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes : 1995 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Cervantes : 4138 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched.
Cervantes : 5157 : Cervantes, Miguel de


No man is more than another unless he does more than another.
Miguel De Cervantes : 5472 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes : 6504 : Cervantes, Miguel de


When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.
Miguel de Cervantes : 7320 : Cervantes, Miguel de


'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Miguel de Cervantes : 8053 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Absence, that is the common cure of love.
Cervantes : 10174 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.
Cervantes : 11851 : Cervantes, Miguel de


Whoever came up with ice fishing must have had the worst marriage on the planet.
Jeff Cesario : 12429 : Cesario, Jeff


I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.
Claude Chabrol : 9464 : Chabrol, Claude


When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God-made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Marc Chagall : 2321 : Chagall, Marc


Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Marc Chagall : 6066 : Chagall, Marc


All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
Marc Chagall : 9176 : Chagall, Marc


In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
Marc Chagall : 9479 : Chagall, Marc


I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
Marc Chagall : 9887 : Chagall, Marc


No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
George Chakiris : 12668 : Chakiris, George


The Americans are a funny lot. They drink whiskey to keep them warm, then they put ice in it to make it cool; then they put some sugar in it to make it sweet, and then they put a slice of lemon in it to make it sour. Then they say, "Here's to you" and dri
B. N. Chakravarty : 2660 : Chakravarty, B. N.


The grand essentials of life are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for
Allan Chalmers : 1953 : Chalmers, Allan


In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Neville Chamberlain : 8313 : Chamberlain, Neville


Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek if in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.
Oswald Chambers : 4196 : Chambers, Oswald


When a man is at his wits' end, it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers : 4261 : Chambers, Oswald


Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
Nicolas Chamfort : 3964 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


Nowadays, those who love nature are accused of being romantic.
Chamfort : 5448 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.
Sebastien Chamfort : 5984 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


Fortune, in order to come to me, must conform to certain conditions imposed on her by my character.
Chamfort : 7648 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.
Nicolas Chamfort : 9551 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world.
Nicolas Chamfort : 10007 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort : 10926 : Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas


A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.
Champfleury : 4870 : Champfleury


Big results require big ambitions.
James Champy : 8106 : Champy, James


The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind, but the goodness of a person spreads in all directions.
Chanakya : 11461 : Chanakya


Take away the newspaper and this country of ours would become a scene of chaos.
Harry Chandler : 5530 : Chandler, Harry


Opportunity does not knock; It presents itself when you beat down the door.
Kyle Chandler : 10225 : Chandler, Kyle


A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.
Loma Chandler : 4034 : Chandler, Loma


The edges of the folded handkerchief in her breast pocket looked sharp enough to slice bread.
Raymond Chandler : 1508 : Chandler, Raymond


Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
Raymond Chandler : 2777 : Chandler, Raymond


It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond Chandler : 4043 : Chandler, Raymond


If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Raymond Chandler : 6830 : Chandler, Raymond


A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good filmmaking. It's not what films are for.
Raymond Chandler : 9400 : Chandler, Raymond


Yes, I am exactly like the characters in my books. I am very tough and have been known to break a Vienna roll with my bare hands. I am very handsome, have a powerful physique, and change my shirt every Monday.
Raymond Chandler : 9930 : Chandler, Raymond


I am, by tradition and long study, a complete snob. Phillip Marlowe and I do not despise the upper classes because they take baths and have money; we despise them because they are phony.
Raymond Chandler : 10358 : Chandler, Raymond


Los Angeles is a city with the personality of a paper cup.
Raymond Chandler : 11357 : Chandler, Raymond


The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
Raymond Chandler : 12749 : Chandler, Raymond


Fashion is architecture: It is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel : 11675 : Chanel, Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel : 395 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel : 3581 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Youth is something very new: Twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel : 6115 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


God knows I wanted love. But the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses, I chose the dresses.
Coco Chanel : 7280 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel : 8637 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


You ask if they were happy. This is not a characteristic of a European. To be contented - that's for the cows.
Coco Chanel : 8992 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel : 9505 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


He who does not enjoy his own company is usually right.
Coco Chanel : 10928 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel : 13136 : Chanel, Gabrielle "Coco"


April is the month when the green returns to the lawn, the lilac, and the IRS.
Changing Times : 337 : Changing Times


Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing : 6390 : Channing, Carol


A man in earnest finds means, or if he cannot find, creates them.
W. E. Channing : 1841 : Channing, William Ellery


The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
W. E. Channing : 1842 : Channing, William Ellery


He is to be educated not because he is to make shoes, nails and pins, but because he is a man.
William Ellery Channing : 2529 : Channing, William Ellery


No human being, man or woman, can act up to a sublime standard without giving offense.
W. E. Channing : 4535 : Channing, William Ellery


Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Channing : 5434 : Channing, William Ellery


The young soldier is taught as his first duty to obey his superior without consulting his conscience.
William Ellery Channing : 8290 : Channing, William Ellery


Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing : 12370 : Channing, William Ellery


One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
William Ellery Channing : 13147 : Channing, William Ellery


Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?
Buwei Yan Chao : 296 : Chao, Buwei Yan


At the bottom of a great deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
Edwin H. Chapin : 2405 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
E. H. Chapin : 2616 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin : 7538 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin : 11033 : Chapin, Edwin Hubbell


Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy Chapin, Jr. : 1582 : Chapin, Roy, Jr.


All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin : 2867 : Chaplin, Charlie


They are spoiling the oldest art in the world - the art of pantomime. They are ruining the great beauty of silence.
Charlie Chaplin, on talkies : 5959 : Chaplin, Charlie


I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
Charlie Chaplin : 6913 : Chaplin, Charlie


Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin : 10245 : Chaplin, Charlie


Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; No matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.
Charlie Chaplin : 10626 : Chaplin, Charlie


People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins, they wonder whether they are catching cold.
John Jay Chapman : 2975 : Chapman, John Jay


So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
John Jay Chapman : 6370 : Chapman, John Jay


The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.
Warren Chappell : 9548 : Chappell, Warren


The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Dave Chappelle : 12954 : Chappelle, Dave


Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "how?," but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "why?"
Erwin Chargaff : 8958 : Chargaff, Erwin


To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think makes men martyrs or reformers - or both.
Elizabeth Charles : 8535 : Charles, Elizabeth


Politicians are necessary, and it'd be foolish to blame them for our troubles. They're just doing what they've always done - looking to survive, looking to climb, trying to please everyone at once, and grinning and lying while they're doing it.
Ray Charles : 1507 : Charles, Ray


Little comfort can be sucked from a perhaps.
Stephen Charnock : 5159 : Charnock, Stephen


He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
Pierre Charron : 1462 : Charron, Pierre


Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier) : 11668 : Chartier, Alain


Found a Society of Honest Men, and all the thieves will join it.
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier) : 11696 : Chartier, Alain


The obstinacy of human beings is exceeded only by the obstinacy of inanimate objects.
Alexander Chase : 3275 : Chase, Alexander


There are few successful adults who were not at first successful children.
Alexander Chase : 5093 : Chase, Alexander


The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.
Alexander Chase : 8315 : Chase, Alexander


Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase : 12064 : Chase, Edna Woolman


Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.
Ilka Chase : 2906 : Chase, Ilka


When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beaten us to it.
Ilka Chase : 7626 : Chase, Ilka


The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Ilka Chase : 9111 : Chase, Ilka


America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.
Ilka Chase : 10837 : Chase, Ilka


An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.
Viscount De Chateaubriand : 1833 : Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene De


One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
Chateaubriand : 3342 : Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene De


The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand : 11016 : Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene De


Good and bad luck is a synonym, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment.
John Chatfield : 9018 : Chatfield, John


In some cases, non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chaves : 335 : Chaves, Cesar


In the distance, the gestures of animals look human; the gestures of human beings bestial.
Malcolm De Chazal : 11795 : Chazal, Malcolm De


Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.
John Cheever : 4685 : Cheever, John


A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.
John Cheever : 5913 : Cheever, John


One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Anton Chekhov : 161 : Chekhov, Anton


If you cry, "forward," you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions.
Anton Chekhov : 162 : Chekhov, Anton


Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov : 3589 : Chekhov, Anton


Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.
Anton Chekhov : 7278 : Chekhov, Anton


Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov : 7777 : Chekhov, Anton


The Lord God has given us vast forests, immense fields, wide horizons; surely we ought to be giants, living in such a country as this.
Anton Chekhov : 11543 : Chekhov, Anton


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov : 11788 : Chekhov, Anton


It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney : 10519 : Cheney, Dick


People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, "How do you think I got the job?"
Dick Cheney : 11881 : Cheney, Dick


All people are made alike. They are made of bones, flesh and dinners. Only the dinners are different.
Gertrude L. Cheney : 3832 : Cheney, Gertrude L.


If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better, and that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth : 12157 : Chenoweth, Kristin


The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him.
Cher : 2015 : Cher


If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher : 3583 : Cher


I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, and the rest is a fraud.
Cher : 6294 : Cher


They call me the Queen of the Newsstands. There are not enough hours in the day for me to do all the things they say I do, and with all the people they say I do them with.
Cher : 7537 : Cher


The truth is, I hardly ever see men I'm attracted to. Plus, there's the problem of being Cher. No man wants to be Mr. Cher.
Cher : 11572 : Cher


Capitalism requires people to be pious souls in the workplace, wily pagans at the cash register.
Ron Chernow : 1569 : Chernow, Ron


How sad that men would base an entire civilization on the principle of paternity, upon the legal ownership and presumed responsibility for children, and then never get to know their sons and daughters very well.
Phyllis Chesler : 10337 : Chesler, Phyllis


In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always as bad as the thief.
Earl Of Chesterfield : 494 : Chesterfield, Earl Of


Lay aside the best book whenever you can go into the best company; and depend upon it, you change for the better.
Lord Chesterfield : 1171 : Chesterfield, Lord


Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield : 1172 : Chesterfield, Lord


He who has the most friends and the fewest enemies is the strongest.
Lord Chesterfield : 1173 : Chesterfield, Lord


It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment, the former being never forgiven, but the latter sometimes forgot. Wrongs are often forgiven; contempt never.
Lord Chesterfield : 1174 : Chesterfield, Lord


Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield : 1175 : Chesterfield, Lord


A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
Lord Chesterfield : 1176 : Chesterfield, Lord


Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
Lord Chesterfield : 2108 : Chesterfield, Lord


Never hold any one by the button, or the hand, in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Lord Chesterfield : 2269 : Chesterfield, Lord


Abhor a knave and pity a fool in your heart, but let neither of them unnecessarily see that you do.
Lord Chesterfield : 2587 : Chesterfield, Lord


I recommend you take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
Lord Chesterfield : 3284 : Chesterfield, Lord


An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Lord Chesterfield : 3325 : Chesterfield, Lord


A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things yet cannot receive giant ones.
Lord Chesterfield : 3790 : Chesterfield, Lord


Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.
Lord Chesterfield : 3942 : Chesterfield, Lord


Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.
Lord Chesterfield : 4675 : Chesterfield, Lord


The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Lord Chesterfield : 4730 : Chesterfield, Lord


Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
Lord Chesterfield : 4815 : Chesterfield, Lord


In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
Lord Chesterfield : 5123 : Chesterfield, Lord


A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man of business.
Lord Chesterfield : 5480 : Chesterfield, Lord


There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing and is glad to talk about that one thing.
Lord Chesterfield : 6889 : Chesterfield, Lord


When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.
Lord Chesterfield : 6916 : Chesterfield, Lord


Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Lord Chesterfield : 7918 : Chesterfield, Lord


When one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.
Lord Chesterfield : 8631 : Chesterfield, Lord


Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Lord Chesterfield : 8675 : Chesterfield, Lord


The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
Lord Chesterfield : 8747 : Chesterfield, Lord


If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt; you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.
Lord Chesterfield : 9688 : Chesterfield, Lord


Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield : 11495 : Chesterfield, Lord


Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. Chesterton : 661 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Honor is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall porters.
G. K. Chesterton : 662 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
G. K. Chesterton : 663 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


A vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.
G. K. Chesterton : 664 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
G. K. Chesterton : 665 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump. You may be freeing him from being a camel.
G. K. Chesterton : 666 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people.
G. K. Chesterton : 667 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G. K. Chesterton : 668 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
G. K. Chesterton : 669 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Tradition does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are living.
Gilbert Chesterton : 730 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
G. K. Chesterton : 2352 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
G. K. Chesterton : 2570 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
G. K. Chesterton : 3114 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Music with dinner is an insult to both the cook and violinist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 3359 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
G. K. Chesterton : 4216 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
G. K. Chesterton : 4346 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton : 4829 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I shall continue to praise the English climate till I die, even if I die of the English climate.
G. K. Chesterton : 5015 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
G. K. Chesterton : 5416 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 6196 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
G. K. Chesterton : 6359 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; It is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
G. K. Chesterton : 7214 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom.
G. K. Chesterton : 7279 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
G. K. Chesterton : 7456 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 7492 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
G. K. Chesterton : 7651 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 7788 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton : 8610 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the dean.
G. K. Chesterton : 8666 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
G. K. Chesterton : 9050 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
G. K. Chesterton : 9234 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton : 9886 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything else.
G. K. Chesterton : 9936 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Elderly people are often much more romantic than young people, and sometimes even more adventurous, having begun to realize how many things they do not know.
G. K. Chesterton : 9978 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.
G. K. Chesterton : 10134 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


My brother and I devoted all our boyhood to one long argument, unfortunately interrupted by meals, school, and work.
G. K. Chesterton : 10708 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
G. K. Chesterton : 10930 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton : 10952 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11005 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


All architecture is great architecture after sunset; Perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11055 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11131 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 11453 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton : 11853 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
Gilbert K. Chesterton : 12643 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
G. K. Chesterton : 12667 : Chesterton, Gilbert K.


Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence.
Henry Chestor : 8703 : Chestor, Henry


Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Maurice Chevalier : 2775 : Chevalier, Maurice


Kissing is a custom in France. We kiss a man we haven't seen in five years - or a woman we haven't seen in five minutes.
Maurice Chevalier : 9359 : Chevalier, Maurice


When the last red man shall have vanished from this earth, and his memory is only a story among the whites, these shores will still swarm with the invisible dead of my people.
Chief Seattle : 2678 : Chief Seattle


If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
Chief Seattle : 4159 : Chief Seattle


Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.
Julia Child : 1073 : Child, Julia


The dinner table in America is becoming a trap. People are so scared, they don't have any butter or anything. When they talk about healthy food, they usually mean things that don't taste very good.
Julia Child : 2982 : Child, Julia


It's (food) so beautifully arranged on the plate - you know someone's fingers have been all over it.
Julia Child : 5378 : Child, Julia


Non-cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.
Julia Child : 8270 : Child, Julia


The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of family and community and sharing.
Julia Child : 11205 : Child, Julia


Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.
Julia Child : 12414 : Child, Julia


People who love to eat are always the best people.
Julia Child : 13512 : Child, Julia


An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
L. M. Child : 1116 : Child, Lydia M.


Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my win
Lydia M. Child : 3868 : Child, Lydia M.


An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child : 8858 : Child, Lydia M.


Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
Lydia M. Child : 9463 : Child, Lydia M.


You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.
Lydia M. Child : 11481 : Child, Lydia M.


Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.
Alice Childress : 2700 : Childress, Alice


I was so mad you could have boiled a pot of water on my head.
Alice Childress : 7362 : Childress, Alice


I continue to create because writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress : 8269 : Childress, Alice


I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
Edward Chilton : 10925 : Chilton, Edward


Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm : 2635 : Chisholm, Shirley


There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm : 11510 : Chisholm, Shirley


You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining.
Shirley Chisholm : 13178 : Chisholm, Shirley


It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation for new ones; too much money can put us out of touch with life; too much free time can dull the edge of the soul.
Joan Chittister : 4986 : Chittister, Joan


But goodness, how we lose our heads at the mention of a wedding! Especially the older women, who should know better. At the sound of the word, all basic standards of elegance fly to the wind.
Susan Chitty : 8528 : Chitty, Susan


If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky : 3995 : Chomsky, Noam


We were going to make "The Corsican Brothers" in Salzburg, but I said no. One really doesn't feel funny in Austria.
Tommy Chong : 11570 : Chong, Tommy


The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
Kate Chopin : 1078 : Chopin, Kate


The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Deepak Chopra : 7835 : Chopra, Deepak


To think is to practice brain chemistry.
Deepak Chopra : 8101 : Chopra, Deepak


Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Deepak Chopra : 8746 : Chopra, Deepak


There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
Deepak Chopra : 11511 : Chopra, Deepak


No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
Deepak Chopra : 13125 : Chopra, Deepak


Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.
Agatha Christie : 23 : Christie, Agatha


It was the kind of desperate, headlong, adolescent calf love that he should have experienced years ago and got over.
Agatha Christie : 2426 : Christie, Agatha


One of the oddest things in life, I think is the things one remembers.
Agatha Christie : 2870 : Christie, Agatha


There is something about conscious tact that is very irritating.
Agatha Christie : 7358 : Christie, Agatha


An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie : 7776 : Christie, Agatha


Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie : 8339 : Christie, Agatha


Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as well; your taste, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul are revealed by your actions.
Agatha Christie : 8565 : Christie, Agatha


I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming ... suddenly you find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie : 11042 : Christie, Agatha


Trains are wonderful. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.
Agatha Christie : 11547 : Christie, Agatha


Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to a wrong question.
Warren Christopher : 1869 : Christopher, Warren


The degree of responsibility you take for your life determines how much change you can create in it.
Celestine Chua : 13104 : Chua, Celestine


No Santa Claus! Thank God, he lives and he lives forever.
Francis P. Church : 618 : Church, Francis P.


An awkward man never does justice to himself; to his intelligence, to his intentions, or to his actual merit. A fine person, or a beauteous face are in vain without the grace of deportment.
Charles Churchill : 11160 : Churchill, Charles


I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form.
Lady Randolph Churchill : 9952 : Churchill, Lady Randolph


I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill : 1933 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Winston Churchill : 1934 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It is no use saying, "we are doing our best." you have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill : 1935 : Churchill, Sir Winston


In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used frequently to take my advice.
Winston Churchill : 1936 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they may not dismount and the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill : 1937 : Churchill, Sir Winston


My wife and I used to breakfast together. But we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Winston Churchill : 1938 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I shall always be glad to have seen it - for the same reason papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon - namely "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again."
Winston Churchill, On Calcutta : 1939 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Houses are built of bricks, mortar and good will, not politics, prejudices and spite.
Winston Churchill : 2141 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill : 2291 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill : 2834 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill : 3456 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill : 3557 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing has happened.
Winston Churchill : 3694 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill : 3850 : Churchill, Sir Winston


There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill : 3912 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Continuous efforts - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill : 3984 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill : 4106 : Churchill, Sir Winston


There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
Winston Churchill : 4340 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill : 4785 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. (paraphrased duplicate)
Sir Winston Churchill : 5654 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It's not good enough that we do our best; Sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6194 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I do not like elections, but it is in my many elections that I have learnt to know and honor the people of this island. They are good through and through.
Winston Churchill : 6268 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6279 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill : 6400 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill : 6567 : Churchill, Sir Winston


From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6674 : Churchill, Sir Winston


An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6725 : Churchill, Sir Winston


History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6778 : Churchill, Sir Winston


All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill : 6915 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill : 6946 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The fulfillment of spiritual duty in our daily life is vital to our survival.
Winston Churchill : 7329 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Sir Winston Churchill : 7348 : Churchill, Sir Winston


I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill : 7405 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.
Winston Churchill : 7533 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill : 7608 : Churchill, Sir Winston


We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill : 8122 : Churchill, Sir Winston


There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston Churchill : 8436 : Churchill, Sir Winston


My most brilliant achievement was my ability to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill : 8825 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill : 8855 : Churchill, Sir Winston


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill : 9066 : Churchill, Sir Winston


During a long life I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
Winston Churchill : 9394 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill : 9514 : Churchill, Sir Winston


The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill : 9530 : Churchill, Sir Winston


He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Winston Churchill : 9809 : Churchill, Sir Winston


It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill : 11035 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Sir Winston Churchill : 11302 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill : 11459 : Churchill, Sir Winston


Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston Churchill : 11536 : Churchill, Winston


In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill : 11736 : Churchill, Winston


Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill : 12857 : Churchill, Winston


Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill : 13020 : Churchill, Winston


A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill : 13538 : Churchill, Winston


Modem art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
John Ciardi : 4306 : Ciardi, John


The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi : 6423 : Ciardi, John


A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place, but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of ideas.
John Ciardi : 9953 : Ciardi, John


You don't have to suffer to be a poet; Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi : 11063 : Ciardi, John


Old houses mended cost little less than new before they're ended.
Colley Cibber : 4838 : Cibber, Colley


Sometimes the biggest accomplishment in life is to find yourself.
Luisa Fernanda Cicero : 13435 : Cicero, Luisa Fernanda


Even the best pilots are willing to take advice from their passengers in bad weather.
Cicero : 379 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he comes down to human affairs.
Cicero : 380 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


No man who depends on the caprice of the ignorant rabble can be accounted great.
Cicero : 381 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


As if anything were so common as ignorance! The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.
Cicero : 382 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Cicero : 383 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Cicero : 2588 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
Cicero : 2858 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


What I enjoy is not the fruits alone, but I also enjoy the soil itself, its nature and its power.
Cicero : 3191 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero : 3448 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The good of the people is the chief law.
Cicero : 3637 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero : 4074 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Cicero : 4863 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
Cicero : 5085 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Let us not go over old ground; let us rather prepare for what is to come.
Cicero : 5356 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero : 5438 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
Cicero : 6604 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
Cicero : 6631 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Cicero : 6795 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Cicero : 6932 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Cicero : 6982 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero : 7035 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero : 7394 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Cicero : 7721 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero : 7745 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in giving them no offense.
Cicero : 8361 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
Cicero : 8390 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
Cicero : 8638 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
Cicero : 8978 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


If you have a garden and library, you have everything you need.
Cicero : 9220 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


It is not enough merely to possess virtue, as if it were art; it should be practiced.
Cicero : 9788 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
Cicero : 10322 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Cicero : 10951 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero : 10975 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Cicero : 11000 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Cicero : 11065 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Everyone clings to the doctrine he has happened upon, as to a rock against which he has been thrown by a tempest.
Cicero : 11961 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Cicero : 12036 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
Cicero : 12079 : Cicero, Marcus Tullius


A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
E. M. Cioran : 8575 : Cioran, E. M.


We had seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it was out
John C. Clancy : 2546 : Clancy, John C.


The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy : 1795 : Clancy, Tom


Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
John Clapham : 9227 : Clapham, John


We didn't really have a band with Cream. We rarely played as an ensemble; We were three virtuosos, all of us soloing all the time.
Eric Clapton : 7256 : Clapton, Eric


Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Cassandra Clare : 12144 : Clare, Cassandra


One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.
Cassandra Clare : 12174 : Clare, Cassandra


You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?
Clarence, The Angel in It's A Wonderful Life : 10914 : Clarence, The Angel


No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.
Lord Clarendon : 1177 : Clarendon, Lord


There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark : 2419 : Clark, Alan


Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark : 8736 : Clark, Alexander


We've got a name for sushi in Georgia - bait.
Blake Clark : 11374 : Clark, Blake


What a lot of people are saving for a rainy day is somebody else's umbrella.
Caroline Clark : 5422 : Clark, Caroline


Give me one friend, just one, who meets the needs of all my varying moods.
Esther M. Clark : 13463 : Clark, Esther M.


It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank A. Clark : 2873 : Clark, Frank A.


Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark : 4019 : Clark, Frank A.


If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark : 4038 : Clark, Frank A.


Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank A. Clark : 4352 : Clark, Frank A.


We find comfort among those who agree with us, growth among those who don't.
Frank A. Clark : 8045 : Clark, Frank A.


Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.
Frank A. Clark : 9145 : Clark, Frank A.


A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren't willing to stay bored a little while longer.
Frank A. Clark : 9390 : Clark, Frank A.


The only thing that continues to give us more for our money is a weighing machine.
George Clark : 695 : Clark, George


Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
Laurel Clark : 12331 : Clark, Laurel


A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take from you.
Ramsey Clark : 1504 : Clark, Ramsey


You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's nobody watching. You've got to come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Susanna Clark : 7823 : Clark, Susanna


There is no such thing as chance or accident, the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
Adam Clarke : 15 : Clarke, Adam


If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke : 2675 : Clarke, Arthur C.


It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke : 4189 : Clarke, Arthur C.


The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke : 6381 : Clarke, Arthur C.


It has yet to be proved that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke : 6482 : Clarke, Arthur C.


The intelligence of the planet is constant and the population is growing.
Arthur C. Clarke : 7025 : Clarke, Arthur C.


Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke : 7105 : Clarke, Arthur C.


How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.
Arthur C. Clarke : 8366 : Clarke, Arthur C.


Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Arthur C. Clarke : 10116 : Clarke, Arthur C.


I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
Arthur C. Clarke : 13498 : Clarke, Arthur C.


And O! She was the Sunday, in every week.
Austin Clarke : 6166 : Clarke, Austin


A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.
J. F. Clarke : 900 : Clarke, J. F.


He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
J. F. Clarke : 8692 : Clarke, J. F.


A word spoken is past recalling.
John Clarke : 7736 : Clarke, John


Better to be alone than in bad company.
John Clarke : 8408 : Clarke, John


The most terrible of lies is not that which is uttered but that which is lived.
W. G. Clarke : 1843 : Clarke, W. G.


A successor is almost always deemed not as adequate as the incumbent, and that's almost always not true.
A. W. Clausen : 2757 : Clausen, A. W.


The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.
Allen E. Claxton : 7921 : Claxton, Allen E.


The time will come when winter will ask you what you were doing all summer.
Henry Clay : 4399 : Clay, Henry


Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay : 6456 : Clay, Henry


The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity - unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay : 8208 : Clay, Henry


I would rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay : 12077 : Clay, Henry


Truth is that which serves the interests of a people. Two groups of people locked in combat cannot be expected to have the same truth.
Albert B. Cleage, Jr. : 10411 : Cleage, Albert B., Jr.


I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.
Beverly Cleary : 13398 : Cleary, Beverly


Children should learn that reading is a pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
Beverly Cleary : 13401 : Cleary, Beverly


I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Beverly Cleary : 13406 : Cleary, Beverly


I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane.
Eldridge Cleaver : 10451 : Cleaver, Eldridge


Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.
Emanuel Cleaver : 12879 : Cleaver, Emanuel


Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
Mark A. Clement : 10672 : Clement, Mark A.


If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to the best available statistics, live exactly eighteen hours longer than you would otherwise.
Logan Clendening : 4205 : Clendening, Logan


We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.
Cleobulus : 7291 : Cleobulus


The ship of democracy, which has weathered many storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
Grover Cleveland : 766 : Cleveland, Grover


He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and that they in turn care for the laboring poor.
Grover Cleveland : 10689 : Cleveland, Grover


The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
Patricia Clifford : 8472 : Clifford, Patricia


We have a generation enslaving itself to drugs, young men and women doing to our race what slavery couldn't.
Lucille Clifton : 6349 : Clifton, Lucille


All our artists and cultural institutions are an integral part of what we call America, and we must work very hard not only to preserve and nurture, but to love them, because of the impact they make on our lives.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 872 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


There is no such thing as other people's children.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 3617 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. But what I decided was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 10381 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


Don't confuse having a career with having a life. They are not the same.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 10788 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


In every era, society must strike the right balance between the freedom businesses need to compete for a market share and to make profits and the preservation of family and community values.
Hillary Rodham Clinton : 11476 : Clinton, Hillary Rodham


The bad news is our only child is going to college. The good news is it opens up another bedroom.
Bill Clinton : 6684 : Clinton, William J.


There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right in America.
William J. Clinton : 7813 : Clinton, William J.


We must not let the Iron Curtain be replaced with a veil of indifference.
Bill Clinton : 10535 : Clinton, William J.


If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then Hillary tells me, "I told you so."
Bill Clinton : 11238 : Clinton, William J.


All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
Glenn Close : 4126 : Close, Glenn


Like a tall woman walking across the hayfield, The rain came slowly, dressed in crystal and the sun.
Elizabeth Coatsworth : 11959 : Coatsworth, Elizabeth


His face looked like a face that had refused to gel and was about to run down on his clothes.
Irvin S. Cobb : 3257 : Cobb, Irvin S.


If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Irvin S. Cobb : 3645 : Cobb, Irvin S.


As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb : 8455 : Cobb, Irvin S.


It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap, that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett : 5005 : Cobbett, William


The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess.
Chris Cobbs : 9370 : Cobbs, Chris


A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Sir Barnett Cocks : 4017 : Cocks, Sir Barnett


Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau : 948 : Cocteau, Jean


History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
Jean Cocteau : 2420 : Cocteau, Jean


An artist cannot speak about his work any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Jean Cocteau : 2476 : Cocteau, Jean


When I wrote that Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo, I was not joking.
Jean Cocteau : 2819 : Cocteau, Jean


Silence moves faster when it's going backward.
Jean Cocteau : 4139 : Cocteau, Jean


Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Jean Cocteau : 4269 : Cocteau, Jean


A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau : 7409 : Cocteau, Jean


One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
Jean Cocteau : 8196 : Cocteau, Jean


Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau : 9032 : Cocteau, Jean


I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau : 9053 : Cocteau, Jean


The awful thing about getting old is that you stay young inside.
Jean Cocteau : 10135 : Cocteau, Jean


Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau : 10480 : Cocteau, Jean


Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother's.
Andrei Codrescu : 9413 : Codrescu, Andrei


Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts ideas, opinions.
Paulo Coelho : 12125 : Coelho, Paulo


The first step to get what you want is to get rid of what you don't.
Paulo Coelho : 12825 : Coelho, Paulo


Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
Paulo Coelho : 12888 : Coelho, Paulo


One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
Paulo Coelho : 13173 : Coelho, Paulo


The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin : 9075 : Coffin, Harold


I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
George M. Cohan : 8976 : Cohan, George M.


Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen : 12912 : Cohen, Alan


If you know your true worth, you do not need anyone else to confirm it.
Alan Cohen : 13389 : Cohen, Alan


I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
Leonard Cohen : 1146 : Cohen, Leonard


Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen : 2451 : Cohen, Leonard


Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen : 4784 : Cohen, Leonard


This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled.
Leonard Cohen : 13159 : Cohen, Leonard


Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen : 11067 : Cohen, Mark B.


To be celebrated is nothing. To be loved is everything.
Claudette Colbert : 2920 : Colbert, Claudette


It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Claudette Colbert : 8374 : Colbert, Claudette


Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy - the mother.
Claudette Colbert : 11066 : Colbert, Claudette


A "new thinker," when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Frank L. Colby : 620 : Colby, Frank L.


Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby : 5204 : Colby, Frank Moore


Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby : 5979 : Colby, Frank Moore


You don't drown my falling in the water; You drown my staying there.
Edwin Louis Cole : 13415 : Cole, Edwin Louis


There are a lot of notes lying around on that old piano. I just pick at the ones I like.
Nat "King" Cole : 10497 : Cole, Nat "King"


Prose is words in their best order; poetry is the best words in the best order.
Charles Coleridge : 343 : Coleridge, Charles


She is not fair to outward view, as many maidens be; her loveliness I never knew, until she smiled on me.
Hartley Coleridge : 8297 : Coleridge, Hartley


The fruits of the tree of knowledge are various; he must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.
Mary Coleridge : 3365 : Coleridge, Mary


Solitude affects some people like wine; they must not take too much of it, for it flies to the head.
Mary Coleridge : 6954 : Coleridge, Mary


Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
Samuel Coleridge : 8023 : Coleridge, Samuel


Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house.
Samuel Coleridge : 9641 : Coleridge, Samuel


Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones, you must keep them wet.
Samuel Coleridge : 1610 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


A man of maxims only is like a cyclops with one eye, and that eye placed in the back of his head.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1625 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


I have no faith in act-of-parliament reform. All the great - the permanently great - things that have been achieved in the world have been so achieved by individuals, working from the instinct of genius or of goodness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1626 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1627 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause - a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 1628 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 3366 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind
Samuel Coleridge : 4577 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Poor little Foal of an oppressed race, I love the languid patience of thy face.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 8691 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 9571 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


Contempt is egotism in ill humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 10581 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 11071 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


And in today already walks tomorrow.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge : 11372 : Coleridge, Samuel Taylor


My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.
Colette : 7711 : Colette


I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Colette : 9722 : Colette


As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
Colette : 10644 : Colette


It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Colette : 11335 : Colette


To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Colette : 12152 : Colette


What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette : 13345 : Colette


There is nothing that gives more assurance than a mask.
Colette : 13346 : Colette


You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.
Joan Walton Collaso : 2272 : Collaso, Joan Walton


Music is almost as dangerous as gunpowder; and it maybe requires looking after no less than the press, or the mint. 'Tis possible a public regulation might not be amiss.
Jeremy Collier : 962 : Collier, Jeremy


We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.
Jeremy Collier : 10504 : Collier, Jeremy


See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier : 8751 : Collier, Robert


The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor.
Robert Collier : 9083 : Collier, Robert


As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it!
Robert Collier : 13112 : Collier, Robert


Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
R. G. Collingwood : 1480 : Collingwood, R. G.


One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.
Billy Collins : 8917 : Collins, Billy


If you want to be a writer, stop talking about it and sit down and write!.
Jackie Collins : 9072 : Collins, Jackie


Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than walking around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins : 7587 : Collins, Joan


I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
Joan Collins : 8320 : Collins, Joan


To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
John Churton Collins : 5110 : Collins, John Churton


Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
John Churton Collins : 10964 : Collins, John Churton


What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Kitty O'Neill Collins : 5421 : Collins, Kitty O'Neill


The good teacher makes the poor student good, and the good student superior.
Marva Collins : 3769 : Collins, Marva


I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
Michael Collins : 10816 : Collins, Michael


Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton : 341 : Colton, Charles Caleb


None are so fond of secrets as those who do not keep them.
Charles Caleb Colton : 342 : Colton, Charles Caleb


If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton : 2727 : Colton, Charles Caleb


There are three modes of bearing the ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Charles Caleb Colton : 3148 : Colton, Charles Caleb


All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them.
Charles Caleb Colton : 3597 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that
Charles Caleb Colton : 4596 : Colton, Charles Caleb


A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
Charles Caleb Colton : 4659 : Colton, Charles Caleb


The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Charles Caleb Colton : 4717 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Marriage is like a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton : 4944 : Colton, Charles Caleb


If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
C. C. Colton : 5454 : Colton, Charles Caleb


He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton : 6348 : Colton, Charles Caleb


True friendship is like sound health; The value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
Charles Colton : 7143 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Wealth after all is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
C. C. Colton : 7267 : Colton, Charles Caleb


By paying our other debts, we are equal with mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
C. C. Colton : 8293 : Colton, Charles Caleb


The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
Charles Caleb Colton : 8606 : Colton, Charles Caleb


There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton : 11256 : Colton, Charles Caleb


Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.
Charles Caleb Colton : 11583 : Colton, Charles Caleb


If the music doesn't say it, how can the words say it for the music?
John Coltrane : 5127 : Coltrane, John


Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them.
Columbat : 7593 : Columbat


You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus : 11103 : Columbus, Christopher


I don't call it gossip. I call it "emotional speculation."
Laurie Colwin : 1133 : Colwin, Laurie


A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
Laurie Colwin : 4478 : Colwin, Laurie


My mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.
Sean Combs : 13094 : Combs, Sean


Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.
Gary Comer : 9674 : Comer, Gary


Management must be concerned first with the opportunity for a decent living.
Hugh Comer : 2198 : Comer, Hugh


We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alexander Comfort : 8685 : Comfort, Alexander


People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins : 7990 : Comins, David H.


The conservation of natural resources is, and has been for half a century, the paramount domestic issue before the American people.
Henry Steele Commager : 853 : Commager, Henry Steele


We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
Henry Steele Commager : 2266 : Commager, Henry Steele


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 : 3888 : Commager, Henry Steele


Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.
Henry Steele Commager : 7167 : Commager, Henry Steele


For a people to be without history, or to be ignorant of its history, is as for a man to be without memory.
Henry Steele Commager : 7277 : Commager, Henry Steele


With the United States, history was rather a creation of the nation, and it is suggestive that in the New World the self-made nation was as familiar as the self-made man.
Henry Steele Commager : 11492 : Commager, Henry Steele


If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry Commoner : 2545 : Commoner, Barry


The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.
Barry Commoner : 12214 : Commoner, Barry


The audience knows I'm not going to do anything after all these years to upset them.
Perry Como : 1445 : Como, Perry


Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.
Ivy Compton-Burnett : 4325 : Compton-Burnett, Ivy


Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience.
James Conant : 922 : Conant, James


Liberty, like charity, must begin at home.
James Bryant Conant : 9839 : Conant, James Bryant


The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they may not be made to understand it.
Confucius : 398 : Confucius


Virtue is like the polar star, which keeps its place, and all stars turn toward it.
Confucius : 399 : Confucius


It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.
Confucius : 400 : Confucius


Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or stars.
Confucius : 401 : Confucius


When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.
Confucius : 402 : Confucius


The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied.
Confucius : 2644 : Confucius


In education there should be no class distinction.
Confucius : 2931 : Confucius


The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Confucius : 3303 : Confucius


I hear and forget. I see and remember. I do and understand.
Confucius : 4495 : Confucius


Chi Wen Tsu always thought three times before taking action. Twice would have been quite enough.
Confucius : 4807 : Confucius


The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress.
Confucius : 5077 : Confucius


It is by the odes that the man is aroused. It is by the rules of propriety that the character is established. It is from music that the finish is received.
Confucius : 5134 : Confucius


Humility is the solid foundation of all the virtues.
Confucius : 5316 : Confucius


The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius : 6492 : Confucius


What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
Confucius : 6704 : Confucius


He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius : 6737 : Confucius


Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius : 6808 : Confucius


If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?
Confucius : 6924 : Confucius


When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Confucius : 7007 : Confucius


Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confucius : 7090 : Confucius


Study the past if you would define the future.
Confucius : 7389 : Confucius


Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Confucius : 7688 : Confucius


They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius : 7791 : Confucius


With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
Confucius : 7919 : Confucius


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life: reciprocity.
Confucius : 8024 : Confucius


Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.
Confucius : 8386 : Confucius


Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Confucius : 8701 : Confucius


The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.
Confucius : 8728 : Confucius


As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
Confucius : 9006 : Confucius


The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
Confucius : 9025 : Confucius


Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.
Confucius : 9122 : Confucius


The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius : 9417 : Confucius


To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius : 9603 : Confucius


When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
Confucius : 9748 : Confucius


Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Confucius : 11344 : Confucius


He who wished to secure the good of others has already secured himself.
Confucius : 12032 : Confucius


Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius : 13199 : Confucius


Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.
Confucius : 13486 : Confucius


He who chases two rabbits catches neither.
Confucius : 13492 : Confucius


What, he speaks unseasonable truths sometimes, because he has not wit enough to invent an evasion.
William Congreve : 1900 : Congreve, William


It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of humankind.
William Congreve : 9776 : Congreve, William


I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
William Congreve : 10530 : Congreve, William


To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
William Congreve : 11559 : Congreve, William


I felt the rush of happiness and warmth coming out of the people and I was carried out among them on a surge of joy. I suppose when you die and go to heaven you get a feeling like that.
Gerry Conlon : 8882 : Conlon, Gerry


More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.
Sean Connery : 5027 : Connery, Sean


I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them.
Sean Connery : 7420 : Connery, Sean


If you compromise your independence for any reason, there's not much use for living. If you compromise it for something as fleeting as money you are already dead.
Sean Connery : 8213 : Connery, Sean


Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly : 263 : Connolly, Billy


I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
Billy Connolly : 5033 : Connolly, Billy


Have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
Billy Connolly : 7033 : Connolly, Billy


Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that, who cares? He's a mile away, and you've got his shoes.
Billy Connolly : 8975 : Connolly, Billy


Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.
Cyril Connolly : 410 : Connolly, Cyril


He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry.
Cyril Connolly : 411 : Connolly, Cyril


Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
Cyril Connolly : 3945 : Connolly, Cyril


All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Cyril Connolly : 7620 : Connolly, Cyril


Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Cyril Connolly : 10213 : Connolly, Cyril


Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder, by authorities whom we do not control.
Cyril Connolly : 11262 : Connolly, Cyril


I like my image. It's me. I'm a louse, but if you're going to be a louse, I say be a good one. I play to win and I play to entertain.
Jimmy Connors : 8598 : Connors, Jimmy


I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace.
James Conrad : 4348 : Conrad, James


The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Joseph Conrad : 1040 : Conrad, Joseph


All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upwards on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad : 1041 : Conrad, Joseph


The intention of every other piece of prose may be discussed and even mistrusted; but the purpose of a cookery book is one and unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind.
Joseph Conrad : 1042 : Conrad, Joseph


Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad : 3840 : Conrad, Joseph


A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad : 5239 : Conrad, Joseph


You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad : 5365 : Conrad, Joseph


It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain.
Joseph Conrad : 7242 : Conrad, Joseph


The sea never changes, and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.
Joseph Conrad : 7325 : Conrad, Joseph


Gossip is what nobody claims to like but everyone enjoys.
Joseph Conrad : 10147 : Conrad, Joseph


It was amazing to think that in those miles of human habitations there was not probably half a dozen pounds of nails.
Joseph Conrad, on Bangkok : 10431 : Conrad, Joseph


I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself.
Joseph Conrad : 12099 : Conrad, Joseph


All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it - an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.
Peter Conrad : 9313 : Conrad, Peter


I really don't want to have on my tombstone the inscription, "She was a good duster." I would rather write bestseller books or ride a camel across the Sahara than stay home and vacuum.
Shirley Conran : 9947 : Conran, Shirley


Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
Pat Conroy : 3997 : Conroy, Pat


I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.
Bob Considine : 2892 : Considine, Bob


St. Patrick's day is an enchanted time - a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.
Adrienne Cook : 5307 : Cook, Adrienne


If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions.
Catherine Cook : 12564 : Cook, Catherine


Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis "good works" make the man.
Eliza Cook : 8068 : Cook, Eliza


Say and do something positive that will help the situation; It doesn't take any brains to complain.
Robert A. Cook : 12208 : Cook, Robert A.


Calvin Coolidge's perpetual expression was of smelling something burning on the kitchen stove.
Sherwin L. Cook : 1649 : Cook, Sherwin L.


Nearly every move in baseball - the windup, the pitch, the motion of the infielders - is different from other games.
Alistair Cooke : 6324 : Cooke, Alistair


Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke : 6896 : Cooke, Alistair


Calvin Coolidge believed that the least government was the best government; he aspired to become the least President the country had ever had; he attained his desire.
Alistair Cooke : 10389 : Cooke, Alistair


Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head and kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Cooke : 4728 : Cooke, Edmund


We rarely gain a high or larger view except as it is forced upon us through struggles which we would have avoided if we could.
Charles Horton Cooley : 3079 : Cooley, Charles Horton


Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley : 7758 : Cooley, Charles Horton


No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
Charles Horton Cooley : 8197 : Cooley, Charles Horton


We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot.
Charles Horton Cooley : 11477 : Cooley, Charles Horton


Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.
Mason Cooley : 9157 : Cooley, Mason


If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
Mason Cooley : 12005 : Cooley, Mason


No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge : 303 : Coolidge, Calvin


A school is not the end but only the beginning of an education.
Calvin Coolidge : 304 : Coolidge, Calvin


Few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because they are lacking in application.
Calvin Coolidge : 305 : Coolidge, Calvin


One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.
Calvin Coolidge : 3775 : Coolidge, Calvin


Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persist
Calvin Coolidge : 4431 : Coolidge, Calvin


Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.
Calvin Coolidge : 4943 : Coolidge, Calvin


Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge : 8479 : Coolidge, Calvin


Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge : 9336 : Coolidge, Calvin


I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Calvin Coolidge : 9587 : Coolidge, Calvin


Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
Calvin Coolidge : 9791 : Coolidge, Calvin


Civilization and profits go hand in hand.
Calvin Coolidge : 10584 : Coolidge, Calvin


I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
Calvin Coolidge : 11230 : Coolidge, Calvin


To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge : 12653 : Coolidge, Calvin


If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
Robert N. Coons : 5285 : Coons, Robert N.


Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper : 12656 : Cooper, Alice


The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
Alice Cooper : 13457 : Cooper, Alice


I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Gary Cooper (on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone with the Wind.") : 5675 : Cooper, Gary


Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
James Fenimore Cooper : 2264 : Cooper, James Fenimore


Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake in the afternoon.
Jilly Cooper : 973 : Cooper, Jilly


Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
Wendy Cope : 1876 : Cope, Wendy


I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers; whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Wendy Cope : 8243 : Cope, Wendy


To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
Aaron Copeland : 6871 : Copeland, Aaron


When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
Bill Copeland : 4843 : Copeland, Bill


The path to your success is not as fixed and inflexible as you think.
Misty Copeland : 12268 : Copeland, Misty


To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland : 3960 : Copeland, Robert


Listening to the fifth symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for forty-five minutes.
Aaron Copland : 2540 : Copland, Aaron


The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference between watching a great man walk down the street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.
Aaron Copland : 4674 : Copland, Aaron


Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.
Francis Ford Coppola : 7019 : Coppola, Francis Ford


The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Barbara Corcoran : 12400 : Corcoran, Barbara


I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.
Marie Corelli : 1239 : Corelli, Marie


Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you think you want to hear.
Alan Coren : 29 : Coren, Alan


Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country (Holland) is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.
Alan Coren : 3062 : Coren, Alan


The Act of God designation on all insurance policies means roughly that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. If your ox kicks a hole in your neighbor's Maserati, however, indemnity is instantaneous.
Alan Coren : 4660 : Coren, Alan


TV is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
Alan Coren : 8642 : Coren, Alan


There is nothing love cannot face; There is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance.
Corinthians 13:7 : 7451 : Corinthians


He on whom heaven confers a sceptre knows not the weight till he bears it.
Corneille : 403 : Corneille


Just vengeance doesn't call for punishment.
Pierre Corneille : 12069 : Corneille, Pierre


Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in very nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies.
Francis M. Cornford : 3049 : Cornford, Francis M.


I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart that can be cured only with gold.
Hernando Cortes : 870 : Cortes, Hernando


My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't, because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
Bill Cosby : 257 : Cosby, Bill


I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby : 258 : Cosby, Bill


A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby : 7461 : Cosby, Bill


No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby : 8215 : Cosby, Bill


Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby : 8438 : Cosby, Bill


Like most kids today, my school friends and I majored in one timeless subject: writing notes.
Bill Cosby : 11616 : Cosby, Bill


Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, persecuting, distasteful, verbose, a show-off. I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.
Howard Cosell : 9997 : Cosell, Howard


The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep.
Joseph Cossman : 4398 : Cossman, E. Joseph


Stopping at third base adds no more to the score than striking out.
E. Joseph Cossman : 5400 : Cossman, E. Joseph


Love is a friendship set to music.
E. Joseph Cossman : 9129 : Cossman, E. Joseph


In any sport, the anticipation of what might happen is almost as important as what actually happens.
Bob Costas : 11605 : Costas, Bob


But in truth there are only three types of people in the world: people who work, people who are not allowed to, and people who don't have to.
Elvis Costello : 5936 : Costello, Elvis


Acting has always been holy to me. When I act I don't get caught lying very often.
Kevin Costner : 1094 : Costner, Kevin


Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better.
Smile Coue : 6146 : Coue, Smile


I don't think that a band can really swing on just a kick-off, you know; I think you've got to set the tempo first.
Count Basie : 8635 : Count Basie


Love matches are formed by people who pay for a month of honey with a life of vinegar.
Countess Of Blessington : 405 : Countess Of Blessington


Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.
Doug Coupland : 8856 : Coupland, Douglas


What if it was cats who invented technology? Would they have tv shows starring rubber squeak toys?
Douglas Coupland : 11074 : Coupland, Douglas


If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on halloween.
Douglas Coupland : 11133 : Coupland, Douglas


I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
Fred Couples : 3973 : Couples, Fred


Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Gustave Courbet : 8464 : Courbet, Gustave


One of the most obvious results of having a baby around the house is to turn two good people into complete idiots who probably wouldn't have been much worse than mere imbeciles without it.
Georges Courteline : 3891 : Courteline, Georges


Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he, He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney : 9954 : Courtney, Margaret


Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
Victor Cousin : 2647 : Cousin, Victor


The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Norman Cousins : 7565 : Cousins, Norman


To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.
Norman Cousins : 9023 : Cousins, Norman


We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth.
Norman Cousins : 9958 : Cousins, Norman


Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins : 10156 : Cousins, Norman


It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally, without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins : 10721 : Cousins, Norman


Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins : 11809 : Cousins, Norman


A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins : 11816 : Cousins, Norman


Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Norman Cousins : 13028 : Cousins, Norman


How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us.
Parks Cousins : 8027 : Cousins, Parks


The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
Jacques Cousteau : 13481 : Cousteau, Jacques


I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
Stephen Covey : 11099 : Covey, Stephen


Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
Stephen Covey : 11394 : Covey, Stephen


It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Noel Coward : 1348 : Coward, Noel


At this particular moment, I cannot find so much to laugh at as I would like.
Noel Coward : 1349 : Coward, Noel


I write at high speed because boredom is bad for my health. It upsets my stomach more than anything else. I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated.
Noel Coward : 3949 : Coward, Noel


I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage.
Noel Coward : 10058 : Coward, Noel


Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.
Noel Coward : 11316 : Coward, Noel


I never had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden.
Abraham Cowley : 3901 : Cowley, Abraham


Five minutes - Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my lifetime.
Hannah Cowley : 6095 : Cowley, Hannah


I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.
C. E. Cowman : 10331 : Cowman, C. E.


Our thoughts are unseen hands shaping the people we meet. Whatever we truly think them to be, that's what they'll become for us.
Richard Cowper : 4763 : Cowper, Richard


Variety's the very spice of life that gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper : 1901 : Cowper, William


Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
William Cowper : 2357 : Cowper, William


With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves.
William Cowper : 4724 : Cowper, William


Boys are, at best, but pretty buds unblown, whose scent and hues are rather guessed than known.
William Cowper : 5261 : Cowper, William


Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
William Cowper : 8439 : Cowper, William


A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
William Cowper : 8781 : Cowper, William


The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper : 9079 : Cowper, William


Reasoning at every step he treads, man yet mistakes his way, whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, are rarely known to stray.
William Cowper : 9349 : Cowper, William


The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper : 10129 : Cowper, William


Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Coleman Cox : 396 : Cox, Coleman


Now that it's all over. What did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
Coleman Cox : 10184 : Cox, Coleman


Heredity: the thing a child gets from the other side of the family.
Marcelene Cox : 1215 : Cox, Marcelene


No man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan, and raised an adolescent.
Marcelene Cox : 9348 : Cox, Marcelene


Life is a camel: You can make it do anything except back up.
Marcelene Cox : 10144 : Cox, Marcelene


Divorce: that's when a husband no longer has to bring the money home to his wife. He can mail it.
Morty Craft : 1325 : Craft, Morty


A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision with a task is the hope of the world.
Dinah Craik : 7925 : Craik, Dinah


You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.
Robert Crandall : 7943 : Crandall, Robert


You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane : 1966 : Crane, Frank


The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Frank Crane : 8602 : Crane, Frank


Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
George Crane : 9374 : Crane, George


When you praise a child, focus on his accomplishments rather than on himself. Thus, you encourage good works instead of mere egotism.
George Crane : 9675 : Crane, George


Congealed thinking is, in the long run, the forerunner of failure. An open mind is the mark of real leadership in top executives. Make sure that you are always receptive to new ideas.
George Crane : 9950 : Crane, George


There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
George Crane : 11073 : Crane, George


There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
Monta Crane : 9398 : Crane, Monta


Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
Stephen Crane : 10579 : Crane, Stephen


To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers, or to introduce subtle shadings to an established color.
Toller Cranston : 3883 : Cranston, Toller


When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
William Crashaw : 9345 : Crashaw, William


The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.
Wes Craven : 12084 : Craven, Wes


I think women see me on the cover of magazines and think I never have a pimple or bags under my eyes. You have to realize that's after two hours of hair and makeup, plus retouching. Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford : 385 : Crawford, Cindy


They fell, but o'er their glorious grave, floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.
Francis Marion Crawford : 12245 : Crawford, Francis Marion


I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.
Joan Crawford : 2067 : Crawford, Joan


Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford : 11072 : Crawford, Joan


The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.
Bishop Mandell Creighton : 9387 : Creighton, Bishop Mandell


History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstance.
Donald Creighton : 9445 : Creighton, Donald


Don't think of it as wrinkles. Think of it as relaxed fit skin.
Cathy Crimmins : 8828 : Crimmins, Cathy


There was no need to do any housework after all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
Quentin Crisp : 1477 : Crisp, Quentin


If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp : 1478 : Crisp, Quentin


Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.
Quentin Crisp : 4409 : Crisp, Quentin


Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp : 4627 : Crisp, Quentin


There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
Walter Cronkite : 7109 : Cronkite, Walter


Where the blue of the night, meets the gold of the day, someone waits for me.
Bing Crosby : 11645 : Crosby, Bing


Make a bigger space in the universe for you head to live in and it will grow to fill the space.
David Crosby : 2450 : Crosby, David


Angels descending, bring from above, Echoes of mercy, whispers of love. (From Blessed Assurance)
Fanny Crosby : 4850 : Crosby, Fanny (Frances Jane)


You can tell how bad a musical is by the number of times the chorus yells "hooray."
John Crosby : 9436 : Crosby, John


Viewing with dismay the conditions in somebody else's backyard is the specialty of the New York Times.
John Crosby : 10741 : Crosby, John


In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.
Amanda Cross : 2375 : Cross, Amanda


Life has this in common with prizefighting: If you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.
Amanda Cross : 6910 : Cross, Amanda


It's the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more.
Frank Cross, in Scrooged : 10909 : Cross, Frank


The opposite of love isn't hate - it's indifference. And if you hate me, that means you still care.
Marcia Cross : 10748 : Cross, Marcia


Political thinking consists in deciding upon the conclusion first and then finding good arguments for it. An open mind is considered irresponsible - and perhaps it really is.
Richard Crossman : 11170 : Crossman, Richard


Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers : 4676 : Crothers, Samuel McChord


God has editing rights over our prayers. He will edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
Stephen Crotts : 4197 : Crotts, Stephen


Making a big hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
Cameron Crowe : 12571 : Crowe, Cameron


A relationship isn't meant to be an insurance policy, a life preserver, or a security blanket.
Diane Crowley : 11292 : Crowley, Diane


War destroys men but luxury destroys mankind; at once it corrupts the body and mind.
John Crowne : 990 : Crowne, John


Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on a shifting carpet.
Thomas Crum : 11771 : Crum, Thomas


The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.
Thalassa Cruso : 12172 : Cruso, Thalassa


I never dreamed about being a millionaire - I dreamed about being a football player.
Victor Cruz : 12402 : Cruz, Victor


Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor, and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth : 1488 : Cudworth, Ralph


Games must be regarded not as conscious inventions, but as survivals from primitive conditions, under which they originated in magical rites and chiefly as means of divination.
Stewart Culin : 7522 : Culin, Stewart


My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
Countee Cullen : 12264 : Cullen, Countee


It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Richard Cumberland : 9119 : Cumberland, Richard


I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
e. e. cummings : 485 : cummings, e. e.


To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings : 2951 : cummings, e. e.


It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings : 3324 : cummings, e. e.


He had no nose, properly speaking, but a large beak of preposterous widthlessness, which gave his whole face the expression of falling gravely downstairs, and quite obliterated the unimportant chin.
e. e. cummings : 5234 : cummings, e. e.


I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings : 8002 : cummings, e. e.


Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
e. e. cummings : 9097 : cummings, e. e.


Do not save your loving speeches for you friends till they are dead; do not write them on their tombstones, speak them rather now instead.
Anna Cummins : 3667 : Cummins, Anna


I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week.
Mario Cuomo : 7288 : Cuomo, Mario


A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held.
Don Cupitt : 447 : Cupitt, Don


Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Will Cuppy : 5090 : Cuppy, Will


All modern men are descended from a wormlike creature, but it shows more on some people.
Will Cuppy : 10087 : Cuppy, Will


Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy : 11952 : Cuppy, Will


All my life through, the new sight of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie : 1240 : Curie, Marie


I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie : 1241 : Curie, Marie


Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie : 6123 : Curie, Marie


Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie : 6828 : Curie, Marie


Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.
Marie Curie : 7281 : Curie, Marie


One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie : 7473 : Curie, Marie


I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me a wedding dress, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.
Marie Curie : 11152 : Curie, Marie


We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie : 11856 : Curie, Marie


In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection.
Curnonsky : 5486 : Curnonsky


A color commentator is a guy who's paid to talk while everyone goes to the bathroom.
Bill Curry : 6451 : Curry, Bill


There's enormous power - both motivational and transformational power - in love.
Bishop Michael Curry : 12806 : Curry, Bishop Michael


Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.
Richard Curtis : 11002 : Curtis, Richard


When I first got to Hollywood, I made forty dollars a week and they named a hair style after me and made me into a kind of male Yvonne DeCarlo, fooling around in Arabian Nights rubbish.
Tony Curtis : 2991 : Curtis, Tony


If you asked me for my New Year resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
Cyril Cusack : 10918 : Cusack, Cyril


Plan ahead; it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Richard Cushing : 11362 : Cushing, Richard


If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo : 5882 : D'Angelo, Anthony J.


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo : 10280 : D'Angelo, Anthony J.


The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious man those of extreme barbarism.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly : 4999 : d'Aurevilly, Jules Barbey


The defects of great men are the consolation of dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli : 10551 : D'Israeli, Isaac


For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At
Alfred D'Souza : 4595 : D'Souza, Alfred


A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.
Leonardo Da Vinci : 1150 : da Vinci, Leonardo


The air moves like a river and carries the clouds with it; just as running water carries all the things that float upon it.
Leonardo da Vinci : 3474 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard and not seen.
Leonardo da Vinci : 3507 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci : 4419 : da Vinci, Leonardo


I have wasted my hours.
Leonardo da Vinci : 4874 : da Vinci, Leonardo


The time will come when men such as I will look on the murder of animals as they look on the murder of men.
Leonardo da Vinci : 5216 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so study without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Leonardo da Vinci : 6895 : da Vinci, Leonardo


It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da Vinci : 7061 : da Vinci, Leonardo


I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci : 8677 : da Vinci, Leonardo


Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
Leonardo Da Vinci : 11078 : da Vinci, Leonardo


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings a happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci : 11393 : Da Vinci, Leonardo


When I was six, I made my mother a little hat - out of her new blouse.
Lilly Dache : 3233 : Dache, Lilly


Mothers are basically a patient lot. They have to be or they would devour their offspring early on, like guppies.
Mary Daheim : 6032 : Daheim, Mary


A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl : 2279 : Dahl, Roald


Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners.
Roald Dahl : 10024 : Dahl, Roald


If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl : 10262 : Dahl, Roald


It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
Roald Dahl : 11862 : Dahl, Roald


There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
Edward Dahlberg : 522 : Dahlberg, Edward


Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
Edward Dahlberg : 523 : Dahlberg, Edward


Teddy bears shouldn't sit in closets when there's a child around who will love them.
Janet Dailey : 10511 : Dailey, Janet


Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.
Dalai Lama : 5575 : Dalai Lama


This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama : 8557 : Dalai Lama


Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama : 9909 : Dalai Lama


In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Dalai Lama : 10612 : Dalai Lama


In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
Dalai Lama : 11021 : Dalai Lama


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama : 12562 : Dalai Lama


The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Dalai Lama : 13355 : Dalai Lama


Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama : 13434 : Dalai Lama


Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.
Cass Daley : 11069 : Daley, Cass


Technology is reshaping this economy and transforming businesses and consumers. This is about more than e-commerce, or e-mail, or e-trades, or e-files. It is about the "e" in economic opportunity.
William Daley : 8873 : Daley, William


We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali : 1596 : Dali, Salvador


I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait. - - Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali : 2318 : Dali, Salvador


The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali : 5962 : Dali, Salvador


Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Salvador Dali : 6334 : Dali, Salvador


The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali : 10401 : Dali, Salvador


The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
Salvador Dali : 11443 : Dali, Salvador


Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador Dali : 12347 : Dali, Salvador


The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali : 12894 : Dali, Salvador


Here's to the whole of it, stars, stripes and pole of it. Here's to the soul of it, red, white and blue.
John Jay Daly : 11037 : Daly, John Jay


For the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o' March!
Thomas Augustine Daly : 13472 : Daly, Thomas Augustine


I think I care too much about what people think about me.
Matt Damon : 2111 : Damon, Matt


As I walk from crap game to crap game, my brain becomes active and agile and dwells on lofty thoughts.
Nick "The Greek" Dandalos : 1340 : Dandalos, Nick "The Greek"


Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane : 5390 : Dane, Frank


When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.
Rodney Dangerfield : 10268 : Dangerfield, Rodney


I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.
Rodney Dangerfield : 11667 : Dangerfield, Rodney


Every private citizen has a public responsibility.
Myra Daniels : 5412 : Daniels, Myra


Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
C. Archie Danielson : 10828 : Danielson, C. Archie


The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
Christopher Darden : 9884 : Darden, Christopher


A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Frank A. Dark : 6386 : Dark, Frank A.


We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion just as effectively as by bombs.
Kenneth Dark : 6437 : Dark, Kenneth


Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they make (or maybe "as they break" - no known source for the quote).
Charles John Darling : 5094 : Darling, Charles John


History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history
Clarence Darrow : 386 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow : 387 : Darrow, Clarence S.


If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
Clarence Darrow : 2154 : Darrow, Clarence S.


I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow : 2677 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause.
Clarence Darrow : 3892 : Darrow, Clarence S.


I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it and I just hate it.
Clarence Darrow : 4472 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.
Clarence Darrow : 5109 : Darrow, Clarence S.


True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow : 7838 : Darrow, Clarence S.


Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow : 8338 : Darrow, Clarence S.


When I was a boy, I was told that anybody could become president; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow : 9741 : Darrow, Clarence S.


You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
Clarence S. Darrow : 10433 : Darrow, Clarence S.


The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow : 11075 : Darrow, Clarence S.


It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.
Charles Darwin : 344 : Darwin, Charles


Great is the power of steady misrepresentation - but the history of science shows how, fortunately, this power does not long endure.
Charles Darwin : 4236 : Darwin, Charles


A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin : 5468 : Darwin, Charles


It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin : 5886 : Darwin, Charles


As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Charles Darwin : 10605 : Darwin, Charles


I conclude that musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.
Charles Darwin : 10661 : Darwin, Charles


The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin : 11062 : Darwin, Charles


In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin : 616 : Darwin, Francis


I eat what I eat. Don't make eating complicated. Rules are made only when food is plentiful; in times of famine, one eats what one can get.
Hari Dass : 11221 : Dass, Hari


Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
Rene Daumal : 12811 : Daumal, Rene


Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
Dale Dauten : 9767 : Dauten, Dale


Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair, but a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough.
Larry David : 12885 : David, Larry


Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular top ups.
Peter Davies : 7940 : Davies, Peter


Canada is not really a place where you encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.
Robertson Davies : 1565 : Davies, Robertson


Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter, it's the belief that counts.
Robertson Davies : 8707 : Davies, Robertson


Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when somebody tells them that the book is unfit to read.
Robertson Davies : 9977 : Davies, Robertson


Olivier brandished his technique like a kind of stylistic alibi. In catching the eye, he frequently disengaged the brain.
Russell Davies : 9691 : Davies, Russell


We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
Bette Davis : 253 : Davis, Bette


Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone, but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis : 254 : Davis, Bette


A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis : 8133 : Davis, Bette


I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.
Bette Davis : 8161 : Davis, Bette


I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable. I suppose I'm larger than life.
Bette Davis : 8246 : Davis, Bette


I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis : 9638 : Davis, Bette


I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Bette Davis : 10758 : Davis, Bette


My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis : 11223 : Davis, Bette


The best time I ever had with her was when I pushed her downstairs in "Baby Jane."
Bette Davis, on Joan Crawford : 11969 : Davis, Bette


I always wanted to do Peter Pan. I've always resented that only women get to do it, It's about a boy who refused to grow up, not a girl.
Brad Davis : 7906 : Davis, Brad


Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis : 9223 : Davis, Chili


I have often wondered if the results of the Versailles Conferences following the First World War would have been different if Woodrow Wilson had been a poker player.
Clyde Brian Davis : 10643 : Davis, Clyde Brian


The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.
Colin R. Davis : 12868 : Davis, Colin R.


This will remain the land of the free only as long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis : 7426 : Davis, Elmer


Data helps us understand what it is we need to encourage creators to do. Small things can have a huge impact.
Geena Davis : 12534 : Davis, Geena


To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
Hubbard Davis : 8007 : Davis, Hubbard


Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Jefferson Davis : 3716 : Davis, Jefferson


Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis : 7132 : Davis, Jim


I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis : 8396 : Davis, Miles


My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
Miles Davis : 11803 : Davis, Miles


Material deprivation is horrible, but it does not compare to spiritual deprivation.
Ossie Davis : 9778 : Davis, Ossie


Come in the evening, or come in the morning, come when you're looked for, or come without warning.
Thomas Davis : 8314 : Davis, Thomas


Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Sir Humphry Davy : 1661 : Davy, Sir Humphry


Consistency in regard to opinions is the slow poison of intellectual life.
Sir Humphry Davy : 8467 : Davy, Sir Humphry


Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes : 8757 : Dawes, Charles G.


By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
Rchard Dawkins : 9553 : Dawkins, Rchard


I think it is likely that there is life out there. I fear we shall never know about it.
Richard Dawkins : 6985 : Dawkins, Richard


As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
Christopher Dawson : 9975 : Dawson, Christopher


The great consulting room of a wise man is the library.
G. Dawson : 658 : Dawson, G.


As time goes on, new and remote aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day : 3091 : Day, Clarence


The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
Clarence Day : 5184 : Day, Clarence


Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day : 6493 : Day, Clarence


You can't sweep other people off their feet if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day : 9573 : Day, Clarence


We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.
Clarence Day : 9681 : Day, Clarence


The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll outgrow it.
Doris Day : 457 : Day, Doris


If a man does something silly, people say, "Isn't he silly?" If a woman does something silly, people say, "Aren't women silly?"
Doris Day : 7265 : Day, Doris


Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
Doris Day : 7810 : Day, Doris


I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
Doris Day : 12320 : Day, Doris


Knitting is very conducive to thought.
Dorothy Day : 12081 : Day, Dorothy


You know my views about some regulations - they're written for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
Harry Day : 3487 : Day, Harry


If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan : 11312 : Dayan, Moshe


The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
Barbara De Angelis : 12098 : De Angelis, Barbara


Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get, it's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.
Barbara De Angelis : 12257 : De Angelis, Barbara


Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara De Angelis : 12270 : De Angelis, Barbara


Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Edward De Bono : 11755 : De Bono, Edward


Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.
Alain de Botton : 12922 : de Botton, Alain


Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.
Catherine Crook de Camp : 9654 : de Camp, Catherine Crook


The strength or weakness of our conviction depends more on our courage than on our intelligence.
Luc De Clapiers : 11094 : De Clapiers, Luc


She is a fool, who trusts a man.
Marie de France : 3638 : de France, Marie


A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
Charles de Gaulle : 345 : de Gaulle, Charles


You have to be sure the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle : 3077 : de Gaulle, Charles


History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.
Charles de Gaulle : 3877 : de Gaulle, Charles


Deliberation is a function of the many; action is the function of one.
Charles De Gaulle : 4794 : de Gaulle, Charles


A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
Charles de Gaulle : 9973 : de Gaulle, Charles


Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
Charles De Gaulle : 11554 : de Gaulle, Charles


How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle : 12746 : de Gaulle, Charles


The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt : 5915 : de Goncourt, Edmond and Jules


What I love best about music is the women who listen to it.
Jules de Goncourt : 3826 : de Goncourt, Jules


Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs - you may live.
Remy de Gourmont : 1514 : de Gourmont, Remy


We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.
Remy de Gourmont : 6384 : de Gourmont, Remy


Oh, no man knows, Through what wild centuries, Roves back the rose.
Walter de la Mare : 8063 : de la Mare, Walter


Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
Oscar De La Renta : 9923 : De La Renta, Oscar


What a relaxed life is that which flees the worldly clamor, and follows the hidden path down which have gone the few wise men there have been in the world!
Fray Luis de Leon : 10649 : de Leon, Fray Luis


The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; It is essentially a part of it.
Charles De Lint : 9233 : De Lint, Charles


False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
Joseph de Maistre : 3895 : de Maistre, Joseph


Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
Paul de Man : 10580 : de Man, Paul


Great artists impose their particular illusion on humanity.
Guy de Maupassant : 3516 : de Maupassant, Guy


A good education is harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
Agnes De Mille : 3770 : de Mille, Agnes


Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
Agnes de Mille : 4747 : de Mille, Agnes


If takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative, especially in the theater. You have to care so much that you can't sleep, you can't eat, you can't talk to people.
Agnes de Mille : 7510 : de Mille, Agnes


I learned three important things in college: to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
Agnes de Mille : 9274 : de Mille, Agnes


When you perform, you are out of yourself - larger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours, nightly.
Agnes de Mille : 11490 : de Mille, Agnes


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 : 10428 : De Poitiers, Diane


Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.
Thomas de Quincey : 4174 : de Quincey, Thomas


It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
Thomas de Quincey : 6273 : de Quincey, Thomas


It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade : 9014 : de Sade, Marquis


The surface of American society is covered with a layer of Democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through.
Alexis de Tocqueville : 2681 : de Tocqueville, Alexis


There are two things which will always be very difficult for a democratic nation: to start a war and to end it.
Alexis de Tocqueville : 3469 : de Tocqueville, Alexis


History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Alexis de Tocqueville : 7807 : de Tocqueville, Alexis


Skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
Miguel de Unamuno : 5938 : de Unamuno, Miguel


The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.
Miguel De Unamuno : 6971 : de Unamuno, Miguel


Love is the child of illusion, and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno : 11663 : de Unamuno, Miguel


We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
Vauvenargues : 6655 : de Vauvenargues


Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
de Vauvenargues : 11299 : de Vauvenargues


The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.
Vauvenargues : 12025 : de Vauvenargues


You can't be happy with a woman who pronounces both d's in Wednesday.
Peter de Vries : 1449 : de Vries, Peter


The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds; they mature slowly.
Peter de Vries : 1450 : de Vries, Peter


Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Peter de Vries : 4817 : de Vries, Peter


There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
Peter de Vries : 5338 : de Vries, Peter


Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.
Peter de Vries : 5556 : de Vries, Peter


I love being a writer. what I can't stand is the paperwork.
Peter de Vries : 7416 : de Vries, Peter


The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
Peter de Vries : 7655 : de Vries, Peter


When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter de Vries : 11068 : de Vries, Peter


Every novel should have a beginning, a muddle, and an end.
Peter De Vries : 11359 : de Vries, Peter


The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Peter De Vries : 11433 : de Vries, Peter


It ain't bragging if you can do it.
Dizzy Dean : 10863 : Dean, Dizzy


For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
Jimmy Dean : 8695 : Dean, Jimmy


When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
Eugene Debs : 2417 : Debs, Eugene V.


The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. They have always taught you that it is your patriotic duty to go to war and slaughter yourselves at their command.
Eugene V. Debs : 2667 : Debs, Eugene V.


I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs : 4319 : Debs, Eugene V.


While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Eugene Debs : 11430 : Debs, Eugene V.


People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
Claude Debussy : 388 : Debussy, Claude


Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Stephen Decatur : 7270 : Decatur, Stephen


The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
Daniel Defoe : 7285 : Defoe, Daniel


Everybody has talent at twenty-five. The difficult thing is to have it at fifty.
Edgar Degas : 507 : Degas, Edgar


What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists. One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
Edgar Degas : 6346 : Degas, Edgar


It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.
Edgar Degas : 12608 : Degas, Edgar


I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls, and they say, "because it's such a beautiful animal." There you go. Well, I think my mother's attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Ellen Degeneres : 543 : DeGeneres, Ellen


My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen Degeneres : 544 : DeGeneres, Ellen


In the beginning there was nothing. God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Ellen DeGeneres : 4251 : DeGeneres, Ellen


Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen Degeneres : 12105 : DeGeneres, Ellen


I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.
Ellen Degeneres : 12460 : DeGeneres, Ellen


Never follow someone else's path. Unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means you should follow that.
Ellen Degeneres : 12765 : Degeneres, Ellen


I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.
Ellen Degeneres : 12942 : Degeneres, Ellen


People always ask me, "Were you funny as a child?" Well, no, I was an accountant.
Ellen Degeneres : 12955 : Degeneres, Ellen


Shall we call ourselves benevolent when the gifts we bestow do not cost us a single privation?
Degerando : 5453 : Degerando


The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
Fred Dehner : 11744 : Dehner, Fred


O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
Thomas Dekker : 2126 : Dekker, Thomas


Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekker : 12323 : Dekker, Thomas


The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix : 584 : Delacroix, Eugene


What is most real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Eugene Delacroix : 4991 : Delacroix, Eugene


Mediocre people have an answer for everything and are astonished at nothing.
Eugene Delacroix : 7749 : Delacroix, Eugene


Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue, it's a spiritual dissipation.
Margaret DeLand : 5326 : DeLand, Margaret


I'm not to blame for an old body, but I should be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.
Margaret Deland : 11577 : Deland, Margaret


In our dreams, we are always young.
Sadie Delany : 1595 : Delany, Sadie


I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
Don Delillo : 448 : Delillo, Don


Tattooing is about personalizing the body, making it a true home and fit temple for the spirit that dwells inside it. Tattooing, therefore, is a way of keeping the spiritual and material needs of my body in balance.
Michelle Delio : 4166 : Delio, Michelle


When the designs are chosen with care, tattoos have a power and magic all their own. They decorate the body but they also enhance the soul.
Michelle Delio : 4741 : Delio, Michelle


There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.
Frederick Delius : 12302 : Delius, Frederick


Idleness is not doing nothing, idleness is being free to do anything.
Floyd Dell : 10198 : Dell, Floyd


I've been fighting ten years to make people forget I'm just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I'll win it.
Alain Delon : 3088 : Delon, Alain


I'm actually a thin, serious person, but I play fat and funny, but only for the movies.
Dom Deluise : 446 : Deluise, Dom


For westerners, the tattoo has always been a metaphor of difference.
Margo DeMello : 10817 : DeMello, Margo


Remember you are a star. Never go across the alley even to dump garbage unless you are dressed to the teeth.
Cecil B. DeMille, To Paulette Goddard : 328 : DeMille, Cecil B.


A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.
Cecil B. DeMille : 3171 : DeMille, Cecil B.


Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
Cecil B. DeMille : 11873 : DeMille, Cecil B.


Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; Temperance, however, is the flower of old age.
Democritus : 432 : Democritus


The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
Democritus : 2842 : Democritus


Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus : 9165 : Democritus


And if a friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"
Democritus : 9323 : Democritus


Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus : 10538 : Democritus


Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold. Happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus : 10623 : Democritus


Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.
Demosthenes : 9043 : Demosthenes


Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes : 9098 : Demosthenes


There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
Edwin Denby : 3971 : Denby, Edwin


They've brought me more publicity than any film I've done. I'm recognized on every street corner in New York.
Catherine Deneuve on her Chanel ads : 9676 : Deneuve, Catherine


Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Sir John Denham : 8073 : Denham, Sir John


The most expensive bracelet you'll ever own isn't gold or silver. It's vinyl. They strap it on your wrist when you're admitted to the hospital.
Ron Dentinger : 11889 : Dentinger, Ron


I appreciate teamwork. I don't like a one-man show. I'm an interpreter, a sort of tool - I don't mean an object. The right tool is quite essential. Try pounding a nail in with a screwdriver.
Gerard Depardieu : 8874 : Depardieu, Gerard


I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Johnny Depp : 7424 : Depp, Johnny


Things are very bad when kids have to write to an actor for advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. I'm just as screwed up as the next guy.
Johnny Depp : 10678 : Depp, Johnny


The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp : 10981 : Depp, Johnny


Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
Bo Derek : 6876 : Derek, Bo


I was always the creative kid who was a nerd. I listened to Vivaldi, wrote poetry, and actually did my homework.
Laura Dern : 10464 : Dern, Laura


Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?
Anita Desai : 104 : Desai, Anita


I seemed to have gained nothing in trying to educate myself unless it was to discover more and more fully how ignorant I was.
Rene Descartes : 2404 : Descartes, Rene


Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well-supplied with it.
Rene Descartes : 6013 : Descartes, Rene


Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes : 7779 : Descartes, Rene


Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
Rene Descartes : 9184 : Descartes, Rene


If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes : 11910 : Descartes, Rene


Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Rene Descartes : 13365 : Descartes, Rene


Have no more doubt of the omnipotence of a free people.
Camille Desmoulins : 306 : Desmoulins, Camille


There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.
Sarah Dessen : 12692 : Dessen, Sarah


Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers : 13370 : Devers, Gail


The British press is always looking for stuff to fill the space between the cartoons.
Bernadette Devlin : 6419 : Devlin, Bernadette


A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out anyway and before anybody else does.
Thomas Dewar : 10460 : Dewar, Thomas


Patience is the greatest of all shock absorbers. The only thing you can get in a hurry is trouble.
Thomas R. Dewar : 1790 : Dewar, Thomas R.


Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar : 5590 : Dewar, Thomas R.


Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey : 991 : Dewey, John


What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child that must the community want for all its children.
John Dewey : 992 : Dewey, John


Failure is instructive. The person who thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey : 993 : Dewey, John


Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
John Dewey : 3043 : Dewey, John


Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish w
John Dewey : 3866 : Dewey, John


Education is a social process. Education is growth.
John Dewey : 7778 : Dewey, John


Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey : 8378 : Dewey, John


Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey : 9802 : Dewey, John


To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
John Dewey : 10873 : Dewey, John


Cease conceiving of education as mere preparation for later life, and make it the full meaning of the present life.
John Dewey : 10960 : Dewey, John


I like viable women who are out there doing. I like women who are very involved with living and who haven't pulled out from life.
Colleen Dewhurst : 2412 : Dewhurst, Colleen


You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car.
Harvey Diamond : 6632 : Diamond, Harvey


If men had to have babies, they would only ever have one each.
Diana, Princess of Wales : 436 : Diana, Princess of Wales


Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
Princess Diana : 6860 : Diana, Princess of Wales


Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
Princess Diana : 6865 : Diana, Princess of Wales


If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
Princess Diana : 12447 : Diana, Princess of Wales


Hugs can do great amounts of good, especially for children.
Diana, Princess Of Wales : 13228 : Diana, Princess Of Wales


Roses are red, mud is brown, the woods are better than any night on the town.
Earl Dibbles Jr. : 12819 : Dibbles, Earl Jr.


If you can do what you do best and be happy, you are further along in life than most people.
Leonardo DiCaprio : 12827 : DiCaprio, Leonardo


Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick : 4568 : Dick, Philip K.


Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes, and prism, are all very good words for the lips; especially prunes and prism.
Charles Dickens : 346 : Dickens, Charles


Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many: not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens : 347 : Dickens, Charles


Philadelphia is a handsome city, but distractingly regular. After walking about it for an hour or two, I felt that I would have given the world for a crooked street.
Charles Dickens : 2188 : Dickens, Charles


It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's
Charles Dickens : 2788 : Dickens, Charles


Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens : 4287 : Dickens, Charles


Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens : 4739 : Dickens, Charles


A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens : 5513 : Dickens, Charles


Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens : 6366 : Dickens, Charles


With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
Charles Dickens : 6716 : Dickens, Charles


No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens : 6751 : Dickens, Charles


I do not know the American gentleman. God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Charles Dickens : 6983 : Dickens, Charles


It is well for a man to respect his own vocation, whatever it is, and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
Charles Dickens : 7221 : Dickens, Charles


Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens : 7355 : Dickens, Charles


Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens : 8444 : Dickens, Charles


Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens : 8761 : Dickens, Charles


There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens : 11411 : Dickens, Charles


Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - How Not To Do It.
Charles Dickens : 11518 : Dickens, Charles


Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
Charles Dickens : 12037 : Dickens, Charles


The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
Charles Dickens : 12087 : Dickens, Charles


There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens : 12280 : Dickens, Charles


Adventures are an indication of inefficiency. Good explorers don't have them.
Herbert Spencer Dickey : 5046 : Dickey, Herbert Spencer


A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
James Dickey : 7124 : Dickey, James


My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson : 9427 : Dickinson, Angie


To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson : 554 : Dickinson, Emily


Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson : 2156 : Dickinson, Emily


The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.
Emily Dickinson : 3956 : Dickinson, Emily


Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson : 4124 : Dickinson, Emily


I felt it shelter to speak to you.
Emily Dickinson : 4421 : Dickinson, Emily


The spider as an artist has never been employed, though his surpassing merit is freely certified.
Emily Dickinson : 4979 : Dickinson, Emily


Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson : 6880 : Dickinson, Emily


That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson : 7478 : Dickinson, Emily


How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson : 12538 : Dickinson, Emily


I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.
Emily Dickinson : 12575 : Dickinson, Emily


Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of earth.
Emily Dickinson : 12939 : Dickinson, Emily


If you take care of the small things the big things take care of themselves.
Emily Dickinson : 13368 : Dickinson, Emily


You can gain more control of your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Emily Dickinson : 13378 : Dickinson, Emily


A young man gave up his lucrative job to become a writer. He was asked, "Have you sold anything yet?" He replied, "Yes, my car and my television."
Patrick Dickinson : 7553 : Dickinson, Patrick


Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson : 10760 : Dickson, Gordon R.


I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
Bo Diddley : 7449 : Diddley, Bo


Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash.
Bo Diddley : 9824 : Diddley, Bo


In general, the more a people is civilized, refined, the less its morals are poetic; everything weakens and turns mild.
Denis Diderot : 433 : Diderot, Denis


Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop the truth that is bitter.
Denis Diderot : 2468 : Diderot, Denis


Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated Him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict His view; He does not exist outside of it.
Denis Diderot : 3027 : Diderot, Denis


Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Denis Diderot : 5465 : Diderot, Denis


Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
Denis Diderot : 8365 : Diderot, Denis


All children are essentially criminal.
Denis Diderot : 9186 : Diderot, Denis


Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
Denis Diderot : 10582 : Diderot, Denis


The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion : 4314 : Didion, Joan


A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.
Joan Didion : 8182 : Didion, Joan


Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion : 10996 : Didion, Joan


Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that mother is there.
Marlene Dietrich : 1267 : Dietrich, Marlene


Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
Marlene Dietrich : 6160 : Dietrich, Marlene


The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich : 6922 : Dietrich, Marlene


It's the friends you can call up at four A. M. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich : 8115 : Dietrich, Marlene


The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.
Marlene Dietrich : 8319 : Dietrich, Marlene


Children will tell you how lonely it is sleeping alone. if possible you should always sleep with someone you love. You both recharge your mutual batteries free of charge.
Marlene Dietrich : 11176 : Dietrich, Marlene


I think the dying pray at the last not "please" but "thank you" as a guest thanks his host at the door.
Annie Dillard : 113 : Dillard, Annie


There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard : 4361 : Dillard, Annie


There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
Annie Dillard : 8178 : Dillard, Annie


Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
Annie Dillard : 8288 : Dillard, Annie


A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
Annie Dillard : 9967 : Dillard, Annie


You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
Annie Dillard : 11175 : Dillard, Annie


Fang, my husband, says the only thing domestic about me is that I was born in this country.
Phyllis Diller : 1457 : Diller, Phyllis


Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.
Phyllis Diller : 1458 : Diller, Phyllis


Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
Phyllis Diller : 1459 : Diller, Phyllis


When I go to the beauty parlor, I always use the emergency entrance. Sometimes I just go for an estimate.
Phyllis Diller : 2576 : Diller, Phyllis


A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Phyllis Diller : 4840 : Diller, Phyllis


If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door, greet him with, "Who could have done this? We have no enemies."
Phyllis Diller : 7255 : Diller, Phyllis


Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
Phyllis Diller : 8301 : Diller, Phyllis


Never go to bed mad - stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller : 9847 : Diller, Phyllis


I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Ms. Congeniality.
Phyllis Diller : 10183 : Diller, Phyllis


I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.
Phyllis Diller : 12281 : Diller, Phyllis


These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren.
John Dillinger : 6870 : Dillinger, John


Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
Don A. Dillman : 7186 : Dillman, Don A.


Repentance, without amendment, is like continually pumping without mending the leak.
Lewis W. Dilwyn : 3787 : Dilwyn, Lewis W.


A ballplayer's got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.
Joe Dimaggio : 2342 : Dimaggio, Joe


Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest Dimnet : 2772 : Dimnet, Ernest


I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen : 892 : Dinesen, Isak


The flamingos are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush.
Isak Dinesen : 893 : Dinesen, Isak


In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.
Isak Dinesen : 6702 : Dinesen, Isak


Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: give me leave to do my utmost.
Isak Dinesen : 7969 : Dinesen, Isak


God made the world round so we could never see too far down the road.
Isak Dinesen : 8470 : Dinesen, Isak


People need to respect each other's concerns and differences. And frankly, there's far more in common than divides us.
David Dinkins : 11561 : Dinkins, David


Over the door of a library in Thebes is the inscription, "Medicine For The Soul".
Diodorus Siculus : 440 : Diodorus Siculus


Aristotle said that education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Diogenes : 441 : Diogenes


A blush is the color of virtue.
Diogenes : 2131 : Diogenes


Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes : 7720 : Diogenes


We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.
Diogenes : 11398 : Diogenes


Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior : 5500 : Dior, Christian


A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior : 13141 : Dior, Christian


In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
Paul Dirac : 5925 : Dirac, Paul


A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen : 3763 : Dirksen, Everett


I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen : 7173 : Dirksen, Everett


It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Roy Disney : 1583 : Disney, Roy


I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney : 2924 : Disney, Walt


I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible because dreams offer too little collateral.
Walt Disney : 8995 : Disney, Walt


Cartoon animation offers a medium of storytelling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
Walt Disney : 9976 : Disney, Walt


You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Walt Disney : 10294 : Disney, Walt


When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
Walt Disney : 10884 : Disney, Walt


The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
Walt Disney : 10984 : Disney, Walt


The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney : 12875 : Disney, Walt


Laughter is timeless; Imagination has no age; Dreams are forever.
Walt Disney : 13480 : Disney, Walt


Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli : 227 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli : 228 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of man.
Benjamin Disraeli : 229 : Disraeli, Benjamin


A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.
Benjamin Disraeli : 230 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli : 231 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret
Disraeli : 443 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
Disraeli : 444 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Mankind may supply us with facts, but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind.
Disraeli : 1993 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2115 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2475 : Disraeli, Benjamin


To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step in knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2557 : Disraeli, Benjamin


A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli : 2623 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Youth is the trustee of prosperity.
Benjamin Disraeli : 3632 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin Disraeli : 3845 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli : 4342 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
Benjamin Disraeli : 4587 : Disraeli, Benjamin


There are some silent people who are more interesting than the best talkers.
Benjamin Disraeli : 5071 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The divine right of kings may have been a plea for feeble tyrants, but the divine right of government is the keystone of human progress, and without it governments sink into police, and a nation is degraded into a mob.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6249 : Disraeli, Benjamin


He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6701 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6752 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6769 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benjamin Disraeli : 6933 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7010 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Wherever is found what is called a paternal government was found a State education. It had been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7177 : Disraeli, Benjamin


Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7448 : Disraeli, Benjamin


There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7691 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
Benjamin Disraeli : 7740 : Disraeli, Benjamin


It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10258 : Disraeli, Benjamin


What we anticipate seldom occurs, but what we least expect generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10292 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10713 : Disraeli, Benjamin


As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10756 : Disraeli, Benjamin


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli : 10904 : Disraeli, Benjamin


It is well known what a middleman is: He is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
Benjamin Disraeli : 11594 : Disraeli, Benjamin


If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
Mike Ditka : 7490 : Ditka, Mike


Football is not really a contact sport, it's a collision sport. And it's a matter of skill, strength, endurance, and strategy. But I think when it comes down to it, people just like to hit each other.
Mike Ditka : 9940 : Ditka, Mike


While it is a misfortune to a woman never to be loved, it is a tragedy for her never to love.
Dorothy Dix : 2278 : Dix, Dorothy


The reason husbands and wives don't understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.
Dorothy Dix : 3347 : Dix, Dorothy


Surely the consolation of old age is finding out how few things are worth worrying over.
Dorothy Dix : 7418 : Dix, Dorothy


An unexpected fact is less readily absorbed than one which was expected.
Norman F. Dixon : 8050 : Dixon, Norman F.


Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners.
Byron Dobell : 11324 : Dobell, Byron


It is necessary to invent quotes more and more these days because professional golfers are gradually losing the power of speech. Already adverbs have been eliminated entirely from their vocabulary. "I hit the ball super but putted just horrible."
Peter Dobereiner : 1451 : Dobereiner, Peter


There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.
Arthur Dobrin : 7171 : Dobrin, Arthur


Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow : 11883 : Doctorow, E. L.


Honolulu: it's got everything: sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
Ken Dodd : 10259 : Dodd, Ken


Great individuals, not great organization men, make a college or university great.
Harold W. Dodds : 2521 : Dodds, Harold W.


Nowadays, people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.
Robert Doisneau : 1541 : Doisneau, Robert


Sometimes I think we're the only two lawyers who trust each other.
Elizabeth Dole, To Bob Dole : 539 : Dole, Elizabeth


When you're in your nineties and looking back, it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole : 11151 : Dole, Elizabeth


Happiness is the richest thing we will ever own.
Donald Duck (in an animated Disney Film) : 13522 : Donald Duck


Only the amateurs stay mad.
Sam Donaldson : 1597 : Donaldson, Sam


We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Stephen Donaldson : 2820 : Donaldson, Stephen


Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
J. P. Donleavy : 6155 : Donleavy, J. P.


Remember me not for my abilities, but remember my labors and my endeavors.
John Donne : 2052 : Donne, John


Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.
John Donne : 2845 : Donne, John


All other things, to their destruction draw. Only our love hath no decay; This, no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday. Running it never runs from us away, but truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.
John Donne : 2978 : Donne, John


Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right; By these we reach divinity.
John Donne : 6739 : Donne, John


Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne : 7900 : Donne, John


No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne : 9222 : Donne, John


The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd.
R. S. Donnell : 8749 : Donnell, R. S.


The softer you sing, the louder you're heard.
Donovan : 12847 : Donovan


Individuals are considered sincere when there is little or no discrepancy between the goals they seek and those they claim to be seeking.
Leonard W. Doob : 2398 : Doob, Leonard W.


It's very dangerous if you keep love letters from someone who is not now your husband.
Diana Dors : 2439 : Dors, Diana


To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Tony Dorsett : 11654 : Dorsett, Tony


The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Throughout history, "tender loving care" has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
Larry Dossey : 4188 : Dossey, Larry


Man survives where swine perish, and laughs where gods go mad.
Dostoyevsky : 466 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Too high a price is asked for harmony, and so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket. It's not God that I don't accept, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 646 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 647 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


One stands perplexed and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love! If you resolved on that once and for all, you may subdue the whole world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 2232 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


If the devil does not exist, and Man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky : 5650 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : 7154 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : 7207 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


The strongest and most influential memories are almost always those of childhood.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 10506 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Can one even as much as touch a gaming table without becoming immediately infected with superstition?
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 10733 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else'S.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky : 11143 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


The formula "two and two is five" is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky : 12034 : Dostoyevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich


Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
Gabby Douglas : 13222 : Douglas, Gabby


A man can wear a hat for years without being oppressed by its shabbiness.
James Douglas : 3408 : Douglas, James


I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
James Douglas : 8505 : Douglas, James


It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark, so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
James Douglas : 10406 : Douglas, James


Awkward, technically difficult: You've got to do acrobatics and contortions so the lighting and camera angles are right. Sorry guys, but love scenes are work.
Michael Douglas : 9972 : Douglas, Michael


Are we never to learn that socialism has its roots in envy and in nothing else?
Norman Douglas : 2016 : Douglas, Norman


You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
Norman Douglas : 2632 : Douglas, Norman


The heroes, the saints, and sages - they are those who face the world alone.
Norman Douglas : 2871 : Douglas, Norman


A man who reforms himself has contributed his full share toward the reformation of his neighbor.
Norman Douglas : 3811 : Douglas, Norman


Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?
Norman Douglas : 4852 : Douglas, Norman


Perhaps one should not think so much of oneself, though it is an interesting subject.
Norman Douglas : 6433 : Douglas, Norman


The Liberals talk about a stable government, but we don't know how bad the stable is going to smell.
Thomas Douglas : 6052 : Douglas, Thomas


Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.
Tommy Douglas : 8478 : Douglas, Tommy


The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.
William O. Douglas : 7352 : Douglas, William O.


No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass : 3470 : Douglass, Frederick


A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass : 6199 : Douglass, Frederick


Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass : 9872 : Douglass, Frederick


We are one, our cause is one, and we must help each other, if we are to succeed.
Frederick Douglass : 12654 : Douglass, Frederick


It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass : 13184 : Douglass, Frederick


When I am asked, "What made you want to be a writer?" my answer has always been, "Books." First and foremost, now, then, and always, I have been passionate about books.
Rita Dove : 9293 : Dove, Rita


When the right man smiled it would be, music skittering up her calf, like a chuckle.
Rita Dove : 12013 : Dove, Rita


The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
Maureen Dowd : 3757 : Dowd, Maureen


Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
Dowden : 470 : Dowden


Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.
Hugh Downs : 882 : Downs, Hugh


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs : 13100 : Downs, Hugh


I have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously, with the throng, dancing, to put thy pale. lost lilies out of mind.
Ernest Dowson : 8233 : Dowson, Ernest


How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : 1656 : Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan


While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will be up to, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
Arthur Conan Doyle : 4608 : Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan


Crime is common, logic is rare, therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.
Arthur Conan Doyle : 11123 : Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan


Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance.
Dr. Seuss : 4155 : Dr. Seuss


Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss : 6179 : Dr. Seuss


My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
Dr. Seuss : 8179 : Dr. Seuss


Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss : 8425 : Dr. Seuss


Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is 'youer' than you.
Dr. Seuss : 8447 : Dr. Seuss


I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss : 9040 : Dr. Seuss


Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss : 9864 : Dr. Seuss


You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss : 10192 : Dr. Seuss


You're on your own, and you know what you know, and you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss : 11452 : Dr. Seuss


Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss : 13046 : Dr. Seuss


The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.
Dr. Seuss : 13146 : Dr. Seuss


Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture. The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture has all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.
Margaret Drabble : 1219 : Drabble, Margaret


And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble : 1220 : Drabble, Margaret


Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.
Margaret Drabble : 1221 : Drabble, Margaret


If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault.
Phil Drabble : 4127 : Drabble, Phil


Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.
Lovelle Drachman : 12598 : Drachman, Lovelle


Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
Drake : 12587 : Drake


Smile and let everyone know that today, you're a lot stronger than you were yesterday.
Drake : 12843 : Drake


A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of Life.
Lee Drake : 4861 : Drake, Lee


The advantage of time and place in practical actions is half the victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
Sir Francis Drake : 1659 : Drake, Sir Francis


The Montreal Olympics can no more have a deficit than a man can have a baby.
Jean Drapeau : 951 : Drapeau, Jean


Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.
Thomas Dreier : 1771 : Dreier, Thomas


Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser : 12708 : Dreiser, Theodore


Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
H. W. Dresses : 7995 : Dresses, H. W.


It's not how old you are, but how you are old.
Marie Dressler : 10566 : Dressler, Marie


Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
Elizabeth Drew : 7437 : Drew, Elizabeth


Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.
Richard Dreyfuss : 2618 : Dreyfuss, Richard


I always knew that I could be a star for the audience that didn't relate to John Wayne or Al Pacino.
Richard Dreyfuss : 3151 : Dreyfuss, Richard


Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.
Richard Dreyfuss : 9203 : Dreyfuss, Richard


The higher one is in a hierarchy, the more befuddled one becomes when one attempts to operate the photocopy machine.
Robert S. Driscoll : 9694 : Driscoll, Robert S.


There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter F. Drucker : 1452 : Drucker, Peter F.


The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Peter F. Drucker : 7160 : Drucker, Peter F.


Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker : 7671 : Drucker, Peter F.


Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Peter Drucker : 10974 : Drucker, Peter F.


Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Peter Drucker : 11337 : Drucker, Peter F.


A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.
Peter Drucker : 12696 : Drucker, Peter F.


People never know what kind of hobby they're no good at until they've spent a fortune on it.
John Drybred : 11614 : Drybred, John


One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
John Dryden : 994 : Dryden, John


Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
John Dryden : 995 : Dryden, John


Shakespeare is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces, and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you despise the other.
John Dryden : 2304 : Dryden, John


He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him.
John Dryden, on Ben Jonson : 8988 : Dryden, John


Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
John Dryden : 9038 : Dryden, John


For all the happiness mankind can gain, is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
John Dryden : 10517 : Dryden, John


But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much.
John Dryden : 11307 : Dryden, John


Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 1840 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, not that men are wicked, but that men know so little of men.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 2320 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 6789 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth, they have not often let their presence be known.
W. E. B. Du Bois : 9318 : Du Bois, W. E. B.


Let us choose for ourselves our path in life, and let us try to strew that path with flowers.
Emilie du Chatelet : 12586 : du Chatelet, Emilie


Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.
Madame Marie Du Deffand : 11861 : Du Deffand, Madame Marie


There should be an invention that bottles up a memory like a perfume, and it never faded, never got stale, and whenever I wanted to I could uncork the bottle, and live the memory all over again.
Daphne du Maurier : 3491 : du Maurier, Daphne


The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
Chef Urbain Dubois : 4480 : Dubois, Chef Urbain


Reporters keep asking me, "What did you do to research playing a doctor?" The answer is, I watched as much "ER" as I could.
David Duchovny : 11240 : Duchovny, David


Fame is based on what people say about you, reputation on what they think of you.
Louis Dudek : 1189 : Dudek, Louis


Everything that can be invented has been invented.
Charles H. Duell(Commissioner, U. S. Office of Patents, 1899) : 5680 : Duell, Charles H.


You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Carol Ann Duffy : 12607 : Duffy, Carol Ann


I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington, on Napoleon : 7287 : Duke of Wellington


Social progress does not have to be bought at the price of individual freedom.
John Foster Dulles : 2524 : Dulles, John Foster


Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
John Dulles : 11848 : Dulles, John Foster


We enjoy thoroughly only the pleasure that we give.
Alexandre Dumas : 2113 : Dumas, Alexandre


Kings will lose privilege, as stars which have completed their time lose their splendor.
Alexandre Dumas, pere : 2507 : Dumas, Alexandre


There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
Alexandre Dumas : 3929 : Dumas, Alexandre


I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas : 5398 : Dumas, Alexandre


How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas : 10471 : Dumas, Alexandre


Music is the only noise for which one is obliged to pay.
Alexandre Dumas : 10830 : Dumas, Alexandre


There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
Alexandre Dumas : 12145 : Dumas, Alexandre


All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas : 13410 : Dumas, Alexandre


The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple, and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe-walking.
Isadora Duncan : 5918 : Duncan, Isadora


Before I go out on the stage, I must place a motor in my soul. If I do not get time to put that motor in my soul, I cannot dance.
Isadora Duncan : 5960 : Duncan, Isadora


Dancing: the highest intelligence in the freest body.
Isadora Duncan : 6690 : Duncan, Isadora


Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.
Isadora Duncan : 10657 : Duncan, Isadora


So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan : 11713 : Duncan, Isadora


Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Alan Dundes : 13072 : Dundes, Alan


I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.
Elaine Dundy : 4408 : Dundy, Elaine


I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
Katherine Dunham : 6822 : Dunham, Katherine


Everything one does enough of eventually generates its own interest and one then begins to believe in it.
Alan Dunn : 2462 : Dunn, Alan


Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Elizabeth Clarke Dunn : 2391 : Dunn, Elizabeth Clarke


Athlete: A dignified bunch of muscles, unable to do dishes or mow the lawn.
H. Alan Dunn : 10111 : Dunn, H. Alan


I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.
Katherine Dunn : 1081 : Dunn, Katherine


What happened to Truman Capote was that he got inside the establishment and tried to stay. It's just a place to visit.
Dominick Dunne : 7271 : Dunne, Dominick


A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if he knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne : 600 : Dunne, Finley Peter


People tell me to be frank but how can I when I don't dare to know myself?
Finley Peter Dunne : 601 : Dunne, Finley Peter


It doesn't make much difference what you study as long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne : 2603 : Dunne, Finley Peter


The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne : 3793 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
Finley Peter Dunne : 4818 : Dunne, Finley Peter


There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5563 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5584 : Dunne, Finley Peter


A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5585 : Dunne, Finley Peter


An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5586 : Dunne, Finley Peter


There is one thing to be said in favor of drink, and that is that it has caused many a lady to be loved that otherwise might have died single.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5587 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5588 : Dunne, Finley Peter


You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5589 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5591 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Among men, Hennessy, wet eye means dry heart.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5592 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5593 : Dunne, Finley Peter


The best husbands stay bachelors; they're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5594 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Many a man that could rule a hundred million strangers with an iron hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway when he comes home late at night.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5595 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5596 : Dunne, Finley Peter


High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5597 : Dunne, Finley Peter


A man has more fun wishing for the things he hasn't got than enjoying the things he has got.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5598 : Dunne, Finley Peter


I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you never can read his prescription.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5599 : Dunne, Finley Peter


One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5600 : Dunne, Finley Peter


When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5601 : Dunne, Finley Peter


If you go to the zoo, always take something to feed the animals, even if the signs say "Do not feed animals". It wasn't the animals that put them signs up.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5602 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Like most poets, preachers, and metaphysicians, he burst into conclusion at a spark of evidence.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5603 : Dunne, Finley Peter


A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5604 : Dunne, Finley Peter


The first thing to have in a library is a shelf. From time to time, this can be decorated with literature. But the shelf is the main thing.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5605 : Dunne, Finley Peter


No matter whether the country follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5616 : Dunne, Finley Peter


Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' 'pro-hy-bitionists' had best stay out of it.
Finley Peter Dunne : 5617 : Dunne, Finley Peter


But logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Edward Dunsany : 4347 : Dunsany, Edward


Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in large quantities.
Lord Dunsany : 1178 : Dunsany, Lord


No doubt, it is not necessary to have an amount of wit or imagination; but it is indispensable that we should not think we have it when we don't.
Felix A. Dupanloup : 11197 : Dupanloup, Felix A.


The family is the nucleus of civilization.
Ariel and Will Durant : 11679 : Durant, Ariel and Will


Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
Kevin Durant : 11721 : Durant, Kevin


As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Will Durant : 1881 : Durant, Will


The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
Will Durant : 1882 : Durant, Will


From the point of view of morals, life seems to be divided into two periods; in the first we indulge, in the second we preach.
Will Durant : 2314 : Durant, Will


The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
Will Durant : 2954 : Durant, Will


Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day.
Will Durant : 3115 : Durant, Will


Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant : 3603 : Durant, Will


In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant : 5954 : Durant, Will


The great snare in human thought is unconditional acceptance or irrational assumptions.
Will Durant : 7000 : Durant, Will


Nothing is often a good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant : 12155 : Durant, Will


Be nice to people on your way up because you may meet them on your way down.
Jimmy Durante : 6829 : Durante, Jimmy


Just as a Hollywood pin-up represented sex, so I represented the ideal daughter millions of fathers and mothers wished they had.
Deanna Durbin : 5988 : Durbin, Deanna


There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
Leo Durocher : 10755 : Durocher, Leo


What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brush her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mom don't make it to third.
Leo Durocher : 11890 : Durocher, Leo


I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?
Leo Durocher : 12992 : Durocher, Leo


I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket.
Lawrence Durrell : 1136 : Durrell, Lawrence


Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell : 2452 : Durrell, Lawrence


A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell : 7333 : Durrell, Lawrence


No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell : 7679 : Durrell, Lawrence


I hate the outdoors. To me, outdoors is where the car is.
Will Durst : 4506 : Durst, Will


While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.
Andrea Dworkin : 7544 : Dworkin, Andrea


Freedom is not an abstraction, nor is a little of it enough.
Andrea Dworkin : 10131 : Dworkin, Andrea


You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer : 2148 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
Wayne Dyer : 7836 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
Wayne Dyer : 8056 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
Wayne Dyer : 8616 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the quiet acceptance of what is."
Wayne Dyer : 8688 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Wayne Dyer : 9095 : Dyer, Dr. Wayne W.


When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Wayne Dyer : 9342 : Dyer, Wayne


When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
Wayne Dyer : 9617 : Dyer, Wayne


Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
Wayne Dyer : 9644 : Dyer, Wayne


Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Wayne Dyer : 10219 : Dyer, Wayne


He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan : 2655 : Dylan, Bob


Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
Bob Dylan : 4865 : Dylan, Bob


We each have our own vision and a voice inside that talks only to us. We have to be able to hear it.
Bob Dylan : 5022 : Dylan, Bob


People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylan : 6605 : Dylan, Bob


In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
Bob Dylan : 7340 : Dylan, Bob


The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan : 7482 : Dylan, Bob


I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom
Bob Dylan : 9151 : Dylan, Bob


The world don't need any more songs. If nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer it.
Bob Dylan : 9392 : Dylan, Bob


People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan : 10529 : Dylan, Bob


If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.
Bob Dylan : 12179 : Dylan, Bob


For insight into human affairs I turn to stories and poems rather than to sociology. I am not able to make use of the wisdom of the sociologists because I do not speak their language.
Freeman Dyson : 5914 : Dyson, Freeman


It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
Charles Eames : 10189 : Eames, Charles


I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart : 8223 : Earhart, Amelia


In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart : 8656 : Earhart, Amelia


The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart : 11100 : Earhart, Amelia


You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart : 12588 : Earhart, Amelia


The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart : 13113 : Earhart, Amelia


History is only a confused heap of facts.
Earl of Chesterfield : 9837 : Earl of Chesterfield


If any man will draw up his case, and put his name at the foot of the first page, I will give him an immediate reply. Where he compels me to turn over the sheet, he must wait my leisure.
Earl of Sandwich : 4208 : Earl of Sandwich


Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.
Sylvia Earle : 13494 : Earle, Sylvia


Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.
Sylvia Earle : 13521 : Earle, Sylvia


I think there are only three things America will be known for two thousand years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
Gerald Early : 7201 : Early, Gerald


I like to sit around the pool, listen to music, barbecue, grill, stuff like that. Just the guy next door, I guess.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. : 13450 : Earnhardt, Dale, Jr.


The streets of the City of Failure are paved with alibis - some of which are absolutely perfect.
Harry A. Earnshaw : 3682 : Earnshaw, Harry A.


I've always had the ability to say to the audience: "Watch this if you like it and if you don't - take a hike."
Clint Eastwood : 392 : Eastwood, Clint


When you're not interested in trying new things, that's when you should start hitting golf balls.
Clint Eastwood : 393 : Eastwood, Clint


Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood : 394 : Eastwood, Clint


There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. I got where I am by coming off the wall.
Clint Eastwood : 2194 : Eastwood, Clint


I used to play a lot of lab assistants. I'd be the guy running in, yelling "The place is on fire!" I never got shot or died - if that had happened, I would've gotten more screen time than average.
Clint Eastwood : 7176 : Eastwood, Clint


They say marriages are made in heaven, but so is thunder and lightning.
Clint Eastwood : 10276 : Eastwood, Clint


I've always thought of myself as a character actor rather than a leading man.
Clint Eastwood : 10798 : Eastwood, Clint


If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Clint Eastwood : 13502 : Eastwood, Clint


People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of parliament.
Abba Eban : 6 : Eban, Abba


History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban : 7 : Eban, Abba


Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
Abba Eban : 3467 : Eban, Abba


Now more than ever do I realize that I shall never be content with a sedentary life, and that I shall always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.
Isabelle Eberhardt : 7862 : Eberhardt, Isabelle


Tom Hanks must be fundamentally a good person, or he is an even better actor than we think
Roger Ebert : 11992 : Ebert, Roger


We don't believe in rheumatism and love until after the first attack.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : 2853 : Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von


If there is a faith that can move mountains, it is a faith in your own power.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : 4917 : Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von


If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach : 11802 : Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie von


A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry; but money answereth all things.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes : 9158 : Ecclesiastes


If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "Thank you," that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart : 6848 : Eckhart, Meister


To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
Meister Eckhart : 8013 : Eckhart, Meister


The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart : 12116 : Eckhart, Meister


I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom, and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Arthur Eddington : 9627 : Eddington, Arthur


Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with truth and love.
Mary Baker Eddy : 7360 : Eddy, Mary Baker


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman : 9249 : Edelman, Marian Wright


Corruption never has been compulsory.
Anthony Eden : 11692 : Eden, Anthony


The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth : 1999 : Edgeworth, Maria


Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.
Maria Edgeworth : 2324 : Edgeworth, Maria


Friends should quarrel to strengthen their attachment, and offend each other for the pleasure of being reconciled.
Maria Edgeworth : 10038 : Edgeworth, Maria


It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home, but it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.
Maria Edgeworth : 11513 : Edgeworth, Maria


Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
Thomas A. Edison : 1764 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison : 2040 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I am long on ideas but short on time. I expect to live only about one hundred years.
Thomas A. Edison : 2295 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison : 2517 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison : 3715 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Edison : 3855 : Edison, Thomas Alva


The inventor tries to meet the demands of a crazy civilization.
Thomas Edison : 5138 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Edison : 5525 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I have not failed. I've just found ten thousand ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison : 5893 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison : 6566 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Thomas Edison : 7226 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Remember, nothing that's good works by itself, just to please you. You've got to make the damn thing work.
Thomas Alva Edison : 8291 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas Edison : 8639 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison : 9325 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Alva Edison : 12215 : Edison, Thomas Alva


Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison : 12637 : Edison, Thomas Alva


I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.
Edward VIII : 2222 : Edward VIII


One can always tell when one is getting old and serious by the way that holidays seem to interfere with one's work.
Bob Edwards : 273 : Edwards, Bob


Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
Bob Edwards : 2003 : Edwards, Bob


I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings.
Elizabeth Edwards : 8130 : Edwards, Elizabeth


In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Flora Edwards : 7941 : Edwards, Flora


I once saw a very large spider, to my surprise, swimming in the air, and others have assured me that they often have seen spiders fly; the appearance is truly very pretty and pleasing.
Jonathan Edwards : 4616 : Edwards, Jonathan


Resolved: Never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Jonathan Edwards : 5526 : Edwards, Jonathan


I tried, in my time, to be a philosopher, but ... cheerfulness was always breaking in.
Oliver Edwards : 4950 : Edwards, Oliver


A good man who goes wrong is just a bad man who has been found out.
Robert Chambers Edwards : 3713 : Edwards, Robert Chambers


Imperfect knowledge is the parent of doubt; thorough and honest research dispels it.
Tryon Edwards : 1807 : Edwards, Tryon


Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
Tryon Edwards : 8414 : Edwards, Tryon


Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it.
Tryon Edwards : 10499 : Edwards, Tryon


Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston : 3576 : Eggleston, Edward


You could cover the whole world with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
Ilya Ehrenburg : 5006 : Ehrenburg, Ilya


Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts or undergo the humiliation of public speaking, usually on remote midwestern campuses.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 217 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 2340 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, a
Barbara Ehrenreich : 2659 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


James Bond in his Sean Connery days was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 7536 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Barbara Ehrenreich : 8626 : Ehrenreich, Barbara


With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann (from Desiderata) : 3838 : Ehrmann, Max


It's rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.
Billie Eilish : 13350 : Eilish, Billie


A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
Albert Einstein : 36 : Einstein, Albert


I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein : 37 : Einstein, Albert


I, at any rate, am convinced that God is not playing at dice.
Albert Einstein : 38 : Einstein, Albert


Perfections of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein : 39 : Einstein, Albert


The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
Albert Einstein : 40 : Einstein, Albert


My political ideal is democracy. Everyone should be respected as an individual but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein : 41 : Einstein, Albert


Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein : 42 : Einstein, Albert


I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein : 43 : Einstein, Albert


No amount of experimentation can prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein : 44 : Einstein, Albert


When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute - and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein : 2171 : Einstein, Albert


No one knows enough to be a pessimist.
Albert Einstein : 2196 : Einstein, Albert


He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein : 2215 : Einstein, Albert


I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein : 3111 : Einstein, Albert


I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious
Albert Einstein : 3193 : Einstein, Albert


I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein : 3443 : Einstein, Albert


An empty stomach is not a good political adviser
Albert Einstein : 3717 : Einstein, Albert


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein : 3721 : Einstein, Albert


I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to.
Albert Einstein : 3766 : Einstein, Albert


People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
Albert Einstein : 3784 : Einstein, Albert


Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein : 3990 : Einstein, Albert


It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein : 4093 : Einstein, Albert


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein : 4141 : Einstein, Albert


He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.
Albert Einstein : 4178 : Einstein, Albert


People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
Albert Einstein : 4374 : Einstein, Albert


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.
Albert Einstein : 4428 : Einstein, Albert


Isn't it strange that I who have only written unpopular books should be such a popular fellow.
Albert Einstein : 4432 : Einstein, Albert


If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.
Albert Einstein : 4669 : Einstein, Albert


If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein : 4926 : Einstein, Albert


Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity.
Albert Einstein : 4957 : Einstein, Albert


Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudice laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
Albert Einstein : 4969 : Einstein, Albert


Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
Albert Einstein : 5049 : Einstein, Albert


Schools must not work with methods of fear, force, and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity, and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
Albert Einstein : 5207 : Einstein, Albert


Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay without knowing why. To me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
Albert Einstein : 5306 : Einstein, Albert


Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein : 5340 : Einstein, Albert


The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein : 5359 : Einstein, Albert


Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein : 5386 : Einstein, Albert


The world war after the next one will be fought with rocks.
Albert Einstein : 5640 : Einstein, Albert


The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax!
Albert Einstein : 5682 : Einstein, Albert


The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein : 5928 : Einstein, Albert


I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein : 6345 : Einstein, Albert


There are two ways to live: You can live as if nothing is a miracle; You can live as if everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein : 7119 : Einstein, Albert


We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein : 7158 : Einstein, Albert


Science without religion is lame; Religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein : 7419 : Einstein, Albert


Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein : 7471 : Einstein, Albert


Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein : 7495 : Einstein, Albert


Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein : 8038 : Einstein, Albert


One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me.
Albert Einstein : 8299 : Einstein, Albert


You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein : 8676 : Einstein, Albert


The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein : 9310 : Einstein, Albert


Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein : 9861 : Einstein, Albert


The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein : 10257 : Einstein, Albert


Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein : 10277 : Einstein, Albert


It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein : 10463 : Einstein, Albert


Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of its sovereignty in favor of international institutions.
Albert Einstein : 10636 : Einstein, Albert


Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein : 10980 : Einstein, Albert


The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein : 11070 : Einstein, Albert


Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein : 11088 : Einstein, Albert


Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein : 11105 : Einstein, Albert


Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary.
Albert Einstein : 11190 : Einstein, Albert


Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein : 11729 : Einstein, Albert


Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein : 13174 : Einstein, Albert


To enjoy baseball, you do not need violence in your heart.
Charles Einstein : 349 : Einstein, Charles


A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 479 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


The true slogan of a true democracy is not "let the government do it" but rather, "let's do it ourselves." This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves - and one another.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 480 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 481 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half-hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 2245 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame Southern Methodist University football game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 2574 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 2940 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from a cornfield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 3055 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


The best foreign policy is to live our daily lives in honesty, decency, and integrity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 3517 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 3970 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6596 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6685 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the blessings of Almighty God.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6705 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6726 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 6926 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 7905 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 10220 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 11120 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 11129 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower : 13182 : Eisenhower, Dwight D.


Purpose is the central ingredient of power. Powerful people and organizations have a strong, sometimes even skewed, sense of purpose. A strong point of view is worth eighty IQ points.
Michael Eisner : 5002 : Eisner, Michael


If it's not growing, it's going to die.
Michael Eisner : 9126 : Eisner, Michael


Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge : 2878 : Eldridge, Paul


Esteem and knowledge of a person are generally as the two sides of a seesaw: When one rises, the other falls.
Paul Eldridge : 10052 : Eldridge, Paul


Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
Paul Eldridge : 5088 : Eldridnoge, Paul


Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot : 11144 : Eliot, Charles W.


Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thought about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
George Eliot : 696 : Eliot, George


As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot : 697 : Eliot, George


I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
George Eliot : 698 : Eliot, George


He is like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
George Eliot : 699 : Eliot, George


An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot : 2418 : Eliot, George


Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
George Eliot : 2794 : Eliot, George


Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
George Eliot : 3225 : Eliot, George


We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind.
George Eliot : 3397 : Eliot, George


If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
George Eliot : 3423 : Eliot, George


He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for poetic imagination.
George Eliot : 3451 : Eliot, George


There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot : 3519 : Eliot, George


Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
George Eliot : 3944 : Eliot, George


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
George Eliot : 4041 : Eliot, George


Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays.
George Eliot : 4068 : Eliot, George


Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot : 4731 : Eliot, George


Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
George Eliot : 5278 : Eliot, George


It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.
George Eliot : 6042 : Eliot, George


A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
George Eliot : 6139 : Eliot, George


Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means - one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
George Eliot : 6257 : Eliot, George


I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
George Eliot : 6352 : Eliot, George


What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot : 6843 : Eliot, George


What we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love.
George Eliot : 7184 : Eliot, George


Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
George Eliot : 8779 : Eliot, George


Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot : 9230 : Eliot, George


There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that - to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot : 9376 : Eliot, George


The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
George Eliot : 9570 : Eliot, George


There's many a one who would be idle if hunger didn't pinch him; but the stomach sets us to work.
George Eliot : 9740 : Eliot, George


Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot : 9757 : Eliot, George


Justice is like the kingdom of God - it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.
George Eliot : 10472 : Eliot, George


The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot : 10999 : Eliot, George


Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot : 11257 : Eliot, George


We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
George Eliot : 11997 : Eliot, George


There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot : 12097 : Eliot, George


More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot : 12148 : Eliot, George


It will never rain roses: When we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot : 12315 : Eliot, George


Hint to farmers: what ought to be done today, do it, for tomorrow it may rain.
Jared Eliot : 947 : Eliot, Jared


Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.
Robert Eliot : 8841 : Eliot, Robert


I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot : 1746 : Eliot, T. S.


If you want to write poetry you must earn a living some other way.
T. S. Eliot : 1747 : Eliot, T. S.


The present and the past are perhaps both present in the future and the future is contained in the past.
T. S. Eliot : 1748 : Eliot, T. S.


Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.
T. S. Eliot : 1749 : Eliot, T. S.


Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.
T. S. Eliot : 1979 : Eliot, T. S.


The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
T. S. Eliot : 2282 : Eliot, T. S.


I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god - sullen, untamed and intractable.
T. S. Eliot : 2735 : Eliot, T. S.


Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.
T. S. Eliot : 3298 : Eliot, T. S.


But the essential advantage for a poet is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.
T. S. Eliot : 3515 : Eliot, T. S.


Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
T. S. Eliot : 3567 : Eliot, T. S.


And the wind shall say: "here were decent godless people: their only monument the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls."
T. S. Eliot : 3938 : Eliot, T. S.


Midnight shakes the memory as a madman shakes a dead geranium.
T. S. Eliot : 4111 : Eliot, T. S.


Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
T. S. Eliot : 5052 : Eliot, T. S.


This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot : 6124 : Eliot, T. S.


I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot : 6296 : Eliot, T. S.


Yes, I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot : 6853 : Eliot, T. S.


No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do, To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince. Midnight shakes the memory, As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
T. S. Eliot : 7819 : Eliot, T. S.


The one thing to do, is to do nothing. Wait. You will find that you survive humiliation, and that's an experience of incalculable value.
T. S. Eliot : 8595 : Eliot, T. S.


Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
T. S. Eliot : 9831 : Eliot, T. S.


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot : 10310 : Eliot, T. S.


We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot : 10414 : Eliot, T. S.


April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire.
T. S. Eliot : 13501 : Eliot, T. S.


It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and able man.
Scott Elledge : 1633 : Elledge, Scott


If men rule the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee : 1162 : Ellerbee, Linda


There is a gentle absurdity about Washington D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.
Linda Ellerbee : 2172 : Ellerbee, Linda


If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
Linda Ellerbee : 3038 : Ellerbee, Linda


In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.
Linda Ellerbee : 4254 : Ellerbee, Linda


I was raised by, and have raised, people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.
Linda Ellerbee : 7589 : Ellerbee, Linda


I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee : 9626 : Ellerbee, Linda


There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone.
Jules Ellinger : 5300 : Ellinger, Jules


My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being, blessedness comes from God.
Duke Ellington : 2193 : Ellington, Duke


Life has two rules: Number one, never quit; Number two, always remember rule number one.
Duke Ellington : 2531 : Ellington, Duke


Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is.
Duke Ellington : 6332 : Ellington, Duke


A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Duke Ellington : 12067 : Ellington, Duke


He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot : 12918 : Elliot, Jim


Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Walter Elliott : 10805 : Elliott, Walter


Live in terms of your strong points. Magnify them. Let your weaknesses shrivel up and die from lack of nourishment.
William Young Elliott : 6917 : Elliott, William Young


The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis : 4617 : Ellis, Albert


You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis : 12917 : Ellis, Albert


One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take.
Havelock Ellis : 806 : Ellis, Havelock


Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis : 4636 : Ellis, Havelock


What we call "Progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis : 5081 : Ellis, Havelock


All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
Havelock Ellis : 6987 : Ellis, Havelock


Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis : 7388 : Ellis, Havelock


Dance is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
Havelock Ellis : 9983 : Ellis, Havelock


It has always been difficult for man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so.
Havelock Ellis : 11212 : Ellis, Havelock


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis : 9516 : Ellis, Henry Havelock


Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison : 4403 : Ellison, Ralph


The true artist destroys the accepted world by way of revealing the unseen, and creating that which is new and uniquely his own.
Ralph Ellison : 6597 : Ellison, Ralph


All I know is I end up singin' the blues and while I'm singing them blues I makes up my mind that I ain't nobody but myself and ain't nothing I can do but let whatever is gonna happen happen.
Ralph Ellison : 8877 : Ellison, Ralph


Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison : 11854 : Ellison, Ralph


Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
James Ellroy : 11132 : Ellroy, James


You can't think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.
Ethan Embry : 5627 : Embry, Ethan


Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.
Emerson : 549 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world.
Emerson : 550 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.
Emerson : 551 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Rings and jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of yourself.
Emerson : 552 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1489 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Heaven is large and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1490 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1491 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The astonishment of life is the absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and the practice of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1492 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, but the kind of man that the country turns out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1493 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1494 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1495 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1496 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1497 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1498 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1499 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Good men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1500 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1501 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1502 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 1503 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if only we know what to do with it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2075 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


No man is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in his composition - a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which he has taken to heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2169 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities 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 nonsen
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2195 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2527 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2577 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2850 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


In Maine they have not a summer but a thaw.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 2927 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3207 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3457 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The salvation of America and of the human race depends on the next election, if we believe in the newspapers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3523 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3560 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3725 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3783 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3830 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3858 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The new individual must work out the whole problem of science, letters and theology for himself; can owe his fathers nothing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 3937 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It is always pleasant to be generous though very vexatious to pay debts.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4012 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for me expression of all his history, and his wants.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4186 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4223 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4381 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4522 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4618 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4688 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4854 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.
R. W. Emerson : 4981 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5189 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Improve (your spare moments) and they will become the brightest gems in your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5325 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5503 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Life is short but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5649 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5871 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A sufficient and sure method of civilization is the influence of good women.
R. W. Emerson : 5873 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It's never too soon or too late to build for your future.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 5888 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


If you would lift me up, you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6222 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


There is always room for a man of force, and he makes room for many.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6239 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from the fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6363 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6447 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6681 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6780 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6834 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6921 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 6949 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7034 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7112 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We do what we can and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7667 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is done to us. We are the builders of our fortunes.
R. W. Emerson : 7741 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7773 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A mechanic is driven by his work all day, but it ends at night; it has an end. But the scholar's work has none.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 7939 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 8136 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


He who does his own work frees a slave. He who does not his own work is a slaveholder.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 8326 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Win as if you were used to it; Lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 8846 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9256 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9412 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9549 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9554 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfaction is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9642 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9833 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 9919 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10079 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10126 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Art is a jealous mistress.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10180 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10325 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


The lesson is, to know that men are superficially very inflammable, but that these fervors do not strike down and reach the action and habit of the man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10650 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10774 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10917 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 10953 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11025 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11106 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11110 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11340 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11464 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11610 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


I can reason down or deny everything except this perpetual belly: Feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 11915 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 12928 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 13115 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : 13542 : Emerson, Ralph Waldo


We have no choice, to be a human being is to be a latent fool. The choice we have is whether or not we are going to be practicing fools.
Stewart Emery : 10419 : Emery, Stewart


I am whatever you say I am; If I wasn't then why would you say I am.
Eminem : 11399 : Eminem


I just want you all to notice me, and people to see, that somewhere deep down there's a decent human being in me.
Eminem : 12801 : Eminem


I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
: 13059 : Emma Goldman


Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments
Emmons : 560 : Emmons


Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Nathaniel Emmons : 9093 : Emmons, Nathaniel


The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Sigmund Engel : 6699 : Engel, Sigmund


You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.
Jon English : 8000 : English, Jon


I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.
Nora Ephron : 1350 : Ephron, Nora


If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
Nora Ephron : 1351 : Ephron, Nora


I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
Nora Ephron : 2401 : Ephron, Nora


What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
Nora Ephron : 7496 : Ephron, Nora


You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron : 9796 : Ephron, Nora


There is no reason to confuse television news with journalism.
Nora Ephron : 10547 : Ephron, Nora


I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.
Nora Ephron : 10986 : Ephron, Nora


Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there.
Nora Ephron : 11863 : Ephron, Nora


Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron : 13341 : Ephron, Nora


Whoever sins least, he is the best man; for no man is innocent, no one free from blame.
Epicharmus : 8337 : Epicharmus


And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?
Epictetus : 565 : Epictetus


If any one speak ill of thee, consider whether he hath truth on his side; and if so, reform thyself, that his censures may not affect thee.
Epictetus : 566 : Epictetus


If I were a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale, if a swan, like a swan. But, since I am a rational creature, my role is to praise God.
Epictetus : 2286 : Epictetus


There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus : 3659 : Epictetus


Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus : 3816 : Epictetus


Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus : 4130 : Epictetus


Good fortune, like ripe fruit, ought to be enjoyed while it is still present.
Epictetus : 5446 : Epictetus


It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Epictetus : 8373 : Epictetus


First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus : 9470 : Epictetus


You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
Epictetus : 11647 : Epictetus


Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
Epictetus : 12313 : Epictetus


Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Epictetus : 12488 : Epictetus


The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus : 12556 : Epictetus


Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus : 13177 : Epictetus


The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus : 3612 : Epicurus


It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Epicurus : 8132 : Epicurus


The greatest good is prudence; a more precious thing even than philosophy; from it spring all the other virtues.
Epicurus : 9397 : Epicurus


It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus : 9873 : Epicurus


The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
William Epson : 2372 : Epson, William


Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we will live.
Joseph Epstein : 1044 : Epstein, Joseph


When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus : 2026 : Erasmus


If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.
Erasmus : 9630 : Erasmus


Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception, and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.
Erasmus : 10652 : Erasmus


Let a king recall that it is better to improve his realm than to increase his territory.
Desiderius Erasmus : 435 : Erasmus, Desiderius


You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. It's invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.
Louise Erdrich : 10422 : Erdrich, Louise


A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he got the biggest piece.
Ludwig W. Erhard : 6562 : Erhard, Ludwig W.


Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Arthur Erickson : 8131 : Erickson, Arthur


Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps on ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson : 9721 : Erickson, Lou


Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik H. Erikson : 7764 : Erikson, Erik H.


The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
Max Ernst : 8279 : Ernst, Max


The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.
Morris Ernst : 2299 : Ernst, Morris Leopold


Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
Morris Leopold Ernst : 6550 : Ernst, Morris Leopold


A beautiful woman is one I notice; a charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine : 996 : Erskine, John


Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
John Erskine : 3764 : Erskine, John


I have never had so many good ideas day after day as when I worked in the garden.
John Erskine : 9785 : Erskine, John


That which is called firmness in a king is called obstinacy in a donkey.
Lord Erskine : 2583 : Erskine, Lord


Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz : 2344 : Ertz, Susan


I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
Julius Erving (Dr. J) : 13394 : Erving, Julius


We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about its width and depth.
Evan Esar : 2138 : Esar, Evan


The only job at which you start at the top is digging a hole.
Evan Esar : 3248 : Esar, Evan


If you have made up your mind that you cannot do it, you're absolutely right.
Evan Esar : 3663 : Esar, Evan


Hope: Tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Evan Esar : 3773 : Esar, Evan


No matter how much you nurse a grudge, it won't get better.
Evan Esar : 3962 : Esar, Evan


The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Evan Esar : 4466 : Esar, Evan


There is only one food for thought; more thought.
Evan Esar : 4511 : Esar, Evan


An ace in your hand is worth two in the deck.
Evan Esar : 10171 : Esar, Evan


America believes in education: The average professor earns more money in a year than the professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar : 11550 : Esar, Evan


Family: a social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
Evan Esar : 12348 : Esar, Evan


Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.
Lord Essex : 7991 : Essex, Lord


If youth only knew; if age only could.
Henri Estienne : 6516 : Estienne, Henri


When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.
Sir George Etherege : 3514 : Etherege, Sir George


I always wanted the fire of Springsteen. I always wanted the melodies that Van Morrison could write. I always wanted the heart of Joni Mitchell. And I wanted the guitar rhythms of Keith Richards.
Melissa Etheridge : 8522 : Etheridge, Melissa


Relationships are hard. It's like a full-time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, and before they leave you, they should have to f
Bob Ettinger : 5696 : Ettinger, Bob


The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Euripides : 2061 : Euripides


There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
Euripides : 2887 : Euripides


To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.
Euripides : 3280 : Euripides


He who neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides : 3653 : Euripides


Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
Euripides : 6698 : Euripides


In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Euripides : 6741 : Euripides


Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
Euripides : 6799 : Euripides


When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Euripides : 7036 : Euripides


Do not consider painful what is good for you.
Euripides : 7086 : Euripides


The wisest men follow their own direction.
Euripides : 7393 : Euripides


Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
Euripides : 7719 : Euripides


In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
Euripides : 8094 : Euripides


Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
Euripides : 8401 : Euripides


The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
Euripides : 9281 : Euripides


Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides : 10577 : Euripides


Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Euripides : 10849 : Euripides


Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Euripides : 12786 : Euripides


No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth Thus preserving the face from congealing.
Anthony Euwer : 4201 : Euwer, Anthony


Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans : 6295 : Evans, Bergen


There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.
Bergen Evans : 9614 : Evans, Bergen


I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
George Bird Evans : 8609 : Evans, George Bird


Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people - singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.
Mari Evans : 1237 : Evans, Mari


Freedom has never been free ... I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would make a better life for them.
Medgar Evers : 7213 : Evers, Medgar


In many instance, marriage vows would be more accurate if the phrase were changed to "Until debt do us part."
Sam Ewing : 3153 : Ewing, Sam


Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing : 8977 : Ewing, Sam


Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing : 11800 : Ewing, Sam


If there isn't a law, there will be.
Harold Faber : 6171 : Faber, Harold


Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking,
Clifton Fadiman : 4239 : Fadiman, Clifton


Ennui, felt on the proper occasions, is a sign of intelligence.
Clifton Fadiman : 5516 : Fadiman, Clifton


To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Fadiman : 7665 : Fadiman, Clifton


Cheese - milk's leap forward to immortality.
Clifton Fadiman : 9498 : Fadiman, Clifton


Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Clifton Fadiman : 10420 : Fadiman, Clifton


A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman : 10668 : Fadiman, Clifton


Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
Marianne Faithfull : 3481 : Faithfull, Marianne


Americans are rather like bad Bulgarian wine: they don't travel well.
Bernard Falk : 9087 : Falk, Bernard


When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary to not make a decision.
Lord Falkland : 12582 : Falkland, Lord


Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
Oriana Fallaci : 1393 : Fallaci, Oriana


One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.
Rebecca Falls : 7993 : Falls, Rebecca


Feminism's agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
Susan Faludi : 1737 : Faludi, Susan


To despise riches may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
Fanny Burney : 6618 : Fanny, Burney


Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it!
Michael Faraday, when asked about the usefulness of electricity : 3096 : Faraday, Michael


Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature, and in such things as these, experiment is the best test of such consistency.
Michael Faraday : 11869 : Faraday, Michael


Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest.
Eleanor Farjeon : 12657 : Farjeon, Eleanor


A real friend is someone who takes a winter vacation on a sun drenched beach and doesn't send you a card.
Farmer's Almanac : 4942 : Farmer's Almanac


I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
Frances Farmer : 10695 : Farmer, Frances


No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.
William Faulkner : 1904 : Faulkner, William


A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
William Faulkner : 2783 : Faulkner, William


The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has no peace until then. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.
William Faulkner : 2939 : Faulkner, William


I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner : 3287 : Faulkner, William


If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back as a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner : 3399 : Faulkner, William


Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner : 8437 : Faulkner, William


We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
William Faulkner : 9535 : Faulkner, William


The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William Faulkner : 11191 : Faulkner, William


I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally, Chance might deal you a good card.
Sebastian Faulks : 12092 : Faulks, Sebastian


God is a child who amuses himself, going from laughing to crying for no reason, each day reinventing the world to the chagrin of hair-splitters, pedants, and preachers, who try to teach God his job as creator.
Elie Faure : 2958 : Faure, Elie


The reason the All-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that the All-American boy can see better than he can think.
Farrah Fawcett : 595 : Fawcett, Farrah


Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather : 1905 : Feather, William


Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction.
William Feather : 3119 : Feather, William


Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing.
William Feather : 4992 : Feather, William


I'm a man of simple wants - all I want is my share of the best there is.
William Feather : 5482 : Feather, William


A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather : 6863 : Feather, William


The hardest job of all is trying to look busy when you're not.
William Feather : 9140 : Feather, William


We always admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job.
William Feather : 11334 : Feather, William


If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather : 11946 : Feather, William


I'm in real trouble. First my laundry called and said they lost my shirt, then my broker said the same thing.
Leopold Fechtman : 1151 : Fechtman, Leopold


Much of good manners is about knowing when to pretend that what's happening isn't happening.
Mrs. Falk Feeley : 1327 : Feeley, Mrs. Falk


I had a terrible nightmare. I dreamed that all the truths were known.
James Feibleman : 923 : Feibleman, James K.


Help a man in trouble and he will remember you when he's in trouble again.
James Feibleman : 924 : Feibleman, James K.


Every time we see Hamlet in a new and improved version, it almost seems as though we have lost him.
James Feibleman : 925 : Feibleman, James K.


Adults have trouble opening the safety cap on aspirin bottles but children can do it easily.
James Feibleman : 926 : Feibleman, James K.


Contract bridge was invented to save people the embarrassment of having to talk to each other.
James Feibleman : 927 : Feibleman, James K.


Every book has a strong individual character, like a leader among men.
James K. Feibleman : 930 : Feibleman, James K.


The really great are those who are able to make life meet them on their terms.
James Feibleman : 2078 : Feibleman, James K.


You can say one thing about ignorance: There seems to be more than enough to go around.
James Feibleman : 2485 : Feibleman, James K.


A scholar is one who thinks that if the meaning of a word changes with time, it is always for the worse.
James K. Feibleman : 3192 : Feibleman, James K.


We are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of our great technology. What man makes remakes man.
James Feibleman : 3211 : Feibleman, James K.


Old people maintain a conspiracy of silence. They never tell the young that they are having their best years.
James Feibleman : 3214 : Feibleman, James K.


Fiction takes many forms: novels, short stories, plays, campaign promises.
James K. Feibleman : 4964 : Feibleman, James K.


Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.
Jules Feiffer : 9221 : Feiffer, Jules


With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.
Paul Feig : 12199 : Feig, Paul


Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.
Raymond Feist : 3934 : Feist, Raymond


Dad taught me all I know about remodeling by making an example of our house. Our house was like one of the great European cathedrals: never finished.
Michael Feldman : 9649 : Feldman, Michael


Society teaches us to lie. One of the first things parents teach kids is that they should try to look like they like a gift whether they do or not.
Robert Feldman : 8573 : Feldman, Robert


You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again.
Bob Feller : 13409 : Feller, Bob


In the mythology of cinema, Oscar is the supreme prize.
Federico Fellini : 3323 : Fellini, Federico


A different language is a different vision of life.
Federico Fellini : 4845 : Fellini, Federico


If not a director I would've been an actor, a singer, a painter, a circus performer, a musician, a writer, and a doctor in a mental hospital. I am very fortunate. As a director I can be all of these.
Federico Fellini : 8520 : Fellini, Federico


A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.
Federico Fellini : 9900 : Fellini, Federico


People reproach me for not always telling the same story the same way. But this happens because I've invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkind to other people to repeat myself.
Federico Fellini : 11146 : Fellini, Federico


All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Federico Fellini : 12359 : Fellini, Federico


Frequently a big advantage can be gained by knowing how to give in at the right moment.
Fenelon : 599 : Fenelon


Love is conquered only by flight. Against such an enemy, true courage consists in fear and retreat, in retreat without deliberation, and without looking back.
Francois Fenelon : 11509 : Fenelon, Francois


The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.
Nevin Fenneman : 4753 : Fenneman, Nevin


A new baby is always the brightest cause for rejoicing in any house.
Edward Fenton : 5258 : Fenton, Edward


Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.
James Fenton : 8593 : Fenton, James


To enjoy walking merely as walking was, and is, considered an eccentricity in the United States.
Edna Ferber : 520 : Ferber, Edna


A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber : 3024 : Ferber, Edna


About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
Edna Ferber : 5987 : Ferber, Edna


I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
Edna Ferber : 11906 : Ferber, Edna


Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
Marilyn Ferguson : 1242 : Ferguson, Marilyn


An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.
Marilyn Ferguson : 8921 : Ferguson, Marilyn


Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
Marilyn Ferguson : 12391 : Ferguson, Marilyn


The poet is like an acrobat, climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti : 4096 : Ferlinghetti, Lawrence


Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.
Enrico Fermi : 3454 : Fermi, Enrico


Trust your gut, keep throwing darts at the dartboard. Don't listen to the critics and you will figure it out.
Will Ferrell : 12755 : Ferrell, Will


For many of you who maybe don't have it all figured out, it's OK. That's the same chair that I sat in.
Will Ferrell : 12764 : Ferrell, Will


Enjoy the process of your search without succumbing to the pressure of the result.
Will Ferrell : 12770 : Ferrell, Will


More husbands would leave home if they knew how to pack their suitcases.
Leopold Fetchner : 8047 : Fetchner, Leopold


The only suitable gift for the man who has everything is your deepest sympathy.
Imogene Fey : 886 : Fey, Imogene


You can't be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.
Tina Fey : 12398 : Fey, Tina


Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
Richard Feynman : 1521 : Feynman, Richard


I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard Feynman : 9920 : Feynman, Richard


The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Feynman : 12649 : Feynman, Richard


I am in love with high, far-seeing places.
Arthur Ficke : 9502 : Ficke, Arthur


Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig : 7772 : Fiebig, Jim


He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler : 7403 : Fiedler, Edgar R.


Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
Eugene Field : 585 : Field, Eugene


Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
Eugene Field : 2514 : Field, Eugene


I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field : 11167 : Field, Joanna


I used to think I had ambition, but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
Rachel Field : 1485 : Field, Rachel


You don't have to do "issues" pictures to be worthwhile. Entertainment is one of the great values of mankind.
Sally Field : 8648 : Field, Sally


His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: That is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
Henry Fielding : 3140 : Fielding, Henry


He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.
Henry Fielding : 3375 : Fielding, Henry


Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Henry Fielding : 9099 : Fielding, Henry


The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding : 9865 : Fielding, Sarah


I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I have lost is two weeks.
Totie Fields : 4447 : Fields, Totie


The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a guy is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields : 1839 : Fields, W. C.


Start each day with a smile - and get it over with.
W. C. Fields : 2631 : Fields, W. C.


I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields : 2816 : Fields, W. C.


Women are like elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields : 3297 : Fields, W. C.


Remember, a dead fish can swim downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields : 4486 : Fields, W. C.


Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields : 6948 : Fields, W. C.


I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields : 9478 : Fields, W. C.


My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.
W. C. Fields : 10306 : Fields, W. C.


I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
Guy Fieri : 12421 : Fieri, Guy


Cooking is like snow skiing: if you don't fall at least ten times, then you're not skiing hard enough.
Guy Fieri : 12451 : Fieri, Guy


Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together.
Guy Fieri : 12628 : Fieri, Guy


No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.
Guy Fieri : 12639 : Fieri, Guy


Manage the heat, let the meat cook, and you'll get fantastic results.
Guy Fieri : 13217 : Fieri, Guy


Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein : 4237 : Fierstein, Harvey


Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.
Harvey Fierstein : 11917 : Fierstein, Harvey


I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is "I love you," and one of them is bullets.
Nathan Fillion : 12319 : Fillion, Nathan


It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.
Nathan Fillion : 13482 : Fillion, Nathan


Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
Millard Fillmore : 1309 : Fillmore, Millard


I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.
Jennie Finch : 12382 : Finch, Jennie


A consultant is someone who takes your watch away to tell you what time it is.
Ed Finkelstein : 10100 : Finkelstein, Ed


Gardening is the most therapeutic and defiant act you can do, especially in the inner city
Ron Finley : 12975 : Finley, Ron


I've never traveled, Dona Consolation blandly confessed, "but I dare say, dear, you can't judge Egypt by Aida.'"
Ronald Firbank : 2723 : Firbank, Ronald


Beneath the strain of expectation even the little iced sugar cakes upon the tea table looked green with worry.
Ronald Firbank : 8986 : Firbank, Ronald


To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.
Ernst Fischer : 2802 : Fischer, Ernst


Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.
Martin H. Fischer : 3978 : Fischer, Martin H.


Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.
Martin Fischer : 4048 : Fischer, Martin H.


I find that most men would rather have their bellies opened for five hundred dollars than have a tooth pulled for five.
Martin H. Fischer : 4299 : Fischer, Martin H.


Man embraces in his makeup all the natural orders; he's a squid, a mollusk, a sucker, and a buzzard; sometimes he's a cerebrate.
Martin H. Fischer : 4771 : Fischer, Martin H.


Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them.
Martin H. Fischer : 5010 : Fischer, Martin H.


First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
Martin H. Fischer : 5185 : Fischer, Martin H.


Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer : 9790 : Fischer, Martin H.


The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.
Martin H. Fischer : 11235 : Fischer, Martin H.


There's no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now, I might as well take a nap."
Carrie Fisher : 321 : Fisher, Carrie


Perfect contentment can rarely be recognized. Maybe in Tibet. Maybe in toddlers.
Carrie Fisher : 2000 : Fisher, Carrie


As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
Carrie Fisher : 7697 : Fisher, Carrie


I was street-smart - but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
Carrie Fisher : 10541 : Fisher, Carrie


Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.
Carrie Fisher : 11639 : Fisher, Carrie


All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.
Carrie Fisher : 13023 : Fisher, Carrie


You're not really famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
Carrie Fisher : 13479 : Fisher, Carrie


Stay afraid, but do it anyway. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.
Carrie Fisher : 13547 : Fisher, Carrie


Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Dorothy Fisher : 459 : Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy da
Dorothy Canfield Fisher : 4150 : Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher : 6314 : Fisher, Dorothy Canfield


Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be safely insane every night of the week.
Dr. Charles Fisher : 6409 : Fisher, Dr. Charles


A world without love is a deadly place.
Helen Fisher : 10857 : Fisher, Helen


Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or june and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
M. F. K. Fisher : 12772 : Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy


I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.
Ella Fitzgerald : 6090 : Fitzgerald, Ella


The only thing better than singing is more singing.
Ella Fitzgerald : 6174 : Fitzgerald, Ella


For a statesman - any schoolchild knows that hot air rises to the top.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 591 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


In his blue gardens, men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 2711 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 3328 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 3524 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 4026 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Writers aren't exactly people ... they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 5397 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you've got something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 5890 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 6085 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbor's as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 9363 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 9775 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


An unread book is just a block of paper.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 10166 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 10915 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 10995 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald : 13531 : Fitzgerald, F. Scott


Nobody has measured, even the poets, how much a heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald : 1951 : Fitzgerald, Zelda


By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
Zelda Fitzgerald : 7870 : Fitzgerald, Zelda


I warn you, I am only really myself when I'm somebody else whom I have endowed with these wonderful qualities from my imagination.
Zelda Fitzgerald : 8597 : Fitzgerald, Zelda


Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
R. I. Fitzhenry : 3112 : Fitzhenry, R. I.


I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret M. Fitzpatrick : 9102 : Fitzpatrick, Margaret M.


The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
Paul Fix : 5339 : Fix, Paul


The urban workaday economy would be unthinkable without coffee.
Irene Fizer : 8376 : Fizer, Irene


It is difficult to realize how great a part of all that is cheerful and delightful in the recollections of our own life is associated with trees.
Wilson Flagg : 11528 : Flagg, Wilson


Sometimes it is only a change of viewpoint that is needed to convert a seemingly tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Alberta Flanders : 47 : Flanders, Alberta


Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert : 2605 : Flaubert, Gustave


Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.
Gustave Flaubert : 3400 : Flaubert, Gustave


A novelist, in my opinion, does not have the right to give advice on the affairs of the world. He must, in his occupation, imitate God in His; that is to say, create and keep quiet.
Gustave Flaubert : 3444 : Flaubert, Gustave


Someone is a critic when he cannot be an artist in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Gustave Flaubert : 3994 : Flaubert, Gustave


By dint of railing at idiots, you run the risk of becoming idiotic yourself.
Gustave Flaubert : 4479 : Flaubert, Gustave


Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
Gustave Flaubert : 5883 : Flaubert, Gustave


One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod.
Gustave Flaubert : 6374 : Flaubert, Gustave


Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.
Gustave Flaubert : 6411 : Flaubert, Gustave


Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert : 6978 : Flaubert, Gustave


My kingdom is as wide as the universe and my wants have no limits. I go forward always, freeing spirits and weighing words, without fear, without compassion, without love, without God. I am called science.
Gustave Flaubert : 7820 : Flaubert, Gustave


Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert : 8462 : Flaubert, Gustave


Everything one invents is true, you can be sure of that. Beyond a doubt my poor Bovary is suffering and weeping in twenty French villages at this very moment.
Gustave Flaubert : 8904 : Flaubert, Gustave


The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert : 9704 : Flaubert, Gustave


The only way to be happy is to shut yourself up in art, and count everything as nothing.
Gustave Flaubert : 10763 : Flaubert, Gustave


I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. Flay : 13413 : Flay, K.


Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
Ian Fleming : 3602 : Fleming, Ian


A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
Ian Fleming : 4803 : Fleming, Ian


A medium vodka dry martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Ian Fleming : 7020 : Fleming, Ian


You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
Ian Fleming : 7107 : Fleming, Ian


The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Peggy Fleming : 9906 : Fleming, Peggy


Walking is a form of exercise that loses some appeal when it's done behind a lawn mower.
Gary Fletchall : 7654 : Fletchall, Gary


Other things being equal, the value of a book, and especially of an authors whole work, is proportional to its range, that is to the breadth and variety of the life and characters which it presents.
Robert Huntington Fletcher : 11468 : Fletcher, Robert Huntington


A child study institution has completed research on youngsters who suck their thumbs and has issued a report that such children have a distinct tendency toward one clean thumb.
D. O. Flynn : 9279 : Flynn, D. O.


My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn : 8793 : Flynn, Errol


It's hard for kids today to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own a snorkel.
June Flynn : 9747 : Flynn, June


The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch : 10265 : Foch, Ferdinand


The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley : 5423 : Foley, Elizabeth


We shared everything all our lives, the important ones and the trivial ones, and it's the trivial ones that build ties between people.
Rae Foley : 5971 : Foley, Rae


Laws are felt only when the individual comes in conflict with them.
Suzanne La Follette : 8362 : Follette, Suzanne La


I'm not really Henry Fonda. Nobody could have that much integrity.
Henry Fonda : 837 : Fonda, Henry


You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda : 6093 : Fonda, Jane


I'm perfect. The areas that I need help on are not negotiable. They have to do with gravity.
Jane Fonda : 11998 : Fonda, Jane


It's always been the woman's disadvantage to be older, never the man's.
Jane Fonda : 12818 : Fonda, Jane


True philosophers are like elephants who when walking never place their second foot on the ground until the first is steady.
Bernard de Fontenelle : 3453 : Fontenelle, Bernard de


Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.
Margot Fonteyn : 1235 : Fonteyn, Margot


His technique is astounding, yet everything is accomplished with the air of someone sauntering through the park on a spring morning.
Margot Fonteyn, On Fred Astaire : 1236 : Fonteyn, Margot


Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn : 7873 : Fonteyn, Margot


Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Margot Fonteyn : 10761 : Fonteyn, Margot


It's enormously important that families eat together. One of the things that's wrong with us is the damn microwave. Kids come in one by one and fix themselves something to eat, and the family never sits down together.
Shelby Foote : 5197 : Foote, Shelby


There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
B. C. Forbes : 211 : Forbes, B. C.


A business, like an automobile, has to be driven in order to get results.
B. C. Forbes : 2562 : Forbes, B. C.


The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes : 3047 : Forbes, B. C.


Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
B. C. Forbes : 8674 : Forbes, B. C.


The size of your body is of little account; the size of your brain is of much account; the size of your heart is of the most account of all.
B. C. Forbes : 9664 : Forbes, B. C.


It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.
Malcolm Forbes : 1213 : Forbes, Malcolm


Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes : 8067 : Forbes, Malcolm


Diversity: The art of thinking independently together.
Malcolm Forbes : 11429 : Forbes, Malcolm


When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
Malcolm Forbes : 12516 : Forbes, Malcolm


Few businessmen are capable of being in politics - they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance nor the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcom Forbes : 2246 : Forbes, Malcom


It is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.
Rosita Forbes : 1579 : Forbes, Rosita


Trying to run a presidential campaign is a little like driving a freight train while you're still building the tracks.
Steve Forbes : 8974 : Forbes, Steve


I enjoy the moment for the moment, take everything out of what I'm doing one step at a time, and when it's gone I will have lived that time to the fullest.
Betty Ford : 2285 : Ford, Betty


It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
Betty Ford : 10646 : Ford, Betty


Why should my husband's job or yours prevent us from being ourselves? Being ladylike does not require silence.
Betty Ford : 11271 : Ford, Betty


Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
Gerald Ford : 722 : Ford, Gerald R.


The American people want a dialogue between them and their president. And if we can't have that opportunity of talking with one another, seeing one another, shaking hands with one another, something has gone wrong in our society.
Gerald R. Ford : 723 : Ford, Gerald R.


I know I'm getting better at golf because I'm hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford : 3315 : Ford, Gerald R.


A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have.
Gerald R. Ford : 7953 : Ford, Gerald R.


If they try to rush me, I always say, "I've only got one other speed, and it's slower."
Glenn Ford : 2487 : Ford, Glenn


Los Angeles is where you've got to be as an actor. You have no choice. You go there or New York. I flipped a coin - it came up New York. So I flipped it again.
Harrison Ford : 6581 : Ford, Harrison


We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford : 7796 : Ford, Harrison


I'm quite comfortable with the reality of my age, and I don't feel old. I'll continue to do physical roles until it begins to hurt too much.
Harrison Ford : 8586 : Ford, Harrison


Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live forever, and they're forty feet wide and twenty feet high.
Harrison Ford : 9377 : Ford, Harrison


Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.
Henry Ford : 838 : Ford, Henry


Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford : 839 : Ford, Henry


Some day the ethics of business will be universally recognized, and in that day business will be seen to be the oldest and most useful of all the professions.
Henry Ford : 840 : Ford, Henry


An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford : 841 : Ford, Henry


Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.
Henry Ford : 842 : Ford, Henry


It is easy to give alms; it is better that we work to make the giving of alms unnecessary.
Henry Ford : 843 : Ford, Henry


I invented nothing new; I simply assembled into a car the discoveries of other men.
Henry Ford : 2212 : Ford, Henry


The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Henry Ford : 2216 : Ford, Henry


The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford : 2964 : Ford, Henry


Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford : 3242 : Ford, Henry


People who have no time don't think. The more you think, the more time you have.
Henry Ford : 5484 : Ford, Henry


Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; and working together is success.
Henry Ford : 6187 : Ford, Henry


Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
Henry Ford : 6529 : Ford, Henry


Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford : 6565 : Ford, Henry


Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Henry Ford : 7417 : Ford, Henry


If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
Henry Ford : 9532 : Ford, Henry


When everything seems to be going against you, remember that an airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford : 9715 : Ford, Henry


It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford : 10725 : Ford, Henry


Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
Henry Ford : 11049 : Ford, Henry


A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
Henry Ford : 12047 : Ford, Henry


You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford : 13070 : Ford, Henry


I am a mushroom on whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John Ford : 2922 : Ford, John


People are incorrect to compare a director to an author. If he's a creator, he's more like an architect. And an architect conceives his plans according to precise circumstances.
John Ford : 9272 : Ford, John


It is easy enough to hold an opinion, but hard work to actually know what one is talking about.
Paul F. Ford : 6399 : Ford, Paul F.


Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
Richard Ford : 1522 : Ford, Richard


One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
G. Fordyce : 659 : Fordyce, G.


The days of the whiny athlete should come to an end. I don't think much of guys who say, "I've been robbed" when they walk away with a million bucks in their pocket.
George Foreman : 3014 : Foreman, George


Even though the Lord's pay isn't very high, his retirement program is, you might say, out of this world.
George Foreman, on leaving boxing to become a preacher : 6277 : Foreman, George


I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
George Foreman : 8251 : Foreman, George


Why pose and posture a self that is other than you, when I know your true name.
Leon Forrest : 7021 : Forrest, Leon


I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
Eugene Forsey : 10675 : Forsey, Eugene


The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster : 486 : Forster, E. M.


Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
E. M. Forster : 487 : Forster, E. M.


It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's fifth symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. Forster : 488 : Forster, E. M.


Books have to be read. It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
E. M. Forster : 2241 : Forster, E. M.


Nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.
E. M. Forster : 2330 : Forster, E. M.


Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
E. M. Forster : 2702 : Forster, E. M.


I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves
E. M. Forster : 7196 : Forster, E. M.


Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
E. M. Forster : 7494 : Forster, E. M.


He believed in sudden conversion, a belief which may be right, but which is peculiarly attractive to the half-baked mind.
E. M. Forster : 8971 : Forster, E. M.


I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and I betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
E. M. Forster : 9306 : Forster, E. M.


She felt that those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
E. M. Forster : 10449 : Forster, E. M.


Choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
E. M. Forster : 11859 : Forster, E. M.


Ours is supposed to be a government in which classes and distinctions melt into a harmonious whole. Until we reach this ideal of government, we will be a distracted, contentious people.
T. Thomas Fortune : 1750 : Fortune, T. Thomas


Mental inertia is death.
T. Thomas Fortune : 6173 : Fortune, T. Thomas


Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
H. E. Fosdick : 770 : Fosdick, Harry Emerson


It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it and sets it free.
H. E. Fosdick : 3820 : Fosdick, Harry Emerson


He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.
Harry Emerson Fosdick : 4203 : Fosdick, Harry Emerson


Cordless phones are great. If you can find them.
Glenn Foster : 4867 : Foster, Glenn


It doesn't take intelligence to be an actor.
Jodie Foster : 980 : Foster, Jodie


Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster : 2083 : Foster, Jodie


An idea cannot well be accompanied by a stronger kind of interest than the earnest wish to escape from it.
John Foster : 2463 : Foster, John


Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me. Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.
Stephen Foster : 8353 : Foster, Stephen


Rainier, from Puget Sound, is a sight for the gods, and when one looks upon him he feels that he is in the presence of the gods.
Paul Fountain : 2708 : Fountain, Paul


Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.
C. H. Fowler : 7951 : Fowler, C. H.


The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Orson Squire Fowler : 2079 : Fowler, Orson Squire


In essence the renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
John Fowles : 999 : Fowles, John


Cricket remains for me the game of games, the sans pareil, the great metaphor, the best marriage ever devised of mind and body. For me it remains the Proust of pastimes, the subtlest and most poetic, the most past-and-present.
John Fowles : 3401 : Fowles, John


There are many reasons shy novelists write, but they all have one thing in common -- a need to create an alternative world.
John Fowles : 9365 : Fowles, John


Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.
John Fowles : 11574 : Fowles, John


I never feel lonely if I've got a book. They're like old friends.
Emilia Fox : 12583 : Fox, Emilia


Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.
George Fox : 2908 : Fox, George


A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Vivica Fox : 11026 : Fox, Vivica


Being the designated driver is not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house.
Jeff Foxworthy : 7197 : Foxworthy, Jeff


Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx : 4370 : Foxx, Redd


For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Janet Frame : 3643 : Frame, Janet


There is always a moment when curiosity becomes a sin and the devil is always on the side of the learned.
Anatole France : 87 : France, Anatole


There are very honest people who do not think they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.
Anatole France : 88 : France, Anatole


If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France : 89 : France, Anatole


Let us create rational human beings, capable of crushing underfoot the futile magnificence of barbaric glories, and of resisting those bloody ambitions of nationalism and imperialism.
Anatole France : 2994 : France, Anatole


Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole France : 3042 : France, Anatole


You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France : 3501 : France, Anatole


It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole France : 4121 : France, Anatole


Never lend books, nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
Anatole France : 6563 : France, Anatole


The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France : 7241 : France, Anatole


Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
Anatole France : 7432 : France, Anatole


An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France : 7539 : France, Anatole


Ignorance is the necessary condition of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence for a single hour.
Anatole France : 7597 : France, Anatole


A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear so.
Anatole France : 7678 : France, Anatole


We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
Anatole France : 8485 : France, Anatole


A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France : 12046 : France, Anatole


If the practice of virtue eludes you, then give yourself up to vice with such saintly dedication that eventually you will become one of the elect.
Brendan Francis : 3069 : Francis, Brendan


What an author likes to write most is his signaure on the back of a check.
Brendan Francis : 3390 : Francis, Brendan


Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Brendan Francis : 3992 : Francis, Brendan


When two men fight over a woman, it's the fight they want, not the woman.
Brendan Francis : 8801 : Francis, Brendan


A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Brendan Francis : 9543 : Francis, Brendan


Do what you love at least a little bit, and if you have to do something else to support what you love, do it.
James Franco : 12763 : Franco, James


Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race.
Maude Frandsen : 3578 : Frandsen, Maude


How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank : 5894 : Frank, Anne


Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank : 6499 : Frank, Anne


Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne Frank : 11345 : Frank, Anne


The supreme sin is to not be able to forgive yourself.
Waldo Frank : 7376 : Frank, Waldo


I don't know why in the West thirteen is considered an unlucky number, but in the East two is considered the unlucky number because it marks the first departure from one, unity.
Jor Frankel : 2999 : Frankel, Jor


When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken : 6539 : Franken, Al


A picture that is beautiful, or that comes off, or that works, looks as if it was all made at one stroke.
Helen Frankenthaler : 811 : Frankenthaler, Helen


The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest, which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.
Felix Frankfurter : 3948 : Frankfurter, Felix


Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
Felix Frankfurter : 5441 : Frankfurter, Felix


It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter : 13359 : Frankfurter, Felix


I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility in the West coast.
Victor Frankl : 9003 : Frankl, Victor


Trying to grow up is hurting, you know. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't it hurts even more.
Aretha Franklin : 163 : Franklin, Aretha


I sing to people about what matters. I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is. I express problems. There are tears when it's sad and smiles when it's happy. It seems simple to me, but to some, feelings take courage.
Aretha Franklin : 4995 : Franklin, Aretha


Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
Aretha Franklin : 12887 : Franklin, Aretha


He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Ben Franklin : 222 : Franklin, Benjamin


Visit your aunt, but not every day; and call at your brother's, but not every night.
Ben Franklin : 223 : Franklin, Benjamin


Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
Ben Franklin : 224 : Franklin, Benjamin


A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
Benjamin Franklin : 232 : Franklin, Benjamin


To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Benjamin Franklin : 233 : Franklin, Benjamin


They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin : 234 : Franklin, Benjamin


Here comes the orator, with his flood of words and his drop of reason.
Benjamin Franklin : 235 : Franklin, Benjamin


When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.
Benjamin Franklin : 236 : Franklin, Benjamin


Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin : 237 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you really want to lose weight, there are only three things to give up: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Benjamin Franklin : 238 : Franklin, Benjamin


There are three faithful friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin : 239 : Franklin, Benjamin


As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
Benjamin Franklin : 2002 : Franklin, Benjamin


The heart of the fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart.
Benjamin Franklin : 2160 : Franklin, Benjamin


Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin : 2202 : Franklin, Benjamin


Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin : 2637 : Franklin, Benjamin


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
Ben Franklin : 3059 : Franklin, Benjamin


Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
Benjamin Franklin : 3203 : Franklin, Benjamin


Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
Benjamin Franklin : 3332 : Franklin, Benjamin


Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Benjamin Franklin : 3683 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.
Benjamin Franklin : 3720 : Franklin, Benjamin


Fraud and deciet are ever in a hurry; take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
Ben Franklin : 3733 : Franklin, Benjamin


Don't throw stones at you neighbors if your own windows are glass.
Benjamin Franklin : 3765 : Franklin, Benjamin


Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Ben Franklin : 3802 : Franklin, Benjamin


You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin : 4460 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you do what you should not, you must hear what you would not.
Benjamin Franklin : 4523 : Franklin, Benjamin


Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin : 4716 : Franklin, Benjamin


Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin : 4873 : Franklin, Benjamin


The first mistake in public business is going into it.
Benjamin Franklin : 4920 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin : 5208 : Franklin, Benjamin


All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin : 5369 : Franklin, Benjamin


Constant complaints is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin : 5490 : Franklin, Benjamin


Constant complaints is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Benjamin Franklin : 5491 : Franklin, Benjamin


Content makes poor men rich; Discontentment makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin : 5544 : Franklin, Benjamin


You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.
Ben Franklin : 5565 : Franklin, Benjamin


Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Ben Franklin : 5566 : Franklin, Benjamin


God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
Ben Franklin : 5567 : Franklin, Benjamin


A good example is the best sermon.
Ben Franklin : 5568 : Franklin, Benjamin


Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Ben Franklin : 5569 : Franklin, Benjamin


He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner.
Ben Franklin : 5570 : Franklin, Benjamin


Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Ben Franklin : 5571 : Franklin, Benjamin


Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Ben Franklin : 5572 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Ben Franklin : 5573 : Franklin, Benjamin


If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.
Ben Franklin : 5574 : Franklin, Benjamin


But in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin : 5688 : Franklin, Benjamin


Great beauty, great strength and great riches are really and truly of no great use; A right heart exceeds all.
Benjamin Franklin : 5908 : Franklin, Benjamin


A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.
Benjamin Franklin : 5930 : Franklin, Benjamin


Trouble springs from idleness and grievous toil from needless ease.
Benjamin Franklin : 6243 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin : 6658 : Franklin, Benjamin


Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin : 6804 : Franklin, Benjamin


Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
Benjamin Franklin : 6984 : Franklin, Benjamin


Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Benjamin Franklin : 7073 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin Franklin : 7349 : Franklin, Benjamin


They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.
Benjamin Franklin : 7622 : Franklin, Benjamin


Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin : 7965 : Franklin, Benjamin


A Man without a Wife is but half a Man.
Benjamin Franklin : 8097 : Franklin, Benjamin


Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin : 8392 : Franklin, Benjamin


He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin : 8772 : Franklin, Benjamin


We must all hang together, or assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin : 9538 : Franklin, Benjamin


By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin : 10231 : Franklin, Benjamin


I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin : 10633 : Franklin, Benjamin


There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin : 10782 : Franklin, Benjamin


Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
Ben Franklin : 10966 : Franklin, Benjamin


A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin : 11032 : Franklin, Benjamin


The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
Benjamin Franklin : 11585 : Franklin, Benjamin


Keep conscience clear, then never fear.
Benjamin Franklin : 11686 : Franklin, Benjamin


Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin : 12068 : Franklin, Benjamin


Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they're seventy-five.
Benjamin Franklin : 12753 : Franklin, Benjamin


Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin : 13176 : Franklin, Benjamin


Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin Franklin : 13360 : Franklin, Benjamin


Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
Benjamin Franklin : 13499 : Franklin, Benjamin


The times are not so bad as they seem; they couldn't be.
Jay Franklin : 2109 : Franklin, Jay


There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.
Jonathan Franzen : 10994 : Franzen, Jonathan


It is an axiom of sports that the legs go first. For sportswriters, it's the enthusiasm.
Trent Frayne : 1805 : Frayne, Trent


Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window.
Frederick II : 633 : Frederick II


All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Frederick The Great : 634 : Frederick The Great


If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great : 635 : Frederick The Great


I think audiences come to hear older musicians like me just to see if we can pick up a horn without falling over.
Bud Freeman : 290 : Freeman, Bud


How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!
Eileen Elias Freeman : 4712 : Freeman, Eileen Elias


Sometimes the answer to a prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
James Dillet Freeman : 8681 : Freeman, James Dillet


Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
Martin Freeman : 10937 : Freeman, Martin


I have been offered roles of black quasi-heroes who get hanged at the end. I won't do a part like that. If I do a hero, he's going to live to the end of the movie.
Morgan Freeman : 2254 : Freeman, Morgan


My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
Ace Frehley : 13440 : Frehley, Ace


Infatuation means, "A love that it is inconvenient to go on with."
Celia Fremlin : 10542 : Fremlin, Celia


I hate discussions of feminism that end up with who does the dishes, she said. So do I. But at the end, there are always those damned dishes.
Marilyn French : 3431 : French, Marilyn


Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing.
Louise Fresco : 12121 : Fresco, Louise


Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
Anna Freud : 111 : Freud, Anna


I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud : 12994 : Freud, Anna


If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer, it just seems longer.
Clement Freud : 4483 : Freud, Clement


The mind is an iceberg; it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk above water.
Freud : 642 : Freud, Sigmund


As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.
Sigmund Freud : 2175 : Freud, Sigmund


The principal task of civilization, its actual raison d'etre, is to defend us against nature.
Sigmund Freud : 3552 : Freud, Sigmund


The most powerful obstacle to culture is the tendency to aggression, which is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man.
Sigmund Freud : 3953 : Freud, Sigmund


Neurosis seems to be a human privilege.
Sigmund Freud : 6514 : Freud, Sigmund


A good rule for letter writing is to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
Sigmund Freud : 10028 : Freud, Sigmund


A quack is anyone who undertakes a treatment without possessing the knowledge and capacities necessary for it.
Sigmund Freud : 10461 : Freud, Sigmund


The worst egoist is the person to whom the thought has never occurred that he might be one.
Sigmund Freud : 11615 : Freud, Sigmund


Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Sigmund Freud : 12080 : Freud, Sigmund


We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund Freud : 12946 : Freud, Sigmund


A man cannot know everything, but everyone has to have something he knows thoroughly.
Gustav Freytag : 767 : Freytag, Gustav


The older I get, the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday : 1330 : Friday, Nancy


When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan : 3132 : Friedan, Betty


Neither woman nor man lives by work, or love, alone. The human self defines itself and grows through love and work: All psychology before and after Freud boils down to that.
Betty Friedan : 9266 : Friedan, Betty


The time is at hand when the voices of the feminine mystique can no longer drown out the inner voice that is driving women on to become complete.
Betty Friedan : 9657 : Friedan, Betty


Adolescents tend to be passionate people, and passion is no less real because it is directed toward a hot-rod, a commercialized popular singer, or the leader of a black-jacketed gang.
Edgar Friedenberg : 2986 : Friedenberg, Edgar


Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Mickey Friedman : 5382 : Friedman, Mickey


No major institution in the U. S. has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation.
Milton Friedman : 3518 : Friedman, Milton


Thank heavens we do not get all of the government that we are made to pay for.
Milton Friedman : 8344 : Friedman, Milton


Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman : 10847 : Friedman, Milton


How did language develop? In much the same way as an economic order develops through the market - out of the voluntary interaction of individuals, in this case seeking to trade ideas or information or gossip rather than goods and services with one another
Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman : 3371 : Friedman, Milton and Rose


Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the new world in the first place.
Otto Friedrich : 6945 : Friedrich, Otto


Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch : 9768 : Frisch, Max


Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
Charles Frohman : 4842 : Frohman, Charles


Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.
Allan Frome : 9228 : Frome, Allan


Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm : 574 : Fromm, Erich


A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living. No sensible answer can be given to the question because the question does not make any sense.
Erich Fromm : 2174 : Fromm, Erich


Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.
Erich Fromm : 2365 : Fromm, Erich


There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers, by living productively.
Erich Fromm : 3117 : Fromm, Erich


One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
Erich Fromm : 3707 : Fromm, Erich


The idea that egotism is the basis of the general welfare is the principle on which competitive society has been built.
Erich Fromm : 5210 : Fromm, Erich


Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
Erich Fromm : 6444 : Fromm, Erich


Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm : 6578 : Fromm, Erich


The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm : 7967 : Fromm, Erich


The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm : 10526 : Fromm, Erich


Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. I should have called it something you somehow haven't to deserve.
Robert Frost : 1543 : Frost, Robert


Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost : 1544 : Frost, Robert


Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.
Robert Frost : 1545 : Frost, Robert


Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost : 1546 : Frost, Robert


The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost : 1547 : Frost, Robert


Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
Robert Frost : 1548 : Frost, Robert


The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.
Robert Frost : 2383 : Frost, Robert


The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost : 2965 : Frost, Robert


Before I built a wall I'd ask to know, what I was walling in or walling out, and to whom I was like to give offense.
Robert Frost : 3521 : Frost, Robert


Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost : 3647 : Frost, Robert


We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost : 4037 : Frost, Robert


Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Robert Frost : 4439 : Frost, Robert


Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost : 5494 : Frost, Robert


Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost : 6654 : Frost, Robert


I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost : 6682 : Frost, Robert


I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost : 6758 : Frost, Robert


Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in the position to look too close.
Robert Frost : 7024 : Frost, Robert


Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost : 7067 : Frost, Robert


A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost : 7100 : Frost, Robert


Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost : 7485 : Frost, Robert


A poem is never a put-up job so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a home-sickness, a love sickness. It is never a thought to begin with.
Robert Frost : 7755 : Frost, Robert


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost : 8480 : Frost, Robert


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 : 8596 : Frost, Robert


You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost : 8835 : Frost, Robert


Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason, To go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept at the end of a love or a season.
Robert Frost : 8891 : Frost, Robert


Earth's the right place for love; I don't know where it's likely to go better.
Robert Frost : 10524 : Frost, Robert


Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost : 10829 : Frost, Robert


The first duty of a historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies.
J. A. Froude : 10800 : Froude, J. A.


You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.
James A. Froude : 10766 : Froude, James A.


Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.
James Froude : 1998 : Froude, James Anthony


No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.
James A. Froude : 7935 : Froude, James Anthony


In football it is widely acknowledged that if both sides agree to cheat, cheating is fair.
C. B. Fry : 299 : Fry, C. B.


The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.
Christopher Fry : 7647 : Fry, Christopher


Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
Christopher Fry : 9253 : Fry, Christopher


Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Christopher Fry : 10855 : Fry, Christopher


An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
Stephen Fry : 12821 : Fry, Stephen


Recall it as often as you wish; a happy memory never wears out.
Libbie Fudim : 5428 : Fudim, Libbie


I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes : 5949 : Fuentes, Carlos


High on the agenda for the twenty-first century will be the need to restore some kind of tragic consciousness.
Carlos Fuentes : 7616 : Fuentes, Carlos


By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.
Carlos Fuentes : 10719 : Fuentes, Carlos


In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but its effects.
William Fulbright : 1906 : Fulbright, William


Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.
Dorothy Fuldheim : 7314 : Fuldheim, Dorothy


My generation of Canadians grew up believing that, if we were very good or very smart, or both, we would someday graduate from Canada.
Robert Fulford : 3446 : Fulford, Robert


Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum : 6281 : Fulghum, Robert


The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
Robert Fulghum : 8187 : Fulghum, Robert


Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum : 10081 : Fulghum, Robert


Insofar as it represents a genuine reconciliation of differences, a consensus is a fine thing; insofar as it represents a concealment of differences, it is a miscarriage of democratic procedure.
J. William Fullbright : 10628 : Fullbright, J. William


I like the hair upon your shoulders, falling like water over boulders. I like the shoulders, too; they are essential. Your collar-bones have great potential, I'd like all your particulars in folders marked confidential.
John Fuller : 1001 : Fuller, John


A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.
Margaret Fuller : 10075 : Fuller, Margaret


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Margaret Fuller : 13105 : Fuller, Margaret


It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller : 7619 : Fuller, Millard


I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of e
R. Buckminster Fuller : 2937 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 4271 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 5944 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 6316 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


I'd like to introduce myself as the world's most successful failure.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 7341 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
Buckminster Fuller : 7833 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 8347 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
Buckminster Fuller : 8740 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
Buckminster Fuller : 9091 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Integrity is the essence of everything successful.
Buckminster Fuller : 9490 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 10769 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 12445 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 12621 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller : 12699 : Fuller, R. Buckminster


When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
Sam Fuller : 7324 : Fuller, Sam


Let us spare where we can, so that we can spend where we should.
Thomas Fuller : 1772 : Fuller, Thomas


Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second may be what there be.
Thomas Fuller : 1773 : Fuller, Thomas


If afflictions refine some, they consume others.
Thomas Fuller : 2930 : Fuller, Thomas


If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all.
Thomas Fuller : 3309 : Fuller, Thomas


Marriage is not like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds.
Thomas Fuller : 3691 : Fuller, Thomas


We shall never have friends if we expect to find them without fault.
Thomas Fuller : 5128 : Fuller, Thomas


Men of business must not break their word twice.
Thomas Fuller : 5158 : Fuller, Thomas


Light (God's eldest daughter} is a principal beauty in building.
Thomas Fuller : 6770 : Fuller, Thomas


He's my friend who speaks well of me behind my back.
Thomas Fuller : 8424 : Fuller, Thomas


Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.
Thomas Fuller : 8483 : Fuller, Thomas


Regard not so much what the world thinks of you, as what you think of yourself.
Thomas Fuller : 8717 : Fuller, Thomas


Learn how to refuse favors. This is a great and very useful art.
Thomas Fuller : 8790 : Fuller, Thomas


All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller : 9112 : Fuller, Thomas


If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.
Thomas Fuller : 9204 : Fuller, Thomas


It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller : 10561 : Fuller, Thomas


Choose not your friends by outward show, for the feather floats where the pearl lies low.
Faye Fullmer : 596 : Fullmer, Faye


Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
Annette Funicello : 10260 : Funicello, Annette


The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.
Julie Furtado : 9406 : Furtado, Julie


Art among a religious race produces relics among; a military one, trophies, among a commercial one, articles of trade.
Henry Fuseli : 844 : Fuseli, Henry


The forms of virtue are erect, the forms of pleasure undulate.
Henry Fuseli : 2914 : Fuseli, Henry


In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.
G-Dragon : 12916 : G-Dragon


The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Geoffrey Gaberino : 11208 : Gaberino, Geoffrey


It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
Clark Gable : 2050 : Gable, Clark


The most important thing a man can know is that, as he approaches his own door, someone on the other side is listening for the sound of his footsteps.
Clark Gable : 8231 : Gable, Clark


I hate to have my picture taken. I put it off just as long as I can possibly get away with it, then I finally go and act like a ham standing before a camera in riding boots or clutching a pipe between my teeth.
Clark Gable : 11470 : Gable, Clark


The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
Clark Gable : 12467 : Gable, Clark


Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable : 7790 : Gable, Dan


I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick to it.
Eva Gabor : 8345 : Gabor, Eva


I believe in large families. Every woman should have at least three husbands.
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 1952 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


A girl must marry for love, and keep on marrying until she finds it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 3316 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 5392 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


I want a man who is kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a billionaire?
Zsa Zsa Gabor : 6999 : Gabor, Zsa Zsa


Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
William Gaddis : 1907 : Gaddis, William


He who believes that the past cannot be changed has not yet written his memoirs.
Tarvald Gahlin : 9054 : Gahlin, Tarvald


The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.
Neil Gaiman : 7110 : Gaiman, Neil


Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.
Neil Gaiman : 10263 : Gaiman, Neil


You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Neil Gaiman : 12112 : Gaiman, Neil


Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.
Neil Gaiman : 12614 : Gaiman, Neil


It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
Neil Gaiman : 13164 : Gaiman, Neil


I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and Regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.
Thomas Gainsborough : 3402 : Gainsborough, Thomas


If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by a spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1004 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1005 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1006 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 1007 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 4707 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Money differs from an automobile, a mistress, or cancer in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 5183 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 7198 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Much of the world's work, it has been said, is done by men who do not feel quite well. Marx is a case in point.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 8620 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


It's great to be with Bill Buckley, because you don't have to think. He takes a position and you automatically take the opposite and you know you're right.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 8899 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a financial panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 9599 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


A junket is any business trip which, if taken by anyone but yourself, would be considered unnecessary.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 10047 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.
John Kenneth Galbraith : 11173 : Galbraith, John Kenneth


Sometimes you don't realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.
Susan Gale : 12371 : Gale, Susan


And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others?
Galileo Galilei : 4161 : Galilei, Galileo


You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo Galilei : 5342 : Galilei, Galileo


Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Robert C. Gallagher : 3742 : Gallagher, Robert C.


I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
Mavis Gallant : 9601 : Gallant, Mavis


No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
Paul Gallico : 3424 : Gallico, Paul


College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
Paul Gallico : 3525 : Gallico, Paul


Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
John Galsworthy : 1002 : Galsworthy, John


He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
John Galsworthy : 3513 : Galsworthy, John


Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
John Galsworthy : 11758 : Galsworthy, John


Well washed and well combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
Francis Galton : 8697 : Galton, Francis


It is next to impossible, I believe, to toss a brick in the air anywhere in County Galway without it landing on the head of some musician.
James Galway : 7247 : Galway, James


Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Gambetta : 2589 : Gambetta, Leon


Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
Leon Gambetta : 13340 : Gambetta, Leon


My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
Indira Gandhi : 2966 : Gandhi, Indira


A nation's strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
Indira Gandhi : 9385 : Gandhi, Indira


If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi : 1210 : Gandhi, Mohandas


I hate privilege and monopoly. Whatever cannot be shared with the masses is taboo to me.
Mohandas Gandhi : 1315 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mohandas Gandhi : 2008 : Gandhi, Mohandas


If by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others, surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired!
Mohandas Gandhi : 2274 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.
Mohandas Gandhi : 2770 : Gandhi, Mohandas


There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mohandas Gandhi : 3967 : Gandhi, Mohandas


It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom, it is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi : 5203 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Almost everything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi : 5656 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Mohandas Gandhi : 6064 : Gandhi, Mohandas


One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6659 : Gandhi, Mohandas


As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6753 : Gandhi, Mohandas


You may never know what results come from your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6839 : Gandhi, Mohandas


It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6852 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6856 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi : 6903 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi : 7012 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi : 7068 : Gandhi, Mohandas


We should be ashamed of resting or having a square meal so long as there is one able-bodied man or woman without work or food.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7259 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7459 : Gandhi, Mohandas


If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7604 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being.
Mohandas Gandhi : 7895 : Gandhi, Mohandas


In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Mohandas Gandhi : 8316 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Hate the sin and not the sinner.
Mohandas Gandhi : 8412 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity.
Mohandas Gandhi : 9358 : Gandhi, Mohandas


There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi : 9834 : Gandhi, Mohandas


True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and fearlessly following it.
Mohandas Gandhi : 10421 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi : 11020 : Gandhi, Mohandas


I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi : 11034 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mohandas Gandhi : 11323 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi : 11397 : Gandhi, Mohandas


The earth has enough for every man's need, but not for every man's greed.
Mohandas Gandhi : 11644 : Gandhi, Mohandas


A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Mahatma Gandhi : 12225 : Gandhi, Mohandas


The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi : 12288 : Gandhi, Mohandas


A man is but the product of his thoughts - What he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi : 12969 : Gandhi, Mohandas


Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.
Sonia Gandhi : 12305 : Gandhi, Sonia


Never trust a base runner who's limping. Comes a base hit and you'd think he just got back from Lourdes.
Joe Garagiola : 4922 : Garagiola, Joe


Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola : 7774 : Garagiola, Joe


It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.
Greta Garbo : 758 : Garbo, Greta


Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.
Greta Garbo : 759 : Garbo, Greta


I cannot see any sense in getting dressed up and doing nothing but tempting men in pictures.
Greta Garbo : 9729 : Garbo, Greta


The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool
Frank A. Garbutt : 619 : Garbutt, Frank A.


I was a wiseguy, I talked too much, I spoke out of turn. And I was a notorious unachiever.
Jerry Garcia : 5222 : Garcia, Jerry


Our audience is like people who like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.
Jerry Garcia : 5965 : Garcia, Jerry


Music is the timeless experience of constant change.
Jerry Garcia : 10159 : Garcia, Jerry


Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner : 12577 : Gardiner, Stephen


Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
Ava Gardner : 11382 : Gardner, Ava


Opera is when a fella gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner : 3186 : Gardner, Ed


The image managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.
John Gardner : 2472 : Gardner, John


Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John Gardner : 5113 : Gardner, John


The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner : 4442 : Gardner, John W.


One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner : 8647 : Gardner, John W.


All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
John W. Gardner : 12016 : Gardner, John W.


Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield : 670 : Garfield, James A.


The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
James A. Garfield : 912 : Garfield, James A.


Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield : 913 : Garfield, James A.


I am an advocate of paper money, but the paper money must represent what it professes on its face. I do not wish to hold in my hands the printed lies of government.
James A. Garfield : 5920 : Garfield, James A.


Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield : 8911 : Garfield, James A.


Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.
James A. Garfield : 9929 : Garfield, James A.


There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
Hamlin Garland : 794 : Garland, Hamlin


We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland : 5240 : Garland, Judy


Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland : 6556 : Garland, Judy


Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Alan Garner : 30 : Garner, Alan


A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Marion C. Garretty : 7837 : Garretty, Marion C.


Enslave but a single human being, and the liberty of the world is put in peril.
William Lloyd Garrison : 1973 : Garrison, William Lloyd


I wish I could tell you my age, but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
Greer Garson : 757 : Garson, Greer


If you think about a thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
Ina Garten : 13353 : Garten, Ina


A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey : 11054 : Garvey, Marcus


Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.
Marcus Garvey : 12058 : Garvey, Marcus


Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Roman Gary : 3166 : Gary, Roman


Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
Elizabeth Gaskell : 4475 : Gaskell, Elizabeth


Yesterday's idea does not influence that of today. It influences a man who reacts with a new idea.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 1034 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Minorities are individuals or groups of individuals especially qualified. The masses are the collection of people not specially qualified.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 7563 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Jose Ortega Gasset : 7830 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 9166 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Tell be to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 12807 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights.
Jose Ortega y Gasset : 12817 : Gasset, Jose Ortega y


640k ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates (in 1981) : 5669 : Gates, Bill


E-mail is a unique communication vehicle for a lot of reasons. However, e-mail is not a substitute for direct interaction.
Bill Gates : 6616 : Gates, Bill


Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates : 7057 : Gates, Bill


The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
Bill Gates : 7183 : Gates, Bill


The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates : 10533 : Gates, Bill


Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates : 12554 : Gates, Bill


What has hurt me most about the glorious black awakening of the late sixties and early seventies is that we lost our sense of humor. Many of us thought that enlightened politics excluded it.
Henry Louis Gates : 11161 : Gates, Henry Louis


The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.
Amy Gatliff : 13121 : Gatliff, Amy


There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigor.
Paul Gauguin : 1434 : Gauguin, Paul


I prefer to have too much confidence, and thereby be deceived, than to be always mistrustful. For, in the first case, I suffer a moment at being deceived and in the second, I suffer constantly.
Paul Gauguin : 2971 : Gauguin, Paul


You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Paul Gauguin : 3403 : Gauguin, Paul


It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
Jean Paul Gaultier : 4059 : Gaultier, Jean Paul


Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
Carl Friedrich Gauss : 13390 : Gauss, Carl Friedrich


Fortune loves to give slippers to those with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.
Theophile Gautier : 8508 : Gautier, Theophile


Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet.
Theophile Gautier : 8664 : Gautier, Theophile


To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
Theophile Gautier : 12537 : Gautier, Theophile


Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Peter Gay : 13118 : Gay, Peter


If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
Marvin Gaye : 2023 : Gaye, Marvin


The larger office, the corner space, the extra window are the teddy bears and tricycles of adult office life.
Willard Gaylin : 6350 : Gaylin, Willard


I've just heard that photons have mass. I didn't even know they were Catholics.
Don Geddis : 10803 : Geddis, Don


Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry : 8135 : Gehry, Frank


If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.
Theodor Seuss Geisel : 11732 : Geisel, Theodor Seuss


Nonsense wakes up the brain cells, and it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age.
Theodor Geisel : 11753 : Geisel, Theodor Seuss


Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.
Michael Gelb : 5922 : Gelb, Michael


Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
Martha Gellhorn : 1271 : Gellhorn, Martha


I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
Martha Gellhorn : 2768 : Gellhorn, Martha


A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ernest Gellner : 4994 : Gellner, Ernest


There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:4 : 11467 : Genesis 6:4


Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Joan Genet : 11621 : Genet, Joan


True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry : 7687 : Gentry, Dave Tyson


Do not allow grass to grow on the road of friendship.
Madame Marie Therese Geoffrin : 3800 : Geoffrin, Madame Marie Therese


When people once begin to deviate, they do not know where to stop.
George III : 2091 : George III


The most dangerous thing in the world is to leap a chasm in two jumps.
David Lloyd George : 2047 : George, David Lloyd


A politician was a person with whose politics you did not agree. When you did agree, he was a statesman.
David Lloyd George : 2466 : George, David Lloyd


Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George : 7135 : George, David Lloyd


The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
David Lloyd George : 8756 : George, David Lloyd


We cannot suppose that some have a right to be in this world and others do not.
Henry George : 3752 : George, Henry


Poverty is the open-mouthed, relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society.
Henry George : 6450 : George, Henry


For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
Henry George : 10043 : George, Henry


Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George : 10413 : George, Henry


Washington is a town where more people probably contemplate writing a book than finish reading one.
Ann Geracimos : 108 : Geracimos, Ann


We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
David Gergen : 3527 : Gergen, David


She even sighed offensively... As if she meant to charge me with the necessity of doing so.
William Gerhardie : 1908 : Gerhardie, William


Learn to be sincere. Even if you have to fake it.
David Gerrold : 2633 : Gerrold, David


Feeding is an important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.
Gina Gershon : 11633 : Gershon, Gina


If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.
Estelle Getty : 5238 : Getty, Estelle


If you can count your money, you are not really a rich man.
J. Paul Getty : 904 : Getty, J. Paul


The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
J. Paul Getty : 5644 : Getty, J. Paul


My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.
Paul Getty : 8466 : Getty, J. Paul


To be seriously rich means that one no longer counts money.
J. Paul Getty : 12050 : Getty, J. Paul


If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.
Claudia Ghandi : 7149 : Ghandi, Claudi


A teacher's day is half bureaucracy, half crisis, half monotony, and one-eightieth epiphany. Never mind the arithmetic.
Susan Ghanian : 8280 : Ghanian, Susan


My English test is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.
Edward Gibbon : 525 : Gibbon, Edward


Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon : 2410 : Gibbon, Edward


Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon : 2482 : Gibbon, Edward


The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Edward Gibbon : 2980 : Gibbon, Edward


The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon : 9912 : Gibbon, Edward


The noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company and dissipation without pleasure.
Edward Gibbon, on London : 10744 : Gibbon, Edward


I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon : 10876 : Gibbon, Edward


I was never less alone than when by myself.
Edward Gibbon : 12071 : Gibbon, Edward


There are some things (like first love and one's reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.
Stella Gibbons : 1727 : Gibbons, Stella


I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path fur a purpose.
Marla Gibbs : 12254 : Gibbs, Marla


For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
Nancy Gibbs : 8003 : Gibbs, Nancy


It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
Philip Gibbs : 13044 : Gibbs, Philip


If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.
Khalil Gibran : 729 : Gibran, Khalil


If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.
Khalil Gibran : 1075 : Gibran, Khalil


Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran : 1076 : Gibran, Khalil


You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil Gibran : 1077 : Gibran, Khalil


It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
Khalil Gibran : 2615 : Gibran, Khalil


Your body is the harp of your soul. And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
Khalil Gibran : 2764 : Gibran, Khalil


Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
Khalil Gibran : 4749 : Gibran, Khalil


Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran : 4827 : Gibran, Khalil


If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Khalil Gibran : 4933 : Gibran, Khalil


I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran : 5929 : Gibran, Khalil


Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran : 6708 : Gibran, Khalil


The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
Khalil Gibran : 6749 : Gibran, Khalil


If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran : 6963 : Gibran, Khalil


Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
Khalil Gibran : 7064 : Gibran, Khalil


There are those who give joy and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran : 7152 : Gibran, Khalil


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran : 7480 : Gibran, Khalil


They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Khalil Gibran : 7928 : Gibran, Khalil


A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran : 8330 : Gibran, Khalil


Much of your pain is self-chosen.
Khalil Gibran : 8789 : Gibran, Khalil


Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran : 8832 : Gibran, Khalil


Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran : 9255 : Gibran, Khalil


March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Khalil Gibran : 9529 : Gibran, Khalil


We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
Khalil Gibran : 10786 : Gibran, Khalil


Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran : 10885 : Gibran, Khalil


The partition between the sage and the fool is more slender than the spider web.
Khalil Gibran : 11428 : Gibran, Khalil


For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran : 12119 : Gibran, Khalil


Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran : 12269 : Gibran, Khalil


Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran : 12484 : Gibran, Khalil


Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran : 13081 : Gibran, Khalil


You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil Gibran : 13193 : Gibran, Khalil


In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea Gibson : 3181 : Gibson, Althea


No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you.
Althea Gibson : 10132 : Gibson, Althea


Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!
William Hamilton Gibson : 4122 : Gibson, William Hamilton


The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide : 90 : Gide, Andre


It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
Andre Gide : 91 : Gide, Andre


There is a law in life: when one door closes to us, another one opens.
Andre Gide : 92 : Gide, Andre


Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
Andre Gide : 3126 : Gide, Andre


Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide : 3528 : Gide, Andre


One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide : 4349 : Gide, Andre


Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide : 6342 : Gide, Andre


I believe it is harder to be fair to oneself than to others.
Andre Gide : 7370 : Gide, Andre


Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide : 8504 : Gide, Andre


Art hates nature. If art is always seeking nature, it is like a hunter waiting in ambush, or a rival, embracing it only in order to strangle it.
Andre Gide : 10673 : Gide, Andre


It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide : 11699 : Gide, Andre


Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide : 12705 : Gide, Andre


Daniel Day Lewis has what every actor in Hollywood wants: talent. And what every actor in England wants: looks.
Sir John Gielgud : 3483 : Gielgud, Sir John


I know coincidence has a long arm, but it's not an octopus.
Anthony Gilbert : 159 : Gilbert, Anthony


Ignorance, if not bliss, often saves a good deal of time.
Anthony Gilbert : 8379 : Gilbert, Anthony


When we accept tough jobs as a challenge and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
Arland Gilbert : 3145 : Gilbert, Arland


The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.
Elizabeth Gilbert : 8289 : Gilbert, Elizabeth


You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
Elizabeth Gilbert : 12557 : Gilbert, Elizabeth


It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Rob Gilbert : 8482 : Gilbert, Rob


Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
W. S. Gilbert : 4072 : Gilbert, W. S.


No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
W. S. Gilbert : 5247 : Gilbert, W. S.


I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule. Consequently, my family pride is something inconceivable.
W. S. Gilbert : 5972 : Gilbert, W. S.


I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote their fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.
W. S. Gilbert : 8515 : Gilbert, W. S.


Things are seldom what they seem, Skimmed milk oft masquerades as cream.
W. S. Gilbert : 10537 : Gilbert, W. S.


Everyone needs something old in their space. It shows a sense of history and honors the past.
Ashley Gilbreath : 13069 : Gilbreath, Ashley


Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.
Nikita Gill : 13337 : Gill, Nikita


Now I can pay for the house, but I don't ever get to see it.
Vince Gill : 12053 : Gill, Vince


If it hadn't been for him there wouldn't have been none of us. I want to thank Mr. Louis Armstrong for my livelihood.
Dizzy Gillespie : 7273 : Gillespie, Dizzy


The world seems to be divided into two groups of people: those who say you can never get something for nothing, and those muddled but happy creatures who maintain that the best things in life are free.
Janet Gillespie : 5907 : Gillespie, Janet


The great thing about a double entendre is that it can only mean one thing.
Steve Gillette : 12531 : Gillette, Steve


The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Jerry Gillies : 9062 : Gillies, Jerry


I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.
Dobie Gillis : 8683 : Gillis, Dobie


A limited fortune is no excuse for a deficiency in neatness.
Charlotte Gilman : 367 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : 6615 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : 7896 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman : 10377 : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins


Look over your shoulder now and then to be sure someone's following you.
Henry Gilmer : 8796 : Gilmer, Henry


A tree: the grandest and most beautiful of all the productions of the earth.
William Gilpin : 1909 : Gilpin, William


Two things are bad for the heart - running uphill and running down people.
Bernard Gimbel : 3819 : Gimbel, Bernard


I got all the schooling an actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contracts.
Hermione Gingold : 869 : Gingold, Hermione


Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich : 4779 : Gingrich, Newt


You were never no locomotive, sunflower, you were a sunflower! And you locomotive, you are a locomotive, forget me not!
Allen Ginsberg : 2713 : Ginsberg, Allen


A naked lunch is natural to us. We eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce. Don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg : 3549 : Ginsberg, Allen


So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great good fortune.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 12982 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Cherish your daughters as much as your sons and teach them both to stand up for what is right.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13168 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13336 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13344 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : 13348 : Ginsburg, Ruth Bader


Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni : 13421 : Giovanni, Nikki


If you don't understand yourself, you don't understand anybody else.
Nikki Giovanni : 13442 : Giovanni, Nikki


No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.
Jean Giraudoux : 952 : Giraudoux, Jean


A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.
Jean Giraudoux : 3404 : Giraudoux, Jean


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux : 4966 : Giraudoux, Jean


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux : 4967 : Giraudoux, Jean


There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
Jean Giraudoux : 8919 : Giraudoux, Jean


The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux : 10970 : Giraudoux, Jean


I don't care for modern films - all crashing cars and close-ups of people's feet.
Lillian Gish : 6082 : Gish, Lillian


A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish : 12695 : Gish, Lillian


I am much better employed from every point of view, when I live solely for my own satisfaction, than when I begin to worry about the world. The world frightens me, and a frightened man is no good for anything.
George Gissing : 4168 : Gissing, George


It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience.
George Gissing : 8207 : Gissing, George


Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies. and repeating them until they become habits.
Charles Givens : 7929 : Givens, Charles


All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.
W. E. Gladstone : 2893 : Gladstone, William Ewart


Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
W. E. Gladstone : 9021 : Gladstone, William Ewart


We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Gladstone : 10684 : Gladstone, William Ewart


Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone : 12376 : Gladstone, William Ewart


Every man is naturally a Narcissus, and each passion in us no other but self-love sweetened by milder epithets.
Joseph Glanville : 5218 : Glanville, Joseph


Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow : 10563 : Glasgow, Arnold H.


A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.
Arnold H. Glasgow : 10696 : Glasgow, Arnold H.


The respect of those you respect is worth more than the applause of the multitude.
Arnold Glasgow : 11630 : Glasgow, Arnold H.


Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow : 7724 : Glasgow, Ellen


She saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.
Ellen Glasgow : 7884 : Glasgow, Ellen


Of one thing alone I am very sure: It is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
Ellen Glasgow : 8238 : Glasgow, Ellen


The mob that would die for a belief seldom hesitates to inflict death upon any opposing heretical group.
Ellen Glasgow : 10474 : Glasgow, Ellen


The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow : 12249 : Glasgow, Ellen


Women have more imagination than men. They need it to tell us (men) how wonderful we are.
Arnold Glasow : 170 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


An ounce of convention is worth a pound of primaries.
Arnold H. Glasow : 171 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


It is harder to conceal ignorance than to obtain knowledge.
Arnold Glasow : 1991 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold Glasow : 3277 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold Glasow : 5401 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we are ready for it.
Arnold H. Glasow : 5442 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow : 6841 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
Arnold Glasow : 9051 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


Ever notice that no matter where you sit at the ball game, you're always between the hot dog peddler and his best customer?
Arnold H. Glasow : 10020 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow : 10208 : Glasow, Arnold Henry


What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
Susan Glaspell : 9668 : Glaspell, Susan


We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.
William Glasser : 11017 : Glasser, William


The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day, you're off it.
Jackie Gleason : 4723 : Gleason, Jackie


You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
James Gleick : 3264 : Gleick, James


I suppose the one quality in an astronaut more powerful than any other is curiosity. They have to get some place nobody's ever been.
John Glenn : 5978 : Glenn, John


I don't know what you could say about a day in which you've seen four beautiful sunsets.
John Glenn : 8496 : Glenn, John


You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell : 4308 : Glidewell, Jan


John Major delivers all his statements as though auditioning for the speaking clock.
Stephen Glover : 1729 : Glover, Stephen


Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn : 11759 : Glyn, Elinor


A salesman is a fellow with a smile on his face, a shine on his shoes, and a lousy territory.
George Gobel : 3054 : Gobel, George


If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
George Gobel : 4390 : Gobel, George


Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Jean-Luc Godard : 6484 : Godard, Jean-Luc


It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard : 8612 : Goddard, Robert H.


Her arguments are like elephants. They squash you flat.
Rumer Godden : 1591 : Godden, Rumer


I'm proud to pay taxes in America. The only thing is I would be just as proud for half the money.
Arthur Godfrey : 5331 : Godfrey, Arthur


Instead of wondering when your next vacation is you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin : 12754 : Godin, Seth


Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theater.
Gail Godwin : 3836 : Godwin, Gail


The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
Gail Godwin : 6441 : Godwin, Gail


Life's not linear. It ebbs and flows. It's like Yang and Yin. It's contradictions, the Unnamable, the Inexplicable. People don't plot anymore; they just flow.
Gail Godwin : 10651 : Godwin, Gail


We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in the little things is what we are seldom equal to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 738 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Love is an ideal thing. Marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 739 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Deprive the average man of his illusions and you will rob him of his happiness.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 740 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


We do not become free by refusing to acknowledge something above us, but by respecting something above us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 741 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 742 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 743 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 744 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Life is a quarry out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 745 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


It is as though eternal harmony were conversing with itself, as it may have happened in God's bosom shortly before he created the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, On Hearing Bach's Organ Works : 746 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 983 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2044 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If you would create something, you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2118 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2378 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2595 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2861 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 2932 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3125 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation; the two keep pace in their downward tendency.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3201 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3243 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 3459 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4107 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4391 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4528 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4529 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
Goethe : 4750 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One man's word is no man's word; We should quietly hear both sides.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 4928 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


God is constantly at work creating great geniuses to pull the common people.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 5126 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions may be made popular, but reason remains ever the property of the few.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 5187 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed.
Goethe : 5439 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One can be very happy without demanding that others should agree with them.
Goethe : 5496 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Goethe : 6143 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Goethe : 6427 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe : 6478 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Goethe : 6513 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Science arose from poetry - when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 6642 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 6720 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 6792 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
Goethe : 7049 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 7069 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: We should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
Johann von Goethe : 7546 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Dream no small dreams, for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Goethe : 7699 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Goethe : 7890 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Impotent hatred is the most horrid of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
Goethe : 8004 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
Goethe : 8568 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Goethe : 9070 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : 9282 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Von Goethe : 9332 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Goethe : 9697 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Goethe : 9821 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert and wrong in what they deny.
Goethe : 10110 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.
Goethe : 10671 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Goethe : 10903 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


A vain man can never be utterly ruthless; he wants to win applause, and, therefore, he accommodates himself to others.
Goethe : 11265 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality.
Goethe : 11968 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Goethe : 12205 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


One always has time enough if one will apply it well.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe : 13377 : Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


There is a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
Nikolai Gogol : 1345 : Gogol, Nikolai


What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Thaddeus Golas : 3260 : Golas, Thaddeus


I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.
Bill Gold : 7542 : Gold, Bill


If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Arthur Goldberg : 4376 : Goldberg, Arthur


Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.
Arthur Goldberg : 5515 : Goldberg, Arthur


Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg : 3822 : Goldberg, Isaac


My mother gave me really smart advice - you can do and be anything if you're willing to deal with how other people respond to you. I was willing to take whatever anybody would dish out for the right to be myself.
Whoopi Goldberg : 1880 : Goldberg, Whoopi


If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.
Whoopi Goldberg : 11786 : Goldberg, Whoopi


The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Harry Golden : 4834 : Golden, Harry


Surviving and believing in tomorrow is just a habit I can't break.
Marita Golden : 9815 : Golden, Marita


Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
William Golding : 2813 : Golding, William


What is wrong with a revolution is that it is natural. It is as natural as natural selection, as devastating as natural selection, and as horrible.
William Golding : 5932 : Golding, William


My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
William Golding : 6403 : Golding, William


I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.
Emma Goldman : 557 : Goldman, Emma


The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman : 2068 : Goldman, Emma


The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman : 9495 : Goldman, Emma


True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
William Goldman : 12135 : Goldman, William


To make a fine gentleman several trades are required, but chiefly, a barber.
Goldsmith : 749 : Goldsmith, Oliver


As for disappointing them, I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
Oliver Goldsmith : 1381 : Goldsmith, Oliver


He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
Oliver Goldsmith : 1382 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith : 2059 : Goldsmith, Oliver


The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more: they reward virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith : 2441 : Goldsmith, Oliver


People seldom improve when they have no model other than themselves to copy after.
Oliver Goldsmith : 2525 : Goldsmith, Oliver


I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
Oliver Goldsmith : 3154 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Blest be those feasts with simple beauty crowned, with all the ruddy family around...
Oliver Goldsmith : 3190 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith : 4882 : Goldsmith, Oliver


They say women and music should never be dated.
Oliver Goldsmith : 5156 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith : 5955 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway. And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
Oliver Goldsmith : 7633 : Goldsmith, Oliver


There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith : 8271 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Nothing can exceed the vanity of our existence but the folly of our pursuits.
Oliver Goldsmith : 8348 : Goldsmith, Oliver


Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Oliver Goldsmith : 9493 : Goldsmith, Oliver


He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings.
Stanley Goldstein : 9474 : Goldstein, Stanley


Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
Andy Goldsworthy : 12675 : Goldsworthy, Andy


If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.
Bobcat Goldthwait : 5702 : Goldthwait, Bobcat


Animals are our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.
Bobcat Goldthwait : 10112 : Goldthwait, Bobcat


I'll give you a definite maybe.
Sam Goldwyn : 1598 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Sam Goldwyn : 1599 : Goldwyn, Samuel


I don't want any yes men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Sam Goldwyn : 4896 : Goldwyn, Samuel


When someone does something good, applaud! You'll make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn : 6094 : Goldwyn, Samuel


A hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn : 6811 : Goldwyn, Samuel


I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn : 7013 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn : 7083 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Sam Goldwyn : 7614 : Goldwyn, Samuel


For years I have been known for saying "include me out"; but today I am giving it up forever.
Samuel Goldwyn : 8318 : Goldwyn, Samuel


Don't be suckered into making "sucker" bets, unless, of course, you don't know the difference, in which case you're a sucker anyhow.
John Gollehon : 7908 : Gollehon, John


All his anxiety resolved itself into a sigh and dissolved into apathy and drowsiness.
Ivan Goncharov : 2832 : Goncharov, Ivan


A politician is a person who divides his time between running for office and running for cover.
Antonio Gonzalez : 9411 : Gonzalez, Antonio


If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
Gerald Good : 10212 : Good, Gerald


What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall : 11731 : Goodall, Jane


Just because you're miserable doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
Annette Goodheart : 6740 : Goodheart, Annette


The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
Alban Goodier : 4091 : Goodier, Alban


Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Brothers, the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Ellen Goodman : 545 : Goodman, Ellen


Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman : 4345 : Goodman, Ellen


Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.
Ellen Goodman : 12073 : Goodman, Ellen


There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman : 1435 : Goodman, Paul


It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
Paul Goodman : 6900 : Goodman, Paul


The ability to divorce one's mind from one's actions is a symptom of psychological aberration.
Walter Goodman : 10493 : Goodman, Walter


The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.
Richelle E. Goodrich : 13535 : Goodrich, Richelle E.


The impossible is often the untried.
Jim Goodwin : 8787 : Goodwin, Jim


People come to Washington believing that it's the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to the engine.
Richard Goodwin : 10630 : Goodwin, Richard


People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history.
Mikhail Gorbachev : 6435 : Gorbachev, Mikhail


The maltreatment of the natural world and its impoverishment leads to the impoverishment of the human soul. To save the natural world today means to save what is human in humanity.
Raisa Gorbachev : 7504 : Gorbachev, Raisa


Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon : 8972 : Gordon, Adam Lindsay


Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.
Barbara Gordon : 3101 : Gordon, Barbara


Anything that begins "I don't know how to tell you this" is never good news.
Ruth Gordon : 1594 : Gordon, Ruth


To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never, under any conditions, face the facts.
Ruth Gordon : 7853 : Gordon, Ruth


Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in the decisive moments of their lives.
Winifred Gordon : 11249 : Gordon, Winifred


Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore : 9468 : Gore, Al


I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do but I don't know if I can make it interesting.
Al Gore, on being the twenty-third speaker at a political dinner : 10378 : Gore, Al


When a woman gets married, it is like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter; you do it once and you remember it the rest of your days.
Maxim Gorki : 10662 : Gorki, Maxim


Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Maxim Gorky : 9867 : Gorky, Maxim


I've learned it's important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.
Ryan Gosling : 12832 : Gosling, Ryan


A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.
Bill Gothard : 8684 : Gothard, Bill


Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
Anna Gould : 10210 : Gould, Anna


Some sense of security is necessary to happy or healthful living, but you cannot get it by refusing to take chances any more than a country can get it by living behind walls.
Lawrence Gould : 1137 : Gould, Lawrence


Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history.
Stephen Jay Gould : 4173 : Gould, Stephen Jay


Nature is amoral, not immoral. It existed for eons before we arrived, didn't know we were coming, and doesn't give a damn about us.
Stephen Jay Gould : 5946 : Gould, Stephen Jay


Many of us take hold of opportunity all right, but we let go too soon.
A. P. Gouthey : 5124 : Gouthey, A. P.


If you indicate willingness to be friendly, men are bound eventually to reciprocate by manifesting a spirit of friendliness.
Chas. Gow : 368 : Gow, Charles


One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.
Baltasar Gracian : 215 : Gracian, Baltasar


Excellence resides in quality not quantity; the best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Gracian : 753 : Gracian, Baltasar


At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Gracian : 3655 : Gracian, Baltasar


One must not depend on one thing or trust to only one resource, however preeminent.
Baltasar Gracian : 3814 : Gracian, Baltasar


He who finds fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
Baltasar Gracian : 4044 : Gracian, Baltasar


Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
Baltasar Gracian : 4301 : Gracian, Baltasar


Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian : 4872 : Gracian, Baltasar


It is better to sleep on things beforehand than to lie awake about them afterward.
Baltasar Gracian : 5440 : Gracian, Baltasar


It is one of the great gifts of mind to be able to offer what is needed at the moment.
Baltasar Gracian : 5449 : Gracian, Baltasar


It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Baltasar Gracian : 7652 : Gracian, Baltasar


Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult ones as if they were easy. In the one case that confidence may not fall asleep; in the other, that it may not be dismayed.
Baltasar Gracian : 8881 : Gracian, Baltasar


The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Baltasar Gracian : 10233 : Gracian, Baltasar


If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.
Baltasar Gracian : 12645 : Gracian, Baltasar


Age does not endow all old things with strength and virtue, nor are all new things to be despised.
Henry W. Grady : 11285 : Grady, Henry W.


When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf : 12085 : Graf, Steffi


A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
Samuel Grafton : 3844 : Grafton, Samuel


Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Samuel Grafton : 9836 : Grafton, Samuel


It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn.
Sue Grafton : 1736 : Grafton, Sue


If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them.
Sue Grafton : 11361 : Grafton, Sue


Most people think I'm a Republican; actually, I'm a Democrat.
Billy Graham : 264 : Graham, Billy


The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham : 265 : Graham, Billy


Whether you jump off a cliff or drive off a cliff, you're still off a cliff.
Sen. Lindsey Graham : 12184 : Graham, Lindsey


The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham : 1272 : Graham, Martha


Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather.
Martha Graham : 4002 : Graham, Martha


Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Martha Graham : 5162 : Graham, Martha


There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
Martha Graham : 6112 : Graham, Martha


Nothing is more revealing than movement.
Martha Graham : 6167 : Graham, Martha


No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham : 6406 : Graham, Martha


There is a supreme lucidity, which is the precisely calculated awareness which is called madness.
Martha Graham : 6966 : Graham, Martha


If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street, because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.
Martha Graham : 8916 : Graham, Martha


Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham : 12481 : Graham, Martha


I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Gloria Grahame : 7640 : Grahame, Gloria


Come along... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.
Kenneth Grahame : 1093 : Grahame, Kenneth


It is the restriction placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.
Kenneth Grahame : 5241 : Grahame, Kenneth


The clever men at Oxford, know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much, as intelligent Mr. Toad.
Kenneth Grahame : 5950 : Grahame, Kenneth


What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
James Grainger : 8065 : Grainger, James


I should like to see every man tinkering with every other man's art; what kaleidoscopic multitudinous results we should see!
Percy Grainger : 5193 : Grainger, Percy


Balancing the budget is like going to heaven. Everybody wants to do it, but nobody wants to do what you have to do to get there.
Phil Gramm : 2367 : Gramm, Phil


Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant
Cary Grant : 3762 : Grant, Cary


Divorce is a game played by lawyers.
Cary Grant : 10179 : Grant, Cary


My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant : 10972 : Grant, Cary


When you hire people who are smarter than you are, you prove that you are smarter than they are.
R. H. Grant : 3265 : Grant, R. H.


Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Ulysses S. Grant : 2936 : Grant, Ulysses S.


English is a funny language - that explains why we park our car on the driveway and drive our car on the parkway.
Mark Grasso : 7612 : Grasso, Mark


Give a book as a present. You can always borrow it back.
John Gratton : 12055 : Gratton, John


There is no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves : 2543 : Graves, Robert


The function of poetry is religious invocation of the Muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
Robert Graves : 3908 : Graves, Robert


Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
Robert Graves : 10520 : Graves, Robert


I use the word "profit" and "capitalism" proudly. Because when business is healthy, all of society is healthy.
Harry Gray : 2963 : Gray, Harry


Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Thomas Gray : 6162 : Gray, Thomas


There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.
Thomas Gray : 8848 : Gray, Thomas


Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson : 428 : Grayson, David


Whenever words fly up at me from a printed page as I read, I intercept them instantly, knowing they are for me. I turn them over carefully in my mind and cling to them hard.
David Grayson : 9278 : Grayson, David


We fail far more often by timidity than by over-daring.
David Grayson : 10834 : Grayson, David


Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wing; the only certainty is oblivion.
Horace Greeley : 876 : Greeley, Horace


The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley : 4487 : Greeley, Horace


Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.
Horace Greeley : 5170 : Greeley, Horace


The illusion that times that were are better than times that are has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley : 9563 : Greeley, Horace


Most people say that as you get old you have to give up things. I think you get old because you do give up things.
Theodore Green : 3738 : Green, Theodore


A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg : 5012 : Greenberg, Sidney


Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing-avoidance.
Dan Greenburg : 10051 : Greenburg, Dan


Advertising is nothing more than a technique to keep people in a state of perpetual dissatisfaction with what they possess and in a permanent state of itchy acquisitiveness.
Felix Greene : 598 : Greene, Felix


He (Fred Astaire) is the nearest we are ever likely to get to a human Mickey Mouse.
Graham Greene : 754 : Greene, Graham


Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Graham Greene : 755 : Greene, Graham


He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay.
Graham Greene : 2310 : Greene, Graham


He would certainly have despised Christ for being the son of a carpenter, if the New Testament had not proved in time to be such a howling commercial success.
Graham Greene : 2685 : Greene, Graham


His slang was always a little out of date, as though he had studied in a dictionary of popular usage, but not in the latest edition.
Graham Greene : 3463 : Greene, Graham


The believer will fight another believer over a shade of difference: the doubter fights only with himself.
Graham Greene : 3543 : Greene, Graham


A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene : 3619 : Greene, Graham


The rich hate signing checks. Hence the success of credit cards.
Graham Greene : 7361 : Greene, Graham


Happiness is never as welcome as changelessness.
Graham Greene : 7718 : Greene, Graham


What do we ever get nowadays from reading to equal the excitement and the revelation in those first fourteen years?
Graham Greene : 7945 : Greene, Graham


When we are not sure, we are alive.
Graham Greene : 9513 : Greene, Graham


For a writer, success is always temporary, success is only a delayed failure. And it is incomplete.
Graham Greene : 9736 : Greene, Graham


Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene : 10509 : Greene, Graham


There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Greene : 10598 : Greene, Graham


Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what entrepreneurs are all about - doing what people have told them is impossible.
Hunt Greene : 6283 : Greene, Hunt


I guess I should warn you. If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.
Alan Greenspan : 5220 : Greenspan, Alan


Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer : 725 : Greer, Germaine


If a woman never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
Germaine Greer : 2337 : Greer, Germaine


Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.
Germaine Greer : 2745 : Greer, Germaine


Anyone can have the key to the executive washroom, but once a woman gets inside, what is there? A lavatory.
Germaine Greer : 3138 : Greer, Germaine


The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg : 3021 : Gregg, Alan


We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Dick Gregory : 4620 : Gregory, Dick


I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.
Wayne Gretzky : 2953 : Gretzky, Wayne


Statistically, one hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Wayne Gretzky : 6827 : Gretzky, Wayne


A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky : 7114 : Gretzky, Wayne


Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
Jane Grey : 12794 : Grey, Jane


The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
Lord Grey, on the eve of World War I : 2734 : Grey, Lord


Football is football and talent is talent, but the mindset of your team makes all the difference. -- Robert Griffin III
Robert Griffin III : 11414 : Griffin, Robert, III


A goal is nothing more than a dream with a time limit.
Joe L. Griffith : 981 : Griffith, Joe L.


A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.
Francis James Grimke : 6459 : Grimke, Francis James


The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Alfred Whitney Griswold : 8851 : Griswold, Alfred Whitney


In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
Alfred Whitney Griswold : 9155 : Griswold, Alfred Whitney


Nature didn't make us perfect so she did the next best thing. She made us blind to our faults.
Grit : 760 : Grit


Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard : 1156 : Grizzard, Lewis


I grew up in a family where water conservation was a way of life. I still cringe when I see pictures of Niagara Falls.
Lewis Grizzard : 5209 : Grizzard, Lewis


It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.
Lewis Grizzard : 10947 : Grizzard, Lewis


Springtime is the land awakening. The march winds are the Morning yawn.
Lewis Grizzard : 12715 : Grizzard, Lewis


I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
Bruce Grocott : 6016 : Grocott, Bruce


Opportunities don't happen. You create them.
Chris Grosser : 12853 : Grosser, Chris


When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.
Leslie Grossman : 10793 : Grossman, Leslie


What's the need of a home if you are never in it?
George and Weedon Grossmith : 11354 : Grossmith, George and Weedon


Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
Vernon Grounds : 8777 : Grounds, Vernon


People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken. What needs to be outlawed is war.
Leslie Richard Groves : 1152 : Groves, Leslie Richard


The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle and an end.
Matthew Gray Gubler : 13158 : Gubler, Matthew Gray


Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
Philip Guedalla : 4436 : Guedalla, Philip


Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
Philip Guedalla : 10139 : Guedalla, Philip


When turkey's on the table and good things I may scan, I'm thankful that I wasn't made a vegetarian.
Edgar Guest : 508 : Guest, Edgar


I would rather see a sermon than hear one any day.
Eddie Guest : 8091 : Guest, Edgar


To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.
Judith Guest : 8932 : Guest, Judith


Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara : 3607 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love.
Che Guevara : 4123 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


We revolutionaries often lack the knowledge and the intellectual audacity to face the task of the development of a new man by methods different from the conventional ones.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara : 7190 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


The revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara : 7632 : Guevara, Ernesto "Che"


How can something bother you if you won't let it?
Terry Guillemets : 4132 : Guillemets, Terry


A hug is a smile with arms, a laugh with a stronger grip.
Terri Guillemets : 4868 : Guillemets, Terry


There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
Albert Guinon : 7573 : Guinon, Albert


When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong - or absolutely right.
Albert Guinon : 8806 : Guinon, Albert


Food, love, career and mothers: The four major guilt groups.
Cathy Guisewite : 9585 : Guisewite, Cathy


When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry : 3761 : Guitry, Sacha


You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry : 11390 : Guitry, Sacha


The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter.
Nubar Gulbenkian : 1353 : Gulbenkian, Nubar


In Houston the air was warm and rich and suggestive of fossil fuel.
John Gunther : 2899 : Gunther, John


As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.
Joan Gussow : 977 : Gussow, Joan


Your birthdays tell how long you've been on the road, but they don't tell you how far you've traveled.
Roy Gustafson : 10066 : Gustafson, Roy


To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Philip Guston : 13180 : Guston, Philip


It is often said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. The Universe, however, is a free lunch.
Alan Guth : 10753 : Guth, Alan


The best way to get to knowing any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.
Woody Guthrie : 5665 : Guthrie, Woody


While honey lies in every clover no doubt, it takes a bee to get the honey out.
Arthur Gutterman : 4952 : Gutterman, Arthur


A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.
Philip Haberman : 3338 : Haberman, Philip


As a child, my family's meal consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.
Buddy Hackett : 7681 : Hackett, Buddy


The actor who's in everything is Gerard Depardieu. I've never seen a French film he wasn't in except "La Cage aux Folles," and he might be in the chorus of that for all I know.
Gene Hackman : 6577 : Hackman, Gene


Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.
Uta Hagen : 13103 : Hagen, Uta


Don't doubt me, because that's when I get stronger. I like to see the smiles on people's faces when I show them I can do the impossible.
Marvin Hagler : 1277 : Hagler, Marvin


Ladies were ladies more by virtue of the things they didn't do than by the things they did.
Emily Hahn : 11301 : Hahn, Emily


I haven't changed my style in twenty years - and that style is to get mad when things go wrong.
Alexander Haig : 4502 : Haig, Alexander


The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Lord Hailsham : 1179 : Hailsham, Lord


Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta : 5308 : Hakuta, Ken


Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam : 10532 : Halberstam, David


Bad as our urban conditions often are, there is not a slum in the country which has a third of the infantile death rate of the royal family in the middle ages.
J. B. S. Haldane : 3410 : Haldane, J. B. S.


This is my prediction for the future - whatever hasn't happened will happen and no one will be safe from it.
J. B. S. Haldane : 7290 : Haldane, J. B. S.


Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.
H. R. Haldeman : 7677 : Haldeman, H. R.


I am the only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Edward Everett Hale : 524 : Hale, Edward Everett


Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Edward Everett Hale : 11794 : Hale, Edward Everett


If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.
Mandy Hale : 13000 : Hale, Mandy


Those who would enjoyment gain must find it in the purpose they pursue.
Sarah Hale : 3750 : Hale, Sarah


In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Alex Haley : 11409 : Haley, Alex


Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.
Robert Half : 8074 : Half, Robert


Hard work without talent is a shape, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
Robert Half : 12814 : Half, Robert


The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful. But it soon fades away. The memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Thomas Haliburton : 10642 : Haliburton, Thomas


Nicknames stick to people and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
Thomas C. Haliburton : 1768 : Haliburton, Thomas C.


The great secret of life is to learn lessons, not to teach them.
Thomas C. Haliburton : 10813 : Haliburton, Thomas C.


The invisible thing called a good name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
Lord Halifax : 1180 : Halifax, Lord


They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may very well be expected to do everything for money.
Lord Halifax : 1181 : Halifax, Lord


The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
Catherine Hall : 4083 : Hall, Catherine


Soul is not about black or white music. Soul is a physical manifestation of higher consciousness. Soul is a howling at the moon - and having the moon respond.
Daryl Hall : 6270 : Hall, Daryl


It is not the correct thing to invite many people who like to monopolize conversation; one of this kind will be found amply sufficient.
Florence Howe Hall : 604 : Hall, Florence Howe


Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
G. Stanley Hall : 9254 : Hall, G. Stanley


Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.
Joseph Hall : 1045 : Hall, Joseph


For every bad there might be a worse; and when one breaks his leg let him be thankful it was not his neck.
Joseph Hall : 1046 : Hall, Joseph


He who has made the acquisition of a judicious and sympathizing friend, may be said to have doubled his mental resources.
Robert Hall : 1551 : Hall, Robert


The evils of controversy are transitory, while its benefits are permanent.
Robert Hall : 2049 : Hall, Robert


Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
W. Earl Hall : 8422 : Hall, W. Earl


Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
Richard Halliburton : 11741 : Halliburton, Richard


Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.
Sue Halpern : 10352 : Halpern, Sue


There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
Adm. William F. Halsey Jr. : 18 : Halsey, Adm. William F., Jr.


All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.
William F. Halsey : 4066 : Halsey, Adm. William F., Jr.


Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
Margaret Halsey : 1222 : Halsey, Margaret


It takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman, and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
Margaret Halsey : 5948 : Halsey, Margaret


Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.
Halston : 8830 : Halston, Roy


The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of "half genius", is waiting for inspiration.
Philip Hamerton : 9369 : Hamerton, Philip


We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Philip Hamerton : 1455 : Hamerton, Philip C.


There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the heart goes to the water brooks.
Philip C. Hamerton : 4764 : Hamerton, Philip C.


Acting in "Star Wars," I felt like a raisin in a gigantic fruit salad.
Mark Hamill : 9812 : Hamill, Mark


I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill : 5263 : Hamill, Pete


If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
Alexander Hamilton : 5877 : Hamilton, Alexander


There can be no truer principle than this: That every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.
Alexander Hamilton : 5931 : Hamilton, Alexander


The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records.
Alexander Hamilton : 12454 : Hamilton, Alexander


There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
Alexander Hamilton : 12619 : Hamilton, Alexander


There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than to plays they go to see.
Edith Hamilton : 510 : Hamilton, Edith


No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
Edith Hamilton : 10418 : Hamilton, Edith


A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton : 11868 : Hamilton, Edith


The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.
Frank Hamilton : 2271 : Hamilton, Frank


Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton : 7235 : Hamilton, Gail


We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams - even if it takes a lifetime.
Vijali Hamilton : 7844 : Hamilton, Vijali


I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.
Mia Hamm : 12437 : Hamm, Mia


The "men of the hour," the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumph - on the level to which it belongs.
Dag Hammarskjold : 3383 : Hammarskjold, Dag


Luck seems to come to the guy who works fourteen hours a day, seven days a week.
Armand Hammer : 9056 : Hammer, Armand


A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
Oscar Hammerstein II : 9966 : Hammerstein II, Oscar


I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
Oscar Hammerstein, on his partnership with Richard Rodgers : 11619 : Hammerstein, Oscar


It is the beginning of the end when you discover you have style.
Dashiell Hammett : 12181 : Hammett, Dashiell


If you think you have no faults, that makes one more.
Jack Hampasch : 11365 : Hampasch, Jack


Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.
Patricia Hampl : 5943 : Hampl, Patricia


All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that, no one will support the artist.
Lionel Hampton : 11261 : Hampton, Lionel


There, I guess King George will be able to read that.
John Hancock : 1003 : Hancock, John


No plagiarist can excuse the wrong by showing how much of his work he did not pirate.
Learned Hand : 7660 : Hand, Learned


All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question, and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.
Learned Hand : 9968 : Hand, Learned


What the English like is something they can beat time to, something that hits them straight on the drum of the ear.
George Frederic Handel : 10440 : Handel, George Frederic


Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind." Basically it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 3370 : Handey, Jack


How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 3558 : Handey, Jack


I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 3909 : Handey, Jack


I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they would never expect it.
Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live) : 5181 : Handey, Jack


Scrapbooks, I believe, are useful therapy - they are a way of putting the past to bed, decorously. Then we can move forward.
Charles Handy : 10430 : Handy, Charles


Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it. You don't get anything out of it.
William Christopher Handy : 9731 : Handy, William Christopher


I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest.
Helene Hanff : 818 : Hanff, Helene


My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.
Thich Nhat Hanh : 13047 : Hanh, Thich Nhat


The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.
Thich Nhat Hanh : 13048 : Hanh, Thich Nhat


The only way you can truly control how you're seen is by being honest all the time.
Tom Hanks : 10518 : Hanks, Tom


I don't cause riots, but I do cause confusion. People freeze when they spot me.
Tom Hanks : 10938 : Hanks, Tom


Find something you really care about and mix that with something you love doing.
Kathleen Hanna : 12543 : Hanna, Kathleen


My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true.
Kristin Hannah : 12227 : Hannah, Kristin


There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each with our own little picture in front of us, our own little mirage that we think is the future.
Lorraine Hansberry : 1186 : Hansberry, Lorraine


For above all, on behalf of an ailing world which sorely needs our defiance, may we never accept the notion of "our place."
Lorraine Hansberry : 7911 : Hansberry, Lorraine


The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.
Sanford Hansell : 4417 : Hansell, Sanford


Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Grace Hansen : 752 : Hansen, Grace


You were born rich with 18 billion bountiful, beautiful, totally available and in all probability under-used brain cells awaiting your desire, decision and directional compass to take you onward, upward, goodward and Godward.
Mark Victor Hansen : 5630 : Hansen, Mark Victor


I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.
Mark Victor Hansen : 7955 : Hansen, Mark Victor


When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Mark Victor Hansen : 8066 : Hansen, Mark Victor


I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Mark Victor Hansen : 9078 : Hansen, Mark Victor


America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
Warren G. Harding : 1870 : Harding, Warren G.


History, with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.
Elizabeth Hardwick : 5903 : Hardwick, Elizabeth


In letters, we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires.
Elizabeth Hardwick : 7883 : Hardwick, Elizabeth


It's far more enjoyable pretending to be a doctor than actually being one.
Cedric Hardwicke : 329 : Hardwicke, Cedric


The good thing about a double entendre, it can only mean one thing.
Jack Hardy in an interview : 10308 : Hardy, Jack


If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have left him alone.
Thomas Hardy : 1774 : Hardy, Thomas


It may be said that married men of forty are usually ready and generous enough to fling passing glances at any specimen of moderate beauty they may discern by the way.
Thomas Hardy : 1775 : Hardy, Thomas


Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas Hardy : 2617 : Hardy, Thomas


She whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.
Thomas Hardy : 2739 : Hardy, Thomas


Why should a man's mind have been thrown into such close, sad, sensational, inexplicable relations with such a precarious object as his body?
Thomas Hardy : 4706 : Hardy, Thomas


No man likes to see his emotions the sport of a merry-go-round of skittishness.
Thomas Hardy : 9060 : Hardy, Thomas


That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Thomas Hardy : 11685 : Hardy, Thomas


Though a good deal is too strange to be believed. Nothing is too strange to have happened.
Thomas Hardy : 11747 : Hardy, Thomas


Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.
Thomas Hardy : 11880 : Hardy, Thomas


Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy : 13412 : Hardy, Thomas


The intellect of the wise is like glass; It admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
Augustus John Cuthbert Hare : 12379 : Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert


Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Charles Hare : 8686 : Hare, Charles


The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.
David Hare : 429 : Hare, David


To portray only what you would like to be true is the beginning of censorship.
David Hare : 9068 : Hare, David


When you get angry, they tell you to count to five before you reply. Why should I count to five? It's what happens before you count to five which makes life interesting.
David Hare : 9635 : Hare, David


The greatest truths are the most simple; and so are the greatest men.
Julius Charles Hare : 5 : Hare, Julius Charles


Surely people must know themselves. So few ever think about anything else.
J. C. Hare : 2890 : Hare, Julius Charles


How few are our real wants! and how easy it is to satisfy them! Our imaginary ones are boundless and insatiable.
Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare : 11207 : Hare, Julius Charles and Augustus William


Everyone liked Ike because Ike liked everyone. He radiated sunniness and optimism.
Erwin Hargrove, on Dwight D. Eisenhower : 11578 : Hargrove, Erwin


Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
John Harington : 2810 : Harington, John


Britain will be honored by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.
Lord Harlech : 2315 : Harlech, Lord


Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
John Harold : 10488 : Harold, John


Men who are deaf to the claims of mercy, and oblivious to the demands of justice, can feel when money is slipping from their pockets.
Frances Watkins Harper : 611 : Harper, Frances Watkins


The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Lucille S. Harper : 2860 : Harper, Lucille S.


Next to entertaining or impressive talk, a thoroughgoing silence manages to intrigue most people.
Florence J. Harriman : 3235 : Harriman, Florence J.


Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
W. Averell Harriman : 10739 : Harriman, W. Averell


The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
Bob Harrington : 8077 : Harrington, Bob


One cannot raise the bottom of society without benefiting everyone above.
Michael Harrington : 7336 : Harrington, Michael


A retired husband is often a wife's full-time job.
Ella Harris : 13169 : Harris, Ella


Strong people are made by opposition, like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris : 3301 : Harris, Frank


Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
Paul Harris : 11722 : Harris, Paul


Silence and egotism go together more commonly than we suspect; the chatterbox merely hopes to be liked for what he expresses; the taciturn demands to be respected for what he contains.
Sydney Harris : 1743 : Harris, Sydney J.


Those obsessed with health are not healthy; the first requisite of good health is a certain calculated carelessness about oneself.
Sydney Harris : 2709 : Harris, Sydney J.


If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris : 3980 : Harris, Sydney J.


Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris : 4249 : Harris, Sydney J.


We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
Sydney J. Harris : 4275 : Harris, Sydney J.


When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Sydney J. Harris : 4546 : Harris, Sydney J.


The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.
Sydney J. Harris : 4700 : Harris, Sydney J.


Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Sydney J. Harris : 5660 : Harris, Sydney J.


The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
Sydney Harris : 6328 : Harris, Sydney J.


The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.
Sydney Harris : 9110 : Harris, Sydney J.


When we commit a gross piece of stupidity, we call it an "honest mistake" - as if most other people make dishonest mistakes.
Sydney Harris : 9683 : Harris, Sydney J.


As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
Sydney Harris : 10645 : Harris, Sydney J.


The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
Sydney J. Harris : 11090 : Harris, Sydney J.


All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison : 11011 : Harrison, George


I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape this aloneness.
Jim Harrison : 2237 : Harrison, Jim


To be poor may be a misfortune, but it is not a fault.
Mary Harrison : 1279 : Harrison, Mary


Some people have a veneer that comes off easily with a little alcohol.
P. Harrison : 3798 : Harrison, P.


I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm as good as I never was.
Rex Harrison : 1515 : Harrison, Rex


Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
Rex Harrison : 4715 : Harrison, Rex


Once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than affectations!
Rex Harrison : 10627 : Harrison, Rex


Strong hands to weak, old hands to young, around this Christmas board, touch hands.
William Henry Harrison : 1911 : Harrison, William Henry


I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
William Henry Harrison : 7524 : Harrison, William Henry


You don't have to be tough to survive, you have to be vulnerable; it's that sensitivity that makes you know how other people feel, to reach them.
Deborah Harry : 11525 : Harry, Deborah


The art of secrecy lies in being so open about most things that the few things that matter are not even suspected to exist.
B. H. Liddell Hart : 2380 : Hart, B. H. Liddell


Are we so accustomed to our chains that we are no longer conscious of them?
B. H. Liddell Hart : 7674 : Hart, B. H. Liddell


Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
Josephine Hart : 4418 : Hart, Josephine


The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you're above everybody else.
Kevin Hart : 13015 : Hart, Kevin


When love congeals it soon reveals the faint aroma of performing seals, the double crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!
Lorenz Hart : 3531 : Hart, Lorenz


Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.
Louise Hart : 5131 : Hart, Louise


The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
Moss Hart : 5057 : Hart, Moss


All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say "no" and said "yes."
Moss Hart : 8857 : Hart, Moss


Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.
Bret Harte : 284 : Harte, Bret


The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte : 2649 : Harte, Bret


If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, "It might have been," More sad are these we daily see: "It is, but hadn't ought to be!"
Bret Harte : 11219 : Harte, Bret


English is the perfect language to sell pigs in.
Michael Hartnett : 8391 : Hartnett, Michael


In times like these it is good to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey : 6851 : Harvey, Paul


Hollywood may be thickly populated but to me it's a bewilderness.
Sir Cedric Harwicke : 8368 : Harwicke, Sir Cedric


Save a little money each month, and at the end of the year, you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins : 4513 : Haskins, Ernest


Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry Haskins : 3282 : Haskins, Henry S.


Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins : 4215 : Haskins, Henry S.


To play pianissimo, is to carry sweet words, to the old woman in the last dark row, who cannot hear anything else, land to lay them across her lap like a shawl.
Lola Haskins : 7876 : Haskins, Lola


There really are only five hundred people in the whole world. You just keep running into them over and over.
Beverly Hastings : 9712 : Hastings, Beverly


The spirit of this day has not changed. It remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
Doc Hastings : 8452 : Hastings, Doc


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; It's the beginning.
Orrin Hatch : 11738 : Hatch, Orrin


There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
Katherine Butler Hathaway : 5096 : Hathaway, Katherine Butler


Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.
Vaclav Havel : 3391 : Havel, Vaclav


We are living at a time when humankind can face whatever threatens it only if we, by which I mean each of us, manage to revive, with new energy and a new ethos, a sense of responsibility for the rest of the world.
Vaclav Havel : 10338 : Havel, Vaclav


The only salvation of the world today ... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.
Vaclav Havel : 10635 : Havel, Vaclav


That special time caught me up in its wild vortex and - in the absence of leisure to reflect on the matter - compelled me to do what had to be done.
Vaclav Havel : 11200 : Havel, Vaclav


Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
John Havlicek : 8012 : Havlicek, John


The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner : 3935 : Havner, Vance


The worst thing that can happen to old good music is that it might become dated for awhile, but watch out, in twenty years it will come drifting back like bell-bottoms and W. C. Fields movies.
Hampton Hawes : 7500 : Hawes, Hampton


In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.
Stephen Hawking : 2268 : Hawking, Stephen


However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Stephen Hawking : 11436 : Hawking, Stephen


Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Stephen Hawking : 11715 : Hawking, Stephen


Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
Stephen Hawking : 12512 : Hawking, Stephen


Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking : 12934 : Hawking, Stephen


People like Brigitte Bardot can speak with their bodies. I guess I speak with my face.
Goldie Hawn : 748 : Hawn, Goldie


There are only three ages for women in Hollywood: babe, district attorney, and "Driving Miss Daisy."
Goldie Hawn : 7641 : Hawn, Goldie


No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 1337 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


How is it possible to say an unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 2733 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3004 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3411 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collect - so some writers are lost in their collected learning.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3533 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 3569 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


The world, that grey-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4010 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4218 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued is just beyond your grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4455 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4635 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 4755 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Once in every half-century, at longest, a family should be merged into the great, obscure mass of humanity, and forget all about its ancestors.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 5143 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 8142 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 9270 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 9660 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Language - human language - after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature - sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 10379 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 11113 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.
Nathaniel Hawthorne : 11522 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
N. Hawthorne : 12089 : Hawthorne, Nathaniel


Agreement is brought about by changing people's minds - other people's.
S. I. Hayakawa : 9801 : Hayakawa, S. I.


I'm going to speak my mind, because I have nothing to lose.
Samuel Hayakawa : 4555 : Hayakawa, Samuel I.


It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa : 5953 : Hayakawa, Samuel I.


Melody is the main thing. Harmony is useful only to charm the ears.
Haydn : 807 : Hayden, Robert


My poetry is a way of coming to grips with reality, a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns.
Robert Hayden : 1552 : Hayden, Robert


It is the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.
Friedrich Hayek : 10409 : Hayek, Friedrich


We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
Friedrich Hayek : 13019 : Hayek, Friedrich


The story of love is not important; what is important is that one is capable of love.
Helen Hayes : 3864 : Hayes, Helen


It (love) is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes : 4423 : Hayes, Helen


On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.
Helen Hayes : 8417 : Hayes, Helen


The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes : 8753 : Hayes, Helen


We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes : 12117 : Hayes, Helen


Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.
Helen Hayes : 12256 : Hayes, Helen


Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.
Ed Hays : 11183 : Hays, Ed


Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt : 1910 : Hazlitt, William


It is difficulties that show what men are.
William Hazlitt : 2120 : Hazlitt, William


The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
William Hazlitt : 3381 : Hazlitt, William


Fashion constantly begins and ends in the two things it abhors most, singularity and vulgarity.
William Hazlitt : 4011 : Hazlitt, William


We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
William Hazlitt : 5073 : Hazlitt, William


Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when you were not: that gives us no concern. Why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is o
William Hazlitt : 5646 : Hazlitt, William


To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.
William Hazlitt : 6004 : Hazlitt, William


Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
William Hazlitt : 6431 : Hazlitt, William


His strength was in reflection, not in production: he was the surveyor, not the builder of science.
William Hazlitt, on Francis Bacon : 7600 : Hazlitt, William


The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
William Hazlitt : 8890 : Hazlitt, William


People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.
William Hazlitt : 8963 : Hazlitt, William


Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
William Hazlitt : 9503 : Hazlitt, William


Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
William Hazlitt : 9781 : Hazlitt, William


Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William Hazlitt : 9840 : Hazlitt, William


It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.
William Hazlitt : 10491 : Hazlitt, William


The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
William Hazlitt : 10787 : Hazlitt, William


Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head : 8838 : Head, Edith


It's a good rule to follow the first law of holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
Denis Healy : 3771 : Healy, Denis


Whenever I want a really nice meal, I start dating again.
Susan Healy : 11674 : Healy, Susan


To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries - old conversation that makes up our civilization.
Timothy Healy : 4190 : Healy, Timothy


Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests. I'll dig with it.
Seamus Heaney : 6184 : Heaney, Seamus


Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch life from the sidelines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.
Gabriel Heatter : 3011 : Heatter, Gabriel


Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?
Oliver Heaviside : 12511 : Heaviside, Oliver


Lightning can light up the world, but it can't warm up a stove.
Friedrich Hebbel : 643 : Hebbel, Christian Friedrich


It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
Friedrich Hebbel : 644 : Hebbel, Christian Friedrich


That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel : 10711 : Hebbel, Christian Friedrich


Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.
Bishop Reginald Heber : 13490 : Heber, Bishop Reginald


The moviemakers are able to put more reality into a picture about the terrors of life at the ocean bottom than into a tale of two Milwaukeeans in love.
Ben Hecht : 3412 : Hecht, Ben


Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade.
Ben Hecht : 11487 : Hecht, Ben


I wake up in the morning and make myself a bowl of instant oatmeal, and then I don't do anything for an hour. I should get the regular oatmeal and feel productive.
Mitch Hedberg : 5923 : Hedberg, Mitch


When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying, "Here, you throw this away".
Mitch Hedberg : 10603 : Hedberg, Mitch


Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first.
J. E. Hedges : 2582 : Hedges, Job Elmer


The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; They get that way by respecting them.
Tom Heehler : 10016 : Heehler, Tom


As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame, but for learning.
Margaret Heffernan : 12775 : Heffernan, Margaret


Ballroom dancing has been around in various forms since early civilization, and it has been a crucial factor in the development of mankind.
Howell Heflin : 9998 : Heflin, Howell


Experience and history teach that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel : 3414 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Political genius consists in identifying oneself with a principle.
Georg Hegel : 4047 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Education is the art of making man ethical.
George Hegel : 6512 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


What experience and history teach is this - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Hegel : 7225 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Georg Hegel : 7861 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.
Georg Hegel : 11434 : Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich


Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
Robert Heilbroner : 13012 : Heilbroner, Robert


Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.
Carolyn Heilbrun : 9989 : Heilbrun, Carolyn


I have never met a woman who, deep down in here core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck.
Cynthia Heimel : 408 : Heimel, Cynthia


The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
Piet Hein : 6353 : Hein, Piet


The wedding march always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine : 809 : Heine, Heinrich


The men of action are, after all, the uncommon instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine : 810 : Heine, Heinrich


We live together very happily, that is, I don't have a moment's peace by day or night.
Heinrich Heine : 2456 : Heine, Heinrich


Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its condition. The essence of music is revelation.
Heinrich Heine : 3418 : Heine, Heinrich


Men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Heinrich Heine : 8016 : Heine, Heinrich


If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.
Heinrich Heine : 8306 : Heine, Heinrich


Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
Heinrich Heine : 10249 : Heine, Heinrich


Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
Heinrich Heine : 10735 : Heine, Heinrich


I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein : 4088 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
Robert A. Heinlein : 5067 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert Heinlein : 5580 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Robert A. Heinlein : 6560 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Theology is never any help; It is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein : 7211 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
Robert Heinlein : 8323 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
Robert Heinlein : 8800 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein : 10091 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Robert A. Heinlein : 11052 : Heinlein, Robert A.


You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Robert Heinlein : 12303 : Heinlein, Robert A.


We may eliminate death someday, but I doubt if we'll ever eliminate taxes.
Robert A. Heinlein : 12492 : Heinlein, Robert A.


Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors ... and miss.
Robert A. Heinlein : 13172 : Heinlein, Robert A.


The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
Robert Heinlein : 11001 : Heinlein, Robert, A.


Golf cart: a method of transporting clubs that has one big advantage; it can't count.
Joachim Heinrich : 975 : Heinrich, Joachim


An excellent monument might be erected to the unknown stockholder. It might take the form of a solid stone arc of faith apparently floating in a pool of water.
Felix Heisenberg : 11186 : Heisenberg, Felix


Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
Louis J. Helle, Jr. : 4610 : Helle, Louis J., Jr.


He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Joseph Heller : 2486 : Heller, Joseph


So that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
Joseph Heller : 3050 : Heller, Joseph


Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
Joseph Heller : 3385 : Heller, Joseph


A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural.
Joseph Heller : 3498 : Heller, Joseph


Kissinger brought peace to Vietnam the same way Napoleon brought peace to Europe: by losing.
Joseph Heller : 6404 : Heller, Joseph


Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than in any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman : 1158 : Hellman, Lillian


God forgives those who invent what they need.
Lillian Hellman : 1159 : Hellman, Lillian


There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.
Lillian Hellman : 2244 : Hellman, Lillian


Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
Lillian Hellman : 2903 : Hellman, Lillian


The past, with its pleasure, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Lillian Hellman : 3089 : Hellman, Lillian


If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
Lillian Hellman : 5025 : Hellman, Lillian


For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
Lillian Hellman : 7675 : Hellman, Lillian


Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
Lillian Hellman : 8356 : Hellman, Lillian


Grown people were always on the edge of telling you something valuable and then withdrawing it, a form of bully teasing.
Lillian Hellman : 10029 : Hellman, Lillian


It is best in the theater to act with confidence no matter how little right you have to it.
Lillian Hellman : 10495 : Hellman, Lillian


Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Lillian Hellman : 10773 : Hellman, Lillian


I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman : 12275 : Hellman, Lillian


Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Lillian Hellman : 13226 : Hellman, Lillian


I was more pleased with possessing your heart than with any other happiness; the man was the thing I least valued in you.
Heloise : 6634 : Heloise


Slavery tolerates no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of opinion.
Hinton Rowan Helper : 7162 : Helper, Hinton Rowan


The manufacture of sin is so easy a manufacture, that I am convinced man could readily be persuaded that it was wicked to use the left leg as much as the right; whole congregations would only permit themselves to hop.
Sir Arthur Helps : 2952 : Helps, Sir Arthur


The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
Arthur Helps : 8705 : Helps, Sir Arthur


Those awful goddesses, Appearances, are to us what the Fates were to the Greeks.
Arthur Helps : 9058 : Helps, Sir Arthur


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps : 9575 : Helps, Sir Arthur


The stately homes of England, how beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, o'er all the pleasant land.
Felicia Hemans : 2719 : Hemans, Felicia


Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
Ernest Hemingway : 2267 : Hemingway, Ernest


All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons.
Ernest Hemingway : 2740 : Hemingway, Ernest


A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
Ernest Hemingway : 3313 : Hemingway, Ernest


I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway : 4584 : Hemingway, Ernest


It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
Ernest Hemingway : 4702 : Hemingway, Ernest


Don't you like writing letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
Ernest Hemingway : 5192 : Hemingway, Ernest


What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway : 6233 : Hemingway, Ernest


Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway : 6440 : Hemingway, Ernest


Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway : 6515 : Hemingway, Ernest


People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Ernest Hemingway : 7987 : Hemingway, Ernest


Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway : 8492 : Hemingway, Ernest


To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Ernest Hemingway : 9371 : Hemingway, Ernest


Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway : 10140 : Hemingway, Ernest


But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway : 10169 : Hemingway, Ernest


When some people hear an echo, they think they originated the sound.
Ernest Hemingway : 10812 : Hemingway, Ernest


People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway : 11704 : Hemingway, Ernest


The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway : 12290 : Hemingway, Ernest


The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson : 3278 : Henderson, Nelson


Marriage is like a phone call in the night: first the ring, and then you wake up.
Evelyn Hendrickson : 9428 : Hendrickson, Evelyn


I can't express myself in any conversation. But when I'm up on stage, it's all the world. It's my whole life.
Jimi Hendrix : 5230 : Hendrix, Jimi


You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people.
Jimi Hendrix : 13080 : Hendrix, Jimi


Anyone who has ever made anything of importance was disciplined.
Andrew Hendrixson : 13227 : Hendrixson, Andrew


We live a protracted adolescence. At some point, you must leave the party.
Don Henley : 10600 : Henley, Don


Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.
Marilu Henner : 12246 : Henner, Marilu


Feel the dignity of a child. Do not feel superior to him, for you are not.
Robert Henri : 1553 : Henri, Robert


Nothing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at the sight of them. This is beauty.
Robert Henri : 11879 : Henri, Robert


Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
M. Henry : 1201 : Henry, M.


He looked like a composite picture of five thousand orphans too late to catch a picnic steamboat.
O. Henry : 1368 : Henry, O.


A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. Henry : 3556 : Henry, O.


Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live.
O. Henry : 6106 : Henry, O.


The city like a ragged purple dream, the wonderful, cruel, enchanting, bewildering, fatal, great city.
O. Henry, on New York City : 10715 : Henry, O.


I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry : 1432 : Henry, Patrick


I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick Henry : 3169 : Henry, Patrick


No disability or dictionary out there is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.
Robert M. Hensel : 13419 : Hensel, Robert M.


Nothing is impossible; The word itself says "I'm possible!"
Audrey Hepburn : 10291 : Hepburn, Audrey


Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; It does for me.
Audrey Hepburn : 12127 : Hepburn, Audrey


I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.
Audrey Hepburn : 12326 : Hepburn, Audrey


As you get older, remember you have another hand: the first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Audrey Hepburn : 12851 : Hepburn, Audrey


I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
Katharine Hepburn : 1079 : Hepburn, Katharine


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 : 3100 : Hepburn, Katharine


Someone asked someone who was about my age: "How are you?" The answer was. "Fine. If you don't ask for details."
Katharine Hepburn : 6024 : Hepburn, Katharine


If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
Katharine Hepburn : 6823 : Hepburn, Katharine


When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn : 6925 : Hepburn, Katharine


Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
Katharine Hepburn : 8263 : Hepburn, Katharine


I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.
Katharine Hepburn : 9001 : Hepburn, Katharine


I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good - or there because they're lucky.
Katharine Hepburn : 9298 : Hepburn, Katharine


The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman, and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn : 10394 : Hepburn, Katharine


Acting is the most minor of gifts - after all, Shirley temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn : 10602 : Hepburn, Katharine


Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.
Heraclitus : 5112 : Heraclitus


No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Heraclitus : 8816 : Heraclitus


Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
Heraclitus : 10332 : Heraclitus


An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected."
A. P. Herbert : 8021 : Herbert, A. P.


The Farmer will never be happy again; He carries his heart in his boots; For either the rain is destroying his grain, or the drought is destroying his roots.
A. P. Herbert : 8220 : Herbert, A. P.


Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert : 7799 : Herbert, Frank


I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to its path. Where the fear has go
Frank Herbert (from Dune) : 7800 : Herbert, Frank


Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
Frank Herbert : 8212 : Herbert, Frank


The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert (from Dune) : 12090 : Herbert, Frank


Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert : 12134 : Herbert, Frank


Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault and truth discourtesy.
George Herbert : 702 : Herbert, George


Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.
George Herbert : 703 : Herbert, George


Every mile is two in winter.
George Herbert : 2657 : Herbert, George


The rich knows not who is his friend.
George Herbert : 2934 : Herbert, George


A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
George Herbert : 4114 : Herbert, George


The eye is bigger than the belly.
George Herbert : 6172 : Herbert, George


Nothing we see, but means our good, As our delight or as our treasure: The whole is either our cupboard of food, Or cabinet of pleasure.
George Herbert : 7571 : Herbert, George


Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert : 8107 : Herbert, George


A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees farther of the two.
George Herbert : 9333 : Herbert, George


Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.
George Herbert : 10560 : Herbert, George


The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
George Herbert : 11366 : Herbert, George


Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
George Herbert : 12318 : Herbert, George


Whoever considers the study of anatomy can never be an atheist.
Lord Herbert : 2092 : Herbert, Lord


Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
Oliver Herford : 1383 : Herford, Oliver


If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
Oliver Herford : 1384 : Herford, Oliver


The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't seen the joke yet.
Oliver Herford : 3293 : Herford, Oliver


Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford : 4797 : Herford, Oliver


A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford : 11140 : Herford, Oliver


I am satisfied that we are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.
Herodotus : 2058 : Herodotus


Neither snow. nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
Herodotus : 6017 : Herodotus


It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.
Herodotus : 6483 : Herodotus


Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all; the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Herodotus : 7258 : Herodotus


Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.
Christopher Herold : 1978 : Herold, Christopher


A humorist is a man who feels bad but who feels good about it.
Don Herold : 450 : Herold, Don


Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
Don Herold : 451 : Herold, Don


I say let's banish Bridge: let's find some pleasanter way of being miserable together.
Don Herold : 452 : Herold, Don


Before the advent of the radio, there were advantages in being a shut in.
Don Herold : 453 : Herold, Don


Babies are such a nice way to start people.
Don Herold : 454 : Herold, Don


Women give us solace, but if it were not for women, we should never need solace.
Don Herold : 3702 : Herold, Don


Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.
Don Herold : 5281 : Herold, Don


There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold : 6202 : Herold, Don


But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick : 9128 : Herrick, Robert


The more a human being feels himself a self, tries to intensify this self and reach a never-attainable perfection, the more drastically he steps out of the center of being.
Eugene Herrigel : 3017 : Herrigel, Eugene


I have long held the notion that if a vet can't catch his patient there's nothing much to worry about.
James Herriot : 3535 : Herriot, James


Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.
Robert Herrman : 7997 : Herrman, Robert


The departing world leaves behind not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
Alexander Herzen : 9804 : Herzen, Alexander


I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog : 10311 : Herzog, Whitey


The most important thing a man can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore M. Hesburgh : 1759 : Hesburgh, Theodore M.


The essence of man, his uniqueness, is in his power to surpass the self, to rise above his needs and selfish motives.
Abraham Heschel : 2402 : Heschel, Abraham


In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.
Abraham Heschel : 2789 : Heschel, Abraham


The course of life is unpredictable; no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham Heschel : 4021 : Heschel, Abraham


Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Heschel : 6357 : Heschel, Abraham


There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.
Michael Heseltine : 3392 : Heseltine, Michael


Admire a little ship, but put your cargo in a big one.
Hesiod : 10165 : Hesiod


As a cub reporter for the old United Press, I learned the following rueful lesson: The competition kills you twice with a phony story - first with the exclusive and the next day with the news that it wasn't so.
John L. Hess : 9931 : Hess, John L.


It is possible to be a great scoundrel without ever doing anything that is forbidden.
Hermann Hesse : 2839 : Hesse, Hermann


Happiness is a how, not a what; a talent, not an object.
Hermann Hesse : 6498 : Hesse, Hermann


The bourgeoisie prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Hermann Hesse : 7909 : Hesse, Hermann


A man who is "ill-adjusted to the world" is always on the point of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.
Hermann Hesse : 10374 : Hesse, Hermann


I feel very strongly that the director is supposed to be the boss. Art was never created by democracy.
Charlton Heston : 6045 : Heston, Charlton


You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Charlton Heston : 7988 : Heston, Charlton


If you need a ceiling painted, a chariot race run, a city besieged, or the Red Sea parted - you think of me.
Charlton Heston : 9710 : Heston, Charlton


I wouldn't be so rash as to say I played Moses and found God, but one learns from it, certainly. You'd be a bloody fool if you couldn't.
Charlton Heston : 10417 : Heston, Charlton


An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.
Charlton Heston : 11363 : Heston, Charlton


There is nothing like education for bringing to light, and assessing, the essential inequality between one mind and another.
Lord Hewart : 1182 : Hewart, Lord


When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
John Heywood : 13135 : Heywood, John


The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.
Carl Hiaasen : 12316 : Hiaasen, Carl


If you forget you have to struggle for improvement you go backward.
Geoffrey Hickson : 8738 : Hickson, Geoffrey


Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.
Tom Hiddleston : 11458 : Hiddleston, Tom


I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.
Tom Hiddleston : 13160 : Hiddleston, Tom


I grew up watching "Superman." When I first learned to dive, I wasn't diving; I was flying, like Superman.
Tom Hiddleston : 13545 : Hiddleston, Tom


Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson : 3735 : Higginson, Thomas Wentworth


Few things are more important to a community than the health of its women. All men need mothers of strong frame.
T. Higginson : 6530 : Higginson, Thomas Wentworth


No matter what your age, you are one day younger than you will be tomorrow.
Cullen Hightower : 407 : Hightower, Cullen


We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but congress can.
Cullen Hightower : 4947 : Hightower, Cullen


There is nothing wrong with being addicted to money. It is the withdrawal symptoms that are so painful.
Cullen Hightower : 5259 : Hightower, Cullen


Some people never hold a grudge ... they develop a new one every day.
Cullen Hightower : 5277 : Hightower, Cullen


Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
Cullen Hightower : 8834 : Hightower, Cullen


Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower : 10307 : Hightower, Cullen


Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert : 12203 : Hilbert, David


Deceit is the false road to happiness. And all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.
Aaron Hill : 2323 : Hill, Aaron


When people say, "It can't be done" or "you don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.
Lynn Hill : 2329 : Hill, Lynn


The starting point for all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Napoleon Hill : 3240 : Hill, Napoleon


Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill : 10586 : Hill, Napoleon


Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napoleon Hill : 11102 : Hill, Napoleon


Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill : 12369 : Hill, Napoleon


Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world itself.
Napoleon Hill : 13373 : Hill, Napoleon


Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill : 13388 : Hill, Napoleon


Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Reestablish cont
Etty Hillesum : 4151 : Hillesum, Etty


Life may be brimming over with experiences, but somewhere, deep inside, all of us carry a vast and fruitful loneliness.
Etty Hillesum : 6020 : Hillesum, Etty


Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.
Etty Hillesum : 12627 : Hillesum, Etty


The shortest night of the year is Christmas Eve; from sundown to son up.
Burton Hillis : 295 : Hillis, Burton


I encourage boldness because the danger of our seniority and pension plans tempt a young man to settle in a rut named security rather than find his own rainbow.
Conrad Hilton : 2251 : Hilton, Conrad


Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Chester Himes : 369 : Himes, Chester


I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.
Gordon B. Hinckley : 11735 : Hinckley, Gordon B.


Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with a great and strong purpose in your heart.
Gordon B. Hinckley : 12485 : Hinckley, Gordon B.


There are only twelve notes. You must treat them carefully.
Paul Hindemith : 2915 : Hindemith, Paul


People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Paul Hindemith : 9218 : Hindemith, Paul


I've run less risk driving my way across country than eating my way across it.
Duncan Hines : 8043 : Hines, Duncan


If you share a flat with a biologist, don't eat anything in the fridge.
Faith Hines : 8370 : Hines, Faith


Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates : 6693 : Hippocrates


Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there is also a love of humanity.
Hippocrates : 12910 : Hippocrates


Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of Summer and Winter.
Carol Bishop Hipps : 12861 : Hipps, Carol Bishop


We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education. We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. : 8198 : Hirsch, E. D., Jr.


Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch : 12029 : Hirsch, Mary


I was a sculptor. But that's really drawing - a drawing you fall over in the dark, a three-dimensional drawing.
Al Hirschfeld : 2738 : Hirschfeld, Al


Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
Al Hirschfeld, on Edward Lear and James Thurber : 3416 : Hirschfeld, Al


Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
Al Hirschfeld : 9242 : Hirschfeld, Al


The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples; The other turns them to cider.
Jane Hirshfield : 12336 : Hirshfield, Jane


I put a million monkeys on typewriters to see if they would type the works of Shakespeare, but all I got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
Bill Hirst : 7560 : Hirst, Bill


In films, murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is, and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock : 66 : Hitchcock, Alfred


The invention of television can be compared to the introduction of indoor plumbing. Fundamentally it brought no change in the public's habits. It simply eliminated the necessity of leaving the house.
Alfred Hitchcock : 2178 : Hitchcock, Alfred


If I were to make another picture in Australia today, I'd have a policeman hop into the pocket of a kangaroo and yell, "Follow that car!"
Alfred Hitchcock : 2699 : Hitchcock, Alfred


The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture.
Alfred Hitchcock : 4924 : Hitchcock, Alfred


I find commercials fascinating. They are so exquisitely vulgar and so delightfully tasteless that they must be irresistible to everyone save the few who aren't enchanted by discussions of nasal passages and digestive tracts.
Alfred Hitchcock : 6248 : Hitchcock, Alfred


Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock : 8128 : Hitchcock, Alfred


Seeing a murder on television ... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock : 8237 : Hitchcock, Alfred


A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock : 9878 : Hitchcock, Alfred


I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock : 10553 : Hitchcock, Alfred


I've never gone in for the creaking door type of suspense. To me, murder by a babbling brook drenched in sunshine is more interesting.
Alfred Hitchcock : 11535 : Hitchcock, Alfred


This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop
Alfred Hitchcock : 12743 : Hitchcock, Alfred


A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Raymond Hitchcock : 10170 : Hitchcock, Raymond


That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
Christopher Hitchens : 13200 : Hitchens, Christopher


Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long run.
Edward Hoagland : 11584 : Hoagland, Edward


The feeling of "aha, that's it," which accompanies the clothing of a situation with meaning, is emotionally very satisfying, and is the major charm of scientific research, of artistic creation, and of the solution of crossword puzzles. It is why the intel
Hudson Hoagland : 2658 : Hoagland, Hudson


A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.
John Hobbes : 6340 : Hobbes, John


Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
Dee Hock : 12735 : Hock, Dee


Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question; What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have created?
John Hockenberry : 11517 : Hockenberry, John


Always live in the ugliest house on the street - then you don't have to look at it.
David Hockney : 4939 : Hockney, David


Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges : 3272 : Hodges, Leigh Mitchell


Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though. That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff : 4087 : Hoff, Benjamin


Irate wife, in throes of washing and ironing, to husband filling in tax return: "Don't you dare list me as a dependent!"
Syd Hoff : 9378 : Hoff, Syd


What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise, can you imagine what awful screeching?
Samuel Hoffenstein : 1611 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


Babies haven't any hair; old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lies a haircut and a shave.
S. Hoffenstein : 3665 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Samuel Hoffenstein : 8778 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here.
Samuel Hoffenstein : 9337 : Hoffenstein, Samuel


People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer : 567 : Hoffer, Eric


The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
Eric Hoffer : 568 : Hoffer, Eric


Intolerance is the "do not touch" sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
Eric Hoffer : 569 : Hoffer, Eric


It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.
Eric Hoffer : 1958 : Hoffer, Eric


It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world.
Eric Hoffer : 2379 : Hoffer, Eric


Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.
Eric Hoffer : 2884 : Hoffer, Eric


The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
Eric Hoffer : 3090 : Hoffer, Eric


It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer : 4993 : Hoffer, Eric


There is radicalism in all getting, and conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.
Eric Hoffer : 5200 : Hoffer, Eric


When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other
Eric Hoffer : 5539 : Hoffer, Eric


Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
Eric Hoffer : 6458 : Hoffer, Eric


Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer : 6775 : Hoffer, Eric


Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Eric Hoffer : 6936 : Hoffer, Eric


Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Eric Hoffer : 7295 : Hoffer, Eric


The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer : 7673 : Hoffer, Eric


Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.
Eric Hoffer : 8336 : Hoffer, Eric


Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
Eric Hoffer : 8574 : Hoffer, Eric


The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence and even riches without depriving others of them.
Eric Hoffer : 8634 : Hoffer, Eric


We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
Eric Hoffer : 9309 : Hoffer, Eric


To be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of it strength.
Eric Hoffer : 10350 : Hoffer, Eric


Some kind of widespread enthusiasm or excitement is apparently needed for the realization of vast and rapid change.
Eric Hoffer : 10456 : Hoffer, Eric


The sterile radical is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.
Eric Hoffer : 11188 : Hoffer, Eric


How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.
Eric Hoffer : 11764 : Hoffer, Eric


Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer : 11884 : Hoffer, Eric


Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffer : 12154 : Hoffer, Eric


If I'd seen me at a party, I'd never have gone up and met me.
Dustin Hoffman : 7702 : Hoffman, Dustin


The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hans Hofmann : 11298 : Hofmann, Hans


Despite the general pessimistic attitude in the world today, I am nothing but an optimist.
Hans Hofmann : 12976 : Hofmann, Hans


Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
Hans Hofmann : 13219 : Hofmann, Hans


We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition - "the tradition of the new." yesterday's avant-garde experience is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Richard Hofstadter : 2946 : Hofstadter, Richard


The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.
Richard Hofstadter : 3417 : Hofstadter, Richard


Americans are, if not the most self-critical, at least the most anxiously self-conscious people in the world, forever concerned about the inadequacy of something or other.
Richard Hofstadter : 5029 : Hofstadter, Richard


Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
Simon Hoggart : 8191 : Hoggart, Simon


You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.
John H. Holcomb : 11966 : Holcomb, John H.


Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
Thomas Holdcroft : 1776 : Holdcroft, Thomas


Sophia Loren didn't walk into the room, she swept in. I never saw so much woman coming at me in my entire life.
William Holden : 8985 : Holden, William


I'm always making a comeback, but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday : 262 : Holiday, Billie


In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love.
Billie Holiday : 2366 : Holiday, Billie


No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
Billie Holiday : 13400 : Holiday, Billie


Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
Billie Holiday : 13407 : Holiday, Billie


The person who agrees with everything you say either isn't listening to you or plans to sell you something.
Bud Holiday : 6947 : Holiday, Bud


Life is too short to dust things that don't have dust on them.
Barbara Holland : 11664 : Holland, Barbara


Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
Henry Scott Holland : 9019 : Holland, Henry Scott


Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway.
Isabelle Holland : 12596 : Holland, Isabelle


That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.
J. G. Holland : 902 : Holland, J. G.


The secret of being loved is in being lovely; and the secret of being lovely is being unselfish.
J. G. Holland : 4430 : Holland, J. G.


He who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries.
J. G. Holland : 4889 : Holland, J. G.


Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters.
Anne Hollander : 9596 : Hollander, Anne


Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.
Raymond Holliwell : 11874 : Holliwell, Raymond


We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily.
Celeste Holm : 3305 : Holm, Celeste


Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes : 11665 : Holmes, Ernest


The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.
John Holmes : 12193 : Holmes, John


Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
John Andrew Holmes : 985 : Holmes, John Andrew


Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
John Andrew Holmes : 986 : Holmes, John Andrew


The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes : 4282 : Holmes, John Andrew


The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
John H. Holmes : 10794 : Holmes, John H.


To be seventy years young is sometimes far more hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1385 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original shape.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1387 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1388 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1389 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1390 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 1391 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2192 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2551 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2676 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will, and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 2969 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 3455 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 3875 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 4350 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 4547 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 4626 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


I despise making the most of one's time: half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5273 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5445 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
O. W. Holmes : 5457 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5473 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


The world has to learn that the actual pleasure derived from material things is of rather low quality on the whole and less even in a quantity than it looks to those who have not tried it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 5579 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6217 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6220 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6244 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


We need an education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6443 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 6838 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Friendship is a breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 7145 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that; one stitch at a time taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 8525 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Talk about conceit as much as you like, it is to human character what salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet, and renders it endurable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 8926 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9541 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9552 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9561 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Men do not quit playing because they grow old; They grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 9584 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 10819 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 11512 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act.
Oliver Wendell Holmes : 12461 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell


I have not found juries specially inspired for the discovery of truth. I have not found them freer from prejudices than an ordinary judge would be.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : 2275 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : 6008 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


If it is a bad rule, that is no reason for making a bad exception to it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. : 9770 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. : 11751 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.


Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. : 1392 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.


The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. : 4800 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.


I firmly believe that if whole Materia Medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind - and all the worse for the fishes.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. : 10367 : Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.


Tackling a job that seems worth doing, and doing it in a competent manner, is the best way for a person to gain self-esteem.
John Holt : 2403 : Holt, John


Sidney Sheldon is a graduate of "The Terrible Secret" School of Fiction Writing, in which most of his characters hide huge chunks of their past from each other so we'll keep the pages turning.
Patricia Holt : 11479 : Holt, Patricia


Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.
Winifred Holtby : 7545 : Holtby, Winifred


A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz : 6862 : Holtz, Lou


It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to demotivate them.
Lou Holtz : 8615 : Holtz, Lou


When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Lou Holtz : 9457 : Holtz, Lou


I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.
Lou Holtz : 9810 : Holtz, Lou


I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
Lou Holtz : 12552 : Holtz, Lou


'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.
Richard Henry Home : 6159 : Home, Richard Henry


Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.
Homer : 4351 : Homer


Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer : 6645 : Homer


I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
Homer : 6719 : Homer


It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.
Homer : 6728 : Homer


There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love.
Homer : 6800 : Homer


It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
Homer : 6964 : Homer


A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
Homer : 7044 : Homer


The fates have given mankind a patient soul.
Homer : 7091 : Homer


I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
Homer : 7356 : Homer


Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Homer : 7387 : Homer


Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.
Homer : 7717 : Homer


Even where sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.
Homer : 8395 : Homer


He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer : 8938 : Homer


Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing, and dancing sooner than of war.
Homer : 10824 : Homer


Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.
Homer : 11922 : Homer


To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.
Arthur Honegger : 3376 : Honegger, Arthur


If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
Leroy Hood : 12513 : Hood, Leroy


Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
Paxton Hood : 9308 : Hood, Paxton


An irritable man is like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, tormenting himself with his own prickles.
Thomas Hood : 2242 : Hood, Thomas


Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my valentine!
Thomas Hood : 11451 : Hood, Thomas


Peace is not made at the council table, or by treaties, but in the hearts of men
Herbert Hoover : 861 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty.
Herbert Hoover : 862 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


We are in danger of developing a cult of the common man, which means a cult of mediocrity.
Herbert Hoover : 2831 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.
Herbert Hoover : 6629 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
Herbert Hoover : 8064 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


In the great mass of our people there are plenty of individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.
Herbert Clark Hoover : 8604 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.
Herbert Clark Hoover : 12162 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover : 13064 : Hoover, Herbert Clark


I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.
Lou Henry Hoover : 10935 : Hoover, Lou Henry


Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
Anthony Hope : 2731 : Hope, Anthony


When I look into a girl's eyes I can tell what she thinks of me. It's pretty depressing.
Bob Hope : 274 : Hope, Bob


The audience was swell. They were so polite. They covered their mouths when they yawned.
Bob Hope : 275 : Hope, Bob


If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob Hope : 2392 : Hope, Bob


I've always felt England was a great place to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.
Bob Hope : 2493 : Hope, Bob


A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope : 3322 : Hope, Bob


My ankles crunch, my knees crunch, my stomach gurgles constantly. I'm not getting older, I'm getting noisier.
Bob Hope : 4569 : Hope, Bob


I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope : 5151 : Hope, Bob


My old movies have been on so many channels lately, I can flip the dial and watch the hairline recede.
Bob Hope : 7638 : Hope, Bob


I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
Bob Hope : 7792 : Hope, Bob


If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope : 7804 : Hope, Bob


People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope : 9851 : Hope, Bob


You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope : 10588 : Hope, Bob


To give you an idea of how fast we traveled: We left Spokane with two rabbits and when we got to Topeka, we still only had two.
Bob Hope : 11557 : Hope, Bob


I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope : 12239 : Hope, Bob


I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the statue of liberty.
Bob Hope : 13027 : Hope, Bob


Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.
Harry A. Hopf : 6722 : Hopf, Harry A.


My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.
Anthony Hopkins : 12798 : Hopkins, Anthony


I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything, and it makes life so much easier.
Anthony Hopkins : 12804 : Hopkins, Anthony


The glassy pear tree leaves and blooms, they brush the descending blue; That blue is all in a rush with richness.
Gerard Manley Hopkins : 10703 : Hopkins, Gerard Manley


Look well to this day for it is life itself. In its brief course lie all the realities of existence, for yesterday is but a memory and tomorrow only a dream.
Thomas Hopkins : 9527 : Hopkins, Thomas


You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming and encouraging your greatest asset.
Tom Hopkins : 10945 : Hopkins, Tom


Old men declare wars because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems. They then send young men to go fight them. Of course, the old men have to make up patriotic and emotional rationales to justify their stupidity.
Arthur Hoppe : 174 : Hoppe, Arthur


If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper : 12986 : Hopper, Edward


The most damaging phrase in the language is "it's always been done that way."
Grace Hopper : 4055 : Hopper, Grace


It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Hopper : 4839 : Hopper, Grace


In anger, you look ten years older.
Hedda Hopper : 7401 : Hopper, Hedda


And if you include me among the lyric poets, I'll hold my head so high it'll strike the stars.
Horace : 875 : Horace


He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace : 2786 : Horace


We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Horace : 2933 : Horace


In Rome you long for the country; in the country - oh inconstant! - you praise the distant city to the stars.
Horace : 4286 : Horace


Who can hope to be safe? Who is sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
Horace : 4311 : Horace


That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided.
Horace : 4848 : Horace


You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.
Horace : 5111 : Horace


He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses, yet on it glides, and will glide on forever.
Horace : 6271 : Horace


Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
Horace : 6607 : Horace


Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.
Horace : 6796 : Horace


Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horace : 6927 : Horace


Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace : 6953 : Horace


Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace : 7014 : Horace


The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Horace : 7072 : Horace


Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace : 7385 : Horace


The appearance of right oft leads us wrong.
Horace : 7732 : Horace


Seize the day! Put no trust in the morrow.
Horace : 8104 : Horace


His thinking does not produce smoke after the flame, but light after smoke.
Horace : 8371 : Horace


Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything. We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.
Horace : 8581 : Horace


This was among my prayers: a piece of land not so very large, where a garden should be and a spring of ever-flowing water near the house, and a bit of woodland as well as these.
Horace : 8894 : Horace


The fickle populace has changed its taste and burns with a craze for scribbling.
Horace : 9453 : Horace


Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.
Horace : 10502 : Horace


He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace : 10823 : Horace


When many beauties grace a poem, I shall not take offense at a few faults.
Horace : 11659 : Horace


O Imitators, a servile race, how often have your attacks roused my pile and often my laughter!
Horace : 13464 : Horace


We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants; Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
Donald Horban : 4253 : Horban, Donald


At some point in the future, it would theoretically be possible to store all sixteen million volumes in the Library of Congress on a disk the size of a penny.
Paul M. Horn : 10392 : Horn, Paul M.


What an endless chain of unhappiness prejudice forges.
Lena Horne : 6148 : Horne, Lena


It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne : 8071 : Horne, Lena


Always be smarter than the people you hire.
Lena Horne : 10856 : Horne, Lena


The thing to do for insomnia is to get an opera score and read that. That will bore you to death.
Marilyn Horne : 5019 : Horne, Marilyn


I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby : 4076 : Hornsby, Rogers


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby : 11706 : Hornsby, Rogers


Nothing lowers the level of conversation more than raising the voice.
Stanley Horowitz : 4488 : Horowitz, Stanley


Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Stanley Horowitz : 12338 : Horowitz, Stanley


Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Doug Horton : 12078 : Horton, Doug


Whistling to keep up courage is good practice for whistling.
Henry Hoskins : 7368 : Hoskins, Henry


To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.
Eric Hotter : 5975 : Hotter, Eric


Plants stand so patiently in the fields that we are accustomed to think that they are calm and immovable, whereas there is a feverish activity going on at all times.
Alfred Carl Hottes : 9619 : Hottes, Alfred Carl


When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, "give crowns and pounds and guineas but not your heart away; give pearls away and rubies, but keep your fancy free." but I was one-and-twenty, no use to talk to me.
A. E. Housman : 2666 : Housman, Alfred Edward


Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough. / And stands about the woodland ride / Wearing white for Eastertide.
A. E. Housman : 6290 : Housman, Alfred Edward


Don't worry about failure; You only have to be right once.
Drew Houston : 13426 : Houston, Drew


He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.
Sam Houston, discussing an enemy : 4876 : Houston, Sam


I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
Whitney Houston : 1879 : Houston, Whitney


With women, you don't get the genius title, you get the diva title.
Whitney Houston : 11657 : Houston, Whitney


Who would not rather flounder in the fight than not have known the glory of the fray?
Richard Hovey : 3276 : Hovey, Richard


Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
Aaron Howard : 12023 : Howard, Aaron


Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
Jane Howard : 12360 : Howard, Jane


One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up to get it.
Sidney Howard : 1651 : Howard, Sidney


You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard : 9730 : Howard, Vernon


A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard : 12362 : Howard, Vernon


The first mean thing a newly-married man does is to notice the pretty girls again.
Ed Howe : 9792 : Howe, Ed


If you want to know how old a woman is, ask her sister-in-law.
E. W. Howe : 492 : Howe, Edgar Watson


The average man's judgement is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Ed Howe : 496 : Howe, Edgar Watson


The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Ed Howe : 497 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
Ed Howe : 498 : Howe, Edgar Watson


One of the surprising things of this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
Ed Howe : 499 : Howe, Edgar Watson


When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
Ed Howe : 500 : Howe, Edgar Watson


If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
Edgar Watson Howe : 2208 : Howe, Edgar Watson


When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
Edgar Watson Howe : 2755 : Howe, Edgar Watson


No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
Edgar Watson Howe : 3304 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
E. W. Howe : 3661 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Every time a boy shows his hands, someone suggests that he wash them.
E. W. Howe : 3666 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Half the world does not know how the other half lives, but is trying to find out.
E. W, Howe : 3732 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
Ed Howe : 3943 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed Howe : 4936 : Howe, Edgar Watson


I believe in grumbling; It is the politest form of fighting known.
Ed Howe : 5551 : Howe, Edgar Watson


About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.
E. W. Howe : 5612 : Howe, Edgar Watson


The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.
Edgar Watson Howe : 6015 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
Ed Howe : 6205 : Howe, Edgar Watson


If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Edgar Watson Howe : 6383 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
Edgar Watson Howe : 6394 : Howe, Edgar Watson


What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
E. W. Howe : 6535 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
Edgar Watson Howe : 8367 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Half the times when men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
E. W. Howe : 9148 : Howe, Edgar Watson


To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
E. W. Howe : 9209 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Doesn't it seem some days as though other people were put into the world for no other reason than to aggravate you?
E. W. Howe : 9708 : Howe, Edgar Watson


Another person's secret is like another person's money; you are not as careful with it as you are with your own.
E. W. Howe : 10053 : Howe, Edgar Watson


A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.
Edgar Watson Howe : 10128 : Howe, Edgar Watson


I never knew a man so mean that I was not willing he should admire me.
Edgar Watson Howe : 10806 : Howe, Edgar Watson


All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and Profanity.
Gordie Howe : 7463 : Howe, Gordie


What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe : 4265 : Howe, John


Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Julia Ward Howe : 6541 : Howe, Julia Ward


The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda about the model family, is how few Americans actually live this way.
Louise Kapp Howe : 7263 : Howe, Louise Kapp


The way of the world is to praise dead saints and to persecute living ones.
Nathaniel Howe : 5092 : Howe, Nathaniel


To have gold brings fear; to have none brings grief.
James Howell : 9555 : Howell, James


You don't know what faith you have until it is tested.
Rees Howells : 10157 : Howells, Rees


Today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion.
William Dean Howells : 2648 : Howells, William Dean


There is trouble and sorrow enough in the world without making it on purpose.
William Dean Howells : 6207 : Howells, William Dean


Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells : 11651 : Howells, William Dean


When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.
Fred Hoyle : 2374 : Hoyle, Fred


Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion.
Tony Hsieh : 12869 : Hsieh, Tony


It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert Hubbard : 529 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Repartee: any reply that is so clever that it makes the listener wish he had said it himself.
Elbert Hubbard : 530 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


No one needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard : 531 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Elbert Hubbard : 532 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Speak well of every one if you speak of them at all - none of us are so very good.
Elbert Hubbard : 2012 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.
Elbert Hubbard : 2283 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Elbert Hubbard : 2602 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
Elbert Hubbard : 2706 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.
Elbert Hubbard : 3046 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Little minds are interested in the extraordinary, great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert Hubbard : 3063 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
Elbert Hubbard : 3266 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard : 3295 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Green Hubbard : 3539 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Elbert Hubbard : 3604 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Friend: One who knows all about you, and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard : 3726 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record on the face as to what became of it.
Elbert Hubbard : 3825 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert Hubbard : 3860 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want
Elbert Hubbard : 4233 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.
Elbert Hubbard : 4243 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom - for himself.
Elbert Hubbard : 4425 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard : 4503 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Get your happiness out of your work or you may never know happiness.
Elbert Hubbard : 4576 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Every man is a fool for at least five minutes a day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard : 4591 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard : 5024 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


No good sensible working bee listens to the advice of a bedbug on the subject of business.
Elbert Hubbard : 5037 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard : 5282 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard : 5284 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


If you want work done well, select a busy man. The other kind has no time.
Elbert Hubbard : 5302 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.
Elbert Hubbard : 6133 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard : 6382 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.
Elbert Hubbard : 7705 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard : 8394 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard : 8729 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Logic is one thing, and common sense another.
Elbert Hubbard : 8774 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful and keep busy.
Elbert Hubbard : 8829 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Elbert Hubbard : 8900 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there is so little competition!
Elbert Hubbard : 9419 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard : 10230 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.
Elbert Hubbard : 11348 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert Hubbard : 11460 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
Elbert Hubbard : 11993 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard : 13131 : Hubbard, Elbert Green


One good thing about living on a farm is that you can fight with your wife without being heard.
Kin Hubbard : 1096 : Hubbard, Kin


Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard : 1097 : Hubbard, Kin


The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know.
Kin Hubbard : 1098 : Hubbard, Kin


The worst sensation I know of is getting up at night and stepping on a toy train of cars.
Kin Hubbard : 1099 : Hubbard, Kin


An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.
Kin Hubbard : 1100 : Hubbard, Kin


It is going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard : 1101 : Hubbard, Kin


The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
Kin Hubbard : 1102 : Hubbard, Kin


It would be a swell world if everybody was as pleasant as the fellow who is trying to skin you.
Kin Hubbard : 1103 : Hubbard, Kin


Don't a fellow feel good after he gets out of a store where he nearly bought something.
Kin Hubbard : 1104 : Hubbard, Kin


Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard : 1105 : Hubbard, Kin


Lots of fellows think a home is only good to borrow money on.
Kin Hubbard : 1106 : Hubbard, Kin


Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Kin Hubbard : 1107 : Hubbard, Kin


There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.
Kin Hubbard : 1108 : Hubbard, Kin


It seems the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.
Kin Hubbard : 1109 : Hubbard, Kin


I don't know anything as willing, and that seems to enjoy its work, as a revolving door.
Kin Hubbard : 1110 : Hubbard, Kin


The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.
F. M. Hubbard : 2161 : Hubbard, Kin


The reason the way of the transgressor is so hard is that it's so crowded.
Kin Hubbard : 2474 : Hubbard, Kin


A bad cold wouldn't be so annoying if it weren't for the advice of your friends.
Kin Hubbard : 2515 : Hubbard, Kin


Whoever wrote "to win success we must deserve it" must have been the same fellow who gave out the statement that two can live as cheaply as one.
Kin Hubbard : 3044 : Hubbard, Kin


After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up who used to sit by him in school.
Kin Hubbard : 3668 : Hubbard, Kin


Some people are so sensitive that they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.
Kin Hubbard : 3670 : Hubbard, Kin


Married life ain't so bad after you get so you can eat the things your wife likes.
Kin Hubbard : 3699 : Hubbard, Kin


I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.
Kin Hubbard : 3728 : Hubbard, Kin


It's sweet to be remembered, but it's often cheaper to be forgotten.
Kin Hubbard : 3741 : Hubbard, Kin


The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Kin Hubbard : 3753 : Hubbard, Kin


When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
Kin Hubbard : 4063 : Hubbard, Kin


There's another advantage of being poor: a doctor will cure you faster.
Kin Hubbard : 4598 : Hubbard, Kin


Kindness goes a long way lots of times when it should stay at home.
Kin Hubbard : 4912 : Hubbard, Kin


About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain folk is the stork.
Kin Hubbard : 4962 : Hubbard, Kin


One of the commonest ailments of the present day is premature formation of an opinion.
Kin Hubbard : 5069 : Hubbard, Kin


Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?
Kin Hubbard : 5520 : Hubbard, Kin


It makes no difference what it is, a woman will buy anything she thinks a store is losing money on.
Kin Hubbard : 6216 : Hubbard, Kin


When a woman says, "I don't wish to mention any names," it means it ain't necessary to mention any names.
Kin Hubbard : 6231 : Hubbard, Kin


My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who's lost three husbands.
Kin Hubbard : 6265 : Hubbard, Kin


Flattery won't hurt you if you don't swallow it.
Kin Hubbard : 6519 : Hubbard, Kin


Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.
Kin Hubbard : 6520 : Hubbard, Kin


Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.
Kin Hubbard : 6521 : Hubbard, Kin


Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard : 6522 : Hubbard, Kin


We'd all like to vote fer the best man, but he's never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard : 6523 : Hubbard, Kin


When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money.
Kin Hubbard : 6524 : Hubbard, Kin


There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
Kin Hubbard : 6525 : Hubbard, Kin


There is plenty of peace in any home where the family doesn't make the mistake of trying to get together.
Kin Hubbard : 6526 : Hubbard, Kin


Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration.
Kin Hubbard : 7975 : Hubbard, Kin


A bee is never as busy as it seems. It's just that it can't buzz any slower.
Kin Hubbard : 8813 : Hubbard, Kin


A never-failing way to get rid of a fellow is to tell him something for his own good.
Kin Hubbard : 8821 : Hubbard, Kin


There ought to be some way to eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you were stepping on a basket.
Kin Hubbard : 9017 : Hubbard, Kin


Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
Kin Hubbard : 9208 : Hubbard, Kin


The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard : 10752 : Hubbard, Kin


Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
Kin Hubbard : 11341 : Hubbard, Kin


There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
L. Ron Hubbard : 8687 : Hubbard, L. Ron


Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.
Edwin Hubble : 10621 : Hubble, Edwin


Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
Vanessa Hudgens : 11463 : Hudgens, Vanessa


May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.
Fennel Hudson : 13503 : Hudson, Fennel


He was a short man, well below average, and he walked with his chin up, gazing about as though searching for his missing inches.
Helen Hudson : 7261 : Hudson, Helen


Never worry about bad press: All that matters is if they spell your name right.
Kate Hudson : 12835 : Hudson, Kate


Etiquette is what you are doing when people are looking and listening. What you are thinking is your business.
Virginia Cary Hudson : 10452 : Hudson, Virginia Cary


Have you ever observed a hummingbird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem. It is a creature of such fairylike loveliness as to mock all description.
W. H. Hudson : 3882 : Hudson, W. H.


If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta : 12623 : Huerta, Dolores


Liberation is an ever-shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.
Arianna Huffington : 5013 : Huffington, Arianna


The essence of leadership is being able to see the iceberg before it hits the Titanic.
Arianna Huffington : 11990 : Huffington, Arianna


We have, if we're lucky, about thirty thousand days to play the game of life.
Arianna Huffington : 12762 : Huffington, Arianna


If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
Shirley Hufstedler : 1650 : Hufstedler, Shirley


We not only praise individual liberty but our constitution has the unique distinction of ensuring it.
Charles Evans Hughes : 350 : Hughes, Charles Evans


There will always be a multitude who are congenitally unable to think straight.
Charles Evans Hughes : 4880 : Hughes, Charles Evans


Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry.
Charles Evans Hughes : 8054 : Hughes, Charles Evans


Melting pot Harlem - Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall - where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
Langston Hughes : 4623 : Hughes, Langston


The blues can be real sad, else real mad, else real glad, and funny, too, all at the same time. I ought to know. I grooved up with blues. I heard so many blues when I was a child until my shadow is blue.
Langston Hughes : 10341 : Hughes, Langston


Birthing is hard, and dying is mean, so get yourself a little loving in between.
Langston Hughes : 11427 : Hughes, Langston


Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes : 11716 : Hughes, Langston


Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes : 11774 : Hughes, Langston


Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes : 12180 : Hughes, Langston


The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.
Robert Hughes : 11353 : Hughes, Robert


Imagination isn't merely a surplus mental department meant for entertainment, but the most essential piece of machinery we have if we are going to live the lives of human beings.
Ted Hughes : 3386 : Hughes, Ted


Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor.
Victor Hugo : 1824 : Hugo, Victor


Be it true of false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.
Victor Hugo : 1825 : Hugo, Victor


No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
Victor Hugo : 1826 : Hugo, Victor


The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo : 1827 : Hugo, Victor


How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss and all was said.
Victor Hugo : 4603 : Hugo, Victor


To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo : 4748 : Hugo, Victor


No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo : 6113 : Hugo, Victor


A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
Victor Hugo : 6391 : Hugo, Victor


Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo : 6448 : Hugo, Victor


Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to liquid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.
Victor Hugo : 7232 : Hugo, Victor


Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo : 7457 : Hugo, Victor


Revolution is the larva of civilization.
Victor Hugo : 8782 : Hugo, Victor


Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.
Victor Hugo : 9077 : Hugo, Victor


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo : 9486 : Hugo, Victor


Common sense is in spite of, and not the product of, education.
Victor Hugo : 10142 : Hugo, Victor


Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo : 10858 : Hugo, Victor


Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Victor Hugo : 12146 : Hugo, Victor


If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
Victor Hugo : 12744 : Hugo, Victor


When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo : 13075 : Hugo, Victor


Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
Wayne Huizenga : 12550 : Huizenga, Wayne


He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
Raymond Hull : 8431 : Hull, Raymond


I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt : 7850 : Humboldt, Wilhelm Von


In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our skepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.
David Hume : 3415 : Hume, David


The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
David Hume : 3679 : Hume, David


A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume : 11007 : Hume, David


Poets, though liars by profession, always endeavor to give an air of truth to their fictions.
David Hume : 11297 : Hume, David


Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few.
David Hume : 11882 : Hume, David


Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother in law.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 881 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


Poverty is now an inhuman anachronism.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 2653 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 3432 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 3818 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey : 8352 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert Humphrey : 8702 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
Hubert Humphrey : 12100 : Humphrey, Hubert H.


My biggest thrill came the night Elgin Baylor and I combined for seventy-three points in Madison Square Garden. Elgin had seventy-one of them.
Rod Hundley : 8585 : Hundley, Rod


Even when it was easy, music's patterning shaped the emotions. Music proclaimed an orderly universe, promised a better place.
Ellen Hunnicutt : 5990 : Hunnicutt, Ellen


The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt : 5303 : Hunt, Leigh


It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Leigh Hunt : 8984 : Hunt, Leigh


There are two worlds: the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
Leigh Hunt : 9679 : Hunt, Leigh


Colors are the smiles of nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs, as in the flowers.
Leigh Hunt : 11526 : Hunt, Leigh


Some of the best moments in life are not when you have achieved something, but when the thought first comes to you to have a go.
Lord Hunt : 11785 : Hunt, Lord


We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.
Alberta Hunter : 48 : Hunter, Alberta


I'm not living the blues, I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.
Alberta Hunter : 2300 : Hunter, Alberta


It's good to fail now and again - you learn a lot more out of failure than you do out of success.
Ian Hunter : 3150 : Hunter, Ian


Conduct is the great profession. Behavior is the perpetual revealing of us. What a man does, tells us what he is.
F. D. Huntington : 590 : Huntington, F. D.


It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
Fannie Hurst : 594 : Hurst, Fannie


It's hard for a young girl to have patience for old age sitting and chewing all day over the past.
Fannie Hurst : 5018 : Hurst, Fannie


Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.
Zora Neale Hurston : 8583 : Hurston, Zora Neale


I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.
Zora Neale Hurston : 9321 : Hurston, Zora Neale


Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
Zora Neale Hurston : 11439 : Hurston, Zora Neale


Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston : 13225 : Hurston, Zora Neale


Humphrey Bogart regarded the somewhat gaudy figure of Bogart, the star, with amused cynicism; Bogart, the actor, he held in deep respect.
John Huston : 10004 : Huston, John


In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Warren Hutcherson : 5707 : Hutcherson, Warren


A liberal education frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family, and even his nation.
Robert M. Hutchins : 4273 : Hutchins, Robert M.


The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Robert M. Hutchins : 11295 : Hutchins, Robert M.


Vegetarianism is harmless enough, although it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Robert Hutchinson : 1554 : Hutchinson, Robert


They told me to fix my teeth, change my nose, even get out of the business. But I stayed, and learned, and didn't give up.
Lauren Hutton : 6920 : Hutton, Lauren


Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life, they are what we have been through and who we want to be.
Lauren Hutton : 13029 : Hutton, Lauren


The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds ceses to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
William Hutton : 3797 : Hutton, William


Love, the last defense against old age - the last, and for those whose good fortune it is to have some one person to care for, or who have learned the infinitely difficult art of loving all their neighbors, the best.
Aldous Huxley : 50 : Huxley, Aldous


There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
Aldous Huxley : 51 : Huxley, Aldous


To carry the spirit of a child into old age is the secret of genius.
Aldous Huxley : 52 : Huxley, Aldous


That life is meaningless may be a lie, so far as the whole of life is concerned. But it is the truth at any given instant.
Aldous Huxley : 53 : Huxley, Aldous


Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
Aldous Huxley : 54 : Huxley, Aldous


When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.
Aldous Huxley : 55 : Huxley, Aldous


Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley : 2053 : Huxley, Aldous


Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
Aldous Huxley : 2683 : Huxley, Aldous


You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats
Aldous Huxley : 3195 : Huxley, Aldous


I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Aldous Huxley : 3540 : Huxley, Aldous


Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley : 3807 : Huxley, Aldous


Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.
Aldous Huxley : 3975 : Huxley, Aldous


That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Aldous Huxley : 4890 : Huxley, Aldous


There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley : 5011 : Huxley, Aldous


Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; but, without intelligence, love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
Aldous Huxley : 5992 : Huxley, Aldous


But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock.
Aldous Huxley : 6312 : Huxley, Aldous


I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
Aldous Huxley : 6436 : Huxley, Aldous


What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.
Aldous Huxley : 6633 : Huxley, Aldous


To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
Aldous Huxley : 7452 : Huxley, Aldous


The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous Huxley : 7623 : Huxley, Aldous


Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous Huxley : 9356 : Huxley, Aldous


A bad book is as much a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Aldous Huxley : 10069 : Huxley, Aldous


Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley : 11084 : Huxley, Aldous


The reason we like precious jewels so much is they remind us of planes of consciousness we've lived on where those are the pebbles.
Aldous Huxley : 11546 : Huxley, Aldous


Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley : 12001 : Huxley, Aldous


The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Huxley : 12243 : Huxley, Aldous


No sound concentrates so much spitefulness and malice into a very small volume as the pinging of mosquitoes.
Elspeth Huxley : 2749 : Huxley, Elspeth


Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.
Thomas Huxley : 13376 : Huxley, Thomas


The only medicine for suffering, crime and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley : 13383 : Huxley, Thomas


There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.
Thomas Huxley : 2604 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


I am too much a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Huxley : 2627 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley : 5321 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


The great tragedy of science: The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley : 9422 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is.
Thomas H. Huxley : 9659 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.
Thomas H. Huxley : 11472 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley : 11806 : Huxley, Thomas Henry


If you gave him a good script, actors, and technicians, Mickey Mouse could direct a movie.
Nicholas Hytner : 7316 : Hytner, Nicholas


The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.
Lee Iaccoca : 7063 : Iaccoca, Lee


Action should not be confused with haste.
Lee Iacocca : 10172 : Iacocca, Lee


If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca : 12792 : Iacocca, Lee


The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca : 12881 : Iacocca, Lee


A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen : 823 : Ibsen, Henrik


The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen : 824 : Ibsen, Henrik


Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen : 7016 : Ibsen, Henrik


You never realize how many palm trees there are in LA until you try to make shots look like the south.
Ice Cube : 2792 : Ice Cube


Without frugality few would be rich, and with it, few would be poor.
Ignatius : 884 : Ignatius


The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.
William R. Inge : 2181 : Inge, William Ralph


A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
William R. Inge : 4725 : Inge, William Ralph


I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
W. R. Inge : 6304 : Inge, William Ralph


Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
William Inge : 6675 : Inge, William Ralph


Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Ralph Inge : 6846 : Inge, William Ralph


The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
W. R. Inge : 7330 : Inge, William Ralph


Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.
Dean W. R. Inge : 8842 : Inge, William Ralph


A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
William Ralph Inge : 11591 : Inge, William Ralph


A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow : 9525 : Ingelow, Jean


The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 1549 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 1550 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 1555 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


The time to be happy is now; The place to be happy is here; The way to be happy is to make others so.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 3862 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Robert Ingersoll : 4062 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Everything in nature tells a different story to all eyes that see and to all ears that hear.
R. G. Ingersoll : 4921 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.
Robert Ingersoll : 5279 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
Robert Ingersoll : 5505 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.
Robert Ingersoll : 6223 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Few rich men own their own property; the property owns them.
Robert Ingersoll : 7363 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.
Robert Ingersoll : 8302 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
Robert G. Ingersoll : 11672 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Robert Green Ingersoll : 11799 : Ingersoll, Robert Green


Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders.
Bob Inglis : 8622 : Inglis, Bob


One of the first things a bridge player learns is to take it on the shin.
Kay Ingram : 1091 : Ingram, Kay


If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
Raymond Inman : 10746 : Inman, Raymond


Aim for the top. There is a plenty of room there. There are so few at the top, it's almost lonely.
Samuel Instill : 10747 : Instill, Samuel


Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
Eugene Ionesco : 4811 : Ionesco, Eugene


Comedy, the institution of the absurd, seems to me more heart-rending than tragedy.
Eugene Ionesco : 7664 : Ionesco, Eugene


Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Eugene Ionesco : 8346 : Ionesco, Eugene


No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute.
Eugene Ionesco : 8554 : Ionesco, Eugene


The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
Muhammad Iqbal : 8149 : Iqbal, Muhammad


The road to honor is paved with thorns; but on the path to truth, at every step you set your foot down on your own heart.
Ralph Iron : 7932 : Iron, Ralph


Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and the laughter abundant.
Washington Irving : 1871 : Irving, Washington


Little minds are subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
Washington Irving : 1872 : Irving, Washington


A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving : 2197 : Irving, Washington


Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Washington Irving : 2928 : Irving, Washington


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.
Washington Irving : 3881 : Irving, Washington


Some minds seem almost to create themselves, spring up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving : 3950 : Irving, Washington


Whoever heard of a fat man heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?
Washington Irving : 5048 : Irving, Washington


I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.
Washington Irving : 5118 : Irving, Washington


The great British Library - one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or "pure English, undefiled" wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.
Washington Irving : 5901 : Irving, Washington


An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving : 7826 : Irving, Washington


Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the female sex as by their own imaginations. They are always wooing goddesses and marrying mere mortals.
Washington Irving : 8546 : Irving, Washington


Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving : 9248 : Irving, Washington


A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
Washington Irving : 9564 : Irving, Washington


Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving : 12407 : Irving, Washington


You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers.
Steve Irwin : 12510 : Irwin, Steve


Reporters, especially those in Washington, face an old journalistic dilemma: Because their stature tends to rise and fall with that of the people they cover, they have a stake in the successes of their subject.
Walter Isaacson : 2221 : Isaacson, Walter


I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.
Christopher Isherwood : 2846 : Isherwood, Christopher


Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood : 3805 : Isherwood, Christopher


Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair.
Charles Ives : 352 : Ives, Charles


Political debates are sort of like stock-car races. No one really cares who wins; they just want to see the crashes.
Molly Ivins : 4695 : Ivins, Molly


The thing about democracy ... is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.
Molly Ivins : 9892 : Ivins, Molly


It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.
Molly Ivins : 9907 : Ivins, Molly


It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson : 4793 : Jackson, Andrew


Beautiful impulses are good in themselves, but we Americans are inclined to trust them too exclusively.
Elizabeth Jackson : 2168 : Jackson, Elizabeth


The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson : 732 : Jackson, Glenda


I can't actually see myself putting makeup on my face at the age of sixty. But I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.
Glenda Jackson : 8942 : Jackson, Glenda


I haven't seen a woman take a moral stand in a film for about twenty years.
Glenda Jackson : 11642 : Jackson, Glenda


That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
Helen Hunt Jackson : 3141 : Jackson, Helen Hunt


By all these lovely tokens, September days are here, with summer's best of weather and autumn's best of cheer.
H. H. Jackson : 12574 : Jackson, Helen Hunt


Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
Holbrook Jackson : 2656 : Jackson, Holbrook


The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: it does not pretend to
J. B. Jackson : 3872 : Jackson, J. B.


Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse Jackson : 970 : Jackson, Jesse


America is not like a blanket - one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt - many patches, many pieces, many colors many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.
Jesse Jackson : 971 : Jackson, Jesse


I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
Jesse Jackson : 6079 : Jackson, Jesse


You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up.
Jesse Jackson : 12110 : Jackson, Jesse


It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing - that's the Lord's test.
Mahalia Jackson : 1208 : Jackson, Mahalia


I'm just a good, strong Louisiana woman who can cook rice so every grain stands by itself.
Mahalia Jackson : 1209 : Jackson, Mahalia


He's so good, blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
Reggie Jackson, On Tom Seaver : 1513 : Jackson, Reggie


This team, it all flows from me. I've got to keep it going. I'm the straw that stirs the drink.
Reggie Jackson : 11607 : Jackson, Reggie


Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than money.
Robert H. Jackson : 2889 : Jackson, Robert H.


Your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be.
Robert H. Jackson : 12736 : Jackson, Robert H.


Music was originally discreet, seemly, simple, masculine, and of good morals. Have not the moderns rendered it lascivious beyond measure?
Jacob of Liege, 1425 : 5934 : Jacob of Liege


We learned to be chary of roads; they mean people, and commotion, and lack of peace.
Herbert Jacobs : 3205 : Jacobs, Herbert


The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, is the one that ends in madness.
Mick Jagger : 7657 : Jagger, Mick


Dylan once told Keith [Richards], "I could have written Satisfaction, but you couldn't have written Tambourine Man" - That's true, but could he sing it?
Mick Jagger, on Bob Dylan : 11501 : Jagger, Mick


When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.
Atifete Jahjaga : 12235 : Jahjaga, Atifete


When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty to Truth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and country are as nothing to that.
Alice James : 3378 : James, Alice


I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
Alice James : 11948 : James, Alice


The blues is my business, and business is good.
Etta James : 7750 : James, Etta


What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
Henry James : 845 : James, Henry


Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Henry James : 3421 : James, Henry


An egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can be reasonably expected of it.
Henry James : 3824 : James, Henry


I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Henry James : 4220 : James, Henry


Summer afternoon; To me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James : 7443 : James, Henry


I hear computers basically break down to a bunch of ones and zeros. I don't know how that means I can see naked women on my screen, but God bless you people.
Kevin James : 1095 : James, Kevin


Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James : 1913 : James, William


Language is the most imperfect and expansive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
William James : 1914 : James, William


To ignore, to disdain, to consider, to overlook, are the essence of the gentleman.
William James : 1915 : James, William


Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be into the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.
William James : 2669 : James, William


Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
William James : 3093 : James, William


Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
William James : 4052 : James, William


Reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it.
William James : 4525 : James, William


A great many people think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
William James : 4573 : James, William


Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
William James : 4667 : James, William


The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.
William James : 5361 : James, William


Common sense is not sense common to everyone, but sense in common things.
William James : 5549 : James, William


I now perceive one immense omission in my psychology - the deepest principle of Human Nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James : 6302 : James, William


The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James : 6320 : James, William


Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James : 6462 : James, William


Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James : 7985 : James, William


A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
William James : 10731 : James, William


The details vanish in the bird's-eye view, bt so does the bird's-eye view vanish in the details.
William James : 11710 : James, William


Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James : 13170 : James, William


Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth, never.
Anna Jameson : 5510 : Jameson, Anna


Avarice is to the intellect and heart, what sensuality is to the morals.
Anna Jameson : 9082 : Jameson, Anna


Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson : 8920 : Jamieson, Kathleen Hall


Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way.
Judith Jamison : 6065 : Jamison, Judith


So many people dwell on negativity, and I've survived by ignoring it: It dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.
Judith Jamison : 7236 : Jamison, Judith


Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that, you're dancing spirit.
Judith Jamison : 8543 : Jamison, Judith


I believe that this world was set about for us to enjoy and to love and to experience and to have it all be, to a certain extent, unpredictable.
Judith Jamison : 8580 : Jamison, Judith


How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now.
Gerald Jampolsky : 4929 : Jampolsky, Gerald G.


The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Gerald G. Jampolsky : 8722 : Jampolsky, Gerald G.


You can be right or you can be happy.
Gerald G. Jampolsky : 9124 : Jampolsky, Gerald G.


I have a problem with being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
Elizabeth Janeway : 9724 : Janeway, Elizabeth


The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn't hear the referee.
H. E. Jansen : 771 : Jansen, H. E.


Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.
Elliott Jaques : 7851 : Jaques, Elliott


The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Randall Jarrell : 1505 : Jarrell, Randall


The politician regards public opinion as a given fact and submits to it. whereas the statesman creates public opinion, seeing through the talk of the day to the hidden will, which he awakens.
Karl Jaspers : 6574 : Jaspers, Karl


Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Ron Jaworski : 9613 : Jaworski, Ron


Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
Antony Jay : 12234 : Jay, Antony


My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with a lot of studies.
Wyclef Jean : 12631 : Jean, Wyclef


From space to the sky, from the sky to the hills, and the sea; this earth appears but a mote in that sunbeam by which we are conscious of one narrow streak in the abyss.
Richard Jefferies : 9267 : Jefferies, Richard


Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
Richard Jefferies : 10899 : Jefferies, Richard


Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Susan Jeffers : 8109 : Jeffers, Susan


Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson : 1777 : Jefferson, Thomas


In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson : 1778 : Jefferson, Thomas


It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.
Thomas Jefferson : 1779 : Jefferson, Thomas


Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson : 1780 : Jefferson, Thomas


The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas Jefferson : 1781 : Jefferson, Thomas


He who knows nothing is nearer the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson : 1782 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the hour.
Thomas Jefferson : 2204 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Thomas Jefferson : 2356 : Jefferson, Thomas


I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson : 2848 : Jefferson, Thomas


The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson : 3121 : Jefferson, Thomas


Liberty under the constitution is necessarily subject to the constraints of due process.
Thomas Jefferson : 3722 : Jefferson, Thomas


Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson : 3831 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson : 4035 : Jefferson, Thomas


A wise and frugal government shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Thomas Jefferson : 4296 : Jefferson, Thomas


He is vain, irritable, and a bad calculator of the force and probable effect of the motives which govern men. This is all the ill which can possibly be said of him. He is as disinterested as the Being who made him.
Thomas Jefferson, on John Adams : 4655 : Jefferson, Thomas


Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Thomas Jefferson : 5039 : Jefferson, Thomas


I like a little rebellion now and then. It's like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson : 5411 : Jefferson, Thomas


A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have.
Thomas Jefferson : 6186 : Jefferson, Thomas


The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson : 6432 : Jefferson, Thomas


Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson : 6612 : Jefferson, Thomas


Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson : 6641 : Jefferson, Thomas


Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson : 6782 : Jefferson, Thomas


We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Thomas Jefferson : 6937 : Jefferson, Thomas


Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Thomas Jefferson : 7008 : Jefferson, Thomas


Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson : 7082 : Jefferson, Thomas


I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson : 7250 : Jefferson, Thomas


No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
Thomas Jefferson : 7321 : Jefferson, Thomas


The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Thomas Jefferson : 7605 : Jefferson, Thomas


The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Thomas Jefferson : 7894 : Jefferson, Thomas


Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Thomas Jefferson : 8190 : Jefferson, Thomas


We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
Thomas Jefferson : 8308 : Jefferson, Thomas


It is a part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate.
Thomas Jefferson : 8725 : Jefferson, Thomas


Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson : 9885 : Jefferson, Thomas


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 : 10026 : Jefferson, Thomas


Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were the whole world looking at you, and act accordingly.
Thomas Jefferson : 10380 : Jefferson, Thomas


But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.
Thomas Jefferson : 10838 : Jefferson, Thomas


The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson : 11050 : Jefferson, Thomas


I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
Thomas Jefferson : 11059 : Jefferson, Thomas


Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson : 11483 : Jefferson, Thomas


Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.
Thomas Jefferson : 11653 : Jefferson, Thomas


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.
Thomas Jefferson : 12165 : Jefferson, Thomas


There is a type of critic whose attitude suggests that the book he is reviewing was written by his kind permission and that the author has grossly abused the privilege.
Lambert Jeffries : 9289 : Jeffries, Lambert


The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
Mae Jemison : 12202 : Jemison, Mae


Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
Mae Jemison : 12210 : Jemison, Mae


Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; Never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Mae Jemison : 12549 : Jemison, Mae


I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, "Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west."
Richard Jeni : 5740 : Jeni, Richard


To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
Josh Jenkins : 3267 : Jenkins, Josh


I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
Waylon Jennings : 12544 : Jennings, Waylon


The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
John Jensen : 4468 : Jensen, John


I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Jerome K. Jerome : 965 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome : 966 : Jerome, Jerome K.


The chief fault of American audiences is that they see the point before we get there, which is disconcerting.
Jerome K. Jerome : 2263 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome. K. Jerome : 2752 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome : 3367 : Jerome, Jerome K.


When we reside in an attic we enjoy a supper of fried fish and stout. When we occupy the first floor it takes an elaborate dinner at the Continental to give us the same amount of satisfaction.
Jerome K. Jerome : 4662 : Jerome, Jerome K.


It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome : 4931 : Jerome, Jerome K.


We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
Jerome K. Jerome : 5041 : Jerome, Jerome K.


Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas Jerrold : 469 : Jerrold, Douglas


Love is like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas Jerrold : 3343 : Jerrold, Douglas


It is a beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.
Douglas Jerrold : 3795 : Jerrold, Douglas


Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold : 12397 : Jerrold, Douglas


I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
Joan Jett : 11847 : Jett, Joan


Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.
W. Stanley Jevons : 11887 : Jevons, W. Stanley


Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like seeing something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
Geraldine Jewsbury : 724 : Jewsbury, Geraldine


The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time, which means overreaching them.
Juan Ramon Jimenez : 1066 : Jimenez, Juan Ramon


You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.
Steve Jobs : 10207 : Jobs, Steve


Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs : 10691 : Jobs, Steve


Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.
Steve Jobs : 12548 : Jobs, Steve


It does not make sense to hire smart people and then tell them what to do. We hire smart people to tell us what to do.
Steve Jobs : 12745 : Jobs, Steve


If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.
Steve Jobs : 12860 : Jobs, Steve


It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
Billy Joel : 6790 : Joel, Billy


Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.
Billy Joel : 8170 : Joel, Billy


The thing that impresses me most about Beethoven's Fifth is - da da da daa - it's fate knocking at the door. That's one of the biggest hits in history. There's no video to it; he didn't need one.
Billy Joel : 8875 : Joel, Billy


Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
Billy Joel : 9779 : Joel, Billy


A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have kill you too."
Jake Johansen : 5698 : Johansen, Jake


I'm the Connie Francis of rock-and-roll.
Elton John : 9509 : John, Elton


Getting money is not all a man's business; to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Johnson : 2031 : Johnson


Walk away from it until you're stronger. All your problems will be there when you get back. but you'll be better able to cope.
Lady Bird Johnson : 6592 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


So I say: Don't hold back. Don't be shy. Step forward in every way you can to plan boldly, to speak clearly, to offer the leadership which the world needs.
Lady Bird Johnson : 7869 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


It always seemed significant to me that Thomas Jefferson equated the pursuit of happiness with life and liberty itself. Men were born to be happy - just as they were born free.
Lady Bird Johnson : 8884 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : 10936 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library, the only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : 10955 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; It is the one thing that all of us share.
Lady Bird Johnson : 12213 : Johnson, Claudia "Lady Bird"


The novelist, afraid his ideas may be foolish, slyly puts them in the mouth of a fool and reserves the right to disavow him.
Diane Johnson : 7904 : Johnson, Diane


Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
Dr. Samuel Johnson : 478 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


It is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things.
Johnson : 1028 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef.
Samuel Johnson : 1612 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson : 1613 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson : 1614 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel Johnson : 1615 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark.
Samuel Johnson : 1616 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed, and hopes that have been disappointed.
Samuel Johnson : 1617 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good, and the fear of evil.
Samuel Johnson : 1618 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
Samuel Johnson : 1619 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Men have been wise in very different modes, but they have always laughed the same way.
Samuel Johnson : 1620 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


We may take fancy for a companion, but must follow reason as our guide.
Samuel Johnson : 1621 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


He who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson : 1622 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Men are seldom more innocently employed than when they are honestly making money.
Samuel Johnson : 1623 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.
Samuel Johnson : 1965 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.
Samuel Johnson : 2093 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms that I was formerly.
Samuel Johnson : 2407 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Greece appears to me to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance.
Samuel Johnson : 2874 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Samuel Johnson : 3103 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson : 3134 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.
Samuel Johnson : 3595 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
Samuel Johnson : 3924 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Samuel Johnson : 3981 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
Samuel Johnson : 4060 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.
Samuel Johnson : 4157 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Samuel Johnson : 4183 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Samuel Johnson : 4267 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Oats: A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
Samuel Johnson : 4317 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.
Samuel Johnson : 4622 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


My dear friend, clear your mind of cant. You may talk as other people do, but don't think foolishly.
Samuel Johnson : 4767 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.
Samuel Johnson : 5016 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson : 5244 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel Johnson : 5319 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I never take a nap after dinner but when I have had a bad night, and then the nap takes me.
Samuel Johnson : 5447 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A blade of grass is always a blade of grass. Men and women are my subjects of inquiry.
Samuel Johnson : 5452 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Samuel Johnson : 6236 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Whatever is universally necessary has been granted to mankind on easy terms.
Samuel Johnson : 6461 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
Samuel Johnson : 6505 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


I have, all my life long, lain in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Samuel Johnson : 6579 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson : 6651 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.
Samuel Johnson : 6755 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
Samuel Johnson : 7134 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float-fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
Samuel Johnson : 7532 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson : 7629 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.
Samuel Johnson, on the existence of ghosts : 7666 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson : 7700 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The utmost excellence at which humanity can arrive is a constant and determinate pursuit of justice, without regard to present dangers or advantages; a continual reference of every action to the divine will.
Samuel Johnson : 7817 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness of himself.
Samuel Johnson : 7973 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Envy feels not its own happiness but when it may be compared with the misery of others.
Samuel Johnson : 8329 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Samuel Johnson : 8432 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
Samuel Johnson : 8477 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson : 9030 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Samuel Johnson : 9750 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.
Samuel Johnson : 9932 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.
Samuel Johnson : 10368 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.
Samuel Johnson : 10677 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The two most engaging powers of an author are, to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
Samuel Johnson : 11004 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Samuel Johnson : 11773 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Samuel Johnson : 11972 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson : 12212 : Johnson, Dr. Samuel


The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.
Dwayne Johnson : 12778 : Johnson, Dwayne


Don't focus on the pain, focus on the progress.
Dwayne Johnson : 13384 : Johnson, Dwayne


The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
Gerald White Johnson : 2384 : Johnson, Gerald White


Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald White Johnson : 6050 : Johnson, Gerald White


The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson : 12192 : Johnson, Jimmy


Strange what a difference a glorious day can make! How one revels in life, in being, in poetry, in the holy ridiculousness of things!
Lionel Johnson : 3081 : Johnson, Lionel


Reporters are puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.
Lyndon Johnson : 1996 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 3846 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.
Lyndon Johnson : 3907 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 4485 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 4938 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon Johnson : 5153 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


The world's wealthiest nation can never be satisfied until we are the world's healthiest.
Lyndon B. Johnson : 5310 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson : 6439 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.
Lyndon Baines Johnson : 8001 : Johnson, Lyndon Baines


It used to be that people needed products to survive. Now products need people to survive.
Nicholas Johnson : 4334 : Johnson, Nicholas


The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.
Philander Johnson : 5133 : Johnson, Philander


Be careful what you say to children. ... When their bones are brittle and their hair silver, they will quote you in their hearts.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson : 5880 : Johnson, Rheta Grimsley


Asking your neighbors to tweet the "news" is not unlike asking your cocker spaniel to buy groceries.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson : 9539 : Johnson, Rheta Grimsley


The sea is our savings account of inspiration and well-being, and we draw from it only on special occasions.
Rheta Grimsley Johnson : 11079 : Johnson, Rheta Grimsley


We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson : 8566 : Johnson, Sonia


All along, one of my major complaints was his absence from home, and even worse, his absence when he was home.
Sonia Johnson : 9391 : Johnson, Sonia


Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you.
Steve Johnson : 4195 : Johnson, Steve


Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.
Tory Johnson : 12436 : Johnson, Tory


An apology is the super-glue of life. It can repair just about anything.
Lynn Johnston : 4382 :