• A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • A 2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere. by Joyce A. Myers
  • A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. by Carl Sandburg
  • A bad beginning makes a bad ending. by Euripides
  • A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book. by Thomas Merton
  • A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. by Hesiod
  • A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. by Bob Hope
  • A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. by Robert Frost
  • A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. by Mark Twain
  • A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind. by Robert Oxton Bolt
  • A belief is not true because it is useful. by Henri Frdric Amiel
  • A best friend it like a four leaf clover - Hard to find, and lucky to have. by Unknown
  • A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well. by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. by John C. Maxwell
  • A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. by Senator Everett Dirksen
  • A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. by Senator Everett Dirksen
  • A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. by Chinese Proverb
  • A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. by Charles Kingsley
  • A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. by Jack London
  • A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed. by Joseph Wood Krutch
  • A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. by Erica Jong
  • A book is a friend a good book is a good friend. It will talk to you when you want it to talk, and it will keep still when you want it to keep still and there are not many friends who know enough to do that. by B. A. Billingsly
  • A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. by Eric Pio
  • A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it or offer your own version in return. by Salman Rushdie
  • A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. by Chinese Proverb
  • A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy. by Charles Langbridge Morgan
  • A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it. by Edward P. Morgan
  • A book of quotations . . . can never be complete. by Robert M. Hamilton
  • A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow by Omar Khayym
  • A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. by Jerry Seinfeld
  • A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. by Gian Vincenzo Gravina
  • A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. by Bert Leston Taylor
  • A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. by Lewis Blaine Hershey
  • A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedence, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. by Robert Charles Benchley
  • A boy can learn a lot from a dog obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. by Robert Benchley
  • A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad by Alan Marshall Beck
  • A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. by Jessamyn West
  • A brother is a friend given by Nature. by Legouve
  • A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats. by Marie De France
  • A camel is a horse designed by committee. by Sir Alec Issigonis
  • A cat does not want all the world to love her -- only those she has chosen to love. by Helen Thomson
  • A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • A catherdral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. by Marcel Proust
  • A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. by Fred Allen
  • A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. by H.L. Mencken
  • A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. by Carl Sagan
  • A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. by Granville Hicks
  • A champion views resistance as a gift of energy. by Michael J. Gelb
  • A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind. by Jean de La Fontaine
  • A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. by George Steiner
  • A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. by Thomas Szasz
  • A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with outfits that need only one accessory an empty gin bottle. by Erma Bombeck
  • A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten. by Doug Larson
  • A child miseducated is a child lost. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. by Groucho Marx
  • A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings. by Epictetus
  • A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. by Marjorie Holmes
  • A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. by Bill Vaughan
  • A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. by Herbert V. Prochnow
  • A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. by Margaret Mead
  • A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. by Mark Twain
  • A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. by Mark Twain
  • A clever man commits no minor blunders. by Johann von Goethe
  • A clever man commits no minor blunders. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A closed mind is like a closed book just a block of wood. by Chinese Proverb
  • A closed mouth catches no flies. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • A closed mouth gathers no foot. by Unknown
  • A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. by William Arthur Ward
  • A coalition of groups ... is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. ... an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. (On Watergate crisis) by Gerald R. Ford
  • A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. by Reverend Edward A. Malloy
  • A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. by Sir Barnett Cocks
  • A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. by Douglas Noel Adams
  • A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. by Henrik Ibsen
  • A companion's words of persuasion are effective. by Homer
  • A compassionate government keeps faith with the trust of the people and cherishes the future of their children. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. by Robert Anson Heinlein
  • A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. by John Gall
  • A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. by Eleanor Hamilton
  • A compliment is like a kiss through a veil. by Victor Hugo
  • A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece. by Ludwig Erhard
  • A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. by Mitch Ratliffe
  • A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless) by Douglas Noel Adams
  • A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. by Fred Allen
  • A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. by Alfred E. Wiggam
  • A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time. by Frank Vanderlip
  • A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. by Elbert Hubbard
  • A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. by Woodrow Wilson
  • A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. by Leo C. Rosten
  • A contented mind is the best source for trouble. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. by Johann von Goethe
  • A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. by Homer
  • A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. by German proverb
  • A country is considered the more civilized the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak or a powerful one too powerful. by Primo Levi
  • A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented. by George Walden
  • A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever. by Henry Waldorf Francis
  • A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. by Euripides
  • A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had. by Guy Kawasaki
  • A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. by Ayn Rand
  • A crime which is the crime of many none avenge. by Lucan
  • A critic is a bunch of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste. by Whitney Balliett
  • A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. by Aesop
  • A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. by Samuel Johnson
  • A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing. by Samuel Johnson
  • A cult is a religion with no political power. by Tom Wolfe
  • A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. by H.L. Mencken
  • A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. by Sydney J. Harris
  • A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on. by Jerry Coleman
  • A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. by Rita Mae Brown
  • A decent boldness ever meets with friends. by Homer
  • A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself. by Arthur W. Radford
  • A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. by Alexander Tyler
  • A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people. by Charles W. Tobey
  • A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. by Robert F. Bennett
  • A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world. by John le Carre
  • A dimple in the chin a devil within. by Irish Proverb
  • A dinner lubricates business. by Lord William Stowell
  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. by Robert Frost
  • A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. by Caskie Stinnett
  • A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. by Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
  • A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. by Josh Billings
  • A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. by Ogden Nash
  • A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. by Aesop
  • A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. by Anwar el Sadat
  • A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly. . . . Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party by Les Brown
  • A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. by John Locke
  • A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day. by John Boyle O'Reilly
  • A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. by Franoise Sagan
  • A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. by Joseph F. Newton
  • A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. by Robert Burton
  • A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist. by Steward Alsop
  • A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. by Edward Teller
  • A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. by Hoshang N. Akhtar
  • A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. by John Christian Bovee
  • A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. by Publilius Syrus
  • A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. by Dante Alighieri
  • A faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure. by Ecclesiasticus 614 Bible
  • A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. by Ogden Nash
  • A family, although not a necessity, is the ultimate luxury. by Eric Pio
  • A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means. by Eugene E. Brussell
  • A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. by Saint Jerome
  • A father is a banker provided by nature. by French Proverb
  • A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. by Wilson Mizner
  • A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. by Stanley Kubrick
  • A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. by Joseph Roux
  • A finished person is a boring person. by Anna Quindlen
  • A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles. by B. B. Warfield
  • A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. by Jeanne-Marie Roland
  • A fool and his money are soon parted. by Thomas Tusser
  • A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. by Julie Arabi
  • A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • A free lunch is only found in mousetraps. by John Capozzi
  • A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
  • A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice--but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you. by Doris Wild Helmering
  • A friend in power is a friend lost. by Henry Adams
  • A friend is a gift you give yourself. by Robert Louis Stephenson
  • A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A friend is a second self. by Aristotle
  • A friend is one before whom I may think aloud. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away. by Arab Proverb
  • A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself. by Unknown
  • A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. by Father Jerome Cummings
  • A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. by Elbert Hubbard
  • A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. by Walter Winchell
  • A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. by Barbara Burrow
  • A friend is someone who dances with you in the sunlight, And walks with you in the shadows. by Unknown
  • A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes. by Unknown
  • A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow. by Unknown
  • A friend is someone who makes me feel totally acceptable. by Ene Riisna
  • A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart. by Unknown
  • A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. by Wilma Askinas
  • A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out. by Unknown
  • A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. by Unknown
  • A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer. by Amanda Grier
  • A friend is what the heart needs all the time. by Henry Van Dyke
  • A friend is, as it were, a second self. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A friend is, as it were, a second self. by Cicero
  • A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. by Proverbs 1717 Bible
  • A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. by Cyril Connolly
  • A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A friend of mine once sent me a postcard with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, Wish you were here. by Steven Wright
  • A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. by Robert Hall
  • A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world. by Kate Clinton
  • A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years. by Unknown
  • A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. by Pam Brown
  • A full cup must be carried steadily. by English Proverb
  • A funny thing is if you're out hiking and your friend gets bit by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going for help, then go about ten feet and pretend YOU got bit by a snake. Then start an argument about who's going to get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting. by Gladys Taber
  • A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases. by Homer
  • A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. by Robert Anson Heinlein
  • A gentle word is never lost...It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed, And lulls the cares that bruise it. by Hastings
  • A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. by Unknown
  • A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. by Frederick Douglas
  • A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped. by Alice Childress
  • A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. by Publilius Syrus
  • A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. by Thomas Fuller
  • A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.' by Alan Marshall Beck
  • A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. by Bruce Lee
  • A God all mercy is a God unjust. by Edward Young
  • A golf course is the epitome of all that is transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. by Jean Giraudoux
  • A good book has no ending. by R. D. Cumming
  • A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. by Martin Tupper
  • A good conscience is a continual feast. by Robert Burton
  • A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur but it is safe to remember that such 'breaks' are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. by Lawrence Downs
  • A good deed never goes unpunished. by Gore Vidal
  • A good excercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. by John Andrew Holmes
  • A good friend can shield you from the storm. by Rhea Olsen
  • A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. by Arthur Brisbane
  • A good friend is my nearest relation. by Thomas Fuller
  • A good friend of my son's is a son to me. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • A good front is half the battle in love or war. by Kim Hubbard
  • A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. by Nelson Mandela
  • A good home must be made, not bought. by Joyce Maynard
  • A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. by Marilyn vos Savant
  • A good intention clothes itself with power. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A good laugh is sunshine in a house. by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. by John C. Maxwell
  • A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. by Katharine Whitehorn
  • A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. by Wilson Mizner
  • A good listener is usually thinking about something else. by Kin Hubbard
  • A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with. by Kenneth A. Wells
  • A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. by Maxim Gorky
  • A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance. by Jean Iris Murdoch
  • A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. by Sallust
  • A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. by Ring Lardner
  • A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. by Pearl Buck
  • A good name is better than riches. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one. by Lord Jeffery
  • A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. by Arthur Miller
  • A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. by G. K. Chesterton
  • A good novel tells you the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. by Vincent Van Gogh
  • 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 idea. by John Anthony Ciardi
  • A good reputation is more valuable than money. by Publilius Syrus
  • A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. by Nadine Gordimer
  • A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. by Edgar Watson Howe
  • A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. by Anonymous
  • A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't. by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
  • A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. by Louis A. Berman
  • A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence. by Bruce Lee
  • A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. by Sidney Goff
  • A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet, then open a door and there's the monster, sound asleep. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing. by John Tillotson
  • A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. by Gerald R. Ford
  • A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau
  • A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. by Aristotle
  • A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends. by Charles De Gaulle
  • A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. by Saul Bellow
  • A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. by Sydney Smith
  • A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. by Sydney Smith
  • A great flame follows a little spark. by Dante Alighieri
  • A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. by Archibald Cox
  • A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. by Toledo Blade
  • A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew' by Robert Charles Benchley
  • A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts. by Herbert V. Prochnow
  • A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. by William James
  • A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. by Edward R. Murrow
  • A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. by Dave Meurer
  • A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. by John Henry Cardinal Newman
  • A great mind becomes a great fortune. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • A great NOW will be a great WAS A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE by Sid Ceaser
  • A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness. by Euripides
  • A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness. by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. by Walter Gagehot
  • A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you. by Joseph Rickaby
  • A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. by Albert Schweitzer
  • A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. by Russell Wayne Baker
  • A grownup is a child with layers on. by Paxton Blair
  • A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. by Polish Proverb
  • A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future. by Henry M. Wriston
  • A Haiku is just like a normal American poem except that it doesn't rhyme and it's totally stupid. by Trey and Matt Stone Parker
  • A half-truth is a whole lie. by Jewish Proverb
  • A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. by Dutch Proverb
  • A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. by Robertson Davies
  • A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. by Colette
  • A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it. by Don Fraser
  • A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. by Cicero
  • A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. by Hugh Downs
  • A hard beginning maketh a good ending. by John Heywood
  • A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience. by John Updike
  • A healthy mind in a healthy body. by Juvenal
  • A heart in love with beauty never grows old. by Turkish Proverb
  • A heart that loves is always young. by Greek Proverb
  • A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg. by Samuel Butler
  • A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
  • A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation. by Unknown
  • A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart. by Pietro Aretino
  • A hit, a very palpable hit. by William Shakespeare
  • A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. by Phyllis Mcginley
  • A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. by H.L. Mencken
  • A home without books is a body without soul. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. by Austin O'Malley
  • A horse a horse my kingdom for a horse by William Shakespeare
  • A Hospital is no place to be sick. by Samuel Goldwyn
  • A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest. by William Feather
  • A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. by Margaret Fuller
  • A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title --from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
  • A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action. by Vaclav Havel
  • A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. by Mark Twain
  • A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. by Barbra Streisand
  • A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. by Albert Einstein
  • A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world. by Dorothy L. Sayers
  • A Human Thought is an actual Existence, and a Force and Power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind. by Albert Pike
  • A humorist is a fellow who realizes, first, that he is no better than anybody else, and, second, that nobody else is either. by Homer McLin
  • A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. by Frank Capra
  • A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving. by Albert Einstein
  • A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. by Helen Rowland
  • A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't by Don Marquis
  • A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it. by William Shakespeare
  • A job is what we do for money work is what we do for love. by Marysarah Quinn
  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. by Confucius
  • A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. by Chinese Proverb
  • A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. by Lao Tzu
  • A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. by Robert Frost
  • A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. by Washington Irving
  • A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma. by Marlene Dietrich
  • A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. by Mistinguett
  • A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. by Ingrid Bergman
  • A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving. by Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac
  • A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. by Rupert Brooke
  • A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity. by V. P. Skipper
  • A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place. by Tanielle Naus
  • A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. by Henry Morgan
  • A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to 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 to kill you too.' by Jake Johanson
  • A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. by Jane Austen
  • A large part of virtue consists in good habits. by William Paley
  • A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. by Laurence Sterne
  • A laugh is a smile that bursts. by Mary H. Waldrip
  • A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. by Chaim Weizmann
  • A lawful kiss is never worth a stolen one. by Maupassant
  • A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. by Jean Kerr
  • A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500. by Benjamin H. Brewster
  • A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. by Harry S Truman
  • A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. by Robert Reich
  • 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. by Rosalynn Carter
  • A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. by Frank A. Clark
  • A lean agreement is better than a fat lawsuit. by German proverb
  • A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. by Miles Davis
  • A liar should have a good memory. by Quintilian
  • A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. by Aesop
  • A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. by A Bartlett Giamatti
  • 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. by Leonard Bernstein
  • A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. by Robert Frost
  • A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. by Willis Player
  • A Libertarian Movement slogan by Robert A. Heinlein
  • A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life. by Norman Cousins
  • A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. by Mark Twain
  • A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • A lie told often enough becomes truth. by Lenin
  • A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. by Jackie Robinson
  • A life lived in chaos is an impossibility... by Madeleine L'Engle
  • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. by Benjamin Franklin
  • A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. by Cicero
  • A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. by Rita Mae Brown
  • A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. by Johann von Goethe
  • A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. by Unknown
  • A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. by Aristotle
  • A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two. by Richard Kehl
  • A little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but a lot of faith will bring heaven to your soul. by Dwight Lyman Moody
  • A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. by Alan Marshall Beck
  • A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. by Hector Hugh Munro
  • A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. by Saki
  • A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind. by Richard Dehmel
  • A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. by Bob Edwards
  • A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills. by W. E. B. Du Bois
  • A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. by Emily Dickinson
  • A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. by Donald Trump
  • A little more than kin, and less than kind. by William Shakespeare
  • A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. by Roald Dahl
  • A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation. by Isaiah IX.22 Bible
  • A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth man's minds about to religion. by Francis Bacon
  • A little pot boils easily. by Dutch Proverb
  • A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. by Oscar Wilde
  • A little wonton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. by Sir Thomas More
  • A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt. by Henri Frdric Amiel
  • A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost. by Ferdinand Foch
  • A lot of advertisers lined up to throw money at this stuff because they were caught up in the hysteria about the Web. But now they want to know how you make money selling a 1.59 bottle of dish detergent on the World Wide Web. by Karen Burka
  • A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things. by Marion Hammer
  • A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B. by Fats Domino
  • A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. by Carl Reiner
  • A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. by Doug Larson
  • A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. by Barry Neil Kaufman
  • A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • A loving heart is the truest wisdom. by Charles Dickens
  • A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. by Ken Keys
  • A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. by Ken Jr. Keyes
  • A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls. by Dan Quayle
  • A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. by Anonymous
  • A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope. by C. Neil Strait
  • A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. by Vince Lombardi
  • A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. by Oscar Wilde
  • A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole. by William Franklin Billy Graham
  • A man can do all things if he but wills them. by Leon Battista Alberti
  • A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. by John Burroughs
  • A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp. by Joan Rivers
  • A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. by Charles Schwab
  • A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • A man can't ride your back unless it's bent. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. by Mark Twain
  • A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. by Oscar Wilde
  • A man cannot do good before he is made good. by Martin Luther
  • A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. by La Rochefoucauld
  • A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. by Alec Waugh
  • A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. by Miguel de Unamuno
  • A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man. by Percival Arland Ussher
  • A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. by Gene Roddenberry
  • A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. by Woodrow Wyatt
  • A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one. by Simonides
  • A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. by John Pierpoint Morgan
  • A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. by D. Elton Trueblood
  • A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction. by Mae West
  • A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain. by William Shakespeare
  • A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows. by Mark Twain
  • A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. by Brendan Francis
  • A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • A man is measured by the size of things that anger him. by Geof Greenleaf
  • A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. by Victor Hugo
  • A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. by Jean Rostand
  • A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them. by Elbert Hubbard
  • A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is. by Max R. Hickerson
  • A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. by Latin Proverb
  • A man is related to all nature. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. by Henry David Thoreau
  • A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else. by Andre Malraux
  • A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him. by H. Mathews
  • A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age. by Henry David Thoreau
  • A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. by Franois Maurice Mitterrand
  • A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. by Samuel Johnson
  • A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. by Aristophenes
  • A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. by Aristophanes
  • A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink. by John Heywood
  • A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. by John C. Maxwell
  • A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even ... without any hope of doing it well. by Oliver Herford
  • A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. by William Feather
  • A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.' by Dorothea Kent
  • A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member. by Johathan Edwards
  • A man of courage flees forward in the midst of new things. by Jacques Maritain
  • A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. by Samuel Johnson
  • A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. by James Joyce
  • A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be. by Henry Miller
  • A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. by Sir Walter Besant
  • A man ought to read just as inclination leads him for what he reads as a task will do him little good. by Samuel Johnson
  • A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. by Sir Thomas More
  • A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. by George Jean Nathan
  • A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost--he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over. by Josh Billings
  • A man said to the universe 'Sir, I exist' 'However,' replied the universe. 'The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation.' by Stephen Crane
  • A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it. by Conan Doyle
  • A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. by Alexander Pope
  • A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off by Andrew Schneider
  • A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. by Sigmund Freud
  • A man that should call everything by its right name, would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. by Lord Halifax
  • A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. by Herman Melville
  • A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. by Danish proverb
  • A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. by George Moore
  • A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him. by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
  • A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. by Mark Twain
  • A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. by Charles Robert Darwin
  • A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own. by Johann von Goethe
  • A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door. by Confucius
  • A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. by Cardinal de Retz
  • A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. by Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
  • A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. by Richard Whately
  • A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. by Paul Valery
  • A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. by Clive Staples Lewis
  • A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. by Marcus Valerius Martialis
  • A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. by Chinua Achebe
  • A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. by Max Lucado
  • A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. by Lucius Accius
  • A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you. by Thomas Carlyle
  • A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds. by Mark Twain
  • A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest. by Pearl Bailey
  • A man's as old as he's feeling, A woman as old as she looks. by Mortimer Collins
  • A man's best friends are his ten fingers. by Robert Collyer
  • A man's character is his fate. by Heraclitus
  • A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. by Zadok Rabinwitz
  • A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. by Thomas Mann
  • A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. by Clive Staples Lewis
  • A man's errors are what make him amiable. by Johann von Goethe
  • A man's errors are what make him amiable. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. by Albert Einstein
  • A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. by George Santayana
  • A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. by English Proverb
  • A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. by Aristophanes
  • A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself. by Georges Clemenceau
  • A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. by George Santayana
  • A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. by Adam Clayton Jr. Powell
  • A man's ruin lies in his tongue. by Egyptian Proverb
  • A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. by Thomas Hardy
  • A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. by P. G. Wodehouse
  • A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. by Mohammad
  • A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. by Kahlil Gibran
  • A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • A man's work is his dilemma his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world. by Melvin Maddocks
  • A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. by Aldous Huxley
  • A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim. by Kenneth Chang
  • A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. by Mary Kay Ash
  • A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. by Dean Gooderham Acheson
  • A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever. by Unknown
  • A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue. by Assyrian Proverb
  • A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. by Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
  • A merry Christmas to everybody A happy New Year to all the world by Charles Dickens
  • A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain. by Abraham Crowley
  • A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. by Sun-tzu
  • A mind too active is no mind at all. by Theodore Roethke
  • A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. by Arthur Golden
  • A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. by Cicero
  • A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. by Louis L'Amour
  • A minute's success pays the failure of years. by Robert Browning
  • A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. by Proverbs 2719 Bible
  • A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. by Joseph Addison
  • A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something. by Phoenix Flame
  • A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. by John Dryden
  • A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • A moment's thought shows that man's feeling of isolation has no foundation, biologically or sociologically. We grow out of the Universe, we are an expression of it. The iron in our blood comes from the high temperature fusion of stars. We constantly interact with our environment. The force of gravity keeps our feet upon the earth and has a vital effect upon our metabolism. The air we breathe comes form the seas and the leaves, and the sun allows the process to take place. Society gives us all that makes us human our culture, our symbols, our concepts and our values. Without society, the notion of the individual would have no meaning. by Paul Ingram
  • A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. by Dorothy C. Fisher
  • A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take. by Cardinal Mermillod
  • A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. by James Agee
  • A motion to adjourn is always in order. by Robert A. Heinlein
  • A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. by Homer
  • A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind. by Thales
  • A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be. by Abraham Maslow
  • A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. by Sir Thomas Beecham
  • A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. by James Feibleman
  • A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. by William Ralph Inge
  • A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten. by Euripides
  • A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today--and in fact we have forgotten. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing. by Alexander Hamilton
  • A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. by Kenneth Tynan
  • A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. by Charles Hendrickson Brower
  • 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. by Erich Fromm
  • A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
  • A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism. by Burton Rascoe
  • A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. by Henry Fielding
  • A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. by Lawrence Peter Berra
  • A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. by Johann von Goethe
  • A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year. by Dixie Lee Ray
  • A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . . by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. by Edmond de Concourt
  • A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. by William S. Burroughs
  • A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. by Fawn M. Brodie
  • A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question. Does this path have a heart If it does, the path is good if it doesn't it is of no use. by Carlos Castaneda
  • A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. by Samuel Grafton
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass. Sioux by American Indian Proverb
  • A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. by George Bernard Shaw
  • A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much. by Ken Wisdom
  • A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. by Andrew Schneider
  • A person I knew use to divide human beings into three categories Those who prefer have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden. by Albert Camus
  • A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations. by I Ching
  • A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. by Anatole France
  • A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. by John Stuart Mill
  • A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. by G. C. Lichtenberg
  • A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. by Albert Einstein
  • A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it. by Anon.
  • A person who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. by G. F. Lessing
  • A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. by Jerome Blattner
  • A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not. by The Talmud
  • A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road. by Henry Ward Beecher
  • A person without character is just as body without soul. by Ranjan
  • A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind. by Albert Einstein
  • A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. by George Wald
  • A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. by George Smith Patton, Jr.
  • A place for everything and everything in its place. by Isabella Mary Beeton
  • A plague o' both your houses by William Shakespeare
  • A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. by Shana Alexander
  • A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it. by Stanley Baldwin
  • A poem is never finished, only abandoned. by Paul Valery
  • A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. by Kahlil Gibran
  • A poet is someone who is astonished by everything. by Anon.
  • A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. by H.L. Mencken
  • A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can be only a footnote. by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
  • A poet's hope to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. by W. H. Auden
  • A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship. by Ivern Ball
  • A politician is a person who thinks twice before he says nothing. by Joe Moore
  • A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it. by Austin O'Malley
  • A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation. by James Clarke
  • A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation. by Eubie
  • A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. by Ernest Leroy Boyer
  • A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. by James Madison
  • A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. by Herm Albright
  • A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. by James A. Garfield
  • A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight. by Martin Luther
  • A precedent embalms a principle. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. by Eric Hoffer
  • A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands. by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • A problem is a chance for you to do your best. by Duke Ellington
  • A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to philosophers to be obviously progress -- though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known. by Bertrand Russell
  • A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it. by Alistair Cooke
  • A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. by Wystan Hugh Auden
  • A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages. by Anon.
  • A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. by Samuel McChord Crothers
  • A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. by Aeschylus
  • A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. by Lord John Russell
  • A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse. by Sophocles
  • A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. by Francis Bacon
  • A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. by Joey Adams
  • A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party there is no battle unless there be two. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • A quiz If I am my brother's keeper, who am I (Answer me.) by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. by Brendan Francis
  • A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. by Robert Chapman
  • A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man. by James Kelly
  • A raise is like a martini it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. by Dan Seligman
  • A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other. by George Jean Nathan
  • A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. by Anon.
  • A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. by Otto von Bismark
  • A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog-keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe. by Edward Noyes Westcott
  • A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. by Norman R. Augustine
  • A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose. by Rob Cella
  • A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. by Jessamyn West
  • A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • A reporter is always concerned with tomorrow. There's nothing tangible of yesterday. All I can say I've done is agitate the air ten or fifteen minutes and then boom -- it's gone. by Edward R. Murrow
  • A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune. by Henry Ward Beecher
  • A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. by Joseph Hall
  • A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. by Thomas Hardy
  • A resurrection waits in the future of all people, whether saved or lost, kingdom saints or the Body of Christ. 'Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and come forth they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation' (Jn. 528, 29). by Vernon Schutz
  • A rich man has no need of character. by Hebrew Proverb
  • A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. by W. C. Fields
  • A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other. by Portuguese Proverb
  • A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and mask on his face. They are both more or less what the law declares them lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • A rising tide lifts all boats. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • A rolling stone gathers no moss. by Publilius Syrus
  • A room without books is like a body without a soul. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A room without books is like a body without a soul. by G. K. Chesterton
  • A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. by Charlotte Bronte
  • A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. by John Tudor
  • A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out. by Laurence J. Peter
  • A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. by Leon Tec
  • A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. by Peter McArthur
  • A schedule defends from chaos and whim. by Annie Dillard
  • A scholar knows no boredom. by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
  • A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. by Lao Tzu
  • A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. by Max Gluckman
  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. by Maxwell Planck
  • A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful. by Euripides
  • A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education. by Smiley Blanton
  • A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. by Bertrand Russell
  • A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself. by Clifton Paul Fadiman
  • A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles. by Mignon McLaughlin
  • A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • A sense of share is not a bad moral compass. by Colin
  • A sensible man knows you can't please everybody. A wise man knows you can't please anybody. by Richard Needham
  • A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. by Camille Paglia
  • A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
  • A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. by William Shedd
  • A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. by Grace Murray Hopper
  • A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. by Chester William Nimitz
  • A short saying oft contains much wisdom. by Sophocles
  • A show of daring oft conceals great fear. by Lucan
  • A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. by Evan Esar
  • A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have some. by Joe Moore
  • A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. by Chinese Proverb
  • A single day is enough to make us a little larger. by Paul Klee
  • A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • A small rock holds back a great wave. by Homer
  • A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't. by Burt Bacharach
  • A smiling face is half the meal. by Latvian Proverb
  • A snake deserves no pity. by Yiddish Proverb
  • A snake lurks in the grass. by Virgil
  • A sobering thought what if, at this very moment, I am by Jane Wagner
  • A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. by Greek Proverb
  • A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards. by Alan Simpson
  • A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind. by George Will
  • A soft answer turneth away wrath. by Proverbs 151 Bible
  • A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. by Thomas Mann
  • A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. by John Locke
  • A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. by Mark Ardis
  • A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. by Aristotle
  • A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. by Georges Pompidou
  • A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. by Edmund Spenser
  • A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. by Unknown
  • A storm broke loose in my mind. by Albert Einstein
  • A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. by Anna Mary Robertson Moses
  • A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted. by George Santayana
  • A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. by Thomas Jefferson
  • A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. by Daniel Webster
  • A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug. by Patricia Neal
  • A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind. by Harold Taylor
  • A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. by Bertrand Russell
  • A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. by William R Allen
  • A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. by Isaac Asimov
  • A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration. by Kurt Lewin
  • A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. by Sidney Greenberg
  • A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. by Andre Maurois
  • A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. by Mignon McLaughlin
  • A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. by David McClure Brinkley
  • A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. by David Brink
  • A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. by George Iles
  • A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. by Publilius Syrus
  • A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost. by Euripides
  • A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. by Sir Arnold Bax
  • A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. by Burt Bacharach
  • A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. by Jessamyn West
  • A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. by Henry Adams
  • A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. by Thomas Carruthers
  • A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. by Horace Mann
  • A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. by Michael Winner
  • A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. by Heywood Broun
  • A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues. by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • A theory can be proved by experiment but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory. by Albert Einstein
  • A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant. by Manfred Eigen
  • A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart. by H. W. Dodds
  • A thief believes everybody steals. by E.W. Howe
  • A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. by Saint Augustine
  • A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone. by Denis Diderot
  • A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise. by Aldo Leopold
  • A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. by Thomas Paine
  • A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. by W. C. Fields
  • A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. by Chinese Proverb
  • A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow. by Charles Krauthammer
  • A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. by Bill Vaughan
  • A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
  • A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. by Jean Paul Richter
  • A torn jacket is soon mended but hard words bruise the heart of a child. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well. by Dan Rather
  • A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. by Saint Basil
  • A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. by American Proverb
  • A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. by Lao Tzu
  • A true artist doesn't change with the times. A true artist is already way ahead of the times. by Eric Pio
  • A true artist is born with a unique voice and cannot copy so he has only to copy to prove his originality. by Radiquet
  • A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else. by Len Wein
  • A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. by Bernard Meltzer
  • A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. by Lee Iacocca
  • A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and the one which we take the least thought to acquire. by La Rochefoucauld
  • A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring. by La Rochefoucauld
  • A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths feels your fears but fortifies your faith sees your anxieties but frees your spirit recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. by William Arthur Ward
  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. by Robertson Davies
  • A truth that's told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent. by William Blake
  • A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere. by J & A Foundation
  • A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance. by Clark Kerr
  • A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. by Richard Hofstadter
  • A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. by John Anthony Ciardi
  • A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. by John Ciardi
  • A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. by Richard Hofstadter
  • A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. by Tennessee Williams
  • A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. by Thomas Carlyle
  • A verb has a hard enough time of it in this world when it is all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it a way over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. by Mark Twain
  • A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. by Samuel Goldwyn
  • A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind. by Eric Mascall
  • A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. by Stendhal
  • A waist is a terrible thing to mind. by Jane Caminos
  • A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards. by Karl Kraus
  • A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
  • A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. by Paul Sweeney
  • A weed is just a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A week is a long time in politics. by Harold Wilson
  • A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. by U. S. Constitution
  • A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one. by Thomas Carlyle
  • A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. by William Arthur Ward
  • A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.' by Stephen William Hawking
  • A white wall is the fool's paper. by French Proverb
  • A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end. by Aristotle
  • A will finds a way. by Orison Swett Marden
  • A winner never whines. by Paul Brown
  • A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . by Unknown
  • A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. by Baltasar Gracian
  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. by Molire
  • A wise man keeps secrets in his heart a foolish man tells tales. by Anne Brown
  • A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. by Chinese Proverb
  • A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. by Hippocrates
  • A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. by Jonathan Swift
  • A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. by Francis Bacon
  • A wise man's question contains half the answer. by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  • A wise old owl sat upon an oak The more he saw the less he spoke The less he spoke the more he heard Why aren't we like that wise old bird by Edward Hersey Richards
  • A witty saying proves nothing. by Voltaire
  • A witty saying proves nothing. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • A woman is like a tea bag--you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. by Nancy Davis Reagan
  • A woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea. by Honore' de Balzac
  • A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. by Marguerite de Valois
  • A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. by Joseph Addison
  • A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up. by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. by Gloria Steinem
  • A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. by Hal Borland
  • A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
  • A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice. by Bill Cosby
  • A word to the wise is enough. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • A word to the wise is enough. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. by Benjamin Cohen
  • A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher
  • A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain. by William Shakespeare
  • A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. by Thomas Mann
  • A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others. by Leo C. Rosten
  • A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • A year from now you may wish you had started today. by Karen Lamb
  • A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. by Alan J. Perlis
  • A young man is embarrassed to question an older one. by Homer
  • Abbott Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello That's what I want to find out. by Bud Abbott
  • Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine. by Newell Dwight Hillis
  • Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. by Casey Stengel
  • Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. by Lou Holtz
  • Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. by John Wooden
  • Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. by Malcolm Forbes
  • Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. by Ronald Reagan
  • 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. by Rita Mae Brown
  • About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. by Josh Billings
  • About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. by Gloria Pitzer
  • About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste. by Randolph Silliman Bourne
  • About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. by Herbert Hoover
  • Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. by Hardy D. Jackson
  • Above all else, never think you're not good enough. by Anthony Trollope
  • Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all. by Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment. by Andre Maurois
  • Above all things, reverence yourself. by Pythagoras
  • Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar. by J. Edgar Hoover
  • Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. by Golda Meir
  • Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom. by Alfred Victor Vigny
  • Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. by Ronald Reagan
  • Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims) by La Rochefoucauld
  • Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. by Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
  • Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder. by Thomas Haynes Bayly
  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder. by Sextus Propertius
  • Absence of proof is not proof of absence. by Michael Crichton
  • Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away. by James Thomson
  • Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. by Eric Hoffer
  • Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  • Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. by Al Capp
  • Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  • Abundance is, in large part, an attitude. by Sue Patton Thoele
  • Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. by Heraclitus
  • Abundance, like want, ruins many. by Romanian Proverb
  • Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. by Edgar Watson Howe
  • Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process. by Aldous Huxley
  • Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them. by Eli Khamarov
  • Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth. by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place. by Gene Brown
  • Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule if we can take the worst, take the risk. by Joyce
  • Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory. by George Smith Patton, Jr.
  • Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius
  • Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. by Wally Lamb
  • Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed. by Peter McWilliams
  • Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth. by Peter McWilliams
  • Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society. by Richard Royster
  • Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. by William James
  • Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. by Gary Zukav
  • Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted. by Rena Harmon
  • Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage. by Henry Adams
  • Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. by Unknown
  • Accidents, try to change them -- it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. by Pablo Picasso
  • Accidents, try to change them-it's impossible. The accidental reveals man. by Pablo Picasso
  • Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. by Doug Larson
  • According to conviction, I am not simply what I am doing now. I am also what I have done, and my conventionally edited version of my past is made to seem almost more the real me than what I am at this moment. For what I am seems so fleeting and intangible, but what I was is fixed and final. It is the firm basis for predictions of what I will be in the future, and so it comes about that I am more closely identified with what no longer exists than with what actually is by Alan B. Watts
  • Account no man happy till he dies. by Euripides
  • Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. by John Milton
  • Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. by Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Ace In Vegas, everybody's gotta watch everybody else. Since the players are looking to beat the casino, the dealers are watching the players. The box men are watching the dealers. The floor men are watching the box men. The pit bosses are watching the floor men. The shift bosses are watching the pit bosses. The casino manager is watching the shift bosses. I'm watching the casino manager. And the eye-in-the-sky is watching us all. by Casino
  • Ace Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash. by Casino
  • Ace The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing by Casino
  • Ace When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point And, for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had. by Casino
  • Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. by Jack Nicklaus
  • Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. by Ayn Rand
  • Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  • Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you. by Catherine de Hueck Doherty
  • Act as if it were impossible to fail. by Dorothea Brande
  • Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. by William James
  • Acting childish seems to come naturally, but acting like an adult, no matter how old we are, just doesn't come easy to us. by Edith Ann
  • Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide he exposes himself. by Jeanne Moreau
  • Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult. by Sir Laurence Olivier
  • Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. by Paul Newman
  • Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. by Sir Ralph Richardson
  • Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. by Glenda Jackson
  • Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion. by Kate Reid
  • Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis. by Marlon Brando
  • Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. by Katharine Hepburn
  • Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. by Eric Hoffer
  • Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions. by Joseph Conrad
  • Action is only coarsened thought-thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. by Henri Frdric Amiel
  • Action is the product of the Qualities inherent in Nature. by Bhagavad Gita
  • Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless. by Hannah Arendt
  • Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions. by Holly Lisle
  • Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells
  • Active minds that think and study, Like swift brooks are seldom muddy. by Arthur Guiterman
  • Activity is the only road to knowledge. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. by G. C. Lichtenberg
  • Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. by H. G. Wells
  • Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. by Saki
  • Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. by Publilius Syrus
  • Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Adopt the pace of nature. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum. by Thomas Szasz
  • Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Adults are just children who earn money. by Kenneth Branaugh
  • Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them. by Dr. Seuss
  • Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves. by Elias Canetti
  • Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Adventure is not outside a man it is within. by David Grayson
  • Adventure is worthwhile in itself. by Amelia Earhart
  • Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional. by John Amatt
  • Adversity cause some men to break others to break records. by William A. Ward
  • Adversity does teach who your real friends are. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
  • Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. by Horace
  • Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Adversity is the first path to truth. by George Gordon Byron
  • Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. by Henry Fielding
  • Adversity makes a man wise, not rich. by Romanian Proverb
  • Adversity makes men wise but not rich. by John Ray
  • Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. by Sinclair Lewis
  • Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing. by P Barnum
  • Advertising is the modern substitute for argument its function is to make the worse appear the better. by George Santayana
  • Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. by Unknown
  • Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. by Cicero
  • Advice is least heeded when most needed. by English Proverb
  • Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. by Unknown
  • Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. by Erica Jong
  • Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin. by Stanislaw Lec
  • Ae fond kiss, and then we severA farewell, and then foreverDeep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,While the star of hope she leaves himMe, nae cheerful twinkle lights me,Dark despair around benights me. by Robert Burns
  • Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. by Mary Kay Ash
  • Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. by Rmy de Gourmont
  • Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. by Aesop
  • Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. by G. C. Lichtenberg
  • Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change. by Jerry Frankhauser
  • Afflicted by love's madness all are blind. by Sextus Propertius
  • After 3, a body has a mind of its own. by H Hahn Blavatsky
  • After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it. by John Fellows Akers
  • After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers. by Joe Moore
  • After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. by Unknown
  • After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life. by Evelyn Underhill
  • After all these years I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. by Mark Twain
  • After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. by H.L. Mencken
  • After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. by George Ade
  • After dark all cats are leopards. Zuni by American Indian Proverb
  • After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile. by Arab Proverb
  • After enlightenment, the laundry. by Josh Billings
  • After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement. by Norman Thomas
  • After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, 'Hey, old buddy, how's it going' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. by Marcius Porcius Cato
  • After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. by Cato the Elder
  • After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. by Edward R. Murrow
  • After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. by Henry Bromel
  • After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager. by William S. Burroughs
  • After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. by H. G. Wells
  • After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. by Aldous Huxley
  • After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the enduring things that are left are the dedication to excellence, the dedication to victory, and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can to make the world a better place in which to live. by Vince Lombardi
  • After the verb 'to Love,' 'to Help' is the most beautiful verb in the world. by Bertha von Suttner
  • After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. by Benjamin Franklin
  • After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. by Chinese Proverb
  • After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.' by Ronnie Shakes
  • After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood. by Fred Thompson
  • After victory, tighten your helmet chord. by Japanese Proverb
  • After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar. by David Assael
  • After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. by Alfred Edward Perlman
  • Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made. by Dr. Robert Schuller
  • Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God. by Matthew 1924 Bible
  • Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. by Aristotle
  • Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. by Laurence J. Peter
  • Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. by Mark Twain
  • Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. by William Shakespeare
  • Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety other women cloyThe appetites they feed, but she makes hungryWhere most she satisfies. by William Shakespeare
  • Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still. by Johann von Goethe
  • Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. by Anais Nin
  • Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. by Jeanne Moreau
  • Age is a function of mind over matter if you don't mind, it doesn't matter. by Leroy Robert Satchel Paige
  • Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. by Mark Twain
  • Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind. by Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Age is no guarantee of maturity. by Lawana Blackwell
  • Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. by Groucho Marx
  • Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. by Billie Burke
  • Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. by Bernard Mannes Baruch
  • Age iswisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. by Miriam Makeba
  • Age to me means nothing. I can't get old I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. by George Burns
  • Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service. by Bruce Kemper
  • Agent Smith I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure. by Matrix, The
  • Aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed. by Phaedrus
  • Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
  • Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. by Thomas Huxley
  • Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be. by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. by Victor Borge
  • Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think. by Robert Service
  • Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for by Robert Browning
  • Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. by Susanna Moodie
  • Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here by J. K. Rowling
  • Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. by Douglas Adams
  • 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. by Robert Frost
  • Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself. by Peter da Silva
  • AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences suicide. Or murder. by Susan Sontag
  • AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. by Susan Sontag
  • Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. by Clive Staples Lewis
  • Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. by Joel Hawes
  • Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. by Dr. David M. Burns
  • Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person. by Dr. David M. Burns
  • Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. by Marechal Ferdinand Foch
  • Al Czervik Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid. by CaddyShack
  • Al Czervik Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it. by CaddyShack
  • Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. by Anonymous
  • Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy... by William Shakespeare
  • Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. by William Shakespeare
  • Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' by Lewis Carroll
  • Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. by R. D. Laing
  • All a man can betray is his conscience. by Joseph Conrad
  • All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. by Cicero
  • All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. by William Congreve
  • All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. by George Orwell
  • All appears to change when we change. by Henri Frdric Amiel
  • All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  • All art is an imitation of nature. by Seneca
  • All art is but imitation of nature. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. by George Bernard Shaw
  • All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another. by Anatole France
  • All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others. by Cyril Connolly
  • All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. by Thomas Fuller
  • All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation by Bhagavad Gita
  • All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • All cruelty springs from weakness. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • All currency is neurotic currency. by Norman O. Brown
  • All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. (1954) by Enlai Zhou
  • All dope can do for you is kill you the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love right along with you. by Billie Holiday
  • All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love. by Sri da Avabhas
  • All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism. by B. J. Gupta
  • All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. by James Abram Garfield
  • All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • All general statements are false. by Unknown
  • All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. by Alexandre Dumas
  • All glory comes from daring to begin. by Eugene F. Ware
  • All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable. by Fran Lebowitz
  • All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man's sword. by Julie Arabi
  • All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. by John Stuart Mill
  • All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter. by Edmund Burke
  • All great achievements require time. by David Joseph Schwartz
  • All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. by Albert Camus
  • All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • All great truths begin as blasphemies. by George Bernard Shaw
  • All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. by Henry Miller
  • All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. by Leo Tolstoy
  • All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. by Carl Lotus Becker
  • All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. by Andrew Carnegie
  • All hope abandon, ye who enter here by Dante Alighieri
  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. by Aristotle
  • All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. by Harvey Cox
  • All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. by James Thurber
  • All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obeyThis Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd longIn prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute. by John Dryden
  • All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it by Bob Newhart
  • All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. by Charlie Chaplin
  • All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look. by Robert
  • All I want to be is normally insane. by Marlon Brando
  • All I want to do is to minister to someone, And if I do that, Then the Lord's work in me has been done. by Unknown
  • All if flux, nothing stays still. by Heraclitus
  • All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often. by Stanislaw Lec
  • All is not gold that glitters. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises. by Henry Clay
  • All life is an experiment. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible. by George Santayana
  • All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • All mankind love a lover. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • All marriages are mixed marriages. by Chantal Saperstein
  • All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. by Ann Landers
  • All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. by Voltaire
  • All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered. by Sir Walter Raleigh
  • All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. by H.L. Mencken
  • All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. by Hermann Hesse
  • All men by nature desire knowledge. by Aristotle
  • All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. by T. E. Lawrence
  • All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods. by Victor Cousin
  • All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men. by Hilaire Belloc
  • All men have need of the gods. by Homer
  • All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. by James Grover Thurber
  • All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own. by Oscar W. Firkins
  • All men should strive to learn before they die What they are running from, and to, and why. by James Grover Thurber
  • All men think all men are mortal but themselves. by Edward Young
  • All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. by Orison Swett Marden
  • All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. by Sir Walter Scott
  • All movements go too far. by Bertrand Russell
  • All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. by Gerald R. Ford
  • All my games were political games I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake. by Indira Nehru Gandhi
  • All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. by Abraham Lincoln
  • All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific. by Jane Wagner
  • All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child. by Marie Curie
  • All my possessions for a moment of time. by Queen Elizabeth I
  • All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life. by Muriel Spark
  • All of his saves have come in relief appearances by Ralph Kiner
  • All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered. by David Ashley Brewer
  • All of our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them. by Walt Disney
  • All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. by Carl Sagan
  • All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us. by Katherine Paterson
  • All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. by William Faulkner
  • All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. by Bobby Knight
  • All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. by Albert Einstein
  • All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. by Alexis Carrel
  • All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone. by Richard von Weizscker
  • All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. by Maurice Masterlinck
  • All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences. by Albert Einstein
  • All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. by Beatrix Potter
  • All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. by Noam Chomsky
  • All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. by Aristotle
  • All paths lead nowhere, follow the path with heart. by Carlos Castaneda
  • All people want is someone to listen. by Hugh Elliott
  • All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head. by Henry David Thoreau
  • All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • All philosophy lies in two words Sustain and Abstain. by Epictetus
  • All phone calls are obscene. by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
  • All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. by Dr. Arbthnot
  • All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. by James Barrett Scotty Reston
  • All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. by Unknown
  • All power in human hands is liable to be abused. by Sarah Bernhardt
  • All professions are conspiracies against the laity. by George Bernard Shaw
  • All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. by Anon.
  • All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. by Unknown
  • All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
  • All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. by Samuel Butler
  • All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • All progress occurs because people dare to be different. by Harry Millner
  • All proofs rest on premises. by Aristotle
  • All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. by Ruth Ross
  • All reactionaries are paper tigers. by Mao Zedong
  • All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. by Doris Lessing
  • All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908 by Mark Twain
  • All science is either physics or stamp collecting. by Ernest Rutherford
  • All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. by Voltaire
  • All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. by Ernest Dimnet
  • All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation. by Wystan Hugh Auden
  • All sins cast long shadows. by Irish Proverb
  • All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. by G. K. Chesterton
  • All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action. by Demosthenes
  • All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. by Homer
  • All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. by H.L. Mencken
  • All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. by Brian Tracy
  • All sunshine makes a desert. by Arabic Proverb
  • All sunshine makes the desert. by Arab Proverb
  • All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent. by David Ross Brower
  • All television is children's television. by Richard P. Adler
  • All that Communism needs to make it successful is someone to feed and clothe it. by 'Columbia Record'
  • All that counts in life is intention. by Andrea Bocelli
  • All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. by Abraham Lincoln
  • All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. by Oscar Wilde
  • All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed. by Sbastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
  • All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost. by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost. by J Tolkein
  • All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. by Edward Gibbon
  • All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. by Edmund Burke
  • All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. by Edmund Burke
  • All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right-about-face which turns us from failure towards success. by Dorthea Bragg
  • All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head. by Suzanne Chapin
  • All that really belongs to us is time even he who has nothing else has that. by Baltasar Gracian
  • All that spirits desire, spirits attain. by Kahlil Gibran
  • All that we are is the result of what we have thought. by Buddha
  • All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream. by Edgar Allan Poe
  • All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. by Walt Disney
  • All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals. by Peter Singer
  • All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. by M. C. Richards
  • All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. by James Russell Lowell
  • All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. by A. C. Benson
  • All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, 'See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.' by Mickey Lolich
  • All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut. by Louis Booker Wright
  • All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. by Blaise Pascal
  • All the Padres need is a flyball in the air. by Jerry Coleman
  • All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. by La Rochefoucauld
  • All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. by Rudyard Kipling
  • All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. by Harry S Truman
  • All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. by Thomas John Watson, Sr.
  • All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. by Grant Wood
  • All the resources we need are in the mind. by Theodore Roosevelt
  • All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. by Alexander Woollcott
  • All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. by Benjamin McLane Spock
  • All the world wondered as they witnessed ... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride. by Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
  • All the world's a cage. by Jeanne Phillips
  • All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. by Sean O'Casey
  • All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. by William Shakespeare
  • All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. by Johann von Goethe
  • All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies. by Virgil
  • All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown. by Oprah Winfrey
  • All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • All things are difficult before they are easy. by Thomas Fuller
  • All things are difficult before they are easy. by John Norley
  • All things are in common among friends. by Laertius Diogenes
  • All things are possible until they are proved impossible-even the impossible may only be so, as of now. by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
  • All things change, nothing perishes. by Ovid
  • All things come alike to all there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. by Ecclesiastes 92 Bible
  • All things good to know are difficult to learn. by Greek Proverb
  • All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being. by Lao Tzu
  • All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil. by Ovid
  • All things must change to something new, to something strange. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. by Bob Dylan
  • All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. by Johann von Goethe
  • All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. by Arthur Schopenhauer
  • All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them. by Galileo Galilei
  • All universal moral principles are idle fantasies. by Marquis de Sade
  • All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. by Aristotle
  • All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. by Franois de Salignac de la Mothe Fenelon
  • All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. by Allegra Kent
  • All we ask is to be let alone. by Jefferson Davis
  • All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. by Rudyard Kipling
  • All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world. by John Hay
  • All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price. by Juvenal
  • All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. by Juvenal
  • All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day. by Franklin P. Jones
  • All words are pegs to hang ideas on. by Henry Ward Beecher
  • All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. by John Bay
  • All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. by James Howell
  • All writers-all people-have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory. by Sir V Pritchett
  • All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh. by Reinhold Niebuhr
  • All you get from a circular argument is dizzy. by Darrin Bell
  • All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure. by Mark Twain
  • All zoos actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. by H.L. Mencken
  • All's fair in love and war. by Francis Edwards
  • All's fair in love and war. by F. E. Smedley
  • Allow me someday to touch you.The way that you've all touched me. by Happy Rhodes
  • Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. by Samuel Johnson
  • Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced. by Alfred North Whitehead
  • Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. by George Santayana
  • Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage. by Sydney Harris
  • Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. by Eva Pern
  • Along with such abundance of grace comes the gift of righteousness. Again grace and righteousness combine to allow believers to experience the enthroned life in Jesus Christ. In God's dealings with man today, grace is king. Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord by Rollin Wilson
  • Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. by Dave Barry
  • Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur. by Deane Jordan
  • Although the last, not least. by William Shakespeare
  • Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. by Hellen Keller
  • Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. by Mark L. Mika
  • Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. by Mark Twain
  • Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Always aim for achievement, and forget about success. by Helen Hayes
  • Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. by Wendell Johnson
  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. by Judy Garland
  • Always be a little kinder than necessary. by James Barrie
  • Always be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way down. by Wilson Mizner
  • Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you. by Cyril Connolly
  • Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. by Phyllis Diller
  • Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. by William Blake
  • Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. by Abraham Lincoln
  • Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does it is one of the sensible things that nature does. by George E. Woodbury
  • Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened. by Arnold Bennett
  • Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. by Jacob Braude
  • Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context -- a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. by Eliel Saarinen
  • Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. by Mark Twain
  • Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. by Ernest Hemingway
  • Always do what you are afraid to do. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Always dream and shoot higher than you know how to. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. by William Faulkner
  • Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear. by Granville Sharp
  • Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with. by Robert Frost
  • Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. by Oscar Wilde
  • Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. by Mickey Rooney
  • Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a smaller unit of time. by Dr. Lillian Troll
  • Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. by Max L. Forman
  • Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose. by Anonymous
  • Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. by Lord Byron
  • Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it. by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost. by Dr. Robert Schuller
  • Always love your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it. by Mark McClinchie
  • Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. by Richard M. Nixon
  • Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary. by Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you. by Samuel Johnson
  • Always treat people with respect and kindness, for they may be selected to be on your jury. by Steve Pershing
  • Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. by J. B. Yeats
  • Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them by Abraham Lincoln
  • Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota. by Anon.
  • Ambition can creep as well as soar. by Edmund Burke
  • Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. by Sallust
  • Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. by Charlie McCarthy
  • Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. by Edgar Bergen
  • Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. by Walter Savage Landor
  • Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. by Jonathan Swift
  • America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. by Herbert Hoover
  • America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. by Evan Esar
  • America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
  • America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. by John Quincy Adams
  • America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. by Oscar Wilde
  • America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. by Louis D. Brandeis
  • America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. by Laurence J. Peter
  • America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - from Democracy in America by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
  • America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • America is a mistake, a giant mistake. by Sigmund Freud
  • America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. by John Updike
  • America is a young country with an old mentality. by George Santayana
  • America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth. by David Frost
  • America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
  • America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. by Peter Kropotkin
  • America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. by George Herbert Walker Bush
  • 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. by Henry M. Jackson
  • 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. by Jesse Louis Jackson
  • America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. by David Riesman
  • America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true. by James T. Farrell
  • America is still the best country for the common man -- white or black ... if he can't make it here he won't make it anywhere else. by Eric Hoffer
  • America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. by John Barrymore
  • America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world. by Dinesh D'Souza
  • America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. by Oscar Wilde
  • America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. by Georges Clemenceau
  • America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. by Georg W. Hegel
  • America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. by Woodrow Wilson
  • America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas, it calls him a foreigner. by Max Lerner
  • America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. by Harry S Truman
  • America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government. by Joe Moore
  • America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. by Ayn Rand
  • America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better. by Anthony Walton
  • America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. by Bobcat Goldthwaite
  • America's present need is not heroics, but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution, but restoration. by Warren G. Harding
  • America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more. by Ronald Reagan
  • American housewives have not had their brains shot away, nor are they schizophrenic in the clinical sense. But if ... the fundamental human drive is not the urge for pleasure or the satisfaction of biological needs, but the need to grow and to realize one's full potential, their comfortable, empty, purposeless days are indeed cause for a nameless terror. by Betty Naomi Friedan
  • American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism. by James Harvey Robinson
  • American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated. by Muammar Qaddafi
  • Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Americans and British have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator,' we say 'lift' ... they say 'President,' we say 'stupid psychopathic git.' by Alexis Sayle
  • Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity. by George W. Bush
  • Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States. by J. Bartlett Brebner
  • Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses. by George Will
  • Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. by Edgar Watson Howe
  • Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God. by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral. by Vernon A. Walters
  • Americans have the will to resist because you have weapons. If you don't have a gun, freedom of speech has no power. by Yoshimi Ishikawa
  • Americans never quit. by General Douglas MacArthur
  • Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom. by Forest McDonald
  • Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. by Arnold Bennett
  • Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. by Dan Rather
  • Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. by Homer
  • Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant. by Henry M. Wriston
  • Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken. by Orson Scott Card
  • Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years. by William Golding
  • Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh. by W. H. Auden
  • Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh. by Wystan Hugh Auden
  • An act against my will is not my act. by Unknown
  • An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible. by William James
  • An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it. by Maurice Masterlinck
  • An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. by Harold Loukes
  • An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. ... a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
  • An action will not be right unless the will be right for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right for from thence comes the will. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. by Edwin Booth
  • An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. by Donald Sinden
  • An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him ain't listening. by Marlon Brando
  • An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free. by William Bolitho
  • An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. by G. K. Chesterton
  • An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that somthing is already so. by Shakti Gawain
  • An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. by James Albert Michener
  • An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. by Dylan Thomas
  • An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. by Sir Henry Wotton
  • An American is a man with two arms and four wheels. by A Chinese Child
  • An American tragedy in which we all have played a part. (On Watergate, announcing pardon of former President Richard M Nixon) by Gerald R. Ford
  • An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea. by Leland Stowe
  • An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. by Publilius Syrus
  • An answer is always a form of death. by John Dean
  • An apology Bah Disgusting Cowardly Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be. by Baroness Orczy
  • An apology for the devil it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case God has written all the books. by Samuel Butler
  • An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. by Agatha Christie
  • An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. by Robert Benchley
  • An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. by Robert A. Heinlein
  • An army marches on its stomach. by Napoleon Bonaparte
  • An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep. by Arab Proverb
  • An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one. by Charles Horton Cooley
  • An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. by George Santayana
  • An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. by Romanian Proverb
  • An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. by Thomas Jefferson
  • An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. by John Buchan
  • An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. by John J. Sirica
  • An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. by Charles de Montesquieu
  • An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. by Alfred A. Knopf
  • An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. by Nicholas Chamfort
  • An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. by Laurence J. Peter
  • An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. by Alan Simpson
  • 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. by Anatole France
  • An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. by Unknown
  • An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past. by James Barrett Scotty Reston
  • An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. by M. Shawn Covey
  • An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. by Albert Einstein
  • An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. by Mark Twain
  • An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. by Mark Twain
  • An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. by George Bernard Shaw
  • An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly. by Edwin P. Whipple
  • An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. by Orlando A. Battista
  • An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains. by Henri Frdric Amiel
  • An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. by Edmund Burke
  • An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. by John H. Patterson
  • An exile's life is no life. by Leonidas of Tarentum
  • An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. by Niels Henrik David Bohr
  • An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. by Benjamin Stolberg
  • An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. by Niels Bohr
  • An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. by Nicholas Murray Butler
  • An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. by Anon.
  • An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them. by Werner Karl Heisenberg
  • An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. by Thomas Jefferson
  • An honest man's word is as good as his bond. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. by Simon Cameron
  • An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. by William Shakespeare
  • An honor is not diminished for being shared. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • An idea is salvation by imagination. by Frank Lloyd Wright
  • An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. by Donald Robert Perry Marquis
  • An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity. by George Santayana
  • An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. by Sacha Guitry
  • An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. by Sydney Harris
  • An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. by Henry Ford
  • An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. by H.L. Mencken
  • An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. by Will Rogers
  • An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning. by Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
  • An improper mind is a perpetual feast. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer. by Evelle J. Younger
  • An Indian tribe is sovereign to the extent that the U.S. permits it to be sovereign. by Russell Smith
  • An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action. by Unknown
  • 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. by Washington Irving
  • An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. by Lord Chesterfield
  • An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. by Buddha
  • An intellectual hate is the worst. by William Butler Yeats
  • An intellectual improvement arises from leisure. by Samuel Johnson
  • An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. by Aldous Huxley
  • An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself. by Albert Camus
  • An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. by Albert Camus
  • An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. by Dan Rather
  • An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. by Laurence J. Peter
  • An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction by Hoshang N. Akhtar
  • An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. by Ernest Hemingway
  • An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. by Samuel Smiles
  • An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. by Victor Hugo
  • An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. by Charles Franklin Kettering
  • An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. by Charles F. Kettering
  • An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. by Benjamin Franklin
  • An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. by Thomas Fuller
  • An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. by Pliny the Younger
  • An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks. by Ogden Nash
  • An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. by Plutarch
  • An old man loved is winter with flowers. by Edgar Z. Friedenberg
  • An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color- blind. by Albert Schweitzer
  • An optimist is the human personification of spring. by Susan J. Bissonette
  • An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true. by Doug Larson
  • An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking. by Cato the Elder
  • An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says. by William Jennings Bryan
  • An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. by Joseph Addison
  • An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. by Friedrich Engels
  • An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. by Danish proverb
  • An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts. by John Junor
  • An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition. by Michael Korda
  • An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. by Elbert Hubbard
  • An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests. by Danish proverb
  • An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. by Henry de Bracton
  • An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. by Robert A. Humphrey
  • An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. by Carl Gustav Jung
  • An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool. by Sylvia Fine Kaye
  • An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. by Bonnie Friedman
  • An unpopular rule is never long maintained. by Seneca
  • An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. by Saint Jerome
  • Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. by E. B. White
  • Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. by Edward Abbey
  • Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea. by Unknown
  • Anarchy is not chaos, but order with out control. by David Layson
  • Anatomy is destiny. by Sigmund Freud
  • Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House by Will Rogers
  • And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people. by Leo Tolstoy
  • And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying. by Marcel Proust
  • And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying. by Christina Georgina Rossetti
  • And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. But Jesus said unto him, Follow me and let the dead bury their dead. by Matthew 821-22
  • And be on they guard against the good and the just They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones. by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury. by William Blake
  • And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after. by Roald Dahl
  • And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last. by Sir Walter Scott
  • And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. by William Bradford
  • And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. by Isaiah
  • And I said to the one who stood at the gate of the year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the Unknown.' And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.' by Minnie Haskins
  • And if I laugh at any mortal thing, This that I may not weep. by George Gordon
  • And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you. by Colin Raye
  • And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. by Abraham Lincoln
  • And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me. by Gloria Vanderbilt
  • And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others by Sir Thomas More
  • And it's a long drive down the line to centerfield. by Jerry Coleman
  • And Jesus said unto him, 'No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.' by Luke 962 Bible
  • And let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. by Galations 69 Bible
  • And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. by A. E. Housman
  • And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak. by William Shakespeare
  • And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence. by William Shakespeare
  • And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito. by Anita Roddick
  • And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. by Unknown
  • And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. by William Shakespeare
  • And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama. by Real Live Preacher
  • And so, my fellow americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. by John F. Kennedy
  • And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help for It As impotently moves as you or I. by Omar Khayym
  • And that's the way it is. by Walter Cronkite
  • And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle. by Stan Dunn
  • And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. by Anais Nin
  • And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth. by Native American Prayer
  • And the wind shall say Here were decent godless people. Their only monument the asphalt road. And a thousand lost golf balls. by T. S. Eliot
  • And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever. by Bible
  • And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. by Douglas Couplan
  • And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'. by Phoebe Cary
  • And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. by William Shakespeare
  • And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. by John Dryden
  • And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height by Koran
  • And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. by Thomas a Kempis
  • And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. by Jerry Chin
  • And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. by Andr Malraux
  • And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead. by Philip Robinson
  • And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.) by Walt Whitman
  • And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department. by Andrew Carnegie
  • And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. by George Gordon Byron
  • And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do. by L. Neil Smith
  • Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. by Johann von Goethe
  • Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God's love commits me here Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide. by Catholic Prayer
  • Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee. by William Shakespeare
  • Angels around us, angels beside us, angels within us. Angels are watching over you when times are good or stressed. Their wings wrap gently around you, whispering you are loved and blessed. by Angel Blessing
  • Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. by Jerome K. Jerome
  • Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
  • Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. by George Eliot
  • Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. by Emily Dickinson
  • Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. by Greg Evans
  • Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. by Albert Einstein
  • Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to. by Harriet Lerner
  • Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly -- hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear. by Joan Rivers
  • Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart. by Bill Chickering
  • Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. by Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. by Benjamin Franklin
  • Anger is only one letter short of danger. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • Anger is only one letter short of danger. by Unknown
  • Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. by Francis Bacon
  • Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. by Queen Elizabeth I
  • Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. by Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. by Cato the Elder
  • Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten. by Buddha
  • Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. by William Jennings Bryan
  • Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. by Alfred A. Montapert
  • Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. by George Eliot
  • Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. by Joseph Addison
  • Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. by Charles Dickens
  • Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. by Eric Gibson
  • Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. by Margaret Atwood
  • Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. by Dave Barry
  • Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. by Pyrrhus
  • Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. by Edith Wharton
  • Answer That you are here---that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. by Walt Whitman
  • Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science. by Robert Graves
  • Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. by Alfred L. Kroeber
  • Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. by Michael Brian Schiffer
  • Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. by Nancy Banks-Smith
  • Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together by Clyde Kluckhohn
  • Antonym, n. The opposite of the word you're trying to think of. by Unknown
  • Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television. by Lewis Thomas
  • Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. by Robert Albert Bloch
  • Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. by Arthur Somers Roche
  • Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. by Anais Nin
  • Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
  • Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. by Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. by John Updike
  • Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral. by B. J. Gupta
  • Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. by Gore Vidal
  • Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. by Arnold Bennett
  • Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble. by Dennis Fakes
  • Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art. by Charles McCabe
  • Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die by Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
  • Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. by Robert G. Ingersoll
  • Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. by Alan Simpson
  • Any enjoyment is weakened when shared. by Marquis de Sade
  • Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. by Lee Simonson
  • Any excuse will serve a tyrant. by Aesop
  • Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. by Norman Vincent Peale
  • Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not end. by Robert Francis Kennedy
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. by Dale Carnegie
  • Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain, and most fools do. by Benjamin Franklin
  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. by Samuel Butler
  • Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true. by Solomon Short
  • Any great work of art revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. by Leonard Bernstein
  • Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry. by Charles Baudelaire
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. by Albert Einstein
  • Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. by E. F. Schumacher
  • Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. by Jorge Luis Borges
  • Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. by Charles Dickens
  • Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. by H.L. Mencken
  • Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. by Harry S Truman
  • Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
  • Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. by J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. by Julius Robert Oppenheimer
  • Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom. by Roger Zelazny
  • Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. by Marshal Tito
  • Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. by W. Kelly Griffith
  • Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind. by Epictetus
  • Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. by Sharon Salzberg
  • Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. by Sydney Harris
  • Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it. by Anonymous
  • Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. by Publilius Syrus
  • Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual. by Albert Einstein
  • Any religion...is for ever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. by T. S. Eliot
  • Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. by Rich Kulawiec
  • Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. by Unknown
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. by Martha Beck
  • Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other. by Ivy Baker Priest
  • Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high. by Adrienne E. Gusoff
  • Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week. by Alice Walker
  • Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. by Oscar Wilde
  • Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. by George Ade
  • Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. by Erma Bombeck
  • Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. by Rose Dorothy Franken
  • Anyone can become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy. by Aristotle
  • Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed. by Dr. Robert Schuller
  • Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. by Robert Benchley
  • Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. by E. M. Cioran
  • Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. by Publilius Syrus
  • Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts. by Georges Rouault
  • Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it. - Phoenissae by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. by Alvin Toffler
  • Anyone 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. by David Broder
  • Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would. by Ronald Reagan
  • Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there. by E. H. Gombrich
  • Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing. by George Orwell
  • Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. by John von Neumann
  • Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough. by Wess Roberts
  • Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. by Samuel Goldwyn
  • Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape. by Wystan Hugh Auden
  • Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. by John Dewey
  • Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. by L. M. Montgomery
  • Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. by Albert Einstein
  • Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. by Douglas Adams
  • Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. by Douglas Noel Adams
  • Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. by Niels Henrik David Bohr
  • Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith in him is unless he knew where his believers are by Martin Luther
  • Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. by Edward R. Murrow
  • Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. by Albert Schweitzer
  • Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus. by Theodore Hesburgh
  • Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. by Moshe Arens
  • Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. by Henry Ford
  • Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby. by Unknown
  • Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public. by Robert Morley
  • Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo Fear of falling No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. by Milan Kundera
  • Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. by Betty Bender
  • Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen. by Richard Rosen
  • Anything more than the truth would be too much. by Robert Frost
  • Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. by Elias Schwartz
  • Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. by Franz Kafka
  • Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given. by Deepak Chopra
  • Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy. by Blessing Irish
  • Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. by Martin Luther
  • Anything too stupid to be said is sung. by Voltaire
  • Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. by George Washington Carver
  • Anything you fully do is an alone journey. by Natalie Goldberg
  • Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity. by Frances Watkins Harper
  • Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. by Gore Vidal
  • Appear to know only this,--never to fail nor fall. by Epictetus
  • Appearances often are deceiving. by Aesop
  • Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair. by Thomas Hobbes
  • Appetizers are the little things you keep eating until you lose your appetite. by Joe Moore
  • Applause is a receipt, not a bill. by Arthur Schnabel
  • Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. by Voltaire
  • Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation. by Bernard Baruch
  • April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers. by T. S. Eliot
  • Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing. by Golda Meir
  • Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. by Kareem Abdul-Jabar
  • ARCHITECTURE, n The art of how to waste space. by Philip Johnson
  • Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.) by Juvenal
  • Are we at last brought to such a humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defence Where is the difference between having our arms in our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress If our defence be therealobject of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands by Patrick Henry
  • Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense by Patrick Henry
  • Are we having fun yet by Carol Burnett
  • Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. by Dale Carnegie
  • Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs by Spike Milligan
  • Argument is the worst sort of conversation. by Jonathan Swift
  • Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. by Samuel Butler
  • Arguments are to be avoided they are always vulgar and often convincing. by Oscar Wilde
  • Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. by Joseph Addison
  • Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. by Bertrand Russell
  • Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. by Will Cuppy
  • Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed. by Laertius Diogenes
  • Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes. by Mickey Mouse
  • Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. by Carl Sandburg
  • Arrange whatever pieces come your way. by Virginia
  • Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. by Margaret Fuller
  • Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible. by Paul Klee
  • Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. by Thomas Merton
  • Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. by Andre Gide
  • Art is a collarboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. by Andr Gide
  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. by Pablo Picasso
  • Art is a man's nature nature is God's art. by Philip James Bailey
  • Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. by Kahlil Gibran
  • ART is a word which summarizes THE QUALITY OF COMMUNICATION. by L. Ron Hubbard
  • Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. by Cicero
  • Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. by Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
  • Art is either plagiarism or revolution. by Paul Gauguin
  • Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. by John Updike
  • Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. by Johann von Goethe
  • Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. by Frank Zappa
  • Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. by Leo Tolstoy
  • Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. by Aldous Huxley
  • Art is science made clear. by Jean Cocteau
  • Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. by Amy Lowell
  • Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. by Alfred North Whitehead
  • Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man. by David Hume
  • Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. by George Moore
  • Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. by Jean Cocteau
  • Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty. by Rose Elizabeth Bird
  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. by Pablo Picasso
  • Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. by G. K. Chesterton
  • Arthur Schopenhauer Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. by Unknown
  • Artificial Intelligence the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies. by Bill Bulko
  • Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. by Eugene Delacroix
  • As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices take it, or leave it. by Buddy Hackett
  • As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event. by Andrew Schneider
  • As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • As A general rule, people marry most hapily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is. by Robertson Davies
  • As a man thinketh, so is he by Proverbs 237 Bible
  • As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. by George Carlin
  • As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit and parking as close to the stadium as possible. by Joe Moore
  • As a rule it was the pleasure haters that became unjust. by Wystan Hugh Auden
  • As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. by Dave Parnas
  • As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. by Richard Bach
  • As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. by Andrew Schneider
  • As a sinner I could not please God, I could not neutralize or pay for my own sin. But when God justified me by His grace He went on record declaring me righteous. He didn't wave a magic wand and declare me to be innocent. His holiness would not permit it. A basis for declaring me righteous was needed. The ground upon which my justification is built is the substitutionary death of His son, Jesus Christ. The shedding of blood demonstrates the righteousness of God 'that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus' (Rom. 326 NKJV). What a marvelous plan Man's plan of salvation by good works is offensive to God and to anyone who has been saved by God's grace. by Larry Riemersma
  • As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here. by Maitri Upanishads
  • As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. by Van Wyck Brooks
  • As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so. by Charles De Gaulle
  • As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. by M. Cartmill
  • As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay by Billy Joel
  • As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. by Jonathan Swift
  • As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson
  • As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow-citizens, the people are confirmed by the next article in their right to keep and bear their private arms. by Tench Coxe
  • As close as we are today, tomorrow when we come back from that battlefield, we will be as close as two men can possibly be, sharing a bond that can only be forged in the face of imminent disfigurement. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. by Jeff Melvoin
  • As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. by Thomas Mann
  • As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. by Joseph Farrell
  • As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. by Albert Einstein
  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. by Carl Jung
  • As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being. by Carl Gustav Jung
  • As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport. by William Shakespeare
  • As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. by Andre Norton
  • As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did. by Robert Benchley
  • As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise. by Samuel Johnson
  • As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. by Ursula K. LeGuin
  • As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable---until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. by Po Bronson
  • As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest. by Bill Cosby
  • 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 than I was formerly. by Samuel Johnson
  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. by A. C. Benson
  • As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars) by Gerald R. Ford
  • As I see it, every day you do one of two things build health or produce disease in yourself. by Adelle Davis
  • As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know by Unknown
  • As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away. by Hughes Mearns
  • As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself 'the last thing you must do is forget your speech.' And sure enough, as I left the house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech. by Rowan Atkinson
  • As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. by William Blake
  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. by Abraham Lincoln
  • As ill-luck would have it. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. by Joseph Conrad
  • As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend. by Proverbs 2717 Bible
  • As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend. by James Russell Lowell
  • As long as a word remains unspoken, you are it's master once you utter it, you are it's slave. by Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  • As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. by George Bernard Shaw
  • As long as I'm faced in the right direction, It does not matter the size of my steps. by Unknown
  • As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives. by Albert Einstein
  • As long as one keeps searching, the answers come. by Joan Baez
  • As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. by Dick Cavett
  • As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. by Clarence Darrow
  • As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have it if he wants protection-the protection of a weapon in his home, for home protection. by Ronald Reagan
  • As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. by Sydney Harris
  • As long as there are only 3 to 4 people on the floor, the country is in good hands. It's only when you have 50 to 60 in the Senate that you want to be concerned. by Robert Joseph Bob Dole
  • As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable. by Albert Einstein
  • As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. by Denis Watley
  • As long as we separate this 'oneness' into two, we won't achieve realization. by Bruce Lee
  • As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever. by Heini Arnold
  • As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • As long as you live, keep learning how to live. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • As long as you live, keep learning how to live. by Seneca
  • As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. by Donald J. Trump
  • As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. by George Washington
  • As members of the Body of Christ, each of us have been endowed with a special measure of grace to use in His service. Paul develops this theme in Romans where he states 'For as we have many members in one Body, and all members have not the same office So we, being many, are one Body in Christ, and ever one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity he that ruleth, with diligence he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness. by Paul Sadler
  • As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. by John Lancaster Spalding
  • As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. by Publilius Syrus
  • As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action. by Maitri Upanishads
  • As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease. by Kahlil Gibran
  • As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing. by Golda Meir
  • As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. by Josh Billings
  • As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State What does it matter to me the State may be given up for lost. by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. by Pythagorus
  • As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. by Albert Schweitzer
  • As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. by Noam Chomsky
  • As soon as there is life there is danger. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. by Maurice Wilkes
  • As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
  • As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. by Hellen Keller
  • As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes. by Bhagavad Gita
  • As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool. by Akhenaton
  • As the old proverb says Like readily consorts with like. by Cicero
  • As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. by Woody Allen
  • As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by Tom Daschle
  • As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present. by Maitri Upanishads
  • As the twig is bent the tree inclines. by Virgil
  • As they use to say, spick and span new. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War) by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • As thou hast sown, so shall thou reap. by Pinarius
  • As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. by Hippocrates
  • As was his language so was his life. by Seneca
  • As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. by Albert Schweitzer
  • As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in. by Edward Bedore
  • As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless. by Rodney Yee
  • As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. by Benjamin Franklin
  • As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties. by Gail Sheehy
  • As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. by J. B. Priestley
  • As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies. by Paul Sadler
  • As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate. by Sandra
  • As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. by Oprah Winfrey
  • As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. by Zachary Scott
  • As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up. by Child Age 7
  • Ask a lot, but take what is offered. by Assyrian Proverb
  • Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. by Beranrd Levin
  • Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house. by Jewish Proverb
  • Ask advice only of your equals. by Danish proverb
  • Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard). by Edgar R. Fiedler
  • Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Ask not for whom the bell tolls You might get an answer you don't especially like. by Earnst Angst
  • Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch. by Orson Welles
  • Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. by Mortimer Adler
  • Ask the experienced rather than the learned. by Arab Proverb
  • Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying. by Fran Lebowitz
  • Ask yourself Have you been kind today Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world. by Annie Lennox
  • Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. by John Stuart Mill
  • Ask, and it shall be given you Seek, and ye shall find Knock, and it shall be opened unto you. by Bible
  • Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. by Henry Ford
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. by Christopher Hampton
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. by John Osborne
  • Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. by Nikita Khrushchev
  • Assassination has never changed the history of the world. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. by Josh Sugarmann
  • Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. by Dr. David M. Burns
  • Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people. by Thomas Davidson
  • Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. by Stanley Walker
  • Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. by George Washington
  • Assume a virtue, if you have it not. by William Shakespeare
  • Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles. by Pat Paulsen
  • Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. by John Sales
  • Assumptions are the termites of relationships. by Henry Winkler
  • Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. by Unknown
  • Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. by Plato
  • At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look At 45 they are caves in which we hide. by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing. by Baltasar Gracian
  • At a certain age some people's minds close up they live on their intellectual fat. by Blessing Irish
  • At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be. by Vinny Nayak
  • At any rate, I am convinced that He God does not play dice. by Albert Einstein
  • At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel. by Leon Botstein
  • At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. by Barnaby C. Keeney
  • At different stages in our lives, the signs of love may vary dependence, attraction, contentment, worry, loyalty, grief, but at heart the source is always the same. Human beings have the rare capacity to connect with each other, against all odds. by Michael Dorris
  • At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. by Maurice Masterlinck
  • At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope that it can be done, then they see that it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. by Francis Eliza Hodgson Burnett
  • At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid. by Homer
  • At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. by Raymond Chandler
  • At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted. by Eric Idle
  • At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say. (on his wife Elizabeth, president of the American Red Cross) by Robert Joseph Bob Dole
  • At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. by Aldous Huxley
  • At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them. by Pearl Buck
  • At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry. by Gloria Steinem
  • At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. by Emo Phillips
  • At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. by P. G. Wodehouse
  • At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored. by Nathan C. Schaeffer
  • At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3. by Jerry Coleman
  • At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it. by Phillip C. McGraw
  • At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria. by Jerry Coleman
  • At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. by Jean Houston
  • At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. by Ivan Illich
  • At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. by Woody Allen
  • At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry. (Les Miserables) by Victor Hugo
  • At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. by Plato
  • At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. by Dame Rose Macaulay
  • At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid. by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings. by Grard Depardieu
  • Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...the master of superstition is the people and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reverse order. by Francis Bacon
  • Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed. by Baltasar Gracian
  • Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance. by Plato
  • Attitude is more important than reality. by Elaine Agather
  • Audacity, more audacity and always audacity. by Georges Jacques Danton
  • Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold. by Virgil
  • Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I by Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
  • Austin Powers No doubt, love, but as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence-free environment, I'll be sound as a pound by Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
  • Austin Powers Yeah, baby, yeah by Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
  • Authentic Christianity never destroys what is good. It makes it grow, transfigures it, and enriches itself from it. by Claire Huchet Bishop
  • Authenticity matters little, though our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility. by Barbara Mikkelson
  • Author A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come. by Montesquieu
  • Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. by Robertson Davies
  • Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games. by Ernest Hemingway
  • Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. by Philip Guedalla
  • Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. by Frank Capra
  • Autumn is the bite of the harvest apple. by Christina Petrowsky
  • Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire. by Dante Alighieri
  • Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. by Colin
  • Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. by Colin Powell
  • Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. by Ralph Charell
  • Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee. by Gaelic Proverb
  • Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality. by Jon Kabit-Zinn
  • Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me. by Chitto Harjo