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I accept now with equanimity the question so constantly addressed to me, 'Are you an American' and merely return the accurate answer, 'Yes, I am a Canadian.' by Lester Bowles Pearson

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. by John Adams

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. by Aretha Franklin

I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking. by Dorothy L. Sayers

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy. by W. C. Fields

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. by Oscar Wilde

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble. by Rudyard Kipling

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. by Harry S Truman

I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog. by Sandra Cisneros

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. by Lawrence Peter Berra

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. by Earl Warren

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. by Jane Wagner

I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. by Althea Gibson

I am a citizen of the world. by Laertius Diogenes

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few. by Benjamin Disraeli

I am a deeply superficial person. by Andy Warhol

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. by Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one. by David A. Cronin

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. by Honore' de Balzac

I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. by Stephen Butler Leacock

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have. by Coleman Cox

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. by J. D. Salinger

I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me. by Terence

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. by Terence

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency. by Anonymous

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. by George Bernard Shaw

I am a part of all that I have met. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here. by Eric Pio

I am a strong believer in luck and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. by Benjamin Franklin

I am a student. Please do not fold, spindle, or mutilate me. by Slogan of the Free Speech Movement, 1964.

I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit. by Mario M Cuomo

I am about to put foward some major ideas they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content. by Marquis de Sade

I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie by Albert Einstein

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. by Gerald R. Ford

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy. by Sir Walter Besant

I am always afraid of your something shall be done. by Titus Maccius Plautus

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. by Washington Irving

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. by Pablo Picasso

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. by G. C. Lichtenberg

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. by Samuel Johnson

I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened. by Mark Twain

I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life. by Pable Casals

I am at two with nature. by Woody Allen

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. by J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. by Laura Ingalls Wilder

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key. by Charles Fletcher Lummis

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business. by Michael J. Fox

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination. by John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. by John Keats

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. by Jeseph Joubert

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. by Sir Winston Churchill

I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude--your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people--determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself. by Caroline Warner

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience. by Shakti Gawain

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. by Charles Dudley Warner

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired. by Richard Wagner

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master. by Theodore Roosevelt

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is. by Charles Lamb

I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil by William James

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. by Bette Davis

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. by Albert Einstein

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. by Margaret Thatcher

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by. by Kermit Eby

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. by W. C. Fields

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember. by Andrew Schneider

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. by Ben Johnson

I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. by Leontyne Price

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. by Oliver L. North

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. by Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I am in earnest--I will not equivocate--I will not excuse--I will not retreat a single inch--and I will be heard. by William Lloyd Garrison

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. by Kahlil Gibran

I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. by Robert Green Ingersoll

I am just going outside and may be some time. by Captain Lawrence Oates

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand. by Al Capone

I am like SPAM Some people like me, some people hate me, but nobody knows what I'm made of. by C.J. Harbison

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years. by Thomas Alva Edison

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. by Henry Ford

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. by Wilhelm von Humboldt

I am my nearest neighbour. by Cornelius Tacitus

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist. by Max Lerner

I am never afraid of what I know. by Anna Sewell

I am no more humble than my talents require. by Oscar Levant

I am not a glutton - I am an explorer of food. by Erma Bombeck

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet. by Jesse Louis Jackson

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

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please. by Mother Jones

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. by William Allen White

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate. by Vincent Van Gogh

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. by Socrates

I am not an optimist, but i am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist. by Bobby Sanghavi

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not bound to please thee with my answers. by William Shakespeare

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. by Thomas Alva Edison

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race. by Hugh Elliott

I am not God, but I am my creator. by Terry Josephson

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. by Fritz Perls

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. by Tom Hopkins

I am not merry but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. by William Shakespeare

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. by Mark Twain

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. by Confucius

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican. by Dan Quayle

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. by Jules Renard

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done in your life, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did by Mother Theresa

I am not young enough to know everything. by Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

I am now going to make you a gift that will stay with you the rest of your life. For the rest of your life, every time you say 'We've always done it that way,' my ghost will appear and haunt you for twenty-four hours. by Grace Murray Hopper

I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me. by E. B. White

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans. by William Jefferson Clinton

I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom. The freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly think can break you. by Paula Giddings

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something I will not refuse to do something I can do. by Hellen Keller

I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still I can do something And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. by Edward Everett Hale

I am open to receive with every breath I breathe. by Michael Sun

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. by Mark Twain

I am part of the sea and stars And the winds of the South and North Of mountains and Moon and Mars, And the ages sent me forth by Edward H. S. Terry

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. by Edith Sitwell

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader. by Stephen Covey

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. by Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. by Sir Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' by Sir Winston Churchill

I am responsible only to God and history. by Francisco El Caudillo Franco

I am sailing out along parallel 32.5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. (On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean) by Muammar Qaddafi

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. by Martha Washington

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. by A. C. Benson

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am sure the grapes are sour. by Aesop

I am sure you will be guided right in your decision, to place implicit faith in his integrity and honesty. Best wishes from one who has known Richard longer than anyone else. His mother. by Hannah Nixon

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar. by Emperor Sigismund

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED. by Song of Songs 21 Bible

I am the toughest golfer mentally. by Tiger Woods

I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one. by Dag Hammarskjld

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. (Plato's Apology) by Socrates

I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. by Thomas Huxley

I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses. by Katherine Mansfield

I am who I am, You are who you are, So, be who you are, not what you are. by Teo Chee Huen

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chosethough not always what I pleased. by Lois McMaster Bujold

I am years gone from my family and miles away ... but they raid by telephone with jarring suddenness they have the cyclic constancy of a mortgage and they are inevitable and relentless, like the erosion of my remaining youth. Like certain frightening dreams, my family returns. by Jerrold Mundis

I am...a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then. by John M. Ford

I am...blood. That primordial ooze. Not out there, listeners, in here. Inside this skin we wear, it only lets us think we're something else-- nice clean brains, little talking computers running around in the pursuit of happiness. We pierce this skin and what do we see Warm ooze, protoplasm churning and jesting, defecating, pulsating, life, death. by Robin Green

I answer the heroic question 'Death, where is thy sting' with 'It is here in my heart and mind and memories.' by Maya Angelou

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts. by A. S. Neill

I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. by Titus Livius

I ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars. by Sir Arthur Eddington

I ask, Who are the militia They consist now of the whole people, except for a few public officers. by George Mason

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces. by Harold Ross

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I awoke with devout thanksgiving for my friends. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. by Gilda Radner

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. by Pierre Elliott Trudeau

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity by Edgar Allan Poe

I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed ... the president himself would be killed by it. by John Dean

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. by Abigail Adams

I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers. by D. H. Lawrence

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. by William Henry Harrison

I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. by Scott Adams

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. by Henry Ford

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. by William J. Locke

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether. by Neil Postman

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. by Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. by Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. by Clive Staples Lewis

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. by Mahatma Gandhi

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads. by George Santayana

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. by G. K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. by Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in livin' a life less ordinary... Yet extraordinary. by Unknown

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. by Garrison Keillor

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred. by Tom Robbins

I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. by Honore' de Balzac

I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right. by Richard Pryor

I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. by Abraham Lincoln

I believe it is the nature of people to be heroes, given the chance. by James A. Autry

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision. by Howard Schultz

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient. by Real Live Preacher

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil. by Truman Capote

I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service. by Ronald Reagan

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. by Chief Joseph

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy. by Richard Feynman

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. by H.L. Mencken

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day. by William Gordon

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. by John Buchan

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. by Neil Armstrong

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty. by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers. by Oprah Winfrey

I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting. (on those behind the 911 attacks) by Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life. by Malcolm Boyd

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. by Camille Paglia

I believe that I shall see the bounty of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord with courage be stouthearted, and wait for the Lord. by Psalm 27 13-14 Bible

I believe that if i should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps. by Benito Perez Galdos

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none. by Ben Shahn

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death. by Robert

I believe that man will not merely endure he will prevail. by William Faulkner

I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk. by Oprah Winfrey

I believe that one of the great problems for us as individuals is the depression and the tension resulting from existence in a world which is increasingly less pleasing to the eye. by Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. by Nancy Reagan

I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. by Frank Deford

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man. by Steven Runciman

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here. by Oprah Winfrey

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. by Albert Einstein

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. by Oprah Winfrey

I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. by John Ruskin

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. by James Madison

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. by Dan Quayle

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London. by Edward Morgan Forster

I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life by Child Age 15

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. by Abraham Lincoln

I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. by Will Rogers

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. by Oliver Cromwell

I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit those brakes Hey, better try the emergency brake by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. by Child Age 13

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I bet you if I had met him Trotsky and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn't like. by Will Rogers

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself. by Terence

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup. by Samual Rutherford

I both love and do not love and am mad and not mad. by Anacreon

I bought some batteries, but they weren't included. by Steven Wright

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. by Menander

I call architecture frozen music. by Johann von Goethe

I call architecture frozen music. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. by Woody Allen

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. by Ronald Reagan

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly. by Oliver L. North

I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing. by Prince Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar von Metternich

I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar. by William Congreve

I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. by Oscar Wilde

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. by Philippians 413 Bible

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope. by William Walsh

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. by George Bernard Shaw

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half. by Jay Gould

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation. by W. Somerset Maugham

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. by Judy Garland

I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the cobwebs out of my eyes. by Miguel de Cervantes

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money. by Will Rogers

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. by George Burns

I can resist anything but temptation. by Oscar Wilde

I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate... by Richard Milhous Nixon

I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, 'Tadpoles Tadpoles is a winner' We all thought he was crazy. But then, we had some growing up to do. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness. by Thomas Fuller

I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... by Richard Milhous Nixon

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator. by Johann von Goethe

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another by Theodore Hesburgh

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. by John D. Rockefeller

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. by Dwight D Eisenhower

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. by Dave Barry

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. by A. J. Liebling

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle. by Robert Benchley

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. by Joe Walsh

I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. by Charles Rosin

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. by George Bernard Shaw

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time. by Herbert Bayard Swope

I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity. by M. C. Escher

I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. by Woody Allen

I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. by Daniel Boone

I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like 'Hey, when are you going to pay me that hundred dollars you owe me' or 'Do you have that fifty dollars you borrowed' Man, quit being so cheap by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously. by Clevand Amory

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit. by Susan Glasee

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. by Queen Juliana

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. by Fred Allen

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. by John Cage

I cannot afford to waste my time making money. by Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside. by Wayne W Dyer

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. by Lillian Hellman

I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly. by Martin Luther

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy by Louise Bogan

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. by Mark Twain

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. by Charles R. Swindoll

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. by Sir Winston Churchill

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

I cannot forgive my friends for dying I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. by Logan Pearsall Smith

I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home. by Charles Mathias, Jr.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. by Gerald R. Ford

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. by Christa McAuliffe

I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive. by Mark Twain

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations. by Elizabeth II

I cannot live without books. by Thomas Jefferson

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. by Sir Winston Churchill

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. by G. C. Lichtenberg

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. by Socrates

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. by Jane Austen

I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. by Euripides

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. by Michel de Montaigne

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides. by Jesse Louis Jackson

I catnap now and then, but I think while I nap, so it's not a waste of time. by Martha Stewart

I celebrate myself, and sing myself. by Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. by Walt Whitman

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy. by Ursula K. LeGuin

I check myself every day just to make sure this is the same person. by Tony Kanal

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. by Oscar Wilde

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man. by Themistocles

I claim the right to contradict myself. I don't want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes. by Federico Fellni

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better. by Harry S Truman

I concede by Richard Milhous Nixon

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind. by Robert Millikan

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. by Samuel Butler

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. by Charles Schwab

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. by J. R. R. Tolkien

I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life. by Sir Thomas Browne

I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School) by Dwight D Eisenhower

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments. by Nathaniel Emmons

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy. by Mark Duffy

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

I could prove God statistically. by George Gallup

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist by Peter Handke

I couldn't wait for success, so I went on ahead without it. by Jonathan Winters

I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies for the hardest victort is the victory over self. by Aristotle

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. by Aristotle

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. by W. Somerset Maugham

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. by Socrates

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. by Elizabeth II

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. by Susan B. Anthony

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others. by Jennifer Louden

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters. by Oprah Winfrey

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect. by Julius Irving

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. by Abraham Lincoln

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise. by Mary Wortley Montagu

I detest life-insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. by Stephen Leacock

I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another. by Homer

I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'. by William Shakespeare

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

I didn't really say everything I said. by Yogi Berra

I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying by Jalal ud-Din Rumi

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. by S. G. Tallentyre

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. by Etty Hillesum

I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores. by Thornton

I do most of my work sitting down that's where I shine. by Robert Charles Benchley

I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone. by Gale Brook Burket

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do. by Norman R. Augustine

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change-within himself, not on the outside. by Joseph Brodsky

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. by Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. by Albert Einstein

I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovaryisme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare. by George Eliot

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. by Albert Einstein

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. by Joseph Addison

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. by William Westmoreland

I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today. by Matthew Arnold

I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I do not confer praise or blame I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. by W. Somerset Maugham

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. by Clarence Darrow

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. by Seneca

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. by Isaac Asimov

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible. by Mavette Sadile

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work) by Ronald Reagan

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. by Galileo Galilei

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. by James Thurber

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. by Isaac Newton

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. by Chuang-tzu

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road. by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

I do not like this word bomb. It is not a bomb it is a device which is exploding. by Jacques LeBlanc

I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched. by John K. Hutchens

I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy. by Samuel Butler

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means. by Clarence Darrow

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. by Bette Davis

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. by Thomas Jefferson

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. by Abraham Lincoln

I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels. by Anthony Trollope

I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success....Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. by Nikola Tesla

I do not want a friend Who smiles when I smile Who weeps when I weep For my shadow in the pool Can do better than that. by Confucius

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. by Jane Austen

I do not want to dieuntil I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the see that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. by Kathe Kollwitz

I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable. by Henry David Thoreau

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. by Socrates

I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from When Galaxies Collide by John Ryman

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. by Elie Wiesel

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. by Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always. by Katherine Anne Porter

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. by Clarence Thomas

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. by George Eliot

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. by Joseph Campbell

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true. by Truman Capote

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. by Dorothy Parker

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement. by Lois McMaster Bujold

I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. by Jack Benny

I don't dream about actors and actresses They dream about me. I am reality, they are not. by Alexander Popov

I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. by Katherine Cebrian

I don't even know what street Canada is on. by Al Capone

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward. by Garth Brooks

I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap. by Bob Hope

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. by Mark Twain

I don't have a bank account, because I don't know my mother's maiden name. by Paula Poundstone

I don't have time for superficial friends. I suppose if you're really lonely you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what's the point by Courteney Cox

I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people. by Leona Helmsly

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

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. by Elvis Presley

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. by J. R. R. Tolkien

I don't know how man will fight World War III, but I do know how they will fight World War IV with sticks and stones. by Albert Einstein

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. by Jules Renard

I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. by Dorothy Parker

I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip. by Roger Zelazny

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone. by Bill Cosby

I don't know what kind of weapons will be used in the third world war, assuming there will be a third world war. But I can tell you what the fourth world war will be fought with -- stone clubs. by Albert Einstein

I don't know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones. by Albert Einstein

I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. by John Glenn

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. by Albert Schweitzer

I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. by Abraham Lincoln

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God. by W. Somerset Maugham

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest a while. by Max Eastman

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. by Ludwig Wittgenstein

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like dtente when there's a good English phrase for it-cold war. by Golda Meir

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism. by Howard Dietz

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. by Joe E. Louis

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you. by Wayne Gretzky

I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class. by David Mohler

I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't. by Dodie Smith

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places. by Mark Twain

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know. by Joseph Conrad

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. by Will Rogers

I don't mean he missed him, but he just didn't get him when he put the tag on him. by Jerry Coleman

I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. by Shirley Chisholm

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. by Victor Hugo

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. by Sir Edward Appleton

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. by Marshall McLuhan

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage. I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true. by Arsenio Hall

I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to even know what the questions are. Hey, where am I by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. by Arthur C. Clarke

I don't really trust a sane person. by Lyle Alzado

I don't say that the bird is 'good' or the bat is 'bad.' But I will say this At least the bird is less nude. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go. by Lillian Carter

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. by Samuel Goldwyn

I don't think God put me on this planet to judge others. I think he put me on this planet to gather specimens and take them back to my home planet. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I don't think I'm ever more 'aware' than I am right after I hit my thumb with a hammer. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision. by Barber B. Conable, Jr

I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it. by Oliver L. North

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. by Agatha Christie

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present. by W. Somerset Maugham

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do. (Invoking Fifth Amendment) by Oliver L. North

I don't think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane. by Eldridge Cleaver

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. by M. C. Escher

I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. by Samuel Goldwyn

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

I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president) by Alma Powell

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

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally. by Zelda

I don't want to sound Pollyannaish, but I hope that out of a tragedy like this something good will come. I hope we understand we're one family. by Madeleine Albright

I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns. by Walter Frederick Mondale

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. by Javan

I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given. by Real Live Preacher

I dote on his very absence. by William Shakespeare

I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. by Ursula K. LeGuin

I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. by Heywood

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. by William F Claire

I dream, therefore I become. by Cheryl Grossman

I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one. by Chinese Proverb

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion. by Miguel de Cervantes

I dwell in possibility. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I dwell in possibility... by Emily Dickinson

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress. by Elizabeth Montagu

I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor. by Roger Moore

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. by Albert Camus

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. by Oscar Levant

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. by Kahlil Gibran

I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. by Stephan Grellet

I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. by Edgar Watson Howe

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. by Ronald Reagan

I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. by Jean Kerr

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. by Virgil

I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. by Fulton John Sheen

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. by William H. Mauldin

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff...I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound. by Andrew Schneider

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy) by Dwight D Eisenhower

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever by George Gordon Byron

I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day. by Frank Sinatra

I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America) by Albert Einstein

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches. by Mohammed Daud Khan

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself. by Peter Hoeg

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. by William Shakespeare

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet. by Carry Nation

I felt like poisoning a monk. by Umberto Eco

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. by Rita Mae Brown

I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals by Jules Renard

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. by Oprah Winfrey

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. by John Cleese

I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt. by Miguel de Cervantes

I find nothing more depressing than optimism. by Paul Fussell

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. by Groucho Marx

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

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. by William Ernest Hocking

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. by Thomas Jefferson

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.' by Joel Rosenberg

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. by Johann von Goethe

I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. by Vince Lombardi

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. by Bertrand Russell

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. by Caesar Augustus

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. by Russell Baker

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. by Mae West

I get a standing ovation jaust standing. by George Burns

I go walking, and the hills loom above me, range upon range, one against the other. I cannot tell where one begins and another leaves off. But when I talk with God, He lifts me up where I can see clearly where everything has a distinct contour. by Madam Chaiang Kai-shek

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine. by Rita Rudner

I greet you as the shapers of American society. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I grow more intense as I age. by Florida Scott-Maxwell

I guess grace doesn't have to be logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace. by Max Lucado

I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when someone kills someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I guess of all my uncles, I liked Uncle Cave Man the best. We called him Uncle Cave Man because he lived in a cave and because sometimes he'd eat one of us. Later on we found out he was a bear. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well. by Jennifer Aniston

I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead. by Andrew Schneider

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it. by Samuel Goldwyn

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. by Woody Allen

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. by Emma Albani

I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. by Henry Bessemer

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving. by Beverly Sills

I had it all, and I blew it. (shortly before dying from cancer and other complications of alcoholism) by Mickey Mantle

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind. by Sybil Marshall

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life. by Nina Berberova

I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China) by Richard Milhous Nixon

I had rather be right than be President. by Henry Clay

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. by Lisa Alther

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am in agony. by Catullus

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood. by William Shakespeare

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. by Euripides

I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me. by Chris Rapier

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. by Joseph Baretti

I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. by Samuel Johnson

I hate music, especially when it's played. by Jimmy Durante

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. by Orson Welles

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'tis only to them that they are blessings. by Mary Wortley Montagu

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. by Will Durst

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. by Hunter S. Thompson

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. by Dwight D Eisenhower

I hate women because they always know where things are. by James Thurber

I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. by Edward Albee

I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiqus, one with another across the years, and noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism in the reports which followed the summit meetings and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuing years. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie. by Walker Best

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. by Robert Burns

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. by Charles M. Schulz

I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880) by Mark Twain

I have a problem about being nearly sixty I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one. by Elizabeth Janeway

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry. by Maxine Waters

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died. by Richard Diran

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have a spelling checkerIt came with my PCIt plainly marks four my revueMistakes I cannot sea.I've run this poem threw it,I'm sure your pleased too no,Its letter perfect in it's weigh,My checker tolled me sew. by Janet Minor

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. by Dr.

I have against me the bourgeois, the military and the diplomats, and for me, only the people who take the Mtro. by Charles De Gaulle

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.' by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it. by Thomas Mann

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves. by George Gordon Byron

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. by Tennessee Williams

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. by Sir Winston Churchill

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. by Helena Rubinstein

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that ... absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't , matters not one jot. The possibility is always there. by Monica Baldwin

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. by Monica Baldwin

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. by Abraham Lincoln

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. by Carol Burnett

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. by Jorge Luis Borges

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. by Meryl Streep

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. by Osbert Sitwell

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound. by Hellen Keller

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. by John Locke

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. by Steven Wright

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere. by Jawaharlal Nehru

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. by Albert Einstein

I have been both rich and poor--while I have respect for both, I am unimpressed and unawed by both as well. by John A. Field

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. by Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. by William Adams

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks. by Real Live Preacher

I have built my organization upon fear. by Al Capone

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. by Charles Robert Darwin

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking. by Joyce Grenfell

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. by Umberto Eco

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. by Charles De Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that the 22nd Amendment limiting the presidency to two terms was a mistake. Shouldn't the people have the right to vote for someone as many times as they want to vote for him by Ronald Reagan

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. by Marcel Marceau

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. by Blaise Pascal

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. by Bill Veeck

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you. by Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you. by Agatha Christie

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. by Jackie Mason

I have every sympathy with the American who was so horrified by what he had read about the effects of smoking that he gave up reading. by Henry G. Strauss

I have everything, yet have nothing and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. by Terence

I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish. by Christopher S. Drew

I have found adventure in flying, in world travel, in business, and even close at hand... Adventure is a state of mind - and spirit. by Jacqueline Cochran

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life. by Eli Khamarov

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then. by Dwight D Eisenhower

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. by Euripides

I have found power in the mysteries of thought. by Euripides

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. by Arthur Rubinstein

I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring. by Dodie Smith

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. by Harry S Truman

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. by Mother Theresa

I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding. by James Boswell

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. by Aristotle

I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. by Artemus Ward

I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. by John 174 Bible

I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. by Edgar Allan Poe

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. by Dr. Jonas Salk

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted. by Harry S Truman

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. by Plato

I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this dream a great dream. by John A. Appleman

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another. by William Shakespeare

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. by Charles De Gaulle

I have Immortal longings in me. by William Shakespeare

I have impeached myself by resigning. by Richard Milhous Nixon

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honestly out of countenance any day of the week, if there is anything to get got by it. by Charles Dickens

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. by Virgil

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. by Anthony Perkins

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart. by Alice Walker

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. by Walt Whitman

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. by Henry David Thoreau

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. by Igor Stravinsky

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. by Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to. by Margaret Cho

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. by Hal Borland

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. by Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. by Wernher von Braun

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. by Kahlil Gibran

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. by Ronald Reagan

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time. by Josh Billings

I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. by Henry David Thoreau

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. by Jean Ingelow

I have lived, tomorrow, I shall sleep in glory. by Georges Jacques Danton

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves. by Bruce Grocott

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. by Eugene Forsey

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. by Edward Morgan Forster

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions. by Dorothy Day

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. by Virginia

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. by Virginia Woolf

I have loved many, the more and the few - I have loved many that I might love you. by Grace Fallow Norton

I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough. by Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future. by Dan Quayle

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. by Louise Nevelson

I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. by Blaise Pascal

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. by Katharine Hepburn

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. by George Eliot

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. by Samuel Beckett

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. by Thomas Jefferson

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. by Calvin Coolidge

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. by Henry David Thoreau

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. by Harold MacMillan

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. by Dudley Field Malone

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. by Clarence Darrow

I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy. by Danny McGoorty

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. by Voltaire

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. by Galileo Galilei

I have never seen a more lucid, better balanced, mad mind than mine. by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. by Mark Twain

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo your time has come -- and gone. It's time for change in America. by William Jefferson Clinton

I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. by Eugene V. Debs

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. by Henry Miller

I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences. by Alexander Woollcott

I have no plans, and no plans to plan. by Mario M Cuomo

I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights. by Oscar Levant

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends...They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights by Warren Gamaliel Harding

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life--specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far. by Erica Jong

I have not failed. Ive just found 10,000 ways that dont work. by Thomas Alva Edison

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. by Unknown

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. by Confucius

I have not slept one wink. by William Shakespeare

I have not yet begun to fight by John Paul Jones

I have nothing but confidence in you, and very little of that. by Julius Henry Marx

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. by Sophocles

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. by E. V. Lucas

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them. by Edward Verall Lucas

I have now reigned about 50 years in victory or peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot. They amount to fourteen. by Abd Er-Rahman III

I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments. by Anne Frank

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. by Adrienne E. Gusoff

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. by Publilius Syrus

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating. by Alan Stewart Paton

I have one rule-attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine. by Sister Evangelist

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem-and that yardstick is Is it good for America by Dwight D Eisenhower

I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run. by Babe Ruth

I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers. Go ahead-make my day. by Ronald Reagan

I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them. by George Bush

I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser. by Charles Schwab

I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to. by Albert Einstein

I have read your book and much like it. by Moses Hadas

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. by Alan B. Watts

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. by Kyle Schmidt

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is. by Walt Whitman

I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad.N. B. This is the origin of the proverb, All good things must come to an end. by Psalms 11996

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen men fly bombers with their faces half- blown away. You're going to allow a few algebra formulas to ground you by Robin Green

I have seen the future and it doesn't work. by Robert Fulford

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

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. by Marcel Marceau

I have spread my dreams under your feet by William Butler Yeats

I have such poor vision I can date anybody. by Garry Shandling

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether. by Alfred North Whitehead

I have supported my deviations with reasons I did not stop at mere doubt I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure. by Marquis de Sade

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. by Thomas Jefferson

I have taken all knowledge to by my province. by Francis Bacon

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. by Thomas Jefferson

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf. by Robert Bloch

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have. by Jewel

I have thought too much to stoop to action. by Adam De L'Isle

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them The first is deep love, The second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world. Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world. by Lao Tzu

I have to be myself , I can't be no one else... by Noah Gallagher

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. by Georges Duhamel

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French. by Charles De Gaulle

I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion. by Themistocles

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile. by Goldie Hawn

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. by Poul Anderson

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives. by Hugh Elliott

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America ever violated an order-not one. by Oliver L. North

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand. by Chinese Proverb

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. by Confucius

I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority by Henry David Thoreau

I hereby resign this office of president of the United States. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I hold it true,what'er befallI feel it, when I sorrow most'Tis better to have loved and lostThan never to have loved at all. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. by Thomas Jefferson

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. by George Burns

I hope I never get so old I get religious. by Ingmar Bergman

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they choose a king, they don't just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick 'Americans' as their mascot. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I hope that after I die, people will say of me 'That guy sure owed me a lot of money.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I hope that no American ... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. by Herbert Rappaport

I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. by Emily Dickinson

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

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I improve on misquotation. by Cary Grant

I just don't think it's good for us to be run out of town. (Refusing to cancel Secretary of State visit to Moscow) by Ronald Reagan

I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits, that I'll find something really incredible. Not just a pattern, not just an order, but a sign. A mathematical sign. by Andrew Schneider

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. by Bill Hoest

I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. by Ruben Studdard

I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way. by Trey and Matt Stone Parker

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out. by Tony Blair

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran. by Andrew A. Rooney

I just wrap my arms around the whole backfield and peel 'em one by one until I get to the ball carrier. Him I keep. by Big Daddy Lipscomb

I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't. by Wee Willie Keeler

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. by Anne Frank

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. by Isaac Newton

I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. by Rudyard Kipling

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I know all except myself. by Francois Villon

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. by Oprah Winfrey

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

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. by Aeschylus

I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. by Euripides

I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous--a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. by Benjamin Franklin

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. by Albert Einstein

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life. by James M. Barrie

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. by Zsa Zsa Gabor

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. by Socrates

I know of no great men except those who have rendered great service to the human race. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. by Frank Moore Colby

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. by Henry David Thoreau

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks and it can't fly very high. by Wilbur Wright

I know of only one duty, and that is to love. by Albert Camus

I know of only one true failure never having tried to grow as a person. All else is simply happenstance. by Rod Hughes

I know some good marriages -- marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. by Erica Jong

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... by Thornton Wilder

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. by Socrates

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that by Tom Lehrer

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. by Robert McCloskey

I know that you think you know what I said. But I'm not sure whether you understood that what you heard is what I meant. by Alan Greenspan

I know the answer The answer lies within the heart of all mankind The answer is twelve I think I'm in the wrong building. by Charles M. Schulz

I know this--a man got to do what he got to do. by John Steinbeck

I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass. by Jeb Stuart Magruder

I know what pleasure is, for I have done good work. by Robert Louis Stephenson

I know where we're going, I just don't know where that IS by Las

I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe. by Richard Gere

I know why the caged bird sings. by Maya Angelou

I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you. by Colin Raye

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that. by George Pratt Shultz

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. by Gale Sayers

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. by Leo Rosten

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won't. by Bruce Jenner

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten--happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. by Brenda Ueland

I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness. by Brenda Ueland

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right--then go ahead. by Davy Crockett

I let the American people down. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. by Edith Ann

I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks. by Steve Martin

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. by Bob Dylan

I like bubbles and the whole thing. That's the fun of taking a bath. (on his new Magic's Elixir Bubble Bath) by Earvin Johnson

I like life. It's something to do. by Ronnie Shakes

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. by Noel Coward

I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food. by Albert Einstein

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. by Dr. Seuss

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. by Oscar Wilde

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. by Sir Winston Churchill

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

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. by Dwight D Eisenhower

I like to have a man's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us. by Louisa May Alcott

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. by Ernest Hemingway

I like to think of my best moment on the job as quiet victories. Victories over what Over the system, over the various bureaucracies not watching me, over my colleagues' indifference, over my patron's ignorance, over the very concept of horn-blowing pride. by Paul Wiener

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. by Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. by Willa Sibert Cather

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. by Jerome K. Jerome

I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. by Jerome K. Jerome

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say 'What is my exciting thing for today' Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow. by Barbara Charline Jordan

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. by Eugene Delacroix

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. by Albert Einstein

I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. by Samuel Johnson

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. by Agatha Christie

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. by August Strindberg

I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. by James Thurber

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. by Hellen Keller

I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem. by Unknown

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I look into their eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, 'I am going to bury you. by Seve Ballesteros

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. by Samuel Johnson

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there. by Belle Livingstone

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. (about the award ceremony, Atlanta Olympics) by Matt Ghaffari

I love acting. It is so much more real than life. by Oscar Wilde

I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them. by Robert Bridges

I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police. by Janina Atkins

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. by James Baldwin

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. by Rita Rudner

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix. by Dan Quayle

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare. by Joyce Stranger

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. by Noel Coward

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

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. by Douglas Noel Adams

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. by Margaret Cho

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. by Peggy Noonan

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. by August Strindberg

I love life because what more is there. by Anthony Hopkins

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness. by Trey and Matt Stone Parker

I love making friends.... it's people I can't stand by Linus

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. by Walt Disney

I love my country too much to be a nationalist. by Albert Camus

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. by John Updike

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. by Colette

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. by Marlene Dietrich

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. by Nelson Boswell

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning. by Izaak Walton

I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. by John Fellows Akers

I love those who yearn for the impossible. by Johann von Goethe

I love those who yearn for the impossible. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. by Henry David Thoreau

I love to go to Washington -- if only to be near my money. by Bob Hope

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good. by Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. by John Keats

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. by Kahlil Gibran

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies. by Pietro Aretino

I love youNot only for what you areBut for what I amWhen I am with you. by Roy Croft

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye. by Leonard

I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. by Richard M. Nixon

I made my money by selling too soon. by Bernard Baruch

I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. by Frank Capra

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true. by Carl Sagan

I make the most of all that comes, And the least of all that goes. by Sara Teasdale

I married beneath me. All women do. by Lady Nancy Astor

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone. by Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. by Voltaire

I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be. by Ainsley Carry

I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. by Douglas Adams

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. by Douglas Noel Adams

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. by William Frank Buckley, Jr.

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent. by Dr. Seuss

I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues. by Duke Ellington

I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool. by William Shakespeare

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. by Victor Hugo

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things. by Dorothy Parker

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses. by Johann Kepler

I must be cruel, only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. by William Shakespeare

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. by William Blake

I must follow him through thick and thin. by Miguel de Cervantes

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader by Benjamin Disraeli

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it. by Golda Meir

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up. by Mark Twain

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. by Frank Herbert

I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. by Goldie Hawn

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. by Fran Lebowitz

I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling. by Lech Walesa

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. by William Blake

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. (After she was pelted with eggs during a walkabout on New Zealand visit) by Elizabeth II

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. by Ayn Rand

I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent. by Assyrian Proverb

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now. by Lamar Alexander

I never add up. I only subtract from the total dying... . . . It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters. by Mother Theresa

I never been in no situation where havin' money make it any worse. by Clinton Jones

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. by Dick Gregory

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. by Johann von Goethe

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself by Lawrence Peter Berra

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe. by Leo Rosten

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time... by Charles Dickens

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old. by Robert Frost

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget. by Benjamin Disraeli

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively. by Golda Meir

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. by Harry S Truman

I never feel age...If you have creative work, you don't have age or time. by Louise Nevelson

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception. by Groucho Marx

I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like. by Dave Navarro

I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express. by Caldwell O'Keefe

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. by Henry Ward Beecher

I never know how much of what I say is true. by Bette Midler

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. by H.L. Mencken

I never let schooling interfere with my education. by Mark Twain

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. by John Peel

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. by Edward Gibbon

I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years. by Samuel Goldwyn

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway. by Josh Billings

I never reprimand a boy in the evening-darkness and a troubled mind are a poor combination. by Frank L. Boyden

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. by George Bernard Shaw

I never said I had no idea about most of the things you said I said I had no idea about. by Billy

I never said most of the things I said. by Lawrence Peter Berra

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. by John Constable

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

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine every man for himself, and God for us all. by Miguel de Cervantes

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota. by Fran Lebowitz

I never vote for anyone I always vote against. by W. C. Fields

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends. by Walt Whitman

I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient. by Cyra McFadden

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. by Woodrow Wilson

I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner) by Jim Lehrer

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. by George Bernard Shaw

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. by Robert Frost

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it... by Learned Hand

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. by Henry David Thoreau

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind. by Bryant Gumbel

I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.' by Oscar Levant

I once said, We will bury you, and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. by Nikita Khrushchev

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays. by Henny Youngman

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. by Charles Dickens

I only know two pieces one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. by Victor Borge

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country. by Nathan Hale

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. by G. K. Chesterton

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. by Orson Welles

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person. by Jane Austen

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. by Jane Wagner

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. by Steven Pearl

I play in the low 80's. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. by Joe E. Louis

I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve. by William Shakespeare

I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires. by William Shakespeare

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) by Charles De Gaulle

I prefer my oysters fried That way I know my oysters died. by Roy G. Blount, Jr.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. by Michel de Montaigne

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. by Alexandre Dumas

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

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. by Frederick Douglas

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrire than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue. by Alexander Meigs Haig

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. by Douglas MacArthur

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. by Richard Lewis

I quote others only in order the better to express myself. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. by Sydney Biddle Barrows

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark. by Mary Stewart

I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. by Thomas Jefferson

I read part of it all the way through. by Samuel Goldwyn

I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care. by Dave Barry

I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. by Edith Cavell

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked. by Harold Bloom

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. by Charles Lindbergh

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter. by Beverly Sills

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. by David Bissonette

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants. by Mario Andretti

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. by Nathan Hale

I remember a time when everybody I loved hated me because I hated them. - Letter to Stuart Sutcliffe circa 1960 by John Lennon

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in the negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monkey. 'That's different. For a monkey, it's terrific.' by Igor Stravinsky

I remember how my Great Uncle Jerry would sit on the porch and whittle all day long. Once he whittled me a toy boat out of a larger toy boat I had. It was almost as good as the first one, except now it had bumpy whittle marks all over it. And no paint, because he had whittled off the paint. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember how the other kids used to say that old Mister Swenson was the meanest man in town. But I said I thought he was nice, that he just didn't know how to show it. The meanest man in town, I said, was the mean old guy who lived in the big white house. 'THAT'S MISTER SWENSON,' they said. Oh, my mistake. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. by Abraham Lincoln

I remember one day I was at Grandpa's farm and I asked him about sex. He sort of smiled and said, 'Maybe instead of telling you what sex is, why don't we go out to the horse pasture and I'll show you.' So we did, and there on the ground were my parents having sex. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember we were all horrified to see Grandpa up on the roof with his Superman cape on. 'Get down' yelled Uncle Lou. 'Don't move' screamed Grandma. But Grandpa wouldn't listen. He walked to the edge of the roof and stuck out his arms, like he was going to fly. I forget what happened after that. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I remember when I was in the army, we had the toughest drill sergeant in the world. He'd get right up next to your face and yell, and if you didn't have the right answers, mister, you'd be peeling potatoes or changing the latrine. Hey, wait. I wasn't in the army. Then who WAS that guy by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I repeat...that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its exercise that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. by Benjamin Disraeli

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. by Benjamin Franklin

I respect everyone. I even respect journalists. by Alexander Popov

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. by Wilson Mizner

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them. by Charles De Gaulle

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut. by Johann von Goethe

I row after health like a waterman... by Jonathan Swift

I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me. by Mario M Cuomo

I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be. by Walter Frederick Mondale

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. by Georgia O'Keeffe

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. by Michelangelo

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. by Henry David Thoreau

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it. by G. K. Chesterton

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. by Walt Whitman

I say that good painters imitated nature but that bad ones vomited it. by Miguel de Cervantes

I say, thou mad March hare. by John Skelton

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. 'That was fun,' I said. 'You bet it was,' said Nick. 'Let's climb higher.' 'No,' I said. 'I think we should be heading back now.' 'We have time,' Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. by Sufi Proverb

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. by Carl Sandburg

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul. by Samual Rutherford

I see God in every human being. by Mother Theresa

I see great things in baseball. It's our game--the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. by Walt Whitman

I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever-increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations. by H. G. Wells

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. by Alanis Morissette

I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day. by Heywood

I see something that has to be done and I organize it. by Elinor Guggenheimer

I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. by Isaac Newton

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers. by Hellen Keller

I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I send no agent or medium, offer no representative of value, by Walt Whitman

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell. by Omar Khayym

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER. by Groucho Marx

I shall be as secret as the grave. by Miguel de Cervantes

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I --I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. by Robert Frost

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. by Sir Thomas Malory

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. by Seneca

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. by Hermann Broch

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. by Willa Carter

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five by George Gordon Byron

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck. by Graffito

I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead. by Homer

I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists. by Robert Browning

I shut my eyes in order to see. by Paul Gauguin

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. by Patricia Moyes

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget. by Charles Hamilton Aide

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to. by Harry S Truman

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means -- except by getting off his back. by Leo Tolstoy

I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. by Wayne Gretzky

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty. by Ellen Stugis Hooper

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man he fornicated and read the papers. by Albert Camus

I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. by Franklin D. Roosevelt

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself Why this is Christmas Day by David Grayson

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. by Lillian Smith

I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself. by Anon.

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare and I dare a little the more, as I grow older. by D. A. Battista

I stalk my prison like my own ghost... by Roger Zelazny

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made. by Dan Quayle

I stand in awe of my body. by Henry David Thoreau

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. by Ralph Nader

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. by Thomas Jefferson

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. by John Burroughs

I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. by Doug McLeod

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. by Shirley Temple

I strive to be brief, and become obscure. by Horace

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm. by Henry Truman

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves. by Edward Morgan Forster

I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. by E. M. Forster

I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts. by G. B. Burgin

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. by Oscar Wilde

I sure hope you're staying alive for the upcoming Dodgers series. by Jerry Coleman

I swear to the LordI still can't seeWhy Democracy meansEverybody but me. by Langston Hughes, uThe Black Man Speaksu

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. by A. J. Liebling

I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it. by Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier

I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity. by George Herbert Walker Bush

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself. by Lois McMaster Bujold

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. by Joseph Conrad

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home. by Robert Orben

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. by Henny Youngman

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. by Lord Brabazon

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. by Mario M Cuomo

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true. by Debi Thomas

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. by Carl Sandburg

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. by Herb Caen

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. by Woody Allen

I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God. by Hellen Keller

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. by William Shakespeare

I thank my God everytime I remember you. by Philippians 13 NIV Bible

I thank You, God, in Heaven, for friends. by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

I think a cute movie idea would be about a parrot who is raised by eagles. It would be cute because the parrot can't seem to act like an eagle. After a while, though, to keep the movie from getting boring, maybe put in some pornography. Later, we see the happy parrot flying along, acting like an eagle. He see two parrots below and starts to attack, but it's his parents. Then, some more pornography. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think a good gift for the president would be a chocolate revolver. And since he's so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him and hand it to him. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think a good movie would be about a guy who's a brain scientist, but he gets hit on the head and it damages the part of the brain that makes you want to study the brain. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what They never find him. And you know why they never find him It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think a good scene in a movie would be where one scientist tells another scientist, 'You know what will save the world You're holding it in your hand.' And the other scientist looks, and in his hand are peanuts. Then when he looks up, the first scientist is being taken away to the insane asylum. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think a good way to get in a movie is to show up where they're making the movie, then stick a big cactus plant onto your buttocks and start yowling and running around. Everyone would think it was funny, and the head movie guy would say, 'Hey, let's put him in the movie.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think a new, different kind of bowling should be 'carpet bowling.' It's just like regular bowling, only the lanes are carpet instead of wood. I don't know why we should do this, but my God, we've got to try something by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. by Tom Stoppard

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes. by Dan Burrus

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. by Albert Einstein

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

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder. by Jay Leno

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. by George Eliot

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think it a very happy accident. by Miguel de Cervantes

I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought. by John Locke

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. by Vladimir Nabokov

I think it would be a good idea. by Mahatma Gandhi

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about. by Don Mazankowski

I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body. by Rachel Blanchard

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. by George Carlin

I think it's them...Men. They have no fortitude. They're always dying or skedaddling off at the first sign of trouble. So tell me this, who is left to pick up the pieces, ship the body. clean out the closets Us And they have the audacity to call us the weaker sex. by Robin Green

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house. by Lawrence Peter Berra

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. by Samuel Goldwyn

I think my favorite monster movie is 'Gone With the Wind', because it has that ear monster and that big-dress monster. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. by Bob Dylan

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center. by Stephen Spender

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. by Shelley Winters

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. by Newt Gingrich

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. by Tony Bennet

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example, could probably use a cheap ice pick. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that ther's always somebody there, somebody that's family. by Trey and Matt Stone Parker

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. by Real Live Preacher

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending that he's throwing up, is not what I call hospitality. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think Superman and Santa Claus are actually the same guy, and I'll tell you why Both fly, both wear red, and both have a beard. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to. by Dave Barry

I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. by Oscar Wilde

I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. by Ogden Nash

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. by Joyce Kilmer

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere. by James Grover Thurber

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. by Trey and Matt Stone Parker

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. by Dwight D Eisenhower

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12. by David Bowie

I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them. by Calvin Coolidge

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. by Cato the Elder

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true. by Derek Curtis Bok

I think the mistake a lot of us make is thinking the state-appointed psychiatrist is our 'friend.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. by Frank A. Clark

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody. by Ronald Reagan

I think the world is run by 'C' students. by Al McGuire

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. by Gerald Early

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. by Thomas John Watson, Sr.

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. by Muriel Rukeyser

I think there probably should be a rule that if you're talking about how many loaves of bread a bullet will go through, it's understood that you mean lengthwise loaves. Otherwise, it makes no sense. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. by Isak Dinesen

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. - Calvin by Bill Watterson

I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know. by William Safire

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. by Francis Bacon

I think we might be going a bridge too far. by Sir Frederick Browning

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. by Clifton Paul Fadiman

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. by Bertrand Russell

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. by Betty White

I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from 'Thank God it's Friday' to 'Thank God it's Monday.' If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent. by Ann Diehl

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry. by Alan Bleasdale

I think when you go on trial they should have a parrot there that says guilty or not guilty for you, as a sort of courtesy. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night. by Margery Cuyler

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. by Mark Twain

I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death...Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through. by Sybil Adelman

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. by Edmund Burke

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ... I thought it would be me. by Robert Francis Kennedy

I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know. by Socrates

I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea. by Oliver L. North

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet. by Rodney Dangerfield

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. by Henny Youngman

I told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth. by Dennis O'Keefe

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. by Homer

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again. (On leaving the Executive Office Building) by Richard Milhous Nixon

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. by Woody Allen

I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. by The Road Not Taken

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth and truth rewarded me. by Simone de Beauvoir

I traveled a good deal all over the world, and I got along pretty good in all these foreign countries, for I have a theory that it's their country and they got a right to run it like they want to. by Will Rogers

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. by William J. Clinton

I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him He was nowhere else to be found. by Jalal ud-Din Rumi

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people. by Mary S. Calderone

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it. by Oprah Winfrey

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. by Charlotte Bronte

I try to do the right thing at the right time.They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. by Kareem Abdul-Jabar

I try to make everyone's day just a little more surreal. by Bill Watterson

I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I understand a fury in your words, But not the words. by William Shakespeare

I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more. by Candice Bergen

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. by Nancy Astor

I used to envy kids who had an old-fashioned Grandpa. Not any more. I've got a new ambition. Now I just want to become a modern-type Grandpa myself-and really start living. by Hal

I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary. by Jules Feiffer

I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet. by Andrew Schneider

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. by Bruce Sterling

I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate. by Sam James Ervin, Jr.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. by James Thurber

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. by Steven Wright

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

I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult the calendar. by Robert Brault

I voted for you during your last election. (To President Richard M Nixon) by Mao Zedong

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. by Theodore Roethke

I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be The waves that plunged along the shore Said only Dreamer, dream no more by George William Curtis

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death. by Zora Neale Hurston

I want freedom for the full expression on my personality. by Mahatma Gandhi

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted-not my hand held by an old smoothie. by William Safire

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. by George Bernard Shaw

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. by James Lileks

I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. by Robert Bakker

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details. by Albert Einstein

I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power. by David McCord

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. by D. H. Lawrence

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions) by Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time. by Nikita Khrushchev

I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good ... if a Christian voted for Clinton, he sinned against God. It's that simple. Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country... by Randall Terry

I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate) by Richard Milhous Nixon

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. by Gilda Radner

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. by Sylvia Plath

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

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. by Rita Rudner

I was alarmed at my doctor's report He said I was sound as a dollar. by Ronald Reagan

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. by Anna Freud

I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe I told it not, my wrath did grow. by William Blake

I was baptized with the Holy Spirit when I took Him by simple faith in the Word of God. by R. A. Torrey

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American. by Daniel Webster

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. by Richard Feynman

I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. by Richard Phillips Feynman

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. by Anwar el Sadat

I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. by Ellen DeGeneres

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. by Brendan Francis Behan

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. by Bernard Mannes Baruch

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do by Ronnie Shakes

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso. by Rita Rudner

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. by Mark Twain

I was in love with loving. by Saint Augustine

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world. by Peter Ustinov

I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable. (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards) by Lizzy Gardiner

I was never less alone than while by myself. by Edward Lawrence Gibson

I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing. by Charles Bukowski

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. by Will Rogers

I was not born to be free. I was born to adore and to obey. by Clive Staples Lewis

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. by Sally Field

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. by J Danforth Quayle

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society. by Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

I was so free with him as not to mince the matter. by Miguel de Cervantes

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. by Johnny Carson

I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. by Marie Curie

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself that my future lay in my own hands. by Darius Ogden Mills

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend. by Emo Phillips

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing. by Deacon Jones

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. by Bette Davis

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. by Woody Allen

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. by Detronius Arbiter

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. by Steven Wright

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. by Oscar Wilde

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. by Kahlil Gibran

I wasn't put on this Earth to make you feel like a man. by Mary Bertone

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. by William Shakespeare

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. by Mario M Cuomo

I went to a store and asked if they had anything to put under coasters. by Steven Wright

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. by Henry David Thoreau

I will be near you when you cry if just to say I sympathize and when it's more than you can take I'll watch the tears fall from your eyes. by Mortal

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. by Michel de Montaigne

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. by Cicero

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner. by James Cash Penney

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. by Aesop

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year. by Charles Dickens

I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope. by Sextus Julius Frontinus

I will love the light for it shows me the way, Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. by Og Mandino

I will not add another word. by Horace

I will not criticize another until I have walked a mile in his mocassins. by American Indian Proverb

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead. by Woody Allen

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail. by Muriel Strode

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. by Booker T. Washington

I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult.... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking. by Og Mandino

I will remember the works of the Lord surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will mediate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. by Psalm 7711, 12 Bible

I will show you fear in a handful of dust. by T. S. Eliot

I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. by Abraham Lincoln

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. 'Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake,' he said. 'They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.' by Anthony Lake

I will veto again and again until spending is brought under control. by Ronald Reagan

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. by William Shakespeare

I wish a robot would get elected President. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish everybody would have to have an electric thing implanted in our heads that gave us a shock whenever we did something to disobey the president. Then somehow I get myself elected president. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I wish I could shrink down to the size of an ant. And maybe there would be thousands of other people shrunken down to ant-size, and we would get together and dig tunnels down into the ground and live there. But don't ever call us 'ants,' because we hate that. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't. by Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo, I'd have all my money back. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I lived back in the Old West days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I lived on a planet that had two suns---regular sun and 'rogue' sun. That way, when somebody asked me what time it was, I'd say, 'Regular time' And they'd say, 'Yeah.' And I'd say, 'Sorry, all I have is rogue time.' It'd be fun to be a stuck-up rogue-time guy. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish my name was Todd, because then I could say, 'Yes, my name's Todd. Todd Blankenship.' Oh, also I wish my last name was Blankenship. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I wish outer-space guys would conquer Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little basket-beds with my name on it. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. by Tom Lehrer

I wish scientists would come up with a way to make dogs a lot bigger, but with a smaller head. That way, they'd still be good as watchdogs, but they wouldn't eat so much. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics. by Theodore Roosevelt

I wish there was a disease where you're afraid of clouds, because I think I could cure it. First, you sit the patient down and have a long personal talk. After that, I'm not sure, but maybe you could throw some water in his face or something. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wish they would only take me as I am. by Vincent Van Gogh

I wish you all the joy you can wish. by William Shakespeare

I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again. by William Shakespeare

I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out. (To Prime Minister Harold Wilson) by Lyndon B. Johnson

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. by Derek Bethune

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. by Carl Sandburg

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. by Rita Rudner

I wonder if the polite thing to do is always the right thing to do. When I met the family from Japan, they all bowed. I pretended like I was going to bow, but then I just kept going and flipped over on my back. I did this five times. I think they got the point. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came. by Jefferson Davis

I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet' by Mike Godwin

I worship the quicksand he walks in. by Art Buchwald

I would advise you to keep your overhead down avoid a major drug habit play every day and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. by James Taylor

I would die for my country, but I could never let my country die for me. by Neil Kinnock

I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, This man was an absolute fool. None of the disastrous things that he reluctantly predicted ever came to pass by Lewis Mumford

I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. by Aeschylus

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. by E. B. White

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age. by George Burns

I would like to have engraved inside every wedding band 'Be kind to one another.' This is the Golden Rule of Marriage and the secret of making love last through the years. by Randolph Ray

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. by Cato the Elder

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. by Bertrand Russell

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years. by Martin Luther

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes. by Fidel Castro

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. by E. M. Forster

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave. by Edward Morgan Forster

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. by Elbert Hubbard

I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. by Jack London

I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill. by Holly Lisle

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. by Woodrow Wilson

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue. by Dolly Payne Todd Madison

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. by Gerry Spence

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. by Robert Green Ingersoll

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. by Harry Emerson Fosdick

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. by Woodrow Wilson

I would rather make my name than inherit it. by William Makepeace Thackeray

I would rather reach for the stars, Then at least I know That I could never end up with dirt on my hands. by Unknown

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. by Dwight D Eisenhower

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. by Sir Winston Churchill

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. by John Keats

I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important like a league game or something. by Dick Butkus

I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone. by Barry Goldwater

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on. by Beryl Pfizer

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. by Joan Didion

I write music with an exclamation point by Richard Wagner

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning. by Peter De Vries

I'd better get off the phone now, I've already told you more than I heard myself. by Loretta Lockhorn

I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution. by Dean Koontz

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. by Brian W. Kernighan

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. by Graffito

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me, I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way. by Edgar Albert Guest

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. by Pablo Picasso

I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that's a documentary by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes I bet you can really see it in those genitals. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. by Milton Berle

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. by George Burns

I'd rather be lucky than good. by Lefty Gomez

I'd rather be rich than stupid. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. by Craig Volk

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I'd rather go on hearing your lies than to go on living without you. by Elvis Presley

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. by e e cummings

I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War by Richard Milhous Nixon

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny. by Sam Donaldson

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy and that's the truth. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. by Joe Orton

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. by Pete Rose

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. by Edward De Bono

I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow. by Ronald Reagan

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. by Bob Dylan

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. by Miles Davis

I'll sleep when I'm dead. by Warren Zevon

I'll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It cost a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It's addictive. And there's a fantastic brand loyalty. by Warren Buffett

I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40. by James Grover Thurber

I'm a born-again atheist. by Gore Vidal

I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me. by Toni Morrison

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. by Thomas Jefferson

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary. by Lawrence Peter Berra

I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. by Robert Frost

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. by Wendy Cope

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. by Solomon Short

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. by Mignon McLaughlin

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. by Carl Sandburg

I'm as pure as the driven slush. by Tallulah Bankhead

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

I'm becoming more and more myself with time, I guess that's what grace is, the refinement of your soul through time. by Jewel

I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese. by Shirley Mount Hufstedler

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. by George Carlin

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. by Peter Ustinov

I'm disappointed, but I'm not going to run around like Dennis Rodman and head-butt somebody. (after losing the Masters tournament) by Greg Norman

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. by George McGovern

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. by Mignon McLaughlin

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here. by Payne Stewart

I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away. by Oscar Levant

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose. by S Hayakawa

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left. by George Burns

I'm grateful to you. If it weren't for you, I'd be in Cicely right now and I'd still be running that rat race, still locked in that commute. I'd be totally stressed, I'd be totally ignorant of what my life could be. I'm happier now than I've ever been. by Andrew Schneider

I'm hard-nosed about luck. I think it sucks. Yeah, if you spend seven years looking for a job as a copywriter, and then one day somebody gives you a job, you can say, Gee, I was lucky I happened to go up there today. But, dammit, I was going to go up there sooner or later in the next seventy years. If you're persistent in trying and doing and working, you almost make your own fortune. by Jerry Della Femina

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself. by Mike Tyson

I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body. by Elaine Boosler

I'm just an average guy. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson either. by Mike Tyson

I'm just guessing, but probably one of the early signs that your radarscope is wearing out is something I call 'image fuzz-out.' But I've never even seen a radarscope, so I wouldn't totally go by what I've just said here. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. by David Letterman

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here. by Wil Wheaton

I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. by Oliver L. North

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. by e e cummings

I'm never going to be a movie star. But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never going to teach first and second grade. by Mary J. Wilson

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. by Dorothy Parker

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat by Will Rogers

I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual I'm too abstract I think too much. by Newt Gingrich

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago. by Will Rogers

I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander. by Isaac Asimov

I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you. by George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. by A. Whitney Brown

I'm not addicted to nicotine, so why do I have to participate in your drug addiction by Ken Faver

I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a gun at me, let alone fire it. And you know what I'm doing while they're aiming it at me I just sort of slip off to the side, and then suddenly run up and kick the gun out of their hands. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. by George Carlin

I'm not dumb enough to be a goalie. by Brad Hull

I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. by Bill Watterson

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. by Lawrence Peter Berra

I'm not going to let anybody come down at night like Nicodemus and whisper something in my ear that no one else can hear. That is not executive privilege it is poppycock. by Sam James Ervin, Jr.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. by Leonard Bernstein

I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental. by Jeff Melvoin

I'm not naive. I realise that quality of life and income are inextricably bound together, but sooner or later we're going to have to ask ourselves whether it is possible to make life more meaningful without charging it to Visa. by Daron Hicklin

I'm not running, and I'm not walking fast. I'm going where I need to be. by Johnny McEntyre

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. by Bethania McKenstry

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them. by Edward Irving Koch

I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.' by Unknown

I'm perplexed when people adopt the modish abbreviation Ms., which doesn't abbreviate anything except common sense. by Dick Cavett

I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money. by Arthur Godfrey

I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. by Scott Adams

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences. by Howard Abrahamson

I'm still an atheist, thank God. by Luis Bunuel

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse. by Brian Eno

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. by William Fullbright

I'm telling you, just attach a big parachute TO THE PLANE ITSELF Is anyone listening to me by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. by Alexander Meigs Haig

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named for him. by Herbert Clark Hoover

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level. by Dana Carvey

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas by Jean Kerr

I'm tired of Love I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But Money gives me pleasure all the time. by Hilaire Belloc

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war. by Lyndon B. Johnson

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know. by Garry Shandling

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking. by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.' by Earl Warren

I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. by Edward Chilton

I've always followed my father's advice he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. by John Wayne

I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position. by Pat Conroy

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. by Arnold Palmer

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, Ain't that the truth. by Quincy Jones

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day. by Jesse Barfield

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. by Beverly Sills

I've analyzed the best I can ... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course. by Richard Milhous Nixon

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing. by Alice Killer

I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. by Auguste Renoir

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. by Al Capone

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. by Totie Fields

I've been over what I'm supposed to say and I've got to tell you, it's pretty persuasive stuff, but is it the whole truth It's a slice of truth, a morsel, a fraction. It's a piece of the pie, certainly not the whole enchilada, and now that I've been thinking about it, I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle. Is there such a thing as objective truth I wonder. by Jeff Melvoin

I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better. by Sophie Tucker

I've been thinking about that old Zen conundrum what's the sound of one hand clapping My personal opinion--nothing. You don't have two hands, you don't have any clapping. It's as simple as that. Stars, galaxies, clapping hands, what's the point The point is that we all need somebody, whether you're a supercluster or a little proton, a yin or a yang. Everybody is hooked into everybody else. by Geoffrey Neighor

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. by Gary Trudeau

I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. by Mark Twain

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. by Anthony Robbins

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. by Oprah Winfrey

I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. by Charlie Brown

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or or not. by Fran Lebowitz

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. by Brian Tracy

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. by Lawana Blackwell

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. by Julius Henry Marx

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. by Groucho Marx

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck. by Kareem Abdul-Jabar

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. by Ring Lardner

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world. by Trey and Matt Stone Parker

I've learned that although it's hard to admit it, I'm secretly glad my parents are strict. by Child Age 15

I've learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night. by Child Age 7

I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up. by Child Age 13

I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love. by Unknown

I've learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities... and move forward. Start TODAY, by Un-Ty-ing the knots that LIMIT you by Ty Howard

I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back. by Child Age 9

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. by Oprah Winfrey

I've learned that you can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. by Child Age 7

I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust. by Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over. by Jerry Coleman

I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. by Charles De Secondat

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement. by Pete Rose

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get. by Anne Tyler

I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. by W. C. Fields

I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience. by Ronald Reagan

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's mortality. by James Joyce

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. by Jimmy Stewart

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. by A. E. Houseman

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. by John Galsworthy

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. by William Frank Buckley, Jr.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. by Aldous Huxley

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows. by David T. Wolf

Ideals are like stars you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. by Carl Schurz

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. by John Steinbeck

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. by John Ernst Steinbeck

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. by Bern Williams

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. by Midge Dector

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. by Gaston Bachelard

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement. by Bruce Lee

Ideas control the world. by James Abram Garfield

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

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. by Don Marquis

Ideas shape the course of history. by John Maynard Keynes

Ideas won't keep something must be done about them. by Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world. by Macneile Dixon

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes. by James Arthur Baldwin

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. by Eugene Ionesco

Ideology is a form of illiteracy. Those addicted to it are unable to understand anything other than what fits their pattern. by John Saul

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. by Hippocrates

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. by Floyd Dell

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. by Ignacio Estrada

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. by Rachel Carson

If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. by Dorothy Law Nolte

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains. by William Penn

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk by Laurence J. Peter

If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign by Albert Einstein

If a cow can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. by Dick Allen

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. by Alfred North Whitehead

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. by Albert Einstein

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. by John F. Kennedy

If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. by Mark

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut. by Albert Einstein

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is 'God is crying.' And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is 'Probably because of something you did.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger. by Thomas Huxley

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third. by Cicero

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. by Henry Ward Beecher

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated by Henry David Thoreau

If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. by Hammurabi

If a man die, shall he live again All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. by Job 1414 Bible Hebrew

If a man does his best, what else is there by George Smith Patton, Jr.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. by Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. by Seneca

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. by Samuel Johnson

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. by Samuel Johnson

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. by Benjamin Franklin

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it ... makes him landlord to a ghost. by Lloyd Douglas

If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question. by Victor Hugo

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. by Thomas Wolfe

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. by Thomas Wolfe

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. by Herodotus

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. by Yiddish Proverb

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. by Bertrand Russell

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. by Seneca

If a man knows not what harbour he seeks, any wind is the right wind. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I. by W. Somerset Maugham

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer because it was he, because it was I. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. by Confucius

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. by Henry David Thoreau

If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead. by Erma Bombeck

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

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. by Confucius

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. by Johann von Goethe

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. by Buddha

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

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too. by W. Somerset Maugham

If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig. by Charles Dickens

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. by Shimon Peres

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. by Lisa Moriyama

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life. by Eric Hoffer

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way. by Gurdjieff

If a thing goes without saying -- let it. by Jacob Braude

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. by Pierre Beaumarchais

If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation... by Anon.

If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. by Thomas Hardy

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. by Thomas Peters

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. by Dave Barry

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know by Steven Wright

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away. by Victor Hugo

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure by Nicolas Boileau

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure by Harry Shearer

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington. (Reply to President Ronald Reagan in defense of Palestinian terrorist) by Muammar Qaddafi

If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and they make fun of it, we should say we were just kidding, that this isn't really our civilization, but a gag we hoped they would like. Then we tell them to come back in twenty years to see our REAL civilization. After that, we start a crash program of coming up with an impressive new civilization. Either that, or just shoot down the aliens as they're waving good-bye. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. by George Bernard Shaw

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. by John Kenneth Galbraith

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. by John Stuart Mill

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. by Blaise Pascal

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. by Reginald Blyth

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them. by Unknown

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give. by Bertrand Russell

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over. by Yiddish Proverb

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. by Doug Larson

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. by Dorothy Parker

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around. by Christina Stead

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls. by Rob Brown

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. by Paul Beatty

If all the world's a stage, then where is the audience sitting by Unknown

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. by William Shakespeare

If all your peers understand what you've done, it's not creative. by H. Heimlich

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. by Marya Mannes

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. by Sir Arthur Eddington

If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so by Unknown

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong. by Arthur C. Clarke

If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease If the mind retains its absoluteness, The ten thousand things are of one suchness. by Seng-T'San

If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice. by Tom Stoppard

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. by Richard Milhous Nixon

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. by Niccolo Machiavelli

If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks. by Francis Bacon

If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. by Robert Francis Kennedy

If any man says he hates war more than I do, he better have a knife, that's all I have to say. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If any of us had a child that we thought was as bad as we know we are, we would have cause to start to worry. by Will Rogers

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient at others, so bewildered and so weak and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control We are, to be sure, a miracle every way but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. by Jane Austen

If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. by Walt Whitman

If anyone attempts to hall down the American flag shoot him on the spot. by John A. Dix

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you. by Paul William Bear Bryant

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. by Philip

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence you ever tried by Unknown

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. by Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. by Bill Lyon

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. by M. H. Alderson

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. by Tom Stoppard

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that ... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it. by John Lennon

If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice. by John Blofeld

If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave. by Ralph Kiner

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy. by Samual Rutherford

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be--a christian. by Mark Twain

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well. by Lawana Blackwell

If Darwin's theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now. by Larry Wright

If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians. by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. by Abraham Lincoln

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. by William Adams

If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based. by Betty Naomi Friedan

If doctors ever tell you that you've 'flipped out,' don't believe them, and just keep on doing what you were doing, because something tells me 'the Man' is behind this. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If dogs could talk, perhaps we'd find it just as hard to get along with them as we do with people. by Diana Black

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. by Hans Reichenbach

If ever a man could have felt the church to be unnecessary, he was Jesus. Yet he did not stay away form the church of his day. It was his custom to go to the synagogue on the Sabbath, and he made many trips to the temple. by R. Brokhoff

If ever an error had 'F' written on it, that grounder did. by Jerry Coleman

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. by Anne Bradstreet

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. by Gail Sheehy

If everything's under control, you're going too slow. by Mario Andretti

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. by Erich Fromm

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

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. by Bertrand Russell

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where. by Anonymous

If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. by Voltaire

If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. by George Winters

If God kills, lies, cheats, discriminates, and otherwise behaves in a manner that puts the Mafia to shame, that's Okay, he's God. He can do whatever he wants. Anyone who adheres to this philosophy has had his sense of morality, decency, justice and humaneness warped beyond recognition by the very book that is supposedly preaching the opposite. by Dennis McKinsey

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. by Jewish Proverb

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. by Mel Brooks

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life. by Cher

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. by Mary Beth Danielson

If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government --and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws. by Edward Abbey

If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. by Chinese Proverb

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. by George Bernard Shaw

If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant. by Sefer Hasidim

If I am not for myself, who is for me But if I am for my own self only, what am I, and if not now, when by Rabbi Hillel

If I am not worth the wooing, I am surely not worth the winning. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. by Confucius

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. by Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed. by Marianne Williamson

If I come back as a horsefly, I think my favorite thing would be to land on someone's lip. Even if they smash you, ick, you're all over their lip by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I come back as an animal in my next lifetime, I hope it's some type of parasite, because this is the part where I take it EASY by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I could be a bird, I think I'd be a penguin, because then I could walk around on two feet with a lot of other guys like me. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. by Samuel Goldwyn

If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. (Handwritten statement found in her residence) by Indira Nehru Gandhi

If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see. by Danish proverb

If I ever become a mummy, I'm going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there first, to meet some I had not thought to see there second, to miss some I had expected to see there and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. by John Newton

If I had as much make-up on as he did, I'd have looked younger, too. by Ronald Reagan

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my axe. by Abraham Lincoln

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. by Nadine Stair

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. by Albert Einstein

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. by Calvin Coolidge

If I had the time to sit down and write a thank-you note to everyone who sent me a nice, expensive present, what a wonderful world that would be by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. by Spencer Silver

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. by E. M. Forster

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. by Edward Morgan Forster

If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness. by Jay Edward Adams

If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. by Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. by Lillian Hellman

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

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one by Richard M. Devos

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. by Alfred Bernhard Nobel

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. by James Grover Thurber

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent. by Isaac Newton

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return by Margot Fonteyn

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. by William Hazlitt

If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. by Rose Elizabeth Bird

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. by Isaac Newton

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. by Mickey Mantle

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. by Mignon McLaughlin

If I know what love is, it is because of you. by Hermann Hesse

If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, 'Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I love you, what business is it of yours by Johann von Goethe

If I love you, what business is it of yours by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter. by Norah Jones

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect. by Ted Turner

If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress. by Robert Francis Kennedy

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I can assure you that it's quite conscious. by Frank Boyden

If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house tonight. (When asked about continued presence of Soviet nuclear submarines along US coastlines) by Ronald Reagan

If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. by Samuel Goldwyn

If I was a cowboy in a lynch mob, I think I'd try to stay near the back. That way, if somebody shamed us into disbanding, I could sort of slip off to the side and pretend I was window-shopping or something. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I was a father in a waiting room, and the nurse came out and said, 'Congratulations, it's a girl,' I think a good gag would be to get real mad and yell, 'A girl You must have me mixed up with THAT dork' and point to another father. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat. Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, 'Injection I thought you said inspection'.' They'd probably feel real bad, and maybe I could get out of it. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute I thought WE won' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

If I were dying, my last words would be, Have faith and pursue the unknown end. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.' by Leo Durocher

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more. by Jules Renard

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. by Richard Milhous Nixon

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF. by John Dingell

If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self ... so the hell with it ... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me. by Albert Einstein

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. by Abraham Lincoln

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one by Abraham Lincoln

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. by Dan Dierdorf

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics. by Luther H. Hodges

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead. by Frank Gelett Burgess

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. by Kahlil Gibran

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. by George MacDonald

If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation. by Eugene V. Debs

If it helps to make people think a little bit more what those ideals are, then I'll keep wearing this uniform. by Barbara Adams

If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be. by Marquis de Sade

If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud. by Ron Weber

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. by Lynda Barry

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. by Frank Lloyd Wright

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. by Douglas Noel Adams

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. by Frederick Buechner

If it sounds good, you'll hear it If it looks good, you'll see it If it's marketed right, you'll buy it but if it's real, you'll feel it. by Kid Rock

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. by Dennis Roch

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

If it was an overnight success, it was one long, hard, sleepless night. by Dicky Barrett

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. by William Shakespeare

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. by Erich Fromm

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice. by Heraclitus

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss. by La Rochefoucauld

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. by Jacques Martin Barzun

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like. by Phyllis Diller

If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. by Joe Martin

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. by Johnny Carson

If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done. by Unknown

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. by Grace Murray Hopper

If it's meant to be it's up to me. by Terri Gulick

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter. by Henry Elliot

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. by Benjamin Franklin

If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it. by Thomas Carlyle

If kids come to us educatorsteachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. by Barbara Colorose

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. by Isaac Asimov

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. by Aristotle

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons (maybe by shoving them down his throat) by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script by Vu Quyen

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. by Johnny Carson

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that' by John Cleese

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. by Tom Robbins

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. by Russell P. Askue

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question by Edith Ann

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. by George C. Marshall

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. by Andr Maurois

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money. by John Updike

If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making by Herbert Spencer

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. by James Madison

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. by Baruch Spinoza

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. by Joseph Addison

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. by Francis Bacon

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. by Henry Ford

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. by J. R. R. Tolkien

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. by Albert Einstein

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. by Isaac Asimov

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive. by Dorothee Solle

If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this. by Kitaro Nishida

If my own son, who is now 10 months, came to me and said, 'You promised to pay for my tuition at Harvard how about giving me 50,000 instead to start a little business' I might think that was a good idea. by William John Bennett

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. by Kahlil Gibran

If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. by Albert Einstein

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve. by Gen. William Sherman

If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully. by Edward R. Murrow

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. by P. G. Wodehouse

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. by Henry David Thoreau

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. by Seneca

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle. by Vincent Van Gogh

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living. by Leo Tolstoy

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. by Georges Guynemer

If one is the master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things. by Vincent Van Gogh

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. by Arthur Koestler

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim. by Lyndon B. Johnson

If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source. by The Dhammapada

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. by Agatha Christie

If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. by Woody Allen

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. by Edith Wharton

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism if our government is to function it must have dissent. by Henry Commager

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be. by Peter McWilliams

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. by Thomas Jefferson

If our religion only proclaims a high standard of ethics, then our religion is a burden heavier than we can bear. by Rolland W. Schloerb

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. by Henry Kissinger

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. by Albert Einstein

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. by Doug Larson

If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop 'em by Lawrence Peter Berra

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. by Ludwig Wittgenstein

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. by Michelangelo Buonarroti

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. by William Faulkner

If Pete Rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement. by Jerry Coleman

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. by Elbert Hubbard

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also by Lois McMaster Bujold

If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. by Nora Ephron

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr Martin Luther King. by Ramsey Clark

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. by Billy

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. by Vannevar Bush

If someone betrays you once, it's his fault If he betrays you twice, it's your fault. by Unknown

If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to. by Unknown

If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it. by Donald G. Smith

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. by Pope John Paul I

If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. by Dorothy Gilman

If something happened along the route and you had to leave your children with Bob Dole or Bill Clinton, I think you would probably leave them with Bob Dole. by Robert Joseph Bob Dole

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out by Will Rogers

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. by Victor Hugo

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. by Robert X Cringely

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. by Matthew 1514 Bible

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it Good God, we also would be happy if we had no books and such books that make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. What we must have are those books that come on us like ill fortune, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice axe to break the sea frozen inside us. by Franz Kafka

If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow. by Saudi Proverb

If the captain invited me to his party, after he had whipped me earlier in the day, up on deck, I guess I'd go, but I'd try to find some excuse to leave early. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double. by Robert H Bork

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. by Arthur Koestler

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. by William Blake

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. by Doug Larson

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. by Doug Larson

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. by Albert Einstein

If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. by Yogi Berra

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. by Kahlil Gibran

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard - let him worry about cutting it. by Fred Allen

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. by Emerson Pugh

If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me by Marilyn Ferguson

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved. by George Bernard Shaw

If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen. by Sam James Ervin, Jr.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. by Charles Robert Darwin

If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism. by Marquis de Sade

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice. by Meister Eckhart

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice. by Johannes Meister Eckhart

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. by Abraham Maslow

If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous. by Auguste Renoir

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. by Russell Hoban

If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me by Jimmy Buffett

If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick. by Bob Dylan

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. by Dante Alighieri

If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one --I am become Death,The shatterer of Worlds. by Hindu Spiritual

If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. by Jewish Proverb

If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head. by Hakim Jami

If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. by Assyrian Proverb

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us by Lois McMaster Bujold

If the Vikings were around today, they would probably be amazed at how much glow-in-the-dark stuff we have, and how we take so much of it for granted. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. by Latin Proverb

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. by Peter Ustinov

If thee marries for money, thee surely will earn it. by Ezra Bowen

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions by Scott Adams

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart. by Jesse Louis Jackson

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. by Robert South

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring. by Christopher Pearce Cranch

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. by Albert Camus

If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machine, does not choose to know how the machine got there or what makes his job possible, and proclaims that the management of the undertaking is parasitical and unneccessary. by Ayn Rand

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution when the old and the new stand side by side...when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era This time...is a very good one... by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. by Richard Hofstadter

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. by Abraham Lincoln

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is pure human love. by N. P. Willis

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. by Bill Vaughan

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. by Carl Gustav Jung

If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world. by Chinese Proverb

If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water. by Loren

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex by Art Hoppe

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. by Frederick Douglas

If there is no wind, row. by Latin Proverb

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. by John le Carre

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference. by Teena Booth

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. by Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. by Henry Miller

If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it. by Lawana Blackwell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. by Bertrand Russell

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. by G. K. Chesterton

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. by Marlon Brando

If there's ever an amusement park called Bag World, I bet it would really start to annoy you after a while how they really sort of stretch the definition of 'bag.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If theres one thing I know its God does love a good joke. by Hugh Elliott

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. by Muhammad Ali

If they give you lined paper, write the other way. by William Carlos Williams

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. by Juan Ramon Jiminez

If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat. by Proverbs Bible

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. by Abraham Lincoln

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. by A. Edward Newton

If this world were what it seems it should be, it is clear that it would be impossible for one man to enslave another. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened. by Newt Gingrich

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf. by Thomas Fuller

If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou shouldst lay up even a little upon a little, and shouldst do this often, soon would even this become great. by Hesiod

If thou shouldst never see my face again,Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. by Alfred Lord Tennyson

If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle. by Danish proverb

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it by Steven Wright

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking. by Lyndon B. Johnson

If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it. by Ernest Hemingway

If virtue precede us every step will be safe. by Seneca

If we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them. by Christopher Darlington Morley

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance. by Orville Wright

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. by Thomas Fuller

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being. by Kathleen Norris

If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers. by Alphonse Karr

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. by La Rochefoucauld

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. by Samuel Butler

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. by Francis Bacon

If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success. by John Van de Kamp

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. by Harold Abelson

If we can not trust a freeman with his right to keep and bear arms, then how can we trust him with the right to vote. Surely the right of a freeman to vote has a much greater effect on our collective lives than does any individual's firearm. If one argues that the effect of any one freeman's vote is minimal, then why allow it in the first place To be armed is to secure one's right to representation. by Thomas Mincher

If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic. by Hazel Henderson

If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it. by Immanuel Hermann Fichte

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. by Jimmy Buffett

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. by Unknown

If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves. by Thomas Alva Edison

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. by Virginia

If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse. by Alvin Toffler

If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. by Francis Bacon

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. by Virginia

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. by Professor Irwin Corey

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. by Gail Sheehy

If we don't know life, how can we know death by Confucius

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. by J Danforth Quayle

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. by Dan Quayle

If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now. by Ronald Reagan

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again. by Sharon Salzberg

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. by Hans Albrecht Bethe

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life. by Eugene Peterson

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. by George Eliot

If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes. by Leon Trotsky

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. by Anne Bradstreet

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master. by Michelangelo Buonarroti

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. by Mother Theresa

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. by Margaret Cho

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery. by Charles Krauthammer

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. by La Rochefoucauld

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. by Stephen Covey

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it by Albert Einstein

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times. by Saint Augustine

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it. by Alan B. Watts

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits by Carl Sagan

If we resist our passions, it is more from their weakness than from our strength. by La Rochefoucauld

If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success. by Saint Francis de Sales

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves. by Maria Edgeworth

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished. (Proposal to reform welfare programs) by Richard Milhous Nixon

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. by John Milton

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. by Carl R. Rogers

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile. by Yukio Mishima

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain. by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being -- we can do it. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

If we want a love message to be heard, it has to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. by Mother Theresa

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope. by Jacques Cousteau

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. by Arthur Schopenhauer

If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed. by Edwin Holt Hughes

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. by George Aiken

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators. by William Hazlitt

If we work upon marble, it will perish if we work upon brass, time will efface it if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. by Daniel Webster

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. by Charlotte Bronte

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. by Anais Nin

If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else..an unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. by Anthony de Mello

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score by Vince Lombardi

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It's a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it's time to reflect on what's come before. by Mitchell Burgess

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. by James Halliwell

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. by Plato

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. by Saul Bellow

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. by Aristotle Onassis

If work were good for you, the rich would leave none for the poor. by Haitian Proverb

If worry were an effective weight-loss program, women would be invisible. by Nancy Drew

If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. by James Abram Garfield

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. by Irvin S. Cobb

If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. by John McCrae

If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen. by Samuel Adams

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this enjoy it but never quite believe it. by Robert Montgomery

If you ain't never pick up the sword, you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it. by Meldrick Lewis

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. by Katharine Hepburn

If you always give You will always have. by Chinese Proverb

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. by Fran Lebowitz

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. by Assyrian Proverb

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many. by Ausonius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. by Leigh Hunt

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. by Thomas Carlyle

If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation. Bless the person and know and believe some good will come from it. . . . All of us have seen good come out of disaster . . . the 'blessing in disguise.' When you expect good to come from negativity, it will. What you think about, you bring about. by Joyce Duco

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. by Leo C. Rosten

If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle. by Samuel Johnson

If you are losing your leisure, look out You are losing your soul. by Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much. by Donald H. Rumsfeld

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be. by Taisen Deshimaru

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. by Lord Chesterfield

If you are not leaning, no one will let you down. by Robert Anthony

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. by Albert Einstein

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. by Chinese Proverb

If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people. by Chinese Proverb

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. by Kahlil Gibran

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. by Thomas Mann

If you are rich, you speak the truth if you are poor, your words are but lies. by Chinese Proverb

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. by James Hillman

If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. by Mother Theresa

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract -- teach him to deduct. by Fran Lebowitz

If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift. by Homer

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

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. by Cicero

If you believe everything you read, better not read. by Japanese Proverb

If you believe in something, no proof is necessary. If you don't, none is sufficient. by Unknown

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. by Dale Carnegie

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. by Anthony D'Angelo

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe. by Lord Salisbury

If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad. by Denis Watley

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow. by Ruth Gordon

If you board the wrong train, it's no use running along the corridor in the other direction. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you bow at all, bow low. by Chinese Proverb

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters. by Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness. by Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it. by Ronnie Lott

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. by J. Paul Getty

If you can dream it, you can do it. by Walt Disney

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

If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong. by Mo Udall

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on' by Rudyard Kipling

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. by Bruce Barton

If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. by William Arthur Ward

If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine if you can make him believe that those who reject that doctrine are doomed to eternal perdition if you then give that man power, and by means of his ignorance blind him to the ulterior consequences of his own act,-he will infallibly persecute those who deny his doctrine. by Henry Thomas Buckle

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. by Jean Kerr

If you can laugh together, you can work together. by Robert Orben

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. by Carolyn Kenmore

If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it Dogen Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul unbelief, denying them. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life. by Chris Evert

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there. by Paul Kantner

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying by Shantideva

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. by Lin Yutang

If you can't accept losing, you can't win. by Vince Lombardi

If you can't be funny, be interesting. by Harold Ross

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing. by Anon.

If you can't bite, don't show your teeth. by Yiddish Proverb

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. by W. Edwards Deming

If you can't do what you want, do what you can. by Lois McMaster Bujold

If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort. by Weinbaum

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. by Albert Einstein

If you can't find the key to success, pick the lock. by Unknown

If you can't go over, you must go under. by Jewish Proverb

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. by George E. Woodberry

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live. by Alec Bourne

If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. by J. Russel Lynes

If you can't lick 'em, join 'em. by American Proverb

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. by Erma Bombeck

If you can't return a favor, pass it on. by Louise Brown

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. by Dale Carnegie

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem--it's reality. by Barbara Colorose

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. by Harry S Truman

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. by Harry Vaughan

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. by Harry S Truman

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. by Marvin

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. by George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it. by Frank Tyger

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing. by James Barrie

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. by Kahlil Gibran

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice by Neil Peart

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully. by Thomas Fuller

If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. by Xenophon

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. by Jennifer Jones

If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mister Brave Man, I guess I am a coward. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. by John Cage

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button. by Sam Levenson

If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds. by Koran

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives. Do good anyway. by Mother Theresa

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. by Napolean Hill

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. by Orison Swett Marden

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. by Virginia

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. by Virginia Woolf

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase. by Epictetus

If you do, it's too little. Just being will do. by Peter P. van Oosterum

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense. by Holly Lisle

If you don't appreciate it, you don't deserve it. by Terry Josephson

If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. by Edward Hodnett

If you don't ask why this often enough, somebody will ask why you by Tom Hirshfield

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news by Douglas Noel Adams

If you don't control your mind, someone else will. by John Allston

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. by Unknown

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished. by Ed Lindeman

If you don't go fishing because you thought it might rain you will never go fishing. This applies to more than fishing. by Gary Sow

If you don't have a sensation of apprehension when you set out to find a story and a swagger when you sit down to write it, you are in the wrong business. by A. M. Rosenthal

If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write. by Stephen King

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route. by Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something. by David Peterson

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. by Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere. by Henry Kissinger

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. by Laurence J. Peter

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there by Basil S. Walsh

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else. by Alfred Adler

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly. by Guy Finley

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. by Edgar Watson Howe

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. by Edward W. Howe

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. by Maya Angelou

If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents. by Edward Irving Koch

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time. by Marian Wright Edelman

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying. by Coleman Hawking

If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams. by Eric Pio

If you don't risk anything you risk even more. by Erica Jong

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. by John Atkinson

If you don't stand up for something, then you'll fall for anything. by God's Little Instruction Book

If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. by Ogden Nash

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt. by Dean Martin

If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever feel like you're on the verge of a nervous breakdown, just follow these simple rules First, calm down second, come over and wash my car third, shine all my shoes. There, isn't that better by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever have to steal money from your kid, and later on he discovers it's gone, I think a good thing to do is to blame it on Santa Claus. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we BUILD to that. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it. by Joyce Carol Oates

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. by Robert F. Goheen

If you feel yourself falling, let go and glide. by Steffen Francisco

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

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity 'happen.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. by Chinese Proverb

If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life. by Kwan-Tzu

If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself. by Joseph Farrell

If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your friends are all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you go through a lot of hammers each month, I don't think it necessarily means you're a hard worker. It may just mean that you have a lot to learn about proper hammer maintenance. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you go to a costume party at your boss's house, wouldn't you think a good costume would be to dress up like the boss's wife Trust me, it's not. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you go with the flow you'll eventually end up over the waterfall. by Adam R. Gwizdala

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. by Brendan Francis

If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school. by Wayne Knight

If you had to list the different types of haircuts in order of how warm they kept the head, you'd probably put the flat-top down near the bottom. But you know, I bet it's surprisingly warm. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. by Hermann Hesse

If you have a job without aggravation, you don't have a job. by Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

If you have a lemon, make lemonade. by Howard Gossage

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. by Brendan Francis

If you have a true friend, you have more than your share. by Thomas Fuller

If you have a vision, do something with it. by Anthony D'Angelo

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

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. by Robert F. Goheen

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. by George Bernard Shaw

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. by Margaret Fuller

If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough. by Ann Landers

If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. by Bernard Mannes Baruch

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. by Mary Pickford

If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart. by Arabic Proverb

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. by Marcus

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

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

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others by Dolores Huerta

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. by John A. Wheeler

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If you hear a different drummer -- dreamer, take a chance . . . The road you choose to travel means the difference in the dance. by D. Morgan

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. by Mother Theresa

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves. by Roth Gabrielle

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got. by W. L. Bateman

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. by William A. Orton

If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way. by Buddha

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. by Benjamin Franklin

If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream. by Eric Pio

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... Regardless of what they say. by Barbara McClintock

If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions. by Molly Ringwald

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement) by Lyndon B. Johnson

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you. by James T. Farrell

If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. by Robert Fritz

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. by Dr. Robert Schuller

If you listen you will hear If you look you will see If you touch you will feel If you try you will be. by Unknown

If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness) by Nikita Khrushchev

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had. by I. F. Stone

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus 1 day, so I never have to go through a day without you. by Alan Alexander Milne

If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, 'Can't you make it shoot farther' No. I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. by Elizabeth Bowen

If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough. by Oprah Winfrey

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. by Clive Staples Lewis

If you look good and dress well, you don't need a purpose in life. by Robert Pante

If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If you love it let it go. If it returns to you cherish it, if not it was never truly yours. by Proverb

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness. by Sarah McLachlan

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. by Bruce Lee

If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. by Anon.

If you love someone, put their name in a circle because hearts can be broken, but circles never end. by Unknown

If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it dosent, then it was never meant to be. by Unknown

If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths. by Alexis Carrel

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet. by Theodore White

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. by Lois McMaster Bujold

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. by Don Marquis

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you but if you really make them think, they'll hate you. by Donald Robert Perry Marquis

If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice. by Pan Ku

If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example. by Sir Walter Besant

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. by Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

If you must play, decide on three things at the start the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time. by Chinese Proverb

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it . . . write it in the sand near the water's edge. by Napolean Hill

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. by Johann von Goethe

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. by Oprah Winfrey

If you never budge, don't expect a push. by Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. by Abraham Lincoln

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. by Mark Twain

If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more. by Shirley Mount Hufstedler

If you pump casually, you will pump forever. Pump hard to begin with and keep it up until you get that water flowing. Then a great deal will happen. by Zig Ziglar

If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes. by Anon.

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it. by Pierre Gallois

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. by Brian Tracy

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. by Anonymous

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. by J. D. Salinger

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry. by African Proverb

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft. by Publilius Syrus

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. by Kahlil Gibran

If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you You'd be wrong though. It's Hambone. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. by Italian Proverb

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes. by H. Ross Perot

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. by Ursula K. LeGuin

If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help 'Black-and-white, stinks all right. Tabby-colored, likes a fella.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it. by Chinese Proverb

If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself. Minquass by American Indian Proverb

If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means. by Dag Hammarskjld

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer by Steven Wright

If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you. by Ken Flaton

If you sit down at set of sun And count the acts that you have done, And counting find One self-denying deed, one word That eased the heart of him who heard One glance most kind That fell like sunshine where it went- Then you may count that day well spent. by George Eliot

If you speak the truth, keep a foot in the stirrup. by Turkish Proverb

If you spend too much time warming up, you'll miss the race. If you don't warm up at all, you may not finish the race. by Grand Heidrich

If you stand straight Do not fear a crooked shadow. by Chinese Proverb

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you. by Nikita Khrushchev

If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. by Robert Redford

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path. by Mary Webb

If you suffer, thank God It is a sure sign that you are alive. by Elbert Hubbard

If you suspect a man, don't employ him, and if ypu employ him, don't suspect him. by Chinese Proverb

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. by Georgia O'Keeffe

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If you tell Congress everything about the world situation, they get hysterical. If you tell them nothing, they go fishing. by Harry S Truman

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. by Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you but if not, you have infinite power against you. by Charles Gordon

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell you this, but that's another weakness. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. by Swami Sivanada

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement. by Antonio Gramsci

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. by Derek Curtis Bok

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. by Frank Herbert

If you think that you can think about a thing, inextricably attached to something else, without thinking of the thing it is attached to, then you have a legal mind. by Henry C. Blinn

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. by Henry Ford

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. by William Hazlitt

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

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. by Anita Roddick

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part. by Richard Phillips Feynman

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat. by Herschel Walker

If you treat a sick child like an adult and a sick adult like a child, everything usually works out pretty well. by Black Hawk

If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. by Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal. by Edward Irving Koch

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved. by Maurice Chevalier

If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people. by Chinese Proverb

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. by Clint Eastwood, Jr.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique. by William James

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it. by Norman Thomas

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play. by John Cleese

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

If you want something said, ask a man if you want something done, ask a woman. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with. by Jesse Lair

If you want to be free, there is but one way it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. by Carl Schurz

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. by Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. by Danish proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. by Spanish Proverb

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results. by Anthony Robbins

If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way. by Lois McMaster Bujold

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that. by Bruce Lee

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person. by Ralph Bunche

If you want to get along, go along. by Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn

If you want to have the rainbow, Then sometimes you're gonna have to deal with the rain. by Unknown

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. by Thomas John Watson, Sr.

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. by Dorothy Parker

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gives it to. by Joe Moore

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. by New England Proverb

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things. by Albert Einstein

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. by Carl Sagan

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. by Richard Milhous Nixon

If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it. by Joe Moore

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. by Moshe Dayan

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. by Zig Ziglar

If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. by Norman Douglas

If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence. by John B. Gough

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. by John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your baby. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. by Rotarian

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it. by Diana Nyad

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people. by Simeon Strunsky

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. by Dale Carnegie

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it. by Kurt Lewin

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. by Yiddish Proverb

If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself. by Haitian Proverb

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think. by Oprah Winfrey

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. by Bob Hope

If you wear a toupee, why not let your friends try it on for a while Come on, we're not going to hurt it. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you were a gladiator in olden days, I bet the inefficiency of how the gladiator fights were organized and scheduled would just drive you up a wall. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadores came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, 'I swallowed it. So sue me.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you were an ancient barbarian, I bet a real embarrassing thing would be if you were sacking Rome and your cape got caught on something and you couldn't get it unhooked, and you had to ask another barbarian to unhook it for you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. by Assyrian Proverb

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say And why are you waiting by Stephen Levine

If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life. by Andrew Schneider

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you wish good advice, consult an old man. by Romanian Proverb

If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. by William S. Gilbert

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. by W. S. Gilbert

If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself. by Horace

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. by Joseph Addison

If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. by Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. by Yugoslav Proverb

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. by Publilius Syrus

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. by Oriental Proverb

If you wished to be loved, love. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you work on a lobster boat, sneaking up behind someone and pinching him is probably a joke that gets old real fast. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. by Rene Descartes

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city. by Charles Caleb Colton

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. by Benjamin Franklin

If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else. by Danish proverb

If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. by Robert Southey

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. by Benjamin Franklin

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. by Henry David Thoreau

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself 'I used to be angry every day then every other day now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. by Epictetus

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. by Hal Borland

If you would live healthy, be old early. by Danish proverb

If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. by Ovid

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. by Benjamin Franklin

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door. by Thomas Secker

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. by Benjamin Franklin

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. by Tryon Edwards

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. by Abraham Lincoln

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. by Benjamin Franklin

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. by Vince Lombardi

If you're a blacksmith, probably the proudest day of your life is when you get your first anvil. How innocent you are, little blacksmith. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're a boxing referee, it's probably illegal to wear a bow tie that spins or changes colors. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're a circus clown, and you have a dog that you use in your act, I don't think it's a good idea to also dress the dog up like a clown, because people see that and they think, 'Forgive me, but that's just too much.' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes. by Mickey Spillane

If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's really embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence. by Barbara Cook

If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do. by Julie Morgenstern

If you're an ant, and you're walking along across the top of a cup of pudding, you probably have no idea that the only thing between you and disaster is the strength of that pudding skin. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're an archaeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it's not a skull but just an old dried-out potato. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're at a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, 'Boy, these are good cigars' by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're ever selling your house, and some people come by, and a big rat comes out and he's dragging the rattrap because it didn't quite kill him, just tell the people he's your pet and that's a trick you taught him. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth in your underwear, don't stop and start thinking of what other words have 'under' in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're going to be a healer, it's not enough to read books and learn allegorical stories. you need to get your feet wet, get some clinical experience under your belt. by Andrew Schneider

If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes. by Harrison Ford

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning,....sleep late. by Henny Youngman

If you're going to have it - have it all. by Rob Brown

If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. by Hyman Rickover

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay. by Robert Joseph Bob Dole

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there by Jerry Stahl

If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you. by Matt Welsh

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. by Julia Sorel

If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. by Martin Luther

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. by Woody Allen

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. by Henry J. Tillman

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems. by Sydney Harris

If you're pretty happy, but you have a little Chihuahua that's always biting you on the ankles, still that's pretty good isn't it I'm going to go ahead and keep you in the 'happy' category. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're robbing a bank, and your pants suddenly fall down, I think it's okay to laugh, and to let the hostages laugh too, because come on, life is funny. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're traveling in a time machine, and you're eating corn on the cob, I don't think it's going to affect things one way or the other. But here's the point I'm trying to make Corn on the cob is good, isn't it. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're trying to remember a happy memory, don't think back to a time when you were ALSO thinking of a happy memory, because man, how long does this go on by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. by Lois McMaster Bujold

If you've broken the eggs, you should make the omelette. by Sir Robert Anthony Eden

If you've got to resist, you're chances of being hurt are less the more lethal your weapon. If that were my wife, would I want her to have a .38 Special in her hand Yeah. by Dr. Arthur Kellerman

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent. by Bette Davis

If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh. by Patricia Hitchcock

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches. by Rainer Maria Rilke

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. by Benjamin Franklin

If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it. by Danish proverb

If your kid makes one of those little homemade guitars out of a cigar box and rubber bands, don't let him just play it once or twice and then throw it away. Make him practice on it, every day, for about three hours a day. Later, he'll thank you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong. by Robert Louis Stephenson

If your only measure of value is color, then you shall never appreciate the transparence of diamonds. by Ameer Sadet Mahdy

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. by Dick Cavett

If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God. by Unknown

If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. by John Watson

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it by Jonathan Winters

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all. by Anna Quindlen

If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. by Johann von Goethe

If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength. by French Proverb

If, in instructing a child, you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and then remember that a child is all left hand. by J. F. Boyse

ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. by Harold Ruopp

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind. by John Tillotson

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities. by George Eliot

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. by Robert Browning

Ignorance is the mother of fear. by Harry Homes

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. by Confucius

Ignorance never settles a question. by Benjamin Disraeli

Ignorance of certain subjects is a great part of wisdom. by Hugo De Groot

Ignorance of the law excuses no man Not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. by John Selden

Ignorance, apathy, and lethargy cause the most problems in our world. People don't know what's going on, they don't care, and they're too lazy to find out. by Michael Masukawa

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. by Plato

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away. by Sophocles

Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. by William Shakespeare

Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade A breath can make them, as a breath has made but a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. by Oliver Goldsmith

Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust. by James Lileks

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone. by Miguel de Cervantes

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. by Robert Orben

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it. by Dan Quayle

Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down. by Gen. Joseph Stilwell

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. by Oscar Wilde

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. by Elizabeth Bowen

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. by Joseph Conrad

Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me. by Al Franken

Im searching through all that has ever been hoped, in praise of what can never be known. by Real Live Preacher

Im telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe Im discovering that things were never in my hands. by Real Live Preacher

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine. by J. G. Gallimore

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young. by Ursula K. LeGuin

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. by W. Somerset Maugham

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization. by L. Frank Baum

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. by Henry Havelock Ellis

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. by Mark Twain

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. by Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge... by Albert Einstein

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. by George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the eye of the soul. by Jeseph Joubert

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. by Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. by Jules de Gautier

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is. by Francis Bacon

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. by Carl Sagan

Imagination, industry, and intelligence-the three I's-are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination. by Ellen Terry

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. by Peter Cochrane

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. by Jef Raskin

Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable. by H.L. Mencken

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. by Marvin Minksy

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. by Fred Allen

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery. by Charles Caleb Colton

Immature love says 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' by Erich Fromm

Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' by Mignon McLaughlin

Immature poets imitate mature poets steal. by T. S. Eliot

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change. by Marquis de Sade

Impossible situations can become possible miracles. by Dr. Robert Schuller

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. by Antonin Scalia

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else. by Lee Iacocca

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. by Jeffery F. Chamberlain

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. by J. W. Fulbright

In a false quarrel there is no true valour. by William Shakespeare

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth. by Marie Louise de la Rame Ouida

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. by Unknown

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. by Tiberius

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. by Antonio Porchia

In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge. by William Baker

In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. by Elizabeth Ashley

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. by Publilius Syrus

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. by Laurence J. Peter

In a mad world only the mad are sane. by Akira Kurosawa

In a mirror, last place becomes first place... Just depends on how you wish to look at it. by Debbie Skelly

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. by Epicurus

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

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world which no longer exists. by Eric Hoffer

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. by May Sarton

In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do. by Dorothea Dix

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. by Unknown

In adversity remember to keep an even mind. by Horace

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. by Bertrand Russell

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. by John C. Dvorak

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. by Peter Drucker

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us. by Sebastian Moore

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. by Henry Clay

In all the work we do, our most valuable asset can be the attitude of self-examination. It is forgivable to make mistakes, but to stand fast behind a wall of self-righteousness and make the same mistake twice is not forgivable. by Dr. Dale E. Turner

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. by Aristotle

In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. by Akhenaton

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude. by Charles Caleb Colton

In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. by Geoffrey Cottrell

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. by Marlene Dietrich

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. by Walt Whitman

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger. by Edward Morgan Forster

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. by Adlai Ewing Stevenson

In America, one gets as much justice as one can afford. (1966) by Charles Stanton

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. by Peter Ustinov

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. by Pythagoras

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. by Edward P. Tryon

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order. by Idi Amin Dada

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. by Kathleen Norris

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone. by John Kenneth Galbraith

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. by John Greenleaf Whittier

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them. by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing. by Theodore Roosevelt

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. by Thomas Pickering

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight. by Henry Watton

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters. by Paul Gauguin

In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. by Francis Thompson

In baseball, you don't know nothing. by Lawrence Peter Berra

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath. by Kahlil Gibran

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. by John Boyle O'Reilly

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream. by Luigi Pirandello

In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions A boy can pass from Eton to the Guards to the Middle Temple to Parliament and still retain the same male world of leather armchairs, teak tables and nicknames. They need never deal closely with other kinds of people, and some never do. by Anthony Sampson

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a nonworld. by Peter Drucker

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. by Euripides

In case of doubt it is best to lean to the side of mercy. by Legal Proverb

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. by Roger Allen

In charity there is no excess. by Francis Bacon

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem. by J. Deville

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. by Pliny the Elder

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones. by Joseph Priestly

In conclusion, there is a marvelous anecdote from the occasion of Russell's ninetieth birthday that best serves to summarize his attitude toward God and religion. A London lady sat next to him at this party, and over the soup she suggested to him that he was not only the world's most famous atheist but, by this time, very probably the world's oldest atheist. 'What will you do, Bertie, if it turns out you're wrong' she asked. 'I mean, what if--uh--when the time comes, you should meet Him What will you say' Russell was delighted with the question. His birght, birdlike eyes grew even brighter as he contempalated this possible future dialogue, and then he pointed a finger upward and cried, 'Why, I should say, 'God, you gave us insufficient evidence.' ' by Al Seckel

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. by James Russell Lowell

In crises the most daring course is often safest. by Robert Francis Kennedy

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. by Aesop

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance. by John Perry Barlow

In democracy its your vote that counts. In feudalism its your count that votes. by Mogens Jallberg

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. by Titus Livius

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. by Janos Arnay

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. by Tao Le Ching

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe. by Lydia Sigourney

In economics, the majority is always wrong. by John Kenneth Galbraith

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral. by George Santayana

In England every man you meet is some man's son in America, he may be some man's father. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it. by Epictetus

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

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. by A. E. Housman

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value What is my worth Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright. by Oprah Winfrey

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. by James Agee

In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part. by Alexander Pope

In every good man a God doth dwell. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty. by Christopher Darlington Morley

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. by John Ruskin

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes. by Jane Austen

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. by Albert Schweitzer

In everything one must consider the end. by Jean de La Fontaine

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man. by Alfred Hitchcock

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. by Alexander Hamilton

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. by Marvin Minsky

In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief. by John Barrymore

In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. by Martin Niemller

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend. by Solon

In God we trust all others must pay cash. by American Proverb

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are. by Nicholas Chamfort

In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. by Vince Lombardi

In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world. by Wendell Berry

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. by Friedrich Nietzsche

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. by George Bernard Shaw

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. by Flora Edwards

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. by Frederick Buechner

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. by Rita Rudner

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera. by Israel Zangwill

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. by Susanne Langer

In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. by David Ben-Gurion

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. by Orson Welles

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known -- that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. by Norman O. Brown

In Kyudo philosophy, you don't aim--you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there's nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try. by Sybil Adelman

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army. by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

In Lebanon there was an agreement not to liquidate Yasser Arafat. I'm sorry that we didn't liquidate him. by Ariel Sharon

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with. by Brian Tracy

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. by Charles Roberts Buxton

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it. by Albert Einstein

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. by Andr Maurois

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. by Andre Maurois

In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not. by Mark Duffy

In love of home, the love of country has its rise. by Charles Dickens

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two. by Erich Fromm

In love there are no vacations No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. by Marguerite Duras

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken. by Margaret of Valois

In love, one and one are one. by Jean-Paul Sartre

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. by Alexis Carrel

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person. by Wilbert Donald Gough

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. by Johann von Neumann

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge. by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

In matters of style, swim with the current in matters of principle, stand like a rock. by Thomas Jefferson

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. by Cicero

In Mexico we have a word for sushi Bait. by Jose Simon

In music the passions enjoy themselves. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. by Nicholson Baker

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. by Jane Haddam

In my experience, there is no such thing as 'luck.' by George Lucas

In nature there are neither rewards not punishments--there are consequences. by Robert Green Ingersoll

In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity. by Richard Baxter

In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

In none of the cases examined in this study was the existence of these gun registration records of any assistance in detecting a crime and no one questioned during the course of this study could offer any evidence to establish the value of the system of registering weapons. by Colin Greenwood

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans. by Kahlil Gibran

In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt. by Meg Cabot

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. by Samuel Johnson

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. by John Ruskin

In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose. by Alice Walker

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. by Coco Chanel

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. by Maya Angelou

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future. by Andr Gide

In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. by Brian Weir

In order to become successful, you must only promise what you can deliver and deliver more than what you've promised. by Beau K. Ly

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant. by Charles De Gaulle

In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned. by B. J. Gupta

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. by Albert Einstein

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. by Rene Descartes

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

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. by Robert Byrne

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. by Robert

In order to suceed, We must first believe that we can. by Michael Korda

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. by Ambrose Bierce

In our daily lives, we must see That it is not happiness that makes us grateful, But the gratefulness that makes us happy. by Unknown

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. by Marc Chagall

In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the boundaries and personal geography which are all that we know of the world. ... Once we no longer live beneath our mother's heart, it is the earth with which we form the same dependent relationship, relying ... on its cycles and elements, helpless without its protective embrace. by Louise Erdrich

In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office. by Walter Frederick Mondale

In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat. by Auguste Renoir

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language. by Mark Twain

In past people never questioned existence of god, because they knew he exists. In future too they will not, because they will know he doesn't. by B. J. Gupta

In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility. by William Shakespeare

In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children. by Herodotus

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. by Irving Layton

In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home. by Francois Arouet

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. by Charles De Gaulle

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. by Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. by Roy Hattersley

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. by Aristotle

In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. by Jacques Martin Barzun

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends. by Churton Collins

In prosperity our friends know us in adversity we know our friends. by John Churton Collins

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene. by Virgil

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first. by Harry S Truman

In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. by Fran Lebowitz

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. by Hubert Humphrey

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. by Margaret Anderson

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. by Peter McWilliams

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. by Mark Twain

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. by Mark Twain

In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody by Carl Sandburg

In reviling, it is not necessary to prepare a preliminary draft. by Chinese Proverb

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men. by Homer

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. by P.L. Berger

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. by Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. by Paul Dirac

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs. by Sir Francis Darwin

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. by William Osler

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. by Stephen Jay Gould

In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story. by Walter Cronkite

In seven different Scriptures God has dogmatically stated 'build all things according to the pattern (blueprint) shown to you.' You don't repair a Chevrolet from the Ford repair manual. In like manner, Body truth is not found in Hebrew doctrine. It's like trying to mix oil with water--it just can't be mixed by Ron Garner

In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High-Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit-if totally different in form-from all the romantic architecture of the past. by Dan Cruickshank

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

In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes. by John Erksine

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body. by Cicero

In soft regions are born soft men. by Herodotus

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. by Laurence J. Peter

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. by Cornelius Tacitus

In summer, the song sings itself. by William Carlos Williams

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior. by Francis Bacon

In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.) by George Will

In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance. by Richard Gordon

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras. by Tom Nolan

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities. by Aristotle

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. by Mignon McLaughlin

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. by Mahatma Gandhi

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few. by Shunryu Suzuki

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

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. by Ellen DeGeneres

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea. by Douglas Noel Adams

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. by Christina G. Rossetti

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later. by Harold Green

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. by Warren Buffett

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere. by Maxim Gorky

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. by Mortimer Adler

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof. by John Kenneth Galbraith

In the choice of a horse and a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends. by George John Whyte-Melville

In the civilisation a new law of hostility prevails. And to call it the law of the jungle is unfair to the jungle. by Colin Wilson

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins--not through strength but by perseverance. by H. Jackson Browne

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed. by Leo C. Rosten

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. by Kahlil Gibran

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. by Albert Camus

In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity. by Fritjof Capra

In the end, everything is a gag. by Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag. by Sir Charles Spencer Charlie Chaplin

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. by David Viscott

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid. by Simone de Beauvoir

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. by Louis Pasteur

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. by Franz Kafka

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. by Frank Zappa

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. by Mark Twain

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. by Louis D. Brandeis

In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. by Andy Warhol

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. by Desiderius Erasmus

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. In regione caecorum rex est luscus. by Desiderius Erasmus

In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period by Antonio Gramsci

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. by Charles Dickens

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility-I welcome it. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In the long run we are all dead. by John Maynard Keynes

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. by Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. by Sheldon Kopp

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. by Albert Einstein

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. by Dante Alighieri

In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon. by Horace

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. by David M. Ogilvy

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress. by Charles W. Eliot

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. by Orson Scott Card

In the morning be first up, and in the evening last to go to bed, for they that sleep catch no fish. by English Proverb

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.' by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. by Rabindranath Tagore

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. by Leo Tolstoy

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life-the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother. by Katherine D. Ortega

In the night all cats are gray. by Miguel de Cervantes

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. by Bertrand Russell

In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home. by Dave Barry

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. by John Lilly

In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling. by Robert F. Goheen

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary. by Aaron Rose

In the South where slavery still exists, the Negroes are less carefully kept apart they sometimes share the labors and the recreations of the whites the whites consent to intermix with them to a certain extent, and although legislation treats them more harshly, the habits of the people are more tolerant and compassionate. by Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. by Arthur Schopenhauer

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. by Paul Eldridge

In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. by Charles de Montesquieu

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine by Abraham Kuyper

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed it must be achieved. by Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S. by William Seward Burroughs

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. by Gertrude Stein

In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. by Spiro Agnew

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. by H.L. Mencken

In the woods is perpetual youth. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning. by H. A. Kramers

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. by Rabindranath Tagore

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not. by Lawrence Peter Berra

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice In practice, there is. by Chuck Reid

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. by Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain. by Pliny the Elder

In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. by Lyndon B. Johnson

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

In this business you either sink or swim or you don't. by David Smith

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire. by Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

In this country England it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

In this dispensation, God has clearly included the burial and resurrection of Christ along with His death as a part of 'the gospel' (1 Cor. 151-4)...It is God who has set these terms as the content of our faith in order to be saved. This is the METHOD of salvation in this day of grace. by Joel Finack

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. by John Masefield

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest. by Martin Luther

In this world no one rules by love if you are but amiable, you are no hero to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. by John Henry Newman

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. by Euripides

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it. by George Bernard Shaw

In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. by Douglas Adams

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

In time we hate that which we often fear. by William Shakespeare

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. by Paul Harvey

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. by Al Rogers

In times of prosperity friends will be plenty, in times of adversity not one in twenty. by English Proverb

In times of tumult and discord bad men have the most power mental and moral excellence require peace and quiteness. by Publius Cornelius Tacitus

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. by Erma Bombeck

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity-or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity-by being opinionated rather than by being learned. by A. N. Wilson

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. by Doris Lessing

In war there is no substitute for victory. by Douglas MacArthur

In war, truth is the first casualty. by Aeschylus

In Washington, it's dog eat dog. In academia, it's exactly the opposite. by Robert Reich

In wealth many friends in poverty, not even relatives. by Japanese Proverb

In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions know that you are alone in the world. by Henry David Thoreau

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. by Marechal Ferdinand Foch

In wildness is the preservation of the world. - from Walking by Henry David Thoreau

In words as fashions the same rule will hold,Alike fantastic if too new or oldBe not the first by whome the new are tried,Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. by Alexander Pope

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings. by Sir George Savile

In your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go and sheltered so may thrive and grow. by Louise Driscoll

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In youth the human body drew me and was the object of my secret and natural dreams. But body after body has taken away from me that sensual phosphorescence which my youth delighted in. Within me is no disturbing interplay now, but only the steady currents of adaptation and of sympathy. by Haniel Long

In youth we learn in age we understand. by Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. by Russell Baker

Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories -- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. by Russell Wayne Baker

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. by Herman Wouk

Incompetency begets incompetency. The last thing a guy who isn't sure of himself wants is a guy backing him up who is sure of himself. by Lee Iacocca

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves. by Larry McMurtry

Indecision is like a stepchild if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. by African Proverb

Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones. by I Ching

Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes. by John Stuart Mill

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. by Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis. by Colin Campbell

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world. by Charles Hanson Towne

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected by Pliny the Elder

Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass. by Henry Seely

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. by J. K. Rowling

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. by Joan Vinge

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. by Vince Lombardi

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. by Benjamin Disraeli

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state we must be doing something to be happy. by Mahatma Gandhi

Infinite patience brings immediate results. by Wayne W Dyer

Inflation continues till common man is completely sucked out of money, then recession sets in and continues till he becomes suckable again. by B. J. Gupta

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. by Robert Orben

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. by Milton Friedman

Information is the currency of democracy. by Thomas Jefferson

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. by Ronald Reagan

Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'. by Keven Kwaku

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance. by William Blake

Innovation is the creation of the new, Or the re-arranging of the old in a new way. by Mike Vance

Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its stability has been gravely shattered. It is characteristic of such a situation that individuals feel indifferent or even hostile toward the group, small or large, to which they belong. In order to illustrate my meaning, let me record here a personal experience. I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race by Albert Einstein

Inquiry is fatal to certainty. by Will Durant

Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth. by Delores Seats

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy. by Nora Ephron

Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. by R. D. Lang

Insanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. by Albert Einstein

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. by Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade. by Miranda Richardson

Inside each and every one of us is a person that no one knows. A person, should you take the time to look,is waiting to be discovered, Wanting you to take notice. Take a few minutes every day and sit down to chat to this person. Who knows what you may learn by Neill MacRae

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. by Pearl Buck

Insist on yourself never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insist on yourself never imitate... Every great man is unique. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask, if it matters, that you be forgiven for anything you may have done or failed to do which requires forgiveness. Conversely, if not forgiveness but something else may be required to insure any possible benefit for which you may be eligible after the destruction of your body, I ask that this, whatever it may be, be granted or withheld, as the case may be, in such a manner as to insure your receiving said benefit. I ask this in my capacity as your elected intermediary between yourself and that which may not be yourself, but which may have an interest in the matter of your receiving as much as it is possible for you to receive of this thing, and which may in some way be influenced by this ceremony. Amen. by Roger Zelazny

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. by Leonard Bernstein

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness. by Aaron Copland

Instant gratification takes too long. by Carrie Fisher

Instead of a Seeing Eye dog, what about a gun It's cheaper than a dog, plus if you walk around shooting all the time people are going to get out of the way. Cars, too by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window The guy looks out it, and if he leans too far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful. by Margaret Mead

Instead of burning a guy at the stake, what about burning him at the STILTS It probably lasts longer, plus it moves around. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. by Hellen Keller

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. by Doug Larson

Instead of having 'answers' on a math test, they should just call them 'impressions,' and if you got a different 'impression,' so what, can't we all be brothers by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. by Edgar Watson Howe

Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand. by Henry Drummond

Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations. by I Ching

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. by Diana Rankin

Instead of trying to build newer and bigger weapons of destruction, mankind should be thinking about getting more use out of the weapons we already have. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. by Meryl Streep

Integrity combined with faithfulness is a powerful force and worthy of great respect. by Real Live Preacher

Integrity has no need of rules. by Albert Camus

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. by Samuel Johnson

Intel has announced its next chip the Repentium. by Anon.

Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. by Max Born

Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong. by David Fasold

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. by Albert Einstein

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe a dungeon. by Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality. by Leonardo DaVinci

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country emotionally I know she is better than every other country. by Sinclair Lewis

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it. by John Dewey

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values. by Gerald

Intellectuals solve problems geniuses prevent them. by Albert Einstein

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence. by Albert Wiggam

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended. by Alfred North Whitehead

Intelligence is when you spot a flaw in your boss's reasoning. Wisdom is when you refrain from pointing it out. by James Dent

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. by Harry S Truman

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. by Woody Allen

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. by Andrew Brown

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are. by Amy Bloom

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. by Kathleen Norris

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. by Harriet Lerner

Into this Universe, and Why not knowing Nor Whence, like Water, willy-nilly flowing And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Wither, willy-nilly blowing. by Omar Khayym

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. by George Santayana

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. by John Kord Lagemann

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. by Dr. Jonas Salk

Invention is the mother of necessity. by Thorstein Veblen

Invincibility lies in the defense the possibility of victory in the attack. One defends when his strength is inadequate he attacks when it is abundant. by Sun-tzu

Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy. by Hesiod

Iron rusts from disuse water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather becomes frozen even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. by Leonardo DaVinci

Irony is the hygiene of the mind. by Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco

Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. by Thomas Huxley

Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it. by John Calhoun

Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense. by Mark Twain

Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'. by Michael McClary

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) by Lucius Accius Telephus

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. by Russell Baker

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork by Stanislaw Lec

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death by Patrick Henry

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now by Jeff Melvoin

Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green by Anon.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such who are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy I don't know and I don't care. by William Safire

Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Is there life before death by Graffito

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain by William Shakespeare

Is virtue a thing remote I wish to be virtuous, and lo Virtue is at hand. by Confucius

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else by Budd Schulberg

Isn't it funny how one minute life can be such a struggle, and the next minute you're just driving real fast, swerving back and forth across the road by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Isn't it funny how we'll look out the window at the moon, and then we notice it's not the moon but a streetlight Also what's funny is how we do this every night. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Isn't it funny how whenever we go to a county fair or a state fair, the first thing we do is see if they have some kind of pornography booth by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists by Kelvin III Throop

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world. by Lucy Montgomery

Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in by Ronald Reagan

Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now by Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity... by Vaclav Havel

Isolation is a dream killer. by Barbara Sher

Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world-the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. by Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

It a letter contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth. by Robert Armstrong

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally, even when you know what you're talking about. by Kim Hubbard

It ain't braggin' if you can back it up. by Dizzy Dean

It ain't over 'till it's over. by Yogi Berra

It ain't the heat, it's the humility. by Lawrence Peter Berra

It ain't what folks know that's the problem, it's what they know that ain't so. by Josh Billings

It all meant nothing but 'Move a little farther. You are to near me.' by Native American

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. by Tacitus

It can go on and on, or someone must write 'The End' to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must. by Gerald R. Ford

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense. by Charles Churchill

It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State. by Roger B. Taney

It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. by Anne

It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. by Annie Dillard

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. by Mark Twain

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. by Benjamin Disraeli

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion. by Max Beerbohm

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. by Charles Kuralt

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. by J. K. Rowling

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. by J Tolkein

It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. by Confucius

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so. by Friedrich von Schiller

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God. by Albert Coombs Barnes

It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting. by Unknown

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts. by Ronald Reagan

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature. by Steven Wright

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. by Deng Xiaoping

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going. by Brian Tracy

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. by Jim Rohn

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate. by George McGovern

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - no more - to a man, And love to a woman is life or death. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It gets late early out there. by Lawrence Peter Berra

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. by James Thurber

It has all been very interesting. by Mary Wortley Montagu

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. by Neil Gaiman

It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that eve by Galileo Galilei

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. by Albert Einstein

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. by Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. by Bette Davis

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity. by Alexander Hamilton

It has been our policy not to use obscenities in the paper. It's a harmless little eccentricity of ours. by A. M. Rosenthal

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. by Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 58). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge. by Paul Sadler

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. by Bertrand Russell

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly. by Samuel Butler

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic. by Robert Hutchins

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. by Conan Doyle

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them. by Man Ray

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. by Arthur C. Clarke

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing. by Marquis de Sade

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. by Publilius Syrus

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. by James Fenimore Cooper

It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. by Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. by Conan Doyle

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. by Dame Rose Macaulay

It is a commonplace that the history of civilisation is largely the history of weapons. In particular, the connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found to be generally true that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon --so long as there is no answer to it-- gives claws to the weak. by George Orwell

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. by Publilius Syrus

It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man. by Herbert Clark Hoover

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. by Evelyn Waugh

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity. by Seneca

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. by Jean de La Fontaine

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. by Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought. by John Kenneth Galbraith

It is a fine seasoning for joy to think of those we love. by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. by D. H. Lawrence

It is a good answer that knows when to stop. by Italian Proverb

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself. by Robert Merton Solow

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. by Konrad Lorenz

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. by P. G. Wodehouse

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. by Sir Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. by Sir Winston Churchill

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a great thing to know our vices. by Cicero

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. by Seneca

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. by Conan Doyle

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life. by Paul Tournier

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. by Buddha

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. by Johann von Goethe

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides. by George Sand

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. by Samuel Smiles

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. by Douglas Adams

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. by Sir Winston Churchill

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. by Samuel Johnson

It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you. by Roger Zelazny

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. by Arnold J. Toynbee

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. by Aeschylus

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to. by George Santayana

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. by Seneca

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one. by Francis Bacon

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers. by John P. Loughrane

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him. by Miguel de Cervantes

It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another. by Cicero

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. by Publilius Syrus

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. by Oscar Wilde

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. by Bertrand Russell

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. by Seneca

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. by Oscar Wilde

It is all right if you talk to yourself. It is all right if you answer yourself. But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem. by R. E. Phillips

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. by Matthew Arnold

It is always easier to ask forgiveness than permission. by US Marine Proverb

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. by John Burroughs

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. by Sydney Smith

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. by Jerome K. Jerome

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. by Karl Barth

It is always wise to stop wishing for things long enough to enjoy the fragrance of those now flowering. by Patrice Gifford

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another. by Odell Shepard

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit. by Sandra Swinney

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. by Harry S Truman

It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodelling of the organism in adaptation to new conditions but it depends on the nature of those conditions whether the directions of the modifications effected shall be upward or downward. by Thomas Huxley

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. by W. Somerset Maugham

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. by Henry David Thoreau

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead. by Robert G. Ingersoll

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. by Conan Doyle

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard to take success as it is failure. by Louise Nevelson

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle. by Frederick Buechner

It is as natural to die as to be born and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. by Francis Bacon

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. by Ulysses

It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains. by Elizabeth II

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. by Margaret Fuller

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. by W. R. Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. by William Ralph Inge

It is bad luck to be superstitious. by Andrew W. Mathis

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. by Lord Acton

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. by Bertrand Russell

It is because they took the easy way out, That rivers and people, go crooked. by Jill Peterson

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy. by Hesiod

It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. by Henry Allen

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live, than to be loved by them. And this is not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love. by Sir Arthur Helps

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. by William Blackstone

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. by James Grover Thurber

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. by Arthur Calwell

It is better to be envied than pitied. by Herodotus

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. by Niccolo Machiavelli

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. by Hellen Keller

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. by Donald Robert Perry Marquis

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. by Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not. by Andr Gide

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent. by Vincent Van Gogh

It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. by Whitney Moore Young

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. by Tom Stoppard

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. by Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. by Buddha

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. by Jeseph Joubert

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. by Mark Twain

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. by Dolores Ibarruri

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees by Emiliano Zapata

It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction. by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. by Herman Melville

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. by Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. by Samuel Butler

It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. by Heraclitus

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. by Mark Twain

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. by James Thurber

It is better to learn late than never. by Publilius Syrus

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

It is better to live rich than to die rich. by Samuel Johnson

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. by George Washington

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. by Samuel Johnson

It is better to understand little than to understand a lot. by Anatole France

It is better to wear out than to rust out. by Bishop Richard Cumberland

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. by Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. by Pythagoras

It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing. by Seneca

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. by Mary Renault

It is books that are a key to the wide world if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. by Jane Hamilton

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. by Anatole France

It is by chance we met by choice we became friends. by Unknown

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak. by Eric Hoffer

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. by Edgar Allan Poe

It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited violent physical passions do not in themselves differentiate men from each other, but rather tend to reduce them to the same state. by Thomas Elliot

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. by Mark Twain

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. by Charles Baudelaire

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. by Mentat Prayer

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. by Plutarch

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment. by Freeman John Dyson

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. by W. T. Ellis

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. by Bertrand Russell

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. by Jacob Bigelow

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. by Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about. by Oprah Winfrey

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. by W. Somerset Maugham

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

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. by Eugene McCarthy

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. by Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. by George Bernard Shaw

It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful. by Phaedrus

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. by Jim

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. by Abraham Lincoln

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

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. by Robert H. Goddard

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. by E. R. Bulwer-Lytton

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it. by Mark Twain

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. by Taylor Benson

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be wiity every day than to say pretty things from time to time. by Honore' de Balzac

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. by Seneca

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. by Alfred Adler

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. by A. A. Hodge

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. by William Blake

It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. by Aesop

It is easier to judge a person's mental capacity by his questions than by his answers. by Le Duc de Levis

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. by Andr Gide

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. by Betty Naomi Friedan

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor. by Eric Hoffer

It is easier to pull down than to build up. by Latin Proverb

It is easier to stay out than get out. by Mark Twain

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. by Smiley Blanton

It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue. by Greek Proverb

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. by Elizabeth II

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young men of this mealy generation the courage of their confusion. by John Anthony Ciardi

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

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. by Dag Hammarskjld

It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just. by Rose Elizabeth Bird

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own. by Herbert Samuel

It is easy to bring others down to your level, Instead of bringing yourself up to their level, But it is never ever right. by Unknown

It is easy to despise what you cannot get. by Aesop

It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. by Aristotle

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously. by Stephen Fry

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. by Virgil

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. by George Eliot

It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. by M. Grundler

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. by Homer

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave. by Homer

It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go. by Homer

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. by Thomas Jefferson

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. by Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin

It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine. by Richard Jefferies

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. by H.L. Mencken

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. by John Christian Bovee

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is. by George Will

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. by Judith Martin

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. by Erma Bombeck

It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent. by Marcus Valerius Martialis

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. by Publilius Syrus

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. by George Smith Patton, Jr.

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. by Jeanne-Marie Roland

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. by Hellen Keller

It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour. by Asoka

It is forbidden to kill therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. by Voltaire

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. by Cornelius Tacitus

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. by Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. by Walter Bagehot

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. by Ursula K. LeGuin

It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. by George Horace Lorimer

It is good to know the truth, but it is better to speak of palm trees. by Arab Proverb

It is good to live and learn. by Miguel de Cervantes

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. by Baltasar Gracian

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them by Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. by H.L. Mencken

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. by Henry Louis Mencken

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. by Theodore Roosevelt

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. by Sally Kempton

It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. by Leonardo DaVinci

It is honourable to be accused by those who deserve to be accused. by Latin Proverb

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. by Anatole France

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. . . . The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment. by W. Edwards Deming

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. by Jacob Chanowski

It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. by Carlos Castaneda

It is important to live each day with a positive perspective. It is not wise to pretend problems do not exist, but it is wise to look beyond the problem to the possibilities that are in it. When Goliath came against the Israelites, the soldiers all thought, 'He's so big, we can never kill him.' But David looked at the same giant and thought, 'He's so big, I can't miss him.' by Dr. Dale E. Turner

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. by Agnes Repplier

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. by Epictetus

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. by George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available. by Thomas Mann

It is impossible to better yourself if you do not know what it means to be better. by Unknown

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. by William G. McAdoo

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. by Jerome K. Jerome

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

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. by Graham Greene

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. by H.L. Mencken

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed. by Baltasar Gracian

It is impossible to love and to be wise. by Francis Bacon

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not. by Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. by Jean de La Fontaine

It is impossible to trap modern physics into predicting anything with perfect determinism because it deals with probabilities from the outset. by Sir Arthur Eddington

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

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own. by Henry Adams

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. by Dr. Howard Murphy

It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry for what this delicate little plant needs more than anything, besides stimulation, is freedom. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. by Albert Einstein

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. by Agnes Repplier

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. by Aristotle

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. by Jonathan Swift

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. by Thomas Jefferson

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. by Saint Francis of Assisi

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. by Aeschylus

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. by G. C. Lichtenberg

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living. by Simone de Beauvoir

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God. by Thomas Merton

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. by Euripides

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. by F Scott

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma, or want of dogma, that the danger lies. by Samuel Butler

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights. by Elizabeth Bowen

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity they must have action and they will make it if they cannot find it. by Charlotte Bronte

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision-making muscles. by Anthony Robbins

It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. by Henry Louis Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. by H.L. Mencken

It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. by Isabel Waxman

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders. by Ben Stein

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses. by Charles Peguy

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. by Orison Swett Marden

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. by Virginia

It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal. by Benjamin Disraeli

It is light grief that can take counsel. by Anonymous

It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore. by Alex Carey

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. by Thomas Mann

It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service. by Ulysses S. Grant

It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. by Horace Mann

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. by Dag Hammarskjld

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. by Publilius Syrus

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. by Benjamin Disraeli

It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing. by Quintilian

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. by Niccolo Machiavelli

It is my observation that being beaten is often a temporary condition, that giving up is what makes it permanent. by Marilyn vos Savant

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled. by F. F. Bosworth

It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts. by Patrick Henry

It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. by Hyman Rickover

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life. by Queen Christina

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. by Charles Baudelaire

It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness. by Thomas Jefferson

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision. by Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. by Henry David Thoreau

It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions. by Voltaire

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. by Douglas Adams

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. by Enrico Fermi

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings. by Bronwyn Davies

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose. by Boris Pasternak

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. by J. Krishnamurti

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. by Publilius Syrus

It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. by Woody Allen

It is no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. by Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. by Sir Winston Churchill

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. by Nikolai Gogol

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. by Kingsley Amis

It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906 by Mark Twain

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. by Isabel Colegate

It is not a fish until it is on the bank. by Irish Proverb

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is not a loss of freedom. It's a measure to protect it. on gun control by James Brady

It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener. by Ayn Rand

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain people and certain things require to be approached on an angle. by Matthew Arnold

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

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only. by William Blake

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant. by Margaret Fuller

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. by Seneca

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. by G. K. Chesterton

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. by Stephen William Hawking

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. by Marcus Aelius Aurelius

It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed. by Unknown

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty. by Juvenal

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. by Agnes Repplier

It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too. by Albert Schweitzer

It is not enough to aim you must hit. by Italian Proverb

It is not enough to be busy the question is what are we busy about by Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is not enough to do good one must do it the right way. by John Viscount Morley

It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and *then* do your best. by W. Edwards Deming

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well. by Rene Descartes

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. by Johann von Goethe

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after. by William Shakespeare

It is not enough to limit your love to your own nation, to your own group. You must respond with love even to those outside of it. . . . This concept enables people to live together not as nations, but as the human race. by Clarence Jordan

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table. by A Bartlett Giamatti

It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. by Marya Mannes

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. by Gore Vidal

It is not every question that deserves an answer. by Publilius Syrus

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. by Roosevelt, Eleanor

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. by Baha'u'llah

It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. by John Gray

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants. by Blaise Pascal

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be. by Benjamin Johnson

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets. by Douglas Hurd

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not I who have been consigned to the bedroom of history. by Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. by Simone de Beauvoir

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. by William Shakespeare

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. by Archibald MacLeish

It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is not length of life, but depth of life. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. by W. Edwards Deming

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. by Pierre Beaumarchais

It is not observed in history that families improve with time. by George William Curtis

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. by E. B. White

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. by Aesop

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire

It is not only the psychology of the people that makes them so exacting-their geographical situation has been equally problematic. by Shimon Peres

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. by Hermann Hesse

It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive. by Homer

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect. by Frederick Douglas

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. by Sophocles

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old. by Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches. by Robert Hutchins

It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word. by Alexander Smith

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. by Epicurus

It is not strange ... to mistake change for progress. by Millard Fillmore

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. by Eugene Ionesco

It is not the critic that counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or the doer of deeds could have them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the Arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but he who does actually strive to do the deed who knows the great devotion who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls, who know neither victory nor defeat. by Theodore Roosevelt

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages. by Henry Ford

It is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate man and enrich his nature. but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive. by Albert Einstein

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. by Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. by Assyrian Proverb

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. by James Russell Lowell

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to. . . . The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures. by Vincent Van Gogh

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. by George Steiner

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. by Seneca

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. by Sir Edmund Hillary

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. by Aeschylus

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. by Horace

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. by Frederick W. Robertson

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent it is the one that is most adaptable to change. by Charles Robert Darwin

It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. by Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. by Julius Caesar

It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here. by Richard Milhous Nixon

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. by Marquis de Vauvenargues

It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. by Homer

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. by W. Somerset Maugham

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. by Hubert Humphrey

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute...that gives meaning to our lives. by Anthony Robbins

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. by Henry Ward Beecher

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. by Menander

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. by G. H. Hardy

It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it. by Bobby Jones

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. by Richard J. Ferris

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. by H.L. Mencken

It is obvious that 'obscenity' is not a term capable of exact legal definition in the practice of the Courts, it means 'anything that shocks the magistrate.' by Bertrand Russell

It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. by Doris Fleeson

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. by George Gordon Byron

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. by Carl Sagan

It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. by Janos Arnay

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. by Henry Ward Beecher

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. by Charles Dudley Warner

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine. by Paul Gruchow

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. by Oscar Wilde

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed. by Harry Firestone

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. by Katharine Butler Hathaway

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams. by Eric Anderson

It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar. by Tao Le Ching

It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures. by Roland Stahler

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. by Horace Bushnell

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. by Andre Gide

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis. by Margaret Bonnano

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. by Rene Descartes

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

It is only the first step that is difficult. by Marie De Vichy-Chaconne

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. by Charles Kingsley

It is only the ignorant who despise education. by Publilius Syrus

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. by Confucius

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. by Albert Einstein

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. by Clive James

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. by Henry David Thoreau

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. by J. K. Rowling

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. by Peter Ustinov

It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate - to surmount every difficulty by resolution and contrivance. by Thomas Jefferson

It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued. by Miguel de Cervantes

It is pleasant at times to play the madman. by Seneca

It is possible by long-continued practice, not merely in lying, but in talking on subjects in which we have no real interest, not to know when we are sincere and when we are not. by Mark Rutherford

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune... by Samuel Smiles

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. by Thomas B. Macaulay

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. by Thomas Babington Macaulay

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. by Aristotle

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. by Wilbur Wright

It is possible to love your friends, your competitors, and even your enemies. It is hard, bitterly hard, but there is a long distance between hard and impossible. by Herbert Welch

It is possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows what time it is a man with two watches is never quite sure. by Lee Segall

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

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. by Alec Bourne

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. by Bertrand Russell

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed. by Kin Hubbard

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality. by Henry Steele Commager

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. by Giordano Bruno

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. by Seneca

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. by Seneca

It is really the undergraduate who makes a university, gives it its lasting character, smell, feel, quality, tradition ... whose presence creates it and whose memories preserve it. by Sen O'Faolin

It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten. by Charles Baudelaire

It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are. by Sir James MacKintosh

It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction by Abraham Lincoln

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away. by Abraham Lincoln

It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. by David Brin

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise. by W. Somerset Maugham

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. by Kingman Brewster, Jr.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. by David Hume

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. by Aristotle

It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs. by Stanislaw Ulam

It is suggested that, in domestic violence at least, the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detection and punishment. by Colin Greenwood

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to. by Walter Linn

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told. by Homer

It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature. by Albert Camus

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. by Max Eastman

It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities. by Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. by Desiderius Erasmus

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy. (Answering North Vietnamese charge that US could not endure) by Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the contention of this observer that few homicides due to shooting could be avoided merely if a firearm were not immediately present, and that the offender would select some other weapon to achieve the same destructive goal. by Marvin E. Wolfgang

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God. by Mary Daly

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. by Aldous Huxley

It is the darkest hour before dawn. by Unknown

It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. by Mark Twain

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. by H.L. Mencken

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. by Albert Einstein

It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining... by Lyndon B. Johnson

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory. by Blaise Pascal

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. by Peter De Vries

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. by Thomas Carlyle

It is the first step of wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur. by George Whitehead

It is the great north wind that made the Vikings. by Scandinavian Proverb

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. by Sydney Smith

It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. by La Rochefoucauld

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. by Henry Ward Beecher

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character. by Dr. Dale E. Turner

It is the loving, not the loved, woman who feels loveable. by Jessamyn West

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

It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched. by George Gissing

It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world. by John B. Gough

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. by Edmund Burke

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. by Aristotle

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. by Latin Proverb

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket. by Miguel de Cervantes

It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs. by Richard Needham

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak, It is the privledge of wisdom to listen. by Christine Lane

It is the rare fortuene of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks. by Cornelius Tacitus

It is the sign of a week mind to be unable to bear wealth. by Seneca

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. by Earl Warren

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. by Albert Einstein

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It is the theory that decides what we can observe. by Albert Einstein

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. by James Ramsey

It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back. by Lao Tzu

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. by Logan Pearsall Smith

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. by Norman Maclean

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. by Aesop

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. by Vida D. Scudder

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. by Logan Pearsall Smith

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man. by Professor Elledge

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. by Joseph Conrad

It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. by Abigail Van Buren

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. by Josh Billings

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore. by Golda Meir

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. by Aristotle

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. by Bertrand Russell

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to tell the truth. by Stanley Baldwin

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. by Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and wisest might err. by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. by Jonathan Swift

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows for so he giveth his beloved sleep. by Psalm 1272 Bible

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain and some of our griefs . . . have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. by Miguel de Cervantes

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. by Anne Tyler

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. by Jessamyn West

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is very important to make sure the person you're marrying is like minded. It's crucial for a couple to have shared goals and values. The more you have in common the less you have to argue about. by Barbara Friedman

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. by Elizabeth Taylor

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it. by Robert E. Lee

It is well to be born either a king or a fool. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. by Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. by Kahlil Gibran

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. by John Andrew Holmes

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. by Arnold Bennett

It is well-known what a middleman is he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. by Benjamin Disraeli

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. by Horace

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. by Eric Hoffer

It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us. by Clive Staples Lewis

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. by Colette

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses. by William Arthur Ward

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. by Laurence J. Peter

It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out. by Alexander Pope

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

It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. by La Rochefoucauld

It is within the families themselves where peace can begin. by Susan Partnow

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. by Edith Nesbitt

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. by Saint Jerome

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. by John Phillips Marquand

It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every star It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us. by John Ruskin

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. by Kahlil Gibran

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction. by Pablo Picasso

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. by Henry James

It isn't always necessary to achieve great things. Sometimes, just surviving is a great achievement. by Unknown

It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience. by Lawana Blackwell

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

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy. by Groucho Marx

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia. by Frank Zappa

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. by G. K. Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

It isn't the great pleasures that count the most it's making a great deal out of the little ones. by Jean Webster

It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. by Charles Sorenson

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. by F. M. Young

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't. by Harvey Mackay

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. by Errol Flynn

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. by Dale Carnegie

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time. by Benjamin Franklin

It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing. by Jim Dodge

It made our hair stand up in panic fear. by Sophocles

It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Marta cook up about a hundred drumsticks, then the guy at the Marineland says, 'You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish.' Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It marriage happens as with cages the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to getting out. by D. A. Battista

It matters if you just don't give up. by Stephen William Hawking

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. by Samuel Johnson

It matters not how long we live but how. by Philip James Bailey

It matters not how tall you are, but how straight you grow. by Kelly Marshall

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. by Edgar Albert Guest

It matters not whether you win or lose what matters is whether I win or lose. by Darrin Weinberg

It may be five years from now, but at some point we'll be better than them. by Dan Issel

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. by Rod Serling

It may be that those who do most, dream most. by Stephen Butler Leacock

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell. by A. L. Prusick

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. by Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. by Newt Gingrich

It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week. by Gareth Roberts

It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery. by Bertrand Russell

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. by Edgar Allan Poe

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. by Vartan Gregorian

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all. by Heinrich Heine

It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn. by Sue Grafton

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. by Virgil

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it. by Geoffrey F. Albert

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. by Robert Anton Wilson

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

It really doesnt matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. by Real Live Preacher

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. by Mayer Amschal Rothschild

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. by Alfred North Whitehead

It requires more courage to suffer than to die. by Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. by Walter Lippmann

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. by Woody Allen

It seemed to me that, somehow, the blue jay was trying to communicate with me. I would see him fly into the house across the way, pick up the telephone, and dial. My phone would ring, and it would be him, but it was just this squawking and cheeping. 'What What' I would yell back, but he never did speak English. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, That those who will not risk cannot win. by Paul Jones

It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever. by Philip Adams

It seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to characterize our age. by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. by Zora Neale Hurston

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle. by John Updike

It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them. by George Eliot

It seems very unfortunate that in order to secure political preference, people are made Vice President who are never intended, neither by party nor by the Lord, to be Presidents. by General Omar Nelson Bradley

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. by Seneca

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. by Denise Caruso

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying. by Tim Robbins

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. by Neil Armstrong

It takes 20 years to make an overnight success. by Eddie Cantor

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It takes a great man to be a good listener. by Calvin Coolidge

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. by Publilius Syrus

It takes a lot of balls to golf the way I do. by Unknown

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary. by David Bailey

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. by Gertrude Stein

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true. by Roger Babson

It takes a village to raise a child. by African Proverb

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man. by Laertius Diogenes

It takes all sorts to make a world. by Miguel Cerbantes

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. by Dr. Robert Schuller

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. by e e cummings

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion. by William Ralph Inge

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. by Wystan Hugh Auden

It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning. by Persian Proverb

It takes two to speak truth - One to speak, and another to hear. by Henry David Thoreau

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you. by Mark Twain

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. by Robert Benchley

It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. by Hank Aaron

It used to take courage--indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence--to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to discover, and the real adventure is to stay at home. by Alvaro de Solva

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. by Mark Twain

It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good. by Pope Pius XI

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. by Dame Rose Macaulay

It was a dark and stormy night the rain fell in torrents--except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. by Henry Kissinger

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men-where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time. by Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.' by Athenus

It was a turkey He could never have stood upon his legs, that bird He would have snapped 'em off short in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax. by Charles Dickens

It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream. But in the end, some lack in their moral fiber, some gnawing, nibbling fear held them back. They never started. They stayed where they were. They dropped back. They failed somehow to release within themselves that power which lies in every individual, and is released only when he starts forward in a straight line for the object about which he has dreamed. The man who never starts, never feels that sense of power. by Ray Dickinson

It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye. by George Pratt Shultz

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else. by Leonard Bernstein

It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times , in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting. by A. M. Rosenthal

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. by O. Henry

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long. by Homer

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race. by Mark Twain

It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier. by Charles Grodin

It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.' by Thomas Arnold

It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. by Lois McMaster Bujold

It was no Insurrection or Rebellion, or even Civil War in any proper sense of these terms... The war... was a war between States regularly organized into two separate Federal Republics... In the beginning, and throughout the contest, the object of the 'Confederates' was to maintain the separate Sovereignty of each State, and the right of self-government, which that necessarily carries with it. The object of the 'Federals,' on the contrary, was to maintain a Centralized Sovereignty over all the States on both sides. This was the fundamental principle involved in the Conflict, which must be kept continually in mind. by Alexander Hamilton Stephens

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. by Hubert Humphrey

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable. by George Gordon Byron

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. by P. D. James

It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up. by W. Somerset Maugham

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way. by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. by Charles Dickens

It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. by Henry Brougham

It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. by Harry S Truman

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. by Ornette Coleman

It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. by Dag Hammarskjld

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. by Mark Twain

It well becomes a young man to be modest. by Titus Maccius Plautus

It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. by Samuel Smiles

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese. by Charles De Gaulle

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. by Jane Austen

It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing) by Albert Einstein

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. by John Steinbeck

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. by Robert Martin Fuoss

It's a basehit on the error by Roberts. by Jerry Coleman

It's a dangerous business going out your front door. by J. R. R. Tolkien

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. by W. Somerset Maugham

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand. by Madeleine L'Engle

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. by F Scott

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. by J. R. R. Tolkien

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. by Albert Camus

It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it. by Richard Milhous Nixon

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward. by Lewis Carroll

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. by Dick Cavett

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job it's a depression when you lose yours. by Harry S Truman

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. by David Harris

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year. by Truman Capote

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. by Garrison Keillor

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. by Roberto Benigni

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. by Steven Wright

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. by Franklin P. Jones

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. by Josh Billings

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him. by Charles Kingsley

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. by Mick Jagger

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. by Dr. Rob Gilbert

It's all right to hold a conversation, but you should let go of it now and then. by Richard Willard Armour

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. by George Bernard Shaw

It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. by Pema Chodron

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. by Garry Marshall

It's always too early to quit. by Norman Vincent Peale

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. by Jerry Seinfeld

It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do. by Jim Davis

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. by Charles Franklin Kettering

It's an insane tragedy that 700,000 people get a diploma each year and can't read the damned diploma. by William E. Brock

It's as if we think liberation a fixed quantity, that there is only so much to go around. That an individual or community is liberated at the expense of another When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing. by Andrea Canaan

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. by W. Somerset Maugham

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. by Elizabeth Kenny

It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late. by Marilyn Moats Kennedy

It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not. by Albert Brooks

It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand. by Suze Orman

It's cabin fever season people, that time of year when four walls feel like they're going to come in here and choke the spirit right out of you. Time to lock away those firearms and hang tough. No way through it except to do it. by Jeff Melvoin

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. by Jean Nidetch

It's counter to common sense, but common sense is only based on a very small subset of the universe. by Ian J. Davenport

It's deja vu all over again by Yogi Berra

It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone. by A Bartlett Giamatti

It's difficult to see that people are starving in this country because food isn't available.(1986) by Ronald Reagan

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world. by Al Franken

It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully. by Doug Vargas

It's easy to halve the potato where there's love. by Irish Proverb

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner. by Vince Lombardi

It's easy to sit and scoff at an old man's folly. But also, check out his Adam's apple by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty. by Robin Quivers

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living. by Oliver Wendell Holmes

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it by Eleanor H. Porter

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's funny, to me, the way people refer to childbirth as a miraculous event. A miracle is something that defies nature. Only, childbirth has got to be the most natural thing in the world. Top three anyway. But, on the other hand, when you think about it, there's really no other word that fits. Sperm. Egg. A coincidental meshing of genetic information that will grow something that could write an opera or cook up some Napalm. It blows my mind. by Barbara Hall

It's good to shut up sometimes. by Marcel Marceau

It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is. by Jack Lemmon

It's hard for me to answer a question from someone who really doesn't care about the answer. by Charles Grodin

It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road. by Kareem Abdul-Jabar

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am. by Muhammad Ali

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. by Unknown

It's hard to create humor because of the unfair competition from the real world. by Peter's Almanac

It's hard to say who gets criticized the most, the successful person, or the failure but it's mighty close. by Joe Moore

It's hard to stay committed...to stay in touch with the goal without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal, the world. by Nancy Hogshead

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. by Darby Conley

It's hard to tell if the world is actually growing worse, or if the news coverage is just better. by Joe Moore

It's important for people not to hold a high opinion of politicians, and one of the strengths of the British is that they don't on the whole... The danger begins when people start admiring politicians. by Richard Ingrams

It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. by Lois McMaster Bujold

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach. by Henry Bromel

It's impossible to reach good conclusions with bad information. . . . We're all entitled to our own opinions. But none of us can afford to be wrong in our facts. by Mort Crim

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. by Mignon McLaughlin

It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late. by J. R. Platt

It's just human. We all have the jungle inside of us. We all have wants and needs and desires, strange as they may seem. If you stop to think about it, we're all pretty creative, cooking up all these fantasies. it's like a kind of poetry. by Andrew Schneider

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. by Walt Disney

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything. by Fulton John Sheen

It's like deja vu all over again. by Lawrence Peter Berra

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way. by E. L. Doctorow

It's never to late to have a happy childhood. by Wayne W Dyer

It's never too late to be who you might have been. by George Eliot

It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise. by Nancy Thayer

It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do ... Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. by Golda Meir

It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. by Andrew Schneider

It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear. by Douglas Noel Adams

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. by La Rochefoucauld

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. by Jackie Mason

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch. by John Malkovich

It's not a problem that we have a problem. It's a problem if we don't deal with the problem. by Mary Kay Utech

It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the people they've met before. by F Scott

It's not enough that I should succeed -- others should fail. by David Merrick

It's not failure, but low aim is crime. by Lowell

It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's not Jerusalem, It's not Baghdad. It's not Bolivia. It's Oklahoma. by V. Z. Lawton

It's not love's going hurts my days But that it went in little ways. by Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. by Josh Billings

It's not that age brings childhood back again, Age merely shows what children we remain. by German proverb

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. by Mark Twain

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

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. by James Gordon

It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today. by Unknown

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot. by Harry S Truman

It's not the having, its the getting. by Elizabeth Taylor

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours. by Sam Ewig

It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in complete faith that His Son, Jesus Christ, conquered sin and death on your behalf and for your salvation. by James L. Mathews

It's not the situation... It's your reaction to the situation. by Robert Conklin

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog. by Archie Griffin

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. by Mark Twain

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. by Tom Stoppard

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another it is one damn thing over and over. by Edna St. Vincent Millay

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. by Addison Walker

It's not what happens to you it's what you do about it that makes the difference. by Wilson Mitchell

It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not. by Denis Watley

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. by Jenny Craig

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. by Will Rogers

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up. by Vince Lombardi

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. by Millard Fuller

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. by Margaret Fuller

It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. by Jeff Melvoin

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. by Lady Bird Johnson

It's off the leg and into the left field of Doug Radar. by Jerry Coleman

It's okay if you mess up. You should give yourself a break. by Billy Joel

It's only when the tide goes out that you learn who's been swimming naked. by Warren Buffett

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up -- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. by Joe Moore

It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. by Jerry Garcia

It's probably not a good idea to be chewing on a toothpick if you're talking to the president, because what if he tells a funny joke and you laugh so hard you spit the toothpick out and it hits him in the face or something. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside. by Pamela Ribon

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it by L. M. Montgomery

It's so glamorous, you have to see it. (describing the 92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame) by Aretha Franklin

It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. by Malcolm Forbes

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others. by Sydney Harris

It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets. by Dennis Martin

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. by Claude M. Bristol

It's the good girls who keep diaries the bad girls never have the time. by Tallulah Bankhead

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. by Mignon McLaughlin

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to. by Franklin P. Jones

It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous. by Andy Warhol

It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me. by Keri Hulme

It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected. by Gerald R. Ford

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. by Rebecca West

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. by Dan Quayle

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. by Henry James

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

It's too bad that whole families have to be torn apart by something as simple as wild dogs. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's too much to ask one to love his enemy. Let's compromise on forgetting him. by William C. Hunter

It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents. by Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

It's tough watching a good idea lose because its backers are less eloquent or have less clout than its opponents. by Lester Case

It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings. But what they don't tell you is, every time you hear a mousetrap snap, an angel gets set on fire. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It's useful that there should be Gods, so let's believe there are. by Ovid

It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are. by Penelope Fitzgerald

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space. by Thomas K. II Mattingly

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts. by Kim Hubbard

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. by John Wooden

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. by Earl Weaver

Its not foresight or hindsight we need. We need sight, plain and simple. We need to see what is right in front of us. by Real Live Preacher

Its the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter. by Marlene Dietrich