• O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. by Saint Francis of Assisi
  • O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. by William Shakespeare
  • O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. by Dante Alighieri
  • O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name by Jeanne-Marie Roland
  • O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. by Saint Augustine
  • O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken by Sir Walter Scott
  • O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo by William Shakespeare
  • O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. by Virgil
  • O Winter ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. by William Cowper
  • O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies. by Saadi
  • O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. by Robert Burns
  • O, beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. by William Shakespeare
  • O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen. by Saint Augustine
  • O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't, A brother's murder. by William Shakespeare
  • O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue O, farewell Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell Othello's occupation's gone by William Shakespeare
  • O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell by Thomas Dekker
  • O, woe is me, To have seen what I have seen, see what I see by William Shakespeare
  • Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them. by Anthony de Mello
  • Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing. by Jim Morrison
  • Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor. by Hesiod
  • Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. by Antisthenes
  • Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults. by Greek Proverb
  • Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. by Sybil Adelman
  • Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. by E. Joseph Crossman
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. by Henry Ford
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. by Sydney Smith
  • Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. by Michael Jordon
  • Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. by Andre Gide
  • Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime. by G. Gordon Liddy
  • Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something. by Susan S. Taylor
  • Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence. by Pam Brown
  • Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. by Amanda Cross
  • Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt. by Berthold Auerbach
  • Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. by Bertrand Russell
  • Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. by Sophocles
  • Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most. by Thucyclides
  • Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. by Samuel Johnson
  • Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal. by Isocrates
  • Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. by I Ching
  • Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will. by William James
  • Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time. by Albert Einstein
  • Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. by Samuel Johnson
  • Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government. by Madame Chiang
  • Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. by Henry Ward Beecher
  • Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed. by Herman Melville
  • Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. by Henry Clay
  • Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. by John Ruskin
  • Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest. by Marilyn Ferguson
  • Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. by Epicurus
  • Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. by Aristotle
  • Of all the warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's the least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train. by Buddha
  • Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. by Clive Staples Lewis
  • Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain. by Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion. by Melvin Fitting
  • Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine country, eat, drink, make mad love and pretend we were born sterile and raise poodles. by Dorothy DeBolt
  • Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. by David Gerrold
  • Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win. by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. by Arthur Rubinstein
  • Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. by A. E. Hotchner
  • Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery. by Gore Vidal
  • Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. by Homer
  • Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. by Euripides
  • Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps Luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy. by Robertson Davies
  • Of my friends, I am the only one I have left. by Terence
  • Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal. by Sophocles
  • Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure. by George Melton
  • Of those who say nothing, few are silent. by Thomas Neill
  • Of two evils choose neither. by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • Of two evils we must always choose the least. by Thomas a Kempis
  • Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends by Robert Louis Stephenson
  • Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it. by Albert Einstein
  • Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves. by Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking. by Horace
  • Offensiveness is a necessary consequence of opinions strongly held and openly expressed, and free societies should treasure and protect it. An idea that offends no one is not worth entertaining. by Unknown
  • Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. by Hesiod
  • Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. by Mark Twain
  • Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. by Hermann Hesse
  • Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want. by Margaret Young
  • Often sound advice turns out to be totally wrong. Sometimes things turn out in such a way that only a fool would predict. Which is why fools, too, have their place in analysis and debate. by Unknown
  • Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid. by Harlan Miller
  • Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. by Conte Vittorio Alfieri
  • Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished. by Sharon Salzberg
  • Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth. by Mark Twain
  • Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. by Jane Austen
  • Oh for a book and a shady nook... by John Wilson
  • Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Oh too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear by Lord Byron
  • Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor by Virgil
  • Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at by Dan Fielding
  • Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at by Unknown
  • Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. by Anne Sexton
  • Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever. by 1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible
  • Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two. by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire
  • Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice. by Marcel Ayme
  • Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. by Lichty and Wagner
  • Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him. by August Strindberg
  • Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings. by John Gillespie Magee
  • Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
  • Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania. by Dorothy Parker
  • Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania. by Dorothy Rothschild Parker
  • Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Oh, that way madness lies let me shun that. by William Shakespeare
  • Oh, the tangled webs we weave When we practice to deceive. by Sir Walter Scott
  • Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. by William Shakespeare
  • Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. by Aaron Hill
  • Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour by Aphra Behn
  • Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave. by Ogden Nash
  • Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. by Laurence J. Peter
  • Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive by Sir Walter Scott
  • Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people. by George Pratt Shultz
  • Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you. by Tennessee Williams
  • Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months. by Bill Tammeus
  • Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex... Do we need so many by Sybil Adelman
  • Old age equalizes- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world. by Jane Harrison
  • Old age is fifteen years older than I am. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Old age is not a disease- it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses. by Samuel Johnson
  • Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. by Maurice Chevalier
  • Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man. by Leon Trotsky
  • Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to. by Joe Gores
  • Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. by Johann von Goethe
  • Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Old birds are hard to pluck. by German proverb
  • Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet. by Anon.
  • Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they re ended. by Colley Cibber
  • Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address. by Anon.
  • Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well. by Anon.
  • On a good day, I view the job of president as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch-engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction. by A Bartlett Giamatti
  • On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property. by Buddha
  • On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. by Will Rogers
  • On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. by Bhagavad Gita
  • On being an actor .nothing more than a worker in a service occupation . It's like being a waiter or a gas station attendant, but I'm waiting on 6 million people in a week if I'm lucky. by Harrison Ford
  • On CBS Radio the news of his Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. by Alexander Kendrick
  • On doing another talk show It would be like going back to a relationship. Ever do that You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left by Arsenio Hall
  • On Fathers Day, we again wish you all happy birthday. by Ralph Kiner
  • On her first meeting with he ex-husband, Steven Seagal He reminded me of an alien. by Kelly Le Brock
  • On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved. by Mark Twain
  • On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. by Buddha
  • On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being. by Harlan Ellison
  • On marriage Look for a sweet person. Forget rich. by Estee Lauder
  • On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. by Tom Lehrer
  • On packing Lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then, take half the clothes and twice the money. by Susan Butler Anderson
  • On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. by Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
  • On the breakup of Harrison Ford's first marriage It wasn't because he became a star. In all relationships there are changes and the point is both partners have to change together. by Walter Beakel
  • On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength. by Billy
  • On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. by Peter Steiner
  • On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. by Virginia
  • On the Plains of Hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions, who, at the Dawn of Victory, sat down to wait, and waiting--died by George W. Cecil
  • On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. by Woody Allen
  • On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975) by Adam Smith
  • On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay. by Rudyard Kipling
  • On the touchstone of misfortune a man discovers the strength of understanding and of spirit in kinsmen, wife, servants, and himself. by The Hitopadesa
  • On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. by George Orwell
  • On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light. by Freya Stark
  • On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. by Lloyd Garrison
  • On Truth and Happiness........ The search is over as we begin. by Unknown
  • Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. by Harry S Truman
  • Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made his commitment, nothing will stop him short of success. by Vince Lombardi
  • Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. by Thamas De Quincey
  • Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. by Stewart Brand
  • Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. by Norman Mailer
  • Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. by Horace
  • Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. by Mao Zedong
  • Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it. by Homer
  • Once I decide to do something, I can't have people telling me I can't. If there's a roadblock, you jump over it, walk around it, crawl under it. by Kitty Kelley
  • Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength. by Persian Proverb
  • Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself. by Audrey Giorgi
  • Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be. by Gary Harrington
  • Once in the racket you're always in it. by Al Capone
  • Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. by Woodrow Wilson
  • Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. by William Shakespeare
  • Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box. by Italian Proverb
  • Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky. by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in by H.R. Haldeman
  • Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again by Rudyard Kipling
  • Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself. by Herbert Clark Hoover
  • Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time. by Charles De Gaulle
  • Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. by Charles Dickens
  • Once when I was in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai, I met a mysterious old stranger. He said he was about to die and wanted to tell someone about the treasure. I said, 'Okay, as long as it's not a long story. Some of us have a plane to catch, you know.' He stared telling his story, about the treasure and his life and all, and I thought 'This story isn't too long.' But then, he kept going, and I started thinking, 'Uh-oh, this story is getting long.' But then the story was over, and I said to myself 'You know, that story wasn't too long after all.' I forget what the story was about, but there was a good movie on the plane. It was a little long, though. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures. by Vince Lombardi
  • Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. by Herbert Gardner
  • Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been, there you long to return. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. by Pat Conroy
  • Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. For the American citadel is a man. Not man in general. Not man in the abstract. Not the majority of men. But man. That man. His worth. His uniqueness. by Archibald MacLeish
  • Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. by Willie Nelson
  • Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. by Irving Layton
  • Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. by Unknown
  • Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. by Chuang-tzu
  • Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex. by Katharine Graham
  • One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. by Judith Viorst
  • One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, Have a nice day. by Peter Brodie
  • One boy is more trouble that a dozen girls. by English Proverb
  • One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. by Marie Henri Beyle
  • One can acquire everything in solitude except character. by Stendhal
  • One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. by Oscar Wilde
  • One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. by Hellen Keller
  • One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. by Oscar Wilde
  • One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often. by Erich Fromm
  • One cannot both feast and become rich. by Ashanti Proverb
  • One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
  • One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. by Rene Descartes
  • One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. by Jane Austen
  • One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion. by Anatol Rapoport
  • One cannot review a bad book without showing off. by W. H. Auden
  • One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. by David Borenstein
  • One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. by Woodrow Wilson
  • One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. by Franklin Thomas
  • One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. by Josef Stalin
  • One dies only once, and then for such a long time by Moliere
  • One difference between French appeasement and American appeasement is that France pays ransom in cash and gets its hostages back while the United States pays ransom in arms and gets additional hostages taken. by William Safire
  • One does evil enough when one does nothing good. by German proverb
  • One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it. by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. by Andr Gide
  • One does not learn how to die by killing others. by Vicomte de Chateaubriand
  • One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. by Jane Austen
  • One does not make friends. One recognizes them. by Garth Henrichs
  • One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. by Tshunka Witko
  • One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. by Andre Gide
  • One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. by Larry Gelbart
  • One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. by Chinese Proverb
  • One drink is just right two is too many three are too few. by Danish proverb
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves. by La Rochefoucauld
  • One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible. by Henry Adams
  • One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing. by Gene Brown
  • One good turn deserves another. by Gaius Petronius
  • One great cause of failure is lack of concentration. by Bruce Lee
  • One great use of words is to hide our thoughts. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. by Albert Einstein
  • One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. by Jane Austen
  • One hand washes the other. by Seneca
  • One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. by Alice James
  • One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight. by James Grover Thurber
  • One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool. by Edgar Watson Howe
  • One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. by Henry Miller
  • One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty. by Maxim Gorky
  • One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe) by Margaret Hilda Thatcher
  • One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child. by Forest Witcraft
  • One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. by Agatha Christie
  • One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one thinks. by La Rochefoucauld
  • One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. by Lewis Lew Wallace
  • One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do. by Victor Hugo
  • One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. by Oscar Wilde
  • One is very crazy when in love. by Sigmund Freud
  • One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act. by Hannah More
  • One kind word can warm three winter months. by Japanese Proverb
  • One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities. by Thomas Carlyle
  • One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. by Virginia
  • One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. by Antonio Porchia
  • One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. by Elbert Hubbard
  • One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. by Edward Abbey
  • One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. by Miguel de Cervantes
  • One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars and the world will be better for this. by Joe
  • One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. by George Bernard Shaw
  • One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. by John Ernst Steinbeck
  • One man with courage is a majority. by Thomas Jefferson
  • One man with courage makes a majority. by Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
  • One man's folly is another man's wife. by Helen Rowland
  • One man's justice is another's injustice one man's beauty another's ugliness one man's wisdom another's folly. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • One man's religion is another man's belly laugh. by Robert Anson Heinlein
  • One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides. by Johann von Goethe
  • One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then. by Henry David Thoreau
  • One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. by Vincent Van Gogh
  • One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. by Henry Louis Mencken
  • One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time. by John Wanamaker
  • One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. by French Proverb
  • One mind awake can awaken another, The second awake can awaken their next door brother. Three awake can awaken the town By turning the whole place upside down. Many awake can make such a fuss That they finally awaken the rest of us. by Helen Kromer
  • One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. by Etty Hillesum
  • One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. by Johann von Goethe
  • One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. by Amos Bronson Alcott
  • One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. by George Eliot
  • One must desire something to be alive. by Margaret Deland
  • One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. by Marquis de Sade
  • One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes. by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. by Blaise Pascal
  • One must love a cat on its own terms. by Peter Gray
  • One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. by Etty Hilsum
  • One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. by Anatole France
  • One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form. by Gustave Flaubert
  • One must not be mean with the affections what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself. by Sigmund Freud
  • One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. by Alexander A. Bogomoletz
  • One must really have suffered oneself to help others. by Mother Theresa
  • One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. by Mahatma Gandhi
  • One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. by Johann von Goethe
  • One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. by Henry Moore
  • One never notices what has been done one can only see what remains to be done. by Marie Curie
  • One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. by Alan Alexander Milne
  • One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. by A. A. Milne
  • One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid. by Jonathan Swift
  • One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instructions as to the prevalent forms of mendacity. Credulity is a greater evil in the present day than it ever was before, because, owing to the growth of education, it is much easier than it used to be to spread misinformation, and, owing to democracy, the spread of misinformation is more important than in former times to the holders of power. by Bertrand Russell
  • One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. by Kurt Vonnegut
  • One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. by William Osler
  • One of the fondest expressions around is that we can't be the world's policeman. But guess who gets called when suddenly someone needs a cop. by Colin
  • One of the great attractions of patriotism -- it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. by Aldous Huxley
  • One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. by Thomas B. Reed
  • One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. by Henry Ford
  • One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. by Carl Sandburg
  • One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. by Walter Bagehot
  • One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. by Josh Billings
  • One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. by James Earl Jones
  • One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. by William Feather
  • One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. by Rita Mae Brown
  • One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. by Will Durant
  • One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. by Oscar Wilde
  • One of the many ways of managing peers is to knock them down so heavily, whenever we find them on their wrong foot, that they loose the courage of raising their voice when we are wrong. by B. J. Gupta
  • One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams. by E. V. Lucas
  • One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. by James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
  • One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • One of the most effectual ways of pleasing and of making one's self loved is to be cheerful joy softens more hearts than tears do. by Mme. de Sartory
  • One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. by Mark Twain
  • One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick. by Rabbi Harold Kushner
  • One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today. by Dale Carnegie
  • One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. by Dr. Karl Menninger
  • One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. by Plato
  • One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. by Jack Penn
  • One of the self-authenticating truths which we come at last to acknowledge is this strange fact that we know that for the evil in our lives we ourselves are responsible, but for the good God alone deserves the praise. by John L. Casteel
  • One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. by Andrew Carnegie
  • One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. by Virginia
  • One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
  • One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. by Bertrand Russell
  • One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. by Arnold Glasgow
  • One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. by Lucille Ball
  • One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. by Elmer Davis
  • One of the things that keeps you from dropping them in the nearest volcano is that you had to work too hard to get them. You had to cry, you had to scream, you had to sweat, you had to cuss out health care officials, and when that's all over with, you'll be willing to put up with a lot more from your kids. by Barbara Hall
  • One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen. by Rabbi David Wolpe
  • One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider. by Damon Runyon
  • One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • One only needs two tools in life WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. by G. Weilacher
  • One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen. by Leo Tolstoy
  • One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. by Johann von Goethe
  • One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue. by Juvenal
  • One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. by Andrew Schneider
  • One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests. by John Stuart Mill
  • One picture is worth a thousand words. by Fred R. Barnard
  • One player practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. by Knute Kenneth Rockne
  • One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. by Michael Cibenko
  • One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. by Lady Nancy Astor
  • One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. by Nancy Astor
  • One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. by Oscar Wilde
  • One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. by Oscar Wilde
  • One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. by Bertrand Russell
  • One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities. by Chinese Proverb
  • One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. by Honore' de Balzac
  • One should count each day a separate life. by Seneca
  • One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community. by Albert Einstein
  • One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. by Charles Horton Cooley
  • One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. by Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. by Henrik Ibsen
  • One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. by William Butler Yeats
  • One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. by Jewish Folk Saying
  • One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. by G. E. Lessing
  • One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household. by George Frost Kennan
  • One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... by Robert Whitney Boynton
  • One swallow does not make a summer. by Aristotle
  • One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. by Alcaeus
  • One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. by Thomas Fuller
  • One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • One thing about my Aunt Nadie She was gruff on the outside, but if you ever needed something, like a spanking or a scolding, she'd give it to you. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. by Barbara Bush
  • One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. by Norman Mailer
  • One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life. by Real Live Preacher
  • One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. 'Oh, no,' I said, 'Disneyland burned down.' He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with a wooden stake. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. by Anon.
  • One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. by Franklin P. Jones
  • One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. by James Russell Lowell
  • One truly cannot be described, If the one doing the describing Has a bad attitude. by Unknown
  • One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. by Frank Shutts
  • One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear. by Leone Levi
  • One who condones evil is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. by Albert Schweitzer
  • One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him. by Lao Tzu
  • One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men. by Bhagavad Gita
  • One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. by Romanian Proverb
  • One who thinks by the inch and talks by the mile should be kicked by the foot. by Unknown
  • ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time. by Geoffrey Neighor
  • One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. by Proverb
  • One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. by Geoffrey F. Albert
  • One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love. by Sophocles
  • One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'. by Dan Quayle
  • One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. by Henry Miller
  • One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. by Michael J. Fox
  • One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family. by Robert C. Byrd
  • One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best. by Clifton Fadiman
  • One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. by George Santayana
  • One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates. by Hellen Keller
  • One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. by A. C. Benson
  • One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • One's own self conquered is better than all other people. by The Dhammapada
  • One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes. by Maitri Upanishads
  • One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes...and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must live it to the full. by Muriel Spark
  • One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. by Oscar Wilde
  • One's religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. by Joseph Addison
  • One's religion is whatever one is most interested in. by James Barrie
  • One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law Three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. by Isaac Asimov
  • Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. by Rodan of Alexandria
  • Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. by Albert Einstein
  • Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. by Muhammad Ali
  • Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. by Elayne Boosler
  • Only a weak mind seeks ultimate answers. by Agnes Thornton
  • Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm. by Jean Paul Richter
  • Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm. by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
  • Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. by Cree Indian Prophecy
  • Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing Never. by Edna Ferber
  • Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be. by Karen Raven
  • Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. by Bernard Baruch
  • Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. by Sir Isaiah Berlin
  • Only cat lovers know the luxury of fur-coated, musical hot water bottles that never go cold. by Susanne Millen
  • Only cowards insult dying majesty. by Aesop
  • Only dreamers can teach us to soar. by Anne Marie Pierce
  • Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. by Oscar Wilde
  • Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd. by Allan Goldfein
  • Only fools are positive. by Moe Howard
  • Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles. by Joe Moore
  • Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them. by Berthold Auerbach
  • Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. by Carol Burnett
  • Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. by Hans Margolius
  • Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. by Miguel de Unanimo
  • Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. by George Eliot
  • Only lie about the future. by Johnny Carson
  • Only little boys and old men sneer at love. by Louis Auchincloss
  • Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. by Marc Chagall
  • Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun. by Indian Proverb
  • Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. by William James
  • Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists. by Thomas Huxley
  • Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. by Albert Einstein
  • Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. by Denis Diderot
  • Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty that what we believe is not necessarily true that what we like is not necessarily good and that all questions are open. by Clive
  • Only sick music makes money today. by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. by Warren Gamaliel Harding
  • Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. by Willa Cather
  • Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying. by Baba Ram Dass
  • Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral. by Ernest Hemingway
  • Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. by Eugene S. Wilson
  • Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. by Margaret Fuller
  • Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. by Chinese Proverb
  • Only the educated are free. by Epictetus
  • Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change. by Socrates
  • Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. by Abraham Maslow
  • Only the hand that erases can write the true thing. by Meister Eckhart
  • Only the little people pay taxes. by Leona Helmsly
  • Only the mediocre are always at their best. by Jean Giraudoux
  • Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there. by Andrew Mercer
  • Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth. by Nozick
  • Only the shallow know themselves. by Oscar Wilde
  • Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot. by Sicilian Proverb
  • Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. by Dr.
  • Only the winners decide what were war crimes. by Gary Wills
  • Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. by Confucius
  • Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check. by M. C. Escher
  • Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. by Robert Francis Kennedy
  • Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. by George Eliot
  • Only those who will risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go. by T. S. Eliot
  • Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees. by Marcel Proust
  • Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward. by Dr. Viktor E Frankl
  • Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst. by Ford Maddox
  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. by Albert Einstein
  • Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. by Aeschylus
  • Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude. by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
  • Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live... by Dorothy Thompson
  • Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. by Sicilian Proverb
  • Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector. by Anon.
  • Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're livin' by Bob Marley
  • Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. by Johann Georg von Zimmermann
  • Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. by Ed Gardner
  • Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat. by Sir Julian Huxley
  • Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it. by Benjamin Cardozo
  • Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. by Herbert Spencer
  • Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence. by Francis Jeffrey
  • Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. by Hebrew Proverb
  • Opportunities are seldom labeled. by John H. Shield
  • Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. by Ann Landers
  • Opportunities multiply as they are seized. by Sun-tzu
  • Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. by Kyle Chandler
  • Opportunity doesn't knock. You knock, opportunity answers. by American Proverb
  • Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. by Thomas Alva Edison
  • Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. by William Arthur Ward
  • Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door. by Steve Gray
  • Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. by Anon.
  • Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. by Heraclitus
  • Oppression can only survive through silence. by Carmen de Monteflores
  • Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant--the digitalis of failure. by Elbert Hubbard
  • Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. by Lloyd Alexander
  • Optimization hinders evolution. by Anon.
  • Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. by Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. by Pearl Buck
  • Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. by Heinrich Heine
  • Oregano is the spice of life. by Henry J. Tillman
  • Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. by Louis D. Brandeis
  • Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society. by B. J. Gupta
  • Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. by Woody Allen
  • Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother. by Anon.
  • Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. by James Stephens
  • Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. by Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. by Thomas W. Higginson
  • Originality is the art of concealing your source. by Franklin P. Jones
  • Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. by Laurence J. Peter
  • Orthodoxy is Unconsciousness. by George Orwell
  • Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself. by Shannon Miller
  • Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. by Anthony Brandt
  • Our (The Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. by Whitney Moore Young
  • Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools. by Marshall McLuhan
  • Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. by Sir John Lubbock
  • Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning. by Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. by Jimmy Carter
  • Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot. by Mitchell Burgess
  • Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. by William James
  • Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. by William Shakespeare
  • Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them. by Shakti Gawain
  • Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. by A. Whitney Brown
  • Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. by Hfiz
  • Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. by Samuel Johnson
  • Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. by Stewart B. Johnson
  • Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. by Robert Louis Stephenson
  • Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough. by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. by George Santayana
  • Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Our children are here to stay, but our babies and toddlers and preschoolers are gone as fast as they can grow up-and we have only a short moment with each. When you see a grandfather take a baby in his arms, you see that the moment hasn't always been long enough. by Saint Clair Adams Sullivan
  • Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren. by Mary Steichen Calderone
  • Our children change uswhether they live or not. by Lois McMaster Bujold
  • Our common language is ... English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. by William John Bennett
  • Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. by Will Rogers
  • Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. by John Quincy Adams
  • Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. by Gerald R. Ford
  • Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. by Samuel Adams
  • Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, Trust me, they're actually being very un-American. by David Duchovny
  • Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right. by Carl Schurz
  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny. by Eric Hoffer
  • Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. by George Eliot
  • Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. by Marian Evans
  • Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. by Haniel Long
  • Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. by John Dykes
  • Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. by Marianne Williamson
  • Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order. by Albert Einstein
  • Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. by Fritz Perls
  • Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. by Orison Swett Marden
  • Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • Our determination to imitiate Christ should be such that we have no time for other matters. by Desiderius Erasmus
  • Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. by George Santayana
  • Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better. by Sydney Harris
  • Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt. by William Shakespeare
  • Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest. by Cullen Hightower
  • Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. by Bill Stern
  • Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Our enemy sees us clearly. ... They will not start a war. They're worried about one thing If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win. by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
  • Our envy of others devours us most of all. by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. by Joseph Roux
  • Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day. by John Donne
  • Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. by Audre Lorde
  • Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. by Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run. by Margaret Mead
  • Our first responsibility is not to build the Church or even to get souls saved--it is to represent Christ and to bring His message to the world. As God beholds us in Christ, so the world must behold Christ in us. As Christ represents us before the Father, so we must represent Christ before the world. by Cornelius Stam
  • Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight. by Jesse Louis Jackson
  • Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I. by Ralph Nader
  • Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do. by Johann von Goethe
  • Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. by Stephen A. Brennan
  • Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. by Louis D. Brandeis
  • Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom. by Andrew Johnson
  • Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. by Bertrand Russell
  • Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. by Vincent Van Gogh
  • Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. by Confucius
  • Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell. by Vince Lombardi
  • Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. by Eric Hoffer
  • Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. by Sophocles
  • Our heart has its reasons that reason cannot know. by Blaise Pascal
  • Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards -- the things we live by and teach our children -- are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings. by Walt Disney
  • Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches. by Colley Cibber
  • Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them. by Henry David Thoreau
  • Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. by Gustave Flaubert
  • Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this. by Gustave Flaubert
  • Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. by Charles Franklin Kettering
  • Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. by Charles F. Kettering
  • Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. by Charles Horton Cooley
  • Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. by Bertrand Russell
  • Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money. by Barry Schwartz
  • Our job is not to straighten each other out, But to help each other up. by Neva Cole
  • Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. by Paul Johannes Tillich
  • Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press and that cannot be limited without being lost. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. by Denis Watley
  • Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. by F. H. Bradley
  • Our lives are like a candle in the wind. by Carl Sandburg
  • Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks. by Lin Yutang
  • Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. by Paul Auster
  • Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. by Walter Anderson
  • Our lives teach us who we are. by Salman Rushdie
  • Our loyalties must transend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation and this means we must develop a world perspective. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. by Thomas Carlyle
  • Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. by Hermann Hesse
  • Our minds are lazier than our bodies. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. by William James
  • Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. by James Truslow Adams
  • Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. by Lewis Mumford
  • Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun control legislation. by Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
  • Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. by Denis Diderot
  • Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else. by Mark Twain
  • Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. by Henry Miller
  • Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled. by J Danforth Quayle
  • Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. by Alexander Pope
  • Our patience will achieve more than our force. by Edmund Burke
  • Our pleasures were simple-they included survival. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. by John F. Kennedy
  • Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie. by William Shakespeare
  • Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role. by William Torrey Harris
  • Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds. by Democritus
  • Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. by Cicero
  • Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it. by Paul De Rapin
  • Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart. by Henry Ward Beecher
  • Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts. by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams. by Mary Kay Utech
  • Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. by Warren Bennis
  • Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Our thoughts are free. by Cicero
  • Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. by Ruth Westheimer
  • Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. by Helen Merrell Lynd
  • Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. by Henry Graham Greene
  • Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen. ... Their faith is their passport. by Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other. by James Grover Thurber
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. by General Omar Nelson Bradley
  • Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. by Donald Robert Perry Marquis
  • Ours is the age of substitutes instead of language, we have jargon instead of principles, slogans and instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. by Eric Bentley
  • Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. by H. Mumford Jones
  • Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. by John Berger
  • Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die. by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Out of the frying pan into the fire. by Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
  • Out of the strain of the Doing, Into the peace of the Done. by Julia Louise Woodruff
  • Out, damned spot out, I say by William Shakespeare
  • Outer space is no place for a person of breeding. by Lady Violet Bonham Carter
  • Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes. by Lawana Blackwell
  • Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. by Groucho Marx
  • Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. by Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr.
  • Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. by Aesop
  • Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. by Sam Walton
  • Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. by George Washington
  • Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play. by Jerry Coleman
  • Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. by Lydia Maria Child
  • Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives. by Marilyn Ferguson
  • Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams. by Robert J. Kibbee
  • Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up. by Michael J. Gelb
  • Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. by Ovid
  • Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • Ozzie makes a leaping, diving stop, shovels to Fernando and everybody drops everything. by Jerry Coleman
  • Ozzie Smith just made a play that I have never seen before. And he's done it more times than anyone else. by Jerry Coleman