• Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. by Peter McWilliams
  • Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth. by Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
  • Pain is inevitable suffering is optional. by Unknown
  • Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. by M. Kathleen Casey
  • Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. by John Patrick
  • Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. by Mary Tyler Moore
  • Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. by John Dryden
  • Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. by George Tooker
  • Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. by Pablo Picasso
  • Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. by Simonides
  • Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. by Vincent Van Gogh
  • Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. by Horace
  • Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. by Horace
  • Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better by Laurie Anderson
  • Paranoids are people, too they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. by D. J. Hicks
  • Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. by Publilius Syrus
  • Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children. by Sir Walter Besant
  • Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best. by Erma Bombeck
  • Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years. by Anthony Powell
  • Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. by Anne Frank
  • Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life. by Muriel Spark
  • Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids. by Morley Saefer
  • Parents must get across the idea that I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior. by Amy Vanderbilt
  • Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry. by Alvin Price
  • Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. by Ogden Nash
  • Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. by Janet Long
  • Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. by Isaac Asimov
  • Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence. by Robert D. Richardson
  • Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. by George Orwell
  • Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. by Mark Twain
  • Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself. by Oprah Winfrey
  • Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell. by Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
  • Partying is such sweet sorrow. by Robert Byrne
  • Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself. by Anon.
  • Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. by Robert Sternberg
  • Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' by Sue Halpern
  • Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. by Ice T
  • Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. by Bertrand Russell
  • Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive. by Mao Zedong
  • Past and to come seem best things present worst. by Mary Bertone
  • Pat Healy Really, it's only a side thing for my true passion. Mary And what's that Pat Healy I work with retards. Mary Isn't that a little politically incorrect Pat Healy Yeah, maybe, but hell, no one's gonna tell me who I can and can't work with. by There's Something About Mary
  • Pat Healy Those goofy bastards are about the best thing I've got going. by There's Something About Mary
  • Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. by John Quincy Adams
  • Patience and time do more than strength or passion. by Jean de La Fontaine
  • Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice. by George Jackson
  • Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Patience is the companion of wisdom. by Saint Augustine
  • Patience is the greatest of all virtues. by Cato the Elder
  • Patience is the key to paradise. by Turkish Proverb
  • Patience makes lighter What sorrow may not heal. by Horace
  • Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith. by Adel Bestavros
  • Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. by Napolean Hill
  • Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. But let it be considered that he did not mean a real and generous love of our country, but that pretended patriotism which so many, in all ages and countries, have made a cloak of self- interest. by Samuel Johnson
  • Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. by George Jean Nathan
  • Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. by Samuel Johnson
  • Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. by Bertrand Russell
  • Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first. by Charles De Gaulle
  • Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery. by Lawana Blackwell
  • Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god been taken by surprise in the crucifixion of Christ Would He now be forced to resort to some makeshift arrangement No, for the crucifixion was all part of--indeed, the central part of, His secret, eternal plan, now revealed to Paul. by Cornelius Stam
  • Paul's evangelistic mission was different from the Kingdom Apostles, but in many ways the same. The Kingdom Apostles preached Jesus the Messiah, ready to return to Israel and set up His Messianic Kingdom. From Israel, the Apostles, with Christ on David's Throne, were to go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to observe everything Christ had commanded them. They would do that because all authority in heaven and on earth had been given to Christ. As we all know, that did not happen. It will happen in the future, but it has not yet happened. What has happened is that Christ revealed a Mystery through His Special Apostle Paul. by Mark McGee
  • Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic by Jean Sibelius
  • Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. by Patanjali
  • Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. by Albert Einstein
  • Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. by Buddha
  • Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. by Dorothy Thompson
  • Peace if possible, truth at all costs. by Martin Luther
  • Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. by Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. by Baruch Spinoza
  • Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by. by Maria Schell
  • Peace visits not the guilty mind. by Juvenal
  • Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none. by Thomas Jefferson
  • Penny wise, pound foolish. by Robert Burton
  • Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand. by Anon.
  • People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have. by Anne Tyler
  • People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. by Erma Bombeck
  • People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. by George Bernard Shaw
  • People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. by Bob Robert Alan Edwards
  • People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. by Lao Tzu
  • People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. by Abraham Lincoln
  • People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
  • People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. by Unknown
  • People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. by Andrew Schneider
  • People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. by Mother Theresa
  • People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones. by Charles Franklin Kettering
  • People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. by W. Somerset Maugham
  • People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. by John Lennon
  • People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. by John C. Maxwell
  • People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way' by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black. by Henry Ford
  • People change and forget to tell eachother. by Lillian Hellman
  • People come to poverty in two ways accumulating debts and paying them off. by Jewish Proverb
  • People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. by Kierkegaard
  • People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. by Socrates
  • People do not lack strength, they lack will. by Victor Hugo
  • People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. by Hellen Keller
  • People do not want words-they want the sound of battle ... the battle of destiny. by Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. by Robert Keith Leavitt
  • People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. by Ruben Studdard
  • People don't start wars, governments do. by Ronald Reagan
  • People don't understand the virtue of time, until their clock stops ticking. by Steve Goodman
  • People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. by Margaret Cho
  • People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. by A. J. Liebling
  • People fail forward to success. by Mary Kay Ash
  • People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. by Sydney Harris
  • People find life entirely too time-consuming. by Stanislaw Lec
  • People fo privilage will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. by Howard Newton
  • People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. by Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. by Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • People have declaimed against luxury for 2000 years, in verse and in prose, and people have always delighted in it. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got. by Richard Milhous Nixon
  • People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say. by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
  • People in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than governments. by Dwight D Eisenhower
  • People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. by Lao Tzu
  • People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • People laugh when I say that I think a jellyfish is one of the most beautiful things in the world. What they don't understand is, I mean a jellyfish with long, blond hair. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. by Bill Vaughan
  • People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward 'I'm such a klutz' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver. by George
  • People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die. by Saki
  • People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. by Frederick Douglas
  • People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled. by Norman Mailer
  • People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. by John Harrigan
  • People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place. by Irving Kristol
  • People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. by Prince Otto
  • People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. by George Herbert Allen
  • People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. by Adam Smith
  • People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. by Aesop
  • People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. by Thomas Szasz
  • People only see what they are prepared to see. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People react to fear, not love- they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. by Leonardo DaVinci
  • People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors. by Mark Duffy
  • People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. by Logan Pearsall Smith
  • People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character. by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. by Russell Baker
  • People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. by Cullen Hightower
  • People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. by A. C. Benson
  • People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. by Annie Sullivan
  • People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. by George Orwell
  • People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. by J. Michael Straczynski
  • People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
  • People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. by Dan Quayle
  • People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. by J Danforth Quayle
  • People think it would be fun to be a bird because you could fly. But they forget the negative side, which is the preening. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • People think we make 3 million and 4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make 500,000. by Pete Incaviglia
  • People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. by Saint Augustine
  • People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything, but against something. by William Bennet Munro
  • People want economy and they will pay any price to get it. by Lee Iacocca
  • People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes what they want is to see you fall. by Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. by Mary Pettibone Poole
  • People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave. by James Randi
  • People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Some psychologists call it a conflict between ego-orientation, or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation... but in all cases, what counts is whether attention is turned away from the task at hand and focused on the self and its future rewards, or whether it is instead trained on the task itself. The latter attitude seems the more fruitful. by Unknown
  • People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue. by Walter Lippmann
  • People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly. by Brendan Francis
  • People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out. by Warren Bennis
  • People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. by Agnes Repplier
  • People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children. by Bill Watterson
  • People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them. by Anatole France
  • People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. by Ogden Nash
  • People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table. by Max Beerbohm
  • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. by Jeanne-Marie Roland
  • People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. by Jean Jacques Rousseau
  • People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. by Abraham Lincoln
  • People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them. by Aharon Appelfeld
  • People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. by Dr. Dale E. Turner
  • People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too. by Malcolm Stevenson Forbes
  • People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. by Peter Ustinov
  • People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway. by Mother Theresa
  • People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. by Leo J. Burke
  • People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. by Russell Baker
  • People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under. by Charles R. Swindoll
  • People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. by Bob Hope
  • People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. by James Arthur Baldwin
  • People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. by Simeon Strunsky
  • People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. by Ogden Nash
  • People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society. by Vince Lombardi
  • People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given. by Sue Grafton
  • People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given. by Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
  • People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. by David H. Comins
  • People will believe anything. They will believe it because they want it to be true, or because they are afraid it is. by Terry Goodkind
  • People will buy anything that is one to a customer. by Sinclair Lewis
  • People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. by Bill Cosby
  • People with clenched fists can not shake hands. by Indira Nehru Gandhi
  • People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. by Hermann Hesse
  • People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses. by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
  • People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. by Walter Savage Landor
  • Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. by Miyamoto Musashi
  • Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. by Ivan Pavlov
  • Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. by Leo Buscaglia
  • Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone. by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
  • Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education. by Burk Hudson
  • Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
  • Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. by Saint Thomas Aquinas
  • Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being. by John Updike
  • Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. by Alfred Victor Vigny
  • Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. by Benjamin McLane Spock
  • Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults. by Eric Hoffer
  • Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few. by Barbara Mikkelson
  • Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning. by Michael R. Baer
  • Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. by Virgil
  • Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past. by Dean Koontz
  • Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  • Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
  • Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being. by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians. by Franklin P. Jones
  • Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in used to be fools who rushed in. by Franklin P. Jones
  • Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern -- why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be by William Hazlitt
  • Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. by Anton Chekhov
  • Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth. by Umberto Eco
  • Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. by George Eliot
  • Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves. by Bonaro Overstreet
  • Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not it is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. by Thomas Huxley
  • Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. by Thomas Huxley
  • Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. by Walter Bagehot
  • Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. by Aldous Huxley
  • Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin impatience. Because of impatience we are driven out of Paradise because of impatience we cannot return. by Franz Kafka
  • Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. by Thomas Wolfe
  • Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. by Edna Ferber
  • Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. by Oscar Wilde
  • Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. by Alfred North Whitehead
  • Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption. by Keith Bostic
  • Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. by H Hahn Blavatsky
  • Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. by Robert Louis Stephenson
  • Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life. by Andrew Bonar Law
  • Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. by Colin Powell
  • Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. by Howard Mumford Jones
  • Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love. by Frank Moore Colby
  • Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. by I Ching
  • Perseverance is more prevailing than violence and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. by Plutarch
  • Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another. by Walter Elliott
  • Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time. by Marabel Morgan
  • Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure. by Edward Eggleston
  • Personal isn't the same as important. by Terry Pratchett
  • Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open. by Elmer G. Letterman
  • Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. by J. B. Yeats
  • Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass thats somehow connected to birth. by Hugh Elliott
  • Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. by Sir Winston Churchill
  • Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be establishedat every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to talk about democracy. by Noam Chomsky
  • Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die. by Michio Kushi
  • Persuasion is often more effectual than force. by Aesop
  • Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom. by Mark Twain
  • Pessimists are in a winwin situation, whatever happens they are either always right or pleasantly suprised. by Unknown
  • Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well. by Office Space
  • Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option. by Spider-Man
  • Peter So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. by Office Space
  • Peter Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. by Office Space
  • Peter When I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. by Office Space
  • Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied. by Spider-Man
  • Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth. by Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
  • Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. by Richard Feynman
  • Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. by H.L. Mencken
  • Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. by Anon.
  • Philosophy is the highest music. by Plato
  • Philosophy is the science which considers truth. by Aristotle
  • Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it. by La Rochefoucauld
  • Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. by Wendell Phillips
  • Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. by Albert Einstein
  • Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. by Clarence Darrow
  • Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. by Alice James
  • Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next by Richard Feynman
  • Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters. by B. F. Skinner
  • Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. by Eugene Paul Wigner
  • Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks. by Carol Botwin
  • Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. by Jonathan Kozol
  • Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. by Aristotle
  • Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered. by Unknown
  • Pink All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself. by Dazed and Confused
  • Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. by William Shakespeare
  • Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. by Don Marquis
  • Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either. by A. W. Tozer
  • Plan like you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow. by Unknown
  • Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. by Peter Drucker
  • Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. by H.L. Mencken
  • Platitudes Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. by Margaret Hilda Thatcher
  • Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. by Frank Caplan
  • Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience. by Johann Huizinga
  • Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. by Fred Rogers
  • Play is the beginning of knowledge. by George Dorsey
  • Play is the exultation of the possible. by Martin Buber
  • Playing dead not only comes in handy when face to face with a bear, but also at important business meetings. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Playing football in the morning is like eating cabbage for breakfast. by Pressbox Maxim
  • Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires. by Oliver Bevan
  • Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant. by Lucretius
  • Please all, and you will please none. by Aesop
  • Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
  • Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. by Charles Fox
  • Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. by Aristotle
  • Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way. by A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Pleasure is the beginning and the end of living happily. by Epicurus
  • Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market or the precipice. by Robinson Jeffers
  • Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. by Samuel Johnson
  • Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. by Bette Davis
  • Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. by Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
  • Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it. by William Faulkner
  • Plodding wins the race. by Aesop
  • Plunge boldly into the thick of life by Johann von Goethe
  • Plunge boldly into the thick of life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. by Charles Simic
  • Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. by Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
  • Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. by Lord Byron
  • Poetry is what gets lost in translation. by Robert Frost
  • Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. by M. C. Richards
  • Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance. by John Keats
  • Poetry the best words in the best order. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority. by Marion Garretty
  • Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. by G. K. Chesterton
  • Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
  • Pointing out the comic elements of a situation can bring a sense of proportion and perspective to what might otherwise seem an overwhelming problem. by Harvey Mindess
  • Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. by Thomas Sowell
  • Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear. by W. Allingham
  • Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it. by Walter Frederick Mondale
  • Politicians are interested in people. Not that it is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. by P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, they go out and buy more tunnel. by John Quinton
  • Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. by Nikita Khrushchev
  • Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. by Arthur C. Clarke
  • Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. by Vera Brittaiin
  • Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. by Will Rogers
  • Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. by Margaret Cho
  • Politics is applesauce. by Will Rogers
  • Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. by Dalton Camp
  • Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. by Ronald Reagan
  • Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. by John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. by Robert Louis Stephenson
  • Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh, they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas -- a political animal is such an animal. But lurking somewhere behind their rhetoric and their spittle are important choices that we should make. by Dennis Potter
  • Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. by Ronald Reagan
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. by Julius Henry Marx
  • Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. by Ernest Benn
  • Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. by Paul Valery
  • Politics is the art of the possible. by R. A. Butler
  • Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. by Joseph Sobran
  • Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. by Oscar Ameringer
  • Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. by Lester B. Pearson
  • Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. by Mao Tse Tung
  • Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. by Lucille Ball
  • Politics when I am in it, makes me sick. by Edward De Bono
  • Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. by Herbert Marshall McLuhan
  • Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. by Henry Adams
  • Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. by Richard Lamm
  • Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense. by George Gallup
  • Poor are poor because rich are rich. by B. J. Gupta
  • Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. by Madonna
  • Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. by Flannery O'Connor
  • Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. by George Bernard Shaw
  • Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. by John Stuart Mill
  • Popularity It is glory's small change. by Victor Hugo
  • Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.) by Caspar de Aguilar
  • Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. by Zig Ziglar
  • Possession is eleven points in the law. by Colley Cibber
  • Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid) by Virgil
  • Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing. by Charles Krauthammer
  • Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. by Heywood Broun
  • Potatoes are to food what sensible shoes are to fashion. by Linda Wells
  • Pour water on a sportswriter -- instant horseshit. by Ted Williams
  • Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. by Aristotle
  • Poverty is the schoolmaster of character. by Antiphanes
  • Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Poverty of goods is easily cured poverty of the mind is irreparable. by D. A. Battista
  • Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. by Anon.
  • Power always has to be kept in check power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. by William Proxmire
  • Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak and that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. by John Quincy Adams
  • Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. by Woodrow Wilson
  • Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. by Lord Acton
  • Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. by John Lehman
  • Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. by John Ernst Steinbeck
  • Power intoxicates men. When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers. by James F. Byrnes
  • Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. by Honore' de Balzac
  • Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. by Nadine Gordimer
  • Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones. by Stephen Covey
  • Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. by Henry Kissinger
  • Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story. by Lincoln Steffens
  • Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes. by Alexander Hamilton
  • Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power. by Malcolm X
  • Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. And this unintelligence of its objectives sets its stamp on its supporters also and renders them stupid and brutal, even when they were originally endowed with the best of talents. One who is constantly striving to force everything into a mechanical order at last becomes a machine himself and loses all human feeling. by Rudolph Rocker
  • Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. by Emerich Edward Dalbert
  • Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. by Henry Adams
  • Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. by Samuel Smiles
  • Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. by Virgil
  • Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect. by Vince Lombardi
  • Practice is everythingThis is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. by Periander
  • Practice is the best of all instructors. by Publilius Syrus
  • Practice no vice because it's trivial... Neglect no virtue because it's so. by Chinese Proverb
  • Practice yourself what you preach. by Titus Maccius Plautus
  • Practice, the master of all things. by Augustus Octavius
  • Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater. by Epictetus
  • Praise in public criticize in private. by Vince Lombardi
  • Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it. by Jesse Lair
  • Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. by Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
  • Praise the bridge that carried you over. by George Colman
  • Praise youth and it will prosper. by Irish Proverb
  • Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels. by Thomas John Watson, Sr.
  • Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear. by William Shakespeare
  • Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man. by Francis Cardinal Spellman
  • Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it. by Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
  • Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. by Dag Hammarskjld
  • Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy. by Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
  • Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. by Ambrose Bierce
  • Pray you now, forget and forgive. by William Shakespeare
  • Pray, pray very much but beware of telling God what you want. by French Proverb
  • Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. by Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
  • Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us. by Unknown
  • Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. by Hippocrates
  • Prayer is .... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him. by Unknown
  • Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon. by Martin Luther
  • Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. by Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. by Ambrose of Milan
  • Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God. by John Bunyan
  • Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. by Epictetus
  • Preach the gospel at all times -- If necessary, use words. by Saint Francis of Assisi
  • Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. by Merry Browne
  • Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. by Niels Bohr
  • Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse. by Chilo
  • Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. by Maya Angelou
  • Prejudice is opinion without judgement. by Voltaire
  • Prejudice is the child of ignorance. by William Hazlitt
  • Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. by Charlotte Bronte
  • Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return. by Samuel Cunningham
  • Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer. by Ernest Holmes
  • Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity. by Unknown
  • Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people. by Ralph Nader
  • Presidents don't do it to their wives. They do it to their country. by Mel Brooks
  • Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good. by Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE by Anon.
  • Presumption means nothing more than as stated by Lord Mansfield, the weighing of probabilities, and deciding, by the powers of common sense, on which side the truth is. by Sir William Draper
  • Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children. by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status. by Lao Tzu
  • Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system. by Stuart Stevens
  • Pride sullies the noblest character. by Claudianus
  • Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad. by Brad Moore
  • Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man. by Alighieri Dante
  • Prince Akeem Oh, it was a most amazing game. The Giants of New York took on the Packers of Green Bay. The Giants triumphed by kicking a pigskin ball through a big H. A most ripping victory. Cleo McDowell Son... I'm just going to tell you this one time. If you want to keep working here, stay off the drugs. by Coming to America
  • Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap. by Billy Madison
  • Principal Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. by Billy Madison
  • Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. by Mark Twain
  • Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary. by Margaret Cho
  • Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out political passions, never. by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
  • Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. by Aristotle
  • Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice. by Richard Harris
  • Probably to a shark, about the funniest thing there is is a wounded seal, trying to swim to shore, because WHERE DOES HE THINK HE'S GOING by Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
  • Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. by Henry J. Kaiser
  • Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. by Henry Kaiser
  • Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. by M Scott Peck
  • Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill. by Christopher Parker
  • Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. by Don Marquis
  • Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. by Donald Robert Perry Marquis
  • Procrastination is the thief of time. by Edward Young
  • Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe by Maurice Mascaranhas
  • Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals. by Henry Spencer
  • Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. by Michael Sinz
  • Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. by Rich Cook
  • Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. by Frederick Wilcox
  • Progress is not created by contented people. by Frank Tyger
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. by Robert A. Heinlein
  • Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. by Kahlil Gibran
  • Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long. by Ogden Nash
  • Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. by George Santayana
  • Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. by George Santayana
  • Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit. by Francis Marion
  • Promote yourself, but do not demote another. by Israel Salanter
  • Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. by Sir Arthur Eddington
  • Propaganda is a soft weapon hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way. by Jean Anouilh
  • Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. by Ausonius
  • Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. by Ezra Pound
  • Property has its duties as well as its rights. by Thomas Brummond
  • Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last. by William Graham Sumner
  • Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation. by Lawana Blackwell
  • Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want. by Geoffrey F. Albert
  • Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater. by William Hazlitt
  • Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things. by Eric Butterworth
  • Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. by Calvin Coolidge
  • Prosperity knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him. by Clive Staples Lewis
  • Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. by Publilius Syrus
  • Prove all things hold fast that which is good. by Bible
  • Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them. by Anne-Sophie Swetchine
  • Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it. by Mark Twain
  • Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise. by Charles Horton Cooley
  • Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety. by Edgar Algernon Robert Cecil
  • Prudent people are very happy 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. by Mary Wortley Montagu
  • Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. by Laurence J. Peter
  • Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. by Luigi Barzini
  • Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. by Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
  • Public speaking is very easy. by Dan Quayle
  • Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. by Don Marquis
  • Punctuality is the thief of time. by Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
  • Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. by Evelyn Waugh
  • Purchase not friends by gifts when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. by Thomas Fuller
  • Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. by Alexandre Dumas
  • Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. by H.L. Mencken
  • Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love. by Swami Vivekananda
  • Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life. by Zig Ziglar
  • Put duties aside at least an hour before bed and perform soothing, quiet activities that will help you relax. by Dianne Hales
  • Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. by Lady Duff-Gordon
  • Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love. by Mary Manin Morrissey
  • Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. by Solon
  • Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity. by Albert Einstein
  • Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. by Swami Sivanada
  • Put your shoulder to the wheel. by Aesop
  • Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary. by Anthony Robbins
  • Put yourself on view. This brings your talents to light. by Baltasar Gracian
  • Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. by J. Frank Dobie
  • Pyro You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news - I'm the worst one. by X2 X-Men United