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[This page is online dump of quotes collected over many many years - on scraps of paper and in unwieldy Word documents. Its current state of formatting is a bit dis-shevelled, because it's online home is work in progress. I will be adding more quotes as I find them, deleting ones I don't like anymore and, most importantly, I will be improving upon the formatting bit by bit.
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Abbey, Edward
• May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
• What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
• When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.
Abley, Mark
• Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand.
Ackerman, Diane
• I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it.
Adam, James Trulow
• The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
Adams, Ansel
• To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'
• The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.
• Photography is a way of telling what you feel about what you see.
Adams, Douglas
• I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
- No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
- They know enough who know how to learn.
Adams, John Quincy
• The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
• The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of one's self.
Adams, Scot
• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Addison, Joseph
• The three essentials to happiness in life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station.
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Ade, George
• Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Ade’s Law
Adenauer, Konrad
• We all live under the same sky, but we do not all have the same horizon.
Adler, Alfred
• It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
Adler, Mortimer
• You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.
• There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.
• In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Aeschylus
• For the mighty, even to give way is grace.
Aesop
• We often give our enemies the means of our destruction.
• Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Agar, Herbert
• The truth, which makes men free is, for the most part, the truth which men prefer not to see.
Agathon, Abba
- I have never gone to sleep with a grievance against anyone. And, as far as I could, I have never let anyone go to sleep with a grievance against me.
Aiger, W.R.
• Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Alberoni, Francesco
• A friend is a person who shows us the way and walks a piece of the road with us.
Albright, Hem
• A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Alcott
• One’s outlook is a part of one’s virtue.
Alcott, Louisa May
• I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Alda, Alan
• Begin by challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
• Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hour will last.
• I am a part of all that I have met.
• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Ali
• The triumph of mediocre men brings down the elite.
Allen, Fred
• You can only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough.
Allen, Gracie
• When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
Allen, Woody
• I am not afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
• More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path
leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction.
Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Amara, Roy
- We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
- The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Andretti, Mario
• If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Andrews, Julie
• Love is not measured by how you feel, but how you make the other person feel.
Angelou, Maya
• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
• We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
• There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
• Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.
Anonymous
• No dreamer is ever too small, no dream is ever too big.
• The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially.
(From WIRED Magazine)
• Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
• There are no barriers that cannot be bridged except the ones men create in their own minds. (Zen Saying)
• A gentleman is a man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
• The good is often the enemy of the best.
(ad line for Mercedes Benz)
• Learn as if you have to live forever, live as if you have to die tomorrow.
• Unintended consequences outnumber intended consequences.
• There is no reality. Only perceived reality.
• Anyone can make a mistake. A fool insists on repeating it.
• Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean,
And the pleasant land.
So the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages,
Of eternity.
• Success is a journey, not a destination.
• Sometimes you can only find your way by getting lost.
• Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind; to forget the mistakes of the past and press on the greater achievements of the future. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
• Never pay a compliment as though you expect a receipt.
• You can learn much about life from a draughts game: surrender one to take two; don’t make two moves at one time; move up, now down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
- A 19th century Hassidic Rabbi
• Money isn’t everything; usually it isn’t even enough.
• All things must pass
None of life’s strings can last
So, I must be on my way
And face another day.
- All Things Must Pass, 1970
• The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
• Never look back until you want to go that way.
• We are just statistics born to consume resources.
• Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune’s bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows a field, or trains a flower;
Or plants a tree, is more than all.
”A Harvest Song”
• A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one everybody.
• There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you’re interrupting.
• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
• The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.
• All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
• Don’t confuse activity with achievement.
IBM Slogan
• God will forgive me; that’s his business.
• Nothing that can happen to you is as bad as being scared that something will.
• The worst day shooting images is better than the best day at work.
• It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
• Love is like playing the piano. First you learn to play by the rules, then you forget the rules and play from your heart.
• Behind every successful man stands an amazed woman.
• To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.
• When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
• Everyone hears what you say, friends listen to what you say, best friends listen to what you don’t say.
• A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn’t like the tune.
• Love me the most when I deserve it the least, that’s when I need it the most.
• There are some times when silence has the loudest voice.
• After all is said and done, usually more is said.
• Devote each day to the object then on time and each day evening will find something done.
• Being superstitious brings bad luck.
• Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
• The Earth is a grain of sand, only bigger.
• Adolescence is when children start bringing up their parents.
• The problem with reality is the lack of background music.
• Life is a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
• Don't judge a book by its movie.
• I call a person rich when he can meet the requirements of his imagination.
(From the movie ‘The Portrait of A Lady’)
• Every status has its symbol.
• Others are not against you, there are merely for themselves.
• A single rose given during one's lifetime is better than a bouquet of orchids placed over a grave.
• The real measure of wealth is how much money you'd be worth if you lost all of your money.
Anthony, Robert
• Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.
• Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy.
Archer, Jeffrey
• I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
Aretino, Pietro
• I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.
Aristophanes
• By words the mind is winged.
Aristotle
• The quality of life is determined by its activities.
• Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
• Nature does nothing uselessly.
• There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
• There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
• We make war that we may live in peace.
• Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
• Soulmates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but are always perfect for you.
• All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
• Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unaltered.
• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
• The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Armour, Richard
• Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
(on libraries)
Arnold, Mathew
• Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
Arts, G.J
• Possessing knowledge has two advantages; you judge less and you judge better.
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
- Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Atwood, Margaret
• A word after a word after a word is power.
Auden, W.H.
• Propaganda is a monologue which seeks not a response but an echo.
• He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever; I was wrong.
• And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
• Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.
Auerbach, Berthold
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Aurelius, Marcus
• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
• All is ephemeral – fame and the famous as well.
• I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.
Austen, Jane
• A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Ausubel, Kenny
• Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
- In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.
- Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Virtue is a rich stone, best plain set.
- Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past.
- Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
- If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
- A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
- They are ill-discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- A fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place – these three things make a nation great and prosperous.
- If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously. If they be not altered for the better designedly.
- To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Baez, Joan
• You don’t get to choose how you are going to die or when, you can only decide how you are going to live now.
Bahcall, John N.
• The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.
Baldwin, Faith
• Time is a dressmaker specialising in alterations.
Baldwin, James
• I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
• Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Baldwin, Stanley
• War would end if the dead could return.
Ball, Ivern
• Never itch for anything you aren’t willing to scratch for.
• Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
Balzac, Honore de
• Passion is universal humanity, without it religion, humanity, romance and art would be useless.
• Modesty is the conscience of the body.
• What is art? Nature concentrated.
• When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
• Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
• It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
• Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
Bankhead, Tallulah
• If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.
Banzai, Buckaroo
• The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Bardyaev, Nicholas
• In a certain sense, every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
Barney, Natalie Clifford
• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Barrie, James Mathew
• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Barron, Frank
• The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
Barry, Dave
• You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
• People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Barry, Philip
• Love: Two minds without a single thought.
Barrymore, Ethel
• The best time to make friends is before you need them.
Baruch, Bernard
• Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bastiat, Frederic
• The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Bates, Marston
• Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Bayley. Stephen
• Style is the feather that helps the arrow fly, not the one you put in your hat.
Bazin, Herve
• It’s not the river that runs, but the water. It is not time that passes but us.
Beaton, Cecil
• Fashions are ephemeral, but fashion is enduring.
- A great brand is a story that’s never completely told.
- The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
- Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
- All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
- A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - jolted by every pebble in the road.
- The appropriately beautiful or ugly sound of any word is an illusion wrought on us by what the word connotes.
Beethoven
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Belloc, Hilaire
• I have wandered all my life, and I have travelled; the difference between the two is this: we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.
- Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Bennett, Jesse Lee
- Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Bergamin, Jose
- A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
Berger, Sally
• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Bergson, Henri
• Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Berlioz, Louis-Hector
• The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Bernard, Claude
• Art is I … science is we.
Bernanos, George
• Hope is a risk that must be run.
• It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Bernard, Dorothy
• Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Bernbach, Bill
• It’s not just what you say that stirs people. It’s the way you say it.
Bible, The
• For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
• We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
• Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.
Job 38:11
- Language, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
- Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society.
- Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
- Conversation, n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor. - ‘The Devil's Dictionary’
- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
- Admiration: Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour upon the business known as gambling.
- To be positive : To be mistaken at the top of one’s voice.
- Politics is a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
- Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
- Appeal, v.t. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
- Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
- Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Nature never makes any blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.
- There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Bismark, Otto van
• A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
• Politics is the art of the possible.
• Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Black, August
• Pride is tasteless, colourless and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.
Blake, William
• To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
• In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
• When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
• A truth told with bad intent
beats all the lies you can invent.
• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
• Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
• Always be ready speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
• When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
Bohr, Niels
• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
• Never express yourself more clearly than you can think.
• Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
• Empty and be full.
Bend and be straight
Have much and be confused
Have little and gain everything.
• The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.
Boileau-Despreaux, Nicolas
• Who is content with nothing possesses all things.
Bombeck, Erma
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
• People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Bonaparte, Napoleon
• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
• From the sublime to the ridiculous, there’s only one step.
• Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
• Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
• Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
• Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have the strength.
• There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
• A leader is a dealer in hope.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
• If you board the wrong train, it’s no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
Borge, Victor
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Borges, Jorge Luis
• I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
• A good actor does not make his entry before the theatre is built.
• It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.
• I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Bosco, Don
• Nothing attracts the young so much as the sight of happiness which springs from a virtuous life.
Bovee
• When all else is lost, the future still remains.
• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Bowerman, Bill
• If you have a body, you are an athlete.
Boyle, Henry
• The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Bradbury, Ray
• The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
Bradley, Omar
• We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Bradstreet, Anne
• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Branden, Nathaniel
• Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Braque, Georges
• Truth exists. Only lies are invented.
• Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.
Brecht, Bertholdt
• Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled
For their slaves.
Bresson, Henri-Cartier
• Photography is to put in the same line of sight the head, the eye and the heart.
• Shooting a picture is recognising an event and at the very instant and within a fraction of a second rigorously organising the forms you see to express and give meaning to that event. It is a matter of putting your brain, your eye and your heart in the same line of sight. It is a way of life.
Brilliant, Ashleigh
• The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.
Brisbane, Arthur
• The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside cannot come out and those outside don’t want to get in.
Bronte, Emily
• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts
be known by their results.
Brontes, Jacqui
• Life’s full of complications. Even when you’re born, there’s a string attached.
Brooks Adams, Henry
• They know enough who know how to learn.
Brooks, Phillips
• Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Brooks, Van Wyck
• As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
Brown Jr., H. Jackson
• Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Brown, Rita Mae
- One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
Brown, Sam
• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Browning, Robert
• Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for?
Brunner, John
• There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better."
Bryant, Paul
• Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes second.
Brynner, Yul
• Girls have an unfair advantage over men. If they can’t get what they want by being smart, they get it by being dumb.
Buck, Pearl S.
• Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buddha, The
• He who has mastery over the mind is a monarch unto himself.
• A man should first direct himself in the way he should go. Only then should he instruct others.
• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
• There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
• If you would be freed of greed, you have to leave egotism behind. The best mental exercise for relinquishing egotism is contemplating impermanence.
Buffet, Jimmy
• We are the people our parents warned us about.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
• A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
• Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Bunyan, John
• A man there was, tho' some did count him mad
The more he cast away, the more he had.
Buonarroti, Michelangelo
• Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Burgess, Anthony
• A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motorshow - full of potential, but temporarily inactive.
Burke, Billie
• Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
Burke, Edmund
• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
• Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Burnett, Leo
• When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.
Burns, Robert
• Hope not sunshine every hour
Fear not clouds will always lower
Happiness is but a name
Make content and ease thy aim.
Burroughs, John
• Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones.
Buscaglia, Leo
• 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.
Butler, Samuel
• All the animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
• Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
• To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.
• Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Byron, George Gordon
• Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.
Byron, Lord
• Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
• The busy have no time for tears.
• Words are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
• The dew of compassion is a tear.
• There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is rapture in the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more.
• The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.
• I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.
• Words are things; and a small drop of ink
Falling like dew upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Cage, John
• The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature in her manner of operation.
Cammarota, Aldo
• Time is the best of all teachers, but it has the bad habit of killing its students.
Campbell, Joseph
• The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Camus, Albert
• In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
• Freedom is nothing else but chance to be better.
• I want to know if I can live with what I know, and only that.
• To live is, in itself, a value judgement. To breathe is to judge.
• Absolute freedom mocks justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.
• Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
• It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
• You know what charm is : A way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
• Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
• Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
• Civilisation does not lie in a greater or lesser degree of refinement, but in an awareness shared by a whole people.
• Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom.
• Do not walk in front of me I may not follow. Do not walk behind me I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
• You willl never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
• There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
• By definition, a government has no conscience, sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
• I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
• We are all a product of the choices we make.
Canetti, Elias
• History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened. 'The Human Province'
Carlyle, Thomas
• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
• History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
• Our main business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
• To a shower of gold, all things are penetrable.
• The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
Carradine, David
• If you cannot be a poet, be the poem
Carroll, Lewis
• When I make a word do a lot of work like that, I always pay it extra.
Casals, Pablo
• The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
Catherall
• The three foundations of learning : seeing much, suffering much and studying much.
Cato The Elder
• Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Cecchi, Emilio
• Ideas are nobody’s property; they belong to whoever expresses them best.
Celine, Louis-Fernand
• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Cervantes, Miguel de
• Everyone is the son of his own works.
• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Cervoni, Marie-Jose
• If you don’t attack your work with a passion, it’s not worth doing.
Ch’Ai, Lu
• The end of all method is to seem to have no method.
Chagall, Marc
• In our life there is a single colour, as an artist’s palette; which express the meaning of life and art. It is the colour of love.
- Society is composed of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
Channing, William Henry
• To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.
Charlemagne
• To know another language is to have a second soul.
Charron
• He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.
Chartier, Alain
• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only one we have.
Chase, Edna Woolman
• Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Chekov, Anton
• Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
• Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
• If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Cheney, John Vance
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Chesterfield, Earl of
• Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Chesterfield, Lord
• Virtue and learning, like gold, have
their intrinsic value; but if they are not polished they certainly lose
a great deal of their lustre; and even polished brass will pass upon
more people than rough gold.
• Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
• Style is the dress of thoughts.
• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
- People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
- Coincidences are spiritual puns.
- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
- Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
- You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.
- Half a truth is better than no politics.
- A good novel tells us the truth about it’s hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- It hasn’t failed, it has simply never been practised. (on Christianity)
- It is always the secure who are humble.
- There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
- They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.
Chopra, Deepak
• In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Chuang-Tzu
• Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous.
• Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water.
Churchill, Winston
• Without measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
• If you’re going through hell, keep going.
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
• Common sense is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Ciardi, J
• The day will happen whether you get up or not.
Cicero
• To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.
• He is rich who has such property that he desires nothing beyond.
• A man of courage is also full of faith.
• My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
• Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.
• A room without books is like a body without a soul.
• We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardour of its passion, but by its strength and constancy.
• My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
• Advice is judged by results, not by intention.
• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
• A man without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however, fertile, without cultivation.
• Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.
• What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Clark, R
• A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what cannot be taken from you.
Clarke, Arthur C
• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
• Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering.
• A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
• It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
• If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says it is impossible, he is probably wrong.
- A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation.
Claudian
• He who strikes terror into others is himself in continual fear.
Clausewitz
• War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.
Clockbum, Claud
• Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.
Cocks, Barnett
• A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Cocteau, Jean
• The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
• We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
• Fashion is what goes out of fashion.
Cohen, Andrew
• If you know only one language, you're a prisoner, stuck in the tyranny of that one language.
Cole, David
- Translation is the art of erasing oneself in order to speak in another's voice.
- The best thing about being young is, if you had to do it all over again, you would still have time.
- The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.
- Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
- I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose, - words in their best order; poetry, - the best words in their best order.
- Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.
- If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
- He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
- Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
- wiki Language is the armory of the human mind; and at once contains the trophies of its past, and the weapons of its future conquests.
Collie, G. Norman
• Every man has one thing he can do better than anyone else - and that usually is reading his own handwriting.
Collier, Jeremy
• The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
Collins, Joan
• The problem with beauty is that it’s like being born rich and getting poorer.
Collins, John Churton
• If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
Colton, Charles Caleb
• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
• As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Conan, Laure
• Nothing is small in love. Those who wait for great occasions to demonstrate their tenderness don’t know how to love.
Confucius
• For one who has no objective, nothing is relevant.
• When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.
• By looking at a man’s faults you know his character.
• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.
• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.
• Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
• He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
• When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
• A superior man is distressed by his want of ability.
• When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.
• The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in actions.
• Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
• To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
• Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
• I hear and forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
• It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
• A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace.
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
• A picture is a poem without words.
Congereve, William
• Defer not until tomorrow to be wise;
Tomorrow’s sun to thee may never rise.
Connolly, Cyril
• Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
Constable, John
• I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Cooley, Charles Horton
• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Coren, Alan
• Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Cosby, Bill
• I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Coubertin, Baron Pierre de
• The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Coughlin, Lawrence C.
• Coughlin’s Law: Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
Cousins, Norman
• Laughter is inner jogging.
• Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Cowley, Abraham
• Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise / As praises from the men, whom all men praise.
Cowper, William
• Oh, spare your idol ! think him human still
Charms he may have, but he has frailties too;
Dole, not too much, nor spoil what ye admire.
• God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
• A fool must now and then be right by chance.
Cox, Mercelene
• Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet; there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Crane, Dr. George W.
• Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire.
Croft, Robert
• I love you
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.
I love you
Because you have done more
Than anyone or anything
To make me happy.
You have done it without a word,
Without a touch, without a sign
You have done it
Just by being yourself.
After all,
Perhaps that is what love means.
cummings, e.e
• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
• I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
• Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
• Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Cuomo, Mario M.
• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
da Vinci, Leonardo
• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
• Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
• Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
• Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
• In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
Dali, Salvador
• While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
• The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
• Have no fear of perfection – we’ll never reach it.
Daniel, Samuel
• For ‘tis some ease our sorrows to reveal,
If they to whom we shall impart our woes,
Seem to feel a part of what we feel,
And meet us within a sigh, but at a close.
Dante Alighieri
• Brother,
the world is blind, and you come from the world.
You living ones continue to assign
to heaven every cause, as if it were
the necessary source of every motion.
If it were so, then your free will would be
destroyed, and there would be no equity
in joy for doing good, in grief for evil....
- From ‘Divine Comedy Purgatorio,’
• The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Darwin, Charles Robert
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
• Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Dassault, Marcel
• For a plane to fly well, it must be beautiful.
Daudet, Alphonse
• Hatred - the anger of the weak.
Davis, Jefferson
• Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
Day, Clarence
• Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Dean, James
• Dream as if you’ll live forever; live as if you’ll die today.
Dean Martin, Everett
- Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance.
de Bono, Edward
• Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not create it.
Defoe, Daniel
• All men would be tyrants if they could.
de Gaulle, Charles
• The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
de Gourmont, Remy
• A little girl doesn’t expect declarations of affection from her doll: she loves it, that’s all. That is how love should be.
de Lamartine, Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat
• Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
de Montaigne, Michel
• A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
• Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
• We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
• Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
• I quote others only the better to express myself.
• Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
De Quincey, Thomas
• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone
de Rois, Dr. Helen
• Put yourself wholeheartedly into something, and energy grows. It seems inexhaustible. If, on the other hand, you are divided and conflicted about what you are doing, you create anxiety. And the amount of physical and emotional energy consumed by anxiety is exorbitant.
de Staël, Madame
• Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. Corinne
• The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.
de Saint-Exupery, Antoine
• You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
• Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
• He who would travel happily must travel light.
• If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to go to the forest to gather wood, saw it, and hail the planks together. Instead, teach them the desire for the sea.
de Saussure, Ferdinand
• Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
de Vries, Peter
• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
Descartes, Rene
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
• In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
Desmoulins, C.
• It is not the weathercock that changes; it is the wind.
Dewar, Thomas
• Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
• The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Dickens, Charles
• Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
• A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
• A word in earnest is as good as a speech.
- There is no frigate like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers like a page
Of prancing poetry.
- They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
- Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.
‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’
- How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
- The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Dinesen, Isak
• Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
Diogenes
• We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
Disraeli, Benjamin
• Despair is the conclusion of fools.
• It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
• Amusement to an observing mind is study.
• You fall in love with personality but you live with character.
• Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
• The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
D’Israeli, Isaac
- The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
- While language is forming, writers are applauded for extending its limits; when established, for restricting themselves to them.
Ditka, Mike
• You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
• Success isn’t permanent, and failure isn’t fatal.
Dizick, Missy
• Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you.
Doctorow, E.L.
• Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as the headlights, but you make the whole trip that way.
Donne, John
• No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
• It is never the shallower for the calmnesse. The Sea is a deepe, there is as much water in the Sea, in a calme, as in a storme.
Dostoevski, Fyodor
• Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Dreiser, A
• Religion is a bandage to protect a soul made bloody by cirsumstance.
Drummond, William
• He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.
Dryden
• A man is to be cheated into passion but to be reasoned into truth.
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt
• A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
Duhamel, Georges
• I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
Dumas, Alexandre
• God fishes for souls with a line, the Devil fishes with a net.
• All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
Duncan, Sandy
• There are things you have to do to support your dreams. I despise people who accept minor or secondrate roles and then are bitter about it. Even when I was doing silly stuff, I tries to infuse some energy into it, an enthusiasm.
Many people are unwilling to start at the beginning. They want to be a star before it’s time. But they are never going to succeed until they pay their dues and learn from their experiences.
Dunham, David
• Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
- Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
- History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Dylan, Bob
• You better start swimming or you’ll sink like a stone.
• All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
- Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
- By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction.
- Never fall in love with your own airship.
Eddington, Sir Arthur
• Something unknown is doing we don’t know what.
Edison, Thomas Alva
• Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Edwards, Jonathan
• Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth.
- Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
- To be a perfect sheep in a flock, first and foremost you have to be a sheep.
- Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterise our age.
- Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic and infinite labour in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honour it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things we create in common.
- If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.
- Physics should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curios.
- Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
- We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
- Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment.
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Plans are nothing, planning is everything.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
• Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.
Eliot, George
• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
• You are never too old to be what you might have been.
• I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
• Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
• It’s them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.
Eliot, T.S.
• Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.
• This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.
Ellington, Duke
• I don't need time. What I need is a deadline.
Ellis, Havelock
• Jealousy is that dragon which slays love under the very pretence of keeping it alive.
- We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.
- Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- What you are speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Money often costs too much.
- Man is a piece of the universe made alive.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
- Hitch your wagon to a star.
- The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
- In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire.
- Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.
- Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
- Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man.
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- The music than can deepest reach
And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
- What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
- Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
- You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Dictionary : The raw material of possible poems and histories.
- Every word was once a poem.
- To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
- If a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider.
- Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
- No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it; and there is no calamity which right words will not begin to redress.
- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- We read often with as much talent as we write.
- The only gift is a portion of thyself. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a gem; the sailor, coral and shells; the painter, his pictures.
- Every hero becomes a bore at last.
- Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
- Earth laughs in flowers.
- There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
- We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
- We do not quite forgive a giver.
- The true measure of a man’s wealth is in the things he can afford not to buy.
- Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Language is fossil poetry.
- Always do what you are afraid to do.
- Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
- There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.
- The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.
- A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.
- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
- Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
- God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.
- Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.
- Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
- Language is the archive of history.
- A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Erskine, John
• There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
Ervin Jr., Samuel James
• Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
Epicetus
• Nothing is to be had for nothing.
Epicurus
• Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?
Ertz, Susan
• Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Eschenbach , Marie Ebner von
• We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.
Estrada, Domencio Cieri
• Time is a digestive.
Evers, Medgar
• You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.
Fadiman, Cliff
• When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before.
Fallaci, Oriana
• Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
- The past is not dead, it's not even past.
Feather, William
• Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Feibleman, James Kern
- That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
Fellini, Federico
• A different language is a different version of life.
• All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
Fenelon, Francois
• All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.
Feynman, Richard
• To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Fielding, Henry
• Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.
Fields, W.C.
• Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn’t want to own one.
• A man’s got to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.
• After two days in the hospital I took a turn for the nurse.
Fincher, Derwood
• Experience allows us to repeat our mistakes with more finesse.
Flame, Phoenix
• A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Flaubert, Gustave
• As a rule the philosopher is a kind of mongrel being, a cross between scientist and poet, envious of both.
• It's splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your imagination and make them pop like chestnuts.
• What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
• Maximise the benefits of your environment, be regular and orderly in your life and then you can be violent and original in your work.
Fontaine, Jean de la
• The pleasure of criticism robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
• Each believes easily what he fears and what he desires.
• Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.
Forbes, Malcom
• There is never enough time, unless you are serving it.
• Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
• Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Ford, Henry
• You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
• Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
• Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t – you are right.
• Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Ford, Norman
• Never try to tell everything you know; it may take too short a time.
Foster, John W.
• One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Fowles, John
• All pasts are poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.
France, Anatole
• Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
• Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.
• Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
• A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Frank, Anne
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world?
Frankl, Viktor
• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
• When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Franklin, Benjamin
• Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
• If Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty.
• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
• Poverty is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of.
• Whate’er’s begun in anger, ends in shame.
• Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
• Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
• Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
• There was never a good war or a bad peace.
• Fatigue is the best pillow.
• Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
Frederik the Great
- Everything which the enemy least expects will succeed the best.
Freud, Sigmund
• The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
• When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it.
• As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude.
• When you blame and criticise others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.
- Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- All the best things a poet ever uses are things he didn’t know he was getting when he was getting them.
- In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.
- The best way out is always through.
- A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom
- A poem begins with a lump in the throat.
- The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep.
- I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
- Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
- The only way around is through.
- Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in position to look too close.
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
- I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
- A scholar is someone who sticks to things. A poet is someone who uses whatever sticks to him.
Frye, Northrop
• Literature encourages tolerance - bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they're so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can't see them also as possibilities.
Fuller, Buckminster
• When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
• God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.
• I look for what needs to be done.... After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
• Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
• Things not understood are admired.
• I am passenger on Spaceship Earth.
Fuller, Margaret
• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
Fuller, Thomas
• Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
• If you have no enemies, it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
Gabirol, Ibn
• In seeking wisdom, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, the fifth -- teaching others.
Gabor, Zsa Zsa
• Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
• He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Galbraith's Law
• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Galelei, Galileo
• Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
• In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Galsworthy, John
• Love is no hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flowers or weed, whose scent and colour are always wild.
• The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
• Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
Gambetta
• Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end.
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
• It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
• Western civilization? I think it would be a good idea.
• A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.
Gardner, John
• When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.
Gardner, Paul
• A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.
Garfield, James A.
• If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
Gaston Pierre Marc, Duc de Levis
• Time wears away error and polishes truth.
Gautier, Francois
• Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
Gautier, Theophile
• To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
• Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Gay, John
• Shadow owes its birth to light.
George, David Lloyd
• Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Getty, Paul
• My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
Gibbon
• Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
• I was never less alone than when by myself.
- You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- In every winter’s heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.
- Let there be spaces in your togetherness
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
- We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiation of their personalities.
- I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
- Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
- Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
- Generosity is giving more than you can; pride is taking less than you need.
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
- A traveller am I and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.
- Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood,
- Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- A root is a flower that disdains fame.
Gibson, William
• The future's already arrived; it's just not evenly distributed yet.
- Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens. We have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Gill, Vince
• Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Giovanni, Nikki
• We love because it's the only true adventure.
Glasow, Arnold
• Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
• Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
• The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
• A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Glien, Germain G
- The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much.
Goethe, Johann Wolgang Von
• We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
• He who is firm in will moulds the world to himself.
• Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
• Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days… What you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius and magic in it; only engage and then the mind grows heated. Begin and the work will be completed.
• One ought everyday at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
• This is the true measure of love when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
• We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
• Life is the childhood of our immortality.
• If you cannot be free, be free as you can.
• Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is farmed in the stormy billows of the world.
• No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.
• Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
• Nature is the living visible garment of God.
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Understanding is not enough; we must do. Knowing and understanding in action make for honour.
• Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
• One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
• Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
• Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
• Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
• There’s nothing more odious than the majority.
• For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
• Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
• Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
• Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
• He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
• Colours are light's suffering and joy.
• All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is still my won.
• He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
• In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Gogh, Vincent Van
• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.
• I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
Golden, Arthur
• A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Golding, William
• Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
Goldsmith
• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
Goldwyn, Sam
• Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Gracian, Baltasar
• We live by information, not by sight.
• Celerity is the mother of good fortune. He has done much who leaves nothing till tomorrow.
• Trust the friends of today as if they will be enemies tomorrow.
• Silence is frequently misinterpreted, but it is never misquoted.
• Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
• A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Graham, Katherine
• Truth and news are not the same thing.
Gray, Thomas
• The boast of hearldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth ever gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory, lead but to the grave.
Green, Dennis
• The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
Grenfell, Joyce
• There is no such thing as pursuit of happiness, there is only the discovery of joy.
Griswold, Whitney
• The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
Gropius, Walter
• The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
Guest, Edgar
- I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
Guiterman, Arthur
• Don’t tell your friends about your indigestion; ‘How are you?’ is a greeting, not a question.
Guitry, Sacha
• You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
• A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Gusoff, Adrienne
• Living in a vacuum sucks.
Hale, Edward Everett
• Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.
Hall, Stuart
• Politics does not reflect majorities. It constructs them.
Halsey, Margaret
• In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
Hamilton, Alexander
• Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Hamilton, Scott
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Hammerstein, Oscar
• Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Hand, Learned
• Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
Handy, Charles
• Learning is not just knowing the answers. That is Mastermind learning at best... learning is measured only by a growth experience... learning is not finding out what other people already know, it is solving our own problems for our own purposes...
Hansen, Grace
• Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
Hardy, Thomas
• That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.
Harrigan, John
• People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
Harris, Sydney J
• Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference.
Hartley, L.P.
• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Hartog, Jan de
- Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.
Hassan, Ihab
• Unknowingly, we plough the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind and drink the universe in a glass of rain.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
• Easy reading is damned hard writing.
Hazlitt, William
• The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
• Life is the art of being well deceived.
• We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.
• The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
• Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
Heller, Joseph
• When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
Hellman, Lillian
• People change and forget to tell each other.
• It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their finest hour.
Helps, Arthur
• Tolerance is the only real test of civilisation.
• Experience is the extract of suffering.
Hemingway, Ernest
• Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Hepburn, Katherine
• Do not make reasons for him to stay, only reasons for him to return.
Heraclitus
• There is nothing permanent except change.
• No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
Herbert, George
• The best mirror is an old friend.
Herodotus
• Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Herzog. Emile
• If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Hien, Piet
• A bit beyond perception's reach
I sometimes believe I see
that life is two locked boxes
each containing the other's key.
Hirschfeld, Al
• Life isn’t a science; we make it up as we go along.
Hirshfield, Tom
• If you hit every time the target is too near or too big.
Hitchcock, Alfred
• There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Hoban, Russell
• After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?
Hobbes, John Oliver
• To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity extracts from life.
- In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
- You can discover what your enemy fears the most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
- Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
Hoffman, Hans
• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Hofmannsthaal, Hugo von
• Perception of the strange is hindered by strangeness; recognition of the familiar is prevented by familiarity.
Holderlin
• Man, a god when he dreams, barely a beggar when he thinks.
Hyperion
Holland, Lady
• Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing.
Holmes, John Andrew
• It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Man has his will – but woman has her way.
- There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
- A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
- The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.
- Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
- When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively, but their shape and lustre have been given by the attrition of ages.
- Man's mind, stretched with a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
- How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made?
- The ultimate good is better reached by free trade of ideas.
Holmes, W
• Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used till they are seasoned.
Hood, Thomas
• The average woman, would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
Hook, Sidney
• I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Hooker, Richard
• Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Hope, Bob
• I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.
- Seize today, and put as little trust as you can in the morrow.
- When things are steep, remember to stay level headed.
- Whatever advice you give, be short.
- He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
- Adversity reveals genius and prosperity conceals it.
- He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
- Men ever had, and ever will have leave,
To coin new words well suited to the age,
Words are like Leaves, some wither every year,
And every year a younger Race succeeds.
- Words are like leaves, some wither each year.
- Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
- He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.
Horowitz, Stanley
• Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
Howe, Edgar Watson
• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Howell, James
• Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go
Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
Howells, William Dean
• The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
Hoyle, Sir Fred
• Science is not made by what communities think, but by what the universe is.
Hubbard, Elbert
• We are not punished for our sins, but by them.
• Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
• Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously.
• Don't lose faith in humanity; think of all the people in the United States who have never played you a single nasty trick.
Hubbard, Kim
• Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.
• Some fellows pay a compliment like they expected a receipt.
Hughes, Charles Evans
• A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Hugo, Victor
• My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic.
• There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat threadbare, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
• The supreme happiness in life the conviction that we are loved.
• He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
• A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
• Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
Humphrey, Hubert
• It is not what life takes away from you that counts. It’s what you make of what is left with you.
Hunt, Leigh
• To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
• When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.
Hurst, Fannie
• Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Hutchins, Robert Maynard
• The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the pillars of western prosperity.
- The quality of moral behaviour varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
- Death - it’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarising.
- Happiness is coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
- Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only consistent people are the dead.
- Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify h
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