American Literature

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Winston Churchill

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

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

You cannot depend on your eyes when your 
imagination is out of focus. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. 
Truth isn't. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

It could probably be shown by facts and figures 
that there is no distinctly American criminal 
class except Congress. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw 
those in authority off their guard and give 
you an opportunity to commit more. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

In the first place, God made idiots. That was 
for practice. Then he made school boards. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

It is easier to stay out than get out. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. 
I said I don't know. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

The man who doesn't read good books has no 
advantage over the man who can't read them. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. 

Bill Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's 
Autobiography, 1924

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

The human race has one really effective weapon, 
and that is laughter. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

The human race has one really effective weapon, 
and that is laughter. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and 
his party did not miss the boat. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and 
his party did not miss the boat. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do 
the day after tomorrow. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do 
the day after tomorrow. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do 
the day after tomorrow. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)


My mother had a great deal of trouble with 
me, but I think she enjoyed it. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone 
would make a fairly good library out of a 
library that hadn't a book in it. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

It usually takes more than three weeks to 
prepare a good impromptu speech. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let 
people think you are a fool than to open it and 
remove all doubt.  

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them 
in French; I never did succeed in making those 
idiots understand their language. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, 
he will not bite you. This is the principal difference 
between a dog and a man. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man 
should challenge me, I would take him kindly 
and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a 
quiet place and kill him. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Be careful about reading health books. 
You may die of a misprint. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Always do right. This will gratify some people 
and astonish the rest. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

All you need in this life is ignorance and 
confidence; then success is sure. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs 
Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

A banker is a fellow who lends you his 
umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants 
it back the minute it begins to rain. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Few things are harder to put up with than the 
annoyance of a good example. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

Good breeding consists of concealing how 
much we think of ourselves and how little 
we think of the other person. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)


The report of my death was an exaggeration. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. 

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Many forms of Government have been tried, 
and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. 
No one pretends that democracy is perfect or 
all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy 
is the worst form of government except all those 
other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947

I would say to the House, as I said to 
those who have joined this Government: 
'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, 
tears, and sweat."

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, May 13, 1940

The British nation is unique in this respect. 
They are the only people who like to be told 
how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. 
It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Sir Winston Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Sir Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule 
never to criticize or attack the government 
of my own country. I make up for lost time 
when I come home.

Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, 
we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going around 
the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Sir Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure 
to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Sir Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, 
although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes 
pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being
 contradicted leads the writer to strip himself 
of almost all sense and meaning.

Sir Winston Churchill


One ought never to turn one's back on a 
threatened danger and try to run away from 
it. If you do that, you will double the danger. 
But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, 
you will reduce the danger by half.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be 
smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks 
on the strange voyage can measure the tides 
and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman 
who yields to war fever must realize that once 
the signal is given, he is no longer the master 
of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and 
uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be 
smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks 
on the strange voyage can measure the tides 
and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman 
who yields to war fever must realize that once 
the signal is given, he is no longer the master 
of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and 
uncontrollable events.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey 
when the organ grinder is in the room.

Sir Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but 
most of them pick themselves up and hurry off 
as if nothing ever happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look 
down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Sir Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Sir Winston Churchill

He has all the virtues I dislike and none 
of the vices I admire.

Sir Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition 
is something up with which I will not put.

Sir Winston Churchill

Every day you may make progress. Every step 
may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out 
before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, 
ever-improving path. You know you will never 
get to the end of the journey. But this, so 
far from discouraging, only adds to the joy 
and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, 
and the old words best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

Never give in--never, never, never, never, 
in nothing great or small, large or petty, 
never give in except to convictions of honour 
and good sense. Never yield to force; never 
yield to the apparently overwhelming might 
of the enemy.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 1941, Harrow School

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, 
indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour 
of peril; but the new view must come, the world 
must roll forward.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of 
Commons, November 29, 1944

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of 
Commons, July 14, 1940

Now this is not the end. It is not even the 
beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the 
end of the beginning.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942


From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the 
Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across 
the Continent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in March 1946

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem 
to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill, speech at the Lord Mayor's 
banquet, London, November 9, 1954

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, 
September 6, 1943

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was 
asking publicly for suggestions about what the 
war should be called. I said at once 
'The Unnecessary War'.

Sir Winston Churchill, Second World War (1948)

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to 
read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar 
Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied 
it intently. The quotations when engraved upon 
the memory give you good thoughts. They also 
make you anxious to read the authors and look 
for more.

Sir Winston Churchill, Roving Commission: 
My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9

Here is the answer which I will give to President 
Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall 
not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of 
battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and 
exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and 
we will finish the job.

Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941

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

Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1939

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

Winston Churchill

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

Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve 
of his 75th birthday

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, 
decided only to be undecided, resolved to be 
irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, 
all-powerful to be impotent.

Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936

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

William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

William Shakespeare

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

William Shakespeare

How poor are they who have not patience! 
What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

He who has injured thee was either stronger or 
weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; 
if stronger, spare thyself.

William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; 
by and by it will strike.

William Shakespeare


God bless thee; and put meekness in thy 
mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.

William Shakespeare

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; 
take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement.

William Shakespeare

Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger
constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood,
garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment,
not working with the eye without the ear,
and but in purged judgement trusting neither?
Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

William Shakespeare

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.

William Shakespeare

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

William Shakespeare

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.

William Shakespeare

And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ;
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.

William Shakespeare

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity,
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; 
But were we burdened with like weight of pain,
As much or more we should ourselves complain.

William Shakespeare

The beauty of the world has two edges, one 
of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart 
asunder. 

Wolf, Virginia

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, 
than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the 
great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, 
or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell 
we call the moon. 

Wilde, Oscar

No object is so beautiful that, under 
certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Wilde, Oscar

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful 
and protective than the simple complexity of a 
spider's web? 

White, E.B.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the 
feeling heart.

von Schiller, Johann


Someday there is going to be a book about a 
middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful 
wife and two lovely children who still manages 
to be happy.  

Vaughan, Bill

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness. 

Tolstoy, Leo

It is something to be able to paint a particular 
picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few 
objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to 
carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium 
through which we look, which morally we can do. 
To affect the quality of the day, that is the 
highest of arts. 

Thoreau, Henry David

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, 
the true empire of beauty.

Steele, Richard

I would warn you that I do not attribute 
to nature either beauty or deformity, order 
or confusion. Only in relation to our 
imagination can things be called beautiful 
or ugly, well-ordered or confused. 

Spinoza, Benedict

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. 

Socrates

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; 
how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how 
express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; 
in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the 
world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is 
this quintessence of dust? 

Shakespeare, William

Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.

Shakespeare, William

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that 
he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.  

Rowland, Helen

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed 
magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and 
silver, it attracts with tenfold power. 

Richter, Jean Paul


Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. 

Reade, Charles

Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest 
thyself all thy life for that which perchance, 
will neither last nor please thee one year: and 
when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price 
at all. 

Raleigh, Walter

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, 
We paint the semblance of a form divine. 

Prior, Matthew

Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; 
it is not only needless, but impairs what it 
would improve 

Pope, Alexander

Age before beauty ... And pearls before swine. 

Parker, Dorothy

We live in a wonderful world that is full 
of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no 
end to the adventures that we can have if 
only we seek then with our eyes open. 

Nehru, Jawaharial

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, 
and all about you will be beauty. There is a way 
out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. 

Navajo Song

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve
that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts,
at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder
at the workmanship.

Milton, John

Beauty is the first present nature gives to
woman and the first it takes away.

M�r�, George Brossin

Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty
many a tower which when it frown'd with all its
battlements, was only terrible.

Mason

There are three great questions which in life we have
over and over again to answer: Is it right or wrong?
Is it true or false? Is it beautiful or ugly? Our
education ought ot help us to answer these questions.

Lubbock, John

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful
sentiments in the world weigh less than a single
lovely action.

Lowell, James Russell

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than
the belief she is beautiful.

Loren, Sophia

Delusions are often functional. A mother's
opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence,
goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from
drowning them at birth.

Long, Lazarus

My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry
blossoms -- will it return to my body when they
scatter?

Kotomichi

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being
only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want,
an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Keats, John

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Juvenal

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable
asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

Plain women know more about men than beautiful
ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know
about men. It's the men who have to know about
beautiful women.

Hepburn, Katherine

The criterion of true beauty is, that it
increases in examination; of false, that
it lessens. There is something, therefore,
in true beauty that corresponds with the
right reason, and it is not merely the
creature of fancy.

Grenville

When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost
the most powerful charm of her beauty.

Gregory I

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.

Gibbon, Edward

Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way
of telling you to stop writing.

Geis, R.

The vain beauty cares most for the conquest
which employed the whole artillery of her charms.

Garrett, Edward

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Franklin, Benjamin

There's a difference between beauty and charm.
A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming
woman is one who notices me.

Erskine, John

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in
good health is short lived, and apt to have ague
fits.

Erasmus

A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face;
it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures;
it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Beauty without grace is the hook without
the bait.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It seems to me we can never give up longing
and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful
and good, and we must hunger after them.

Eliot, George

It is good that the young are beautiful;
it is the only advantage they have.

Duchess of Windsor

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray;
Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way:
Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on,
And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Dryden, John

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.

Donne, John

The average man is more interested in a woman
who is interested in him than he is in a woman,
any woman, with beautiful legs.

Dietrich. Marlene

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink
and still remain beautiful.

de Pompadour, Madame

Imagination is the one weapon in the war
against reality.

de Gaultier, Jules

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Countess of Blessington

Pleasure is to Women what the Sun is to
the Flower; if moderately enjoyed, it
beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves;
if immoderately, it withers, etiolates,
and destroys.

Colton

Let no man value at a little price a virtuous
woman's counsel; her winged spirit is feathered
often times with heavenly words, and, like her
beauty, ravishing and pure.

Chapman

Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away

Cernuda, Luis

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair,
offering us for a minute the glimpse of an
eternity that we should like to stretch out
over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

Campbell Thomas

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Robert

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty,
and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Browning, Elizabeth B.

Exuberance is beauty.

Blake, William

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman
charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you
have it you don't need to have anything else;
and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter
what else you have.

Barrie, James Matthew

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Bancroft, George

The beautiful are never desolate, but someone
always loves them.

Bailey

The best part of beauty is that which no
picture can express.

Bacon, Francis

There is no excellent beauty that hath
not some strangeness in the proportion.

Bacon, Francis

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation
than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

Two stones build two houses, three stones
build six houses, four build twenty-four houses,
five build one hundred and twenty houses,
six build seven hundred and twenty houses and
seven build five thousand and forty houses. From
thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot
express and the ear cannot hear.

Yezirah, Sepher

Knowledge is not achieved until shared.

Unknown

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments
give lustre, and many more people see than weigh

Stanhope, Philip D.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is,
at the most, but little compared with that of
which we are ignorant.

Plato

Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

Phillips, Wendell

In expanding the field of knowledge we but
increase the horizon of ignorance.

Miller, Henry

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Laertius, Diogenes

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is
the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Huxley, Thomas H.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this:
to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Heraclitus

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Hazlitt, William

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep,
but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel
is lost in concealment.

Hall, Joseph

The one self-knowledge worth having
is to know one�s own mind.

Bradley, F.H.

If thou would'st have that stream of
hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born,
remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not
leave it to become a stagnant pond.

Blavatsky, H. P.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. (Proverbs 17:27)

Bible

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions
saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who
asked why.

Baruch, Bernard Mannes

If a man will begin with certainties, he will
end in doubts; but if he will be content to
begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

If a man will begin with certainties, he will
end in doubts; but if he will be content to
begin with doubts, he will end in certainties.

Bacon, Francis

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Addison, Joseph

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Sophocles

Justice without force is powerless;
force without justice is tyrannical.

Blaise Pascal

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built
on the brow of a mountain which cannot be
overthrown by the violence of torrents,
nor demolished by the force of armies.

Koran

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Horace

If we are to keep our democracy, there must
be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."

Learned Hand

Justice delayed, is justice denied.

William E. Gladstone

We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Clarence S. Darrow

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man
on earth. It is the ligament which holds
civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Daniel Webster

Justice consists in doing no injury to men;
decency in giving them no offense.

Cicero

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth
could live were all judged justly?

Lord Byron

Judges must beware of hard constructions and
strained inferences, for there is no worse
torture than that of laws.

Francis Bacon

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the
divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our
abilities, is the glory of man.

Joseph Addison

A child is a gift from God.
He is not an accident or a consequence.

Unknown

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard

Call not that man wretched, who whatever
ills he suffers, has a child to love.

Southey, Robert

That children link us with the future is
hardly news. . . . When we participate in
the growth of children, a sense of wonder
must take hold of us, providing for us a
sense of future.

Nemiroff, Greta Hofmann

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words
bruise the heart of a child.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Children are remarkable for their intelligence
and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance
of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their
vision.

Huxley, Aldous

It is the malady of our age that the young are
so busy teaching us that they have no time left
to learn.

Hoffer, Eric

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

Bovee, Christian Nestell

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Stalin, Joseph

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts and is desired.

Shakespeare, William

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Schiller, Johann Von

He whom the gods love dies young, while
he is in health, has his senses and his
judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in
a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning
fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release
from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind
is surprising.

Nagarjuna

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel De

If you don't know how to die, don't worry;
Nature will tell you what to do on the spot,
fully and adequately. She will do this job
perfectly for you; don't bother your head
about it.

Montaigne, Michel De

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Montaigne, Michel De

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking
from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Mencken, H.L.

We begin to die as soon as we are born,
and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius

The gods conceal from men the happiness of
death, that they may endure life.

Lucan

We look at death through the cheap-glazed
windows of the flesh, and believe him the
monster which the flawed and cracked glass
represents him.

Lowell, James Russell

Dying is like getting out of a car. You
leave a shell behind, but you're the same
person as ever.

Klein

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads
who Before us passed the door of Darkness
through, Not one returns to tell us of the
road Which to discover we must travel too.

Khayyam, Omar

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at
the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace

This man is freed from servile bands,
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall;
Lord of himself, though not of lands,
And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Herrick, Robert

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the
moment of waking from a troubled dream;
it may be so at the moment after death.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay
The song of the sailors in glee:
So I think of the luminous footprints that bore
The comfort o'er dark Galilee,
And wait for the signal to go to the shore,
To the ship that is waiting for me.

Harte, Bret

Man has the possibility of existence after death.
But possibility is one thing and the realization
of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff

Death is a commingling of eternity with time;
in the death of a good man, eternity is seen
looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Von

The goal of all life is death.

Freud, Sigmund

We do not know what to do with this short life,
yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

France, Antole

All changes, even the most longed for, have
their melancholy; for what we leave behind
us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one
life before we can enter another.

France, Antole

The The path of immortality is hard, and
only a few find it. The rest await the Great
Day when the wheels of the universe shall be
stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape
from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those
who wait, for they must return again, unconscious
and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and
await a new beginning.

Divine Pymander

The Few cross the river of time and are able
to reach non-being. Most of them run up and
down only on this side of the river. But those
who when they know the law follow the path of
the law, they shall reach the other shore and
go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada

The life of the dead is placed in the memory
of the living.

Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to
us, but change of place.

Cicero

If there is a sin against life, it consists
perhaps not so much in despairing of life as
in hoping for another life and in eluding the
implacable grandeur of this life.

Camus, Albert

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep,
And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

There are five things which no one is able
to accomplish in this world: first, to cease
growing old when he is growing old; second,
to cease being sick; third, to cease dying;
fourth, to deny dissolution when there is
dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Buddha

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of
your belief in in justice and tragedy. What
the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.

Bach, Richard

Labour not after riches first, and think thou
afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth
the present moment, throweth away all that he
hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart,
while the warrior knew not that it was coming;
so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth
that he hath it.

Akhenaton

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Wilde, Oscar

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't
resist it.

West, Mae

If you haven't all the things you want,
be grateful for the things you don't have
that you wouldn't want.

Unknown

Help me to resist temptation, Lord,
especially when I know no one is looking.

Unknown

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always
wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

Unknown

I never resist temptation, because I have
found that things that are bad for me do
not tempt me.

Shaw, George Bernard

There are two tragedies in life. One
is to lose your heart's desire. The
other is to gain it.

Shaw, George Bernard

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep
for two normal men, enough whiskey for three,
and enough women for four.

Rosenberg, Joel

Whatever you want too much you can't have,
so when you REALLY want something, try to
want it a little less.

Rosenberg, Joel

Those who flee temptation generally leave a
forwarding address.

Olinghouse, Lane

Lord, grant that I may always desire more
than I accomplish.

Michelangelo

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having
sense enough to be lazy.

McCarthy, Charlie

It's not peace I want, not mere contentment.
It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me.

Kugell

You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy
all of a woman's desires. Which is why God
invented dental floss.

Kollrack , Susanne

Love and desire are the spirit's wings
to great deeds.

Goethe, Johann Von

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his
grasp -- or what's a heaven for?

Browning, Robert

Better murder an infant in its cradle than
nurse an unacted desire.

Blake, William

When one door closes another door opens;
but we so often look so long and so regretfully
upon the closed door, that we do not see the
ones which open for us.

Bell, Alexander Graham

what a tangled web we weave when first we
practise to deceive!

Sir Walter Scott

I believed thee true,
And I was blest in thus believing;
But now I mourn that ever I knew
A girl so fair and so deceiving.

Thomas Moore

One who deceives will always find those
who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

La Fontaine, Jean

Distrust all those who love you extremely
upon a very slight acquaintance and without
any visible reason.

Lord Chesterfield

The road goes ever on and on down from
the door where it began. Now far ahead
the road has gone and I must follow if
I can. Pursuing it with weary feet until
it joins some larger way, where many paths
and errands meet -and whither then, I cannot say.

Tolkien, J.R.R.

Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Syrus, Publilius

Immortality--a fate worse than death.

Shoaff, Edgar A.

There is no armor against fate;
Death lays his icy hand on kings.

Shirley, James

Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

Shakespeare, William

Fate leads the willing and drags along
the unwilling.

Seneca

We may become the makers of our fate when
we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Popper, Karl

But blind to former as to future fate,
What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Pope, Alexander

There's someone out there for everyone-even
if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night
goggles to find them. (L.A. Story)

Martin, Steve

It matters not how straight the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.

Henley, William E.

What lies behind us and what lies before
us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Death and life have their determined
appointments; riches and honours depend
upon heaven.

Confucius

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men
however they act; but I do believe in a fate
that falls on them unless they act.

Chesterton, G.K.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Camus, Albert

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a
matter of choice; it is not a thing to be
waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Bryan, William Jennings

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and
a fool's excuse for failure.

Bierce, Ambrose

Ability lies in the mind and the heart.
To tell your mind to limit your abilities
and to ignore the calls of your heart is
only disabling yourself.

Unknown

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Syrus, Publilius

Ability is the art of getting credit for all
the home runs somebody else hits.

Stengel, Casey

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact
lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Peter, Laurence J.

Ability hits the mark where presumption
overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Newman, John Henry

From each according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs.

Marx, Karl

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men;
luck that of the people.

La Rochefoucauld, Fran�ois

There is great ability in knowing how to conveal
one's ability.

La Rochefoucauld, Fran�ois

The extraordinary ability of a woman to
forget is not the same as the talent of
a lady not to be able to remember.

Kraus, Karl

When people find a man of the most distinguished
abilities as a writer their inferior while he is
with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

Johnson, Samuel

A man dies still if he has done nothing,
as one who has done much.

Homer

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Herbert, George

The carpenter is not the best who makes more
chips than all the rest.

Guiterman, Arthur

Reason and the ability to use it are two separate skills.

Grillparzer, Franz

The winds and the waves are always on the side of
the ablest navigators.

Gibbon, Edward

'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship.

Fuller, Thomas

Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or your
self-confidence.

Frost, Robert

If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only
got one other speed and it's slower.

Ford, Glenn

Our chief want in life is somebody who
shall make us do what we can.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

People are always ready to admit a man's ability
after he gets there.

Edwards, Bob

The ability to get to the verge without getting
into the war is the necessary art.... If you try
to run away from it, if you are scared to go to
the brink, you are lost.

Dulles, John Foster

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy
doing it badly.

Brilliant, Ashleigh

Men take only their needs into consideration
never their abilities.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly
in a high degree of solemnity.

Bierce, Ambrose

Natural abilities are like natural plants,
that need pruning by study; and studies themselves
do give forth directions too much at large, except
they be bounded in by experience.

Bacon, Francis

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow
will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own
trouble be sufficient for the day.

Christ, Jesus

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

-- Chinese Proverb

Earth took her shining station as a star,
In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of
worlds.

-- Gamaliel Bailey

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world,
there is no straight world. There's a world,
you see, which has people in it who believe in
a variety of different things. Everybody believes
in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact
that they believe in something, use that something
to support their own existence.

Zappa, Frank

At the core of all well founded belief,
lies belief that is unfounded.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

A thing is not necessarily true because a
man dies for it.

Wilde, Oscar

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely
engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be
lulled into security is to die.

Wilde, Oscar

Man can believe the impossible, but can never
believe the improbable.

Wilde, Oscar

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Belief is not the beginning but the end of
all knowledge.

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

If you resist reading what you disagree with,
how will you ever acquire deeper insights into
what you believe? The things most worth reading
are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

Unknown

We all live in the protection of certain
cowardices which we call our principles.

Twain, Mark

Most people are bothered by those passages
of Scripture they do not understand, but the
passages that bother me are those I do
understand.

Twain, Mark

I know that most men, including those at
ease with problems of the greatest complexity,
can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige
them to admit the falsity of conclusions which
they have delighted in explaining to colleagues,
which they have proudly taught to others, and
which they have woven, thread by thread, into the
fabric of their lives.

Tolstoy, Leo

You believe that easily which you hope for
earnestly.

Terence

The man scarce lives who is not more credulous
than he ought to be. The natural disposition is
always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and
experience only that teach incredulity, and they
very seldom teach it enough.

Smith, Adam

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the
intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

Schnitzler, Arthur

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then
to hang a question mark on the things you have
long taken for granted.

Russell, Bertrand

What we think, or what we know, or what we
believe is, in the end, of little consequence.
The only consequence is what we do.

Ruskin, John

Those who obstinately oppose the most widely
held opinions more often do so because of pride
than lack of intelligence. They find the best
places in the right set already taken, and they
do not want backseats.

Rochefoucauld, Francois

So as this only point among the rest remaineth
sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain...

Pliny the Elder

A very popular error: having the courage of
one's convictions; rather it is a matter of
having the courage for an attack on one's
convictions.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

One person with a belief is equal to a force
of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Mill, John Stuart

The public demands certainties; it must be
told definitely and a bit raucously that this
is true and that is false. But there are no
certainties.

Mencken, H.L.

You can always pick up your needle
and move to another groove.

Leery, Timothy

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the
child's strength.

Lamb, Charles

There are two ways to slide easily through life;
to believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking.

Korzybski, Alfred

If a man hasn't discovered something that he
will die for, he isn't fit to live.

King Jr, Martin Luther

Believe that life is worth living, and
your belief will help create the fact.

James, William

The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.

Hungarian Proverb

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe:
believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.

Goethe, Johann Von

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Gita, Bhagavad

Idealism increases in direct proportion to
one's distance from the problem.

Galsworthy, John

The practical effect of a belief is the
real test of its soundness.

Froude, James A.

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high
price upon conjectures.

France, Antole

There is a certain impertinence in allowing
oneself to be burned for an opinion.

France, Antole

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs,
as a tree bears beauty.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided
that idea is not quite clear to him.

Eldridge, Paul

Conceptions without experience are void;
experience without conceptions is blind.

Einstein, Albert

The Bible is a window in this prison of hope,
through which we look into eternity.

Dwight, John Sullivan

Nothing is so firmly believed as that
which we least know.

de Montaigne, Michel

I hear and I forget. I see and I believe.
I do and I understand.

Confucious

The final delusion is the belief that one
has lost all delusions.

Chapelain, Maurice

It is always easier to believe than to deny.
Our minds are naturally affirmative.

Burroughs, John

Every time a child says, "I don't believe
in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere
that falls down dead.

Barrie, James Matthew

If a man will begin incertainties he shall
end in doubts; but if he will be content to
begin in doubts he shall end in certainties

Bacon, Francis

Theory: when you have ideas.
Ideology: when ideas have you.

Anon.

It is easier to fight for principles
than to live up to them.

Adler, Alfred

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock:
this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Abbey, Edward

Men love their ideas more than their lives.
And the more preposterous the idea, the more
eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Abbey, Edward

That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.

President Clinton

Nought shall prevail against us,
or disturb
Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold
Is full of blessings.
Young Faith is not reason's labor, but repose.

Wordsworth, William

When faith is lost, when honor dies,
the man is dead.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith;
it is an element of faith.

Tillich, Paul

The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.

Thoreau, Henry David

It's not dying for faith that's so hard,
it's living up to it.

Thackeray, William Makepeace

Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

Tennyson

Alas, reason is not effective against faith,
or against searches for miracles by the desperate.

Shimkin, Dr. Michael B.

We have not lost faith, but we have
transferred it from God to the medical profession.

Shaw, George Bernard

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine
By which alone the mortal heart is led
Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Santayana, George

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight,
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Alexander Pope

If the work of God could be comprehended by
reason, it would be no longer wonderful, and
faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

Pope Gregory I

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical
belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Mencken, H.L.

The world cannot always understand a person's
profession of faith, but it can understand service.

Maclaren, Ian

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith
when by doing so it would be against his
interests.

Machiavelli, Nicolo

There is no wild beast so ferocious as
Christians who differ concerning their faith.

Lecky, W.E.H

Faith is often the boast of the man
who is too lazy to investigate.

Knowles, F.M.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Without risk there is no faith. Faith is
precisely the contradiction between the
infinite passion of the individual's inwardness
and the objective uncertainty. If I am capable
of grasping God objectively, I do not believe,
but precisely because I cannot do this I must
believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith
I must constantly be intent upon holding fast
the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out
upon the deep, over seventy thousand fathoms of
water, still preserving my faith.

Kierkegaard, Soren

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief
that is not based on evidence sufficient to command
assent from every reasonable person.

Kauffman, Walter

Faith means belief in something concerning which
doubt is theoretically possible.

James, William

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable
extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.

Hebrews

Treat the other man's faith gently:
it is all he has to believe with.

Haskins, Henry S.

Cutting the space budget really restores my
faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals,
and ideals and lets us get straight to the
business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

Hart, Johnny

Faith is one of those words that
connotes, however irrationally,
some kind of virtue in itself.
Halle, Louis J.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that
faith is his twin brother.

Gibran, Kahlil

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

de Unamuno, Miguel

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

Davenant

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Channing, William Ellery

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.

Boston

Faith: Belief without evidence in what
is told by one who speaks, without knowledge,
of things without parallel.

Bierce, Ambrose

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
that giveth to all men liberally and
upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.

(James I, 5&6)

And now abideth faith, hope and charity,
these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

(I Corinthians)

Cast thy bread upon the waters:
for thou shalt find it after many days.

(Ecclesiastes 11:1)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.

(Hebrews 11 1)

Faith is never identical with piety.

Barth, Karl

I am mortified to be told that, in the
United States of America, the sale of
a book can become a subject of inquiry,
and of criminal inquiry too.

Thomas Jefferson

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable;
love your fellows; console the afflicted;
pardon those who have done you wrong.

Zoroaster

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Cervantes

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter

Harrison

Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship.

(Blackfoot Indian)

You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube.

(Japanese)

People show their character by what they laugh at.

(German)

Spending is quick, earning is slow.

(Russian)

It is better to prevent than to cure.

(Peruvian)

Promise little and do much.

(Hebrew)

What one hopes for is always better than one has.

(Ethiopian)

A good example is the best sermon.

(English)

There is often wisdom under a shaggy coat.

(Latin)

Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer.

(Jamaican)

Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer.

(Jamaican)

Postpone today's anger until tomorrow.

(Tagalog, Filipino)

Doubt is the key to knowledge.

(Iranian)

Liberty has no price.

(Spanish)

Children have more need of models than of critics.

(French)

Success has many parents, but failure is an orphan

(American)

Better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood

(Danish)

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer

(Norwegian)

One head cannot hold all wisdom

(Maasai, East Africa)

We've got to judge the judge

Pete Townshend

Take this bus to Cuba.

Monty Python

You're crashing by design.

Pete Townshend

And you, without question, know your first
love is your last, and you, you will never,
you will never, you will never, you will
never love again!

Pete Townshend

The White City, that's a joke of a name,
It's a black violent place if I remember the game.

Pete Townshend

you gotta fool the fool...

Pete Townshend

He's a lumberjack and he's OK
He sleeps all night and he works all day.

Monty Python

Now if anybody else pinches my phrase I'll
throw them under a camel

Monty Python

Give blood, and some will say blood's not enough...

Pete Townshend

In my life I've loved them all

Lennon/MaCartney

Didn't anybody tell her, didn't anybody see...

Lennon/MaCartney

Elenor Rigby wearing a face that she
keeps in a jar by the door

Lennon/MaCartney

Aint it just like the night to play tricks
when your trying to be so quiet

Bob Dylan

His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean.
Bob Dylan

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

We always love those who admire us; we do not
always love those whom we admire.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Rupert Brooke

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

Francis H. Bradley

Admiration is a very short-lived passion
that immediately decays upon growing familiar
with its object, unless it be still fed with
fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new
perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

Joseph Addison

As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and
conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

To the man who only has a hammer, everything
he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Abraham H. Maslow

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same
mistake twice without getting nervous.

Jane Heard

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Alexander Hamilton

Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

Clarissa

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Ernest Bramah

I found out that if you are going to win games,
you had better be ready to adapt.

Scotty Bowman

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you
have to endure, but make a point of trying to
alter or correct conditions so that they are most
favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

M. Wren

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes
character to keep you there.

John Wooden

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

Stevie Wonder

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as
men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is
not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

The world cares very little about what a man or
woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able
to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

They are able because they think they are able.

Virgil

Wicked people are always surprised to
find ability in those that are good.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.

Source Unknown

I know of no more encouraging fact than the
unquestionable ability of man to elevate his
life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

A genius can't be forced; nor can you make
an ape an alderman.

Thomas Somerville

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become
famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the
want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation
of the mind can make up for the want of natural
abilities.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

John Ruskin

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

John Ruskin

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper,
the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation.
It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it
fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all,
try something.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

Robert Quillen

When one must, one can.

Yiddish Proverb

Behind every able man, there are always other able men.

Chinese Proverb

Executive ability is deciding quickly and
getting somebody else to do the work.

John G. Pollard

The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.

Earl Pitts

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

Laurence J. Peter

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

Ability hits the mark where presumption
overshoots and diffidence falls short.

John Henry Newman

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what
you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Grace Moore

The Creator has not given you a longing to do
that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden

Not many men have both good fortune and good sense.

Titus Livy

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge
of the real value of things, and of the genius of the
age in which we live.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Kin Hubbard

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability
to discover ability in others is the true test.

Elbert Hubbard

I won't accept anything less than the best a
player's capable of doing... and he has the
right to expect the best that I can do for
him and the team!

Lou Holtz

As life is action and passion, it is required
of a man that he should share the passion and
action of his time, at the peril of being not
to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Never tell a young person that anything cannot
be done. God may have been waiting centuries for
someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do
that very thing.

John Andrew Holmes

Every person is responsible for all the good within
the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none
can tell whose sphere is the largest.

Gail Hamilton

There is something that is much more scarce,
something rarer than ability. It is the ability
to recognize ability.

Robert Half

The person born with a talent they are meant to
use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The winds and waves are always on the side of
the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon

I know I have the ability to do so much more
than just stand in front of the camera the rest
of my life.

Jennie Garth

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

James A. Froude

Whether you think you can or whether you think
you can't, you're right!

Henry Ford

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing
Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Henry Ford

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

Malcolm S. Forbes

Others have done it before me. I can, too.

Corporal John Faunce

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

William Faulkner

There are some people who live in a dream world,
and there are some who face reality; and then
there are those who turn one into the other.

Douglas Everett

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one.
But that is the best of all.

Desiderius Erasmus

People with great gifts are easy to find,
but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their
ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The first requisite for success is the ability to
apply your physical and mental energies to one
problem incessantly without growing weary.

Thomas A. Edison

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery
of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Charles Caleb Colton

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often
inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination,
rarely.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I add this, that rational ability without education
has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than
education without natural ability.

Marcus T. Cicero

I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the
things that, as one might put it, me can do, but
I cannot do the things that me would like to do.

Agatha Christie

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't."

Oswald Chambers

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Andrew Carnegie

The king is the man who can.

Thomas Carlyle

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Thomas Carlyle

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by
your ability to love and to embrace with your love
the space around you, and all it contains

Ken Carey

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Knowing what you can not do is more important than
knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Lucille Ball

I thought he was a young man of promise, but it
appears he is a young man of promises.
[Speaking Of Winston Churchill]

Arthur James Balfour

Natural abilities are like natural plants;
they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon

Just do what you do best.

Red Auerbach

In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!

Sodo

The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Eden Phillpotts

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

John Petit-Senn

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Epicurus

Everything you need you already have. You are
complete right now, you are a whole, total person,
not an apprentice person on the way to someplace
else. Your completeness must be understood by you
and experienced in your thoughts as your own
personal reality.

Wayne Dyer

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of
the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]

Bible

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous
body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde

Always rise from the table with an appetite,
and you will never sit down without one.

William Penn

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

Horace Greeley

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days
on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Epictetus

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

George Eliot

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

The best thing to do with the best things in life
is to give them up.

Dorothy Day

With renunciation life begins.

Amelia E. Barr

Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

St. Augustine

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

How like a winter hath my absence been.
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen,
What old December's bareness everywhere!

William Shakespeare

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a
woman's greatest sin, except to be there when
he doesn't want her.

Helen Rowland

Never find fault with the absent.

Proverb

A short absence is the safest.

Ovid

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death
there is no suffering.

Walter Savage Landor

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Thomas � Kempis

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Sir Matthew Hale

The people who are absent are the ideal; those
who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Thomas Fuller

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Michael Crichton

Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
and frustrates hope severer than despair.

William Cowper

It takes time for the absent to assume their true
shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a
firmer outline and then cease to change.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Colley Cibber

Absence -- that common cure of love.

Miguel De Cervantes

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends,
as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Jean De La Bruy�re

Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

Elizabeth Bowen

Woman absent is woman dead.

Ambrose Bierce

Separation penetrates the disappearing person
like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

Walter Benjamin

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced
to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot
me in my absence.

Brendan F. Behan

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder,
but it sure heats up the blood.

Elizabeth Ashley

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Source Unknown

Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to
a lady, but a newspaper can always print a
retraction.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy,
of dishonesty.

Charles Simmons

From principles is derived probability,
but truth or certainty is obtained only
from facts.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements
of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Tryon Edwards

We must accept life for what it actually is -- a
challenge to our quality without which we should
never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to
our full stature.

Ida R. Wylie

Some people swallow the universe like a pill;
they travel on through the world, like smiling
images pushed from behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Denis De Rougamont

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow
circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions
or local politics) he feels himself master of his
fate, but against major events he is as helpless
as against the elements. So far from endeavoring
to influence the future, he simply lies down and
lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything,
You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no
apologies, no regrets.

Clark Moustakas

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone
who has just done you a small favor wish that he
might have done you a greater one.

Russell Lynes

We will have to repent in this generation not merely
for the hateful words and actions of the bad people
but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than
a treason to go with the drift of things to yield
with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the
end of a love or a season.

Robert Frost

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Brendan Francis

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather
to sense their nature simply and clearly.

Albert Einstein

How can men who've never seen light be enlightened?

Pete Townshend

The minute you settle for less than you deserve,
you get even less than you settled for.

Maureen Dowd

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive,
is a very different thing from being a passive object.

Simone De Beauvoir

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred,
you'll never end up with a nag.

Zig Ziglar

For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.

Green Day

If you choose not to decide, you still
have made a choice.

Neal Peart

Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a
College Education.

Mark Twain

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly,
science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly,
science into superstition, and art into pedantry.
Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without
having to offer them a drink.

Fran Leibowitz

Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach.

H. L. Mencken

Success is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

When I hear a man preach, I like to see
him act as if he were fighting bees.

Abraham Lincoln

There's no one... no one, loves you like yourself.

Brendan Behan

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you
win you are still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve
at a funeral? It is because we are not the person
involved.

Mark Twain

I do not object to people looking at their watches
when I am speaking. But I do strongly object when
they start shaking them to make sure they are still
going.

Lord Birkett

I've been on a calendar, but never on time.

Marilyn Monroe

There are two things in this life for which we
are never fully prepared and that is twins.

Josh Billings

It is impossible to travel faster than light,
and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps
blowing off.

Woody Allen

Everything is miraculous. It is miraculous that one
does not melt in ones' bath.

Pablo Picasso

When I was younger, I could remember anything,
whether it had happened or not; but my faculties
are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot
remember any but the things that never happened.
It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all
have to do it.

Mark Twain

For those who like this sort of thing, this is
the sort of thing they like.

Abraham Lincoln

Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave.

Quentin Crisp

She had a penetrating sort of laugh.
Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

P.G. Wodehouse

Anything aweful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once
at a funeral.

Charles Lamb

The human race has one really effective weapon,
and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

The government is the only known vessel that
leaks from the top.

James Reston

Why is it when we talk to God, we're said to be
praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Lily Tomlin

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably
because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

Woody Allen

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the
test first, the lesson afterward.

Vernon Law

When in doubt, tell the truth.

Mark Twain

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't
want to be there when it happens.

Woody Allen

There cannot be a crisis next week.
My schedule is already full.

Henry Kissinger

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us
somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken

He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents,
and then, when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded
for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Charles Schultz

Having a baby is like taking your lower lip
and forcing it over your head.

Carol Burnett

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella
in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins
to rain.

Robert Frost

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated
and a little drunk.

Alben W. Barkley (U.S. Vice President)

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come
on the same person.

Zig Ziglar

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly,
and I did. I said I didn't know.

Mark Twain

Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket.

Mark Twain

Always do right! This will gratify some people and
astonish the rest.

Mark Twain

One of the most important things to remember about
infant care is never change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your
time and it annoys the pig.

Paul Dickson

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you
want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln

My dear boy, forget about the motivation. Just
say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

Noel Coward

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape,
on the day the first book was written.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Choose an author as you choose a friend.

Sir Christopher Wren

Old books that have ceased to be of service should
no more be abandoned than should old friends who
have ceased to give pleasure.

Sir Peregrine Worsthorne

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Bert Williams

Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.

Walt Whitman

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Jessamyn West

Ideally a book would have no order to it,
and the reader would have to discover his own.

Raoul Vaneigem

My books are water; those of the great geniuses
are wine -- everybody drinks water.

Mark Twain

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Herbert True

Education... has produced a vast population able to read
but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy
prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

G. M. Trevelyan

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must
find time for reading, or surrender yourself to
self-chosen ignorance.

Atwood H. Townsend

Read the best books first, or you may not have a
chance to read them at all.

Henry David Thoreau

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful
to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary
who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries
afterwards, who treasures it.

Helen Terry

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value
from the stamp and esteem of the ages through
which they have passed

Sir William Temple

Most books, like their authors, are born to die;
of only a few books can it be said that death has
no dominion over them; they live, and their
influence lives forever.

J. Swartz

A great book should leave you with many experiences
and slightly exhausted at the end. You should live
several lives while reading it.

William Styron

Why pay a dollar for a bookmark?
Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

Fred Stoller

Only a generation of readers will span a
generation of writers.

Steven Spielberg

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What is the most precious, the most exciting
smell awaiting you in the house when you return
to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of
roses, you think? No, moldering books.

Andre Sinyavsky

How can you dare teach a man to read until
you've taught him everything else first?

George Bernard Shaw

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is
made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've
been reading all my life.

Giorgos Seferis

I've never know any trouble than an hour's
reading didn't assuage.

Charles de Secondat

I am what libraries and librarians have made me,
with little assistance from a professor of Greek
and poets.

B. K. Sandwell

A library is thought in cold storage.

Herbert Samuel

Be sure that you go to the author to get at
his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

Prerequisite for rereadability in books:
that they be forgettable.

Jean Rostand

Very young children eat their books, literally
devouring their contents. This is one reason for
the scarcity of first editions of Alice in
Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

A. S. W. Rosenbach

The reason that fiction is more interesting than
any other form of literature, to those who really
like to study people, is that in fiction the author
can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everything you need for better future and
success has already been written. And guess
what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Jim Rohn

Upon books the collective education of the
race depends; they are the sole instruments
of registering, perpetuating and transmitting
thought.

Henry C. Rogers

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

American Proverb

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us
away from home, but more important, it finds homes
for us everywhere.

Hazel Rochman

No one can read with profit that which he
cannot learn to read with pleasure.

Noah Porter

The last thing one discovers in composing a
work is what to put first.

Blaise Pascal

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often.
Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through
the air, high as birds, high as prices.

Pablo Neruda

A dose of poison can do its work but once.
A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

William Murray

Books and marriage go ill together.

Moli�re

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

John Milton

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of
reading, to make reading one of his deep and
continuing needs, is good for him.

Richard McKenna

The book to read is not the one which thinks
for you, but the one which makes you think.
No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Mccosh

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

Harriet Martineau

Once we have learned to read, meaning of
words can somehow register without consciousness.

Anthony Marcel

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives
with another who shares the same books.

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Stephane Mallarme

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long
as the average cat.

Hugh Maclennan

In science, read by preference the newest works.
In literature, read the oldest. The classics are
always modern.

Lord Edward Lytton

For books are more than books, they are the life,
the very heart and core of ages past, the reason
why men lived and worked and died, the essence and
quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it,
you can't expect an apostle to look out.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

You've really got to start hitting the books
because it's no joke out here.

Spike Lee

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved
to read. One does not love breathing.

Harper Lee

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Walter Savage Landor

I am a part of everything that I have read.

John Kieran

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it,
except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Thomas � Kempis

The worst thing about new books is that they keep
us from reading the old ones.

Joseph Joubert

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Joineriana

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold
readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Samuel Johnson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as
long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not,
then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of
capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Thomas Jefferson

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or
enjoy friendship, love or life.

Holbrook Jackson

The newest books are those that never grow old.

George Holbrook Jackson

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Anthony Hope

The books we read should be chosen with great care,
that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his
library, "The medicines of the soul."

Paxton Hood

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of
music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Books give not wisdom where none was before.
But where some is, there reading makes it more.

John Harington

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is
cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives
you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

The first time I read an excellent work, it is
to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when
I read over a book I have perused before, it
resembles the meeting of an old one.

Sir James Goldsmith

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have
but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded
of all sorts of things.

George Robert Gissing

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact
no longer be reading numbers, any more than you
read words when reading books You will be reading
meanings.

Harold S. Geneen

A house is not a home unless it contains food
and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fuller

Read much, but not many books.

Benjamin Franklin

Read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all
the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in
exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois F�Nelon

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our high respect for a well read person is praise
enough for literature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never judge a book by its movie.

J. W. Eagan

There is an art of reading, as well as an art
of thinking, and an art of writing.

Isaac Disraeli

The man who is fond of books is usually a man
of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Christopher Dawson

Next, in importance to books are their titles.

Paul Davies

The great American novel has not only already
been written, it has already been rejected.

Frank Dane

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you
spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Jim Critchfield

The book salesman should be honored because he
brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books
we need most and neglect most.

Frank Crane

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Coolio

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more
truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

William Cobbett

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Marcus T. Cicero

The mere brute pleasure of reading --
the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

Lord Chesterfield

The flood of print has turned reading into a
process of gulping rather than savoring.

Warren Chappell

A good title is the title of a successful book.

Raymond Chandler

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Robert Chambers

Books are standing counselors and preachers,
always at hand, and always disinterested; having
this advantage over oral instructors, that they
are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Oswald Chambers

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies,
television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good
feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old
lady a kiss after supper and his day is over.
Finished.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

After all manner of professors have done their
best for us, the place we are to get knowledge
is in books. The true university of these days
is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put
into images.

Albert Camus

It is well to read everything of something,
and something of everything.

Lord Henry P. Brougham

There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

You don't have to burn books to destroy a
culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently
no business to be made disagreeable.

Augustine Birrell

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my
one form of continuous fiction.

Aneurin Bevan

All the best stories in the world are but
one story in reality -- the story of escape.
It is the only thing which interests us all
and at all times, how to escape.

Arthur Christopher Benson

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Stephen Vincent Benet

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse,
a party, a company by the way, a counselor,
a multitude of counselors.

Henry Ward Beecher

Hypocrite reader -- my fellow -- my brother!

Charles Baudelaire

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers
but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

Stan Barstow

He that loves a book will never want a faithful
friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion,
an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by
thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly
entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all
fortunes.

Barrow

To feel most beautifully alive means to be
reading something beautiful, ready always
to apprehend in the flow of language the
sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

The printing press is either the greatest
blessing or the greatest curse of modern times,
sometimes one forgets which it is.

Sir James M. Barrie

Books are men of higher stature; the only men
that speak aloud for future times to hear.

E.S. Barrett

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading
something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in
the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

He had read much, if one considers his long life;
but his contemplation was much more than his reading.
He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other
men he should have known no more than other men.

John Aubrey

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Isaac Asimov

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Mortimer J. Adler

Of all the diversions of life, there is none
so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the
reading of useful and entertaining authors.

Joseph Addison

Show me the books he loves and I shall know
the man far better than through mortal friends.

Dawn Adams

I never worry about action; only inaction

Winston Churchill

If one is master of one thing and understands
one thing well, one has at the same time, insight
into and understanding of many things.

Van Gogh

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole.
It would seem strange if old friends lacked
certain quirks.

Goethe

There are people who strictly deprive themselves
of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable
which has in any way acquired a shady reputation.
They pay this price for health. And health is all
they get for it. How strange it is. It is like
paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has
gone dry.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

The secret source of humour itself is not
joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

It is not best that we should all think
alike; it is difference of opinion that
make horseraces.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),
from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)

Let us endeavor to live that when we
come to die even the undertaker will
be sorry.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),
from Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar(1894)

The radical of one century is the conservative
of the next. The radical invents the views.
When he has worn them out, the conservative
adopts them.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Good friends, good books and a sleepy
conscience: this is the ideal life.
(The conviction of the rich that the
poor are happier is no more foolish
than the conviction of the poor that
the rich are.)

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

It is better to deserve honours and not
have them than to have them and not to
deserve them.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Good breeding consists in concealing
how much we think of ourselves and how
little we think of the other person.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Notebooks(1935)

The fact that man knows right from wrong
proves his intellectual superiority to other
creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong
proves his moral inferiority to any creature
that cannot.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), What Is Man?(1906)

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet
broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens),
Inscription beneath his bust in the
Hall of Fame.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing.
The minute it crops up, all our irritations
and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit
takes their place

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), spoken by Huck Finn,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Take Nothing but Pictures. Leave nothing
but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

Motto of the National Speleological Society

The man who goes alone can start today; but
he who travels with another must wait till
that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),I,Economy

Civilization is the progress toward a
society of privacy. The savage's whole
existence is public, ruled by the laws
of his tribe. Civilization is the process
of setting man free from men.

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)

He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty he establishes
a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)

Money often costs too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty he establishes
a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

One man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to reach the unreachable stars;
and the world will be better for this.

Mitch Leigh, The Quest, based on Cervantes

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, spoken by Macbeth,
Macbeth,(Act V, scene v)

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet,(Act I, scene ii)

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world, the paragon of animals!

William Shakespeare, spoken by Hamlet,
Hamlet,(Act II, scene ii)

This above all: to thine own self be true

William Shakespeare, Hamlet,(Act I, scene iii)

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet,(Act II, scene ii)

Everything should be as simple as possible,
but no simpler.

Albert Einstein

How I wish that somewhere there existed
an island for those who are wise and of
good will.

Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even
if the state demands it.

Albert Einstein

Heroism on command, senseless violence,
and all the loathsome nonsense that goes
by the name of patriotism -- how passionately
I hate them!

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition
from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it
when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary
prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his
intelligence.

Albert Einstein

The further the spiritual evolution of
mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine
religiosity does not lie through the
fear of life, and the fear of death,
and blind faith, but through striving
after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based
effectually on sympathy, education, and
social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had
to be restrained by fear of punishment and
hope of reward after death.

Albert Einstein

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden(1854),I,Economy

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,
have governed my life: the longing for love, the
search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the
suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

What a poor appearance the tales of poets
make when stripped of the colours which
music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Plato, The Republic. Book X. 601B

Democracy, which is a charming form of government,
full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort
of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato, The Republic. Book VIII. 558

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no
harm to the body; but knowledge which is
acquired under compulsion obtains no hold
on the mind.

Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 536

Astronomy compels the soul to look
upwards and leads us from this world
to another.

Plato, The Republic. Book VII. 529

If at first you don't succeed, well,
so much for skydiving.

Victor O'Reilly, Games of the Hangman

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

Akiro Kurosawa

Our care should not be to have lived long
as to have lived enough.

Seneca

I think; therefore I am.

Rene Descartes

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Appius Claudius

No man ever steps in the same river twice,
for it's not the same river and he's not the
same man.

Heraclitus

Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

Milton

"A is A"

Poster on wall of Ayn Rand preschool on
The Simpsons.

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

Plato, The Republic. Book II. 369C

It is a far, far better thing that I do,
than I have ever done; it is a far, far better
rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Charles Dickens, end of A Tale of Two Cities

The books that the world calls immoral are
the books that show the world its own shame.

Oscar Wilde

Let deeds match words.

Platus

Selfishness is not living as one wishes
to live, it is asking others to live as
one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

"When the first baby laughed for the first
time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces
and they all went skipping about, and that
was the beginning of fairies. And now when
every new baby is born its first laugh becomes
a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for
every boy or girl."

-- James Matthew Barrie Peter Pan

"One unquenchable longing has the mastery
of me, which hitherto I neither would nor
could repress; 'tis an insatiable craving
for books, although, perhaps, I already
have more than I ought."

-- Francesco Petrarch, in Francesco
Petrarca by E.H.R. Tatham

"There are some people... who are
constantly drunk on books, as other
men are drunk on whiskey or religion.
They wander through this most diverting
and stimulating of worlds in a haze,
seeing nothing and hearing nothing."

-- H.L. Mencken, Minority Report:
H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, 1956

"An inconvenience is only an adventure
wrongly considered; an adventure is an
inconvenience rightly considered."

-- On Running After Ones Hat, All
Things Considered, G.K. Chesterton

"Outside of a dog, a book is Man's best
friend. And inside of a dog, it's too
dark to read."

-- Groucho Marx

"When I want a book, it is as a tiger
wants a sheep. I must have it with one
spring, and, if I miss it, go away
defeated and hungry."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The
Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872

"There is no true love without some
sensuality. One is not happy in books
unless one loves to caress them."

-- Anatole France, On Life and
Letters, 1914

"What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease."

-- Dr. John Ferriar, "The Bibliomania:
An Epistle to Richard Herber, Esq.," 1863

"Bibliomaniac: A victim of the
obsessive-compulsive neurosis characterized
by a congested library and an atrophied
bank account"

-- Maurice Dunbar, Hooked on Books, 1997

"The bibliophile is the master of
his books, the bibliomaniac their
slave."

-- Hanns Bohatta

"Where is human nature so weak as
in the bookstore!"

-- Henry Ward Beecher, Star Papers;
or Experiences of Art and Nature, 1855

"She is too fond of books, and it has
turned her brain."

-- Louisa May Alcott

"There are two ways of disliking poetry,
one way is to dislike it, the other is
to read Pope."

-- Oscar Wilde

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you
bring some with you."

-- Joubert (1754-1824)

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

-- Paul Valery, 1874-1945

"The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot
read them."

-- Mark Twain

"My books are water; those of the great
geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water."

-- Mark Twain

"A classic is something that everybody
wants to have read and nobody has read."

-- Mark Twain

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces
of evidence we have that people are still
thinking."

--Jerry Seinfeld

""Classic": a book which people praise
and don't read."

-- Mark Twain

"Outside of a dog, a book is Man's
best friend. And inside of a dog,
it's too dark to read."

-- Groucho Marx

Steal not this book, my worthy friend
For fear the gallows will be your end;
Up the ladder, and down the rope,
There you'll hang until you choke;
Then I'll come along and say -
"Where's that book you stole away?"

-- Medieval Book Curse

He who steals this book
may he die the death
may he be frizzled in a pan...

-- Medieval Book Curse

"Oh for a book and a shady nook, either in
door or out."

-- John Wilson, poem for a catalogue of
secondhand books.

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers
into it, you can't expect an apostle
to look out."

-- Georg Lichtenberg, 1742-1799

"There is no such thing as a moral or
an immoral book. Books are well written,
or badly written."

-- Oscar Wilde

"When you read a classic you do not see
in the book more than you did before.
You see more in you than there was before."

-- Clifton Fadiman (American Essayist)

"Censorship always defeats its own purpose,
for it creates in the end the kind of
society that is incapable of exercising
real discretion."

-- Henry Steele Commager (Historian)

"Just the knowledge that a good book is
waiting one at the end of a long day
makes that day happier."

-- Kathleen Norris (1880-1966)

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators
of the world."

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

"It is only by the love of reading
that the evil resulting from the
association with little minds can
be counteracted."

-- Elizabeth Hamilton

"A book is the only immortality."

-- Rufus Choate

"Eliminate all other factors, and the
one which remains must be the truth."

-- Sherlock Holmes to Watson, in
The Sign of Four(1890) by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"In the case of good books, the point
is not to see how many of them you can
get through, but rather how many can
get through to you"

-- Mortimer Jerome Adler

"Where they have burned books,
they will end in burning human beings."

-Heinrich Heine

"Without free speech no search for
truth is possible... no discovery
of truth is useful... Better a
thousandfold abuse of free speech
than denial of free speech. The abuse
dies in a day, but the denial slays
the life of the people, and entombs
the hope of the race."

-Charles Bradlaugh

"If there had been a censorship of the
press in Rome we should have had today
neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the
philosophical writings of Cicero."

-Voltaire

"Censorship reflects a society's lack
of confidence in itself."

-Potter Stewart

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous."

-Ludwig B�rne

"I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn'
for adults exclusively, and it always
distressed me when I find that boys
and girls have been allowed access
to them. The mind that becomes soiled
in youth can never again be washed clean."

-Mark Twain

"You have not converted a man because
you have silenced him."

-John Morley

"Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work
had better be banned because I might read
it and it might be very damaging to me'?"

-Joseph Henry Jackson

"I disapprove of what you say, but
I will defend to the death your
right to say it."

-Voltaire

"Free speech is the whole thing, the
whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."

-Salman Rushdie

"If we don't believe in freedom
of expression for people we despise,
we don't believe in it at all."

-Noam Chomsky

The tallest blade of grass is the
first to be cut by the scythe.

-- Russian Proverb

All foods are good to eat,
but not all words are fit to speak.

-- Haitian proverb

He who does not honor his wife dishonors himself.

-- Mexican proverb

All good things come to those who wait.

-- English proverb

A happy heart is better than a full purse.

-- Italian probverb

"God could not be everywhere and
therefore he made mothers."

-- Jewish Proverb

You can't dance at two weddings at the
same time; nor can you sit on two horses
with one behind.

-- Yiddish Proverb

Don't spit into the well--you might drink from it later.

-- Yiddish Proverb

In a restaurant choose a table near a waiter.

-- Jewish proverb

A person who gets used to telling lies
will always be enticed to falsehood.

--Jewish proverb

Let him who dictates the letter be the carrier.

-- Jewish proverb

Light is not recognized except through darkness.

-- Jewish proverb

A timely verse is as good as bread in famine.

-- Jewish proverb

A dog with two homes is never any good.

-- Irish proverb

The fox never found a better messenger than himself.

-- Irish proverb

Everyone is nice till the cow gets
into the garden.

-- Irish proverb

The best horse doesn't always win the race.

-- Irish proverb

A man is known by his company.

-- Irish proverb

Never buy through your ears but through your eyes.

-- Irish proverb

"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself."

-- Chinese Proverb

"Learning is a treasure that will follow
its owner everywhere."

-- Chinese Proverb

A day of sorrow is longer than a month of joy.

-- Chinese Proverb

Those who play the game do not see
it as clearly as those who watch.

-- Chinese Proverb

One who damages the character of another damages his own.

-- Yoruba of Nigeria proverb

The way you bring up a child is the way it grows up.

-- Swahili proverb

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.

-- Kikuyu of Kenya proverb

Turina keessatt killen millaan adeemti.
(By persevering the egg walks on legs.)

-- Oromo (Ethiopia) Proverb

You lament not the dead, but lament the
trouble of making a grave; the way of
the ghost is longer than the grave.

-- Efik

Because friendship is pleasant, we partake
of our friend's entertainment; not because
we have not enough to eat in our own house.

-- Yoruba

The house-roof fights with the rain,
but he who is sheltered ignores it.

-- Wolof

It is the fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him.

-- Akan proverb

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

-- Kikuyu proverb

What is wrong today won't be right tomorrow.

-- Dutch proverb

"A nickel will get you on the subway,
but garlic will get you a seat."

-- old New York proverb

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever
may be our wishes, our inclinations, or
the dictates of our passions, they cannot
alter the state of the facts and evidence."

-- John Adams

The ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands in moments of comfort, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles
the world."

-- Albert Einstein

"The true value of a human being can be
found in degrees to which he has attained
liberation from the self."

-- Albert Einstein

"In order to be an immaculate member of a
flock of sheep, one must above all be a
sheep oneself."

-- Albert Einstein

"My eye is educated to discover anything
on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is
probably wholesomer to look at the ground
much than at the heavens."

-- Henry David Thoreau

"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere
of activity in which we are permitted to remain
children all our lives."

-- Albert Einstein

"Do not consider it proof just because it
is written in books, for a liar who will
deceive with his tongue will not hesitate
to do the same with his pen."

-- Maimonides

"Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir,
in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster."

-- William Shakespeare

"Each of us bears his own Hell."

-- Virgil

"The greatness of a nation and its moral
progress can be judged by the way its
animals are treated."

-- Gandhi

"The first wealth is health."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is not something you experience,
it is something you remember."

-- Oscar Levant

If we could read the secret history of our
enemies we should find in each man's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."

-- Arthur C. Clarke, author

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom.
One helps you make a living; the other
helps you make a life."

-- Sandra Carey

"The coward calls the brave man rash,
the rash man calls him a coward."

Aristotle [384-322 BC]

"Our liberty cannot be taken away unless
the people are themselves accomplices."
-- Lord Bolingbroke (1678-1751)

Dulce bellum inexpertis.

War is sweet for those who haven't experienced it.

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.

May an avenger one day raise from my bones.

Mens agitat molem.

The mind moves the matter.

Nil agit exemplum, litem quod lite resolvit.

Not much worth is an example that solves
one quarrel with another.

Exitus acta probat.

The result validates the deeds.

Hic Rhodus, hic salta!

Here is Rhodes; jump here!

(According to legend, said to
a man who boasted that he had
made a huge jump on Rhodes.)

Deus ex machina.

A god from the machine.

(Originally an expression from the ancient Greek
theatre, where the conflict often was solved by
a god who entered the stage with the help of some
kind of machinery. Today often used in a transferred
sense about an unexpected and unlikely denoument of
a dramatic situation.)

Ille dolet vere, qui sine teste dolet.

He mourns honestly who mourns without witnesses.

Epistula non erubescit.

A letter doesn't blush.

Nemo autem regere potest nisi qui et regi.

But nobody can rule who cannot also be ruled.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

You should not argue about taste.

Dimidium facti qui coepit habet.

Half is done when the beginning is done.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country.

Non scholae sed vitae discimus.

We do not learn for school, but for life.

Haud semper errat fama, aliquando et eligit.

Rumour is not always in error, sometimes it chooses.

Consuetudinis magna vis est.

The force of habit is great.

Cui peccare licet peccat minus.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less.

Ex ungue leonem.

You know the lion from its claw.

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.

Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Innocue vivite, numen adest.

Live without faults; the deity is present.

Nulla regula sine exceptione.

No rule without exception.

Horas non numero nisi serenas.

I count only the bright hours.
(Inscription on ancient sundials.)

Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor.

May an avenger one day raise from my bones.

Numero deus impare gaudet.

God loves odd numbers.

Factum est illud, fieri infectum non potest.

Done is done, it cannot be made undone.

Perierat totus orbis, nisi iram finiret misericordia.

The entire world would have perished unless compassion
had limited the hatred.

Respice post te, mortalem te esse memento.

Look around you, remember that you are mortal.

Ecce homo!

Behold the man!

Homo novus

A new (self-made) man

Concordia parvae res crescunt,
discordia maximae dilabuntur.

Through unity the small thing grows,
through disunity the largest thing crumbles.

De mortuis nihil nisi bene.

Nothing but good about the dead.

Liber mihi opus est.

I need a book.

Pulvis et umbra sumus.

We are dust and shadow.

Iucundi acti labores.

Surmounted labours are pleasant.

Honores mutant mores.

The honours change the customs. (Power corrupts.)

Solitudinem fecerunt, pacem appelunt.

They made a desert and called it peace.

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

I recognise the vestige of that fading flame.

Iniuria non excusat iniuriam.

One wrong does not justify another.

Qui nimium probat, nihil probat.

One who proves too much, proves nothing.

De nihilo nihil.

Nothing comes from nothing.

Cogito, ergo sum.

I think, therefore I am.

Caveat emptor.

Let the buyer beware.

Malum quidem nullum esse sine aliquo bono.

There is no evil without something good.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!

Pluck the day; do not expect anything from tomorrow!

Mater artium necessitas.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Cui placet obliviscur, cui dolet meminit.

He forgets that which pleases him, but
remembers the pain he suffers.

Docendo discimus.

We learn by teaching.

Bellaque matribus detestata.

The war, hated by mothers.

Dimidium facti, qui coepit, habet.

He has done half, who has begun.

Oleum et operam perdidi.

I have wasted oil and toil.

Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.

Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.

Promoveatur ut amoveatur.

Let him be promoted to get him out of the way.

Vox populi, vox Dei.

The voice of the people is the voice of God.

Quem di diligunt adolescens moritur.

He whom the gods love dies young.

Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crevit.

The love of wealth grows as the wealth itself grows.

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

It is your business when your neighbour's house
is on fire.

errare humanum est, ignoscere divinum.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Medicus curat, natura sanat.

The physician treats, nature cures.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

If you want peace, prepare for war.

Leges bonae ex malis moribus procreantur.

Good laws are born of bad customs.

Mens sana in corpore sano.

A sound mind in a sound body.

Commodum ex iniuria sua nemo habere debet.

No person ought to have advantage from his own wrong.

Relata refero.

I tell what I have been told.

Necessitatis non habet legem.

Necessity knows no law.

Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura.

Rest without reading is like dying and being buried alive.

Ne quid nimis.

Nothing in excess.

Liberae sunt nostrae cogitationes.

Our thoughts are free.

Is fecit, cui prodest.

He has done it, whom it gains.

Male parta male dilabuntur.

What has been wrongly gained is wrongly lost.

Aquila non captat muscas.

The eagle doesn't capture flies.

Omnes una manet nox.

The same night awaits us all.

Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo.

The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.

Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.

It is your business when your neighbour's house is on fire.

Multos timere debet, quem multi timent.

He has to fear many who is feared by many.

Bene qui latuit, bene vixit.

One who lives well, lives unnoticed.

Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes.

It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.

Per aspera ad astra.

Through difficulties to the stars.

Medice, cura te ipsum!

Physician, heal thyself!

Potius sero quam numquam.

It's better late than never.

Nemo nascitur artifex.

Nobody is born an artist.

Id certum est quod certum reddi potest.

That is certain that can be made certain.

Facilius est multa facere quam diu.

It is easier to do many things than to do one for a long time.

Cui bono?

To whose profit?

Vivere est cogitare.

To live is to think.

Iniuria non excusat iniuriam.

One wrong does not justify another.

Fas est et ab hoste doceri.

One should also learn from one's enemy.

Ad nocendum potentes sumus.

We have the power to harm.

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt."

-- William Allingham (1824-1889), Autumnal Sonnet

"Fear can be headier than whisky,
once man has acquired a taste for it."

-- Donald Downes

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort, but where he
stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Deep into the darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal
ever dared to dream before."

-- Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849), The Raven

"A belief in a supernatural source of evil
is not necessary; men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."

-- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911

"The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks
into colours. I want to go south, where there
is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch
over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce."

-- D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930),
Letter to J.M. Murray, 3 October 1924

"For man, autumn is a time of harvest,
of gathering together. For nature it is
a time of sowing, of scattering abroad."

-- Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980),
Autumn Across America, 1956

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

-- General George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army

"It is your attitude, and the suspicion that
you are maturing the boldest designs against him,
that imposes on your enemy."

-- Frederick the Great, German Emperor

"Sometimes the truth is so precious it must be
gaurded by a pack of lies."

-- Winston Churchill

"The teeming Autumn big with rich increase,
Bearing the wanton burden of the prime
Like widowed wombs after their lords' decease."

-- William Shakespeare (1564�1616), Sonnet 97

"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."

-- Mohandas K. Gandhi

"She felt that restless thrill, that fresh
promise of fall when anything seems possible
and the world can be kept within a fourth-grader's
grasp."

-- Tamara Jones, journalist, on a teacher's reluctant
retirement after 28 Septembers, Washington Post,
4 September 1995

"It was... a drama of night and time,
history and splendor."

-- Beverly Lowry, novelist, on an autumn
sunset at Washington's Lincoln Memorial,
NY Times, 14 May 1995

"October is a fine and dangerous season in America...
a wonderful time to begin anything at all."

-- Thomas Merton

"A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood."

-- General George S. Patton, Jr., U.S. Army

"The world is full of willing people, some willing
to work, the rest willing to let them."

-- Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet

"I feel that retired generals should never
miss an opportunity to remain silent concerning
matters for which they are no longer responsible."

-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run."

-- John Keats (1795-1821), "To Autumn," 1820

"A friend is a second self."

-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) Nicomachean Ethics

"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms.
It means a strong desire to live taking the
form of a readiness to die."

-- G. K. Chesterton

"Death... causes this blinding show of color...
a fierce and flaming death."

-- Charles Kuralt, essayist, on autumn in rural Vermont,
initial broadcast of On the Road, CBS TV, 26 October 1967

"In prosperity our friends know us;
in adversity we know our friends."

-- John Churton Collins, 1848-1908

"To have courage, one must first be afraid.
The deeper the fear, the more difficult the
climb toward courage."

-- Jim Bishop, coulumnist

The ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands in moments of comfort, but where
he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You can't hold a man down without
staying down with him."

-- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

"I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens
my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for
the nation at this dark and tragic moment."

-- Pope John Paul II, in a telegram sent to
President George W. Bush

"Today our nation saw evil, the very worst of human
nature, and we responded with the best of America."

-- President George W. Bush, address to the nation

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."

-- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

"This is one of those few days in life
that one can actually say will change
everything."

-- EU Relations Commissioner Chris Patten,
reported by Reuters

"These acts were intended to frighten us,
but they have failed. Terrorist acts can shake
the foundations of our biggest buildings but
cannot touch the foundation of America."

-- President George W. Bush, address to the nation

"To have courage, one must first be afraid.
The deeper the fear, the more difficult the
climb toward courage."

Jim Bishop, coulumnist

The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations.

Spanish Proverb

There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.

French Proverb

Heaven lent you a soul Earth will lend a grave.

Chinese Proverb

A spoon does not know the taste of soup,
nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Welsh Proverb

Night is the mother of council.

Latin Proverb

Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.

Russian proverb

One cannot shoe a running horse.

Dutch Proverb

If you bow at all bow low.

Chinese Proverb

It is not fish until it is on the bank.

Irish Proverb

Every cloud has a silver lining.

English Proverb

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.

Yiddish Proverb

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Chinese Proverb

No man limps because another is hurt.

Danish Proverb

The night rinses what the day has soaped.

Swiss Proverb

Death pays all debts.

English Proverb

An ass in Germany is a professor in Rome.

Traditional German Saying

A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.

Proverb of Unknown Origin

An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.

Turkish Proverb

He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.

Irish Proverb

Advice should be viewed from behind.

Swedish Proverb

In America half an hour is forty minutes.

German Proverb

A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.

Hungarian Proverb

A forest is in an acorn.

Proverb of Unknown Origin

Do not speak of secrets in a field that is full of little hills.

Hebrew Proverb

Instinct is stronger than upbringing.

Irish Proverb

A silent mouth is melodious.

Irish Proverb

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it.

Italian Proverb

Better no doctor at all than three.

Polish Proverb

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

French Proverb

A hungry man is an angry man.

English Proverb

A friend's eye is a good mirror.

Irish Proverb

A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man.

Turkish Proverb

Many hands make light work.

John Heywood "The Proverbs of John Heywood" (1546)

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Spanish Proverb

Many a friend was lost through a joke, but none was ever gained so.

Czech Proverb

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

Portuguese Proverb

A lock is better than suspicion.

Irish Proverb

A good denial, the best point in law.

Irish Proverb

A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.

Proverb, Chinese

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

A silent mouth is melodious.

Irish Proverb

A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly.

Haitian Proverb

A thief believes everybody steals.

Proverb of Unknown Origin

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

Indian Proverb

If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.

Yiddish Proverb

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

Greek Proverb

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

African proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people.

Irish Proverb

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

A son is a son till he gets him a wife,
But a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life.

Proverb of Unknown Origin

...To live outside the law you must be honest...

Bob Dylan

It is better to exist unknown to the law.

Irish Proverb

How do you find America?
Turn left at Greenland.

A Hard Days Night - the film

The well fed does not understand the lean.

Irish Proverb

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

English Proverb

I need a shot of love

Bob Dylan

Fix the lighter

Jake Blues

Eureaka!

Archemedies after discovering the principle of displacement

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings
But Ive never been too impressed.

Bob Dylan

"When it rains, it pours"

Morton Salt Motto

40 phil ochs fans can't be wrong

album title

She was the rose of Sharon from Paradice Lost

Bob Dylan

It's fear of the unknown.
Unknown is what it is.
Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.

John Lennon

Time, time, time, see what's become of me.

Paul Simon

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times;
...In short a time very much like the present.

A stich in time; saves nine

Old Adage

It's not a miricle, we just decided to do it.

Astronaut Jim Lovell

Living on borrowed time.

John Lennon

Instant Karma's gonna get you!

John Lennon

A white Christmas fills the churchyard.

French Proverb

But the cardboard filled windows and the old men
on the benchs tell you now that the whole town is empty.

his clothes are dirty but his hands are clean.

Bob Dylan

Did you count all the cards left to play; to zero?

Elliott Smith

Khan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Captain Kirk

Someone's always coming 'round here dragging some new kill

Elliott Smith

...I don't believe in Beatles

I just believe in me
Yoko and me
And that's reality
The dream is over
What can I say
The dream is over
Yesterday
I was the dreamweaver
But now I'm reborn
I was the walrus
But now I'm John
And so dear friends
You'll just have to carry on

The dream is over

John Lennon

"They'll stone you when your playin' your guitar"

Bob Dylan

One woman never praises another.

Estonian Proverb

Never cut what can be untied.

Portuguese Proverb

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.

Chinese proverb

Standing on the corner casting your bread,
While the eyes of the idol with the iron head are glowing..

Bob Dylan

Friendship is a furrow in the sand.

Tongan Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese proverb

Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.

Jewish Saying

If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.

Japanese Proverb

There is plenty of sound in an empty barrel.

Russian Proverb

My money comes and goes,
It rolls and flows,
in rolls and flows,
through the holes,
in my pokets in my clothes.

A lock is better than suspicion.

Irish Proverb

I read the News today, O! boy...

John Lennon

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech proverb

Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.

Danish Proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

Chinese Proverb

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace,
is counted wise: and he that shutteth his
lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Bible - Proverbs 17:28

Since love and fear can hardly coexist together,
if we must choose between them, it is safer to be feared than loved.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Love me, love my dog.

John Heywood (1546)

God must have loved the common man because He made so many of them.

Abraham Lincoln

War, children, is just a shot away; it's just a shot away.

---Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

The best thing about a man is his dog.

French Proverb

The great thieves lead away the little thieves.

French Proverb

An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue.

Russian Proverb

A forest is in an acorn.

Proverb of Unknown Origin

He who sups with the devil has need of a long spoon.

English Proverb

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

French Proverb

Not the cry, but the flight of the wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow.

Chinese Proverb

A teacher is better than two books.

German Proverb

A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Persian Proverb

He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount.

Chinese Proverb

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.

Russian proverb

Fools' names, like fools' faces, are often seen in public places.

Anonymous

It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance.

Spanish Proverb

An angry man is not fit to pray.

Yiddish Proverb

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7956

AUTHOR: Harold C Schonberg

QUOTATION: When Callas carried a grudge,
she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, w
atered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

ATTRIBUTION: On Maria Callas, The Glorious Ones
Times Books 85, quoted in NY Times 21 Aug 85

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts:
Music & Dance: Observers & Critics

Pity the sick and ignore the ignorant.

Wilfred Macomber

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope (1688�1744)

The proud are easily offended.

Ezra Taft Benson

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.

Chinese proverb

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Latin Proverb

Anger can be an expensive luxury.

Italian Proverb

The fear of power merely shows the power of fear.

Neal A. Maxwell

Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.

Polish Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Sir Winston Churchill

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.

Chinese Proverb

This is not Peace, this is an Armistice of twenty years.

Marshal Foch

It is in doing, not just dreaming, that lives are blessed.

Thomas S. Monson

It makes a difference whose ox is gored.

Martin Luther

One cannot shoe a running horse.

Dutch Proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese proverb

In America half an hour is forty minutes.

German Proverb

He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.

French Proverb (14th century)

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Yiddish Proverb

She lied like an eyewitness.

Russian Insult

Evil is sooner believed than good.

Proverb of Unknown Origin

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.

Irish Proverb

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Greek proverb

A hound's food is in its legs.

Irish Proverb

May your every wish be granted.

Ancient Chinese Curse

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Eastern Proverb

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Chinese Proverb

A hungry man is an angry man.

English Proverb

Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old, yours will be new.

Spanish Proverb

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Spanish Proverb

No man limps because another is hurt.

Danish Proverb

Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.

French Proverb

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.

Spanish Proverb

With money you are a dragon; with no money, a worm.

Chinese Proverb

The sun will set without thy assistance.

Hebrew Proverb

A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.

Proverb, Chinese

A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel.

Portuguese Proverb

Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.

Spanish Proverb

Do not blame God for having created the tiger,
but thank him for not having given it wings.

Indian Proverb

A little too late, is much too late.

German Proverb

One woman never praises another.

Estonian Proverb

A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Welsh Proverb

Good luck beats early rising.

Irish Proverb

A lie travels round the world while truth
is putting her boots on.

French Proverb

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

A man is not honest simply because he never had a chance to steal.

Yiddish Proverb

A drowning man is not troubled by rain.

Persian Proverb

John Bartlett (1820�1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 1273

AUTHOR: William Shakespeare (1564�1616)

QUOTATION:
I 'll example you with thievery:
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea; the moon 's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun;
The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge resolves
The moon into salt tears; the earth 's a thief,
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen
From general excrement: each thing 's a thief.

ATTRIBUTION: Timon of Athens. Act iv. Sc. 3. [text]

BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

WORKS: William Shakespeare Collection.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 6358

AUTHOR: Sidney Skolsky

QUOTATION: She was "discovered" for movies in the
drugstore, sitting at the soda fountain. Thousands
of girls have since sat at drugstore fountains
drinking sodas and waiting to be discovered.
They only got fat from the sodas.

ATTRIBUTION: On Lana Turner, NY Post 12 Jan 58

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Films: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 8988

AUTHOR: Peter Ustinov

QUOTATION: Critics search for ages for the
wrong word, which, to give them credit, they
eventually find.

ATTRIBUTION: BBC Radio Feb 52

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts:
Theater: Actors & Actresses

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7999

AUTHOR: Arthur Christiansen, Editor, London Daily Express

QUOTATION: We never waste space saying, "On the one hand."
We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.

ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on his death, NY Herald Tribune 28 Sep 63

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Press: Reporters & Editors

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7479

AUTHOR: New York Times

QUOTATION: Armed with a notebook, ingratiating
grin and fine intelligence, he grew to be a most
discerning witness of

America's most distinctive rite, not just
the election but the making of our presidents.

ATTRIBUTION: Editorial on death of Theodore H White, 17 May 86

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 9225

AUTHOR: Time magazine

QUOTATION: The measuring out of life in tepid teacups.

ATTRIBUTION: On contemporary English drama, 26 Mar 65

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Theater: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7986

AUTHOR: Jimmy Breslin

QUOTATION: A job on a newspaper is a special thing.
Every day you take something that you found out about,
and you put it down and in a matter of hours it
becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or
something. It is a personal product that people,
a lot of people, take the time to sit down and read.

ATTRIBUTION: On closing of NY Mirror, NY Herald Tribune 17 Oct 63

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Press: Reporters & Editors

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 5625

AUTHOR: Neil Kinnock, Labor Party leader

QUOTATION: The Parthenon without the marbles
is like a smile with a tooth missing.

ATTRIBUTION: Promising return of the Elgin
marbles to Greece, London Times 5 Jan 84

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts:
Architecture: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 807

AUTHOR: Nelson Mandela

QUOTATION: Only free men can negotiate;
prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom
and mine cannot be separated.

ATTRIBUTION: Refusing to bargain for freedom after 21 years in prison, Time 25 Feb 85

SUBJECTS: The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 2634

AUTHOR: Jim Bencivenga

QUOTATION: The single-room worlds remain strong
icons at the heart of our national memory, permanent
as any church spire piercing the New England sky.

ATTRIBUTION: On country schools, Christian Science Monitor 13 Feb 85

SUBJECTS: The World: Education: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7354

AUTHOR: Cyril Dunn

QUOTATION: A prose style as sharp and
clean as a bleached bone on a beach.

ATTRIBUTION: On John Gale, London
Observer 6 May 79

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts:
Literature: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 2623

AUTHOR: Mary J Wilson, elementary school teacher

QUOTATION: I'm never going to be a movie star.
But then, in all probability, Liz Taylor is never
going to teach first and second grade.

ATTRIBUTION: Newsweek 4 Jul 76

SUBJECTS: The World: Education: Educators & Participants

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 5547

AUTHOR: Frank Lloyd Wright

QUOTATION: Early in life I had to choose between
honest arrogance and hypocritical humility.
I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.

ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on his death 8 Apr 59

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts:
Architecture: Architects on Architecture

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 2176

AUTHOR: Henry J Kaiser, industrialist

QUOTATION: Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on his death 24 Aug 67

SUBJECTS: The World: Business: Executives

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 5793

AUTHOR: Andrew Wyeth

QUOTATION: I prefer winter and fall, when you feel
the bone structure in the landscape�the loneliness
of it�the dead feeling of winter. Something waits
beneath it�the whole story doesn't show.

ATTRIBUTION: Quoted by Richard Meryman
The Art of Andrew Wyeth NY Graphic Society 73

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Art: Painters & Sculptors

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7030

AUTHOR: Carl Sandburg

QUOTATION: I was up day and night with Lincoln for years.
I couldn't have picked a better companion.

ATTRIBUTION: On his biography of
Abraham Lincoln, NY Times 6 Jan 64

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors

CONTENTS � BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 792

AUTHOR: Russell B Long, US Senator

QUOTATION: Tax reform means "Don't tax you, don't
tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree."

ATTRIBUTION: News summaries 31 Dec 76

SUBJECTS: The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics

CONTENTS � BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
� AUTHOR INDEX � CONCORDANCE INDEX

John Bartlett (1820�1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 8309

AUTHOR: Miscellaneous

QUOTATION: Unthinking, idle, wild, and young,
I laugh'd and danc'd and talk'd and sung.

ATTRIBUTION: Princess Amelia (1783�1810).

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 9226

AUTHOR: Time magazine

QUOTATION: Man, as they see him, is a creature trapped
between two voids, prenatal and posthumous, on a shrinking
spit of sand he calls time.

ATTRIBUTION: On European dramatists such as Beckett,
Ionesco, Genet, Pinter and Osborne, "The Modern Theater,
or the World as a Metaphor of Dread" 8 Jul 66

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Theater: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 5261

AUTHOR: Liam O'Flaherty

QUOTATION: I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate
the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no
frost in men's bones.

ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on his death 7 Sep 84

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Wisdom, Philosophy & Other Musings

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7888

AUTHOR: Angela Carter

QUOTATION: They danced the dance of the
outcasts for the outcasts who watched them,
amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.

ATTRIBUTION: On an adaptation of the Mass for
the Dead for one of their colleagues, Nights
at the Circus Viking 85, quoted in NY Times 30 Jan 85

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts:
Music & Dance: Observers & Critics

John Bartlett (1820�1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 1878

AUTHOR: William Shakespeare (1564�1616)

QUOTATION: As chaste as unsunn'd snow.

ATTRIBUTION: Cymbeline. Act ii. Sc. 5. [text]

BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

WORKS: William Shakespeare Collection.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 4185

AUTHOR: John F Kennedy, 35th US President

QUOTATION: I know there is a God�I see the storm
coming and I see his hand in it�if he has a place
then I am ready�we see the hand.

ATTRIBUTION: Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln in notes
on program for prayer breakfast, NY Times 15 May 64

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Religion: Spirituality

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 9030

AUTHOR: T S Eliot

QUOTATION: My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

ATTRIBUTION: On writing plays, Time 6 Mar 50

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Theater: Playwrights, Producers & Directors

CONTENTS � BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 3645

AUTHOR: Helen Hayes

QUOTATION: Life � would give her everything of consequence,
life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was
to make the introductions.

ATTRIBUTION: Quoted by Nancy Caldwell Sorel Ever Since Eve: Personal Reflections on Childbirth Oxford 84

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Family Life: Family Members

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 6757

AUTHOR: Henny Youngman

QUOTATION: My wife is a light eater � as soon as it's light, she starts to eat.

ATTRIBUTION: Quoted in Irving Wallace et al Book of Lists #2 Morrow 80

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Food & Drink: Observers & Critics

CONTENTS � BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 20

AUTHOR: P W Botha, President of South Africa

QUOTATION: Not only will we survive [sanctions],
we will emerge stronger on the other side.

ATTRIBUTION: NY Times 28 Sep 86

SUBJECTS: The World: Politics & Government: Heads of State

CONTENTS � BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 673

AUTHOR: Barry M Goldwater, US Senator

QUOTATION: To insist on strength � is
not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering.

ATTRIBUTION: NY Times 11 Aug 64

SUBJECTS: The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics

CONTENTS � BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 6695

AUTHOR: Israel Shenker

QUOTATION: Savor sufficient to lure the wispiest ghost into corpulence.

ATTRIBUTION: On food at Scotland's Culzean Castle, NY Times 4 Jul 82

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Food & Drink: Observers & Critics

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 6291

AUTHOR: Jean Cocteau

QUOTATION: He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child,
a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

ATTRIBUTION: On Orson Welles, quoted in NY Times 11 Oct 85

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Films: Observers &

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 4010

AUTHOR: Theodor Reik

QUOTATION: Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

ATTRIBUTION: Recalled on his death 31 Dec 69

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Love

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson.
Copyright � 1988 by James B. Simpson.
Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

John Bartlett (1820�1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 8476

AUTHOR: Sophocles (c. 496 B.C.�406 B.C.)

QUOTATION: Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

ATTRIBUTION: Ph�dra. Frag. 619.

BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

John Bartlett (1820�1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 8340
AUTHOR: Miscellaneous
QUOTATION: A life on the ocean wave!
A home on the rolling deep,
Where the scattered waters rave,
And the winds their revels keep!

ATTRIBUTION: Epes Sargent (1813�1881):
Life on the Ocean Wave.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 4500
AUTHOR: Robert Bradbury, city official, Liverpool
QUOTATION: After all, what is a pedestrian?
He is a man who has two cars�one being driven
by his wife, the other by one of his children.

ATTRIBUTION: NY Times 5 Sep 62

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Humor & Wit

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

ATTRIBUTION: NY Times 5 Sep 62

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Humor & Wit

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 4503
AUTHOR: Mario Buatta
QUOTATION: Dust is a protective coating
for fine furniture.

ATTRIBUTION: Quoted by John Taylor
"Fringe Lunatic" Manhattan Inc Jul 86

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Humor & Wit

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,
compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 4902
AUTHOR: Pearl Buck
QUOTATION: The secret of joy in work is contained
in one word�excellence. To know how to do something
well is to enjoy it.

ATTRIBUTION: The Joy of Children John Day 66

SUBJECTS: Humankind: Wisdom, Philosophy & Other Musings

John Bartlett (1820�1905).
Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 10031
AUTHOR: Old Testament
QUOTATION: A living dog is better than a dead lion.
ATTRIBUTION: Ecclesiastes ix. 4. [text]
BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

Simpson's Contemporary Quotations,

compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.

NUMBER: 7411

AUTHOR: A E Housman

QUOTATION:

Great literature should do some good

to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,

and sharpen his discrimination though blunt,

and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

ATTRIBUTION: Quoted in report on Great Books discussion groups, NY Times 28 Feb 85

SUBJECTS: Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics

John Bartlett (1820�1905).

Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

NUMBER: 8352

AUTHOR: Miscellaneous

QUOTATION: Hold the fort! I am coming!

ATTRIBUTION: William T. Sherman (1820�1891),

�signalled to General Corse in Allatoona

from the top of Kenesaw, Oct. 5, 1864.

All you touch and all you see,

Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd, "Breathe"

One cannot shoe a running horse.

Dutch Proverb

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

Lady Nancy Astor My Two Countries

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

Louis Nizer

Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll out ride the Devil.

German Proverb

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan

A broken hand works, but not a broken heart.

Persian Proverb

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for

the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to

the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to

bother about that.

Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

The human language is like a cracked kettle on

which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear,

when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

A good husband is healthy and absent.

Japanese Proverb

Between two evils, I always choose the one I never tried before.

Mae West

Television is a triumph of equipment over people,

and the minds that control it are so small that you

could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over

for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.

Fred Allen, CoEvolution Quarterly, Winter, 1977

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.

Abraham Lincoln

If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?

Cynthia Heimel

When the first baby laughed for the first time,

the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they

all went skipping about, and that was the beginning

of fairies. And now when every new baby is born

its first laugh becomes a fairy.

So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.

- - - James Matthew Barrie "Peter Pan"

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

--Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone

Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

Spanish Proverb

If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.

Japanese Proverb

The smallest thing outlives the human being.

Irish Proverb

"If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living."

Yiddish Proverb

"A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners."

Irish Proverb

"A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity."

Yiddish Proverb

"The palest ink is better than the best memory."

Chinese proverb

"Music is far, far older than our species.

It is tens of millions of years old,

and the fact that animals as wildly

divergent as whales, humans and birds come

out with similar laws for what they

compose suggests to me that there are a

finite number of musical sounds that will

entertain the vertebrate brain."

ROGER PAYNE, on the origins of music.

"A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Chinese proverb

"Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight."

English Proverb

"Back when the space program was really getting under way,

the Americans spent millions of dollars and hours of

research trying to find a pen that would write in zero gravity.

You know what the Russians did? They used a pencil!"

http://www.sebourn.com/stupid/stpdsys.html

"Advice when most needed is least heeded."

English Proverb

He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief.

German Proverb

"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."

Arab Proverb

"Nothing is as burdensome as a secret."

French Proverb

"You fallout shelter sellers can't a get in my door, not now nor nevermore."

"I said do you speak my language, he just smiled and gave me a Vegamite sandwich."

Men At Work

"01-01-01"

Begining of the new millenium

"The man in the park,

with a song like a lark

Told me I was strong; Harldly ever wrong,

'I said Man you mean....'

You had plans for both of us,

That involved a trip out of town;

To a place I seen in a magazine

that you left lying around..."

Elliott Smith 'Miss Misery'- soundtrack of "Good Will Hunting".

"Speaking real double-dutch to a real Double Dutchess."

Decklan McManus (Elvis Costello), in re John Lennon

Thank God, for God."

Peter Koiva

I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.

Artemus Ward

"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us."

Lionel Trilling

"...our nation must rise above a house divided."

Al Gore

"...Nah Nah na na, Nah nah na na, hey hey hey, good-bye!

Nah Nah na na, Nah nah na na, hey hey hey, good-bye!

Nah Nah na na, Nah nah na na, hey hey hey, good-bye!..."

familiar sporting victory chat.

"And now the secretary has certified a winner,...and therefore, I guess, whether
we win -- whether your side, the side you're supporting wins or
loses, it doesn't change that."

Supreme Court Justice Breyer

"This is what happens when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate

resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president, it is very sad."

James Baker

"This is as close to a political civil war as I've ever witnessed."

Tim Russert

"Are you arguing that this is an error of law or fact?"

Justice Leander Shaw Jr.

"I believe that the right to vote doesn't count unless you count every vote."

From DNC homepage.

"At stake: nearly 25,000 absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin counties that

Democrats are trying to get thrown out."

From MSNBC Front Page

"I love Santa because he gives us toes."

Miss Sophie Mae

"We're like an automobile with the brakes that have been disconnected. I'm not saying that this thing couldn't be
turned around, but this is not going to be easy, obviously."

Edward G. Rendell, the general chairman of the Democratic National Committee

"How does the vice president rationalize a defeat in our highest court?

How does he go on? How does he leverage others (politicians, remember) to stick with him?

Nobody knows, but everybody expects Gore will nonetheless try."

Jay Severin

"If we accept Mr. Boies' premise, there is no reason for a tabulation on Election Night..."

Barry Richard

"Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen."

Luke Rhinehart

"Al you lost. Al you cheated and you lost!"

Peter Koiva

If only he'd said a single unrehearsed, from the heart, spontaneous, risky thing.

Joan Walsh - In Salon Magazine Online Edition

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order --

and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

Douglas Hostadter

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause,

while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

William Stekel

"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Blame it on Cain. Don't blame it on me."

Elvis Costello (Deckland MacManus)

"Richard said withdrawl in disgust is not the same as apathy"

REM (Stipe, Buck, Mills, Berry)

We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.

Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

The New York Mets announced today that they are going
to court to get an additional inning added to the end
of Game 5 of the World Series. "We meant to hit those
pitches from the Yankee pitchers," said the Mets batting coach.

"We were confused by the irregularities of the pitches
we received and believe we have been denied our right to hit."
Another portion of the Mets legal claim stated that, based on
on-base percentage, the Mets had actually won the World Series,
regardless of the final scores of games. "It's clear that we
were slightly on base more often than the Yankees," said a
Mets spokesman. "The World Series crown is rightly ours."
�One version of a satire flying around the Internet last week

George Will � One version of a satire flying around the Internet last week

"If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the

Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.

Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory

containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning

with the word `National'."

George Will

"It would constitute a violation of federal law to count only the undervotes."

The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board last week after deciding to

only count the undervotes this morning.

"Solutions are not the answer."

Richard Nixon

"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem

worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."

Bertrand Russell

"the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish --

that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates."

Lao Tzu

"You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem

and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment."

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

"The police are not here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder"

J. Daley

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

Ruin and remedy are often confused.

Aeosop

Half of the American people never read a newspaper.

Half never voted for President.

One hopes it is the same half.

Gore Vidal, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Exit Stage Left Mr. Gore"

Egon Arbis

"Claim victory and deposit the field."

Shakespeare

"Bill Daley and Jesse Jackson pontificating on voter fraud is like Madona preaching the virtues of chastity."

Rep. J. D. Hayworth

"Whats one vote?"

It's what we all think

In War: Resolution

In Defeat: Defiance

In Victory: Magnanimity

In Peace: Good Will

Sir Winston Churchilll

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy,

but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

Bill Vaughan

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Napoleon Bonaparte

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."

George Orwell

"Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster."

Robert M. Pirsig

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master."

George Washington

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few."

Wendell Phillips

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."

Bertrand Russell

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Fear not those who argue but those who dodge."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenback, Aphorisms, 1905

"Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this."

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me,

I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain.

"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen,

I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest

it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I

had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to

buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did.

I lost my money and saved my soul."

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

The Crazy Ape

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life.

Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies;

probably because generally they are the same people.

G.K. Chesterton

If my theory of relativity is proven successful,

Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.

Einstein

"What is happening in his head"

Pete Townshend

"Mark all ye that passeth by,

As you are now, so once was I,

As I am now, so you shall be,

prepare for death, and follow me."

An epitath on a stone in Hampton, Connecticut.

"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony

with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums."

Hunter S. Thompson

"There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on."

Robert Byrne

"If this was a spending contest I'd come in second."

George W Bush

"Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein.

Guindon cartoon caption

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.

Andre Gide

An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country;

a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself.

Sir Henry Wotton

"Reliquae Wottonianae"

Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.

Adlai Stevenson

"I got some of the details wrong last week in some of the examples I used,

and I'm sorry about that, I'm going to try to do better."

Al Gore

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...

and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

Wernher von Braun

He annoyed God.

Victor Hugo

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct,

who would dare remain incorrect?

Confucius

I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to the south. We could never understand why Mexico
wasn't just crazy about us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.

Will Rogers

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please

Mark Twain

(1835-1910)

If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant;

if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone;

if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray,

the people will stand about in helpless confusion.

Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said.

This matters above everything.

Confucius

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.

But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that,

in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists,

a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

J. D. Watson

"The Double Helix"

I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did.

Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'

Margo Kaufman

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some
forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Carl Sagan

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

Harry S. Truman

If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping,

then I regret that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory.

Erwin Schrodinger

How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?

Charles De Gaulle

Wherever you get near the human race, there's just layers and layers of nonsense.

Thornton Wilder

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

W.V.O. Quine

I belong to no organized party.

I am a Democrat.

Will Rogers

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

Mark Twain

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Groucho Marx

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present,

which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal.

S. Weinstein

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.

We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government;

upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves

according to the Ten Commandments of God.

James Madison

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain,

and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein

A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you;

however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.

Churchill

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,

you have learned how to live.

Lin Yutang

"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."

Will Rogers

"Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability."

George Bernard Shaw

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. "

E.M. Forster

"...In one word I'd say 'good', in two words I'd say 'not good'."

Ehud Barak on Meet the Press Sunday September 10, 2000 when asked about the state of

peace talks with Palistine.

"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10-12 to 1."

Ernest Rutherford

"Aint it just like the night to play tricks when your tryin to be so quiet"

Bob Dylan

"...I took the initiative of inventing the internet."

Al Gore

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

P.J. O'Rourke

...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.

George Will

"Where facts are few, experts are many."

Donald R. Gannon

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

Harry S Truman

"On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world

that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

Will Rogers

I bet the human brain is a kludge.

Marvin Minsky

"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,

with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing."

The Metro Para pledge

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of."

Unknown

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets,

and all that don't get wet you can keep."

Will Rogers

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself

in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

Albert Einstein

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes

you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Lord Brabazon

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Somerset Maugham

"The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize."

-- Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov

"No arts, no letters, no society, and which is worst of all,

continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. "

Thomas Hobbes. 1588-1679.

John Bartlett, comp. (1820�1905). Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. 1901.

"As a happy consequence, it changes about as fast as the rules of chess."

Inre: Barnstable Village, MA

Kurt Vonnegut

"...I mean that sort of thing was happening all the time. Someone would light off

fire-crackers in the hallway and you'd think that some one of the others got shot...

I remember one time ... we were going to San Fransisco and Brian said 'Oh yeah and were going to have a ticker-tape parade'.

And that was one time when I said 'I'm not going, I'm not going to have a ticker-tape parade. I mean you can imagine how

mad it is in America, I mean it seemed like only a year before they shot Kennedy'."

George Harrison

The Beatles Anthology

"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."

Sophocles. 496-406 B. C.

Hipponous. Frag. 280

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"I have dined with Kings -- I've been offered wings,

But I've never been too impressed."

Bob Dylan

'Is Your Love in Vain'

Street Legal

"In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile."

Charles Dickens. 1812-1870.

Christmas Carol. Stave 2.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it."

Charles Lamb. 1775-1834.

Amicus Redivivus.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrument;

could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious."

Plutarch. 46 (?)-120 (?) A. D. (From Dryden's translation of Plutarch's Lives, corrected and revised by A. H. Clough.)

Life of Themistocles.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Death rides on every passing breeze,

He lurks in every flower."

Reginald Heber. 1783-1826.

At a Funeral. No. i.

"Oft has it been my lot to mark

A proud, conceited, talking spark."

James Merrick. 1720-1769.

The Chameleon.

"I want to be obsure and oblique;

Inscrutable and vague - so hard to pin down,

I want to leave open mouths when I speak,

Want people to cry when I put them down"

Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane -- Rough Mix

"Sometimes you wonder,

I mean really wonder.

I now we make our own reality and we always have a choice,

but how much is pre-ordaned?"

John Lennon

December 8th is the anniversery of the assination of John Lennon, Requiscat in Pace John.

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. �Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd."

Hamlet ,Act III, Scene I

William Shakeapeare

"The hunter and the deer a shade."

The Indian Burying-Ground

Philip Freneau. 1752-1832.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed

"Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friend."

Lennon / McCartney

Past Masters Volume 2

"My mind to me a kingdom is;

Such present joys therein I find,

That it excels all other bliss

That earth affords or grows by kind:

Though much I want which most would have,

Yet still my mind forbids to crave."

Edward Dyer. Circa 1540-1607.

MS. Rawl. 85, p. 17. 1

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;

I pray for no man but myself;

Grant I may never prove so fond,

To trust man on his oath or bond."

William Shakespeare.

Timon of Athens. (From the text of Clark and Wright.) Act i. Sc. 2.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"To him who in the love of Nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks

A various language."

William Cullen Bryant. 1794-1878.

Thanatopsis.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790.

Letter to M. Leroy, 1789.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"My life is one demd horrid grind."

Charles Dickens. 1812-1870.

Nicholas Nickleby

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"All your better deeds

Shall be in water writ, but this in marble."

Beaumont and Fletcher. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.)

Philaster. Act v. Sc. 3.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure."

George Herbert. 1593-1632.

Jacula Prudentum.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,

As sages in all times assert;

The happy man 's without a shirt."

John Heywood. 1 Circa 1565

Be Merry Friends.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"A baby was sleeping,

Its mother was weeping. "

Samuel Lover. 1797-1868.

The Angel's Whisper.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Fate sits on these dark battlements and frowns,

And as the portal opens to receive me,

A voice in hollow murmurs through the courts

Tells of a nameless deed.

Ann Radcliffe. 1764-1823

These lines form the motto to Mrs. Radcliffe's novel, "The Mysteries of Udolpho,"

and are presumably of her own composition.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

The night has a thousand eyes,

And the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies

With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one;

Yet the light of a whole life dies

When love is done.

Francis W. Bourdillon. 1852- ----.

Light.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

Taught by that Power that pities me,

I learn to pity them.

Oliver Goldsmith. 1728-1774.

The Hermit. Chap. viii. Stanza 6.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands,

And many friends I 've met;

Not one fair scene or kindly smile

Can this fond heart forget.

Thomas Haynes Bayly. 1797-1839.

Oh, steer my Bark to Erin's Isle.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,

That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.

Alexander the Great.

Act i. Sc. 3.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

The scene was more beautiful far to the eye

Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.

Paul Moon James. 1780-1854.

The Beacon.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

If all the world and love were young,

And truth in every shepherd's tongue,

These pretty pleasures might me move

To live with thee, and be thy love.

The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd.

Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552-1618.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"It is most true, stylus virum arguit,--our style bewrays us."

Robert Burton. 1576-1640.

Democritus to the Reader.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light."

Sydney Smith. 1769-1845.

On American Debts.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

The Lord descended from above

And bow'd the heavens high;

And underneath his feet he cast

The darkness of the sky.

On cherubs and on cherubims

Full royally he rode;

And on the wings of all the winds

Came flying all abroad.

A Metrical Version of Psalm civ.

Thomas Sternhold. Circa 1549.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,

A hero perish or a sparrow fall,

Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,

And now a bubble burst, and now a world."

Alexander Pope. 1688-1744.

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 87.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Who never ate his bread in sorrow,

Who never spent the darksome hours

Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--

He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."

Goethe. 1749-1832.

Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Barkis is willin'."

Charles Dickens. 1812-1870.

David Copperfield. Chap. v."

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl ..."

Lord Paul MaCartney

Congratulations Paul Lord MaCartney

Abbey Road

"The accident of an accident."

Lord Thurlow. 1732-1806.

Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Butler's Reminiscences, vol. i. p. 142.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"To write a verse or two is all the praise

That I can raise."

George Herbert. 1593-1632.

Praise.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer."

John Kepler (1571-1630).

Martyrs of Science (Brewster). P. 197.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme."

John Milton. 1608-1674.

Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 16

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms."

Richard Bentley. 1662-1742.

Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Where Young must torture his invention

To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. "

Jonathan Swift. 1667-1745.

Poetry, a Rhapsody.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."

JOHN BARTLETT

Introduction to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Who dares this pair of boots displace,

Must meet Bombastes face to face."

William B. Rhodes. Circa 1790

Bombastes Furioso. Act i. Sc. 4.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"What rage for fame attends both great and small!

Better be damned than mentioned not at all."

John Wolcot. 1738-1819.

To the Royal Academicians

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"But when the sun in all his state

Illumed the eastern skies,

She passed through Glory's morning-gate,

And walked in Paradise."

James Aldrich. 1810-1856.

A Death-Bed.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Every tub must stand upon its bottom."

Charles Macklin. 1690-1797.

The Man of the World. Act i. Sc. 2.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"If solid happiness we prize,

Within our breast this jewel lies,

And they are fools who roam.

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut, our home."

Nathaniel Cotton. 1707-1788.

The Fireside. Stanza 3.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"What shall I do to be forever known,

And make the age to come my own?"

Abraham Cowley. 1618-1667

The Motto.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Plough deep while sluggards sleep."

Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790.

Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Death hath a thousand doors to let out life."

Philip Massinger. 1584-1640.

A New Way to pay Old Debts. Act v. Sc. 1.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"A weapon that comes down as still

As snowflakes fall upon the sod;

But executes a freeman's will,

As lightning does the will of God;

And from its force nor doors nor locks

Can shield you,--'t is the ballot-box."

John Pierpont. 1785-1866.

A Word from a Petitioner.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Loud roared the dreadful thunder, The rain a deluge showers."

Andrew Cherry. 1762-1812.

The Bay of Biscay.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"The noblest mind the best contentment has."

Edmund Spenser. 1553-1599.

Faerie Queene. Introduction. St. 35.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Hope! thou nurse of young desire."

Isaac Bickerstaff. 1735-1787.

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe."

Alphonso the Wise. 1221-1284.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"A glass is good, and a lass is good,

And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;

The world is good, and the people are good,

And we 're all good fellows together."

John O'Keefe (1747-1833)

Sprigs of Laurel. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain,

Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain;

Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew,

The big drops mingling with the milk he drew

Gave the sad presage of his future years,--

The child of misery, baptized in tears."

John Langhorne. 1735-1779.

The Country Justice. Part i.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,

Full and fair ones,--come and buy!

If so be you ask me where

They do grow, I answer, there,

Where my Julia's lips do smile,--

There 's the land, or cherry-isle."

Robert Herrick. 1591-1674.

Cherry Ripe.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"A fiery soul, which, working out its way,

Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,

And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay. 2

A daring pilot in extremity;

Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high

He sought the storms."

John Dryden. 1631-1701.

Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 156.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Love in a hut, with water and a crust,

Is--Love, forgive us!--cinders, ashes, dust."

John Keats. 1795-1821.

Lamia. Part ii.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

The pen wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing

Made of a quill from an angel's wing.

Henry Constable: Sonnet.

William Wordsworth. 1770-1850.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"I cannot eat but little meat,

My stomach is not good;

But sure I think that I can drink

With him that wears a hood."

(Gammer Gurton's Needle. Act ii. 1)

Bishop Still (John). 1543-1607.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;

If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.

But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,

Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice."

(Zara. Epilogue.)

Aaron Hill. 1685-1750.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear."

(Humility.)

John Selden. 1584-1654.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. ."

(Measure for Measure. (From the text of Clark and Wright.))

William Shakespeare.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary."

(Chap. xviii. Section 472.)

Sir William Blackstone. 1723-1780.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God,

Than from theyr children to spare the rod."

(Magnyfycence. Line 1954.)

John Skelton. Circa 1460-1529.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

"The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell"

(Resolution adopted by the Antislavery Society, Jan. 27, 1843.)

William Lloyd Garrison. 1804-1879.

Local Resources

"Poets that lasting marble seek

Must come in Latin or in Greek."

(Of English Verse.)

Edmund Waller. 1605-1687.

Local Resources

"For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium."

Sir Edward Coke. 1549-1634.

Local Resources

"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on

the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,

whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

Isaac Newton. 1642-1727.

Local Resources

"Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong."

Stephen Decatur (1779-1820)

(Toast given at Norfolk, April, 1816.)

Local Resources

"The kings of modern thought are dumb."

Matthew Arnold. 1822-1888.

(Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse.)

Local Resources

"It is only the dead who do not return."

Bertrand Bar�re. 1755-1841.

(Speech, 1794.)

Local Resources

"To make a bank was a great plot of state;

Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate."

Andrew Marvell. 1620-1678.

(The Character of Holland.)

Local Resources

"And gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche."

Geoffrey Chaucer. 1328-1400.

(From the text of Tyrwhitt.)

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 29, 1999

"No man e'er felt the halter draw,

With good opinion of the law. ."

John Trumbull. 1750-1831.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 28, 1999

"Here are sands, ignoble things,

Dropt from the ruined sides of kings."

On the Tombs of Westminster Abbey.

Francis Beaumont. 1586-1616.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 27, 1999

"It is only the dead who do not return."

Speech, 1794.

Bertrand Bar�re. 1755-1841.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 26, 1999

"Our Federal Union: it must be preserved."

Andrew Jackson. 1767-1845.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 25, 1999

"God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat."

Thomas Tusser. Circa 1515-1580.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 24, 1999

"Except wind stands as never it stood,

It is an ill wind turns none to good."

A Description of the Properties of Wind

Thomas Tusser. Circa 1515-1580.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 23, 1999

"Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee."

George Chapman. 1557-1634

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 22, 1999

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."

(Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790.}

George Washington. 1732-1799

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 21, 1999

"A little rule, a little sway,

A sunbeam in a winter's day,

Is all the proud and mighty have

Between the cradle and the grave."

John Dyer. 1700-1758.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 20, 1999

"Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;

I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. "

Sir Walter Raleigh. 1552-1618.

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 19, 1999

"Party honesty is party expediency."

(Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 19, 1889.)

Grover Cleveland

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 18, 1999

"They come to see; they come that they themselves may be seen."

Ovid. (43 B. C.-18 A. D.)

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 17, 1999

"Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? "

Mrs. Barbauld. (1743-1825)

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 16, 1999

"Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;

I pray for no man but myself;

Grant I may never prove so fond,

To trust man on his oath or bond."

William Shakespeare. (Timon of Athens)

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 15, 1999

"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."

George Chapman. 1557-1634

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 14, 1999

For words are wise men's counters,--they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools."

Thomas Hobbes

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 12 - 13, 1999

"Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,

With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;

With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,

And this dog smarts for what that dog has done."

Henry Fielding

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 11, 1999

"That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery."

Richard Hooker

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 10, 1999

"Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused."

Rev. Sydney Smith

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 9, 1999

"Dropping the pilot."

Sir John Tenniel (Refering to the departure from office of Bismark).

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 8, 1999

"...has told enough whitelies to ice a cake."

Margot Asquith

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 7, 1999

"We finally found out why the Governor put on a hundred pounds since he was in office,

it turns out when he was barely four years old his Mother and Grandmother once fought over a piece of fried chicken."

Imus

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 6, 1999

"I got an E-mail this morning that
said it all. The student writes,

Dear God: Why didn't you stop the
shootings at Columbine?

And God writes,

Dear student: I would have,
but I wasn't allowed in school."

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 5, 1999

"How odd

Of God

To choose

The Jews."

William Norman Ewer

"But not so odd

As those who choose

a Jewish God,

But spurn the Jews."

Cecil Browne in reply to Ewer

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 4, 1999

"Unearned increment."

Mill

Local Resources

Daily Quote for August 3, 1999

"We like to lie in bed and watch old movies, you know, those little individual video machines you can hold on your lap."

Hillary Clinton in Talk Magazine interview.

In the News

Daily Quote for August 2, 1999

"Had he but the gift of humility, he would be the most extraordiary man in Europe."

Stillingfield (In Re Chaplin Richard Bently)

Local resources

Daily Quote for August 1, 1999

"Cast a cold eye on life on death. Horseman, pass by!"

Yeats

Local resources

Daily Quote for July 31, 1999

"And gentle dullness ever loves a joke."

Pope

Local resources

Daily Quote for July 22 - 30, 1999 VACATION

"Something nasty in the woodshed."

Stella Gibbons

Local resources

Daily Quote for July 21, 1999

"So that's what hay looks like!"

Queen Mary

Daily Quote for July 20, 1999

"Rattle his bones over the stones, He's only a pauper and, whom nobody owns!"

Thomas Noel

Daily Quote for July 19, 1999

GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY

"The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy.
His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful.
Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our
good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose.
It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed
in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do
us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure
settles its cloud upon our heads.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never
deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him
in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the
wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss
the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in an encounter with the
roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other
friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in
his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful
dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight
against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and
his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the
graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert
watchfulness, faithful and true even in death."

The dogged oratory of George Graham Vest, a 19th-century Senator, ranks with that of Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and, maybe, God. (NY TIMES, not my opinion....)

"Lord, what fools thes mortals be!."

Shakspeare

Daily Quote for July 16 - 17, 1999

"You can't step twice into the same river."

Heraclitus

Daily Quote for July 15, 1999

"The consttution does not provide for first and second class citizens."

Wilkie

Daily Quote for July 14, 1999

"A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic."

Lowell

Daily Quote for July 13, 1999

"I, a stranger and afriad, in a world I never made."

Housman

Daily Quote for July 12, 1999

"Storm and Stress."

Kaufmann

Daily Quote for July 11, 1999

"Airy, fairy Lillian."

Tennyson

Daily Quote for July 10, 1999

"Even Butchers weep."

John Gay

Daily Quote for July 9, 1999

"Hatred by fools and fools to hate,

be that my motto and my fate."

Rev Sydney Smith

Daily Quote for July 8, 1999

"Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."

Rev Sydney Smith

Daily Quote for July 7, 1999

"Ars Longa, Vita Brevis."

"The life is short, the craft (of livng) so long to learn."

Hippocrates

Daily Quote for July 5 -6, 1999

"The first of earthly blessings, independence."

Virgil

Daily Quote for July 4, 1999

"Everyman is dragged on by his favorite pleasure."

Virgil

Daily Quote for July 3, 1999

"I am about to take my final voyae, a great leap in the dark."

Hobbes last words

Daily Quote for July 2, 1999

"A good honest and painful Sermon."

Pepys

Daily Quote for July 1, 1999

"Good prose is like a window pane."

Orwell

Daily Quote for June 25 - 30, 1999

"A God all mercy is a God unjust."

Young

Daily Quote for June 24, 1999

"Shall we sell our birthight for a mess of potash."

Artemus Ward

Daily Quote for June 23, 1999

"Come not between a dragon and his warmth."

King Lear

Daily Quote for June 23, 1999

"If any would not work, niether should he eat."

Thessalonias

Daily Quote for June 22, 1999

"Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so."

Hugo Meynell

Daily Quote for June 21, 1999

Winged words."

Homer

Daily Quote for June 20, 1999

"How long most people would look at a good book beore the would give a price of a turbot for it!"

Ruskin

Daily Quote for June 19, 1999

"Which of us ... is to do the hard and dirty work-and for what pay? Who is to do the pleasent and clean work, and for what pay?"

Ruskin

Daily Quote for June 17 - 18, 1999

"It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for it welfare."

Blackstone

Daily Quote for June 17, 1999

"Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?"

Blackstone

Daily Quote for June 16, 1999

"The King never dies."

Blackstone

Daily Quote for June 14 - 15, 1999

"A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead."

Pope

Daily Quote for June 13, 1999

"We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."

Cosimio De Medici

Daily Quote for June 12, 1999

"When we build, let us think that we build for ever."

Ruskin

Daily Quote for June 11, 1999

"Sleep is sweet to the labouring man."

Bunyon

Daily Quote for June 10, 1999

"It is better to be a fool than to be dead."

Stevenson

Daily Quote for June 9, 1999

"As creeping Ivy clings to wood or stone,

And covers the ruins which it grows upon."

Cowper

Daily Quote for June 8, 1999

"After the first death, there is no other."

Dylan Thomas

Daily Quote for June 7, 1999

Check out Project star-shine the new disco ball satellite!

"...of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night."

Stevenson

Daily Quote for June 3-6, 1999

"He was wont to say had he read as much as other men he would have known more than other men."

Hobbes

Daily Quote for June 2, 1999

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

Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote for June 2, 1999

"Tis not hard, I think, for men so old as we to keep the peace."

Shakespeare

Daily Quote for June 2, 1999

"These are the days of lasers in the jungle, lasers in the jungle somwhere."

Paul Simon

Daily Quote for June 1, 1999

"Don't sweat the small stuff."

Anonymous

Daily Quote for May 31, 1999

"The man that makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Phelps

Daily Quote for May 30, 1999

Requiscat In Pace
Casiesh Casiegh's Winston Churchill

aka

Winston

The best dog to ever draw a breath, I'll miss you bud.

"There is sorrow enough in the natural way,

From Men and Women to fill our day,

But when we are certian of sorrow in store,

Why do we always arrange for more,

Brothers and Sisters I Bid you beware.

Of giving your heart to a dog to tear."

Kipling

Daily Quote for May 29, 1999

"Bid them wash their faces and keep their teeth clean."

Shakespeare

Daily Quote for May 27 - 28, 1999

"Parting is such sweet sorrow"

The Bard

Daily Quote for May 25, 1999

"Now I percieve the devil understands Welsh"

Anonymous

Daily Quote for May 25, 1999

"Tolo esta en el estado de la menta"

"Everthing is a state of mind."

Jen Sweeny

Daily Quote for May 24, 1999

"It is a reproach to religion and government to suffer so much poverty and excess."

Penn

Daily Quote for May 23, 1999

"Composed that monstrous animal a husband and wife.

Fielding

Daily Quote for May 21, 1999

"He who meanly admires mean things is a snob."

Thackery

Daily Quote for May 19 - 20, 1999

"A wit with dunces and a dunce with wits."

Pope

Daily Quote for May 18, 1999

"I have a trick worth two of that."

Shakespeare

Daily Quote for May 16 - 17, 1999

"Animals are people too."

My Aunt Marie

Daily Quote for May 15, 1999

"The simpler the solution is, the more probable that it is right."

Egon Arbis

Daily Quote for May 12 - 14, 1999

"Live long and prosper."

You Know

Daily Quote for May 12, 1999

"Trust but verify."

Folk Wisdom

Daily Quote for May 11, 1999

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

John Lennon

Daily Quote for May 9-10, 1999

"Ye blind guides which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel."

Jesus Christ

Daily Quote for May 8, 1999

"A dog will only bite after it has already decided to forfeit it's life."

The book of Lores

Daily Quote for May 7, 1999

"I got to admit it's getting better."

Paul MaCartney

"It couldn't get much worse."

John Lennon

Daily Quote for May 6, 1999

"There is always rom at the top."

Daniel Webster

Daily Quote for May 3-5, 1999

"A woman is a best a contradiction still."

Pope

Daily Quote for May 1-2, 1999

"There will be time enough for sleep in the grave."

Poor Richard

Daily Quote for May 1-2, 1999

"Everyone lives by selling something."

Robert Louis Stevenson

Daily Quote for April 30, 1999

"What hangs people . . . is the unfortunante circumstance of guilt"

Robert Louis Stevenson

Daily Quote for April 29, 1999

"The judge is badly built and he walks on stilts, watch out he don't fall on you"

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for April 28, 1999

"Never tease a weasle."

Jean Conder Soule

Daily Quote for April 27, 1999

"The taking of a bribe or gratuity, should be punished with as severe a Penaltie as the defrauding of the State."

Our forefather William Penn speaks to Al Gore and Bill and Hill and the congress and the people...

Daily Quote for April 25 - 26, 1999

"O tempora!, O Mores!"

"O the times!, O the customs!"

Unatributted

Daily Quote for April 24, 1999

"If the election were held today 80% of Americans would be suprised."

Phil Hartman

Daily Quote for April 23, 1999

"How can you tell the dancer from the dance?."

Yeats

Daily Quote for April 22, 1999

"You will start out standing proud to steal her anything she please

But you wind up peeking through a key hole down upon your knees."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for April 19-21, 1999

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes"

Isreal Putnam

Daily Quote for April 18, 1999

"I've been around too long to care what anyone says, I'm hungry and I'm doing lunch with Camren Diaz..."

Beach Boy Beethoven Brian Wilson in 96 part Harmony on the Imagination 1999 release.

Daily Quote for April 17, 1999

"Was it for this the clay grew tall?

-O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth's sleep at all?"

Wilferd Owen

Daily Quote for April 17, 1999

"Well Mr. Baldwin! this is a pretty kettle of fish!"

Queen Mary

Daily Quote for April 16, 1999

"She left with the man in the long black coat..."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for April 15, 1999

"Since twelve honest men have decided the cause,

And were judges of facts, 'tho not judges of laws."

William Pulteney, Earl of Bath

Daily Quote for April 14, 1999

"I'll bet Mrs. Clinton is real happy about that..."

George Stephanopolous on Clinto being held in contempt and therefore libel for Paula Corbin-Jones' legal bills

Daily Quote for April 13, 1999

"Alone in the world with a little CatDog...."

CatDog theme

Daily Quote for April 12, 1999

"Nobody told me there'd be days like these; strange days indeed."

John Lennon

Daily Quote for April 11, 1999

"You can't win, you can't lose, and you can't break even."

Egon Arbis

Daily Quote for April 10, 1999

"There is nothing more satisfying then to be able to prove that your accusers are lying by their own testimoniy."

Egon Arbis

Daily Quote for April 9, 1999

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him whistle and dance for nickels."

Egon Arbis

Daily Quote for April 8, 1999

"You can't fight Town Hall but being irrascable is pleasure enough."

Egon Arbis

Daily Quote for April 7, 1999

"Broke some hearts, Kicked some ass."

Jim Calhoun Uconn Coach 1999 National Champions.

Daily Quote for March 28 - April 6, 1999

"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come."

Philander Chase Johnson

Daily Quote for March 27, 1999

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, when a man bites a dog that is news."

John B Bogart

Daily Quote for March 27, 1999

"Give me liberty, or give me death."

Daily Quote for March 23-24, 1999

Patrick Henry

"I miss the way I used to call the shots around here."

Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson sings this in 96 part self harmony on the 1999 release _Imagination_

Daily Quote for March 22, 1999

"The heart wants what the heart wants."

Woody Allen

Daily Quote for March 21, 1999

"It's just your imagination running wild."

Daily Quote for March 20, 1999

Brian Wilson

"Wild to be wreckage forever."

Daily Quote for March 19, 1999

James Dickey

"One thing I can tell you is you got to be free."

Daily Quote for March 18, 1999

John Lennon

"The only emperor is the emporor of ice-cream."

Daily Quote for March 15 - 17, 1999

Wallace Stevens

"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars."

Daily Quote for March 14, 1999

Oscar Wilde

"Men are generally more careful of the breed of their dogs and horses than their children."

Daily Quote for March 13, 1999

William Penn

"Imagine all the people living for today."

Daily Quote for March 12, 1999

John Lennon

"Make thy way plain before my face."

Daily Quote for March 11, 1999

The Bible

"Money can buy anything but the wag of a dog's tail."

Daily Quote for March 10, 1999

anonymous

"Butt butt e o."

Daily Quote for March 8 - 9, 1999

Chaz age 2

"Nature admits no lie."

Daily Quote for March 7, 1999

Carlyle

"As the french say there are three sexs, men, women, and clergymen"

Daily Quote for March 3 - 6, 1999

Smith

"Let the wild rumpus begin!"

Daily Quote for March 2, 1999

Where the Wild Tings Are - Maurice Sendak

"A chreubs face, a reptile all the rest."

Daily Quote for March 1, 1999

Alexander Pope

"I am driven into a desperate straigh and can not steer a middle course."

Daily Quote for February 28, 1999

Phillip Massinger

"In hoc signo vinces."

"By this sign we shall conquer."

Daily Quote for February 27, 1999

Latin Proverb

"Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all that bad."

Leo C. Rosten (said of W. C. Fields and often attributed to him erroneously)

Daily Quote for February 26, 1999

local resources

"This will be the most moral Whitehouse in History"

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Daily Quote for February 25, 1999

local resources

"Civility costs nothing and buys everything."

Lady Mary Wortly Monatagu

local resources

"I've got to admit it's getting better.... it couldn't get much worse..."

John Lennon/Paul MaCartney or rather Paul MaCartney John Lennon in this case.

Daily Quote for February 24, 1999

local resources

"The battle outside ragin';

will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls,

for the times they are a changin'."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for February 23, 1999

local resources

"God be with me, with your aide I can not fail, without it I can not succeed."

Abraham Lincoln

Daily Quote for February 22, 1999

local resources

"Jeeeze these wings are hot."

Sophie Mae Age 5

Daily Quote for February 19 - 21, 1999

local resources

"He did not see any good reason why the devil had any good tunes."

Revd. Rowland Hill

local resources

"If there were two birds sitting on a fence he would bet you which one was going to fly first."

Twain

Daily Quote for February 18, 1999

local resources

"The portrait of a blinking idiot."

Shakespere

Daily Quote for February 17, 1999

local resources

"She was a women who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table."

Henry James

Daily Quote for February 16, 1999

local resources

"The balck and the merciless things that are beyond the great possessions."

Thomas Kempis

Daily Quote for February 12-15, 1999

local resources

"The balck and the merciless things that are beyond the great possessions."

Thomas Kempis

Daily Quote for February 11, 1999

local resources

"Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said."

Thomas Kempis

Daily Quote for February 10, 1999

local resources

"Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said."

Thomas Kempis

Daily Quote for February 9, 1999

local resources

"Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said."

Daily Quote for February 7 -8, 1999

local resources

"Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, then work, work,work, till we die."

C. S. Lewis

Daily Quote for February 6, 1999

local resources

"Then up he rose, and donn'd his clothes."

Shakspeare

Daily Quote for February 3-5, 1999

local resources

"I will make a star-chamber matter of it."

Shakspeare

or if you wanted to.... a Starr-Chamber matter:)

Daily Quote for February 1-2, 1999

local resources

"O Liberty! O Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name."

MMe Roland

Daily Quote for January 31, 1999

local resources

"All quiet along the Potomac."

McClellen

Daily Quote for January 30, 1999

local resources

"Architecture in general is frozen music."

Fredrich Von Schelling

Daily Quote for January 26..29, 1999

local resources

"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."

Milton

Daily Quote for January 25, 1999

local resources

"Cheered with the greatful smell of ocean smiles."

Milton

Daily Quote for January 23 - 24, 1999

"Out of my lean andlow ability I'll lend you something."

Shakespeare

Daily Quote for January 23, 1999

local resources

"You start of standing proud to steal her anything she please, but you wil wind up lookig through a keyhole down upon your knees"

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for January 21-22, 1999

local resources

"Smooth walking, slow talking, straight smoking, fast talking, smooth walking, slow talking, straight smoking, fast talking..."

Pete Townshend and Ronny Lane - _MISUNDERSTOOD_

Daily Quote for January 20, 1999

USA Motto

"e pluribus unum."

"out of many, one."

Daily Quote for January 19, 1999

USA Motto

"There are secrets in all families."

Farquhar

Daily Quote for January 18, 1999

local resources

"We have raised a dust and then we complian we cannot see."

Bishop Blakely

Daily Quote for January 17, 1999

local resources

"Suffer the children to come to me."

Christ

Daily Quote for January 11-16, 1999

local resources

"The dust of exploded beliefs may make a fine sunset."

Geoffrey Madan

Daily Quote for January 9-10, 1999

local resources

"They must be with us or we die."

Keats

Daily Quote for January 8, 1999

local resources

"Get Professor Miller on the phone right now!"

Radio DJ Don Imus while angry with Dr. Aurthur Miller's Wife

Daily Quote for January 7, 1999

local resources

"If your not going to get the f&%$ out of my police station, I'm going to throw you the f%$# out!."

Luietenent Spinner, Willimantic Police Department while throwing me out of the Willimantic, Connecticut Police Department for trying to file a complaint of dereliction of dut against one of his patrolmen.

Daily Quote for January 6, 1999

local resources

"To live outside the law you must be honest."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for December 28, 1998 - January 5, 1999

local resources

"I'll see you on the dark side of the moon."

Pink Floyd

Daily Quote for December 28, 1998

local resources

"Either he's dead or his mouth has stopped."

Groucho Marx

Daily Quote for December 27, 1998

"Money will buy anything but the wag of a dog's tail."

anonymous

Daily Quote for December 26, 1998

local resources

"God Bless Us, Everyone."

Dickens through Tiny Tim

Daily Quote for December 25, 1998

local resources

"Born a king on Bethlehelms plain, Home I come to crown Him again,

King foreverver ceasing never over us all to reign."

Daily Quote for December 24, 1998

traditional

"You're a man of mountains, you can walk on the sea, Michaelangelo indeed, could have carved out your features."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for December 23, 1998

local resources

"Bah Humbug!"

Ebeneezer Scrooge

Daily Quote for December 21, 1998

local resources

"Congress is a slightly more dignified form of street fighting."

Anonymous

Daily Quote for December 20, 1998

local resources

"Last Time I looked Mom was not another word for giant napkin."

Anonymous

Daily Quote for December 19, 1998

local resources

"How can you tell the dancer from the dance?"

Yeats

Daily Quote for December 18, 1998

local resources

"It ain't over till it's over."

Yogi Berra

Daily Quote for December 17, 1998

local resources

"His heart was two sizes too small."

Dr. Seuss, Theodore Giesel, in _How the Grinch Stole Christmas_

Daily Quote for December 15, 1998

local resources

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country"

Patrick Henry

Daily Quote for December 14, 1998

local resources

"How does it feel to be on your own, like a complete unknown, just like a rolling stone?"

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for December 13, 1998

local resources

"So that's what hay looks like.

Queen Mary

Daily Quote for December 12, 1998

local resources

"You can't always get what you want, but if you try some time, you just might find,
you can get what you need."

The Rolling Stones

Daily Quote for December 11, 1998

local resources

"Teacher! Look at my cute baby!"

Anelisse Morales Head Start student, age 4, her first english sentence ever!

Daily Quote for December 10, 1998

local resources

"You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, Sir!."

Dr. Routh

Daily Quote for November 14, - December 9, 1998

local resources

"I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read Shakespeare to his depths."

Keats

Daily Quote for November 14

"Generousity is the root of all happiness."

Aaron Ezis

Daily Quote for November 13, 1998

He seemed the incarnate 'Well, I told you so!'"

Longfellow

Daily Quote for November 12, 1998

"He looks so truthful -- Is this how he feels?

Trying to peel the moon and expose it;

With his business-like anger and his bloodhounds that kneel;

If he needs a third eye, he just grows it,

He just needs you to talk -- or hand him his chalk -- or to pick it up after he throws it."

Dylan

Daily Quote for November 11, 1998

local resources

"I can't drink Guiness from a thick mug, I only like it out of a thin glass."

Harold Pinter

Daily Quote for November 10, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"I am rich beyond the dreams of averice."

Edward Moore

Daily Quote for November 9, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Be concerned only with they idea God has of you."

Miguel De Unamuno

Daily Quote for November 8, 1998

Local Resources

"I don't bite my thumb at you Sir, but I bite my thumb."

Shakespear

Daily Quote for November 7, 1998

Local Resources

"One man is as good as another until he has written a book."

Benjamin Jowet

Daily Quote for November 6, 1998

Local Resources

"Don't be blinded by the pursuit of food, clothing and possessions. Stop worrying about these things. Only those who lack spirit and soul pursue them. You have a Father who knows what you need. Set your heart on God and these other things will be given to you."

Jesus

Daily Quote for November 5, 1998

The "Q" gospel

"One man shall have one vote."

John Cartwright

Daily Quote for November 4, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have felt at the haed of a school."

Shelly

Daily Quote for November 3, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"An old, mad, blind, despised, and lying king."

Shelly

Daily Quote for November 2, 1998

local resources

"I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee."

Congrieve

Daily Quote for November 1, 1998

local resources

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world."

Willaim Ross Wallace

Daily Quote for October 30, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"From fixtures and forces and friends your sorrow does stem,

That hype you, and type you into making you feel,

That you gotta be just like them."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for October 29, 1998

local resources

"Believe a woman or an epitath, or any other thing that's false."

Byron

Daily Quote for October 28, 1998

local resources

"A sheep in sheep's clothing."

Edmund Gosse

Daily Quote for October 27, 1998

local resources

"Hail divinest Melancholy."

Milton

Daily Quote for October 26, 1998

local resources

"This English woman is so refined

She has no bosom and no behind."

Stevie Smith

Daily Quote for October 25, 1998

local resources

"Men, you are all marksmen, -- don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

Israel Putnam at Bunker Hill

Daily Quote for October 24, 1998

local resources

"Our country, right or wrong! When right, to be kept right; when wrong to be put right!"

Carl Shurz

Daily Quote for October 23, 1998

local resources

"Let me die in my footsteps before I go down under the ground."

Bob Dylan on going into a bomb shelter

Daily Quote for October 22, 1998

local resources

"Si libenter crucem portas portabit te."

"If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you."

Thomas Kempis

Daily Quote for October 21, 1998

local resources

"Dictum sapienti sat est."

"What's been said is enough for anyone with sense."

Platus

Daily Quote for October 20, 1998

local resources

"The fever call'd 'living'

Is conquer'd at last. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Daily Quote for October 19, 1998

local resources

"Nothing in Nature contradicts Nature, only our understanding of Nature."

Anonymous

Daily Quote for October 18, 1998

local resources

"I will drive a coach and six through the Act of Settlement."

Sir Stephen Rice

Daily Quote for October 17, 1998

local resources

"Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves."

William Lowndes

Daily Quote for October 16, 1998

local resources

"O sacred hunger of ambitious minds."

Edmund Spenser

Daily Quote for October 15, 1998

local resources

"Avoid running at all times and don't look back -- something might be gaining on you."

Satchel Paige

Daily Quote for October 14, 1998

local resources

"Too long of a sacrfice can make a stone of the heart."

William Butler Yeats

Daily Quote for October 13, 1998

local resources

"I. Why?"

Alexander Pope on Existence

Daily Quote for October 12, 1998

local resources

"I never could learn to drink that blood, and to call it wine."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for October 11, 1998

local resources

"All we are saying is give peace a chance."

John Lennon

Daily Quote for October 10, 1998

local resources

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for October 9, 1998

local resources

"God has no real style, he invented the elephant, the girrafe, the cat,
and He just keeps on trying."

Pablo Picasso

Daily Quote for October 8, 1998

local resources

"Nothing is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

Winston Churchill

Daily Quote for October 7, 1998

local resources

"Assassins!."

Tuscanini to his orchestra

Daily Quote for October 6, 1998

local resources

"Every person is a fool for 5 minutes a day, the trick is to not
exceed the limit."

Gerler

Daily Quote for October 5, 1998

local resources

"With skill she vibrates her most eternal tongue,

For ever most devinely in the wrong."

Edward Young

Daily Quote for October 4, 1998

local resources

"We all know what the price for peace is in this house."

Thomas Reiley

Daily Quote for October 3, 1998

local resources

"A good book is the best of friends the same to-day and forever."

Martin Tupper

Daily Quote for October 2, 1998

local resources

"People are often difficult to govern if they have too much knowledge."

Lao Tzu

Daily Quote for October 1, 1998

local resources

"Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

G. B. Shaw

Daily Quote for September 30, 1998

local resources

"I try to do something for my country because I live here."

Vaclav Havel

Daily Quote for September 29, 1998

local resources

"Sucess is more a function of common sense than genius."

An Wang

Daily Quote for September 28, 1998

local resources

"I don't know which is more discouraging literature or chickens."

E. B. White

Daily Quote for September 27, 1998

local resources

"Matchsticks, water-cannons, teargas, padlocks, malatov-cocktails, and rocks; behind every curtain."

Bob Dylan

(He wasn't nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Letters for his voice).

Daily Quote for September 26, 1998

local resources

"Put out the light."

Last words of Theodore Roosevelt

Daily Quote for September 25, 1998

local resources

"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense."

Tom Clancy

Daily Quote for September 24, 1998

local resources

"For the sake of tabaccoo I would do anything but die."

Charles Lamb (He quit).

Daily Quote for September 23, 1998

local resources

"I probably wouldn't play for me, I wouldn't like my attitude."

John Thompson, Georgetown Basketball coach

Daily Quote for September 22, 1998

local resources

"Horses and poets should not be overfed."

Charles IX

Daily Quote for September 21, 1998

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggy' until you can find a big rock."

Will Rogers

Daily Quote for September 20, 1998

local resources

"I hate quotations."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Daily Quote for September 19, 1998

local resources

"I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me."

Winnie-the-Pooh - (a.k.a. A.A. Milne)

Daily Quote for September 18, 1998

local resources

"You're asking me will my love grow? I don't know. I don't know."

George - (a.k.a. George Harrison)

Daily Quote for September 17, 1998

local resources

"Politics has gotten so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat."

Will Rogers

Daily Quote for September 16, 1998

local resources

"Government is like a big baby: a big appetite at one end and no resposibility at the other."

Ronald Reagan

Daily Quote for September 15, 1998

local resources

"I don't care what people do as long as they don't do it in the streets and scare the horses."

Beatrice Campbell

Daily Quote for September 14, 1998

local resources

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assualt of thoughts on the unthinking."

John Manyard Keynes

Daily Quote for September 13, 1998

local resources

"There is no law against composing music, Wagner, therefore is perfectly legal."

newspaper review 1850

Daily Quote for September 12, 1998

local resources

"The second ammendment aint about duck huntin'!"

Who Knows? I saw it on a bumper sticker.

Daily Quote for September 11, 1998

local resources

"...keeping your shoulder to the karmic wheel."

John Lennon

Daily Quote for September 10, 1998

local resources

"I am the love that dare not speak it's name."

Lord Alfred Douglas

Daily Quote for September 9, 1998

local resources

"Be wise with speed, a fool at forty is a fool indeed."

Edward Young

Daily Quote for September 8, 1998

local resources

"You learn something new that you did not want to know everyday."

Aaron Ezis

Daily Quote for September 7, 1998

local resources

"God said you can do what you want Abe but; the next time you see me you better run."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for September 6, 1998

local resources

"Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren these things ought not to be so."

James 3:10

Daily Quote for September 5, 1998

King James Bible

"Would that we had spent one day well in this world!"

Thomas A Kempis

Daily Quote for September 4, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Stars, stars!

And all eyes else dead coals."

Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale

Daily Quote for September 3, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Go West, young man, and grow with the country."

Horace Greely

Daily Quote for September 2, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"they lard their lean works with the fat of others' work."

Robert Burton

Daily Quote for September 1, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The comfortable estate of widowhood, is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits."

John Gay

Daily Quote for August 31, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Who can refute a sneer?"

Reverend William Paley

Daily Quote for August 30, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts."

D. H. Lawrence

Daily Quote for August 29, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

David Hume

Daily Quote for August 28, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."

Richard Brinsely Sheridan

Daily Quote for August 27, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"His Christianity was muscular."

Benjamin Disraeli

Daily Quote for August 26, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can"

Owen Meredith

Daily Quote for August 25, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Dux femina facti"

"The leader of the enterprise is a woman"

Virgil

Daily Quote for August 24, 1998

Latin Words of Common English - by Edwin Lee Johnson, A.M., Ph. D.

"...day after day after day after day after day after day after day..."

Matthew Reiley

Daily Quote for August 23, 1998

Local resources

"life would be tolerable but for its own amusements."

Sir George Cornewall Lewis

Daily Quote for August 22, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"life would be tolerable but for its own amusements."

Sir George Cornewall Lewis

Daily Quote for August 21, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alinieum puto."

"I am a man, nothing (of the) human do I regard as foreign to me."

Daily Quote for August 20, 1998

Latin Words of Common English - by Edwin Lee Johnson, A.M., Ph. D.

When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Jesus

John 8:7

The Bible

Daily Quote for August 19, 1998

"I can not tell a lie."

attributed to George Washington

Daily Quote for August 18, 1998

local resources

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Miss Lewinsky"

William Jefferson Clinton

Daily Quote for August 17, 1998

local resources

"Nature is the language of God."

Lisa Dollinger

(The Dhali-Lahnger)

Daily Quote for August 16, 1998

local resources

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alinieum puto."

"I am a man, nothing (of the) human do I regard as foreign to me."

Daily Quote for August 16, 1998

Latin Words of Common English - by Edwin Lee Johnson, A.M., Ph. D.

"In hoc signo vincas."

"In this sign thou shalt conquer."

Motto of Constantine

Daily Quote for August 15, 1998

Latin Words of Common English - by Edwin Lee Johnson, A.M., Ph. D.

"Fortuna fortus juvat."

"Fortune aids the brave."

Daily Quote for August 14, 1998

Latin Words of Common English - by Edwin Lee Johnson, A.M., Ph. D.

"I have seen the future, and it works."

Lincoln Steffens

Daily Quote for August 13, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Progress has its drawbacks and they are great and serious."

Sir James Fitzjames Stephan

Daily Quote for August 12, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

Beatles

local resources

Daily Quote for August 11, 1998

"... it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

Shakespeare

McBeth

Daily Quote for August 10, 1998

"Power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is."

Bob Dylan

Daily Quote for August 09, 1998

local resources

"All books are divisible into two classes; the books of the hour, and the books of all time."

John Ruskin

Daily Quote for August 08, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Sir Issac Newton

Daily Quote for August 07, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better."

Richard Hooker

Daily Quote for August 06, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Omnia Mutantor."

"All things change - or - times change"

Daily Quote for August 05, 1998

Latin Words of Common English - by Edwin Lee Johnson, A.M., Ph. D.

"'Tis not the drinking to be blamed but the excess."

John Selden

Daily Quote for August 04, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Fiat justitia et ruant coeli."

"Let justis be done though the heavens fall."

William Watson

Daily Quote for August 03, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don't have to go out and enjoy it."

Logan Pearsall Smith

Daily Quote for August 02, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"In language, the ignorant have prescribed laws to the learned."

Richard Duppa

Daily Quote for August 01, 1998

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Too poor for a bribe, and to proud to importune, He had not the method for making a fortune."

Thomas Gray

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"O to be a dragon a symbol of the power of heaven."

Marianne Moore

"An amiable weakness."

Henry Fielding

"Hanging and marriage, you know, go by
Destiny."

George Farquar

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"No power so effectively robs the mind of all it's powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

Edmund Burke

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The world is made up for the most part of fools and knaves."

George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham

"Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,

A teeming mistress, but a barren bride."

Alexander Pope

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."

biblical

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

Margret Mitchell

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

Nietzsche

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside"

Alexander Pope

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Don't cheer, men; those poor devils are dying."

Rear Admiral 'Jack' Philip

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Concordia discors."

"Harmony in discord."

Horace

The Oxford

"Faith which does not doubt is dead faith."

Miguel De Unamuno

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."

Lord John Russell

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Let him who desires peace, prepare for war."

Vegetius

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"I am not arguing with you - I am telling you."

James McNiel Whistler

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

J. A. Froude

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

Joeseph Addison

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,

Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."

Alexander Pope

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"God, what a dancing spectre seems the moon"

George Meredith

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Woodman spare that tree!,

Touch not a single bough!,

In youth it sheltered me,

And I'll protect it now."

General George Pope Morris

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees."

Douglas Jerrold

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

President Thomas Jefferson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"One more such victory and we are lost."

Pyrrhus

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"To govern is to make choices."

Duc de Levis

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"In a dream you are never eighty."

Anne Sexton

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"But what is woman?- only one of natures agreeable blunders."

Mrs. Hannah Cowley

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses."

John Locke

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"As president, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."

Abraham Lincoln

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Death is Gain."

Biblical

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Abraham Lincoln

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A name made great is a name destroyed."

Hillel the Elder

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Her soft and chilly nest."

Keats

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Rifleman stalkin' the sick and the lame,

Preacherman seeks the same -- who'll get there first is uncertain."

Bob Dylan

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"Better to build schoolrooms for 'the boy' than, than cells and gibbits for 'the man ."

Eliza Cook

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Extraordinary how potent cheap music is ."

Noel Coward

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Civius Romus sum."

"I am a Roman citizen."

Cicero

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them."

Charles Lamb

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A parliament can do any thing but make a man a woman, and a woman a man."

2nd Earl of Pembroke

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Time for a little something."

A. A. Milne

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Cowardly dogs bark loudest."

John Webster

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"All kings is mostly rapscallions."

Mark Twain

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world."

Sir John Vanbrugh

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"These are but wild and whirling words, my Lord."

Shakespeare

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Familiarity begets boldness."

Shekerly Marmion

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The great open spaces where cats are cats."

Don Marquis

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowin'"

Bob Dylan

local resources

"Things fall apart, the center does not hold."

William Butler Yeats

local resources

"Ye follow wandering fires lost in the quagmires."

Tennyson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Can you see the real me?."

Pete Townshend

local resources

"One man gathers what another man spills."

Robert Hunter

local resources

"The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying."

Julius Hare

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A secret shared by two is no longer a secret."

If YOU know please tell me...

local resources

"Two of us riding nowhere spending someone's hard earned pay."

The Beatles

local resources

"The devil's most devilish when respectable."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"He knows the world and does not know himself."

Jean De La Fontaine

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"God doesn't play dice with the universe."

Albert Einstein

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"When everyone is wrong, everyone is right."

Nivelle De La Chaussee

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Television? the word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.."

C. P. Scott

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in the position of the truth."

John Locke

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Living? The servants will do that for us."

Phillippe-August Villers De L'isle-Adam

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"He speaks to me as if I were a public meeting."

Queen Victoria

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"I will be good."

Queen Victoria

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"All is for the best in the best possible of worlds."

Voltaire

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Sorrow and silence are strong, patient endurance is godlike."

Longfellow

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A little ball of feather and bone."

Thomas Hardy

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Protection is not a principle, but an expedient"

Benjamin Disreali

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The good news is that we're not cops; ... the bad news is we're 60 minutes."

Steve Kroft

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"Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter."

Shakespeare

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"This great spectacle of human happiness."

Reverend Sydney Smith

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"He is a dreamer; let us leave him: pass."

Shakespeare

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny-ha-ha?"

Ian Hayes

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"No duty that the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."

Thomas Jefferson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man."

William Hazlet

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlet

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"small is beautiful."

E. F. Shoemacher

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Something that everyone wants to have read, but nobody has read it." - A Classic

Mark Twain

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"...and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

Lennon/McCartney

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"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

Hiram Johnson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

Mark Twain

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The poorest he that is in England has a life to live as the greatest he."

Thomas Rainborowe

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Oh I am a cat that likes to gallop about doing good."

Stevie Smith

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney"

Alfred Emmanuel Smith

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"All things that are possible, have been or will be."

Dan Tredwin

Local resources

"Nation shall speak peace unto nation."

Dr. Montague John Rendall

coined as the BBC motto

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Sow a an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character, sow a character, and you reap a destiny."

Charles Reade

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket."

Joeseph Conrad

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Small habits, well pursued betimes,

May reach the dignity of crimes."

Hannah Moore

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound."

P. G. Wodehouse

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"It's 'damn you Jack -- I'm all right' with you chaps."

Sir David Bone

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"These words hereafter thy tormentor be!"

William Shakespeare

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Every man at three years old is half his height."

Leonardo De Vinci

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"I shall be but a shrimp of an author."

Thomas Gray

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom."

Lord Henry

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The most positive men are the most credulous."

Alexander Pope

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"One murder made a villain, Millions a hero."

Beilby Porteus

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"You see, but you do not observe."

Sir Aurthur Conan Doyle

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Stop all this weeping and swallow your pride,

It will not kill you; it's not poison."

Robert Zimmerman (Bob Dylan)

local resources

"What passion can not music raise and quell?"

Dryden

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"A working class hero is something to be."

John Lennon

local resources

"The heartbreak in the heart of things."

Wilferd Gibson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Altogether upon the high horse."

John Brown

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."

Edward Gibbon

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"I see no objection to stoutness in moderation."

W S Gilbert

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land"

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"O aching time,

O moments as big as years!"

Keats

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer."

Edward Young

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Some men are good for righting wrongs,-

and some for writing verses."

Fredrick Locker Lambson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because
they are not already common."

John Locke

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"We must never assume that which is incapable of proof."

Duc De Levis

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things."

Julius Hare

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The mules of politics: without pride of ancestry, or hope of prosperity."

John O'Conner Power

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"O tempora! O Mores!"

"Oh the times! Oh the customs!"

Latin Proverb

local resources

"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."

George Savile, Marquis of Halifax

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The terrorist and the policeman come to the same basket."

Joeseph Conrad

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable."

Sir John Vanbrug

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Half as sober as a Judge."

Charles Lamb

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Credula vitam spes fovet et millius cras fore semper decit."

"Credulous hope supports our life, and always says that tomorrow will be better."

Tibullus

local resources

"Rident stolidi verba Latina."

"Fools laugh at the Latin language."

Ovid

local resources

"Non omnes qui habent citharam sunt citharoedi."

"Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians."

Varro

local resources

"Qui dedit beneficium taceat; nerrit qui accepit"

"Let him who has given a fovor be silent; let him who has received it tell it."

Seneca

local resources

"We haven't the money, so we've got to think."

Lord Rutherford

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it."

Sir Hugh Walpole

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."

Alexander Solzhnitsyn

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Quam se ipse amans - sine rivali!"

"Him loving himself so much - without a rival!"

Cicero

local resources

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

John Locke

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, to be we know not what, we know not where."

John Dryden

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Old age is the most unexpected thing to happen to a man."

Lev Trotsky

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"... the banks learned that what they really wanted was to own debt in the form of
loans on which interest could be charged. A bank with nothing but money is a poor bank."

Ron Miller

Published in: Section 3 Technocracy Newsletter, March 1984, #7, April 1984, #8 and May 1984, #9

"General notions are generally wrong."

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"You've a darned long row to hoe"

James Russell Lowell

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Science is organized knowledge"

Herbert Spenser

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Your true lover of literature is never fastidious."

Robert Southey

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen."

Samuel Lover

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both lend utility to their conditions"

George Santayana

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Erit coelo fulmen, sceptrumque tyrannis"

"He snatched the lightening shaft from heaven, and the scepter from the tyrants.

Inscription on bust of Benjamin Franklin

A. -R. -J. Turgot

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Vetrutem videant intabescantque relicta"

"Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it."

Persius 34-62 a.d.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life."

Samuel Pepys

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"By night an atheist half believes a God."

Edward Young

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"The secret anniversaries of the heart."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."

Philadelphia Philly's Manager, Danny Ozark

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"Geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto

to bestow on mankind)."

Thomas Hobbes
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Alia iacta est!"

"The die is cast!"

Julius Caesar

On crossing the Rubican.
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"Nations, like men, have their infancy."

Henry St. John

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"O sancta simplicitas!"

"O Holy simplicity!"

John Huss
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Choose an author as you would choose a friend."

Dillon Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon

Essay on Translated Verse
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

Treason doth never prosper,

what's the reason?

For if it prosper,

none dare call it treason.

Sir John Harrington

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

Summum just summa injuria

The rigour of the law is (sometimes) the height of injustice.

Matthew Henry

"perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim"

"Be patient and tough, someday this pain will be useful to you"

Ovid

"O praeclarum custodem ovium lumpum!"

"An excellent protector of sheep, the wolf!"

Cicero

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"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose"

Robert Zimmerman (Bob Dylan)

"Like a Rolling Stone" _Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited_ -1965, Columbia CK 9189

"Cherons la femme"

"Let us look for the woman"

Alexandre Dumas

local resources

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"

William Butler Yeats

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"When I was a Beatle, I thought we were the best (expletive) band in the

God damned world; and believing that is what made us what we were."

John Lennon - On the phenomenal success of the Beatles

local resources.

"Trahimur onmnes laudis studio."

"We are all lead by our eagerness for praise"

Cicero

"Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history-books!"

Thomas Carlyle

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put"

Winston Churchill - on the ending of a sentence in a preposition

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition

"Amoto queramous seria ludo"

"Joking aside, let us turn to serious matters"

Horace

"There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore"

Mark Twain

Requiscat In Pace Casiesh Casiegh's Winston Churchill aka Winston The best dog to ever draw a breath, I'll miss you bud.

Requiscat In Pace
Casiesh Casiegh's Winston Churchill

aka

Winston

The best dog to ever draw a breath, I'll miss you bud.