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. Méré, 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 MooreOne 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, François
There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability. La Rochefoucauld, François
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 PopeIf 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 ã 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 Bruyère
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. Molière
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 ã 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 FéNelon
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 Börne
"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 & CriticsSimpson'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: Phædra. 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. 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. 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!
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 Barère. 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 Barère. 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
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"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
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"Politics has gotten so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat."
Will Rogers
Daily Quote for September 16, 1998
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"There is no law against composing music, Wagner, therefore is perfectly legal."
newspaper review 1850
Daily Quote for September 12, 1998
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"The second ammendment aint about duck huntin'!"
Who Knows? I saw it on a bumper sticker.
Daily Quote for September 11, 1998
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"...keeping your shoulder to the karmic wheel."
John Lennon
Daily Quote for September 10, 1998
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"I am the love that dare not speak it's name."
Lord Alfred Douglas
Daily Quote for September 9, 1998
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"Be wise with speed, a fool at forty is a fool indeed."
Edward Young
Daily Quote for September 8, 1998
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"You learn something new that you did not want to know everyday."
Aaron Ezis
Daily Quote for September 7, 1998
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"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
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"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
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"life would be tolerable but for its own amusements."
Sir George Cornewall Lewis
Daily Quote for August 22, 1998
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"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
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"I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Miss Lewinsky"
William Jefferson Clinton
Daily Quote for August 17, 1998
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"Nature is the language of God."
Lisa Dollinger
(The Dhali-Lahnger)
Daily Quote for August 16, 1998
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"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
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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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
Nietzsche
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"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
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"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
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"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
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition
"To govern is to make choices."
Duc de Levis
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"In a dream you are never eighty."
Anne Sexton
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"The great open spaces where cats are cats."
Don Marquis
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"You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowin'"
Bob Dylan
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"Things fall apart, the center does not hold."
William Butler Yeats
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"Ye follow wandering fires lost in the quagmires."
Tennyson
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition
"Can you see the real me?."
Pete Townshend
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"One man gathers what another man spills."
Robert Hunter
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"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...
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"Two of us riding nowhere spending someone's hard earned pay."
The Beatles
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"The devil's most devilish when respectable."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"He knows the world and does not know himself."
Jean De La Fontaine
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"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
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"...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
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"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
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"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
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"Nation shall speak peace unto nation."
Dr. Montague John Rendall
coined as the BBC motto
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"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
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"Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound."
P. G. Wodehouse
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"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
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"Every man at three years old is half his height."
Leonardo De Vinci
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"I shall be but a shrimp of an author."
Thomas Gray
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"Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom."
Lord Henry
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"The most positive men are the most credulous."
Alexander Pope
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"One murder made a villain, Millions a hero."
Beilby Porteus
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"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)
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"What passion can not music raise and quell?"
Dryden
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"A working class hero is something to be."
John Lennon
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"The heartbreak in the heart of things."
Wilferd Gibson
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"Altogether upon the high horse."
John Brown
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"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."
Edward Gibbon
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"I see no objection to stoutness in moderation."
W S Gilbert
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"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land"
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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"O aching time,
O moments as big as years!"
Keats
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"Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer."
Edward Young
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"Some men are good for righting wrongs,-
and some for writing verses."
Fredrick Locker Lambson
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"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
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"Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things."
Julius Hare
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"The mules of politics: without pride of ancestry, or hope of prosperity."
John O'Conner Power
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"O tempora! O Mores!"
"Oh the times! Oh the customs!"
Latin Proverb
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"The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
George Savile, Marquis of Halifax
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"The terrorist and the policeman come to the same basket."
Joeseph Conrad
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"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
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"Credula vitam spes fovet et millius cras fore semper decit."
"Credulous hope supports our life, and always says that tomorrow will be better."
Tibullus
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"Rident stolidi verba Latina."
"Fools laugh at the Latin language."
Ovid
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"Non omnes qui habent citharam sunt citharoedi."
"Not all those who own a musical instrument are musicians."
Varro
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"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
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"We haven't the money, so we've got to think."
Lord Rutherford
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"'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it."
Sir Hugh Walpole
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"The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all."
Alexander Solzhnitsyn
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"Quam se ipse amans - sine rivali!"
"Him loving himself so much - without a rival!"
Cicero
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
John Locke
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"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
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"... 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
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"Science is organized knowledge"
Herbert Spenser
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"Your true lover of literature is never fastidious."
Robert Southey
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"When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen."
Samuel Lover
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"Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both lend utility to their conditions"
George Santayana
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"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
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"Vetrutem videant intabescantque relicta"
"Let them recognize virtue and rot for having lost it."
Persius 34-62 a.d.
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"My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life."
Samuel Pepys
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"By night an atheist half believes a God."
Edward Young
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"The secret anniversaries of the heart."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"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
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"Nations, like men, have their infancy."
Henry St. John
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"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 Dumaslocal resources
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"
William Butler Yeats
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"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 Beatleslocal 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
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"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put"
Winston Churchill - on the ending of a sentence in a preposition
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"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