# Quotes

author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
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" It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."


author: Robertson Davies.
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" There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."


author: William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850).
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" Wisdom and spirit of the Universe! Thou soul is the eternity of thought! That giv'st to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion! Not in vain By day or star-light thus from by first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul, Not with the mean and vulgar works of man, But with high objects, with enduring things, With life and nature, purifying thus The elements of feeling and of thought, And sanctifying, by such discipline Both pain and fear, until we recognize A grandeur in the beatings of the heart."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
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""Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one- armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.""


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
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""All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
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""Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."


author: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
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""Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!""


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
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""Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.""


author: ?.
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""D'ya think the rain'll hurt the rhubarb?" "Not if it's in cans." "What, the rain, or the rhubarb?..."


author: Dick Cavett and Jimi Hendrix.
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""Do you consider yourself a disciplined guy? Do you get up every day and `go to work'?" "Well, yeah. I try to get up every day.""


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
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""Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.""


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
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""Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others."


author: George Carlin (1937 - 2008).
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""I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? "


author: Terry Pratchett.
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""I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are nice.""


author: the Mad Hatter's response to Alice (Lewis Carroll).
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""I've had nothing yet", Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more." "You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing.""


author: Captain Edmund Blackadder.
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""I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
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""Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?" "That's true." "Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?"  "That's true." "Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?" "That's true." "What does your doctor say about all of this?" "My doctor is dead.""


author: J.R.R. Tolkien.
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""It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door," he used to say. "You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
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""Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life. ""


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
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""Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond."


author: Austin Farrar.
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""Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
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""Management" means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . ."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
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""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.""


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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""My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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""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."


author: Gary Larson.
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""Off days" are a part of life, I guess, whether you're a cartoonist, a neurosurgeon, or an air-traffic controller."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
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""Only a novel"... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language."


author: Eeyore (A. A. Milne).
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""Pathetic," he said. "That's what it is. Pathetic." (crosses stream)  "As I thought," he said, "no better from this side.""


author: John Greenleaf Whittier.
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""The harp at Nature's advent strung has never ceased to play; the song the stars of morning sung has never died away.""


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
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""There are certainly moments," said Chad, "when you seem to me too good to be true. Yet if you are true," he added, "that seems to be all that need concern me.""


author: Stephen Crane.
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""Think as I think" said the man, "or you are abominable. You are a toad." And after I had thought on it, I said "I will then, be a toad.""


author: Richard Dawkings:.
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""We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."


author: Gregory Currie.
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""We regularly attribute our own failures to circumstance and the failures of others to bad character.""


author: Cheers.
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""Well, now, hold onta yer horses, there, Frazier. I mean, as a psychiatrist, isn't it your job to, uh, `seek and uphold the truth'?""Oh, get real, Cliff.""


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
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""What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith."


author: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898).
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""When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. "It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all.""


author: Samuel Smiles.
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""Where there is a will there is a way," is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself."


author: Richard Stubbs.
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""Whoops" is a word that should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists also have to be up in the top five."


author: W.V.O. Quine.
text:
""Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation."


author: Lord Alfred Douglas.
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"'...I am true Love, I fill the heart of boy and girl with mutual flame.' Then, sighing, said the other, 'Have thy will. I am the Love that dare not speak it's name.'"


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
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"'Billion.' Nobody even knows what it is. What does that mean. It's so much, it's like, 'What does it mean?'"


author: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898).
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"'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'"


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
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"'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
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"'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'"


author: Erasmus.
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"'If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.'"


author: Jennifer Hudson.
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"'If itâs meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down."


author: Jeph Jacques.
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"'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned."


author: J. A. Spender.
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"'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow."


author: Peter Stone.
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"'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?' 'Well, that would be a start.'"


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
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"'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety."


author: Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984).
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"'To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, 'There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.'"


author: Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832).
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"'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poorest man's heart thru half the year."


author: Jennifer Hudson.
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"'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every mealâespecially in the beginning."


author: Col. Jack Ripper.
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"(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids."


author: Larry Flint.
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"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century: make pornography more widely available."


author: Orlando Bloom.
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"(On his family) It's an unusual story but then again, you show me a family and I'll show you an unusual story."


author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791).
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". . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them..."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
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". . .everyone took an interest in the conversation, for each one was interested in what he or she said."


author: D. A. F. Sade.
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"... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ..."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
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"... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to you -- report it."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
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"... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undetected. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
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".... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."


author: John Milton (1608 - 1674).
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"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."


author: James Mellon.
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"...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
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"...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense."


author: G.H. Hardy.
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"...a science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life."


author: H.P. Lovecraft.
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"...all life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and (there is) no cause to value one above the other.""


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
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"...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
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"...and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
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"...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings..."


author: Arthur Schlesinger.
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"...But today it is the United States that lives in infamy, as its government adopts the foreign policies of Imperial Japan."


author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859).
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"...but what courage can withstand the ever-enduring and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?"


author: The invoice for retouching the cover photo of Michelle Pfeiffer.
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"...Clean up complexion, soften eye lines, soften smile line, add color to lips, trim chin, remove neck lines, soften line under ear lobe, add highlights to earrings, add blush to cheek, clean up neck line, remove stray hair, remove hair strands from dress, adjust color and add hair on top of head, add dress on side to create better line... Total: $1,525.00."


author: Starhawk.
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"...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
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"...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity."


author: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894).
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"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall."


author: Tamora Pierce.
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"...free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight."


author: H. P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937).
text:
"...I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman; and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency, and Discrimination."


author: Ani DiFranco.
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"...I try to laugh at whatever life brings. Because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff, but when I look up, I just trip over things."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
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"...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work."


author: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945).
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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language."


author: George Will - Newsweek.
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"...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."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
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"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor."


author: John W.N. Sullivan.
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"...it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
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"...it is not by reflection and intelligence, but by perception, that the highest and purest truths are attained."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
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"...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night."


author: Tennesse Williams.
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"...Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life!"


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
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"...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
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"...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
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"...tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
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"...the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
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"...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."


author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
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"...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.""


author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930).
text:
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."


author: Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963).
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"...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?"


author: Graham Green.
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"...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years."


author: from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers.
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"1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him. 2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi." [...] 5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually."


author: Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib.
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"1. During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you."


author: Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:.
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"1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points."


author: Imam Ali.
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"148. One who does not realize his own value is condemned to utter failure. (Every kind of complex, superiority or inferiority is harmful to man)."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."


author: Imam Ali-Ibn-Abi-Talib.
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"2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
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"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
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"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
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"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."


author: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864).
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"A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part."


author: Jack London (1876 - 1916).
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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."


author: Erica Jong.
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"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive."


author: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867).
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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."


author: Salman Rushdie (1947 - ).
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"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."


author: Rupert Brooke.
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"A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."


author: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988).
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"A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."


author: Jeff Bezos (1964 - ).
text:
"A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"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."


author: from _The_Clothes_Have_No_Emperor_ by Paul Slansky.
text:
"A careless speech writer includes the word "paradigm" in President Reagan's speech on superconductivity. Yes, he pronounces it "paradijum.""


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."


author: Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903).
text:
"A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman."


author: John Neal.
text:
"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance."


author: George Steiner.
text:
"A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."


author: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880).
text:
"A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful."


author: Marjorie Holmes.
text:
"A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."


author: James Lileks.
text:
"A Childrenâs Museum, however, is more of a Funatorium. You are encouraged to touch things, which is poor training for subsequent museum visitation."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man."


author: Pope Shenouda III.
text:
"A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"


author: Bill Vaughan.
text:
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live."


author: Reverend Edward A. Malloy.
text:
"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."


author: Sir John A. MacDonald.
text:
"A compliment is a statement of an agreeable truth; flattery is a statement of an agreeable untruth."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."


author: Ludwig Erhard (1897 - 1977).
text:
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."


author: Mitch Ratcliffe.
text:
"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."


author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945).
text:
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward."


author: Werner Heisenberg.
text:
"A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic."


author: Alphonse Desjardins.
text:
"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunatesâ¦ The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal."


author: Howard Scott (1926 - ).
text:
"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."


author: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ).
text:
"A crisis does not always appear to a policymaker as a series of dramatic events. Usually it imposes itself as an exhausting agenda of petty chores demanding both concentration and endurance."


author: Monica Fairview.
text:
"A curious part of the human psyche is that the moment that a person presumed to be in danger is discovered to be safe, everyone's anxiety turns into anger."


author: James Gould Cozzens.
text:
"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset."


author: Sidney J. Harris.
text:
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE  Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman."


author: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
text:
"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites..."


author: Alexander Fraser Tyler.
text:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world%uFFFDs great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."


author: Joe Gores.
text:
"A detective digs around in the garbage of people's lives. A novelist invents people and then digs around in their garbage."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head."


author: Caskie Stinnett.
text:
"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."


author: Caskie Stinnett.
text:
"A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."


author: Johhny Depp.
text:
"A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest, honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid."


author: Mick Lloyd Kerman.
text:
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but a supplier based engineer can only advise the product designer to specify a heavier texture."


author: Churchill.
text:
"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."


author: Joseph F. Newton.
text:
"A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."


author: Edward Teller (1908 - 2003).
text:
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."


author: Tony Benn.
text:
"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world."


author: Gray Davis.
text:
"A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. "


author: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971).
text:
"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."


author: S.J. Perelman.
text:
"A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city."


author: Conan O'Brien.
text:
"A federal judge has ruled that Microsoft should be split into two different companies. One company will have the Windows operating system and the other will count Bill Gates' money."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it."


author: Eric Sloane.
text:
"A few days ago I walked along the edge of the lake and was treated to the crunch and rustle of leaves with each step I made. The acoustics of this season are different and all sounds, no matter how hushed, are as crisp as autumn air."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"A fine dress on a homely maiden is never enough of a distraction. It can convey a sense of wealth and its accompanying attractions, but it can never truly compensate for a plain face."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig."


author: G. B. Shaw.
text:
"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines."


author: R.W. Emerson.
text:
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body."


author: Robert Hall.
text:
"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."


author: Kate Clinton.
text:
"A friend told me that each morning when we get up we have to decide whether we are going to save or savor the world. I don't think that is the decision. It's not an either-or, save or savor. We have to do both, save and savor the world."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind."


author: Alice Childress.
text:
"A gift - be it a present, a kind word or a job done with care and love - explains itself!... and if receivin' it embarrasses you, it's because your 'thanks box' is warped."


author: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004).
text:
"A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she adjust to prejudice and discrimination."


author: John Milton (1608 - 1674).
text:
"A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without."


author: Arthur Brisbane.
text:
"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling."


author: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - ).
text:
"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."


author: Marilyn Vos Savant.
text:
"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."


author: South.
text:
"A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind."


author: Katharine Whitehorn.
text:
"A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat."


author: Kenneth A. Wells.
text:
"A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him."


author: Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933).
text:
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."


author: Jeph Jacques.
text:
"A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long."


author: John Tillotson (1630 - 1694).
text:
"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing."


author: Jim Bishop.
text:
"A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."


author: Charles B. Vaughan.
text:
"A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaughter repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: "I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking.""


author: Jawaherlal Nehru.
text:
"A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much."


author: Donald Simanek.
text:
"A great frustration in life is discovering that sometimes those who say something can't be done turn out to be right."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process."


author: Dave Meurer.
text:
"A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences."


author: Charles Peguy.
text:
"A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion."


author: Joseph Rickaby.
text:
"A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you."


author: Hortense Calisher.
text:
"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."


author: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909).
text:
"A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."


author: John Updike (1932 - ).
text:
"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."


author: John E. Pogue.
text:
"A heart is a fragile thing, that's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely, and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile then others, purer somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass. Even the way they shatter is beautiful."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."


author: Barbra Streisand (1942 - ).
text:
"A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that. Only the use made it mean something."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody."


author: James Thurber (1894 - 1961).
text:
"A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it."


author: Jodi Picoult.
text:
"A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look."


author: David Nicholls.
text:
"A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella."


author: Nikolas Crewsonus.
text:
"A judicious enemy anticipates siege while relishing in peace, therefore, to find such an enemy unprepared you must first distract him with the very thing he is mindful of."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"A just war is in the long run far better for a nation's soul than the most prosperous peace obtained by acquiescence in wrong or injustice."


author: Mistinguette.
text:
"A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. That's the basic spelling that every woman ought to know."


author: Earl of Kent.
text:
"A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."


author: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957).
text:
"A l'Ã©gard de celui qui vous prend votre femme, il n'est de pire vengeance que de la lui laisser. (When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.)"


author: Jake Johanson.
text:
"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket. "You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?" she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, "I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.""


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."


author: Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952).
text:
"A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey."


author: Robert Reich.
text:
"A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term."


author: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964).
text:
"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."


author: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - ).
text:
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join."


author: William Shenstone.
text:
"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."


author: G. Gordon Liddy.
text:
"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."


author: Saadi (1184 - 1291).
text:
"A little and a little, collected together, become a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop makes an inundation."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism, but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about again to religion."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"A little philosophy inclineth men's minds toward atheism; but depth of philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain."


author: Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977).
text:
"A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."


author: Steve Prefontaine.
text:
"A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000 meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself."


author: Jackie Gleason (1916 - 1987).
text:
"A lot of people say, 'Well, I like a challenge.' I don't like challenges. Life is tough enough without any challenges."


author: Dennis Miller.
text:
"A lot of people voting for Pat Buchanan say they are doing so to send a message. Apparently that message is, "Hey, look at me, I'm an idiot.""


author: Jeffrey Kalmikoff.
text:
"A lot of the things we've done have been common sense. You do what makes sense to you and make moves that you are comfortable making. Everything is having fun in mind."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"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."


author: Ken Keyes Jr..
text:
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."


author: J.B. Priestley.
text:
"A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"A man can only do what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."


author: Joan Rivers (1935 - ).
text:
"A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."


author: Alec Waugh.
text:
"A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success."


author: Bob Dylan (1941 - ).
text:
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
text:
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."


author: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910).
text:
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour."


author: H. Mathews.
text:
"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."


author: John Ballantine Gough.
text:
"A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity"


author: Israel Zangwill.
text:
"A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm."


author: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957).
text:
"A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands."


author: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942).
text:
"A man must properly pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra had to be subsidized."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community."


author: Stephen Crane.
text:
"A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.""


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."


author: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744).
text:
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?"


author: James Allen.
text:
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."


author: Richard Burton.
text:
"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."


author: Osho.
text:
"A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited."


author: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005).
text:
"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance."


author: Denise Mina.
text:
"A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth."


author: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951).
text:
"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push."


author: Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990).
text:
"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest."


author: Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996).
text:
"A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"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."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
text:
"A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour."


author: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822).
text:
"A man, to be greatly good, must magine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores."


author: Sun-tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."


author: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988).
text:
"A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."


author: David Mankins.
text:
"A modern U.S. Navy cruiser now requires 26 tons of manuals. This is enough to affect the vessel's performance."


author: Prophet Mohammed.
text:
"A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation."


author: Dean William R. Inge.
text:
"A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."


author: Dean Inge.
text:
"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors."


author: William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954).
text:
"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."


author: Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC).
text:
"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter."


author: Charles Brower.
text:
"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow."


author: Max Planck.
text:
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar withÂ it."


author: Max Planck.
text:
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."


author: Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
text:
"A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you.""


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"A patriot is mocked, scorned and hated; yet when his cause succeeds, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness."


author: Aldo Leopold.
text:
"A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact."


author: John Grogan.
text:
"A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own."


author: Emily Bronte.
text:
"A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character."


author: Robert A. Heinlein.
text:
"A pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties."


author: Leonard Louis Levinson.
text:
"A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them."


author: Winston Churchill.
text:
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;  an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."


author: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988).
text:
"A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron."


author: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855).
text:
"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul.""


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."


author: Frank Mankiewicz.
text:
"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)."


author: Herm Albright (1876 - 1944).
text:
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."


author: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983).
text:
"A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past."


author: Kehlog Albran.
text:
"A priest asked: What is Fate, Master? And he answered: It is that which gives a beast of burden its reason for existence. It is that which men in former times had to bear upon their backs. It is that which has caused nations to build byways from City to City upon which carts and coaches pass, and alongside which inns have come to be built to stave off Hunger, Thirst and Weariness. And that is Fate? said the priest. Fate ... I thought you said Freight, responded the Master. That's all right, said the priest. I wanted to know what Freight was too."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"A private individual may do anything except that which is legally forbidden; A government individual may do nothing except that which is legally permitted."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it."


author: Alistair Cooke.
text:
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."


author: Samuel McChord Crothers.
text:
"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."


author: Brendan Francis.
text:
"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."


author: Robert Chapman.
text:
"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion."


author: E.B. White.
text:
"A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along."


author: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898).
text:
"A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don't believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason."


author: Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754).
text:
"A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool."


author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944).
text:
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."


author: Ken Doherty.
text:
"A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting."


author: Peter McArthur.
text:
"A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"A scholar is the favorite of Heaven and of earth;  The excellence of one's country, The happiest of mankind."


author: Jack Benny (1894 - 1974).
text:
"A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"A self-balancing, 28-jointed adaptor-based biped; an electro-chemical reduction plant, integral with segregated stowages of special energy extracts in storage batteries, for subsequent actuation of thousands of hydraulic and pneumatic pumps, with motors attached; 62,000 miles of capillaries...."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done."


author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
text:
"A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it."


author: Unknown.
text:
"A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security."


author: Robert Bork.
text:
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."


author: Marcelene Cox.
text:
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."


author: Georges Pomidou.
text:
"A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service."


author: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC).
text:
"A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation."


author: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852).
text:
"A struggle with infuriated foes is always bearable, but God preserve us from the terrible battle with one's friends. Everything that is in us gets broken by it."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"A study can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."


author: Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947).
text:
"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"A successful lie is doubly a lie; an error which has to be corrected is a heavier burden than the truth."


author: Lana Turner.
text:
"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."


author: David Brink.
text:
"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."


author: Sir Arnold Bax (1883 - 1953).
text:
"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.""


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack."


author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859).
text:
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."


author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859).
text:
"A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."


author: Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984).
text:
"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."


author: O.G. Sutton.
text:
"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."


author: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784).
text:
"A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."


author: Chinese proverb.
text:
"A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds."


author: CIA Manual.
text:
"A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as "You leave me no other choice but to...""


author: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825).
text:
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."


author: Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825).
text:
"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards."


author: Thomas Nashe.
text:
"A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire."


author: William Arthur Ward.
text:
"A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities."


author: Albert Cooper.
text:
"A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts as the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of the reason of which we so much boast."


author: Edward Chapin.
text:
"A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star."


author: Fontenelle.
text:
"A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. "


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."


author: Walter Lippman.
text:
"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment."


author: Marcelene Cox.
text:
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it."


author: 16 Idaho Law Review 407.
text:
"A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American."


author: Paul Dudley White.
text:
"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides."


author: Jim Sorensen.
text:
"A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare."


author: Paulo Coelho.
text:
"A warrior of light knows that he will hear an order in the silence of his heart that will guide him."


author: Raelle Tucker.
text:
"A way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that shit true as gold. You put some love in your food and a fool can taste it."


author: Fontenelle.
text:
"A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time."


author: Chuang Tzu.
text:
"A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and of vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."


author: Robert Cecil.
text:
"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."


author: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC).
text:
"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."


author: Rambler.
text:
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."


author: John Lubbock.
text:
"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."


author: Howard Crosby.
text:
"A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation."


author: The Teachings of Ebenezum.
text:
"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients. Still, the fact remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell. It is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of using indirect spells. It also does no harm, in dealing with these matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account."


author: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006).
text:
"A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!"


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"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."


author: Junot Diaz.
text:
"A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."


author: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904).
text:
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."


author: Judith Brocklehurst.
text:
"A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"


author: Bud Abbott (1895 - 1974).
text:
"Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.  Costello: That's what I want to find out."


author: Lou Holtz.
text:
"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."


author: Michael Caine (1933 - ).
text:
"About Superman and Batman: the former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America."


author: Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971).
text:
"About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist. If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don't invite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."


author: Katheryn Phillips.
text:
"Above all things you've got to be yourself, and if some rule or guideline excludes you because of who you are, then you are obligated to change the rules."


author: Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967).
text:
"Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment."


author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
text:
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different."


author: La Rochefoucald.
text:
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."


author: De La Rochefoucauld..
text:
"Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them."


author: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - ).
text:
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."


author: Joan McIntosh.
text:
"Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.'"


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed."


author: Kathleen Casey Theisen.
text:
"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it."


author: Peter McWilliams.
text:
"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth.""


author: Gary Zukav.
text:
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science."


author: Charles Richter.
text:
"According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
text:
"According to the standards of the Nuremburg Trials, every American president since World War II could be convicted as a war criminal and hung."


author: Charles Simmons.
text:
"Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made  a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done  do evil in return."


author: John Lahr.
text:
"Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence."


author: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ).
text:
"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."


author: Leo Rosten (1908 - ).
text:
"Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience."


author: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003).
text:
"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."


author: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003).
text:
"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four."


author: Rob Sheridan.
text:
"Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you ever knew."


author: Henri-FrÃ©dÃ©ric Amiel.
text:
"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism and doubt."


author: Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941).
text:
"Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation."


author: Holly Lisle.
text:
"Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"Actually, there are countless ways to live upon this tremorous sphere in mirth and good health, and probably only one way - the industrial, urbanized, herding way - to live here stupidly, and man has hit upon that one way."


author: Colonel Morgan.
text:
"Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity."


author: Irina O'Rear.
text:
"Adoption comes from the heart, but the adoption process comes from the Law. You should follow your heart, but be sure you also follow the law."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard."


author: Rhoda Kellog.
text:
"Adults interfere with a natural biologic development of the child's motor, visual, mental, and artistic abilities when they try to influence the child's work in the early years. The adult's brain has accumulated much more visual and artistic memory than the child's, so there can be no true meeting of adult and child mind unless the adult knows how the child's mind functions in art."


author: R. Smith.
text:
"Advancements in technology have provided us the wonderful freedom to procrastinate faster than ever before."


author: Ashley Dukes.
text:
"Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."


author: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC).
text:
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."


author: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951).
text:
"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, especially if the goods are worthless."


author: Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951).
text:
"Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
text:
"Advertising is tax deductible, so we all pay for the privilege of being manipulated and controlled."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation."


author: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944).
text:
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."


author: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944).
text:
"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. "


author: The Country Parson.
text:
"Advice, like medicine, should be given in small does; that a little is good doesn't mean more will be better."


author: Mary Kay Ash.
text:
"Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."


author: Mary Kay Ash.
text:
"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well."


author: Evelyn Underhill.
text:
"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others."


author: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ).
text:
"After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."


author: De la Lastra's Corollary.
text:
"After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted."


author: Mark Gooley.
text:
"After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein."


author: John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968).
text:
"After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do."


author: De La Lastra's Law.
text:
"After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed."


author: Ronnie Shakes.
text:
"After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'"


author: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892).
text:
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."


author: David Assael.
text:
"After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better, there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."


author: Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805).
text:
"Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. (Mit der Dummheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens)"


author: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977).
text:
"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."


author: Bernard Baruch.
text:
"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age."


author: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895).
text:
"Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe."


author: Joel Hawes.
text:
"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."


author: Dr. David M. Burns.
text:
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company."


author: SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard.
text:
"Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 38 of a paragraph."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now; your gambols, your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."


author: Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586).
text:
"Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."


author: William Congreve (1670 - 1729).
text:
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"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."


author: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974).
text:
"All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others."


author: Francis Beaumont (1584 - 1616).
text:
"All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars."


author: William Penn (1644 - 1718).
text:
"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."


author: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890).
text:
"All Faith is false, all Faith is true: Truth is the shattered mirror strown In myriad bits; while each believes His little bit the whole to own."


author: Adam Smith (1723 - 1790).
text:
"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind."


author: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947).
text:
"All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance."


author: Hypatia of Alexandria (370 AD - 415 AD).
text:
"All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final."


author: Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679).
text:
"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."


author: Scott Alexander.
text:
"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy."


author: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797).
text:
"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."


author: Leonard Read.
text:
"All governmental intervention has as its object a forcible altering of what people would do were they unrestrained."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."


author: Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944).
text:
"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."


author: Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933).
text:
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."


author: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ).
text:
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights, and, when they are not treated as they think they should be, will by well-directed shafts, constantly repeated, poison the minds of their patrons against those who have provoked their animosity. It is well to keep in with them."


author: Ellen Goodman (1941 - ).
text:
"All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government."


author: Henry Clay (1777 - 1852).
text:
"All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises."


author: Ann Landers (1918 - 2002).
text:
"All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art."


author: T. E. Lawrence (1888 - 1935).
text:
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."


author: Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867).
text:
"All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods."


author: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848).
text:
"All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you."


author: Josh Lieb.
text:
"All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it."


author: Anna Jameson.
text:
"All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"All of us are working together for the same end; some of us knowingly and purposefully, others unconsciously."


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."


author: Paolo Giordano.
text:
"All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
text:
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."


author: IBM maintenance manual.
text:
"All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income."


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."


author: Ruth Ross.
text:
"All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination."


author: Marya Mannes.
text:
"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."


author: Matt Groening (1954 - ).
text:
"All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer."


text: "All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick."
author:
Last words of Spanish playwright Lope de Vega on being assured on his deathbed that the end was very near.


author: Doris Lessing.
text:
"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."


author: Lawrence J. Peters.
text:
"All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."


author: Charles M. Schwab.
text:
"All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else."


author: William E. Channing.
text:
"All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectually, he must think clearly; to act nobly, he must think nobly. Intellectual force is a principal element of the soul's life, and should be proposed by every man as the principal end of his being."


author: Grace Paley.
text:
"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar."


author: Communist Manifesto.
text:
"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."


author: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
text:
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?""


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"All the blessings which you pray to obtain hereafter could be yours today, if you did not deny them to yourself."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust."


author: Douglas R. Hofstadter.
text:
"All the limitative Theorems of metamathematics and the theory of computation suggest that once the ability to represent your own structure has reached a certain critical point, that is the kiss of death: it guarantees that you can never represent yourself totally. Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, Church's Undecidability Theorem, Turing's Halting Problem, Turski's Truth Theorem-- all have the flavour of some ancient fairy tale which warns you that "To seek self- knowledge is to embark on a journey which . . . will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.""


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
text:
"All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."


author: Thomas J. Watson.
text:
"All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work."


author: Chaim Potok.
text:
"All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spirits of this valley. Only a hunter hears it."


author: Jim Fiebig.
text:
"All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts..."


author: Louis C. K..
text:
"All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it's like, "Hey, I've got a cup in case we need another cup." "Dude, you're a genius!""


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."


author: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898).
text:
"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."


author: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860).
text:
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."


author: Sun-Tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him. "


author: Kipling.
text:
"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."


author: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ).
text:
"All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. Itâs my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, Iâve won or lost. At sunrise, Iâm out again, giving it the old try."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"All your life you live so close to truth it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it's like being ambushed by a grotesque."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"Alleluia! We do not have to be right! We do have to love, to be vulnerable, to accept joy and pain, and to grow through them."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for."


author: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005).
text:
"Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Although the most acute judges of the witches, & even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was nonexistent. It is thus with all guilt."


author: Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz.
text:
"Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."


author: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974).
text:
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."


author: Jacob Braude.
text:
"Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."


author: Mickey Rooney (1920 - ).
text:
"Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day."


author: Richard Nixon.
text:
"Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."


author: Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994).
text:
"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself."


author: Claude M. Bristol.
text:
"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake."


author: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC).
text:
"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."


author: Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527).
text:
"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping."


author: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995).
text:
"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."


author: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848).
text:
"America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own."


author: President Ronald Reagan.
text:
"America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land."


author: Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941).
text:
"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"America has never been an empire. We may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused - preferring greatness to power and justice to glory."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens."


author: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988).
text:
"America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there."


author: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975).
text:
"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair."


author: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975).
text:
"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."


author: Alexis de Tocqueville (1805 - 1859).
text:
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man."


author: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942).
text:
"America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks."


author: Dinesh D'Souza.
text:
"America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."


author: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929).
text:
"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."


author: Georg W. Hegel (1770 - 1831).
text:
"America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself."


author: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924).
text:
"America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses."


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, 'You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk.' But then he added, 'Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.'"


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"America will never run... And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders."


author: Anthony Walton.
text:
"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."


author: Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923).
text:
"America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration."


author: Vincent Canby.
text:
"America, meaning mostly the United States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side."


author: Garry Trudeau (1948 - ).
text:
"America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace."


author: Elinor Glyn.
text:
"American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."


author: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980).
text:
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging."


author: J. Bartlett Brebner.
text:
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."


author: Paul Fussell.
text:
"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."


author: Philip Saltier.
text:
"Americans become unhappy and vicious because their preoccupation with amassing possessions obliterates their loneliness. This is why production in America seems to be on such an endless upward spiral: every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something."


author: Ernest Dimnet.
text:
"Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room."


author: Alexi Sayle.
text:
"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say `elevator', we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic git'...."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Americans, indeed all free men, remember that inn the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards."


author: Miguel De Cervantes (1547 - 1616).
text:
"Among the attributes of God, although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice."


author: Benito Juarez Garcia.
text:
"Among the individuals, as well as among nations, respecting the other people's rights leads to peace. (Entre los individuos, como entre las naciones, el respeto al derecho ajeno es la Paz.)"


author: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948).
text:
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."


author: Edward Thorndike .
text:
"An adult who ceases after youth to unlearn and relearn his facts and to reconsider his opinions... is a menace to a democratic community."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."


author: Sir Henry Wotton.
text:
"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."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country."


author: Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882).
text:
"An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books."


author: Robert L. Kruse.
text:
"An apprentice carpenter may want only a hammer and saw, but a master craftsman employs many precision tools. Computer programming likewise requires sophisticated tools to cope with the complexity of real applications, and only practice with these tools will build skill in their use."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens."


author: Mackay.
text:
"An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent."


author: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ).
text:
"An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in this world."


author: Stephen Harwood.
text:
"An aspiring politician should know that attacking a man is much easier than attacking his points, but attacking his points is much more useful."


author: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755).
text:
"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."


author: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794).
text:
"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."


author: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988).
text:
"An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."


author: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988).
text:
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."


author: Anatole France (1844 - 1924).
text:
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."


author: Terry Pratchett.
text:
"An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on."


author: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965).
text:
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."


author: Stephen Covey.
text:
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."


author: John H. Patterson.
text:
"An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides."


author: Jose Marie Gil Robles.
text:
"An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation."


author: Joel Spolsky.
text:
"An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it."


author: Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957).
text:
"An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't."


author: Sydney J. Harris.
text:
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup."


author: Evelle J. Younger.
text:
"An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer."


author: Dan Rather (1931 - ).
text:
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."


author: Unknown.
text:
"An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out."


author: Jon Bentley.
text:
"An old puzzle asks how a barometer can be used to measure the height of a building. Answers range from dropping the instrument from the top and measuring the time of its fall to giving it to the building's superintendent in return for a look at the plans. A modern version of the puzzle asks how a personal computer can balance a checkbook. An elegant solution is to sell the machine and deposit the money."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."


author: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD).
text:
"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Analysis and synthesis ordinarily clarify matters for us about as much as taking a Swiss watch apart and dumping its wheels, springs, hands, threads, pivots, screws and gears into a layman's hands for reassembling, clarifies a watch to a layman."


author: Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989).
text:
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."


author: Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990).
text:
"And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness."


author: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824).
text:
"And dreams in their development have breath,  And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being."


author: William Bradford (1590 - 1657).
text:
"And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."


author: Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945).
text:
"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."


author: Mike Myers.
text:
"And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now."


author: Bible.
text:
"And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."


author: Warren Zevon.
text:
"And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill."


author: Mitch Albom.
text:
"And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."


author: Peggy Orenstein.
text:
"And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence."


author: (St. Luke 2:1).
text:
"And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes."


author: Christine Hubbock.
text:
"And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you're about to see another first--an attempted suicide."


author: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964).
text:
"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence."


author: Sir Arther Connan Doyle.
text:
"And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents."


author: Laurie Anderson.
text:
"And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my heart beat."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"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."


author: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823).
text:
"And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"And so from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, and then, from hour to hour,we rot and rot; and thereby hangs a tale."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."


author: John F Kennedy.
text:
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other?"


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die."


author: Bible.
text:
"And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever."


author: Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849).
text:
"And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it."


author: Laurie Anderson.
text:
"And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was saying: Look at me! Look at me!"


author: Third Eye Blind.
text:
"And there's this burning like there's always been, I've never been so alone and I've never been so alive."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything."


author: Alcuin (732 AD - 804 AD).
text:
"And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.  (Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.)"


author: Jeff Zurschmeide.
text:
"And thou shalt smite thine enemy even unto the wall, gnashing thy teeth, and he shall grow small in thy mirrors."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"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."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"And we should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced at least once: And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps."


author: Jerry Chin.
text:
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."


author: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855).
text:
"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."


author: Terry Goodkind.
text:
"And yesterday he would have killed me to get to his foe. But now we serve each other. Only a fool walks into the future backward."


author: Henry Vaughn.
text:
"And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business product: a really sharp-looking report."


author: Elie Wiesel (1928 - ).
text:
"And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor -- never its victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten."


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness, than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive."


author: Chazal.
text:
"Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills."


author: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870).
text:
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."


author: Ship's Cook, United Planets Cruiser C-57D.
text:
"Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors - nothin'. Nothing to do but throw rocks at tin cans and we  got to bring our own tin cans."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."


author: Dick Francis.
text:
"Antagonizing people when you don't have to is like casting your garbage on the waters. One day it may come floating back, smelling worse."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."


author: Tyron Edwards.
text:
"Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy."


author: Gore Vidal (1925 - ).
text:
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."


author: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005).
text:
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately."


author: B. C. Forbes.
text:
"Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity."


author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993).
text:
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery."


author: Solomon Short.
text:
"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."


author: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990).
text:
"Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air."


author: Eric Temple Bell.
text:
"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... it takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."


author: E. F. Schumacher.
text:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."


author: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
text:
"Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all."


author: Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986).
text:
"Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is."


author: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919).
text:
"Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once."


author: Gen. Peyton C. March.
text:
"Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly bigger man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error."


author: Rule 46.
text:
"Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light."


author: Sharon Salzberg.
text:
"Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."


author: Augustine Birrell.
text:
"Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."


author: Dwight W. Morrow.
text:
"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the draught."


author: Dwight D. Morrow.
text:
"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."


author: Liz Trotta on John Chancellor.
text:
"Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years."


author: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950).
text:
"Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Any time and energy you spend hating and being angry at your ex will ultimately take a toll on you without effecting any positive changes in your ex or your relationship."


author: Martha Beck.
text:
"Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis."


author: Adrienne E. Gusoff.
text:
"Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."


author: Aristotle.
text:
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."


author: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC).
text:
"Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Anybody can sympathise with the suffering of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."


author: Charles Knight.
text:
"Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises."


author: George Meany.
text:
"Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."


author: Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944).
text:
"Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects."


author: David Broder.
text:
"Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. being human."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion."


author: Georges Rouault (1871 - 1958).
text:
"Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts."


author: Alvin Toffler.
text:
"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue - and thoroughly immoral - doctrine that violence never settles anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forgot this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and there freedoms."


author: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988).
text:
"Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and thoroughly immoral -- doctrine that `violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms."


author: John von Neumann.
text:
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."


author: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616).
text:
"Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"Anyone who goes through life trusting people without making sure they are worthy of trust is a fool. Yet there are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."


author: Mike Royko.
text:
"Anyone who is different today faces harassment, whether it is in the way he dresses, or in the position he takes on important issues. And when the price of being different is a cold fear, with good reason, then freedom as we peddle it in our international publicity releases is gone. If and when it disappears, it won't be stolen by big government, the tax collector, or the Supreme Court. Fascism will be the people's choice. It usually is. We've managed to avoid it so far only because nobody nutty enough to give the people what they want has come along. Yet."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young."


author: Vaclav Havel (1936 - ).
text:
"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three!"


author: Milan Kundera (1929 - ).
text:
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Anything invented before your fifteenth birthday is the order of nature. That's how it should be. Anything invented between your 15th and 35th birthday is new and exciting, and you might get a career there. Anything invented after that day, however, is against nature and should be prohibited."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Anything that happens, happens. Anthing that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again. It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Anything that is in the world when youâre born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything thatâs invented between when youâre fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after youâre thirty-five is against the natural order of things."


author: George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943).
text:
"Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough."


author: P.J. O'Rourke.
text:
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."


author: Neil Gaiman.
text:
"Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes, in hospitals and forests and abattoirs. For some folks death is a release and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them."


author: James Ramsey.
text:
"Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged."


author: Frances Watkins Harper.
text:
"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blowwom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."


author: Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939).
text:
"Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tire, the tiger will become a vegetarian."


author: Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958).
text:
"Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life."


author: Margaret Cousins.
text:
"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is neccessary."


author: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965).
text:
"Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation."


author: Jim Bishop.
text:
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been."


author: George Lucas (1944 - ).
text:
"Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall."


author: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947).
text:
"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."


author: Will Cuppy.
text:
"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons."


author: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967).
text:
"Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper until you get the right answer."


author: Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC).
text:
"Arms are instruments of ill omen. . . . When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men. . . . When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites."


author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
text:
"Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem, or saying a prayer."


author: Barbra Streisand (1942 - ).
text:
"Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth."


author: Jose Raul Bernardo.
text:
"Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside."


author: David Cronenberg.
text:
"Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created."


author: Auguste Rodin.
text:
"Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life."


author: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937).
text:
"Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?"


author: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890).
text:
"Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is now wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul."


author: Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925).
text:
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."


author: Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973).
text:
"Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly."


author: Jules Feiffer (1929 - ).
text:
"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid."


author: Bill Watterson (1958 - ).
text:
"As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators."


author: Bhagavad Gita (250 BC - 250 AD).
text:
"As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose."


author: Diogenes.
text:
"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible."


author: Mandy Moore.
text:
"As a teen, you're constantly trying to figure out who you are... But it's okay not to know right now. Your whole life you're going to be growing and changing."


author: Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies.
text:
"As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."


author: Rita Mae Brown.
text:
"As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein."


author: M. Cartmill.
text:
"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."


author: John "The Penguin" Bingham.
text:
"As an athlete, when you least expect it, you may find yourself standing on the threshold of an accomplishment so monumental that it strikes fear into your soul. You must stand ready, at any moment, to face the unknown. You must be ready to walk boldly thru the wall of uncertainty."


author: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745).
text:
"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"As difficult as it is to have company within one's house, the absence of company is more so. The quiet echoing of solitary footsteps within the halls is suddenly amplified without the voices of excited guests. The clinking of plates and silver has narrowed to individual forks and spoons instead of the enchanting din of dining. The natural creaks and squeaks of the home are louder and more surprising."


author: Kandice Hehner.
text:
"As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be."


author: General Norman Schwarzkopf.
text:
"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"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."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"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."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."


author: Judy Garland (1922 - 1969).
text:
"As for my feelings toward 'Over the Rainbow,' it's become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all my dreams and wishes that I'm sure that's why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"As for what concerns me in particular I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves."


author: Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
text:
"As for you, your happiness is complete; it remains merely to enjoy it. And to become perfectly happy you are in need of nothing more than to know how to be satisfied with being so."


author: A. J. Toynbee.
text:
"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us."


author: H. Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925).
text:
"As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me."


author: Dorothy Sayers.
text:
"As I grow older and older,  And totter toward the tomb,  I find that I care less and less  Who goes to bed with whom."


author: Darren John Main.
text:
"As I have practiced yoga in the quest for inner peace I have found that my spiritual practice doesn't end when I leave the yoga mat. That is the beginning. While having a time of quiet each day is essential for our spiritual health, it is what we do in the world that propels us forward as individuals and as a society."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."


author: William Blake (1757 - 1827).
text:
"As I was walking among the fires of Hell,  delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;  which to Angels look like torment and insanity.  I collected some of their Proverbs."


author: Hughes Mearns.
text:
"As I was walking up the stair  I met a man who wasn't there.  He wasn't there again today.  I wish, I wish he'd stay away."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back."


author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834).
text:
"As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination."


author: Erich Frohm.
text:
"As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"As long as humanity has been human, it has looked toward the heavens and dreamed that some day, some way, there would be giant federal contracts involved."


author: Elija Lovejoy.
text:
"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject."


author: Gregory Macguire.
text:
"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention."


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."


author: Shakti Gawain.
text:
"As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled."


author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
text:
"As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark... so may a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose."


author: Julie Andrews.
text:
"As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."


author: Mike Davis.
text:
"As part of it's 'Astro' program LAPD helicopters maintain an average nineteen-hours-per-day vigil over 'high crime areas', tactically coordinated to patrol car forces, and exceeding even the British Army's aerial surveillance of Belfast."


author: Karl Rove.
text:
"As people do better, they start voting like Republicans- unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing."


author: Robert Cormier.
text:
"As pity moved into that hole inside her, she discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."


author: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974).
text:
"As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers."


author: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778).
text:
"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost."


author: Noam Chomsky (1928 - ).
text:
"As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss."


author: Maurice Wilkes.
text:
"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."


author: Michel Foucault (1926 - 1984).
text:
"As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end."


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"As the flectcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"As the former dissident Vladimir Bukovsky one remarked â referring to the Russian proverb to the effect that you cannot make an omlette without breaking eggs â he had seen plenty of broken eggs, but had never tasted any omlette."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"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."


author: Clarence Day.
text:
"As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless."


author: Rodney Yee.
text:
"As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless."


author: Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975).
text:
"As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around."


author: James Allen.
text:
"As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity."


author: Arnold Patent.
text:
"As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express,the more joy you experience."


author: Douglas Coupland.
text:
"As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day."


author: Hagar the Horrible.
text:
"As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor."


author: Howard Thurman.
text:
"Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."


author: Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Ask your neighbor only about things you know better yourself. Then his advice could prove valuable."


author: Annie Lennox.
text:
"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."


author: Christopher Hampton.
text:
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs."


author: Christopher Hampton.
text:
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."


author: Dr. David M. Burns.
text:
"Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault."


author: Stanley Walker.
text:
"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."


author: Pat Paulsen.
text:
"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."


author: John Kerry (1943 - ).
text:
"At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans."


author: David Sedaris.
text:
"At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface."


author: The Washington Post Magazine.
text:
"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats."


author: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959).
text:
"At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"At least one study of blocked writers has found that they were more productive and more creative when they were essentially forced to write instead of scribbling only when the mood struck them."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas."


author: Emo Phillips.
text:
"At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them."


author: Martin Luther (1483 - 1546).
text:
"At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning."


author: Joel Patrick Warneke.
text:
"At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine."


author: Jules Feiffer (1929 - ).
text:
"At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?"


author: Norman Maclean.
text:
"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear." It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us." You can love completely without complete understanding."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
text:
"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world."


author: Sue Patton Thoele.
text:
"At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world."


author: Irving Stone.
text:
"At the Cole School, where they had community singing every morning the teacher noticed that Jack London remained silent. She asked him why. He replied that she didn't know how to sing, that she would spoil his voice because she flatted. The teacher dispatched him to the principal to be punished. The principal sent him back with a note saying that he could be excused, but that he would have to write a composition each morning for fifteen minutes of singing. Jack ascribes his ability to write a thousand words every morning to the habit formed in this class."


author: P. J. OâRourke.
text:
"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."


author: Barbara DeAngelis.
text:
"At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, "I was always happy". Hopefully we will be able to say, "I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.""


author: Phillip C. McGraw.
text:
"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."


author: Brendan Francis.
text:
"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years."


author: Ernesto Che Guevara.
text:
"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality."


author: Gavin de Becker.
text:
"At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them."


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. "


author: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
text:
"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular."


author: William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863).
text:
"Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb."


author: Baltasar Gracian.
text:
"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals."


author: David P. Mikkelson.
text:
"Authenticity matters little, though--our willingness to accept legends depends far more upon their expression of concepts we want to believe than upon their plausibility."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?"


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship."


author: (Giovanni Morelli).
text:
"Avoid falsehoods like the plague except in matters of taxation, which do not count, since here your are not lying to take someone else's goods, but to prevent your own from being unjustly seized."


author: Colin Powell (1937 - ).
text:
"Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."


author: Gregory Thomas Garcia, Alan Kirschenbaum.
text:
"Babies are cool, until you've done everything to do with 'em and you get bored. That's why T.V. shows about babies don't last more than a year."


author: Amy Heckerling.
text:
"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."


author: Charles Buxton.
text:
"Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim."


author: Incoming Missouri Congressman James Talent.
text:
"Basically a dog person. I certainly, though, wouldn't want to offend my constituents who are cat people, and I should say that being, I hope, a sensitive person, that I have nothing against cats, and had cats when I was a boy, and if we didn't have the two dogs might very well be interested in having a cat now."


author: Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998).
text:
"Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."


author: Maxims of Ptahhotep.
text:
"Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. "


author: Paxton Hood.
text:
"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Be courteous, be obliging, but don't give yourself over to be melted down for the benefit of the tallow trade."


author: The Talmud.
text:
"Be eager to fulfill the smallest duty and flee from transgression for one duty includes another and one transgression induces another transgression."


author: Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856).
text:
"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."


author: Sun-tzu (~400 BC).
text:
"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate."


author: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881).
text:
"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."


author: Henry Van Dyke.
text:
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars."


author: Henry Van Dyke.
text:
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun."


author: Nicholai Velimirovic.
text:
"Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you."


author: Robert Service (1874 - 1958).
text:
"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."


author: John Brown.
text:
"Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."


author: William James (1842 - 1910).
text:
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."


author: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471).
text:
"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
text:
"Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many."


author: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
text:
"Be not extravagantly high in expression of thy commendations of men thou likest, it may make the hearer's stomach rise."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods."


author: David Assael.
text:
"Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon."


author: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965).
text:
"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."


author: Bible.
text:
"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour."


author: Longfellow.
text:
"Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."


author: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930).
text:
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."


author: Bible.
text:
"Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid or tremble...for the Lord, your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you."


author: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893).
text:
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."


author: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC).
text:
"Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"Be systematically heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty, so that, when the hour of need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved or untrained to stand the test."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go."


author: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644).
text:
"Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse."


author: Jules Feiffer (1929 - ).
text:
"Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time."


author: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898).
text:
"Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."


author: Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991).
text:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."


author: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835).
text:
"Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself."


author: Dr. A. B. Meldrum.
text:
"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"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."


author: Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994).
text:
"Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;  A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;  A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud;  A brittle glass that's broken presently:  A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,  Lost, vaded, broken, dead within the hour."


author: George Bancroft.
text:
"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul."


author: John Mortimer.
text:
"Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward."


author: Miss Piggy.
text:
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."


author: Miss Piggy.
text:
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."


author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
text:
"Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground is the heart of men."


author: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata.
text:
"Beauty isn't something on the outside. It's your insides that count! You gotta eat green stuff to make sure you're pretty on the inside."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."


author: Halle Berry.
text:
"Beauty? Let me tell you something - being thought of as 'a beautiful woman' has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity."


author: Neil Postman.
text:
"Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all."


author: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987).
text:
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"


author: Dave Matthews.
text:
"Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Because religious belief, or non-belief, is such an important part of every person's life, freedom of religion affects every individual. State churches that use government power to support themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of the church tends to make the clergy unresponsive to the people and leads to corruption within religion. Erecting the "wall of separation between church and state," therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society."


author: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974).
text:
"Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining."


author: John R. Searle.
text:
"Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. ('What else could it be?') I was amused to see that Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electro-magnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill, and I am told some of the ancient Greeks thought the brain functions like a catapult. At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer."


author: Ashley Montagu.
text:
"Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."


author: Abraham Harold Maslow.
text:
"Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes"


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing."


author: Rebecca West (1892 - 1983).
text:
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."


author: Dame Rebecca West.
text:
"Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it."


author: Elie Weisel.
text:
"Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only conceals it. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?"


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel."


author: Harper Lee (1926 - ).
text:
"Before I can live with other folks, Iâve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesnât abide by majority rule is a personâs conscience."


author: John Wilmot.
text:
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
text:
"Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
text:
"Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay down his newspaper."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure. The outcome is by no means certain."


author: Napoleon Hill.
text:
"Before success in any man's life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do."


author: From the I Ching.
text:
"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd."


author: Wall Street Journal.
text:
"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq."


author: Barack Obama (1961 - ).
text:
"Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth."


author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680).
text:
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."


author: Kathleen Norris.
text:
"Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."


author: Salma Hayek.
text:
"Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process."


author: Maureen Hawkins.
text:
"Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life."


author: Ausonius.
text:
"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."


author: Marie Beyon Ray.
text:
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand Â­ and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out."


author: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - ).
text:
"Being a woman is of special interest to aspiring male transexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football."


author: Gloria Steinem (1934 - ).
text:
"Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage."


author: George Burns (1896 - 1996).
text:
"Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years."


author: James Dean.
text:
"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and thatâs all you have."


author: Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968).
text:
"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."


author: Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi.
text:
"Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others."


author: Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005).
text:
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."


author: Blake Clark.
text:
"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."


author: W. B. Yeats.
text:
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Being manipulative is dishonest and immature. We often end up having to make up more lies to cover for inconsistencies in our original manipulation. In addition, it sets a terrible example for our children. While it may solve your initial problem, the tangled web that grows from such dishonesty is more trouble than itâs worth."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not."


author: Johnson.
text:
"Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, "I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.""


author: William Penn (1644 - 1718).
text:
"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."


author: Penn Jillette (1955 - ).
text:
"Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have."


author: Lin Yutang.
text:
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."


author: Daniel Akst.
text:
"Besides, what matters, when it comes to self-control, isn't so much willpower as vision-the ability to see the future, so that the long-run consequences of our short-run choices are vividly clear. In that sense, our shortcomings in this arena are really failures of imagination."


author: Tao Te Ching.
text:
"Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven."


author: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976).
text:
"Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing."


author: Adolph Monod.
text:
"Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men."


author: Raymond Loewy.
text:
"Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will out sell the other. "


author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832).
text:
"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man."


author: Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898).
text:
"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."


author: Arnold Bennett.
text:
"Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own."


author: Barbara Mikkelson.
text:
"Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."


author: Octavio Paz (1914 - ).
text:
"Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always."


author: Dr. Albert Schweitzer.
text:
"Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling."


author: C. M. Cox.
text:
"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Blaming another person for a problem often keeps us from examining the different possibilities that may underlie the issue."


author: Thomas Hughes.
text:
"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another."


author: William Hale White.
text:
"Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious."


author: Bible.
text:
"Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh."


author: Henri F. Amiel.
text:
"Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."


author: Bible.
text:
"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life."


author: Bible.
text:
"Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life."


author: John Burroughs (1837 - 1921).
text:
"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact."


author: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677).
text:
"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts."


author: Youshida Kenko.
text:
"Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing, but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."


author: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887).
text:
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."


author: Charles W. Eliot (1834 - 1926).
text:
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."


author: John Green.
text:
"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and theyâll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."


author: Arnold Lobel.
text:
"Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."


author: Whitney Griswold.
text:
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education."


author: Alfred Whitney Griswold.
text:
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas."


author: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957).
text:
"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."


author: Lewis Ward.
text:
"Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least."


author: James Bridie.
text:
"Boredom is a sign of satisfied ignorance, blunted apprehension, crass sympathies, dull understanding, feeble powers of attention, and irreclaimable weakness of character."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully."


author: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970).
text:
"Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."


author: Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 - 1970).
text:
"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."


author: P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975).
text:
"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."


author: Kirsten Dunst.
text:
"Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."


author: Jon Bentley.
text:
"Brilliance is typically the act of an individual, but incredible stupidity can usually be traced to an organization."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but."


author: Jay Ward.
text:
"Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit.General: What does that make you?Bullwinkle: What else? An executive..."


author: Charles Peters.
text:
"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose."


author: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963).
text:
"But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."


author: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973).
text:
"But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end."


author: W. B. Yeats.
text:
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, This was their finest hour."


author: Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers".
text:
"But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomaly!) that fitful stain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush  To see me thus transformed to a boy."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to take you on."


author: Bible.
text:
"But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?"


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."


author: Barbara Hall.
text:
"But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."


author: Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004).
text:
"But psychoanalysis has taught that the deadâa dead parent, for exampleâcan be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"But seduction isnât making someone do what they donât want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already."


author: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873).
text:
"But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences."


author: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996).
text:
"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."


author: The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus).
text:
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law."


author: Herbert Butterfield.
text:
"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness-each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked-each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity."


author: Martha Nussbaum.
text:
"But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it."


author: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924).
text:
"But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"But to my mind, though I am native here and to the manner born, it is a custom more honour'd in breach than the observance."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance."


author: John Stewart Mill.
text:
"But war, in a good cause, is not the greatest evil which a nation can suffer. War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice - a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice - is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."


author: Charlton Heston.
text:
"But when I told an audience last year that white pride is just as valid as black pride or red pride or anyone else's pride, they called me a racist. I've worked with brilliantly talented homosexuals all my life. But when I told an audience that gay rights should extend no further than your rights or my rights, I was called a homophobe. I served in World War II against the Axis powers. But during a speech, when I drew an analogy between singling out innocent Jews and singling out innocent gun owners, I was called an anti-Semite. Everyone I know knows I would never raise a closed fist against my country. But when I asked an audience to oppose this cultural persecution, I was compared to Timothy McVeigh."


author: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809).
text:
"But where, says some, is the king of America? Iâll tell you friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the royal brute of Britain, Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be place thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other."


author: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824).
text:
"But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided."


author: Martin Scorsese.
text:
"But you have to realize that it doesn't matter how your films are going to stack up against other people's. You have to stop whining about it and just get to work. Just do it. Because in the work is your existence. That's what you're here for."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?  It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!  Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,  Who is already sick and pale with grief,  That thou her maid are far more fair than she."


author: Arthuer Schopenhauer.
text:
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."


author: Sir Issac Newton.
text:
"By always thinking unto them. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open little by little into the full light."


author: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923).
text:
"By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door."


author: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881).
text:
"By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation."


author: M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972).
text:
"By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists."


author: Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852).
text:
"By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul."


author: William Carlos Williams (1883 - 1963).
text:
"By listening to his language of his locality the poet begins to learn his craft. It is his function to lift, by use of imagination and the language he hears, the material conditions and appearances of his environment to the sphere of the intelligence where they will have new currency."


author: Tony Judt.
text:
"By March 1918, Lenin's Bolshevik regime, then just five months old, had knowingly killed more of its political opponents than Czarist Russia had in the whole preceding century."


author: Adolph Hitler.
text:
"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."


author: Sharon Salzberg.
text:
"By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it."


author: Charles Wadsworth.
text:
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."


author: Karl Buhler.
text:
"By the time the child can draw more that scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts."


author: Jackie Mason (1934 - ).
text:
"By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?"


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"By this marriage, all little jealousies, which now seem great , and all great fears, which now import their dangers would then be nothing."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash form point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all decide where the hell they wanted to be."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good."


author: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005).
text:
"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."


author: William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields).
text:
"California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death."


author: Ed Moran.
text:
"CALIFORNIA: From Latin 'calor', meaning "heat" (as in English 'calorie' or Spanish 'caliente'); and 'fornia', for "sexual intercourse" or "fornication." Hence: Tierra de California, "the land of hot sex.""


author: Randy Pausch.
text:
"Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older."


author: Jane Howard.
text:
"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother."


author: Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky.
text:
"Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't -- then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves. Slowly and painfully, shaped basically by our genes, modified steadily by everything we see and hear and attempt to understand. That is the reality and that is how we function, learn and develop."


author: Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000).
text:
"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain."


author: Mike Myers.
text:
"Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,  Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow...  And with some sweet oblivious antidote  Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff  Which weighs upon the heart?"


author: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946).
text:
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all."


author: Mark Coggins.
text:
"Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry landâand finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,  And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain  Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place."


author: Rabbi Harold Kushner.
text:
"Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness."


author: Diana Spencer.
text:
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."


author: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972).
text:
"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive. And don't ever apologize for anything."


author: Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906).
text:
"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations and social standing, never can bring about a reform."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"Certain backward areas have advanced, and various devices always in some way connected with warfare and police espionage have developed, but experiment and invention have largely stopped."


author: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961).
text:
"Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."


author: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626).
text:
"Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue."


author: G. Macdonald.
text:
"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."


author: Miriam Beard.
text:
"Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand."


author: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ).
text:
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."


author: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD).
text:
"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."


author: Prince Philip of England.
text:
"Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat."


author: Henry Steele Commager.
text:
"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."


author: King Whitney Jr..
text:
"Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."


author: Gail Sheehy.
text:
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."


author: Joan Didion (1934 - ).
text:
"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."


author: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968).
text:
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."


author: J. C. Watts.
text:
"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, weâre ready."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."


author: John Howe.
text:
"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness."


author: R. C. Samsel.
text:
"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."


author: Elizabeth Aston.
text:
"Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."


author: Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938).
text:
"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails."


author: Shelley.
text:
"Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself"


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time."


author: Raymond Chandler (1888 - 1959).
text:
"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."


author: Ali Vincent.
text:
"Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want."


author: Arthur Naiman.
text:
"Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Childhood, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age."


author: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983).
text:
"Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart."


author: St. John Baptist de La Salle.
text:
"Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."


author: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715).
text:
"Children are very nice observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."


author: Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696).
text:
"Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us."


author: Lois McMaster Bujold.
text:
"Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation."


author: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC).
text:
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."


author: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran.
text:
"Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"China now, put on $250 billion, and theyâre paying 25 percent on that. Theyâre paying billions and billions -- this has never happened to China, and I like China and I like President Xi a lot. I think heâs a friend of mine, he may not be a friend of mine anymore, but I think he probably respects -- from what I hear, if you look at Mr. Pillsbury, the leading authority on China. He was on a good show, I wonât mention the name of the show, recently, and he was saying that China has total respect for Donald Trump and for Donald Trumpâs very, very large brain."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Christian, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."


author: Jimmy Bise Jr..
text:
"Civility is not something that automatically happens. Civil societies come about because people want them to."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."


author: Max Nordau (1849 - 1923).
text:
"Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"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."


author: Colin Turnbull.
text:
"Civilization is very much an immature and ongoing experiment, the success of which is by no means yet proven."


author: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975).
text:
"Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting."


author: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662).
text:
"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."


author: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988).
text:
"Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean."


author: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881).
text:
"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."


author: Jean Francois Revel.
text:
"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools."


author: Dr. Maxwell Maltz.
text:
"Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."


author: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ).
text:
"CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."


author: Josh Tenenbaum.
text:
"Coincidences are a true paradox... on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities."


author: Maynard James Keenan.
text:
"cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of  compassion,  between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit."


author: Henry Louis Gates Jr..
text:
"Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"College football would be more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students - there would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks."


author: Tom Clancy (1947 - ).
text:
"Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist."


author: John le Carre (1931 - ).
text:
"Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."


author: Clive Jones.
text:
"Common sense and sense of humor are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."


author: C. E. Stowe.
text:
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers."


author: Dalai Lama.
text:
"Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species."


author: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ).
text:
"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf."


author: Phyllis McGinley.
text:
"Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy."


author: Sue Grafton (1940 - ).
text:
"Compromise? That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours."


author: Marcus Brigstocke.
text:
"Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."


author: James Magary.
text:
"Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life."


author: Andy Rooney (1919 - ).
text:
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."


author: Samuel Adams.
text:
"Comtemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavor. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."


author: Peter De Vries.
text:
"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy."


author: Jimmy Bise Jr..
text:
"Conflict is going to happen whether you want it or not. People will butt heads. Sometimes when you least expect it."


author: Spiro T. Agnew.
text:
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons."


author: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890).
text:
"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own."


author: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD).
text:
"Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Conscience does make cowards of us all, and thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought."


author: Arthur Phelps.
text:
"Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law."


author: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902).
text:
"Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it."


author: W. R. Inge.
text:
"Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Conservative. noun. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a liberal, who wishes to replace them with others."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefullness consits in the ability to stick to one thing 'til it gets there."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in  the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."


author: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885).
text:
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there."


author: John Wooden (1910 - ).
text:
"Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights."


author: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963).
text:
"Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate."


author: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD).
text:
"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."


author: Roy Blount Jr..
text:
"Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th."


author: Alice Miller.
text:
"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station."


author: Anonymous.
text:
"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have."


author: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004).
text:
"Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first."


author: Edward Ugel.
text:
"Control's a funny thing. It comes and goes. Some days I had it, some days I didn't. It felt like every time I did something healthy, I had this in satiable need to counterbalance it by doing something unhealthy."


author: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855).
text:
"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."


author: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923).
text:
"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude."


author: Joseph Priestley.
text:
"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process."


author: Randy K. Milholland.
text:
"Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable."


author: John Gunther (1901 - 1970).
text:
"Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts."


author: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD).
text:
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having."


author: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996).
text:
"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points. They're never total fits or misfits."


author: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848).
text:
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."


author: Mary Anne Radmacher.
text:
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.""


author: Mary Anne Radmacher.
text:
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of that day that says, "I will try again tomorrow.""


author: David Ben-Gurion.
text:
"Courage is a special kind of knowledge; the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong deisre to live taking the form of a readiness to die."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it sparkles in the setting of modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive any injury."


author: Joseph Epstein.
text:
"Courage is nine-tenths context. What is courageous in one setting can be foolhardy in another and even cowardly in a third."


author: Ambrose Redmoon.
text:
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."


author: Agesilaus the Second.
text:
"Courage is of no value unless accompanied by justice; yet if all men became just, there would be no need for courage."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Courtesy: Wishes not to be loved, but to be lovely; Not to be benefitted, but to be a benevolence."


author: James Burke.
text:
"Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney."


author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
text:
"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."


author: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr..
text:
"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? Expediency asks the question - is it political? But conscience asks the question - is it right?  There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."


author: Mitchell Burgess.
text:
"Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings."


author: Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977).
text:
"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month."


author: Napoleon Hill.
text:
"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded."


author: Dean Koontz.
text:
"Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time."


author: Vida D. Scudder.
text:
"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."


author: Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002).
text:
"Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense."


author: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
text:
"Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."


author: Thomas Troward.
text:
"Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form."


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place"


author: Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout.
text:
"Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking."


author: George Lois.
text:
"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."


author: Michele Shea.
text:
"Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."


author: Norman Podhoretz.
text:
"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."


author: Maximilien Robespierre (1758 - 1794).
text:
"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime."


author: Richard Dooling.
text:
"Criminal court is where bad pople are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges In family court, where good people are at their worst."


author: Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804).
text:
"Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own."


author: Frank A. Clark.
text:
"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. "


author: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964).
text:
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."


author: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964).
text:
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Cultivate the habit of early rising.  It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."


author: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947).
text:
"Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth."


author: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943).
text:
"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected."


author: Arnold Edinborough.
text:
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."


author: Natalie Portman.
text:
"Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them."


author: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ).
text:
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. "


author: Peggy Noonan (1950 - ).
text:
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."


author: Robert Anton Wilson.
text:
"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children."


author: Goethe.
text:
"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."


author: Dr. Martin Luther King.
text:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. "


author: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968).
text:
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."


author: Steve Jones.
text:
"Darwin's theory of common descent does for biology what Galileo did for the planets. It was laid out in a book written for the general reader, the only bestseller to change man's conception of himself. An idea put forward in 1859 is still the cement that binds the marvellous discoveries of today. The Origin of Species is, without doubt, the book of the millennium."


author: Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert.
text:
"Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom."


author: Jeffrey Vlaming.
text:
"Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum."


author: Waiter Rant.
text:
"Dating's like going on a job interview. You don't know if you'll get the job, but if you do, you get to see the interviewee naked."


author: Laurie Jo Wojcik.
text:
"Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves."


author: Berke Breathed.
text:
"Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family..."


author: John Donne (1572 - 1631).
text:
"Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so,For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."


author: Hugh Elliott.
text:
"Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa."


author: George Fabricius.
text:
"Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."


author: Tom Robbins (1936 - ).
text:
"Death is impatient and thoughtless. It barges into your room when you are right in the middle of something, and it doesn't bother to wipe its boots."


author: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC).
text:
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."


author: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider.
text:
"Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender."


author: Matthew Smosna and Robert B. K. Dewar.
text:
"DEC achieved this by an aggresive design that uses a lower-than-usual voltage (3.5V), unusually thick metal layers in a three-layer design, and very high power consumption (30 watts---one DEC engineer, in response to a question about whether this chip would be suitable for palmtops, replied that it might be more suited for building a toaster oven)."


author: George Crabbe (1754 - 1832).
text:
"Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"Decency...must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."


author: H. L. Hunt.
text:
"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work."


author: Dr. Thomas Dooley.
text:
"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."


author: Felicia Hermans.
text:
"Deep is a wounded heart, and strong A voice that cries against a mighty wrong; And full of death as a hot wind's blight, Doth the ire of a crushed affection light."


author: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832).
text:
"Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness."


author: Winning sentence.
text:
"Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center."


author: James Madison (1751 - 1836).
text:
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths."


author: Alan Corenk.
text:
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."


author: John Simon.
text:
"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant."


author: Senator Soaper.
text:
"Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management."


author: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long.
text:
"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something."


author: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969).
text:
"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."


author: Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989).
text:
"Democracy is not something that you believe in, or something that you hang your hat on. It's something that you do, you participate. Without participation, democracy crumbles and fails. If you participate, you win, and the future is yours."


author: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891).
text:
"Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it."


author: E. B. White (1899 - 1985).
text:
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!"


author: President Harry Truman.
text:
"Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril."


author: Clement Atlee.
text:
"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."


author: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005).
text:
"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."


author: John Adams (1735 - 1826).
text:
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."


author: Craig Kilborn.
text:
"Democrats were quick to point out that President Bush's budget creates a 1 trillion dollar deficit. The White House quickly responded with "Hey, look over there, it's Saddam Hussein.""


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Dentist, n.: A Prestidigitator who, putting metal in one's mouth, pulls coins out of one's pockets."


author: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849).
text:
"Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path."


author: Neel Burton.
text:
"Depression: the healthy suspicion that modern life has no meaning and that modern society is absurd and alienating."


author: Paul Rand.
text:
"Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."


author: Ivan Chermayeff.
text:
"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."


author: Tara Hunt.
text:
"Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither."


author: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973).
text:
"Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were."


author: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC).
text:
"Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones."


author: Frederick Buechner.
text:
"Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven."


author: Ben Azai.
text:
"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place."


author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873).
text:
"Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other."


author: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925).
text:
"Destiny is no 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."


author: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925).
text:
"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"


author: Rhys Alexander.
text:
"Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. Itâs the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."


author: Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888).
text:
"Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression."


author: Phil Stromer 11/9/90-.
text:
"Dictatorship is without a doubt the most satisfying form of government...as long as I'm the dictator."


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true."


author: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727).
text:
"Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared."


author: Eric Wald.
text:
"Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."


author: Sue Murphy.
text:
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."


author: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821).
text:
"Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all."


author: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942).
text:
"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."


author: J. K. Rowling.
text:
"Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream."


author: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD).
text:
"Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology."


author: Jennifer Neal.
text:
"Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of all. If we disappear, you have to find us. You're the one who worries. We know where we are, but you can't leave me. I'm in charge and doing the leaving. Not the other way around."


author: Diane Ackerman.
text:
"Disassociating, mindfulness, transcendence-whatever the label-it's a sort of loophole in our contract with reality, a form of self-rescue."


author: George Washington (1732 - 1799).
text:
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."


author: Maria Montessori (1870 - 1952).
text:
"Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."


author: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865).
text:
"Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."


author: Diogenes.
text:
"Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience."


author: Jean de la Bruyere (1645 - 1696).
text:
"Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy."


author: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900).
text:
"Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made."


author: John Wesley (1703 - 1791).
text:
"Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can."


author: Stephen King (1947 - ).
text:
"Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes , and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much , we reason, how could we not be brought as low as Lucifer for the staggering presumption of our love?"


author: Lenore Hershey.
text:
"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true."


author: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993).
text:
"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."


author: Abdul Baha.
text:
"Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path."


author: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC).
text:
"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."


author: Julius Rosenwald (1862 - 1932).
text:
"Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."


author: The Buddha.
text:
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."


author: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926).
text:
"Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words."


author: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr..
text:
"Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."


author: Isaac Watts.
text:
"Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther."


author: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953).
text:
"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."


author: Isaac Watts.
text:
"Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession."


author: Edward Chapin.
text:
"Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."


author: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961).
text:
"Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward- your destiny-are here and now."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."


author: Saint Basil (329 AD - 379 AD).
text:
"Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself."


author: Phillips Brooks (1835 - 1893).
text:
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle."


author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 - ).
text:
"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."


author: Agnes Macphail.
text:
"Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear.  We meet all life's greatest tests alone. "


author: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC).
text:
"Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee."


author: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC).
text:
"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."


author: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859).
text:
"Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago."


author: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900).
text:
"Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes."


author: Democritus (460 BC - 370 BC).
text:
"Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."


author: Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890).
text:
"Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."


author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962).
text:
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"Do what you think and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand."


author: Prophet Mohammed.
text:
"Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind."


author: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963).
text:
"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy."


author: Donald Trump (1946 - ).
text:
"Do you see how nice I'm behaving tonight? Have you ever seen this? We're all behaving very well and hopefully we can keep it that way, right? We're going to keep it that way."


author: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950).
text:
"Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true."


author: Erica Jong.
text:
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."


author: Erica Jong.
text:
"Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing."


author: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982).
text:
"Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer."


author: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904).
text:
"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."


author: William Saroyan (1908 - 1981).
text:
"Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit."


author: Moliere (1622 - 1673).
text:
"Doctors pour drugs of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, into patients of whom they know nothing."


author: Dick Brandon.
text:
"Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing."


author: Larry Wall.
text:
"Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what it does, don't worry about it."


author: Scott Adams (1957 - ).
text:
"Dogbert: "Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemon, make lemonade." Dilbert: "But i'm allergic to citrus." Dogbert: "Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up and die.""


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."


author: Woody Allen (1935 - ).
text:
"Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib."


author: Viktor Frankl.
text:
"Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."


author: Dale Carnegie.
text:
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."


author: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945).
text:
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."


author: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945).
text:
"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."


author: David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945).
text:
"Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps."


author: Beau M. Jackson.
text:
"Don't be content by just beating others expectations, beat your own expectations as well. And you should expect nothing less but to win."


author: John Keats (1795 - 1821).
text:
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."


author: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942).
text:
"Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away."


author: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924).
text:
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."


author: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962).
text:
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."


author: Hugh Young.
text:
"Don't do things half-assed. If a thing is worth doing at all, it's worth doing as well as you can possibly do it. Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might."


author: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ).
text:
"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."


author: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ).
text:
"Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first."


author: Louis E. Boone.
text:
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894).
text:
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them."


author: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935).
text:
"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."


author: William McDonough.
text:
"Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!"


author: Ellen DeGeneres.
text:
"Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. "


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."


author: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930).
text:
"Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own."


author: Louisa May Alcott (1832 - 1888).
text:
"Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow."


author: Myrlie Evers-Williams.
text:
"Don't measure your wealth by how much money you have. Measure your wealth by how many things you have that you wouldn't take money for."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."


author: James A. Michener.
text:
"Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow."


author: Lillian Eichler Watson.
text:
"Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."


author: William Coronel.
text:
"Don't spend $2 to dry clean a shirt. Instead, donate it to the Salvation Army. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. The next morning buy it back for seventy- five cents."


author: George Patton.
text:
"Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results."


author: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - ).
text:
"Don't tell people to act their age. It's like telling a baby to move out, and if they're older you're telling them to "die in a hole.""


author: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784).
text:
"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."


author: Ray Bradbury (1920 - ).
text:
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."


author: Pooh's Little Instruction Book.
text:
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."


author: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960).
text:
"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend."


author: Mark Roberts.
text:
"Don't waste too much time trying' to be a better man, ' cause you ain't never gonna be one without a good woman."


author: Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973).
text:
"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats."


author: Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973).
text:
"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats."


author: Gallagher.
text:
"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."


author: George S. Patton, Jr..
text:
"Donât Delay: The best is the enemy of the good. By this I mean that a good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week. War is a very simple thing, and the determining characteristics are self-confidence, speed, and audacity. None of these things can ever be perfect, but they can be good."


author: Andrew Soloman.
text:
"Donât think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have."


author: Albert Guerard.
text:
"Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought."


author: C. C. Colton.
text:
"Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Doubt that the stars are fire;  Doubt that the sun doth move;  Doubt truth to be a liar;  But never doubt I love."


author: Nancy Kerrigan.
text:
"Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path."


author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882).
text:
"Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture."


author: James Allen.
text:
"Dream lofty dreams, as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you one day shall be: your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world."


author: Charles William Dement.
text:
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."


author: John Dryden (1631 - 1700).
text:
"Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind."


author: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde.
text:
"Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread: "return to sender, addressee unknown." That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view."


author: Janet Jackson.
text:
"Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society."


author: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937).
text:
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."


author: Frank W. Woolworth.
text:
"Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them."


author: Paul Graham.
text:
"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.""


author: Benjamin Johnson.
text:
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine."


author: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945).
text:
"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony."


author: Beaumarchis.
text:
"Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals."


author: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859).
text:
"Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves."


author: Carl Zwanzig.
text:
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."


author: Carl Zwanzig.
text:
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ..."


author: Carl Zwanzig.
text:
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together."


author: Carl Zwanzig.
text:
"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together..."


author: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965).
text:
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."


author: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007).
text:
"During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice."


author: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956).
text:
"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."


author: Stephen Ambrose (1936 - 2002).
text:
"During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history."


author: Fritjof Capra.
text:
"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight."


author: Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870).
text:
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."


author: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965).
text:
"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."


author: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ).
text:
"Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound..."


author: Raymond Holliwell.
text:
"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."


author: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977).
text:
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."


author: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008).
text:
"Each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking, of less able minds--and then confidently embarks on making fresh errors of its own."


author: Lawrence Bixby.
text:
"Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too."


author: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941).
text:
"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."


author: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592).
text:
"Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun."


author: Douglas Pagels.
text:
"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."


author: Kenny Ausubel.
text:
"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets."


author: William Baziotes.
text:
"Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself."


author: Colby Dorr Dam.
text:
"Each person has an ideal, a hope, a dream which represents the soul. We must give to it the warmth of love, the light of understanding and the essence of encouragement."


author: Voltaire (1694 - 1778).
text:
"Each player must accept the cards life deals him.  But once they are in hand, he alone must decide  how to play the cards in order to win the game."


author: George Santayana (1863 - 1952).
text:
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny."


author: Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968).
text:
"Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope."


author: John Locke (1632 - 1704).
text:
"Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."


author: Babylonian Talmud.
text:
"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."


author: Tom Hanks (1956 - ).
text:
"Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, thereâs less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, whatâs the fun in eating anything you want to?"


author: Dorothy Draper.
text:
"Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible."


author: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964).
text:
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Eduaction is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."


author: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790).
text:
"Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society."


author: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859).
text:
"Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity."


author: Hosea Ballou (1796 - 1861).
text:
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character."


author: Gunnar Myrdal.
text:
"Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society."


author: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962).
text:
"Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. "


author: Elie Wiesel (1928 - ).
text:
"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century."


author: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719).
text:
"Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."


author: Robert Hutchins (1899 - 1977).
text:
"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view."


author: Lillian Smith.
text:
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."


author: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900).
text:
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."


author: Marian Wright Edelman.
text:
"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it."


author: Wu Ting-Fang.
text:
"Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled."


author: Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.
text:
"Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue."


author: Robert M. Hutchins.
text:
"Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible."


author: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963).
text:
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."


author: Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar.
text:
"Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require."


author: Unknown.
text:
"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."


author: Baron Henry Peter Brougham.
text:
"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave."


author: Henry Peter Brougham.
text:
"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."


author: Sir William Haley.
text:
"Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding."


author: G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962).
text:
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."


author: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910).
text:
"Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge."


author: Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin.
text:
"Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.)"


author: Dennis Koenig and Jordan Budde.
text:
"Einstein said God doesn't play dice with the universe, but I don't know--maybe not as a whole, but I think he gets a pretty big kick out of messing in peoples' back yards."


author: Mark Coggins.
text:
"Einstein said that God does not play dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesnât play dice with the universe because the universe doesnât need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether or not God put it there is besides the point."


author: Arthur Koestler (1905 - 1983).
text:
"Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet."


author: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960).
text:
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."


author: Dave Barry (1947 - ).
text:
"Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking."


author: Clifford Stoll.
text:
"Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships."


author: Alford.
text:
"Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are."


author: Piero Ferrucci.
text:
"Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure."


author: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885).
text:
"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."


author: Howard Gardner.
text:
"Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world."


author: Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954).
text:
"Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: "And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay."


author: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986).
text:
"Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaces by vague ritual."


author: Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471).
text:
"Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?"


author: Richard Simmons.
text:
"Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when youâre happy and believe in yourself."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."


author: Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964).
text:
"Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege."


author: R. E. Hellmund.
text:
"Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity."


author: Dean Gordon Brown.
text:
"Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society..."


author: Henry G. Stott.
text:
"Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race."


author: S. E. Lindsay.
text:
"Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind."


author: T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish.
text:
"Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth."


author: Ralph J. Smith.
text:
"Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man."


author: William A. Smith.
text:
"Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste."


author: Cory Doctorow.
text:
"Engineers are all basically high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff."


author: L. M. K. Boelter.
text:
"Engineers participate in the activities which make the resources of nature available in a form beneficial to man and provide systems which will perform optimally and economically."


author: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881).
text:
"Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."


author: Laura Moncur (1969 - ).
text:
"Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to "get by.""


author: William Occam.
text:
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)"


author: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004).
text:
"Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."


author: Jerome Lettvin.
text:
"Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking."


author: Bate.
text:
"Equation (1.2-9) is a second order, nonlinear, vector, differential equation which has defied solution in its present form. It is here therefore we depart from the realities of nature to make some simplifying assumptions..."


author: Edward Powell Hubble.
text:
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science."


author: Azel Backus.
text:
"Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience."


author: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845).
text:
"Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation."


author: Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987).
text:
"Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience."


author: Charlotte P Gilman.
text:
"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."


author: Valdemar W. Setzer.
text:
"Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling."


author: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965).
text:
"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil."


author: Mike Kellen.
text:
"Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term "etymology" was formed from the Latin "etus" ("eaten"), the root "mal" ("bad"), and "logy" ("study of"). It meant "the study of things that are hard to swallow.""


author: Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
text:
"Europe is spreading its wings. In freedom. In prosperity. And in peace. It is a truly proud moment for the European Union. It is a triumph for liberty and democracy. To our new members I say: "Warmly welcome to our family". Our new Europe is born."


author: Margaret Thatcher (1925 - ).
text:
"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy."


author: Walter Lord.
text:
"Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit- a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor- that can lift men from certain defeat to incredible victory."


author: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616).
text:
"Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten."


author: Robert Bolt.
text:
"Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."


author: John Viscount Morley.
text:
"Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way."


author: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001).
text:
"Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart."


author: Quentin Crisp.
text:
"Even holligans marry, though they know that marriage is but for a little while. It is alimony that is forever."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."


author: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon.
text:
"Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground."


author: Frances Moore Lappe.
text:
"Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully."


author: Henry James (1843 - 1916).
text:
"Even when a thing's already nice there mostly is some other thing that would have been nicer - or as to which we wonder if it wouldn't."


author: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC).
text:
"Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike."


author: W. R. Inge.
text:
"Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter."


author: Norman Maclean.
text:
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."


author: Howard Baker Jr..
text:
"Eventually, somebody is going to be a hero, and somebody's going to be president. Not necessarily the same person."


author: Thomas Szasz.
text:
"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all."


author: Auguste Comte.
text:
"Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science."


author: Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946).
text:
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."


author: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826).
text:
"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."


author: Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869).
text:
"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down."


author: Robert Collier.
text:
"Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning."


author: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991).
text:
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."


author: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862).
text:
"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it."


author: Unknown Russian.
text:
"Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination."


author: Robert Orben.
text:
"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."


author: Thich Nhat Hanh.
text:
"Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."


author: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965).
text:
"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."


author: Joshua Schachter.
text:
"Every decision has a cost. Do I have to make this decision at all or can I move on to the next thing? What we decided to leave out is almost as important as what we put in."


author: Salter.
text:
"Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."


author: Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924).
text:
"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us"


author: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961).
text:
"Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."


author: George Orwell (1903 - 1950).
text:
"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."


author: Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975).
text:
"Every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment to moment on the razor edge of danger and must be fought for."


author: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011).
text:
"Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves."


author: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958).
text:
"Every great improvement has come after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the road to achievement."


author: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973).
text:
"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."


author: Florence Scovel Shinn.
text:
"Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed."


author: Dwight David Eisenhower.
text:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms isn't spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of their scientists, the hopes of its children... This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."


author: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969).
text:
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."


author: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993).
text:
"Every human being is born with a tragedy , and it isn't orginal sin. He is born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it."


author: Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993).
text:
"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it."


author: U Thant.
text:
"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."


author: Jane Goodall (1934 - ).
text:
"Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference."


author: Martha Beck.
text:
"Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want."


author: Marcus Aurelius.
text:
"Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity. All things are petty, easily changed, and vanishing away."


author: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955).
text:
"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."


author: Francoise Sagan (1935 - ).
text:
"Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself."


author: Henry Miller (1891 - 1980).
text:
"Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."


author: Alphonse Karr (1808-1890).
text:
"Every man has three characters-that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."


author: Alphonse Karr.
text:
"Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."


author: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915).
text:
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit."


author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882).
text:
"Every man is hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person, whatever he says has an enhanced value."


author: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
text:
"Every man is important is he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one."


author: Robertson Davies.
text:
"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."


author: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931).
text:
"Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."


author: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804).
text:
"Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition."


author: Helen Rowland (1876 - 1950).
text:
"Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them."


author: George Eliot (1819 - 1880).
text:
"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."


author: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
text:
"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day."


author: Evelyn Underhill.
text:
"Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again."


author: Robert Orben.
text:
"Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."


author: George W. Bush (1946 - ).
text:
"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."


author: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956).
text:
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. "


author: H.S. Thompson.
text:
"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us."


author: Richard Whately.
text:
"Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth."


author: Gordon Atkinson.
text:
"EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. Weâre looking for something, though weâre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist."


author: Alfred A. Montapert.
text:
"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."


author: Richard Bach.
text:
"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."


author: Eric Wald.
text:
"Every pilot needs a co-pilot, and let me tell you, it is awful nice to have someone sitting there beside you, especially when you hit some bumpy air."


author: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963).
text:
"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."


author: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922).
text:
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."


author: Abdul Baha.
text:
"Every religion which does not concern itself with Science is mere tradition, and that is not the essential. Therefore science, education and civilization are most important necessities for the full religious life."


author: John Dewey (1859 - 1952).
text:
"Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts."


author: Barbara Sher.
text:
"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."


author: G. Stanley Hall (1844 - 1924).
text:
"Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself. "


author: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914).
text:
"Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich."


author: Shakti Gawain.
text:
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself."


author: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ).
text:
"Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design."


author: Author Unknown.
text:
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith."


author: Hilary Duff (1987 - ).
text:
"Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics."


author: Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875).
text:
"Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses."


author: Paris Hilton (1981 - ).
text:
"Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything."


author: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967).
text:
"Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants."


author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935).
text:
"Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge."


author: Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993).
text:
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."


author: Brittany Murphy.
text:
"Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them."


author: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817).
text:
"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."


author: James E. Faust.
text:
"Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope."


author: Hugh Macleod.
text:
"Everybody is too busy with their own lives to give a damn about your book, painting, screenplay etc, especially if you haven't sold it yet. And the ones that aren't, you don't want in your life anyway."


author: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946).
text:
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."


author: John Muir (1838 - 1914).
text:
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."


author: Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC).
text:
"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness."


author: John Knowles.
text:
"Everyone has a moment in history that belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person 'the world today' or 'life' or 'reality' he will assume you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotion, imprinted itself on him and he carries that stamp of that passing moment forever."


author: Viggo Mortensen.
text:
"Everyone has it in them to be an artist. No matter what you pursue in life you can still express your own unique artistic vision. And that is the most important thing to do. It doesn't matter what those around you think or say about your art, what matters is to just go through the process of creating. It's only within that process that you can understand."


