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Confucius Quotes

"[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his
actions."
--Confucius

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
--Confucius

"A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
--Confucius

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."
--Confucius

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
--Confucius

"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart."
--Confucius

"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."
--Confucius

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
--Confucius

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon
heaven."
--Confucius

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."
--Confucius

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
--Confucius

"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
--Confucius

"Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses."
--Confucius

Topic: Kindness
"Forget injuries; never forget kindness."
--Confucius

Topic: Gravity
"Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it."
--Confucius

"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
--Confucius

"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north
polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
--Confucius

"He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great
danger."
--Confucius

"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
--Confucius

Topic: Economy
"He who will not economize will have to agonize."
--Confucius

Topic: Reward
"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."
--Confucius

"He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that
startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."
--Confucius

"Heaven means to be one with God."
--Confucius

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
--Confucius

"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of
antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there."
--Confucius

"I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He
who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
--Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
--Confucius

"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand."
--Confucius

"I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own
want of ability."
--Confucius

"If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
--Confucius

"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick
out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and
correct them in myself."
--Confucius

"If we don't know life, how can we know death?"
--Confucius

Topic: Heart
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to
worry about? What is there to fear?"
--Confucius

"If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for
something. A lot of people don't even shoot."
--Confucius

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."
--Confucius

Topic: Ignorance
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. "
--Confucius

Topic: Poverty
"In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly
governed wealth is something to be ashamed of."
--Confucius

"In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly
governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of."
--Confucius

"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may
fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?)
worthy of being known."
--Confucius

"Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand."
--Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
--Confucius

"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
--Confucius

"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things
works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."
--Confucius

Topic: Truth
"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."
--Confucius

"It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
--Confucius

Topic: Thought
"Learning without thought is labor lost."
--Confucius

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
--Confucius

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
--Confucius

"Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A
man simply cannot conceal himself!"
--Confucius

"Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart."
--Confucius

"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
--Confucius

"Never give a sword to a man who can't dance."
--Confucius

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

"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off
the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
--Confucius

"One atom of the plane where He functions would shatter the world."
--Confucius

"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
--Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall"
--Confucius

Topic: Resilience
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
--Confucius

Topic: Knowledge
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
--Confucius

"Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."
--Confucius

"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
--Confucius

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
--Confucius

"Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three
steps thou wilt go near the gods."
--Confucius

"Study the past if you would define the future."
--Confucius

Topic: Past
"Study the past if you would divine the future."
--Confucius

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
--Confucius

"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure
to be failure."
--Confucius

"Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head."
--Confucius

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

"The cautious seldom err."
--Confucius

"The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of
injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue
complete."
--Confucius

Topic: Knowledge
"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your
ignorance."
--Confucius

Topic: Diligence
"The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his
work must first sharpen his tools."
--Confucius

"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
--Confucius

"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success
only a subsequent consideration."
--Confucius

"The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is
prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back
it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man."
--Confucius

"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world
at large."
--Confucius

"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate
the bad. The inferior does the reverse."
--Confucius

Topic: Truth
"The object of the superior man is truth."
--Confucius

"The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to
understand it."
--Confucius

"The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
--Confucius

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
--Confucius

"The superior man bends his attention to what is radical. That being established, all
practical courses naturally grow up."
--Confucius

"The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great
concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known
in little matters."
--Confucius

"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the
fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
--Confucius

Topic: Firmness
"The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm."
--Confucius

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
--Confucius

"The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress."
--Confucius

"The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only
comes later."
--Confucius

"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."
--Confucius

"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will
sell."
--Confucius

Topic: Inferiority
"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will
sell. "
--Confucius

"The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what is
right he will follow."
--Confucius

"The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day
be uppermost."
--Confucius

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are
the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
--Confucius

"There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is
strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness."
--Confucius

"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
--Confucius

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
--Confucius

"Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to
blame."
--Confucius

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect
virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
--Confucius

Topic: Heaven
"To be with God."
--Confucius

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
--Confucius

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
--Confucius

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
--Confucius

Topic: Cowardice
"To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice."
--Confucius

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."
--Confucius

"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are
gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
--Confucius

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in
order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first
cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
--Confucius

Topic: Wickedness
"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."
--Confucius

"To see the right and not to do it is cowardice."
--Confucius

Topic: Perception
"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."
--Confucius

"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle."
--Confucius

"Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on
water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
--Confucius

"Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
--Confucius

"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by
the boredom which they inspire."
--Confucius

"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others."
--Confucius

"What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
--Confucius

"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
--Confucius

"When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable
him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again."
--Confucius

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."
--Confucius

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the
action steps."
--Confucius

Topic: Prosperity
"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."
--Confucius

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine
ourselves."
--Confucius

"When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a
contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
--Confucius

"When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons
of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
--Confucius

"When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself."
--Confucius

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
--Confucius

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to
allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
--Confucius

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to
allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
--Confucius

"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
--Confucius

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
--Confucius

"While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While
you do not know life, how can you know about death?"
--Confucius

"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still
joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me
as a floating cloud."
--Confucius

"Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to
be established."
--Confucius

Topic: Word
"Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men."
--Confucius

"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."
--Confucius

"You cannot open a book without learning something."
--Confucius

George Washington Carver Quotes

"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom"
--George Washington Carver

"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually
destroy the hater."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because
someday in your life you will have been all of these."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong.
Because someday in life you will have been all of these"

Topic: Nature
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks
to us every hour, if we only will tune in."

"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks
to us every hour, if we will only tune in."

Topic: Failure
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making
excuses."

"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."

"Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here
and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there,
within us, waiting to give us good on this earth."

"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he
can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore
stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."

"We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home
modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy
day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts."

"When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God
answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the
peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size."

"When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or
white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be."

"When you can do the common things in life in a uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world."

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world."

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope."

Albert Einstein Quotes

"A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend 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."
--Albert Einstein

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
--Albert Einstein

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
--Albert Einstein

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

"A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
--Albert Einstein

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
--Albert Einstein

"A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?"
--Albert Einstein

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?"
--Albert Einstein

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce
in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well."
--Albert Einstein

"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."
--Albert Einstein

"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most
precious thing we have."
--Albert Einstein

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
--Albert Einstein

"All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring
within us."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Value
"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual."
--Albert Einstein

"All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle
of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them."
--Albert Einstein

"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's
actions."
--Albert Einstein

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Hunger
"An empty stomach is not a good political advisor."
--Albert Einstein

"An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically
organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists
inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information."
--Albert Einstein

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
--Albert Einstein

"Any 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."
--Albert Einstein

"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."
--Albert Einstein

"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss
the attention it deserves."
--Albert Einstein

"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones
either."
--Albert Einstein

"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
--Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they
are certain, they do not refer to reality."
--Albert Einstein

"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they
are certain, they do not refer to reality."
--Albert Einstein

"At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice."
--Albert Einstein

"At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings
by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on."
--Albert Einstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
--Albert Einstein

"But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of
our instincts."
--Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
--Albert Einstein

"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical
endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
--Albert Einstein

"Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our
age."
--Albert Einstein

"Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions
referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Violence
"Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts
moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels."
--Albert Einstein

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still
greater."
--Albert Einstein

"Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me"
--Albert Einstein

"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an
unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."
--Albert Einstein

"Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to
find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of
personal experience."
--Albert Einstein

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."
--Albert Einstein

"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.
Truth is what stands the test of experience."
--Albert Einstein

"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."
--Albert Einstein

"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
--Albert Einstein

"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we
have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings,
vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance."
--Albert Einstein

"Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Simplicity
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein

"Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot
necessarily be counted."
--Albert Einstein

"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in
freedom."
--Albert Einstein

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
--Albert Einstein

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the
prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such
opinions."
--Albert Einstein

"Force always attracts men of low morality."
--Albert Einstein

"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of
minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."
--Albert Einstein

"Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh
and blood."
--Albert Einstein

"God always takes the simplest way."
--Albert Einstein

"God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: God
"God is clever, but not dishonest."
--Albert Einstein

"God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean."
--Albert Einstein

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
--Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre
mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional
prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Adversity
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
--Albert Einstein

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes
are closed."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Wonder
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his
eyes are closed."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Conformity And Nonconformity
"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been
given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
--Albert Einstein

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He
has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
--Albert Einstein

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

"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of
goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot."
--Albert Einstein

"How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what
purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from
daily life that one exists for other people."
--Albert Einstein

"Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
--Albert Einstein

"Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values
above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity own to personalities like
Buddha, Moses, and J esus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the of the
inquiring constructive mind."
--Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
--Albert Einstein

"I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force
behind scientific research."
--Albert Einstein

"I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for
the body and the mind."
--Albert Einstein

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a
reflection of human frailty."
--Albert Einstein

"I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get
together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to
secure their influence in the political field."
--Albert Einstein

"I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an
exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
--Albert Einstein

"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
--Albert Einstein

"I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
--Albert Einstein

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be
fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein

"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"
--Albert Einstein

"I have just got a new theory of eternity."
--Albert Einstein

"I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part,
and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy."
--Albert Einstein

"I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical
basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way
and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty."
--Albert Einstein

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be
fought with sticks and stones."
--Albert Einstein

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and
dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Solitude
"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
--Albert Einstein

"I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt
recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that
the Germans would make them."
--Albert Einstein

"I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of
scientific research."
--Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Future
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
--Albert Einstein

"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The
hundredth time I am right."
--Albert Einstein

"I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements.
That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I
like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it."
--Albert Einstein

"I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
--Albert Einstein

"I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details."
--Albert Einstein

"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details"
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Success
"If A equal success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y
play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A =X +Y +Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep
your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is
keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein

"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
--Albert Einstein

"If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more
ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the
wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it."
--Albert Einstein

"If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and
France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue,
France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a J ew."
--Albert Einstein

"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and
France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue,
France will say I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a J ew."
--Albert Einstein

"If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely
human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the
individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all
mankind."
--Albert Einstein

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are
a sorry lot indeed."
--Albert Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
--Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Truth
"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world."
--Albert Einstein

"Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
--Albert Einstein

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems,
for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."
--Albert Einstein

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

"In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants
of the primary instincts."
--Albert Einstein

"Information is not knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
--Albert Einstein

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."
--Albert Einstein

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
--Albert Einstein

"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular
fellow?"
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Conformity
"It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible
nonconformist warmly acclaimed."
--Albert Einstein

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
--Albert Einstein

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education"
--Albert Einstein

"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
--Albert Einstein

"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a
college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college
is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot
be learned from textbooks."
--Albert Einstein

"It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
--Albert Einstein

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
--Albert Einstein

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his
convictions in political affairs."
--Albert Einstein

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Observation
"It is the theory that decides what can be observed."
--Albert Einstein

"It is theory that decides what can be observed."
--Albert Einstein

"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Science
"It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has
overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
--Albert Einstein

"It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."
--Albert Einstein

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
--Albert Einstein

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
--Albert Einstein

"J oy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
--Albert Einstein

"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will."
--Albert Einstein

"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
--Albert Einstein

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his
views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
--Albert Einstein

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to
stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
--Albert Einstein

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
--Albert Einstein

"Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket
solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous."
--Albert Einstein

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better."
--Albert Einstein

"Love is a better teacher than duty."
--Albert Einstein

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."
--Albert Einstein

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
--Albert Einstein

"Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be
expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
--Albert Einstein

"Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong:
it is character."
--Albert Einstein

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals
himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Nationalism
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
--Albert Einstein

"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race."
--Albert Einstein

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
--Albert Einstein

"Never lose a holy curiosity."
--Albert Einstein

"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the
liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to
the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
--Albert Einstein

"Never regard your study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the
liberating influence of beauty in the realm of spirit for your own personal joy and to the
profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
--Albert Einstein

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove
me wrong."
--Albert Einstein

"No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
--Albert Einstein

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted."
--Albert Einstein

"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are
recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until
then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as
civilized."
--Albert Einstein

"Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than
passing laws which cannot be enforced."
--Albert Einstein

"Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising
my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth."
--Albert Einstein

"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the
variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
--Albert Einstein

"On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the
totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it."
--Albert Einstein

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."
--Albert Einstein

"One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
--Albert Einstein

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

"One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as
the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure
in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the
community."
--Albert Einstein

"One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of
a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
--Albert Einstein

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
--Albert Einstein

"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true
master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
--Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about
the former."
--Albert Einstein

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all
living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
--Albert Einstein

"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
--Albert Einstein

"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."
--Albert Einstein

"Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age"
--Albert Einstein

"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem-in my opinion-to characterize our
age."
--Albert Einstein

"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by
perpetually rejuvenated illusions."
--Albert Einstein

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity."
--Albert Einstein

"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been
contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one,
best both for the body and the mind."
--Albert Einstein

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."
--Albert Einstein

"Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."
--Albert Einstein

"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
--Albert Einstein

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like anhour. Sit with a pretty girl
for an hour, and it seems like a minute.THAT'S relativity."
--Albert Einstein

"Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the
real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the
Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice"
--Albert Einstein

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any
man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of
thinking."
--Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
--Albert Einstein

"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it"
--Albert Einstein

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Religion
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
--Albert Einstein

"Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds."
--Albert Einstein

"Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Bargain
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
--Albert Einstein

"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing
why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life,
however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men."
--Albert Einstein

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
--Albert Einstein

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal"
--Albert Einstein

"That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is
revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
--Albert Einstein

"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then
only for a short while."
--Albert Einstein

"The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or
we suffer in soul or we get fat."
--Albert Einstein

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
--Albert Einstein

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent
illusion."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Class
"The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on
force."
--Albert Einstein

"The environment is everything that isn't me."
--Albert Einstein

"The faster you go, the shorter you are."
--Albert Einstein

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for
someone who's dead."
--Albert Einstein

"The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any
authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the
foundation of sound judgment and action."
--Albert Einstein

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive
knowledge."
--Albert Einstein

"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
--Albert Einstein

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Taxation
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
--Albert Einstein

"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."
--Albert Einstein

"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule..."
--Albert Einstein

"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are
goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed
to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
--Albert Einstein

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Curiosity
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality."
--Albert Einstein

"The legs are the wheels of creativity."
--Albert Einstein

"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be
merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new
possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and
marks real advances in science."
--Albert Einstein

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church
as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses,
and make its tool of them."
--Albert Einstein

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."
--Albert Einstein

"The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks"
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Mystery
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
--Albert Einstein

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true
art and science."
--Albert Einstein

"The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner
balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give
beauty and dignity to life."
--Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein

"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: War
"The next World War will be fought with stones."
--Albert Einstein

"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
--Albert Einstein

"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
--Albert Einstein

"The only source of knowledge is experience."
--Albert Einstein

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
--Albert Einstein

"The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working."
--Albert Einstein

"The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be
replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was
superstition, and as such had to be opposed."
--Albert Einstein

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military
service."
--Albert Einstein

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that
created them."
--Albert Einstein

"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
--Albert Einstein

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

"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of
ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man."
--Albert Einstein

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the
solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have
become a watchmaker."
--Albert Einstein

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more
urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
--Albert Einstein

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on
experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific
needs it will be Buddhism..."
--Albert Einstein

"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."
--Albert Einstein

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
--Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were
at when we created them."
--Albert Einstein

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with
which we created them."
--Albert Einstein

"The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to
defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are
the constitutional rights secure."
--Albert Einstein

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
--Albert Einstein

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking
and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
--Albert Einstein

"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to
receive."
--Albert Einstein

"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
--Albert Einstein

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a
very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless
is the same, only without the cat."
--Albert Einstein

"The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in
my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in
thought are certain signs and more or less clear images."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Evil
"The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who don't do anything about it."
--Albert Einstein

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but
because of the people who don't do anything about it."
--Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The
other is as though everything is a miracle."
--Albert Einstein

"There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never
prove how it got there."
--Albert Einstein

"There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way
of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
--Albert Einstein

"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing
before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and
thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation."
--Albert Einstein

"They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the
medium of powerful personalities."
--Albert Einstein

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Patriotism
"This heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--
how intensely I despise them!"
--Albert Einstein

"Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts
and the resulting actions."
--Albert Einstein

"To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest
wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true
religiousness."
--Albert Einstein

"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
--Albert Einstein

"To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process
of conceptualization."
--Albert Einstein

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle,
requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
--Albert Einstein

"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing
Newton's ground."
--Albert Einstein

"To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self."
--Albert Einstein

"Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is
reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
--Albert Einstein

"True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
--Albert Einstein

"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and
righteousness."
--Albert Einstein

"Truth is what stands the test of experience."
--Albert Einstein

"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Success
"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Success And Failure
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Human Nature
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the
universe."
--Albert Einstein

"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our
actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Humanity
"We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings."
--Albert Einstein

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
--Albert Einstein

"We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of
living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity...
what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a
knowledge of order itself."
--Albert Einstein

"We must be prepared to make heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make
ungrudgingly for the cause of war. There is no task that is more important or closer to my
heart."
--Albert Einstein

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
--Albert Einstein

Topic: Intelligence
"We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful
muscles, but no personality."
--Albert Einstein

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character"
--Albert Einstein

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on
a hot stove for a minute-and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
--Albert Einstein

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the
gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking."
--Albert Einstein

"When the solution is simple, God is answering."
--Albert Einstein

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-
hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
--Albert Einstein

"When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always
reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about."
--Albert Einstein

"Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face
it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and
Science."
--Albert Einstein

"Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important
matters."
--Albert Einstein

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
--Albert Einstein

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
--Albert Einstein

"Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little
happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible
use of it."
--Albert Einstein

"Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
--Albert Einstein

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But
to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present
concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
--Albert Einstein

"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one."
--Albert Einstein

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created."
--Albert Einstein

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
--Albert Einstein

"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York
and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates
exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference
is that there is no cat."
--Albert Einstein

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Topic: Candor
"A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered
to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Love
"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Vow
"A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is
related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Crime
"All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at
purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Gun Control
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of
depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the change you want to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Cowardice
"Cowards can never be moral."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Culture
"Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Cowardice
"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Freedom
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my
comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in
depriving other human beings of that precious right."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Government
"Good government is no substitute for self-government."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Happiness
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Hate the sin and love the sinner."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Difference
"Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Inheritance
"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance.
That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. "
--Mahatma Gandhi

"I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession [of
medicine] and that it is injurious to mankind."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"I offer you peace. I offer you love . I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your
need. I feel your feelings My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source
in you. Let us work together for unity and love."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"I think it would be a good idea."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"I want freedom for the full expression on my personality."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Humor
"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"If you don't ask, you don't get."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and
deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness"
--Mahatma Gandhi

"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest
after Truth."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Force
"In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that
any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of
nonviolence to cover impotence."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Quality
"It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Wisdom
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the
strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Life
"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Culture
"No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Self-Control
"Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to
pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended
against the heaviest odds."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Vow
"Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then
breaks it, forfeits his manhood."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Prayer
"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the
most potent instrument of action."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Prayer
"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: President
"President means chief servant."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Idleness
"Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. "
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Will
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Self-Confidence
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-
confidence, bravery and tenacity."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Sacrifice
"The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from
their enforced sacrifice."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Conscience
"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without
conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without
morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Forgiveness
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the
form of bread."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Worry
"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Unity
"Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the
mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty
or democracy?"
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always
won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in
the end, they always fall - think of it, ALWAYS."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love"
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Love
"Where there is love there is life."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Progress
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean
are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
--Mahatma Gandhi

Topic: Vow
"Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."
--Mahatma Gandhi

C. S. Lewis Quotes

"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."
--C. S. Lewis

"A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility,
thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than
one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride."
--C. S. Lewis

"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is
in our lives."
--C. S. Lewis

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
--C. S. Lewis

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."
--C. S. Lewis

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think.
All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
--C. S. Lewis

"Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only
thing it cannot be is moderately important."
--C. S. Lewis

"Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying
to your readers "Please will you do the job for me.""
--C. S. Lewis

"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."
--C. S. Lewis

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever
devil."
--C. S. Lewis

"Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
--C. S. Lewis

"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."
--C. S. Lewis

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
--C. S. Lewis

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."
--C. S. Lewis

"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity."
--C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I
thought I was the only one!""
--C. S. Lewis

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is
one of those things that give value to survival."
--C. S. Lewis

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.
There is no such thing."
--C. S. Lewis

"Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better
things ahead than any we leave behind."
--C. S. Lewis

"How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete."
--C. S. Lewis

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal
world, but as animals they inhabit time."
--C. S. Lewis

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but
because by it I see everything else."
--C. S. Lewis

"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
--C. S. Lewis

"I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."
--C. S. Lewis

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no
meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with
eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
--C. S. Lewis

"If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to
breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side - if we could know!"
--C. S. Lewis

"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing
our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals,
enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."
--C. S. Lewis

"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home,"
why should we not look forward to the arrival?"
--C. S. Lewis

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will
not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the
end, despair."
--C. S. Lewis

"If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world
were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely
ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."
--C. S. Lewis

"It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't
matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has
consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that
birth doesn't matter."
--C. S. Lewis

"It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you
must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere."
--C. S. Lewis

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to
learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on
indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
--C. S. Lewis

"It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one."
--C. S. Lewis

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity
elsewhere."
--C. S. Lewis

"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary
competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the
deserts that our lives have already become."
--C. S. Lewis

"Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done
things. We had time."
--C. S. Lewis

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the
whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
--C. S. Lewis

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
--C. S. Lewis

"Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a
harlot and from it we wake in despair."
--C. S. Lewis

"Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they "own" their
bodies - those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds,
in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at
the pleasure of Another!"
--C. S. Lewis

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
--C. S. Lewis

"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
--C. S. Lewis

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most
oppressive."
--C. S. Lewis

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you
don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only
live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
--C. S. Lewis

"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning."
--C. S. Lewis

"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but
they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our
share in the passion of Christ."
--C. S. Lewis

"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things:
so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be
gratified at the expense of the rest..."
--C. S. Lewis

Topic: Instinct
"Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things:
so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be
gratified at the expense of the rest...."
--C. S. Lewis

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour,
whatever he does, whoever he is."
--C. S. Lewis

"The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity
are excellent campaigning weather for the devil."
--C. S. Lewis

"The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous
old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and
who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the
time comes, don't you worry."
--C. S. Lewis

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some
do not."
--C. S. Lewis

Topic: Hell
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without
sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
--C. S. Lewis

"The safest road to hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without
sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
--C. S. Lewis

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
--C. S. Lewis

"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to
whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way.""
--C. S. Lewis

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am
now a walking and talking adult."
--C. S. Lewis

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own
enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."
--C. S. Lewis

"We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-
turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is
the most progressive."
--C. S. Lewis

"We are what we believe we are"
--C. S. Lewis

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
--C. S. Lewis

"What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean,
which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level
than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as
it were, off our guard."
--C. S. Lewis

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men
over other men with Nature as its instrument."
--C. S. Lewis

"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere."
--C. S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
--C. S. Lewis

"You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."
--C. S. Lewis

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
--C. S. Lewis

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."
--C. S. Lewis

Mother Teresa Quotes

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
--Mother Teresa

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much
greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
--Mother Teresa

"Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is
to love without getting tired."
--Mother Teresa

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
--Mother Teresa

"Each one of them is J esus in disguise."
--Mother Teresa

"Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments
and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.
Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of
peace of the world."
--Mother Teresa

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful
thing."
--Mother Teresa

"God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
--Mother Teresa

"Good works are links that form a chain of love."
--Mother Teresa

"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the
world."
--Mother Teresa

"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I don't know that when we die and it
comes time for God to judge us, he will NOT ask, How many good things have you done
in your life?, rather he will ask, How much LOVE did you put into what you did?"
--Mother Teresa

"I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness."
--Mother Teresa

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only
more love."
--Mother Teresa

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me
so much."
--Mother Teresa

Topic: Kindness
"I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness."
--Mother Teresa

"I think I'm more difficult than critical."
--Mother Teresa

"I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I
wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of
God."
--Mother Teresa

"I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door
neighbor?"
--Mother Teresa

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
--Mother Teresa

"If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it."
--Mother Teresa

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
--Mother Teresa

"If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp
burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
--Mother Teresa

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love"
--Mother Teresa

"Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
--Mother Teresa

"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen."
--Mother Teresa

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
--Mother Teresa

"It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is
easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of
someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love
for each other must start."
--Mother Teresa

"It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that
matters."
--Mother Teresa

"J esus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world."
--Mother Teresa

Topic: J oy
"J oy is a net of love by which yo can catch souls."
--Mother Teresa

"J oy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
--Mother Teresa

"J oy is prayer - J oy is strength - J oy is love - J oy is a net of love by which you can catch
souls."
--Mother Teresa

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
--Mother Teresa

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
--Mother Teresa

"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love."
--Mother Teresa

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile.
Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."
--Mother Teresa

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of
peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
--Mother Teresa

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
--Mother Teresa

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we
have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
--Mother Teresa

Topic: Loneliness
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
--Mother Teresa

"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."
--Mother Teresa

"Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that
action."
--Mother Teresa

"Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home."
--Mother Teresa

"Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
--Mother Teresa

"Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of J esus."
--Mother Teresa

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody."
--Mother Teresa

"Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how
much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
--Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile."
--Mother Teresa

"People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway."
--Mother Teresa

"So many signatures for such a small heart."
--Mother Teresa

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
--Mother Teresa

"Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many
responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or
impatience."
--Mother Teresa

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being
unwanted."
--Mother Teresa

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child,
what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
--Mother Teresa

"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
--Mother Teresa

"The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it."
--Mother Teresa

"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved."
--Mother Teresa

"The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is
natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or
not does not determine the value of what we have done."
--Mother Teresa

"There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is
where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ,
and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible."
--Mother Teresa

"There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for
bread."
--Mother Teresa

"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have
worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away
things that we could use."
--Mother Teresa

"There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do
then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."
--Mother Teresa

Topic: Help
"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."
--Mother Teresa

"We are all pencils in the hand of God."
--Mother Teresa

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."
--Mother Teresa

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend
of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon
and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
--Mother Teresa

"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean
would be less because of that missing drop."
--Mother Teresa

"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do."
--Mother Teresa

"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The
poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must
start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
--Mother Teresa

"We, the unwilling,led by the unknowing,are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We
have done so much,for so long,with so little,we are now qualified to do anything with
nothing."
--Mother Teresa

"Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
--Mother Teresa

Saint Thomas Aquinas Quotes

"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"And therefore the Philosopher [Aristotle] says in Metaphysics VI that good and evil,
which are objects of the will, are in things, but truth and error, which are objects of the
intellect, are in the mind."

"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of
myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder."

"Beware of the person of one book."

"Beware the man of one book."

"By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments."

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most
agreeable pursuits become tedious."

"Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good..."

"Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will."

Topic: War
"In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the
sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention."

"Love takes up where knowledge leaves off."

"Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason."

"My life is my message."

"Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them."

"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A
thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation
in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative
life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet"

"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation
in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative
life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt
for contemplation."

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe;
to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."

"To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them."

"Well-ordered self-love is right and natural."

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

"[Water is] the only drink for a wise man."
--Henry David Thoreau

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste,
no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not
of the cars."

"A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another
kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her
until you tread on it."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

Topic: Wealth
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone."

Topic: Risk
"A man sits as many risks as he runs."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the
hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning
or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and
commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting."

"Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no
means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little
occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case."

"After the first blush of sin comes its indifference."

"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the
last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if
we are to face the future as finishers."

Topic: Worth
"All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear."

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

"All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to
it, a playing with right and wrong."

"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

Topic: Conformity
"Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."

Topic: Majority
"Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one."

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make
a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make
a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to
dominate our lives."

"As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it
fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my
constitution."

"As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!"

Topic: Time
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."

"As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be
solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."

Topic: Thought
"Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts."

"Be not simply good - be good for something."

"Be not simply good; be good for something."

Topic: Truth
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

"Being is the great explainer."

"Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love."

"Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes."

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and
nations."

"Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of
unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be
entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good
books."

"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

"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."

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be
not simply good; be good for something."

"Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it."

"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your
clothes and keep your thoughts."

"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them."

"Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character"

Topic: Dreams
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

"Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will
be laid."

Topic: Fame
"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."

"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."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new."

"Every man is the builder of a temple called his body."

"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."

Topic: Doubt
"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

"For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles
which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as
Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is
old."

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you
simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that
all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech."

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails."

"Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them."

"He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate."

"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive
power out of the greatest obstacles."

"He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor
authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know
practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human e"

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"

"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I
answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it."

"How earthy old people become - moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth.
There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole
crickets."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book
exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at
present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered."

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new
things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes
and keep your thoughts."

"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke
him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

"I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in
distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let
the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsa"

"I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck
of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to
go below now."

"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment
with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines."

Topic: Solitude
"I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody
calls."

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours."

Topic: Solitude
"I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the
most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our
chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual
improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off
eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized."

Topic: Letters
"I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage."

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

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

Topic: Solitude
"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Topic: Solitude
"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a
village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should
have been by any epaulet I could have worn."

"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."

"I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the
landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who
goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields"

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of
clothes."

Topic: Dress
"I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new
clothes."

"I stand in awe of my body."

"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay,
to life itself than this incessant business."

Topic: Trust
"I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so
much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere."

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts
of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die,
discover that I had not lived."

Topic: Vision
"I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true
vision."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet
cushion."

Topic: Solitude
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet
cushion."

"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?"

Topic: Conformity
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far
away."

Topic: Individuality
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far
away. "

"If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music in which he hears, however measured, or far away."

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being
regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods
and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising
citizen."

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent
and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence
and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revol"

"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design
of doing me good, I should run for my life."

"If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather
than for myself."

"If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure
that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for."

Topic: Misery
"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

Topic: Dream
"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest
and worthiest men alone."

"If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of
injustice to another, then, I say, break the law."

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every
disappointment."

Topic: Charity
"If you give money, spend yourself with it."

Topic: Dream
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should
be. Now put the foundations under them."

"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they
see."

"In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about
words, but when silence is not understood."

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at
something high."

"In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are
alone in the world."

"It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature."

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

Topic: Rank
"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were
divested of their clothes."

"It is never too late to give up our prejudices."

"It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."

"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?"

Topic: Learning
"It is only when we forget out learning that we begin to know."

"It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all."

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much
more sensitive."

"It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at
all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and
respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God."

"It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear."

Topic: Effort
"It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?"

"It's not enough to be busy... the question is: what are we busy about?"

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

"Law never made men a whit more just."

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign
yourself to the influences of each."

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

"Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame."

"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it
comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

"Men are born to succeed, not fail."

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."

Topic: Superstition
"Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science."

"Men have become the tools of their tools."

"Men have become the tools of their trade."

Topic: Machine
"Men have become tools of their tools."

Topic: Money
"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."

"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them."

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not
indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."

"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to
thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life."

"My friend is one... who take me for what I am."

"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its
fashioning hand."

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her
smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm"

"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

"Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something."

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will
be the best you are."

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the
latitudes and longitudes."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the
highest pleasure sustain him."

"Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will
melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever.
The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be
sorrowful, if he is not."

"Only that day dawns to which we are awake."

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed
by them."

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed
in them."

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious
things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."

Topic: Simplicity
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for
them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon
reminded of them."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is
silent poor indeed."

"Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are
its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only
individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia."

Topic: Poverty
"Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest."

Topic: Opinion
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion--what a man thinks
of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate."

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and
reverence."

Topic: J obs
"Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life as a dog does with his master's
chaise. Do what you love; know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw
it still."

Topic: Truth
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

Topic: Reading
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."

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

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould
myself."

"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a
hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on
your thumb-nail."

"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."

"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine
things which we cannot say if we have to shout."

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

Topic: Wealth
"Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only."

"Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!"

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Topic: Pleasure
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."

Topic: Virtue
"That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we
possess."

"Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one
melts, the other breaks into pieces."

"The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of
Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which
others have detected."

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

"The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will
rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of
water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest
good deed."

"The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished;
and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its
way."

"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."

"The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged
for it, immediately or in the long run."

"The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an
instrument."

"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the
most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and
water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."

"The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer."

"The heart is forever inexperienced."

Topic: Property
"The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it."

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are
awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

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

Topic: Solitude
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till
the other is ready, and it may be along time before they get off."

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

"The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?"

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Topic: Despair
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation ... A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are
called the games and amusements of mankind."

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

"The only wealth is life."

"The perception of beauty is a moral test."

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Topic: Faith
"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

"The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest."

"The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual
statement."

"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and
fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a
palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a
woodshed with them."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."

"There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life
getting his living."

"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

"There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what
we suspect."

"There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in
any place except what you bring to it yourself."

Topic: Change
"Things do not change, we do."

"Things do not change; we change."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors."

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."

Topic: Media
"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, an they who edit and read it are old
women over their tea."

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old
women over their tea."

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make
his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical
hour."

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school,
but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity,
independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not"

"To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle."

Topic: Thought
"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a
perpetual morning."

"To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather."

Topic: Inheritance
"To inherit property is not to be born--it is to be still-born, rather. "

Topic: Knowledge
"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know,
that is true knowledge."

"To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that
will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It
requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the
whole life to this object."

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a
prison."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in
prison."

"Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can
make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence
of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under
arms with funeral accompaniments."

Topic: Suspicion
"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Topic: Vice
"We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps
our vice."

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to
philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."

"We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn
afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for
a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is"

Topic: Kindness
"We hate the kindness which we understand."

"We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend."

"We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches."

"We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we
thus lose some respect for one another."

"We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an
infinite expectation of the dawn."

Topic: Success
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to
our success."

Topic: Influence
"We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. "

"We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see."

"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."

"We were born to succeed, not to fail."

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering
brook."

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health."

Topic: Resignation
"What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take
sides with one party."

"What is once well done is done forever."

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old
people, and new deeds for new."

"What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can."

"What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?"

"What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by
achieving your goals."

Topic: Injustice
"Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least
act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it. "

"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the
earliest times, and to the latest."

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer."

"You cannot kill time without injuring eternity."

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each
moment."

"You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and
flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity -
helps your enjoyment of these things."

Stephen R. Covey Quotes

"A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot
continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively
perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Contrary to most of our scripting, to win does not mean somebody else has to lose"
--Stephen R. Covey

"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline,
carrying it out."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed
opportunities and starve problems."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and
creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose,
to respond, to change."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice
what we want now for what we want eventually."
--Stephen R. Covey

"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a "transformer" in
any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf.
It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a
transforming leader."
--Stephen R. Covey

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep gettingwhat we're getting."
--Stephen R. Covey

"In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we
say or do."
--Stephen R. Covey

"It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and
appropriately act on it."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines
whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Management works in the system. Leadership works on the system."
--Stephen R. Covey

"One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people,
because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship
with ourselves."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often
unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character..."
--Stephen R. Covey

"People are not truly self-governing unless they are free to fail."
--Stephen R. Covey

"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that
freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.'
They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Private victories precede public victories"
--Stephen R. Covey

"Public behavior is merely private character writ large."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's
scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the
children's lives"
--Stephen R. Covey

"Some people have called feedback the breakfast of champions. But it isn't the breakfast,
it's the lunch. Vision is the breakfast. Self-correction the dinner."
--Stephen R. Covey

"The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your
philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but
in investing it."
--Stephen R. Covey

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
--Stephen R. Covey

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
--Stephen R. Covey

"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and
victory are conceptually different and are experienced differently."
--Stephen R. Covey

"We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."
--Stephen R. Covey

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human
journey."
--Stephen R. Covey

"Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it,
underline it. No involvement, no commitment."
--Stephen R. Covey
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

"A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of
genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness,
solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition."
--Charles Caleb Colton

Topic: Home
"A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them."

"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."

Topic: Bigotry
"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return
to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to
instruct - never cloy."

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the
winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of
the picture."

Topic: Merit
"Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit
rather than the man."

"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the
merit rather than the person."

"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."

"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom
medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."

"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask
more than the wisest man can answer."

Topic: Love
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"Friendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adversity."

"Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through
all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue
in its place."

Topic: Progress
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly
become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."

Topic: Self-Knowledge
"He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write
a very profound lecture on other men's heads."

"He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men
will know how they are."

"If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win."

Topic: Love
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of
herself; all that runs over will be yours."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not
be known, live in a city."

"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."

Topic: Imitation
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery."

"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men
that are both great and good."

"It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct,
even our friends."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a
hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

Topic: Disease
"It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we
understand our disorder, and half cured when we do."

"J ustice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do;
justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing
to say."

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the
negation of that which is false."

Topic: Fashion
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their
pride."

"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."

Topic: Law
"Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder."

"Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a
blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

"Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the
time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess."

Topic: Choice
"Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods."

"Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion
exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual."

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason;
they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches
possessed by others."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

Topic: Eye
"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as
much as they say."

Topic: Prudence
"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as
much as they say."

"Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it."

Topic: Moderation
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a
nodding acquaintance."

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces,
and which most men throw away."

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Topic: Gossip
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."

"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than
straightforward and simple integrity in another."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are
buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living,
but they are nothing to the dead."

"Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its
apparent ease."

"Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they
cause us to stumble and trip."

"Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength"

"Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and
moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another."

"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who,
even alive, would part with nothing."

Topic: Power
"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise
enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace
requires a something that riches cannot give."

Topic: Silence
"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."

"The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of
those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little
was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was
expected, produced little."

"The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be
honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end."

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with
interest thirty years later."

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

"The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant
companion Humility."

Topic: Truth
"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant
companion is Humility."

"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the
wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."

Topic: Fraud
"The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be
swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence."

Topic: Custom
"The old ways are the safest and surest ways."

"The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own."

"The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter
us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit
their shelves until we take them down."

Topic: Reputation
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it
is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the
weakest weapon of the other."

"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by
religion."

"There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to
be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably
be accompanied by the latter."

"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and
the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it
will always be accompanied by the latter."

Topic: Prudence
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the
happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest
fool."

Topic: Pride
"There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from
becoming so."

"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions."

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change
their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with
heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled
minds."

"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable
poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

Topic: Solitude
"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet
their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when
we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we
must go to those who are seeking it."

"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we
must go to those who are seeking it. The pains of power are real its pleasures imaginary."

Topic: Past
"To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another."

"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible
people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."

"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes,
but a world was too little for Alexander."

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

"Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind."

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."

"We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them
because we hate them."

"We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because
we hate them."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer
tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really
fear."

Topic: Knowledge
"We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who
have differed."

"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have
differed."

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he
that has much and wants more."

"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when
they disapprove you, what good."

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."

Topic: Improvement
"Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve. "
W. Edwards Deming Quotes

"Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives."
--W. Edwards Deming

"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're
doing."
--W. Edwards Deming

"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best."
--W. Edwards Deming

Topic: Change
"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."
--W. Edwards Deming

"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--W. Edwards Deming

"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project
or service, and that bring friends with them."
--W. Edwards Deming

"We are here to make another world."
--W. Edwards Deming
Emily Dickinson Quotes

"A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King."
--Emily Dickinson

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
--Emily Dickinson

"A wounded deer leaps the highest."
--Emily Dickinson

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs."
--Emily Dickinson

"Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat."
--Emily Dickinson

"Anger as soon as fed is dead-
'Tis starving makes it fat."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Beauty
"Beauty is not caused. It is."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Literary
"Because I could not stop for Death --
He kindly stopped for me --
The carriage held but just ourselves
And immortality."
--Emily Dickinson

"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"
--Emily Dickinson

"Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent."
--Emily Dickinson

"Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of
Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?"
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Home
"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every dayWithout suspecting our abode,
until we drive away."
--Emily Dickinson

"Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Fame
"Fame is a fickle foodUpon a shifting plate."
--Emily Dickinson

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Boldness
"Finite to fail, but infinite to venture."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Happiness
"For each ecstatic instantWe must an anguish payIn keen and quivering ratioTo the
ecstasy."
--Emily Dickinson

"For Love is Immortality."
--Emily Dickinson

"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he
was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."
--Emily Dickinson

"His Labor is a Chant - his Idleness - a Tune - oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and
of Noon!"
--Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the
words - and never stops at all."
--Emily Dickinson

"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Hope
"Hope is the thing with feathers--That perches on the soul--And sings the tune without
the words--And never stops--at all--"
--Emily Dickinson

"How dreary - to be - somebody! How public - like a frog - to tell your name - the
livelong J une - to an admiring bog!"
--Emily Dickinson

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"
--Emily Dickinson

"I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality."
--Emily Dickinson

"I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a
name."
--Emily Dickinson

"I dwell in possibility..."
--Emily Dickinson

"I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven."
--Emily Dickinson

"I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a
wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in Heaven; Yet certain am I of the
spot, As if a chart were given."
--Emily Dickinson

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
--Emily Dickinson

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know
that is poetry."
--Emily Dickinson

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have
to live without you."
--Emily Dickinson

"Is wholesome even for the King."
--Emily Dickinson

"It is better to be the hammer than the anvil."
--Emily Dickinson

"Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned."
--Emily Dickinson

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."
--Emily Dickinson

"Much Madness is divinest Sense - to a discerning Eye - much Sense - the starkest
Madness -"
--Emily Dickinson

"My friends are my estate."
--Emily Dickinson

"Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
--Emily Dickinson

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."
--Emily Dickinson

"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
--Emily Dickinson

"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church I keep it staying at Home With a Bobolink for a
Chorister And an Orchard for a Dome."
--Emily Dickinson

"Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed."
--Emily Dickinson

"Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed."
--Emily Dickinson

"Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate
Spring."
--Emily Dickinson

"Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine
incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!"
--Emily Dickinson

"Tell the truth, but tell it slant."
--Emily Dickinson

"The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination."
--Emily Dickinson

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
--Emily Dickinson

"There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of
prancing Poetry."
--Emily Dickinson

"There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of
Cathedral Tunes--"
--Emily Dickinson

"They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as
small as mine might be precisely their necessity."
--Emily Dickinson

"They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a
recluse."
--Emily Dickinson

"'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I
Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!"
--Emily Dickinson

"To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the
Cavalry of Woe."
--Emily Dickinson

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
--Emily Dickinson

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The
revery alone will do, If bees are few."
--Emily Dickinson

"To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be!"
--Emily Dickinson

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
--Emily Dickinson

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."
--Emily Dickinson

"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."
--Emily Dickinson

"Where thou art, that is home."
--Emily Dickinson

Topic: Home
"Where thou art, that, is Home."
--Emily Dickinson

"Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."
--Emily Dickinson
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea.
Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of J erusalem; and Athens
embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"A majority is always better than the best repartee."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the
House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my
career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"A precedent embalms a principle."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and
gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and
inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: University
"A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Happiness
"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Mystery
"All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks
about her own children."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave
statesmen."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best
information."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best
information."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Assassination has never changed the history of the world."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten
thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are
nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest
misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a
day."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Candor
"Candor is the brightest gem of criticism."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Character
"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"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."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having
rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no
preparation for the future."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Debt
"Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Despair
"Despair is the conclusion of fools."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Duty cannot exist without faith."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a
trowel."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very
few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Fear makes us feel our humanity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Finality is not the language of politics."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own
mind and confuse the minds of others."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Candor
"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own
mind and confuse the minds of others."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Great countries are those that produce great people."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Grief
"Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a
prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge,
wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this
wondrous age of change and progress."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"He traces the steam engine all the way back to the tea kettle."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Ideas
"He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"His shortcoming is his long staying."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove
all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the
appeal to the passions of the many of the prejudices of the few."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Marriage
"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a
settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake
even existence upon its fulfillment."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Diplomacy
"I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the
people and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the
people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"I say that justice is truth in action."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about
society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him
out, that I suppose would be a calamity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Compromise
"If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Ignorance never settles a question."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Change
"In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"In politics nothing is contemptible."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to
all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and
enjoyments which are universal."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Criticism
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"J ustice is truth in action."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British
nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the
danger."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Travel
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I
have seen."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Trifles
"Little things affect little minds."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"London is a roost for every bird."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We
are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Man is only great when he acts from passion."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console
undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical
analogy."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Never complain and never explain."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Never take anything for granted."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Communication
"News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from
only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to
know when to forego an advantage."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to
know when to forgo an advantage."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of
that nonsense."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"No government can be long secure without formidable opposition."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Manners
"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Thought
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that you will die
either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied, "That all depends, sir, upon
whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.""
--Benjamin Disraeli

"One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Protection is not a principle but an expedient."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Silence is the mother of truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Success
"Success is the child of audacity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Value
"Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is
not beauty."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The art of governing mankind by deceiving them."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and
becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the
Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a
calamity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Race
"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because
race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to
predominance."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality
of success which would almost seem to include all others."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The fool wonders, the wise man asks."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments,
with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have
everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the
governments' plans."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to
him his own."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Friendship
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to
him his own."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all
their powers as a state depend."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Love
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his
power of knowing what to do."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The more you are talked about the less powerful you are."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Freedom Of The Press
"The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man
can enjoy."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the
angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Success
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Purpose
"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat
of subjects with which he has no concern."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who
are not behind the scenes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Youth
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There is moderation even in excess."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in
politics there is no honour."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no education like adversity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no gambling like politics."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"There is no index of character so sure as the voice."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Candor
"There is no wisdom like frankness."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"They that touch pitch will be defiled."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be
certain failure."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise
them."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as
ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in
different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Education
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Love
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"We cannot learn men from books."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous.
We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by
suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"We moralize among ruins."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors
and prophets."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Crime
"What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than
truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"What usually comes first is the contract."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a
symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Where knowledge ends, religion begins."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Publicity
"Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every
nation must decay."
--Benjamin Disraeli

Topic: Tact
"Without tact you can learn nothing."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and
lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in
public life."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
--Benjamin Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

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

"A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us."

Topic: Children
"A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic."

Topic: Cynic
"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."

Topic: Instinct, Intuition
"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. "

"A fly is as untamable as a hyena."

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines."

Topic: Philosophy
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."

Topic: Inconsistency
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. "

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

Topic: Hate
"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."

"A great man is always willing to be little."

"A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before."

Topic: Heroes / Heroism
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Topic: Nature
"A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to
understanding her 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."

Topic: Heredity
"A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors; for
the expression of all his history, and his wants."

"A man finds room in the few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors;
for the expression of all his history, and his wants."

Topic: Debt
"A man in debt is so far a slave."

"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."

"A man is what he thinks about all day long."

Topic: Conformity
"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."

"A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends."

Topic: Voice
"A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices."

Topic: Nation
"A nation never falls but by suicide."

"Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done somethingstrange
and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age."

Topic: Patience
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

"All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by
position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like
invalids, act on the defensive."

"All diseases run into one, old age."

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and
perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With
every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."

Topic: Minority
"All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one."

Topic: History
"All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man."

"All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen."

Topic: Life
"All life is an experiment."

"All mankind love a lover."

Topic: Love
"All mankind loves a lover."

"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."

"All our progress is an unfolding, like the 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."

"All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms
of it fair."

Topic: Violence
"All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."

"America is another name for opportunity."

Topic: Eye
"An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or
kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for
joy."

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. "

"Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music,
architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider."

Topic: Worry
"As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey."

Topic: Danger
"As soon as there is life there is danger."

Topic: Temptation
"As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills
passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist."

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

"As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward."

"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

"Be an opener of doors."

"Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange
and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age."

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

"Beauty without expression is boring."

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

"Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with
money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing."

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet."

Topic: Criticism
"Blame is safer than praise."

"Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door."

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."

Topic: Literary
"By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world."

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Topic: Independence
"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? "

"Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind."

"Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to
think."

"Children are all foreigners."

"Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these
are sacred."

"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."

"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

Topic: Strength
"Concentration is the secret of strength."

"Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all
management of human affairs."

"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."

Topic: Conversation
"Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors."

"Courage consists in the power of self-recovery."

Topic: Punishment
"Crime and punishment grow out of one stem."

Topic: Culture
"Culture is one thing and varnish is another."

Topic: Culture
"Culture, with us, ends in headache."

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until
the sun grows cold."

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

"Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make the better."

"Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the
good."

"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."

"Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under
the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."

"Earth laughs in flowers."

"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the
understanding."

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well."

"Every artist was first an amateur."

Topic: Censorship
"Every burned book enlightens the world."

"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character
determines the character of the organization."

"Every hero becomes a bore at last."

Topic: Hypocrisy
"Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second person hypocrisy begins."

"Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage
of other persons."

"Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call."

"Every man I meet is in some way my superior."

Topic: Imitation
"Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation."

"Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors."

"Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated."

"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both."

"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."

"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. "

Topic: Influence
"Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world alters the world. "

"Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health
of human society."

"Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling
you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it."

"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one
hidden stuff."

Topic: Quality
"Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed."

Topic: Humility
"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility."

Topic: Hypocrisy
"Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Topic: Fame
"Fame is proof that people are gullible."

"Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence."

"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

"Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions."

"Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes,
old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and
nothing too much."

"Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and
absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you
shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old
nonsense."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the
world."

"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds."

Topic: Tax
"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."

Topic: Gain
"For everything you have missed you have gained something."

Topic: Freedom
"For what avail the plough or sail,Or land or life, if freedom fail?"

"Genius always finds itself a century too early."

"Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."

"Give all to love; obey thy heart."

Topic: Charity
"Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you neednot give
alms."

"Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path."

Topic: God
"God enters by a private door into every individual."

"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please -
you can never have both."

Topic: Truth
"God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please;
you can never have both."

"God screens us evermore from premature ideas."

Topic: Sacrifice
"Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices."

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

"Great geniuses have the shortest biographies."

"Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events."

Topic: Spirit
"Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force."

"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their
value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a
useful life."

Topic: Courage
"Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage."

Topic: Happiness
"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few droips on
yourself."

Topic: Sympathy
"Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life."

Topic: Quotation
"He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great
thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself."

"He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatest of the
soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported
without the latter."

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, while he who has one enemy
shall meet him everywhere."

Topic: Friends
"He who has a thousand friends
Has not a friend to spare,
While he who has one enemy
Shall meet him everywhere."

"He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the
object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it
possesses."

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life."

Topic: Cheerfulness
"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open andnoble
temper."

Topic: Ugliness
"Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the
burr that protects the fruit."

"Hitch your wagon to a star."

"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses
and violets and morning dew!"

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new."

Topic: Literature
"I can find my biography in every fable that I read."

"I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot."

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

"I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it."

"I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching."

Topic: Work
"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is a question of success, looks into his
work for a reply."

"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples,
and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled
from."

Topic: Learning
"I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son."

"I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book
which was significant to him, but which he could never find again. Sure he is that he read
it there, but no one else ever read it, nor can he find it again, though he buy the book and
ransack every page."

Topic: Ideas
"Ideas must work their way through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better
than dreams. "

Topic: Invention
"If a man can write a better book, or preach a better sermon, or build a better mousetrap
than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, thr world will make a beaten
path to his door."

"If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door."

"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or
knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten
road to his house, tho it be in the woods."

Topic: Property
"If a man owns land, the land owns him."

"If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than
his neighbor, tho' he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to
his door."

"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."

Topic: Success
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or
knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten
road to his house, tho it be in the woods."

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

"If the Stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and
adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had
been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe
with their admonishing smile."

Topic: Leadership
"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."

"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."

Topic: Imagination
"Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man. "

"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I
hate quotation. Tell me what you know."

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine."

Topic: Genius
"In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us
with a certain alienated majesty."

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us
with a certain alienated majesty."

Topic: Safety
"In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed."

"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known
its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

"In the vaunted works of art, the master-stroke is nature's part."

Topic: Imitation
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. "

"Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique."

"Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

Topic: Intelligence
"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. "

"Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world,
that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?"

Topic: Disease
"It is dainty to be sick, if you have leisure and convenience for it."

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after
your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude."

Topic: Opinion
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our
own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness
the independence of solitude."

Topic: Solitude
"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after
your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude."

Topic: Life
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Topic: Help
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to
help another without helping himself."

"It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain
haughtiness."

"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude
to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with
perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are
afraid to do.'"

"J udge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams."

Topic: Worry
"Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence."

Topic: Teaching
"Knowledge exists to be imparted."

Topic: Knowledge
"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

Topic: Language
"Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone."

"Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable."

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I
am contradicted."

"Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him."

"Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the
meat is savory and the appetite is keen."

Topic: Wisdom
"Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today."

"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

"Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day."

Topic: Courtesy
"Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy."

Topic: Light
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it
beautiful."

"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air"

"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."

Topic: Character
"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

Topic: Necessity
"Make yourself necessary to somebody."

"Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any."

Topic: Man
"Man is a piece of the universe made alive."

Topic: Humanity
"Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed
unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start."

Topic: Haste
"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste."

"Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which
Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon
were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books."

"Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim."

"Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious.
They are conservatives after dinner."

Topic: Respect
"Men are respectable only as they respect."

Topic: Destiny
"Men are what their mothers made them."

Topic: Temper
"Men lose their tempers in defending their taste."

Topic: Wonder
"Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science."

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

Topic: Vice
"Men wish to be saved from the mischiefs of their vices, but not from their vices."

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not
been the victim and slave of his action."

"Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so
much warmth, so much bread."

Topic: Money
"Money often costs too much."

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors
without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."

"Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as
to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto."

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."

Topic: Nature
"Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors."

"Nature hates calculators."

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."

Topic: Fortune
"Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character."

"New York is a sucked orange."

Topic: Quotation
"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."

"Night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir tree."

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

Topic: Law
"No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature."

Topic: Property
"No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also."

Topic: Prayer
"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something."

"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."

"None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he
listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

Topic: Candor
"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

Topic: Simplicity
"Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great."

Topic: Obedience
"Obedience alone gives the right to command."

"Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success."

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative
writing."

Topic: Eye
"One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it
is the bodily symbol of identity."

Topic: Borrowing
"Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor."

Topic: Invention
"Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. "

"Our best thoughts come from others."

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

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."

"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our
swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

Topic: Literature
"Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough of literature."

Topic: Weakness
"Our strength grows out of our weakness."

Topic: Passion
"Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring."

Topic: Peace
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through
understanding."

Topic: Literature
"People do not deserve to have good writings; they are so pleased with bad."

Topic: Opinion
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of
character."

Topic: Acceptance
"People only see what they are prepared to see."

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their
character."

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

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

"Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."

"Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever
upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their
imprisonment, rooted in the ground."

"Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to
Common Sense."

"Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning,
promptness, and patience in the players."

"Reality is a sliding door."

"Science does not know its debt to imagination."

Topic: Imagination
"Science does not know its debt to imagination. "

"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry."

Topic: Self-Sacrifice
"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow."

"Self-trust is the essence of heroism."

"Self-truth is the essence of heroism."

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."

Topic: Skepticism
"Skepticism is slow suicide."

Topic: Sleep
"Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the
fir-tree."

"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in
retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Topic: Cheerfulness
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains."

Topic: Optimism
"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains."

"Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense."

Topic: Sentiment
"Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the
expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description
for the thing, saying for having."

Topic: Books
"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

"Some men are born to own, and can animate all their possessions. Others cannot: their
owning is not graceful; it seems to be a compromise of their character: they seem to steal
their own dividends."

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

"Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."

Topic: Confidence
"Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak
what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-
day."

Topic: Speech
"Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel."

Topic: Writer
"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book."

Topic: Idleness
"That man is idle who can do something better. "

"The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest
fiddles."

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."

"The art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order,
in timeliness, in being at the right spot."

"The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco."

"The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence."

"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."

"The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief
in a brute Fate or Destiny."

"The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet."

Topic: Trifles
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."

Topic: Pursuit
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him
employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or
statues, or songs."

"The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party,
but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently
away."

"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit."

Topic: Will
"The education of the will is the object of our existence."

Topic: Civilization
"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."

Topic: Truth
"The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a
ground on which nothing is assumed."

"The first wealth is health."

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

Topic: Friendship
"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of
companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that
someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him."

"The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the
merchants a merchant."

Topic: Victory
"The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides."

"The greatest gift is a portion of thyself."

Topic: Poverty
"The greatest man in history was the poorest."

Topic: Listening
"The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue."

Topic: Body
"The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models
from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of
its limbs and senses."

Topic: Power
"The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power."

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

"The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons."

Topic: Suspicion
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to
each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood."

Topic: Machine
"The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is
nobody."

"The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and
old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative
delight."

"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."

Topic: Teaching
"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."

"The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty
years later."

"The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?"

Topic: Mind
"The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose."

"The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be
analyzed."

Topic: Mob
"The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast."

Topic: Soul
"The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."

Topic: Virtue
"The only reward of virtue is virtue."

Topic: Wrong
"The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it."

Topic: Friendship
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

"The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it."

Topic: Public
"The people are to be taken in very small doses."

"The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower
kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature."

"The profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader. The profoundest thought
or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it."

Topic: Quotation
"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart
finds and publishes it."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be
compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

Topic: Imagination
"The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze. "

"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

Topic: Reward
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

"The secret of drunkeness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling."

"The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it
was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as
knowledge, it was thought."

Topic: Dependence
"The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder."

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

Topic: Imagination
"The Sky is the daily bread of the imagination."

Topic: Thought
"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."

"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."

"The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend,
by prayer or by wine."

Topic: Civilization
"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but
the kind of man that the country ;turns out."

"The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but
the kind of man that the country turns out."

"The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation,
are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made."

"The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society."

Topic: Value
"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good
theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure."

Topic: Life
"The whole of what we know is a system of compensations. Each suffering is rewarded;
each sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid."

"The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that man are convertible."

"The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest
than it is theirs to find his weak point."

"The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable
and fleeting."

Topic: World
"The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us."

"The world belongs to the energetic."

"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."

"The world is full of judgment-days, and into every assembly that a man enters, in every
action he attempts, he is gauged and stamped."

Topic: Experience
"The years teach much which the days never knew."

"Then beauty is its own excuse for being."

Topic: Ignorance
"There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant."

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination."

"There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they
crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread,
natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation."

"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect;
and poets by nature, these we love."

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is
ignorance: that imitation is suicide: that he must take himself for better, or for worse."

Topic: Education
"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is
ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

"There is creative reading as well as creative writing."

"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy
and not pain around us."

Topic: Crime
"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made
of glass."

"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made
of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as
reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel."

Topic: Power
"There is no knowledge that is not power."

Topic: Children
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep."

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

Topic: Time
"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike.
As soon as there is life there is danger."

"They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who
does not every day surmount a fear."

"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the
imagination, not yet beautiful."

"Think, and be careful what thou art within; For there is sin in the desire of sin; Think,
and be thankful, in a different case; For there is grace in the desire of grace."

"This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this
temporal life Depends upon one's actions."

Topic: Time
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

Topic: Present
"Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the
present."

"Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one
step more to think one vote will do no harm."

Topic: Beauty
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we
find it not."

"Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go
out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened."

"Tis the good reader that makes the good book."

"'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every
book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and
unmistakeably meant for his ear."

"To be great is to be misunderstood."

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men - that is genius."

Topic: Genius
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is
true for all men--that is genius."

Topic: Happiness
"To fill the hour--that is happiness."

"To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded."

"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At
least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but
shines into the eye and heart of the child."

"To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and
sparkles with light."

"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events
profitable, all days holy, all men divine."

"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest
poison is time."

"Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea
and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self,
unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."

"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will
become what he should be."

Topic: Trust
"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves
great."

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show
themselves great."

"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

Topic: Truth
"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never
grow."

"Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are."

Topic: Want
"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover."

"Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time."

Topic: Strength
"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

Topic: Effort
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."

Topic: Belief
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms,
for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and
do not know a thing."

"We are symbols, and inhabit symbols."

"We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually
read a volume of 4 or 500 pages."

"We are wiser than we know."

"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which
exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many
extremes."

Topic: Idols, Idolatry
"We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it
is through a transfer of idolatry. "

Topic: Necessity
"We do what we must, and call it by the best names."

Topic: Children
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for
the body."

"We gain the strength of the temptation we resist."

Topic: Force
"We love force and we care very little how it is exhibited."

Topic: Courtesy
"We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willingto give the
advantage of a good light."

"We must be our own before we can be another's."

Topic: Gentleman
"We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have
invented them."

Topic: Courage
"What a new face courage puts on everything!"

Topic: Reform
"What is a man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what has been made, a
denouncer of lies, a restorer of truth and good?"

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with
in us."

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

"What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour."

Topic: Character
"What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."

"What you do speak so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Topic: Action
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him
boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was
only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

"When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the
cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart."

"When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it"

Topic: Genius
"When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it."

"When the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, the practiced person relies on the
language of the first."

Topic: Quarrel
"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!"

"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."

"When you strike at a king, you must kill him."

Topic: Pleasure
"Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished."

Topic: Vision
"Where there is no vision a people perish."

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

"Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself,
and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God
and man....such a man is a true gentleman."

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist."

Topic: Debt
"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill."

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

"Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom."

"Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions."

Topic: Wit
"Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no
force of character, can make any stand against good wit."

"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."

Topic: Wealth
"Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar."

"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance."

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

Topic: Kindness
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

"You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him."

Topic: J oy
"You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both."
William Faulkner Quotes

"A gentleman can live through anything."
--William Faulkner

"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain
from them the right to dream."
--William Faulkner

"A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking
you once."
--William Faulkner

"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we callwhat he writes
fiction."
--William Faulkner

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."
--William Faulkner

"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."
--William Faulkner

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better
than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
--William Faulkner

"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's
usually too busy to wonder why."
--William Faulkner

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only
when the clock stops does time come to life."
--William Faulkner

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better
than yourself."
--William Faulkner

"Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written."
--William Faulkner

"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."
--William Faulkner

"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief."
--William Faulkner

"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder."
--William Faulkner

"I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because
he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit
capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
--William Faulkner

"I decline to accept the end of man."
--William Faulkner

"I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend
so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you."
--William Faulkner

"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."
--William Faulkner

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is
worth any number of old ladies."
--William Faulkner

"If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all
of us."
--William Faulkner

"I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone."
--William Faulkner

"It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the
same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he
died."
--William Faulkner

"It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my
books, but they could understand $30,000."
--William Faulkner

"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat
for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The
only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
--William Faulkner

"Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the
best time to write."
--William Faulkner

"Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's
how he finds that he can bear anything."
--William Faulkner

"Man will not merely endure; he will prevail."
--William Faulkner

"Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept
it."
--William Faulkner

"My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food,
and a little whisky."
--William Faulkner

"Others have done it before me. I can, too."
--William Faulkner

"Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we
can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid."
--William Faulkner

"Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
J ust like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll
absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."
--William Faulkner

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it
fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is
life."
--William Faulkner

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read
the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."
--William Faulkner

"The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing
new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if
they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wouldn't have
needed anyone since."
--William Faulkner

Topic: Dream
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
--William Faulkner

"The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a
homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next."
--William Faulkner

"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
--William Faulkner

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."
--William Faulkner

Topic: Suffering
"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."
--William Faulkner

"The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey."
--William Faulkner

"There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel
good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need."
--William Faulkner

"This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read
them."
--William Faulkner

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is
like living in Alaska and being against snow."
--William Faulkner

"Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to
good moonshine I can find."
--William Faulkner

"Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat."
--William Faulkner
Robert Frost Quotes

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

"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
--Robert Frost

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers
her age."
--Robert Frost

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Law
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
--Robert Frost

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a
fool of him in twenty minutes."
--Robert Frost

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -
the wishbone."
--Robert Frost

"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a
lovesickness."
--Robert Frost

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."
--Robert Frost

"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."
--Robert Frost

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Law
"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by the policeman."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Thought
"All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in
your mind that you almost didn't know you knew."
--Robert Frost

"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over
your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not
against: with."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Ideas
"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. "
--Robert Frost

"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."
--Robert Frost

"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have
written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."
--Robert Frost

"Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is
especially so."
--Robert Frost

"But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I
sleep."
--Robert Frost

"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work
twelve hours a day."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Bureaucracy
"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day."
--Robert Frost

"College is a refuge from hasty judgment."
--Robert Frost

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
--Robert Frost

"Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard."
--Robert Frost

"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."
--Robert Frost

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

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

"For fear it would make me conservative when old."
--Robert Frost

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me."
--Robert Frost

Topic: God
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
--Robert Frost

"Freedom lies in being bold."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Speech
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the
other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Happiness
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
--Robert Frost

"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."
--Robert Frost

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Home
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,They have to take you in."
--Robert Frost

"Humor is the most engaging cowardice."
--Robert Frost

"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may
call the sound of sense."
--Robert Frost

"I always entertain great hopes."
--Robert Frost

"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to
learn."
--Robert Frost

"I am glad the invitation pleases your family. It will please my family to the fourth
generation and my family of friends and, were they living, it would have pleased
inordinately the kind of Grover Cleveland Democrats I had for parents."
--Robert Frost

"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."
--Robert Frost

"I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering."
--Robert Frost

"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Extremes
"I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."
--Robert Frost

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when
old."
--Robert Frost

"I never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Quarrel
"I never take my own side in a quarrel."
--Robert Frost

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the
world who was not carried away by power."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Literary
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down."
--Robert Frost

"If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so
we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving."
--Robert Frost

"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
--Robert Frost

"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."
--Robert Frost

"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise."
--Robert Frost

"I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Life
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
--Robert Frost

"Is due to truths being in and out of favor."
--Robert Frost

"It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off
and gets married."
--Robert Frost

Topic: God
"It's God--I'd have known Him by Blake's picture anywhere."
--Robert Frost

"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."
--Robert Frost

"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar
and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're
going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."
--Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired."
--Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
--Robert Frost

"Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners
are subjected to trial by market."
--Robert Frost

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."
--Robert Frost

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful
as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Nature
"Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by
making a garden and building a wall."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Money
"Never ask of money spentWhere the spender thinks it went.Nobody was ever meantTo
remember or inventWhat he did with every cent."
--Robert Frost

"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being
hard."
--Robert Frost

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the
reader."
--Robert Frost

"Nobody was ever meant , To remember or invent , What he did with every cent."
--Robert Frost

"One aged man - one man - can't fill a house."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Poetry
"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
--Robert Frost

"Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Poetry
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."
--Robert Frost

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Poetry
"Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books."
--Robert Frost

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough
things."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Draft
"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."
--Robert Frost

"Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, "Well, what have
we here?""
--Robert Frost

"Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the
mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward."
--Robert Frost

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."
--Robert Frost

"Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the
first takes the pressure off the second."
--Robert Frost

"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized
society because I want the cream to rise."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Courage
"The best way out is always through."
--Robert Frost

"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning
and does not stop until you get into the office."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Thought
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning
and does not stop until you get into the office."
--Robert Frost

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a
book side for everything."
--Robert Frost

Topic: J obs
"The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours
a week."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Difference
"The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only
one pays for them."
--Robert Frost

"The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader."
--Robert Frost

"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
--Robert Frost

"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of
life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a
momentary stay against confusion."
--Robert Frost

"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a
hint when a hint isn't intended."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Family
"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take
a kint when a hint isn't intended."
--Robert Frost

"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
--Robert Frost

"The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive."
--Robert Frost

"The only way round is through."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Worry
"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than
work."
--Robert Frost

"The snake stood up for evil in the Garden."
--Robert Frost

"The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of
power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated,
but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination."
--Robert Frost

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go
before I sleep."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Literary
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Work
"The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let
them."
--Robert Frost

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

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

"The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly
supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism."
--Robert Frost

"There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the
butt end of it."
--Robert Frost

"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at
least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man-
fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut off from them."
--Robert Frost

"They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought
was true."
--Robert Frost

"Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Time
"Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30."
--Robert Frost

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."
--Robert Frost

"To be social is to be forgiving."
--Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made
all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I --
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
--Robert Frost

"Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from
one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing
and oar to oar."
--Robert Frost

"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."
--Robert Frost

"What is this talked-of mystery of birth / But being mounted bareback on the earth?"
--Robert Frost

"Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not
see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Poetry
"Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down."
--Robert Frost

"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."
--Robert Frost

"You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider."
--Robert Frost

"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's."
--Robert Frost

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness."
--Robert Frost

Topic: Love
"You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the
difference."
--Robert Frost

Henry Ford Quotes

"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."
--Henry Ford

"A bore is someone who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."
--Henry Ford

"A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They
will be embarrassingly large."
--Henry Ford

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."
--Henry Ford

"A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a
bad one."
--Henry Ford

"An American can have a Ford in any color so long as its black."
--Henry Ford

"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
--Henry Ford

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Knowledge
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
--Henry Ford

"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
--Henry Ford

"Asking "who ought to be the boss" is like asking "who ought to be the tenor in the
quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
--Henry Ford

"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."
--Henry Ford

"Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of
scratching around for what it gets."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Crime
"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as
a cure for poverty."
--Henry Ford

"Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice."
--Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is
success."
--Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is
success."
--Henry Ford

"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
--Henry Ford

"Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the
sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge
of will and energy to execute your ideas."
--Henry Ford

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement."
--Henry Ford

"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it: if you are sick you should not
take it."
--Henry Ford

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
--Henry Ford

Topic: History
"History is more or less bunk."
--Henry Ford

"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be
done."
--Henry Ford

"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With
God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there
to worry about."
--Henry Ford

"I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and
dream of it by night."
--Henry Ford

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security
that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Independence
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it."
--Henry Ford

"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right."
--Henry Ford

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others
waste."
--Henry Ford

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the
customer who pays the wages."
--Henry Ford

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary
system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
--Henry Ford

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though
sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we
must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching
onward."
--Henry Ford

"Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or
arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all."
--Henry Ford

"Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Friendship
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
--Henry Ford

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
--Henry Ford

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"
--Henry Ford

"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
--Henry Ford

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
--Henry Ford

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can
do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
--Henry Ford

"People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black."
--Henry Ford

"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Speculation
"Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of
prices, instead of supplying goods and services."
--Henry Ford

"The best we can do it size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our
ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence."
--Henry Ford

"The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on
making his own business better all the time."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Wage
"The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay
envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity
for work."
--Henry Ford

"The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
--Henry Ford

"The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can
give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed."
--Henry Ford

"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability."
--Henry Ford

"The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the
quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
--Henry Ford

"There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding
money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer
who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all
the world's ills will be cured."
--Henry Ford

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have
accomplished something."
--Henry Ford

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible
at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
--Henry Ford

"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage
in it."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Help
"Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere
giving."
--Henry Ford

"Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere
giving."
--Henry Ford

"We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth
a tinker's dam is the history we make today."
--Henry Ford

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-
product of providing a useful service."
--Henry Ford

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Confidence
"Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right."
--Henry Ford

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
--Henry Ford

"Women do not win formula one races, because they simply are not strong enough to
resist the G-forces. In the boardroom, it is different. I believe women are better able to
marshal their thoughts than men and because they are less egotistical they make fewer
assumptions."
--Henry Ford

"You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your
hopes rise to the stars."
--Henry Ford

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
--Henry Ford

Topic: Ambition
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
--Henry Ford
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

"A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the
world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to
recollect the latter on proper occasions."
--J ohann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a
child of solitude."

"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."

"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."

"A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."

"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."

"A person hears only what they understand."

"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper
limitations."

"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."

"A purpose you impart is no longer your own."

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

"A useless life is an early death."

"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."

"Age merely shows what children we remain."

"Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved."

"All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to
think them again."

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."

"All things are only transitory."

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought 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."

"An unused life is an early death."

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent
power grows irresistible greater with time."

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it."

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been
hidden from us forever."

"Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the
reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and
is as various as nature herself."

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

Topic: Language
"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language."

Topic: Behavior
"Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his image."

"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image"

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

"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."

"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks
it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay."

"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

"Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

"Common sense is the genius of humanity."

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a
winning game."

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

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond
our wishes."

"Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done."

"Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one."

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession
on this shaky earth."

"Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do
whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay."

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

"Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What
you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in
it."

Topic: Observation
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."

"Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we
employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only
can it profit by."

Topic: Inheritance
"Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst really possess it. What we
employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only
can it profit by. "

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."

"Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his
will."

"Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."

"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."

"Every spoken word arouses our self-will."

"Every step of life shows much caution is required."

"Everyone hears only what he understands."

Topic: Prosperity
"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."

"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."

"Few people have the imagination for reality."

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."

"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."

"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting
something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our
very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are
worthy to be on a level with it"

"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."

"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet
when it stops."

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where
there is the lowest degree of culture."

Topic: Ideas
"Having ideas is like having chessmen moving forward; they may be beaten, but they
may start a winning game. "

"He is dead in this world who has no belief in another."

Topic: Home
"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."

"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."

"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."

"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of
it."

"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at
once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do
your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do
your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."

"I call architecture frozen music."

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

"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."

"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief
in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than
would be necessary to erect a hut."

"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me."

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

Topic: Complaint
"I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in
drinking the wine that gives it."

"If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make
note of this and not remain in your debt long."

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance
shall be different."

"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of
my own."

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any
would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."

"If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any

"If any wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but
geniuses."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

"If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!"

"If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave
heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything."

"If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy."

"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of
my own."

"If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are
sick."

"If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words."

"If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will
become what he ought to be and could be."

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."

Topic: Hope
"In all things it is better to hope than to despair."

"In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more
comfortable."

"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."

Topic: Truth
"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is
easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."

"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life
blessed."

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst
continues to haunt him."

Topic: Merit
"It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"J ust trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean."

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."

Topic: Change
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most
swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great
abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones."

Topic: Life
"Life is the childhood of our immortality."

"Live dangerously and you live right."

"Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught."

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

"Love can do much, but duty more."

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."

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

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and
others do just the same with their time."

"Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite
recitals and led my pupils by the nose."

"Mastery passes often for egotism."

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their
own language and forthwith it is something entirely different."

Topic: Imitation
"Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in,
whether he has aptitude for it or not. "

Topic: Laughter
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."

"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable."

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable."

"My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits."

"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."

"Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and
sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea."

Topic: Hate
"National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent
where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Topic: Nature
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all
inaction."

"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."

"No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist."

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in
small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

"Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste."

"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

"Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day."

"Nothing is worth more than this day."

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

"Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own
story."

"On all the peaks lies peace."

Topic: Time
"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."

Topic: J ustice
"One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides."

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

"One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and , if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,
and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few
persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded."

"Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from
its ashes."

"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others
do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy
what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."

"People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life
is not adequate to their abilities."

"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech
altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."

"Precaution is better than cure."

"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress
and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."

"Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason
will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals."

"Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of
what is not knowable."

"Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."

"Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues."

Topic: Present
"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth
and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."

"So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in
balance with everything else."

"Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those
branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it."

"Sowing is not as difficult as reaping."

"Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding."

"Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!"

"Superstition is the poetry of life."

"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes
alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of
the world."

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

"That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one
could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us."

"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody
sees them."

"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier
reality."

"The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take
warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you."

"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together
at the foot of the cross."

"The coward only threatens when he is safe."

Topic: Cowardice
"The coward threatens when he is safe."

"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the
age."

"The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their
downward tendency."

Topic: Literature
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."

"The deed is everything, the glory is naught."

"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."

Topic: Difficulty
"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere
what is unknowable."

"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly
anything."

"The little man is still a man."

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning
of his life."

Topic: Writer
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they
put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."

"The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more
because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before."

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

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

"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The
person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."

"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and
ossify the organs of intelligence."

Topic: Public
"The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except
what it likes to hear."

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts
doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

"The right man is the one that seizes the moment."

"The right man is the one who seizes the moment."

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

"The unnatural, that too is natural."

"The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!"

"The world remains ever the same."

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy
in the outward behavior."

"There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new
now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws."

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and
fables."

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."

"There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste."

Topic: Ignorance
"There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action. "

"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste."

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."

"They travel with a constant companion, autumn."

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most
difficult thing in the world."

"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."

"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who
conquer them each day anew."

"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."

Topic: Immortality
"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. "

"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."

"Three may keep counsel, if two are away."

"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us."

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."

"To create something you must be something."

"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite
of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden."

"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."

"To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants."

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

Topic: Tolerance
"Tolerance comes with age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have
committed at some time or other."

"Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and
generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for."

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

"Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent."

"We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright."

"We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use
the options in the rules governing them."

"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

"We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we
wished for."

Topic: Love
"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

"We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives."

Topic: Sacrifice
"We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are
seldom equal to."

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as
God has given them to us."

"We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as
God gives them to us."

Topic: Children
"We can't form our children on our own concepts;we must take them and love them as
God gives them to us."

Topic: Insanity
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental
institution of the universe. "

"We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what
they are like."

"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Topic: Doubt
"We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt enters."

"We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of
discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life,
irrecoverable for ourselves and for others."

"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."

"What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won."

"What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows
how to hold them together."

"What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits."

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."

"Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous."

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and
magic in it."

Topic: Understanding
"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."

Topic: Ignorance
"When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place."

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

Topic: Contrast
"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."

"Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the
only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on."

Topic: Government
"Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."

Topic: Desire
"While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."

"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in
all that happens to them."

"Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what
happens."

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth,
invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own
hopes, its own desires."

"Wisdom is found only in truth."

"Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he
has the proper stuff in him."
Homer Quotes

"A companion's words of persuasion are effective."
--Homer

"A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is
entrusted, and who has many responsibilities."
--Homer

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."
--Homer

"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."
--Homer

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."
--Homer

"A small rock holds back a great wave."
--Homer

"A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother."
--Homer

"A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."
--Homer

"All men have need of the gods."
--Homer

Topic: Generosity
"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."
--Homer

"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."
--Homer

"And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared."
--Homer

"At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain, Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slain:
Then, Prince! You should have fear'd, what now you feel; Achilles absent was Achilles
still: Yet a short space the great avenger stayed, Then low in dust thy strength and glory
laid."
--Homer

"Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this."
--Homer

"But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from
sharp contentions."
--Homer

"By their own follies they perished, the fools."
--Homer

"Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy."
--Homer

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and
endured."
--Homer

"Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing."
--Homer

"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."
--Homer

"Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift."
--Homer

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than
their fathers."
--Homer

"Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters
another."
--Homer

Topic: Deceit
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and
speaks another."
--Homer

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been
before."
--Homer

"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his
knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."
--Homer

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."
--Homer

"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."
--Homer

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose
livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."
--Homer

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."
--Homer

"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."
--Homer

Topic: Children
"It is a wise child that knows his own father."
--Homer

"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is
anxious to leave."
--Homer

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who
is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who
wishes to go."
--Homer

"It is not good to have a rule of many."
--Homer

"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength even if you strive."
--Homer

"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."
--Homer

"It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country."
--Homer

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."
--Homer

"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."
--Homer

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
--Homer

Topic: Help
"Light is the task where many share the toil."
--Homer

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in
fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."
--Homer

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of
the land, and at another moment weakly perish."
--Homer

"Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from
those who flee comes neither glory nor any help."
--Homer

"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."
--Homer

Topic: Sleep
"Sleep is the twin of death."
--Homer

"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor
intelligence nor eloquence."
--Homer

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
--Homer

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."
--Homer

"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."
--Homer

"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city
to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."
--Homer

"The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly."
--Homer

"The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council."
--Homer

"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."
--Homer

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and
to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better
unspoken."
--Homer

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."
--Homer

"There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men."
--Homer

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
--Homer

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep. Homer (~700 BC),
The Odyssey"
--Homer

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in
her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."
--Homer

"There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye
keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."
--Homer

Topic: Youth
"Thou know'st the o'er-eager vehemence of youth, How quick in temper, and in
judgement weak."
--Homer

"Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while
they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts
which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings."
--Homer

"Two urns on J ove's high throne have ever stood,The source of evil one, and one of good;
From thence the cup of mortal man he fills,Blessings to these, to those distributes ills;To
most he mingles both."
--Homer

"We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth."
--Homer

"Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen."
--Homer

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes
upon him."
--Homer

"Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's
cause."
--Homer

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's
woe."
--Homer

"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."
--Homer

"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god
has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another
wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind."
--Homer

"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a
matter, he looks both before and after."
--Homer

"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."
--Homer
Ernest Hemingway Quotes

"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Writer
"A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a
hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."
--Ernest Hemingway

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really
happened."
--Ernest Hemingway

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called
Huckleberry Finn."
--Ernest Hemingway

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
--Ernest Hemingway

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
--Ernest Hemingway

"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
--Ernest Hemingway

"All things truly wicked start from innocence."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth
shut."
--Ernest Hemingway

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
--Ernest Hemingway

"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
--Ernest Hemingway

"As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Defeat
"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Courage
"Courage is grace under pressure."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Cowardice
"Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the
imagination."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to
suspend the functioning of the imagination."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the
imagination."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse
applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from
their moral concepts."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with
the positive object."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he
died that distinguish one man from another."
--Ernest Hemingway

"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good
luck and write better than I can."
--Ernest Hemingway

"For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right
motive."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have
to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use
it-don't cheat with it."
--Ernest Hemingway

"God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics,
make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all
virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp
followers."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you
say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good
taste and judgment."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
--Ernest Hemingway

"His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings.
At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it
was brushed or marred."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics
think you can't do it."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I
have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and
foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still
something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that
fed it."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never
listen."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
--Ernest Hemingway

"I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in
Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done
it if they hadn't."
--Ernest Hemingway

"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he
knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above
water."
--Ernest Hemingway

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for
the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
--Ernest Hemingway

"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is
always because of the worst aspects of your work."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
--Ernest Hemingway

"In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a
great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism
nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."
--Ernest Hemingway

"In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
--Ernest Hemingway

"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were
born that way."
--Ernest Hemingway

"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that
I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a
profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller
who would keep that from you."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Man is not made for defeat."
--Ernest Hemingway

"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Never confuse movement with action."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Never mistake motion for action."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings
worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across
from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have,
sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock.""
--Ernest Hemingway

"Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from
working and yet feel you've done something."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he
had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I
don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler
and better words, and those are the ones I use."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Morality
"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and
what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a
hard chancre."
--Ernest Hemingway

"That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it
up so truly that later it will happen that way."
--Ernest Hemingway

"That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The
Artist's Reward."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Inflation
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is
war. Both bring a temporary prosperity. Both bring a permanent ruin."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is
war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the
refuge of political and economic opportunists."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were
allowed on the putting green."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and
understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too
damned much after."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of
happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
--Ernest Hemingway

Topic: Life
"The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life
gets again after the hell is over."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The sinews of war are five - men, money, materials, maintenance (food) and morale."
--Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."
--Ernest Hemingway

"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have,
must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a
man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the
only heritage he has to leave."
--Ernest Hemingway

"There is no friend as loyal as a book"
--Ernest Hemingway

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many
years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be
no happy end to it."
--Ernest Hemingway

"There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a
boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the
symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you
know."
--Ernest Hemingway

"There's no one thing that is true. They're all true."
--Ernest Hemingway

"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up
with a wine like that. You lose the taste."
--Ernest Hemingway

"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at
it for the first two years."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
--Ernest Hemingway

"What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad
after."
--Ernest Hemingway

"When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as
it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."
--Ernest Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
--Ernest Hemingway

"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different
and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as
the first."
--Ernest Hemingway

"Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"
--Ernest Hemingway

"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
--Ernest Hemingway

"You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it,
it's like pissing in your father's beer."
--Ernest Hemingway

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."
--Ernest Hemingway
Horace Quotes

"A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient."
--Horace

"A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a
change in fortune."
--Horace

"A picture is a poem without words."
--Horace

"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more
waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
--Horace

"A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is
with those whose fortune does not suit them."
--Horace

"A word once uttered can never be recalled."
--Horace

Topic: Injustice
"Acquital of the guilty damns the judge."
--Horace

Topic: Adversity
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would
have lain dormant."
--Horace

"Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you
have to score."
--Horace

"Anger is short madness"
--Horace

"As crazy as hauling timber into the woods."
--Horace

"Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but
they will not keep what is entrusted to them."
--Horace

"Begin, be bold and venture to be wise."
--Horace

Topic: Action
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
"
--Horace

"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that
fortune grants."
--Horace

"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that
Fortune grants."
--Horace

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."
--Horace

"Don't think, just do."
--Horace

"Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate
allows you."
--Horace

"Every old poem is sacred."
--Horace

"Faults are soon copied."
--Horace

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

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
--Horace

"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
--Horace

"Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much."
--Horace

Topic: Gold
"Gold will be slave or master."
--Horace

"Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing."
--Horace

"Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper
deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against
relapse following a renaissance."
--Horace

"He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful."
--Horace

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world."
--Horace

"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning."
--Horace

"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of
brass."
--Horace

Topic: Innocence
"He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of
brass. "
--Horace

"He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long."
--Horace

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"
--Horace

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
--Horace

"He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin."
--Horace

"He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out
before he crosses."
--Horace

"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to
run out before he crosses."
--Horace

"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
--Horace

Topic: Moderation
"He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little."
--Horace

"He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure."
--Horace

"How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!"
--Horace

"I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me."
--Horace

"I have completed a monument more lasting than brass."
--Horace

"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do
them both well."
--Horace

"I teach that all men are mad."
--Horace

Topic: Insanity
"I teach that all men are mad. "
--Horace

"I will not add another word."
--Horace

Topic: Improvement
"If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine. "
--Horace

"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him
up, if too small it pinches him."
--Horace

"If matters go badly now, they will not always be so."
--Horace

"If you wish me to weep, you must mourn first yourself."
--Horace

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
--Horace

"In labouring to be concise, I become obscure."
--Horace

"It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country."
--Horace

"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say;
when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes
truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
--Horace

"It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use
with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor
worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland."
--Horace

"It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit."
--Horace

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."
--Horace

"It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure."
--Horace

"It is your business when the wall next door catches fire."
--Horace

"It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire."
--Horace

"It's a good thing to be foolishly gay once in a while."
--Horace

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."
--Horace

"Labor diligently to increase your property."
--Horace

"Leave the rest to the gods."
--Horace

"Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least."
--Horace

"Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work."
--Horace

"Life is largely a matter of expectation."
--Horace

"Make a good use of the present."
--Horace

"Make money, money by fair means if you can, if not, but any means money."
--Horace

Topic: Ridicule
"Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than
what deserves esteem and respect."
--Horace

"Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night,
unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."
--Horace

"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished
in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler."
--Horace

"Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom."
--Horace

Topic: Knowledge
"Mistakes are their own instructors."
--Horace

"Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment."
--Horace

"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right
moment."
--Horace

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
--Horace

"My liver swells with bile difficult to repress."
--Horace

"No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers."
--Horace

"No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water."
--Horace

Topic: Beauty
"Nothing's beautiful from every point of view."
--Horace

"Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot."
--Horace

"O imitators, you slavish herd!"
--Horace

"Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking."
--Horace

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
--Horace

"Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things."
--Horace

"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of
kings."
--Horace

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

Topic: Patience
"Patience makes lighter
What sorrow may not heal."
--Horace

"Poets wish to profit or to please."
--Horace

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants
you, count as gain."
--Horace

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."
--Horace

"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and
the careless the busy and industrious."
--Horace

"Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!
[Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.]"
--Horace

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

"Subdue your passion or it will subdue you."
--Horace

"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of
instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
--Horace

"The appearance of right oft leads us wrong."
--Horace

"The covetous man is ever in want."
--Horace

"The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice."
--Horace

"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
--Horace

"The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the
righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable."
--Horace

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
--Horace

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce."
--Horace

"The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash;
And the lightning strikes the highest mountain."
--Horace

"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."
--Horace

Topic: Music
"The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at."
--Horace

"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and
irritation prompted them to do."
--Horace

"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
--Horace

"The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another."
--Horace

"There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of
which right cannot find a resting place."
--Horace

"There is measure in all things."
--Horace

"Think of the wonders uncorked by wine! It opens secrets, gives heart to our hopes,
pushes the cowardly into battle, lifts the load from anxious minds, and evokes talents.
Thanks to the bottle's prompting no one is lost for words, no one who's cramped by
poverty fails to find release."
--Horace

"Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward
will come as a welcome surprise."
--Horace

"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now
shining in splendor."
--Horace

"To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of
wisdom."
--Horace

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."
--Horace

"Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person."
--Horace

"We are free to yield to truth."
--Horace

"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."
--Horace

"We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others."
--Horace

"We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his
life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest."
--Horace

"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is
presented to the trustworthy eye."
--Horace

"Whatever advice you give, be short."
--Horace

"When things are steep, remember to stay level-headed."
--Horace

"While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one."
--Horace

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
--Horace

"Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself."
--Horace

"Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of
a palace."
--Horace

"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects
your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
--Horace

"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"
--Horace

"Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone."
--Horace

"With silence favor me.
(Favete Linguis)"
--Horace

"With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die."
--Horace

"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
--Horace

"You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to
depart."
--Horace

"You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren."
--Horace

"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man.
A contented mind confers it on all."
--Horace

"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."
--Horace
Cicero Quotes

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."
--Cicero

"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
--Cicero

"A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind."
--Cicero

"A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age."
--Cicero

Topic: Manners
"A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him."
--Cicero

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile,
without cultivation."
--Cicero

"A room without a book is like a body without a soul."
--Cicero

Topic: Books
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
--Cicero

"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."
--Cicero

"All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes."
--Cicero

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
--Cicero

"As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like.""
--Cicero

"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."
--Cicero

Topic: Brevity
"Brevity is a great charm of eloquence."
--Cicero

Topic: Brevity
"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."
--Cicero

"By force of arms.
(Vi Et Armis)"
--Cicero

"Dogs wait for us faithfully"
--Cicero

"Endless money forms the sinews of war."
--Cicero

"Force overcome by force.
(Vi Victa Vis)"
--Cicero

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
--Cicero

Topic: Freedom
"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never
endangered."
--Cicero

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the
dividing of our grief"
--Cicero

"Friendship is the only thing in this world, the usefulness of which all mankind are in
agreement."
--Cicero

"Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing
it."
--Cicero

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
--Cicero

Topic: Gratitude
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."
--Cicero

Topic: Hate
"Hatred is settled anger."
--Cicero

Topic: Leisure
"He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing."
--Cicero

Topic: Passion
"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."
--Cicero

"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."
--Cicero

"History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes
memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."
--Cicero

Topic: Ignorance
"I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know."
--Cicero

"I criticize by creation - not by finding fault."
--Cicero

"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve
praise than culture without nature."
--Cicero

"If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or
even at the third."
--Cicero

"If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the
third, place."
--Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
--Cicero

"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable
desire for honour, command, power, and glory."
--Cicero

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind
more severe than those contracted by the body."
--Cicero

"It is a great thing to know our vices."
--Cicero

Topic: Curiosity
"It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent."
--Cicero

"It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another"."
--Cicero

Topic: Grief
"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by
baldness."
--Cicero

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by
reflection, force of character, and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only
not poorer, but is even richer."
--Cicero

Topic: J ustice
"J ustice is the crowning glory of the virtues."
--Cicero

"Law stands mute in the midst of arms."
--Cicero

"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the
orator."
--Cicero

"Let the punishment match the offense."
--Cicero

"Let your desires be ruled by reason.
(Appetitus Rationi Pareat)"
--Cicero

"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
--Cicero

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."
--Cicero

Topic: Enemy
"Man is his own worst enemy."
--Cicero

"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion,
or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial
precedent, or statute."
--Cicero

Topic: Home
"My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and
not the house to the owner."
--Cicero

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than
education without natural ability."
--Cicero

"Nature herself makes the wise man rich."
--Cicero

"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression
of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."
--Cicero

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."
--Cicero

"No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject."
--Cicero

"No Sane man will dance."
--Cicero

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use
is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of
knowledge."
--Cicero

Topic: Fidelity
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are
the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."
--Cicero

Topic: Credit
"Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which
can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying
what they owe to one another."
--Cicero

"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."
--Cicero

"Our thoughts are free."
--Cicero

"Reason should direct and appetite obey."
--Cicero

"Room without books is like a body without a soul"
--Cicero

"Strain every nerve to gain your point."
--Cicero

"Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient."
--Cicero

Topic: Superstition
"Superstition is a senseless fear of God."
--Cicero

Topic: Tax
"Taxes are the sinews of the state."
--Cicero

"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature."
--Cicero

Topic: History
"The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves."
--Cicero

"The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-
doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness."
--Cicero

"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."
--Cicero

"The freedom of poetic license."
--Cicero

Topic: Guilt
"The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity."
--Cicero

Topic: Leisure
"The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity."
--Cicero

"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great
difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the
worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death."
--Cicero

"The people's good is the highest law."
--Cicero

Topic: Moderation
"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
--Cicero

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."
--Cicero

"The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong."
--Cicero

"The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)"
--Cicero

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by
necessity; and brutes by instinct."
--Cicero

Topic: Study
"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."
--Cicero

"There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a
limit to retribution and punishment."
--Cicero

"There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness."
--Cicero

"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."
--Cicero

"There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it."
--Cicero

Topic: Wickedness
"There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in
the act."
--Cicero

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and
the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
--Cicero

"To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches."
--Cicero

Topic: Children
"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."
--Cicero

"To each his own.
(Suum Cuique)"
--Cicero

Topic: Hope
"To the sick, while there is life there is hope."
--Cicero

Topic: Pretension
"True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers,
nor can any feigned thing be lasting."
--Cicero

Topic: Liberty
"We are in bondage to the law so that we might be free."
--Cicero

"We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and
fellowship that exist among all members of the human race."
--Cicero

"We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition."
--Cicero

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."
--Cicero

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."
--Cicero

Topic: Ostentation
"Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in
my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for
good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater
for virtue is conscience."
--Cicero

Topic: Law
"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
--Cicero

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say,
learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over
the side of a brimming mind."
--Cicero

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"
--Cicero
Winston Churchill Quotes

Topic: Communism
"A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is
trying to smile or preparing to eat you up."
--Winston Churchill

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
--Winston Churchill

"A joke is a very serious thing."
--Winston Churchill

"A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man."
--Winston Churchill

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
--Winston Churchill

"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."
--Winston Churchill

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill

"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."
--Winston Churchill

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill
him."
--Winston Churchill

"Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a
better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual
exertion and greater production."
--Winston Churchill

"Air power can either paralyze the enemy's military action or compel him to devote to the
defense of his bases and communications a share of his straitened resources far greater
that what we need in the attack."
--Winston Churchill

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom,
justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
--Winston Churchill

"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not
stand in the path of improvement."
--Winston Churchill

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
--Winston Churchill

"Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up
to it."
--Winston Churchill

"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look
man right in the eye and see his equal."
--Winston Churchill

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Compromise
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last."
--Winston Churchill

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over
30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
--Winston Churchill

"At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in
exile he remarried."
--Winston Churchill

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
--Winston Churchill

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater
Birmingham."
--Winston Churchill

"Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he
contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
--Winston Churchill

"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."
--Winston Churchill

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
--Winston Churchill

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."
--Winston Churchill

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which
guarantees all others."
--Winston Churchill

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down
and listen."
--Winston Churchill

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in
the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
--Winston Churchill

"Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by
half. Never run away from anything. Never!"
--Winston Churchill

"Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service
to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to
mind very much."
--Winston Churchill

"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are
getting hungry."
--Winston Churchill

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
--Winston Churchill

"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left
of the old."
--Winston Churchill

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

"Each beat guides me in Your direction (on unconditional love)"
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Word
"Eating words has never given me indigestion."
--Winston Churchill

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
--Winston Churchill

"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
--Winston Churchill

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and
fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."
--Winston Churchill

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to
history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
--Winston Churchill

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

Topic: Optimism
"For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
--Winston Churchill

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

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

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across
the Continent."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: J ournalism
"Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words, and I hope thoughts."
--Winston Churchill

"He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
--Winston Churchill

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
--Winston Churchill

"He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about."
--Winston Churchill

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
--Winston Churchill

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
--Winston Churchill

"I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws."
--Winston Churchill

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place."
--Winston Churchill

"I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel
land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic."
--Winston Churchill

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Learning
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught."
--Winston Churchill

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."
--Winston Churchill

"I am bored with it all."
--Winston Churchill

"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the
prod."
--Winston Churchill

"I am easily satisfied with the very best."
--Winston Churchill

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war
is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."
--Winston Churchill

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

Topic: Death
"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
--Winston Churchill

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
--Winston Churchill

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

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

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

"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am
genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
--Winston Churchill

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

"I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a
noble thing."
--Winston Churchill

"I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the
social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom."
--Winston Churchill

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

"I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get
drunk."
--Winston Churchill

"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the
nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to
me to express it."
--Winston Churchill

"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."
--Winston Churchill

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Leadership
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
--Winston Churchill

"I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me."
--Winston Churchill

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
--Winston Churchill

"I like a man who grins when he fights."
--Winston Churchill

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

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
--Winston Churchill

"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
--Winston Churchill

"I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to
have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.""
--Winston Churchill

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

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the
House of Commons."
--Winston Churchill

"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"
--Winston Churchill

"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English
Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which
attempted to fly would be set on fire."
--Winston Churchill

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material
prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one
another"
--Winston Churchill

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the
future."
--Winston Churchill

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill

"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble
bounce."
--Winston Churchill

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver.
Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous
whack."
--Winston Churchill

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
--Winston Churchill

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill

"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."
--Winston Churchill

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have
always found it a wholesome diet."
--Winston Churchill

"In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice."
--Winston Churchill

"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up
the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
--Winston Churchill

"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Defeat
"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill."
--Winston Churchill

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of
lies."
--Winston Churchill

"It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the
extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude."
--Winston Churchill

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others
that have been tried."
--Winston Churchill

"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."
--Winston Churchill

"It is a gaping wound, whenever one touches it and removes the bandages and plasters of
daily life."
--Winston Churchill

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

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled
at a time."
--Winston Churchill

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one
link at a time."
--Winston Churchill

"It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great
sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another."
--Winston Churchill

"It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat."
--Winston Churchill

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."
--Winston Churchill

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
--Winston Churchill

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is
necessary."
--Winston Churchill

"It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story
where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of
annihilation."
--Winston Churchill

"It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had
the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
--Winston Churchill

"It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is
necessary."
--Winston Churchill

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."
--Winston Churchill

"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
--Winston Churchill

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British
Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years men will still say, "This was
their finest hour.""
--Winston Churchill

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself
up and continue on."
--Winston Churchill

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

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

"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing
him was like drinking it."
--Winston Churchill

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

off as if nothing had happened."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Truth
off as if nothing happened."
--Winston Churchill

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off
as if nothing happened."
--Winston Churchill

"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In
peace: goodwill."
--Winston Churchill

"Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick
themselves up and go on, anyway."
--Winston Churchill

"Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has much to be modest about."
--Winston Churchill

"Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right."
--Winston Churchill

"My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto."
--Winston Churchill

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry
me."
--Winston Churchill

"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the
drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals
between them."
--Winston Churchill

"My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but
it was so disagreeable we had to stop."
--Winston Churchill

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large
or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
--Winston Churchill

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

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."
--Winston Churchill

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
--Winston Churchill

"Never, never, never give up."
--Winston Churchill

"Never, never, never, never give up."
--Winston Churchill

"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."
--Winston Churchill

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of
time."
--Winston Churchill

"No crime is so great as daring to excel."
--Winston Churchill

"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."
--Winston Churchill

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same
time a steady eye."
--Winston Churchill

"No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt."
--Winston Churchill

"No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts,
it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: War
"No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
--Winston Churchill

"No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of
elections."
--Winston Churchill

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in
prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."
--Winston Churchill

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
--Winston Churchill

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the
end of the beginning."
--Winston Churchill

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

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time."
--Winston Churchill

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

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

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."
--Winston Churchill

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."
--Winston Churchill

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

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."
--Winston Churchill

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."
--Winston Churchill

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be
killed once, but in politics many times."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Politics
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
--Winston Churchill

"Politics is 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."
--Winston Churchill

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me
better."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Responsibility
"Responsibility is the price of greatness."
--Winston Churchill

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
--Winston Churchill

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]"
--Winston Churchill

"Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical
ending-sit down."
--Winston Churchill

"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
--Winston Churchill

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

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its
inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
--Winston Churchill

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
--Winston Churchill

"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it
as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy
wagon."
--Winston Churchill

"Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look
upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong
horse that pulls the whole cart."
--Winston Churchill

"Sometimes it is not enough to our best; we must do what is required."
--Winston Churchill

"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."
--Winston Churchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."
--Winston Churchill

"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam."
--Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
--Winston Churchill

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

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
--Winston Churchill

"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere
to save yourselves."
--Winston Churchill

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average
voter."
--Winston Churchill

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

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Vision
"The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
--Winston Churchill

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."
--Winston Churchill

"The first quality that is needed is audacity."
--Winston Churchill

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as
possible to their point of departure."
--Winston Churchill

"The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle
that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and
sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in"
--Winston Churchill

"The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle
that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and
sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in
disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye."
--Winston Churchill

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of
socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Capitalism
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherentvirtue of
socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
--Winston Churchill

"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."
--Winston Churchill

"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."
--Winston Churchill

"The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be
sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be
wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed."
--Winston Churchill

"The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual.""
--Winston Churchill

"The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, "God
save the Queen"; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Leadership
"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to
the ground."
--Winston Churchill

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without
letting go."
--Winston Churchill

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty."
--Winston Churchill

"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
--Winston Churchill

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."
--Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Defeat
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less
difficult."
--Winston Churchill

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

"The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when
they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine
genially that same evening."
--Winston Churchill

"The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all."
--Winston Churchill

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the
end; there it is."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: J ustice
"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong,
they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."
--Winston Churchill

"Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising
it."
--Winston Churchill

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of
them are true."
--Winston Churchill

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

"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from
you."
--Winston Churchill

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
--Winston Churchill

"There is no such thing as a good tax."
--Winston Churchill

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
--Winston Churchill

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."
--Winston Churchill

"There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table."
--Winston Churchill

"These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever
lived."
--Winston Churchill

"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid
for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
--Winston Churchill

"They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Courage
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."
--Winston Churchill

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
--Winston Churchill

"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of
the beginning."
--Winston Churchill

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
--Winston Churchill

"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make
a good peace would never have won the war."
--Winston Churchill

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the
thoughtless act of a single day."
--Winston Churchill

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
--Winston Churchill

"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
--Winston Churchill

"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and
is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."
--Winston Churchill

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and
conflicting information."
--Winston Churchill

"Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the
end; there it is."
--Winston Churchill

"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."
--Winston Churchill

"War is a catalouge of blunders."
--Winston Churchill

"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep
out of the way till you can."
--Winston Churchill

"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Wealth
"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."
--Winston Churchill

"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."
--Winston Churchill

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
--Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill

"We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Society
"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except
a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no
privileges."
--Winston Churchill

"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as
if nothing had happened."
--Winston Churchill

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we
shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall
fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: War
"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we
shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall
fight in the hills;we shall never surrender."
--Winston Churchill

"We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
--Winston Churchill

"We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will
finish the job."
--Winston Churchill

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
--Winston Churchill

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
--Winston Churchill

"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
--Winston Churchill

"We will have no truce or parlay with you [Hitler], or the grisly gang who work your
wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."
--Winston Churchill

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

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on
his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never
happened"
--Winston Churchill

"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."
--Winston Churchill

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."
--Winston Churchill

"When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
--Winston Churchill

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
--Winston Churchill

"When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only
the sponge to defend myself."
--Winston Churchill

Topic: Life
"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be
destroyed."
--Winston Churchill

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a
corpse."
--Winston Churchill

"Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are
grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation."
--Winston Churchill

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it
becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that
just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster"
--Winston Churchill

"Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it
becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that
just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling
him out to the public."
--Winston Churchill

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything
else."
--Winston Churchill

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your
life."
--Winston Churchill
Francis Bacon Quotes

Topic: Hypocrisy
"A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Mob
"A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Grace
"A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Body
"A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: King
"A king is one who has "few things to desire and many things to fear.""
--Francis Bacon

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."
--Francis Bacon

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
--Francis Bacon

"A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Question
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
--Francis Bacon

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him
open."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Human Nature
"A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him
open."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Opportunity
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Francis Bacon

"Acorns were good until bread was found."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Improvement
"Acorns were good until bread was found. "
--Francis Bacon

"All rising to great place is by a winding stair."
--Francis Bacon

"Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually
escaped the shipwreck of time."
--Francis Bacon

"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are
the births of time."
--Francis Bacon

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Boldness
"Boldness is a child of ignorance."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Boldness
"Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in
council though good in execution."
--Francis Bacon

"By far the best proof is experience."
--Francis Bacon

"By indignities men come to dignities."
--Francis Bacon

"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the
unmarried, or childless men."
--Francis Bacon

"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."
--Francis Bacon

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable."
--Francis Bacon

"Cure the disease and kill the patient."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Custom
"Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life."
--Francis Bacon

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."
--Francis Bacon

"Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
--Francis Bacon

"Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom
we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
--Francis Bacon

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty
and solid."
--Francis Bacon

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
--Francis Bacon

"For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations
and the next ages."
--Francis Bacon

"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
--Francis Bacon

"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
--Francis Bacon

"Friends are thieves of time."
--Francis Bacon

"Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Providence
"God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."
--Francis Bacon

"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of
the grave."
--Francis Bacon

"God's first creature, which was light."
--Francis Bacon

"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you
extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
--Francis Bacon

"He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many."
--Francis Bacon

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and
example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds
with one hand and pulls down with the other."
--Francis Bacon

"He that hath knowledge spareth his words."
--Francis Bacon

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments
to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Change
"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
--Francis Bacon

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest
innovator."
--Francis Bacon

"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy,
deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Hope
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper"
--Francis Bacon

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
--Francis Bacon

"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before
uniformity, except where both may be had."
--Francis Bacon

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
--Francis Bacon

"I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than
that this universal frame is without a Mind."
--Francis Bacon

"I have taken all knowledge to by my province."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Profession
"I hold every man a debtor to his profession."
--Francis Bacon

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Study
"I would live to study, and not study to live."
--Francis Bacon

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Courtesy
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen ofthe world."
--Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin
in doubts he shall end in certainties."
--Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin
with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
--Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to
begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
--Francis Bacon

"If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
--Francis Bacon

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

Topic: Certainty
"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are
patient in them, we shall end in certainties."
--Francis Bacon

"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
--Francis Bacon

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to
console him for what he is."
--Francis Bacon

"In charity there is no excess."
--Francis Bacon

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
--Francis Bacon

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is
superior."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Despair
"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear."
--Francis Bacon

"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as
the other."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Love
"It is impossible to love and be wise."
--Francis Bacon

"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
--Francis Bacon

"It is natural to die as to be born."
--Francis Bacon

"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in
philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
--Francis Bacon

"It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and
said, what dust do I raise! ""
--Francis Bacon

"J udges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse
torture than that of laws."
--Francis Bacon

"J udges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more
advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
--Francis Bacon

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Knowledge
"Knowledge and human power are synonyms."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Knowledge
"Knowledge is Power."
--Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)"
--Francis Bacon

"Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
--Francis Bacon

"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Loneliness
"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not
company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where
there is no love."
--Francis Bacon

"Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection."
--Francis Bacon

"Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Custom
"Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning
and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom."
--Francis Bacon

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is
increased by tales, so is the other."
--Francis Bacon

"Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread."
--Francis Bacon

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."
--Francis Bacon

"Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to
men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a
habit of secrecy is both politic and moral."
--Francis Bacon

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

"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."
--Francis Bacon

"Nature is commanded by obeying her."
--Francis Bacon

"Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
--Francis Bacon

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
--Francis Bacon

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Power
"Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power,
pressed too far and relaxed too much."
--Francis Bacon

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
--Francis Bacon

"Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety."
--Francis Bacon

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of
the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."
--Francis Bacon

"Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you."
--Francis Bacon

"Opportunity makes a thief."
--Francis Bacon

"People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors."
--Francis Bacon

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning
and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Philosophy
"Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it
dispels it."
--Francis Bacon

"Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the
memory."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Prosperity
"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
--Francis Bacon

"Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts
and hopes."
--Francis Bacon

"Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
--Francis Bacon

"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh
and consider."
--Francis Bacon

"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk
and discourse, but to weigh and consider."
--Francis Bacon

"Read not to contradict and confutenor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and
consider."
--Francis Bacon

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
--Francis Bacon

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
--Francis Bacon

"Rebellions of the belly are the worst."
--Francis Bacon

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought
law to weed it out."
--Francis Bacon

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought
law to weed it out."
--Francis Bacon

"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
--Francis Bacon

"Science is but an image of the truth."
--Francis Bacon

"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss
will not be felt."
--Francis Bacon

"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
--Francis Bacon

"Silence is the virtue of fools."
--Francis Bacon

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."
--Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested."
--Francis Bacon

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and
digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not
curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Books
"Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested."
--Francis Bacon

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience."
--Francis Bacon

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
--Francis Bacon

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express"
--Francis Bacon

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."
--Francis Bacon

"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our
neighbors."
--Francis Bacon

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused
men to fall."
--Francis Bacon

"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Thinking
"The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they
miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
--Francis Bacon

"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
--Francis Bacon

"The great end of life is not knowledge but action."
--Francis Bacon

"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Parents
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears."
--Francis Bacon

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears."
--Francis Bacon

"The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil."
--Francis Bacon

"The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."
--Francis Bacon

"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of J ob than
the felicities of Solomon."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Court
"The place of justice is a hallowed place."
--Francis Bacon

"The remedy is worse than the disease."
--Francis Bacon

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it
misses."
--Francis Bacon

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and
understanding."
--Francis Bacon

"The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not
seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned
virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
--Francis Bacon

"The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
--Francis Bacon

"The worst men often give the best advice."
--Francis Bacon

"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
--Francis Bacon

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
--Francis Bacon

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest
man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
--Francis Bacon

"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he
finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
--Francis Bacon

"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man
giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is
no such flatterer as is a man's self."
--Francis Bacon

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is
lost by not trying."
--Francis Bacon

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Learning
"There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom."
--Francis Bacon

"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be
blind, yet she is not invisible."
--Francis Bacon

"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
--Francis Bacon

"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."
--Francis Bacon

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better
designedly."
--Francis Bacon

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it
redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
--Francis Bacon

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which
otherwise would heal and do well."
--Francis Bacon

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
--Francis Bacon

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
--Francis Bacon

"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest
you get your brains kicked out."
--Francis Bacon

"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
--Francis Bacon

"Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Vanity
"Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of
paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Virtue
"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
--Francis Bacon

"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what
they ought to do."
--Francis Bacon

"We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
--Francis Bacon

"What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
--Francis Bacon

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the
loss of their prerogative."
--Francis Bacon

"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
--Francis Bacon

"Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much."
--Francis Bacon

"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
--Francis Bacon

"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to
his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend,
but he grieveth the less."
--Francis Bacon

Topic: Wife
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
--Francis Bacon

"Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly
the most valuable."
--Francis Bacon

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and
more fit for new projects than for settled business."
--Francis Bacon
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

"A woman's always younger than a man of equal years."
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it
impossible to be great at all."

"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do
what a hero can."

"Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!"

"Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger,
without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them,
they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not l"

"Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger,
without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them,
they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh
at you."

"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a
glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in
adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."

"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he
who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries."

"God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."

Topic: Love
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and
heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal
Grace.I love thee to the level of everyday'sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love
thee freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.I love thee
with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.I love thee with
a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of
all my life! - and, if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death."

"If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."

"Light tomorrow with today!"

"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."

Topic: Repetition
"Men get opinions as boys learn to spell,By reiteration chiefly."

"My sun sets to raise again."

"Since when was genius found respectable?"

"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished."

"The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass!"

"There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand."

"Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man."

"What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?"

"Who so loves believes the impossible."

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you,
my whole life long."
Robert Browning Quotes

"A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?"
--Robert Browning

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
--Robert Browning

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

Topic: Trying
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?"
--Robert Browning

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?"
--Robert Browning

"Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do."
--Robert Browning

Topic: Gain
"And gain is gain, however small."
--Robert Browning

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
--Robert Browning

"Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?"
--Robert Browning

"Faultless to a fault."
--Robert Browning

"Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's
particular love's sake!"
--Robert Browning

"God is the perfect poet."
--Robert Browning

"Grow old along with me the best is yet to be."
--Robert Browning

"Grow old with me! The best is yet to be."
--Robert Browning

"How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and
the senses forever in joy!"
--Robert Browning

"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."
--Robert Browning

"I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists."
--Robert Browning

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."
--Robert Browning

"Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!"
--Robert Browning

"Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower,
had pursed It's petals up ..."
--Robert Browning

"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb
and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."
--Robert Browning

"Love is energy of life."
--Robert Browning

"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."
--Robert Browning

"Motherhood: All love begins and ends there."
--Robert Browning

"My sun sets to rise again."
--Robert Browning

"Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!"
--Robert Browning

"Of what I call God, And fools call Nature."
--Robert Browning

"One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would
break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to
rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake."
--Robert Browning

"Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked."
--Robert Browning

Topic: Liberty
"So free we seem, so fettered fast we are."
--Robert Browning

"Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought."
--Robert Browning

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
--Robert Browning

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that.
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them
now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer,"
--Robert Browning

"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that.
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them
now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a
dreamer."
--Robert Browning

"The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the
core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!"
--Robert Browning

"'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!"
--Robert Browning

"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"
--Robert Browning

Topic: Kiss
"What of the soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop."
--Robert Browning

"What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew."
--Robert Browning

"What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a
year to hold."
--Robert Browning

"What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found,
gained, and kept?"
--Robert Browning

"Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once."
--Robert Browning

"Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and
so be pedestaled in triumph?"
--Robert Browning

"You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the
girls."
--Robert Browning
Buddha Quotes

"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not
considered a good man because he is a good talker."
--Buddha

"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."
--Buddha

"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions.
Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."
--Buddha

"All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing
remain?"
--Buddha

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals."
--Buddha

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists
only as an idea."
--Buddha

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may
wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
--Buddha

"Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten."
--Buddha

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
--Buddha

"Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace."
--Buddha

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence."
--Buddha

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present
moment."
--Buddha

"Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not
obtain peace of mind."
--Buddha

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as
many suicides as despair."
--Buddha

"Every human being is the author of his own health or disease."
--Buddha

Topic: Hate
"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."
--Buddha

"He is able who thinks he is able."
--Buddha

"He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his
own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye."
--Buddha

"He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes."
--Buddha

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best
relationship."
--Buddha

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone
else; you are the one getting burned."
--Buddha

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone
else; you are the one who gets burned."
--Buddha

"However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What good will they do
youIf you do not act on upon them?"
--Buddha

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

"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
--Buddha

"If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal
pass without sharing it in some way."
--Buddha

"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves."
--Buddha

"In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their
own minds and then beleive them to be true."
--Buddha

"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
--Buddha

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours.
It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
--Buddha

"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
--Buddha

"J ust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
--Buddha

"J ust as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and
wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of
human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue."
--Buddha

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a
little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least
we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful."
--Buddha

"Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."
--Buddha

"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light
by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing
can destroy him."
--Buddha

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."
--Buddha

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and
compassion are the things which renew humanity."
--Buddha

"The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground."
--Buddha

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."
--Buddha

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry
about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
--Buddha

Topic: Inspirational
"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the
future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
--Buddha

"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood."
--Buddha

"The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never
found solitary in any breast."
--Buddha

"The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a
sieve."
--Buddha

"The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage!
Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are
like heat haze."
--Buddha

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

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

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way,
and not starting."
--Buddha

Topic: Greed
"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly,
there is no torrent like greed."
--Buddha

"There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a
poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that
irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills."
--Buddha

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace."
--Buddha

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will
not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
--Buddha

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
--Buddha

"To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are
idle, wise people are diligent."
--Buddha

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one
must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can
find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come t"
--Buddha

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one
must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can
find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."
--Buddha

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of
abundance."
--Buddha

"Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are
already two."
--Buddha

"Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good."
--Buddha

"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless
thoughts give joy when they speak or act. J oy follows them like a shadow that never
leaves them."
--Buddha

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we
make the world."
--Buddha

"What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where
each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between
people as they pass each other in this flood?"
--Buddha

"What we think, we become."
--Buddha

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be
influenced by them for good or ill."
--Buddha

"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure
in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is
free of fear."
--Buddha

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of
death."
--Buddha

"Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind,
they can change our world."
--Buddha

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."
--Buddha

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of
your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found
anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and
af"
--Buddha

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of
your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found
anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and
affection."
--Buddha

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and
affection."
--Buddha

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."
--Buddha
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

"[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken
collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
--Napoleon Bonaparte

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

"A Constitution should be short and obscure."

Topic: J ournalism
"A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of
nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."

Topic: Leadership
"A leader is a dealer in hope."

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."

"A true man hates no one."

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."

Topic: Dignity
"All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

"Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack."

"Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and
prudent forethought."

"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."

"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform
very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them."

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."

"I have only one counsel for you - be master."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to
draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"I made all my generals out of mud."

"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have
meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me
suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is t"

"If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have
meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me
suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is
thought and preparation."

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

Topic: Peace
"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannonshots."

"If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna."

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."

"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."

"If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."

"Imagination rules the world."

Topic: Imagination
"Imagination rules the world. "

Topic: Impossibility
"Impossibility: a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. "

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

Topic: Martyr
"It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr."

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."

Topic: Suffering
"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons."

"Let the path be open to talent."

"Medicines are only fit for old people."

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest"

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should
give it the greatest encouragement."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."

"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take
her away from me."

"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet"

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"Respect the burden."

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."

Topic: War
"Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go
in."

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."

Topic: Government
"The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs."

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

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

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."

"The French complain of everything, and always."

"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great
welcome them out of vanity or need."

"The human race is governed by its imagination."

"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."

Topic: Wisdom
"The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone."

Topic: Cowardice
"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you
and are too cowardly to let you know."

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between
the senses and the mind."

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes
better to abandon one's self to destiny."

Topic: Spirit
"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the
sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest."

"There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear."

Topic: Leadership
"There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear."

"There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."

Topic: Vengeance
"Vengeance has no foresight."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."

Topic: Humor
"We must laugh at a man to avoid crying for him."

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."

Topic: History
"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

Topic: Firmness
"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."

"When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long
nose."

"With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything."

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."

"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
John Keats Quotes

Topic: Life
"A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it."
--J ohn Keats

"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into
nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and
health, and quiet breathing..."
--J ohn Keats

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
--J ohn Keats

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
--J ohn Keats

Topic: Literary
"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know."
--J ohn Keats

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence
and make it a soul?"
--J ohn Keats

Topic: Imagination
"Ever let the fancy roam,Pleasure never is at home."
--J ohn Keats

"He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead."
--J ohn Keats

"Health is my expected heaven."
--J ohn Keats

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
--J ohn Keats

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of
imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed
before or not."
--J ohn Keats

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of
imagination."
--J ohn Keats

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."
--J ohn Keats

"I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a
cloying treacle to the wings of independence."
--J ohn Keats

"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I
shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die
for that."
--J ohn Keats

"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing
else."
--J ohn Keats

"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
--J ohn Keats

"It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his
own airy citadel."
--J ohn Keats

Topic: J oy
"J oy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu."
--J ohn Keats

"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer
for ever."
--J ohn Keats

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."
--J ohn Keats

"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
--J ohn Keats

"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
--J ohn Keats

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."
--J ohn Keats

"Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss"
--J ohn Keats

"O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the
warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens."
--J ohn Keats

"O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky
buildings"
--J ohn Keats

"O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth..."
--J ohn Keats

Topic: Life
"Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts."
--J ohn Keats

"Pass into nothingness."
--J ohn Keats

"Philosophy will clip an angel's wings."
--J ohn Keats

"Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader
as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
--J ohn Keats

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and
appear almost a remembrance."
--J ohn Keats

"Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the
abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works."
--J ohn Keats

"Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer."
--J ohn Keats

"She press'd his hand in slumber; so once more He could not help but kiss her and adore."
--J ohn Keats

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."
--J ohn Keats

"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human
creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder
at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish."
--J ohn Keats

"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."
--J ohn Keats

"Tis the witching hour of night,
Orbed is the moon and bright,
And the stars they glisten, glisten,
Seeming with bright eyes to listen
For what listen they?"
--J ohn Keats

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth."
--J ohn Keats

"When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain."
--J ohn Keats

"Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!"
--J ohn Keats
Helen Keller Quotes

"A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he
takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a
dull routine of textbooks."
--Helen Keller

"All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming."
--Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
--Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
--Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it."
--Helen Keller

"As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens
the vision."
--Helen Keller

"As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the
world is wounded by its own skill."
--Helen Keller

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are
caught as often as the bold."
--Helen Keller

"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come
tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere;
and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
--Helen Keller

"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."
--Helen Keller

"College isn't the place to go for ideas."
--Helen Keller

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for
me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
--Helen Keller

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may
be in, therein to be content."
--Helen Keller

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."
--Helen Keller

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something."
--Helen Keller

"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I
will not refuse to do something I can do."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Immortality
"I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings."
--Helen Keller

"I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is
golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world."
--Helen Keller

"I cannot do everything; but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything;
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
--Helen Keller

"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which
bringeth peace."
--Helen Keller

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if they were great and noble."
--Helen Keller

"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a
touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Language
"If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the
violin of humn thought."
--Helen Keller

"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we
should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that
we are among the privileged."
--Helen Keller

"It gives me a deep comforting sense that "things seen are temporal and things unseen are
eternal.""
--Helen Keller

"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision."
--Helen Keller

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to
go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel
toward our distant goal."
--Helen Keller

"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
--Helen Keller

"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Youth
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.
Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its alotted length."
--Helen Keller

"It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only
expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his
own tracks of ennui."
--Helen Keller

"It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God
and I have no fears."
--Helen Keller

Topic: J oy
"J oy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."
--Helen Keller

"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Optimism
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
--Helen Keller

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
--Helen Keller

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
--Helen Keller

"Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others."
--Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Security is mostly a superstition. It
does not exist in nature."
--Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
--Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the
children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
exposure."
--Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and
behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
--Helen Keller

"Life is either a great adventure or nothing."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Literature
"Literature is my utopia."
--Helen Keller

"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts
me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without
embarrassment or awkwardness."
--Helen Keller

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the
garden a place of delight just the same."
--Helen Keller

"Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They
look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing
outside themselves either."
--Helen Keller

"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained
through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Blind
"My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit
world was stumbling and groping in social blindness."
--Helen Keller

"My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious."
--Helen Keller

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
--Helen Keller

"No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his
indisputable right."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Happiness
"No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Attitude
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or
opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
--Helen Keller

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or
opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
--Helen Keller

"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or
opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
--Helen Keller

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a
little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and
my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
--Helen Keller

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
--Helen Keller

"One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar."
--Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and
confidence."
--Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or
confidence."
--Helen Keller

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are
not always pleasant."
--Helen Keller

"Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the
'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and
the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Eg"
--Helen Keller

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst
of them all - the apathy of human beings."
--Helen Keller

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst
of them all- the apathy of human beings."
--Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men
as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
--Helen Keller

as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Security
as a whole experience it. Avoidingdanger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
--Helen Keller

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing."
--Helen Keller

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the
world."
--Helen Keller

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years
you have lived."
--Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things"
--Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They
must be felt within the heart."
--Helen Keller

"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
--Helen Keller

"The highest result of education is tolerance."
--Helen Keller

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if
there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if
there were no dark valleys to traverse."
--Helen Keller

"The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the
aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Sorrow
"The world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another
to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome
tasks."
--Helen Keller

"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it
takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
--Helen Keller

"Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble,
we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light
and darkness."
--Helen Keller

"Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each
other's welfare, social justice can never be attained."
--Helen Keller

"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
--Helen Keller

"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough."
--Helen Keller

"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
--Helen Keller

"We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of
them all - the apathy of human beings."
--Helen Keller

Topic: J oy
"We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Blind
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
--Helen Keller

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part
of us."
--Helen Keller

"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed
door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Happiness
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the
closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
--Helen Keller

closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
--Helen Keller

Topic: Happiness
closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
--Helen Keller

"When one door to happiness closes, another opens. But often we look so long at the
closed door we do not see the one which has been opened to us."
--Helen Keller

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or
in the life of another."
--Helen Keller

"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in
the life of another."
--Helen Keller

"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
--Helen Keller
Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

"...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."
--Martin Luther King J r.

"A lie cannot live."

"A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."

Topic: Death
"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own
spiritual death on the installment plan."

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on
programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."

"A right delayed is a right denied."

"All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with
another problem."

"Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly
accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."

"Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of J efferson
etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence,
we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition
we now face will surely fail."

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous
struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't
ride you unless your back is bent."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that."

"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their
lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society
dominating them."

Topic: Hate
"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple
tree."

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the
darkness of destructive selfishness."

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college
degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only
need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

"Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

"From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty
mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of
Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and
molehill of Mississippi."

"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred
darkens life; love illuminates it."

"Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our
enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more
wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good
people."

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of
justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate
concern of dedicated individuals."

"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."

"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

Topic: Equality
"I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood."

"I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall
be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be
revealed and all flesh shall see it together."

"I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the
sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."

Topic: Prejudice
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its
creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." ... I have a
dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation wh"

Topic: Equality
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a
dream today!"

"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

"I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. 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."

"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the
content of their character."

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of
racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a
reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

"I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and
willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to
live."

"I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit
to live."

"I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."

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

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo
painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep
streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great
streetsweeper who did his job well."

"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a
permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive."

"If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all
reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."

"If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations
will be the recipients of a long and desolute night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to
the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos."

"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the
history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say,
"There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into
the veins of civilization.""

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Topic: J ustice
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable
network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly,
affects all indirectly."

"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are
derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from
lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from
lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"

"Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?"

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."

"Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."

"Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles
the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."

"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal
violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."

Topic: Ignorance
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious
stupidity."

Topic: Ignorance And Stupidity
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious
stupidity."

Topic: J oy
"Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be
completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be
articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."

Topic: Vietnam
"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on
the battlefield of Vietnam."

"One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on
the battlefield of Vietnam."

"One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly
accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community
over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and
misguided men."

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the
circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of
a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's
soul."

"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights
and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."

"Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me
to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do
whatever is necessary.""

"Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost
universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people
more than having to think."

"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power
religion gives man wisdom which is control."

"Seeing is not always believing."

"Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute
misunderstanding from people of ill will."

"So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine
eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!"

"Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets
himself into immortality."

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

Topic: State
"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but
rather the conscience of the state."

"The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man,
what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not
stop to help this man, what will happen to him?""

"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner
qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are
dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral
conflict."

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their
participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites
defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."

"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."

"The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the
Negro to free him from his guilt."

"The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens
Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order
than to justice."

"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out
peaceful tomorrows."

"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will
be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."

"The time is always right to do what is right."

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

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

"There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life,
devoid of breadth."

"War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to
forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some
evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies."

Topic: Brotherhood
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"We must use time creatively."

"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely
bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."

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

"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

"When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative."

"Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and
scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists."
John F. Kennedy Quotes

"...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for
perhaps those times when Thomas J efferson ate alone."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"A child miseducated is a child lost."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"A man does what he must-in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and
dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all human morality."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought
to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders
today - and in fact we have forgotten."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to
have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core
unemployed."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free
man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first
thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on
this planet. But let us begin."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"America has tossed its cap over the wall of space."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you
can do for your country."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"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."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Art, that great undogmatized church."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to
miss the future."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard
Nixon and the White House."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small
planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all
mortal."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look
only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us
partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no
man put asunder."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for
President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I am reading it more and enjoying it less."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other
planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I am the man who accompanied J acqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the
New York Times."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in
fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting
either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not
relevant."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear J ack, Don't buy a
single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.""
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I know that the White House was designed by J ames Hoban, a noted Irish-American
architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the
Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any president of Irish descent. It was a
long wait, but I appreciate his efforts."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place
then I am ready - we see the hand."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military strength with our
moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match
its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with
our purpose."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will
protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American
houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and
balanced cities for our future."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has
ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas
J efferson dined alone."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are
rich."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his
vision wherever it takes him."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a
different religion."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"I'm an idealist without illusions."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation.
For all of us must work to put him there."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of
defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this
responsibility - I welcome it."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the
child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor
demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of
freedom."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale
degree."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang
the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let
us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and
encourage the arts and commerce."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has
been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer.
Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the
future."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the
minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care
of their plumbing."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed
it till now."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"My God, in this job he's got the nerve of a burglar."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same
air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be a s
big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as
big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly
eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the
basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Tell him, if he doesn't mind, we'll shake hands."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder
who builds best when called upon to build greatly."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of
excellence."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The best road to progress is freedom's road."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment;
but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those who say,
"What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable.""
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and
dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The human mind is our fundamental resource."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It
sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.
It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice
instead of more security."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are . The cost of
freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never
choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The pay is good and I can walk to work."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose
horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that
never were."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of
risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and
thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a fourth person."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people
inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret
proceedings."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what
is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to
Berlin!"
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range
risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of
comfortable inaction."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are
wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San
Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is
unfair."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir
takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he
owes an obligation of trust."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the
oppression or persecution of others."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same
reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas,
alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people
judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is hostile to
freedom."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to
watch - we are going back from whence we came."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of
freedom and the enemy of growth."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

Topic: History
"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the
world -- or the last."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the
world or to make it the last."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We need men who can dream of things that never were."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass
extermination."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment
to others."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of
unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When
power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and
diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were
just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as
bad as we'd been saying they were."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One
represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
--J ohn F. Kennedy

"You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."
--J ohn F. Kennedy
John Locke Quotes

"A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this
world."
--J ohn Locke

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this
World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them,
will be little the better for anything else."
--J ohn Locke

"All wealth is the product of labor."
--J ohn Locke

"An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the
beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards."
--J ohn Locke

"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
--J ohn Locke

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish
him."
--J ohn Locke

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
--J ohn Locke

"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."
--J ohn Locke

"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Conversation
"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to
my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own
peculiar professions and pursuits."
--J ohn Locke

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Thought
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."
--J ohn Locke

"I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Punishment
"If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender."
--J ohn Locke

"If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall
do muchwhat as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because
he had no wings to fly."
--J ohn Locke

"It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach."
--J ohn Locke

"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it
fathom all the depths of the ocean."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Logic
"Logic is the anatomy of thought."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Opinion
"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but
because they are not already common."
--J ohn Locke

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but
because they are not already common."
--J ohn Locke

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
--J ohn Locke

"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater
assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
--J ohn Locke

"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows
the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."
--J ohn Locke

"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they
cause us to stumble and to trip."
--J ohn Locke

"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the
fountain."
--J ohn Locke

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes
what we read ours."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Reverie
"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the
understanding."
--J ohn Locke

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
--J ohn Locke

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."
--J ohn Locke

"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of
knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: World
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
--J ohn Locke

"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
--J ohn Locke

Topic: Thought
"The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are
commonly the most valuable of any we have."
--J ohn Locke

"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his
discourse."
--J ohn Locke

"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the
discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and
the prejudices of their education."
--J ohn Locke

"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by
that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
--J ohn Locke

"To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their
darkness but to put out our own eyes."
--J ohn Locke

"We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they
are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves."
--J ohn Locke

"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge
nothing."
--J ohn Locke

"Where there is no property there is no injustice."
--J ohn Locke
Lao-Tzu Quotes

"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."
--Lao-Tzu

Topic: Love
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you
courage."
--Lao-Tzu

"He who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know."
--Lao-Tzu

"He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened."
--Lao-Tzu

"He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire."
--Lao-Tzu

"Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires."
--Lao-Tzu

Topic: Happiness
"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."
--Lao-Tzu

"People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge."
--Lao-Tzu

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness."
--Lao-Tzu

"The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao."
--Lao-Tzu

"The more laws and order are made prominent,
The more thieves and robbers there will be."
--Lao-Tzu

"The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action."
--Lao-Tzu

"The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete."
--Lao-Tzu

"The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people
revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'"
--Lao-Tzu

"There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is not greater disaster than greed."
--Lao-Tzu

"To be worn out is to be renewed."
--Lao-Tzu

"To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed."
--Lao-Tzu

"To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."
--Lao-Tzu

Topic: Leadership
"To lead the people, walk behind them."
--Lao-Tzu

"To produce things and to rear them,
To produce, but not to take possession of them,
To act, but not to rely on one's own ability,
To lead them, but not to master them -
This is called profound and secret virtue."
--Lao-Tzu

"When armies are mobilized and issues are joined,
The man who is sorry over the fact will win."
--Lao-Tzu

"When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it."
--Lao-Tzu

"When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty,
There arises the recognition of ugliness.
When they all know the good as good,
There arises the recognition of evil."
--Lao-Tzu

Topic: Confidence
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody
will respect you."
--Lao-Tzu
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere
study of books."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A thought often makes us hotter than a fire."

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

"Act - act in the living present!"

"Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the
desert behind us Worse than the dark before."

Topic: Children
"Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more?We should dread the
desert behind us Worse than the dark before."

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

"Ah, how skillful grows the hand that obeyeth love's command! It is the heart and not the
brain that to the highest doth attain, and he who followeth love's behest far excelleth all
the rest."

"All things come round to him who will but wait."

"All things must change to something new, to something strange."

"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we
are never satisfied."

"And yet not turn your back upon the world."

"Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and
secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."

"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers
and reviews, to challenge every new author."

"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 Procreates
turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted,
something done, has earned a night's repose."

"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a
man cold when he is only sad."

"Evil is only good perverted."

"Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."

Topic: Resignation
"For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

"For 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."

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."

Topic: Grave
"He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."

"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can
pierce."

Topic: Self-Respect
"He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can
pierce."

"Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while
their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night."

"However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure."

"I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much
aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's
history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self
assertion of youth."

"I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the
sweet security of the streets."

"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."

"I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'."

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

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life

"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life

"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere."

"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up
somebody."

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it."

"If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the
attraction of earth."

"In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."

Topic: Human Nature
"In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer."

"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden
room we find."

Topic: Courtesy
"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;
Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."

Topic: Sorrow
"Into each life some rain must fall."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has
begun."

"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such
wounds always leave a scar."

Topic: Error
"It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

"J oy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."

"Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong."

"Learn to labour and to wait."

"Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait."

"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing,
learn to labor and to wait."

"Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul."

Topic: Life
"Life is real! Life is earnest!And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust
returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Tell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an
empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem."

"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine
rhymes mingled the feminine are."

"Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave
behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

"Lives of great men all remind us, We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave
behind us, Footprints on the sands of time."

"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present,
it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."

"Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present.
It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear."

Topic: Love
"Love gives itself; it is not bought."

"Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."

"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments,
time and again, will come as a surprise to him."

Topic: Simplicity
"Man-like it is to fall into sin; fiendlike it is to dwell therein."

"Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By
dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the
snake for the beads."

"Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our
place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any
observation of the heavenly bodies."

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great
ambitions."

Topic: Music
"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger."

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

"Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."

"Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Topic: Inequality
"One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream. "

"Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

"People demand freedom only when they have no power."

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud
enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Topic: Resolution
"Resolve and thou art free."

"Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with
all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!"

"Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a
distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only
a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."

"Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the
forget-me-nots of the angels"

"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is
simplicity."

Topic: Reverie
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle
seashore of the mind."

"Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death."

Topic: Inequality
"Some men must follow, and some command, though all are made of clay. "

"Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose."

Topic: Error
"Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."

"Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."

"That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."

"The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and
happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that
are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance
and disease."

"The grave is but a covered bridge Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"

Topic: Firmness
"The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they
while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."

"The heights by great men reached and keptWere not obtained by sudden flight,But they,
while their companions sleptWere toiling upward in the night."

Topic: Voice
"The human voice is the organ of the soul."

Topic: Memory
"The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."

Topic: Study
"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact
with other minds."

"The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air."

"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."

Topic: Pursuit
"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."

"The secret anniversaries of the heart."

"The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."

Topic: Criticism
"The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well
whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is
deserved, not because it is sought after."

Topic: Wickedness
"The world loves a spice of wickedness."

Topic: Voice
"Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice,And lend to the rhyme of
the poet The beauty of thy voice."

Topic: Grief
"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

"There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first
fluttering of its siken wings."

Topic: Illusion
"Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. "

"There's nothing in this world so sweet as love , And next to love the sweetest thing is
hate."

Topic: Thought
"Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom."

Topic: Remorse
"To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."

"To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of
others."

"Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living
Present! Heart within and God overhead."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we
have already done."

Topic: J udgment
"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing; others judge us by what we have
done."

"When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."

"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a
thick coat of self-conceit."

"Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon
fold their hands in devotion."

"Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its
mystery!"

"Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be
not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth
him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out."

"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the
first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"

"You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and
mean another."

Topic: Youth
"Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
Abraham Lincoln Quotes

Topic: Democracy
"...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
Earth."
--Abraham Lincoln

"A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win
a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop
of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Unity
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
--Abraham Lincoln

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
--Abraham Lincoln

"All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother."
--Abraham Lincoln

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would
grow in thought and mind."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Mother
"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one
thing."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
other."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Friendship
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
--Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it
will be because we destroyed ourselves."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Vote
"Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet."
--Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Revolution
"Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and
shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better."
--Abraham Lincoln

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of
democracy."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Democracy
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of
democracy."
--Abraham Lincoln

"As our case is new, we must think and act anew."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Popularity
"Avoid popularity if you would have peace."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Victory
"Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us
victories."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Soldier
"But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this
ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far
above our poor power to add or detract."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it;
the tree is the real thing."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of
it; the tree is the real thing."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so
many of them."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Democracy
"Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a
thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
--Abraham Lincoln

"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."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Constitution
"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the
only safeguard of our liberties."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Everybody likes a compliment."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother"
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: History
"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history."
--Abraham Lincoln

"For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Force
"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Equality
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Providence
"Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men,
the largest purse, and the longest cannon."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the
axe."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
Earth."
--Abraham Lincoln

"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine."
--Abraham Lincoln

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
--Abraham Lincoln

"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
--Abraham Lincoln

"He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Sentiment
"He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or
impossible to make."
--Abraham Lincoln

"He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or
impossible to make."
--Abraham Lincoln

"He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are
not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a
friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lic"
--Abraham Lincoln

"Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible."
--Abraham Lincoln

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg
doesn't make it a leg."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Hypocrisy
"Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents ... pleaded for mercy on the grounds
that he was an orphan."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet
any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am
bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and
stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the
Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I can make more generals, but horses cost money."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: History
"I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled
me."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost
every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be
down inside of me."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Growth
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until
the end."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his
grandson will be."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know who his
grandson will be."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had
nowhere else to go"
--Abraham Lincoln

"I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had
nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the
day."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: God
"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and
prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that
his place will be proud of him"
--Abraham Lincoln

"I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Mother''S Day
"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to
me all my life."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Progress
"I walk slowly, but I never walk backward."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and
planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If a fellow wants to be a nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mail
man to somebody on his behalf."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as
well be closed for any other business."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Confession
"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their
respect and esteem."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Talent
"If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some
coffee."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: J udgment
"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better
judge what to do, and how to do it."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't
make it a leg."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."
--Abraham Lincoln

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere
friend."
--Abraham Lincoln

"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Important principles may and must be inflexible."
--Abraham Lincoln

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Opinion
"In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment,
nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Vice
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
--Abraham Lincoln

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove
all doubt."
--Abraham Lincoln

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims
kindred to the great God who made him."
--Abraham Lincoln

"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the
two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever
continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread,
and I'll eat it.""
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Flattery
"Knavery and flattery are blood relations."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently
and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from
violence when built."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Safety
"Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Citizenship
"Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common
country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our
duty as we understand it."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Happiness
"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Government
"Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak
to maintain its own existence?"
--Abraham Lincoln

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last
best hope of earth."
--Abraham Lincoln

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your
failure."
--Abraham Lincoln

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

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Government
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
--Abraham Lincoln

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens"
--Abraham Lincoln

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all
men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of
despotism around your own doors."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as
our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of
both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the
men who pervert the Constitution."
--Abraham Lincoln

"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
--Abraham Lincoln

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Property
"Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good in the world."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Public opinion in this country is everything."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for
personal contention."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for
personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the
vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him
when he goes wrong."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the
infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Suspicion
"Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Tact
"Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
--Abraham Lincoln

"That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just
encouragement to industry and enterprise."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our
separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for
future use."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Law
"The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent
to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, 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."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled
high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must
think anew and act anew."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout
person."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason that He makes so many of
them."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of
government in the next."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of
a cause we believe to be just."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Cause
"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us fromthe support of
a cause we believe to be just."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd
as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.
Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I
ain't read."
--Abraham Lincoln

"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
--Abraham Lincoln

"There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the
daughter of Time.""
--Abraham Lincoln

"There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the
true, This seeing is not the true one."
--Abraham Lincoln

"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Procrastination
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle."
--Abraham Lincoln

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they
shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right
of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Freedom
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God,
cannot long retain it."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
--Abraham Lincoln

"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
--Abraham Lincoln

"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
--Abraham Lincoln

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,
I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be
engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an
objective of vital importance."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Experience
"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."
--Abraham Lincoln

"We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new
disaster with each newspaper we read."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Vow
"We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we
cannot."
--Abraham Lincoln

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
--Abraham Lincoln

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow
the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
--Abraham Lincoln

"What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and
untried?"
--Abraham Lincoln

"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
--Abraham Lincoln

"When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking
about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going
to say."
--Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
--Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
--Abraham Lincoln

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

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to
let him run."
--Abraham Lincoln

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to
let him run."
--Abraham Lincoln

"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on
him personally."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Charity
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right asGod gives us
to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in."
--Abraham Lincoln

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives
us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's
wounds."
--Abraham Lincoln

"With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
--Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but
you cannot fool all the people all the time."
--Abraham Lincoln

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time,
but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
--Abraham Lincoln

Topic: Deceit
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but
you cannot fool all of the people all the time."
--Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
--Abraham Lincoln

"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for
themselves."
--Abraham Lincoln

"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
--Abraham Lincoln

"You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but
not all the people all the time."
--Abraham Lincoln
Martin Luther Quotes

"All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and
will receive what they have asked and desired."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Inequality
"An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free,
some serfs, some rulers, some subjects."
--Martin Luther

"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."
--Martin Luther

"Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own
money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom
certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Hope
"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope."
--Martin Luther

"Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could
stake his life on it a thousand times."
--Martin Luther

"Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding."
--Martin Luther

"First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and
shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each
leaf."
--Martin Luther

"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more
glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
--Martin Luther

"Forgiveness is God's command."
--Martin Luther

"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and
clouds and stars."
--Martin Luther

"God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees, and flowers, and clouds, and
stars."
--Martin Luther

"Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!"
--Martin Luther

"How soon not now becomes never."
--Martin Luther

"I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor
in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth."
--Martin Luther

"I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within
me the great pope, Self."
--Martin Luther

"I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything
finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men."
--Martin Luther

"If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there."
--Martin Luther

"J ustice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is
eternal and will never die."
--Martin Luther

"Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see
him leave."
--Martin Luther

"Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death."
--Martin Luther

"Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people
milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable."
--Martin Luther

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music
when sick and weary."
--Martin Luther

"No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in
popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and
know that it is good and profitable for him."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Blood
"No one need think that the world can be ruled without blood. The civil sword shall and
must be red and bloody."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Violence
"Nothing good ever comes of violence."
--Martin Luther

"People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform
virtuous actions."
--Martin Luther

"Pray, and let God worry."
--Martin Luther

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon."
--Martin Luther

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has."
--Martin Luther

"Reason is the enemy of faith."
--Martin Luther

"Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender
thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated."
--Martin Luther

"Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Superstition
"Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes begging."
--Martin Luther

"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Brevity
"The fewer the words, the better the prayer."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Prayer
"The fewer words the better prayer."
--Martin Luther

"The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride."
--Martin Luther

Topic: Hair
"The hair is the richest ornament of women."
--Martin Luther

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all
four corners of heaven."
--Martin Luther

"The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else."
--Martin Luther

"The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good."
--Martin Luther

"The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing."
--Martin Luther

"The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in
the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by
fashioning them out of clay."
--Martin Luther

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan
mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders
contend for its possession."
--Martin Luther

"There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company
than a good marriage."
--Martin Luther

"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the
Christian life as prayer."
--Martin Luther

"War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys
states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
--Martin Luther

"When I am angry I can pray well and preach well."
--Martin Luther

"Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long."
--Martin Luther

"You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the
Lord who receives sinners preaches to you."
--Martin Luther
Douglas Macarthur Quotes

"A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him."
--Douglas Macarthur

"And like the old soldier in 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 sight to see that duty."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave
enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest
defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace,
I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war."
--Douglas Macarthur

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat
from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within."
--Douglas Macarthur

"I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so
distinguished its former enemy commander."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Race
"I have one criticism about the Negro troops who fought under my command in the
Korean War. They didn't send me enough of them."
--Douglas Macarthur

"I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever
I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in
this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?"
--Douglas Macarthur

"In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange,
mournful mutter of the battlefield."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Sports
"In war there is no substitute for victory."
--Douglas Macarthur

"In war, you win or lose, live or die-and the difference is just an eyelash."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Victory
"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Spirit
"It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh."
--Douglas Macarthur

"I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has
me on the ropes."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions,
the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the
brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your
;conscience on the other."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Courage
"Last, but by no means least, courage--moral courage, the courage of one's convictions,
the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.
It's the age-old struggle--the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your
conscience on the other."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Life is a lively process of becoming."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Like the old soldier of the 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. Goodbye."
--Douglas Macarthur

"My first recollection is that of a bugle call."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Never give an order that can't be obeyed."
--Douglas Macarthur

"No man is enitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Freedom
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Soldier
"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Old soldiers never die; they just fade away. And like the old soldier in 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 sight to see that duty."
--Douglas Macarthur

"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion,
which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die."
--Douglas Macarthur

"Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who
are willing to die for their country are fit to live."
--Douglas Macarthur

"The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself."
--Douglas Macarthur

"The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that
elusive and deathless thing called soldiering."
--Douglas Macarthur

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and
bear the deepest wounds and scars of war."
--Douglas Macarthur

"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar
of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other."
--Douglas Macarthur

"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity."
--Douglas Macarthur

"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and
they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."
--Douglas Macarthur

"We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater
than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I
would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the
chalice of courage."
--Douglas Macarthur

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
--Douglas Macarthur

Topic: Victory
"Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories."
--Douglas Macarthur

"You are remembered for the rules you break."
--Douglas Macarthur
Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."
--Niccolo Machiavelli

"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."

"A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may
drive him to despair."

"Before all else, be armed."

"Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better."

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between
obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."

"God creates men, but they choose each other."

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of
glory which belongs to us."

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."

"He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount
higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss."

"He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them
afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building."

"He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command."

"Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed
Prophets have been destroyed."

"If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be
feared."

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."

Topic: Perception
"It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved."

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."

"Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will
trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few
can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."

"Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they
take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the
injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared."

"Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth
teach us all to have aspiring minds."

Topic: Goals
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is
ripe for execution."

"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."

"One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others."

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

"Politics have no relation to morals."

"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society."

"Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense;
benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more."

"Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when
one of the two must be lacking."

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far
safer to be feared than loved."

"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."

"The chief foundations of all states... are good laws and good arms. And as there cannot
be good laws where there are not good arms... where there are good arms there must be
good laws..."

"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is
at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."

"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to
grief among so many who are not virtuous."

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has
around him."

"The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are
good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there
are good arms, good laws inevitably follow."

"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see
through it."

"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict
them once and for all."

"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose
policy clashes with the demands of the times does not"

"The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the
present."

"The question is, then, do we try to make things easy on ourselves or do we try to make
things easy on our customers, whoever they may be?"

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

"The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men
succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the
ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for
their mistakes."

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others."

"There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men
understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can
tell you the truth, you lose their respect."

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more
uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."

"To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the
nature of the prince, one must be of the people."

"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in
arms."

"War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-
time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military
plans."

"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."

"When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live
content."

"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust
them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate
hatred..."

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

"Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may
expect to be ruined himself."

"Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men
are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion
for it."

"Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times."
Michel De Montaigne Quotes

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband."
--Michel De Montaigne

"A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can."

"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."

"Ambition is not a vice of little people."

"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."

"Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness."

Topic: Courtesy
"Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door thatwe may
derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit
them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation."

"Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in
corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies."

"Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations."

"Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are
believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved."

"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior,
attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection.
Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."

"Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass."

Topic: Success
"Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom."

Topic: Memory
"Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment."

"Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows."

"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather
than to be."

"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as
their most serious actions."

"Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky."

"Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?"

Topic: Argument And Debate
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."

"He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."

"How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables."

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself."

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself,
and not by borrowing."

Topic: Hypocrisy
"I despise the pleasure of pleasing people whom I despise."

"I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie."

"I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better."

"I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."

"I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to
reason incorrectly."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can."

"If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no
otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I."

"If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by
answering: Because it was he, because it was myself."

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

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I
was I."

Topic: Ignorance
"Ignorance is the mother of all evils."

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a
page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the
curriculum."

"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."

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

"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."

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

"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."

"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."

"Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do."

"Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real
life; the world around him is the dream."

"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave
youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages."

"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
equally desperate to get out."

"Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance."

"My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened."

"My trade and art is to live."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port."

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."

Topic: Belief
"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know."

"Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being."

Topic: Indifference
"Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals
over all the finer senses of the soul."

"One may be humble out of pride."

"Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee."

"Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it."

"The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure."

"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God
willingly favors such a confidence."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in
the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the
regions above the moon, always clear and serene."

Topic: J oy
"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."

"The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre."

"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."

"The thing I fear most is fear."

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them...
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."

"The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom."

"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word,
just nothing."

"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."

"The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly
and base not to dare to avouch for them."

Topic: Defeat
"There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

"There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves."

Topic: Ignorance
"There is an ABC ignorance which precedes knowledge and a doctoral ignorance which
comes after it."

"There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others."

"There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"There is no passion so contagious as that of fear."

"There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly
thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I
have no one to tell it to."

"There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the
managing of an entire state."

"Those who compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking
sleep."

"Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and
waking sleep."

"'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures."

"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."

"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other
men's wisdom."

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding
unfurnished and void."

"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my
books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more
than I with her."
Herman Melville Quotes

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
--Herman Melville

"Art is the objectification of feeling."
--Herman Melville

"Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian."
--Herman Melville

"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
--Herman Melville

"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first
salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the
Unshored..."
--Herman Melville

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers
her most vital hope."
--Herman Melville

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies
one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half
known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return!"
--Herman Melville

"Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!"
--Herman Melville

"God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose
intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever;
that vulture the very creature he creates."
--Herman Melville

"He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his
whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot
heart's shell upon it."
--Herman Melville

"He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that
henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg
- a cosy, loving pair."
--Herman Melville

"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."
--Herman Melville

Topic: Hope
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting
her eternity."
--Herman Melville

"How wondrous familiar is a fool!"
--Herman Melville

"If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier
facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against
events. Events, not books, should be forbid."
--Herman Melville

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport;
whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
--Herman Melville

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we
have until it is gone?"
--Herman Melville

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
--Herman Melville

"It is not down in any map; true places never are."
--Herman Melville

"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best
excellence in the children of any other land."
--Herman Melville

"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength
to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but
incidentally and without premeditation."
--Herman Melville

"Life's a voyage that's homeward bound."
--Herman Melville

"Miserable man! Oh! most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and
guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar
hastening to cross the seas."
--Herman Melville

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most
of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and
well-fed."
--Herman Melville

"Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with
aught that looks like death."
--Herman Melville

"So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes
at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe,
feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God."
--Herman Melville

"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us
so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged."
--Herman Melville

"The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature.
When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion."
--Herman Melville

"The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of
being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass."
--Herman Melville

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life
when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he
but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his
own."
--Herman Melville

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."
--Herman Melville

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists
in itself."
--Herman Melville

"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep
defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."
--Herman Melville

Topic: Leisure
"They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in leisure."
--Herman Melville

"Thrusted light is worse than presented pistols."
--Herman Melville

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult
chapters in the great art of living."
--Herman Melville

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring
volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it."
--Herman Melville

"Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either,
the grief and sin of idleness."
--Herman Melville

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
--Herman Melville

"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."
--Herman Melville
Richard M. Nixon Quotes

Topic: Youth
"... I believe one of America's most priceless assets is the idealism which motivates the
young people of America. My generation has invested all that it has, not only its love but
its hope and faith, in yours."
--Richard M. Nixon

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."
--Richard M. Nixon

"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's
mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he
discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have
remained dormant."
--Richard M. Nixon

"A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual,
rather than his policy, becomes the issue."
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: War
"A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate
them. And then you destroy yourself."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis
have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion
for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which
they exist."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the
American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor
has made peace with honor possible."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as
you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring
peace and Tranquillity to Earth."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you
think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Defeat doesn't finish a man - quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's
finished when he quits."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with
those he respects."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you
oblivion."
--Richard M. Nixon

"For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are
truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will
return safely to earth."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to
advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter
how distasteful to the majority, provided..."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I am not a crook."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office,
which is a continuing battle."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more
forthrightly in dealing with Watergate."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I had come so far from the little house in Yorba Linda to this great house in
Washington."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a
Ping-Pong team."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to
every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first
Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own
emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye
of the camera, talking to all the nation."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I played by the rules of politics as I found them."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: Vietnam
"I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I think of her, two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others she was a saint."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I took a look around the office. I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that
I would not be back there again."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I turned into the helicopter the red carpet was rolled up. The White House was behind us
now."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I want you to stonewall it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political
debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them."
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: Vietnam
"I would rather be a one-term President and do what I believe is right than to be a two-
term President at the cost of seeing America become a second-rate power and to see this
Nation accept the first defeat in its proud 190-year history."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse
on Mondale."
--Richard M. Nixon

"If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood
for anything."
--Richard M. Nixon

"If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many
different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be
suspect."
--Richard M. Nixon

"If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be
impoverished."
--Richard M. Nixon

"If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher
than, say 20%, there is a problem."
--Richard M. Nixon

"If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the
world?"
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: Vietnam
"If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation, the United States of
America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will
threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I'm glad I'm not Brezhnev. Being the Russian leader in the Kremlin. You never know if
someone's tape recording what you say."
--Richard M. Nixon

"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce
conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have
been religious wars."
--Richard M. Nixon

"In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry
and the one who can only speak prose."
--Richard M. Nixon

"It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the
morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with
reality."
--Richard M. Nixon

"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
--Richard M. Nixon

"It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die
None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here."
--Richard M. Nixon

"It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the
way you've always played it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go
too far when they use a proctoscope."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore
resignation is not an acceptable course."
--Richard M. Nixon

"I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials.
If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess
I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some
of these things... Life is one crisis after another."
--Richard M. Nixon

"My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct."
--Richard M. Nixon

"My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision
on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think
J ohnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"My strong point is not rhetoric, it isn't showmanship, it isn't big promises-those things
that create the glamour and the excitement that people call charisma and warmth."
--Richard M. Nixon

"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I
always produce more than I promise."
--Richard M. Nixon

"My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual
aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were
already the ones that would shape America's future."
--Richard M. Nixon

"My view is that one should not break up a winning combination."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another
way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always
try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible."
--Richard M. Nixon

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was
misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that's it's not going to be
accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not
outweigh the pain --if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it
comes, you survive it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to
be on the highest mountain."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times
and on the direction of the nation than most presidents."
--Richard M. Nixon

"People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook.
I earned everything I've got."
--Richard M. Nixon

"People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now, I don't
mind a microscope, but boy, when they use a proctoscope, that's going too far."
--Richard M. Nixon

"People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.""
--Richard M. Nixon

"People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people."
--Richard M. Nixon

"President J ohnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and
we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency."
--Richard M. Nixon

"So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the
precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk
without losing your balance."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Solutions are not the answer."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in
national government too."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Tell them to send everything that can fly."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The 1976 Bicentennial is not going to be invented in Washington, printed in triplicate by
the Government Printing Office and mailed to you by the United States Postal Service."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and
not to see him only through the press."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for
danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the
opportunity."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored,
and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet
temperate happiness."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment:
the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his
first lady."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major
public figure, is a lonely man."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down
often comes up."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The press is the enemy."
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: Space
"The sky is no longer the limit."
--Richard M. Nixon

"The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files
and issues "nonnegotiable demands" may have some of his demands met by a permissive
university administration. But the greater his "victory" the more he will have undermined
the security of his own rights."
--Richard M. Nixon

"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly
drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this
most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."
--Richard M. Nixon

"There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and
stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot
blanks."
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: Politics
"There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician."
--Richard M. Nixon

"There will be no whitewash in the White House."
--Richard M. Nixon

"They say, "Gee, you look great." That means they thought you looked like hell before."
--Richard M. Nixon

"This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me."
--Richard M. Nixon

"This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your
support."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president
personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by
another branch of government."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice
he needs."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Voters quickly forget what a man says."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year
of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it."
--Richard M. Nixon

"We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will
give them a few shots and it will be over."
--Richard M. Nixon

"We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak
quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices."
--Richard M. Nixon

"We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what
government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one
another."
--Richard M. Nixon

"Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I?"
--Richard M. Nixon

"What does that candyass think I sent him over there for?"
--Richard M. Nixon

"What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If
your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those
attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance."
--Richard M. Nixon

"When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen."
--Richard M. Nixon

"When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal."
--Richard M. Nixon

"When the winds blow and the rains fall and the sun shines through the clouds he still
resolves as he did then, that nothing so fine ever happened to him or anyone else as
falling in love with Thee-my dearest heart."
--Richard M. Nixon

Topic: Freedom
"Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can
win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the
time."
--Richard M. Nixon

"You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about
losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his
victorious opponents or on his teammates."
--Richard M. Nixon

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm
innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."
--Richard M. Nixon

"You see these bums, you know, blowing up campuses storming around about this issue."
--Richard M. Nixon

"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press
conference."
--Richard M. Nixon

"You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character."
--Richard M. Nixon
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
--Friedrich Nietzsche

"A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern
men still read with exactness."

"A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to
reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath."

"A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."

"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be
assisted by a little physical antipathy."

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands."

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent."

"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."

"All in all, punishment hardens and renders people more insensible; it concentrates; it
increases the feeling of estrangement; it strengthens the power of resistance."

"All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting."

"All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the
philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of
values."

"All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time
is a function of power and not truth."

"All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking."

"All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"

"Altered opinions do not alter a man's character (or do so very little); but they do
illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different
constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."

"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."

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

"And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who
devise their own virtue - they hate the lonesome ones."

Topic: Virtue
"And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who
devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones."

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"And we should consider every day 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."

"Architecture in general is frozen music."

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance
of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

"Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical
supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."

"Art is the proper task of life."

"Art raises its head where creeds relax."

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique 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."

"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be
insipid."

"Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment
from life is to live dangerously!"

"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."

"Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The
case of the philosopher."

"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has
had."

"Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it but degenerated into vice."

Topic: Certainty
"Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies."

"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be.
Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior."

"Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health;
everything unconditional belongs in pathology."

"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!"

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of
carrion?"

"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."

"Enduring habits I hate... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my
misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort
of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring
habits."

"'Evil men have no songs.' How is it that the Russians have songs?"

"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves
while having an experience."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme
positions."

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological
precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

"For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child."

"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."

"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is
not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."

"He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."

"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if
you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not
life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Topic: Life
"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how."

"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last."

"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb
and dance; one cannot fly into flying."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."

Topic: War
"How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows
how to turn to its advantage."

"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."

Topic: Earth
"I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who
speak unto you of superterrestrial hopes! Poisoners they are, whether they know it or
not."

"I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer.
For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows,
his "divine service.""

"I love those who do not know how to live for today."

"I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!"

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance."

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not
possess them she runs away from herself."

Topic: Forgiveness
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn."

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."

"In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in
large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

"In music the passions enjoy themselves."

"In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the
awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is
the rule."

"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"

"Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"

"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad
night."

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for
them!"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."

Topic: Brevity
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book."

"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."

"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

"J udgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never
be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as
symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities."

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a
species of the dead, and a very rare species."

Topic: Music
"Life without music would be a mistake."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother."

"Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."

Topic: Originality
"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is too good."

"Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

Topic: Morality
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant."

Topic: Truth
"Nobody dies nowadays of fatal truths: there are too many antidotes to them."

"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have
everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy
and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied."

"Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade
into its waters."

"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of
freedom which now constitutes our pride."

"Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first
truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man
- the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined."

"Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood."

"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point
higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb
higher tomorrow."

"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still
alive."

Topic: Immortality
"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still
alive. "

"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth."

"One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes."

"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it
was conveyed."

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."

"Only sick music makes money today."

"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way
thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."

"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us,
conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how,
and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but
only the soil of the plants that grow in him."

"Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

"People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to
ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he
had to invent laughter."

Topic: Laughter
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had
to invent laughter."

"Plato was a bore."

"Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a
little makes the way of the best happiness."

"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings."

"Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."

Topic: Success
"Success has always been a great liar."

"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."

Topic: Machiavellianism
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

"The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon
the earth" or "after death.""

"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things
for the first time."

"The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of
"eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -
what everyone else does not say in a book."

"The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy."

"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and
bad."

"The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is
something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very
much. There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species."

"The doer alone learneth."

Topic: Art
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."

"The future influences the present just as much as the past."

"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high
to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"The lie is a condition of life."

"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his
friends."

"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an
exception."

"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also
experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they
honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."

"The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My
higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no
longer secure in its instincts."

"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year
conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who
think alike than those who think differently."

Topic: Conformity
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who
think alike than thosewho think differently."

"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the
most dangerous plaything."

"The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others."

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only
one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."

Topic: Facts
"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Topic: God
"There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He."

"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in
madness."

"There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all
benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane."

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."

"This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a
giver."

"This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."

"This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever
surpass itself.""

"Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations - always darker, emptier, simpler than
these."

"To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free
choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in
the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he
who is leaving is still there."

"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert
rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are
too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called
patience and forbearance."

"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity."

"To give style to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that
his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until
everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses delight the eye."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the
same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's
experiences in common."

"Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."

"Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but
probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed
by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated."

"War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and
too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives."

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."

"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."

"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals
have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."

"We should consider every day 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."

Topic: Opinion
"We should never let ourselves be burnt for our opinions; we are not that sure of them.
But perhaps for this -- that we may have and change our opinions."

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives,
acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?"

Topic: Weakness
"What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness."

"What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in
man."

Topic: God
"What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?"

"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but
the senselessness of suffering."

"What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing
us what he can do."

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of
mankind."

"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to
converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is
transitory."

"When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one
thereby almost deserves to live."

"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."

"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process
one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one
began."

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

"When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

"When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

"Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster.
And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a
monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a
monster."

"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

"Woman was God's second mistake."

"Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to
them. Women are not even shallow."

"Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it - to that end a
slight physical antipathy must probably help."

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only
way, it does not exist."

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
Thomas Paine Quotes

Topic: Cause
"A bad cause will never be supported by bad means and bad men."
--Thomas Paine

"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being
right."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Thinking
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being
right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon
subsides. Time makes more converts than reason."
--Thomas Paine

"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."
--Thomas Paine

"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."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Guilt
"Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy
are poisons of quick dispatch."
--Thomas Paine

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the
world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived
of the use of them."
--Thomas Paine

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
--Thomas Paine

"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. "
--Thomas Paine

"Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad."
--Thomas Paine

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of
appearing."
--Thomas Paine

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
--Thomas Paine

"From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system
of war and extortion?"
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Government
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an
intolerable one."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Oppression
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
--Thomas Paine

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."
--Thomas Paine

"Human nature is not of itself vicious."
--Thomas Paine

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing
justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy."
--Thomas Paine

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the J ewish Church, by the Roman Church, by
the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church
that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
--Thomas Paine

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow
brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Courage
"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row
brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
--Thomas Paine

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
--Thomas Paine

"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Ignorance
"Ignorance is of a peculiar nature. Once dispelled it is impossible to re-establish it."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Self-Respect
"It is necessary to the happiness of a man that he be mentally faithful to himself."
--Thomas Paine

"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity
does not consist in believing or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what
he does not believe."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Cause
"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether
we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same."
--Thomas Paine

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether
we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."
--Thomas Paine

"It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Hypocrisy
"It is with pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on."
--Thomas Paine

"Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Nature
"Man must go back to nature for information."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Moderation
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."
--Thomas Paine

"My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Religion
"My mind is my own church."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: King
"One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is, that nature
disapproves it; otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving
mankind an ass in place of a lion."
--Thomas Paine

"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
--Thomas Paine

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know
of us."
--Thomas Paine

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a
necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one."
--Thomas Paine

"Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of
appearing."
--Thomas Paine

"That government is best which governs least."
--Thomas Paine

"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly."
--Thomas Paine

"The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket
when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust
it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered."
--Thomas Paine

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
--Thomas Paine

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association
takes place, and common interest produces common security."
--Thomas Paine

"The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason."
--Thomas Paine

"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by
reflection."
--Thomas Paine

"The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy."
--Thomas Paine

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from
J erusalem of a lunatic asylum."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Country
"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
--Thomas Paine

"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in
ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their
own accord."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Crisis
"These are the times that try men's souls."
--Thomas Paine

"These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in
this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the
love and thanks of man and woman."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Liberty
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue
of supporting it."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Freedom
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues
of supporting it."
--Thomas Paine

"Time makes more converts than reason."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Conscience
"'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose
conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."
--Thomas Paine

"Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title."
--Thomas Paine

"To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations,
would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches."
--Thomas Paine

"To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to
say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Tyranny
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the
harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem
too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value."
--Thomas Paine

"Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise
others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts."
--Thomas Paine

"War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances
that no human wisdom can calculate the end. It has but one thing certain, and that is to
increase taxes."
--Thomas Paine

"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Freedom
"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for
honest men to live in."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: World
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Value
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives
everything its value."
--Thomas Paine

Topic: Thought
"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the
horizon."
--Thomas Paine

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
--Thomas Paine
Pablo Picasso Quotes

"Action is the foundational key to all success."
--Pablo Picasso

"Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
--Pablo Picasso

"An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes
transformed by thought."
--Pablo Picasso

"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can
conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."
--Pablo Picasso

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
--Pablo Picasso

"Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions."
--Pablo Picasso

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
--Pablo Picasso

"Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who
create."
--Pablo Picasso

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
--Pablo Picasso

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
--Pablo Picasso

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
--Pablo Picasso

"Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to
Hiroshima."
--Pablo Picasso

"Everything you can imagine is real."
--Pablo Picasso

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
--Pablo Picasso

"Give me a museum, and I'll fill it."
--Pablo Picasso

"God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has
no real style, He just goes on trying other things."
--Pablo Picasso

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable,
indisputable law."
--Pablo Picasso

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else."
--Pablo Picasso

"I do not seek. I find."
--Pablo Picasso

"I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no
accidents."
--Pablo Picasso

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."
--Pablo Picasso

"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things
that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number
of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."
--Pablo Picasso

Topic: Wealth
"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."
--Pablo Picasso

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
--Pablo Picasso

"It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care."
--Pablo Picasso

Topic: Youth
"It takes a long time to become young."
--Pablo Picasso

"Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly
imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our
mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things."
--Pablo Picasso

"My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a
monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."
--Pablo Picasso

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do
so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will
give you as much happiness as your spare time."
--Pablo Picasso

"Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is
by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."
--Pablo Picasso

"Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather
than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person,
as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have
preferred to use brushes and colors."
--Pablo Picasso

"One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that
particular peach is but a detail."
--Pablo Picasso

"One must act in painting as in life, directly."
--Pablo Picasso

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
--Pablo Picasso

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not."
--Pablo Picasso

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently
believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."
--Pablo Picasso

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
--Pablo Picasso

"Sculpture is the art of the intelligence."
--Pablo Picasso

"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
--Pablo Picasso

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into
the sun."
--Pablo Picasso

Topic: Taste
"Taste is the enemy of creativeness."
--Pablo Picasso

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky,
from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape..."
--Pablo Picasso

"The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the
sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
--Pablo Picasso

"The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the
sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
--Pablo Picasso

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."
--Pablo Picasso

"The hidden harmony is better than the obvious."
--Pablo Picasso

"The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face."
--Pablo Picasso

"The people who make art their business are mostly imposters."
--Pablo Picasso

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
--Pablo Picasso

"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with
the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
--Pablo Picasso

"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can
remove all traces of reality."
--Pablo Picasso

Topic: Imitation
"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. "
--Pablo Picasso

"To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through
with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the
painter as well as for the picture."
--Pablo Picasso

"We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."
--Pablo Picasso

"What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or
such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone
look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist."
--Pablo Picasso

"What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child
grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real
painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything
again, from zero."
--Pablo Picasso

"When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through
successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg
and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait."
--Pablo Picasso

"Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. J ust
as one can never learn how to paint."
--Pablo Picasso

Topic: Work
"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
--Pablo Picasso

"You can't run a business without taking risks."
--Pablo Picasso

"Youth has no age."
--Pablo Picasso
Blaise Pascal Quotes

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."
--Blaise Pascal

"All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling."
--Blaise Pascal

"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you
if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you
lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
--Blaise Pascal

"Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the
other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled
with him?"
--Blaise Pascal

"Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves
ardently and sees distinctly what it loves."
--Blaise Pascal

"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Curiosity
"Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would
not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling."
--Blaise Pascal

"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our
voluntary acts, force our involuntary."
--Blaise Pascal

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."
--Blaise Pascal

"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
--Blaise Pascal

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
--Blaise Pascal

"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those
who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
--Blaise Pascal

"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."
--Blaise Pascal

"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is
above, not against them."
--Blaise Pascal

"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."
--Blaise Pascal

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God."
--Blaise Pascal

"Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his
back."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Hypocrisy
"Few men speak humbly of humility, chasely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism."
--Blaise Pascal

"Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism"
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Force
"Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force."
--Blaise Pascal

"Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been
different."
--Blaise Pascal

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable sit still in a
room."
--Blaise Pascal

"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a
room."
--Blaise Pascal

"I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
--Blaise Pascal

"I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four
friends in the world."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Idleness
"If a soldier or labourer complains of the hardships of his lot, set him to do nothing."
--Blaise Pascal

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
--Blaise Pascal

"If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the
world."
--Blaise Pascal

"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the
future."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Opinion
"If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself."
--Blaise Pascal

"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are
everything in this world."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Imagination
"Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are
everything in this world. "
--Blaise Pascal

"In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and
at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be
very cautious."
--Blaise Pascal

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind
those who don't."
--Blaise Pascal

"It is not certain that everything is uncertain."
--Blaise Pascal

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Liberty
"It is not good to have too much liberty. It is not good to have all one wants."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Novelty
"It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the
same power."
--Blaise Pascal

"It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory."
--Blaise Pascal

"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God
perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
--Blaise Pascal

"J esus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble
ourselves without despair."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: J ustice
"J ustice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful,
and whatever is powerful may be just."
--Blaise Pascal

"J ustice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical."
--Blaise Pascal

"Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other
people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful
image it is."
--Blaise Pascal

"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
--Blaise Pascal

"Law, without force, is impotent."
--Blaise Pascal

"Love has reasons which reason cannot understand."
--Blaise Pascal

"Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
--Blaise Pascal

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the
infinity in which he is engulfed."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Humanity
"man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
--Blaise Pascal

"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."
--Blaise Pascal

"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
--Blaise Pascal

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious
conviction."
--Blaise Pascal

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction."
--Blaise Pascal

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference
nowhere."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Nature
"Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is
nowhere."
--Blaise Pascal

"Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth."
--Blaise Pascal

"Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes it fangs
on whatever gets beyond it either way."
--Blaise Pascal

"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without
business, without entertainment, without care."
--Blaise Pascal

"One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule
of life and there is nothing better."
--Blaise Pascal

"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule
of life and there is nothing better."
--Blaise Pascal

"Our nature consist in motion; complete rest is death."
--Blaise Pascal

"People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those
found by others."
--Blaise Pascal

"Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will."
--Blaise Pascal

"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a
little about everything."
--Blaise Pascal

"Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary."
--Blaise Pascal

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even
death."
--Blaise Pascal

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread."
--Blaise Pascal

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
--Blaise Pascal

"The gospel to me is simply irresistible."
--Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing."
--Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."
--Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Love
"The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend."
--Blaise Pascal

"The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand."
--Blaise Pascal

"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a
pebble."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Influence
"The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a
pebble. "
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Unity
"The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has
not its origin in the multitude is tyranny."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Earth
"The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The J ews know the true God, and
love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth."
--Blaise Pascal

"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."
--Blaise Pascal

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by
his habitual acts."
--Blaise Pascal

"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."
--Blaise Pascal

"The war existing between the senses and reason."
--Blaise Pascal

"There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those
who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him.
The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish
and unhappy."
--Blaise Pascal

"There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the
sinners who think they are righteous."
--Blaise Pascal

"There are truths on this side of the Pyranees, which are falsehoods on the other."
--Blaise Pascal

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness...
and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least
thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Moderation
"To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity."
--Blaise Pascal

"Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much,
the same."
--Blaise Pascal

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
--Blaise Pascal

"Vanity is but the surface."
--Blaise Pascal

"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of
morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for
ignorance of physical science."
--Blaise Pascal

"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by
those given to us by others."
--Blaise Pascal

"We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves
from ourselves."
--Blaise Pascal

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
--Blaise Pascal

"We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot
possibly live for a moment without it."
--Blaise Pascal

"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."
--Blaise Pascal

"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."
--Blaise Pascal

"We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting."
--Blaise Pascal

"We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end."
--Blaise Pascal

"We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish
to find them alike."
--Blaise Pascal

"When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before."
--Blaise Pascal

"When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an
author, and we find a person."
--Blaise Pascal

Topic: Language
"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged
have a different effect."
--Blaise Pascal

"You always admire what you really don't understand."
--Blaise Pascal
Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Topic: Inspirational
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot
water."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Actors are one family over the entire world."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize
that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is
never a happy arrangement for the people."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly
possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"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."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"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."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to
believe in it. One must work at it."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with
anyone else in the world."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Topic: Friendship
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot befriends with
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest
of it."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so".
Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply
look on."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever
reason, turn his back on life."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the
most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be
clear to all the other people in the country."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the
goldfish bowl is yours!"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be
one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers
without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of
love."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends
until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Topic: Actions
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe
in it. One must work at it."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was
politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"J ustice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn
his back on life."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for
whatever reason, turn his back on life."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Topic: Inferiority
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. "
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of
vice."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new
interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will
always lead to something else."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one
makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is
how character is built."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager
passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the
shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at
midday."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's
duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books,
or a particular dish for dinner."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things
which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which
everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us
should countenance anything which undermines it."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave
me many nightmares."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

Topic: Dreams
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"The giving of love is an education in itself."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so
pleased to feel how very much better they are."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of
men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to
offer is shunted aside without expression."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Understanding is a two-way street."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really
stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"What is to give light must endure the burning."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact
remains that people fight these wars."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be
done according to priority."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I
can take the next thing that comes along.'"
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by
step, whether it's friendships or opportunities."
--Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned
how to walk forward."
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned
to walk forward."

"A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land,
purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people."

"Be sincere; be brief; be seated."

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful
protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live."

"First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert
retreat into advance."

"Four freedoms: The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of everyone to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the
world. The third is freedom from want . . . everywhere in the world. The fourth is f"

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only
American principle."

"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people.
A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."

"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made."

"I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming
majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense
of proportion."

"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad
luck of the early worm."

"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the
ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."

"If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time."

"If you treat people right they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time."

"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

"In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go
down."

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that
way."

"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded
upon four essential human freedoms The first is freedom of speech and expression--
everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his
own"

"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."

"It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than
an empty stomach."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try
another. But above all, try something."

"It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try
another. But above all, try something"

"It is fun to be in the same decade with you."

"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get
the things you want."

"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The
ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and
government officials, but the voters of this country."

"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to
this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences
between governments."

"One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the
moment... ; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along."

"Peace, like charity, begins at home ."

"Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work
at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter."

"Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play."

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."

"Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are."

"Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection."

"Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion."

"Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch"

"Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means,
try something."

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power
to a point where it comes strong than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is
fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling
private power."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today; Let us move
forward with strong and active faith."

"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect
the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to
maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."

Topic: Fear
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will
either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have
much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have
much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

"The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought
against the day of reckoning."

"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea."

Topic: Progress
"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."

"There is nothing I love as much as a good fight."

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."

"To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift."

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.
People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the
future."

"We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do
assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an
ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power."

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we now know that it
is bad economics."

"What this country needs is a good five cent cigar."

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before
you crush him."

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of
America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of
J apan."

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of
America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of
J apan."

Topic: War
"Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States
of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire
of J apan."
Ayn Rand Quotes

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
--Ayn Rand

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others"
--Ayn Rand

"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal
which is worth achieving."
--Ayn Rand

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on
the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims."
--Ayn Rand

Topic: Home
"A house can have integrity, just like a person."
--Ayn Rand

"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that
happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since
it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values."
--Ayn Rand

"Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death."
--Ayn Rand

"Art is too serious to be taken seriously."
--Ayn Rand

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

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check
your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong."
--Ayn Rand

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a
precondition of rebirth."
--Ayn Rand

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power
to escape the necessity of choice."
--Ayn Rand

"Evil requires the sanction of the victim."
--Ayn Rand

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins."
--Ayn Rand

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive."
--Ayn Rand

"Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the
only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands
off."
--Ayn Rand

"Guilt is a rope that wears thin."
--Ayn Rand

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's
values."
--Ayn Rand

"He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating."
--Ayn Rand

"He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown
of another's personality, marking vulnerable points."
--Ayn Rand

"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."
--Ayn Rand

"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant
and the sanction."
--Ayn Rand

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine."
--Ayn Rand

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject."
--Ayn Rand

"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose... the fact
that they were the people who created the phrase "to make money." No other language or
nation had ever used these words before... Americans were the first to understand that
wealth has to be created."
--Ayn Rand

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the
rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from
oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
--Ayn Rand

"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
--Ayn Rand

"It is not advisable, J ames, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the
embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener."
--Ayn Rand

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the
sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who
speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the
master."
--Ayn Rand

"J ust as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to
translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the
right of property."
--Ayn Rand

"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral
qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one
man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another."
--Ayn Rand

"Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up
to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be."
--Ayn Rand

Topic: Mediocrity
"Mediocrity doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that
resents and envies its betters."
--Ayn Rand

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as
the driver."
--Ayn Rand

Topic: Money
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
--Ayn Rand

"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his
fortune no matter where he started."
--Ayn Rand

"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can
take precedence over that act of perceiving it."
--Ayn Rand

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on
them. Leave them alone."
--Ayn Rand

"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the
leper's bell of an approaching looter."
--Ayn Rand

Topic: Money
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of
all money?"
--Ayn Rand

"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact
that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production."
--Ayn Rand

"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence."
--Ayn Rand

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it."
--Ayn Rand

"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity."
--Ayn Rand

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap
heap."
--Ayn Rand

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,
when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a
crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
--Ayn Rand

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and
live."
--Ayn Rand

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
--Ayn Rand

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
--Ayn Rand

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by
default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise
on basic principles."
--Ayn Rand

"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."
--Ayn Rand

"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but
permitted to a mob."
--Ayn Rand

"There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-
conformist."
--Ayn Rand

"They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to
the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his "minimum sustenance" his food,
his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive
it, from whom?"
--Ayn Rand

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed
with nothing but their own vision."
--Ayn Rand

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real
power."
--Ayn Rand

"To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I.""
--Ayn Rand

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
--Ayn Rand

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the
government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by
permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule
by brute force."
--Ayn Rand

"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an
anomaly."
--Ayn Rand

Topic: Wealth
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
--Ayn Rand

"What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of
problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness."
--Ayn Rand

"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he
will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit."
--Ayn Rand
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

"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."
--Theodore Roosevelt

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given
a square deal afterward. More than that no man is entitled to; and less than that no man
shall have."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given
a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man
shall have."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real
issues."

"A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

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

"Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an
outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued,
what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having
your salary halved."

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

"Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations
alike."

"Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are"

Topic: Effort
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Topic: Strength
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft."

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!"

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."

"Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English
or leave the country."

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe."

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing."

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth
doing."

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs-even though checkered by
failure than to take rank with these poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much.
Be wise, they live in the gray twilight that know not of victory, nor defeat"

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by
failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because
they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by
failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because
they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

Topic: Courage
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered
by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer
much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered
by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably
well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by
comparison."

Topic: Effort
"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in
the past."

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster."

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all
mankind."

Topic: Politics
"He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician
of monumental littleness."

"I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of
what I do! That is character!"

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of
what I do. That is character!"

"I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature
who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."

"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of
head."

Topic: Quality
"I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of
head."

"I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal
does also."

Topic: Soldier
"I want to see you shoot the way you shout."

Topic: Strength
"I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life."

Topic: Error
"If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln."

"If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion,
you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would
have known his name."

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you
wouldn't sit for a month."

"In a moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you
can do is nothing."

"It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary
importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."

Topic: Fidelity
"It is better to be faithful than famous."

Topic: Failure
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."

Topic: Effort
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing
save by effort."

Topic: Risk
"It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of
all prizes are those connected with the home."

Topic: Labor
"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we
move on to better things."

"It's not the critic who counts. It's not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of the deed could have done it better. The credit belongs to
the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who spends"

"J ustice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right
and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

"Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from
the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected
himself unto laws."

"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."

"Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out"

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth
remembering."

Topic: Wisdom
"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."

"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission
when we ask him to obey it."

Topic: Law
"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission
when we ask him to obey it."

"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

Topic: Cause
"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his
body, to risk his life, in a great cause."

"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

"One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel
words." When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a "weasel
word" after another there is nothing left of the other."

"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."

"People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss
drives."

"Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means
do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."

"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are
really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."

"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."

Topic: Ideals, Idealism
"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a
basement. "

Topic: Virtue
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

Topic: Progress
"Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far."

"The American people abhor a vacuum."

"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he
wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."

"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to
overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and
willing to pull his own weight."

Topic: Citizenship
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he should be able and
willing to pull his weight."

Topic: Government
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."

"The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes
people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the
pants."

"The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man
who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife."

"The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to
strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and
those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty."

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get
along with people."

"The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and
in the loudest voice."

"The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in
the loudest voice."

Topic: Conservation
"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn
over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value."

"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to
dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the
keeping of their wits."

Topic: Minority
"The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are
the tyrannies of minorities."

"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal
wrongdoer."

"The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is
dead."

"The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the
need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of
helping them to help themselves."

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price,
safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of
life."

"The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit
softly."

"There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100
% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."

Topic: Effort
"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is
worth remembering."

"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."

Topic: Education
"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using
it so as to increase it's usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children
the very properity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and
developed."

"We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of
resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough
work that must always be done."

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer
"Present" or "Not guilty.""

"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer
'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"

"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and
find out how to do it."

"When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy
and find out how to do it."

"With self-discipline most anything is possible."
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

"A feeble body weakens the mind."
--J ean J acques Rousseau

Topic: Vanity
"A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity."

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins
with the knowledge of evil."

Topic: J ustice
"An honest man nearly always thinks justly."

"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."

"Base souls have no faith in great individuals."

"Childhood is the sleep of reason."

"Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it."

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

"Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."

"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."

Topic: Liberty
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it
is once lost."

Topic: Gratitude
"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect."

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion."

"Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are
generally the merest cowards."

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

"I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described."

Topic: Suffering
"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."

"It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united
for specific action, and a minority can."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles."

"Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains."

"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire
than the second million."

"Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become
incorrigible as they grow older."

"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

Topic: Heart
"Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to
obey it."

"Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux."

"Our greatest evils flow from ourselves."

"Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is."

Topic: Patience
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."

"Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone."

"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young
people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into
danger."

"Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity."

"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge
ceases."

Topic: Custom
"Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well."

Topic: Taste
"Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and
carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

"The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of
parliament."

"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes
to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."

"The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the
least pleasure."

"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with
the richest experiences."

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms
strength into right, and obedience into duty."

"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order
to save it""

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

"There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, "Is it
good in itself?" In the second, "Can it be easily put into practice?""

"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance
of it."

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the
most need to know."

Topic: Virtue
"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All
that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of
education."

"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."

"We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced."

Topic: Pity
"We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced."

"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."

"When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat
it."

"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."

"Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to
manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less."
Ronald Reagan Quotes

"A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the
other."
--Ronald Reagan

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
--Ronald Reagan

"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."
--Ronald Reagan

"All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
--Ronald Reagan

"Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by
vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards
from man-made sources."
--Ronald Reagan

"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
--Ronald Reagan

"But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had
my high school grades classified Top Secret."
--Ronald Reagan

"Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
--Ronald Reagan

"Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause."
--Ronald Reagan

"Facts are stupid things."
--Ronald Reagan

"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is
acknowledged."
--Ronald Reagan

"Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
--Ronald Reagan

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
--Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no
sense of responsibility at the other."
--Ronald Reagan

"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."
--Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it
moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it"
--Ronald Reagan

"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is
cheap."
--Ronald Reagan

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how
do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
--Ronald Reagan

"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
--Ronald Reagan

"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons,
to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the
means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
--Ronald Reagan

"I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be
in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another
planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this
earth together."
--Ronald Reagan

"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."
--Ronald Reagan

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm
in a cabinet meeting."
--Ronald Reagan

"I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work."
--Ronald Reagan

"I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon."
--Ronald Reagan

"I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are
correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no
one bats a thousand."
--Ronald Reagan

"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to
this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact
statement."
--Ronald Reagan

"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."
--Ronald Reagan

"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."
--Ronald Reagan

"In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and
faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could
never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in
a region of tryanny and unrest."
--Ronald Reagan

Topic: Inflation
"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a
hit man."
--Ronald Reagan

"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by
barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
--Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a
striking resemblance to the first."
--Ronald Reagan

"It's difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn't
available."
--Ronald Reagan

"It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam
when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by
Christmas."
--Ronald Reagan

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
--Ronald Reagan

"I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."
--Ronald Reagan

"Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?""
--Ronald Reagan

"Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."
--Ronald Reagan

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws
Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
--Ronald Reagan

"My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws
Russia forever. The bombing will begin in five minutes. - During radio microphone test"
--Ronald Reagan

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our
lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out"
--Ronald Reagan

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once
launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal
life we'll ever see on this earth!"
--Ronald Reagan

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
--Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
--Ronald Reagan

"People don't start wars, governments do."
--Ronald Reagan

"Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it
bears a very close resemblance to the first."
--Ronald Reagan

"Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and
then have a hell of a close."
--Ronald Reagan

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace
yourself you can always write a book."
--Ronald Reagan

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it
bears a very close resemblance to the first."
--Ronald Reagan

"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."
--Ronald Reagan

"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of J uly, but the democrats believe every day
is April 15."
--Ronald Reagan

"Status quo, you know, that is Latin for "the mess we're in.""
--Ronald Reagan

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't
interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out."
--Ronald Reagan

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
--Ronald Reagan

"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away."
--Ronald Reagan

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it
moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
--Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English langauge are: I'm from the government and I'm
here to help."
--Ronald Reagan

"The neutron warhead is a defensive weapon designed to offset the great superiority that
the Soviet Union has on the western front against the NATO nations."
--Ronald Reagan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government
and I'm here to help.'"
--Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to
take the civil service examination."
--Ronald Reagan

"The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs
and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the
beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated."
--Ronald Reagan

"The United Sates has much to offer the third world war."
--Ronald Reagan

"There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence,
imagination, and wonder."
--Ronald Reagan

"Thomas J efferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his
works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
--Ronald Reagan

"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the
intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."
--Ronald Reagan

"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on
feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will."
--Ronald Reagan

"To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on
feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will."
--Ronald Reagan

"Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted
wrong."
--Ronald Reagan

"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better
mouse."
--Ronald Reagan

"Trust, but verify."
--Ronald Reagan

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
--Ronald Reagan

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."
--Ronald Reagan

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."
--Ronald Reagan

"We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without
coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin
one!"
--Ronald Reagan

"We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the
Commandments and the Golden Rule."
--Ronald Reagan

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the
lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable
for his actions."
--Ronald Reagan

"Well, I learned a lot... I went down to Latin America to find out from them and (learn)
their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries"
--Ronald Reagan

"We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is
absolutely incapable of defending this country."
--Ronald Reagan

Topic: Party
"We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich."
--Ronald Reagan

"What makes him think a middle aged actor [Clint Eastwood], who's played with a
chimp, could have a future in politics?"
--Ronald Reagan

"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one
problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping
on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."
--Ronald Reagan

"While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
--Ronald Reagan

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
--Ronald Reagan

"You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
--Ronald Reagan

"You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in
an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical
attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed."
--Ronald Reagan
Anthony Robbins Quotes

"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no
action, you haven't truly decided."
--Anthony Robbins

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the
awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that
disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives."
--Anthony Robbins

"Commit to CANI! - Constant And Never-ending Improvement"
--Anthony Robbins

"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent."
--Anthony Robbins

"I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of
those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk."
--Anthony Robbins

"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."
--Anthony Robbins

"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and
copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
--Anthony Robbins

"In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.
It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently."
--Anthony Robbins

"In life you need either inspiration or desperation."
--Anthony Robbins

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."
--Anthony Robbins

"It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to
our lives."
--Anthony Robbins

"It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."
--Anthony Robbins

"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events
mean."
--Anthony Robbins

"I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the
foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy."
--Anthony Robbins

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give
something back by becoming more."
--Anthony Robbins

"Live with passion!"
--Anthony Robbins

"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we
focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives."
--Anthony Robbins

"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of
pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you
feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain."
--Anthony Robbins

"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people
overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can
achieve in a decade!"
--Anthony Robbins

"One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus;
we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never
deciding to master anything in particular."
--Anthony Robbins

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience
life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."
--Anthony Robbins

"Passion is the genesis of genius."
--Anthony Robbins

"People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire
them."
--Anthony Robbins

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."
--Anthony Robbins

"Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently
expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a
new momentum toward success in your life?"
--Anthony Robbins

"Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character."
--Anthony Robbins

"Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately
reshape your daily experience of life."
--Anthony Robbins

"The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your
body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding
results."
--Anthony Robbins

"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."
--Anthony Robbins

Topic: Effort
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
--Anthony Robbins

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and
pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls
you."
--Anthony Robbins

"The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain
or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we
will instantly change our behaviors."
--Anthony Robbins

"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the
quality of our lives."
--Anthony Robbins

"There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an
athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson."
--Anthony Robbins

"There is no such thing as failure. There are only results."
--Anthony Robbins

"There's always a way - if you're committed."
--Anthony Robbins

"There's no abiding success without commitment."
--Anthony Robbins

"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we
perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with
others."
--Anthony Robbins

"Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long
enough to eat a lot."
--Anthony Robbins

"We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the
events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will
determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future."
--Anthony Robbins

"We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age."
--Anthony Robbins

"We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish."
--Anthony Robbins

"We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is
accurate or not."
--Anthony Robbins

"What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function
of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are."
--Anthony Robbins

"Whatever happens, take responsibility."
--Anthony Robbins

"When people are like each other they tend to like each other."
--Anthony Robbins

"You always succeed in producing a result."
--Anthony Robbins

"You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they
know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action."
--Anthony Robbins

"You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning
we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who
we'll become tomorrow."
--Anthony Robbins
George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Topic: Democracy
"... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few.""
--George Bernard Shaw

"A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable
income."

Topic: Reputation
"A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care."

"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned."

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."

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

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

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

Topic: Happiness
"A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as
much as our biggest heads can hold."

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without
originality or moral courage."

Topic: Interest
"A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. "

"A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows."

"A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside
of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The
mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected"

Topic: Idleness
"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

"A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his
living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art."

"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."

"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life."

"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."

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."

"All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made
has been taken in spite of it."

"All professions are conspiracies against the laity."

Topic: Flattery
"Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think
him worth flattering."

"Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend-if you have
one."

"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for
every soul concerned in it."

"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable."

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

Topic: Improvement
"As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am
striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. "

"As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of
vaccination."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law
now compel them to. The result is not, as the J ennerians prophesied, the extermination of
the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination
than by smallpox."

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the
house three days?"

Topic: Perception
"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see
the world."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

"Beware of the man whose God is in the skies."

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest
backed by force."

"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books
except the books that nobody reads."

"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal
your own."

"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as
long as they govern men."

Topic: Murder
"Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men."

"Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life."

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really
hurt."

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

Topic: Vote
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many
for appointment by the corrupt few."

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt
few."

"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished
from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be
the same."

"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not
be the same."

"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is
Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

"Do you know what a pessimist is? "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself,
and hates them for it.""

"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."

"Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the
children. Wear violet and purple... Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they
don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead
of a bond."

"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart;
but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a
triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

"England and America are two countries separated by a common language."

Topic: America
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."

"Every man over forty is a scoundrel."

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his
affairs as well as a tree does."

"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by
tradesmen."

"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."

Topic: Instinct
"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."

"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international
reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."

Topic: Cleverness
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and
you're a Shakespeare."

Topic: Love
"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting
woman would take advantage of it."

"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

"General consultant to mankind."

"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether
he's happy or not."

"Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice
English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the
household."

"Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go
into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and
when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And
that's your chance, my boy."

Topic: J obs
"Hamlet's experience simply could not have happened to a plumber."

Topic: Hate
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

"He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop
dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are
the tyrants of English married life."

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political
career."

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political
career."

Topic: Teaching
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

"He who has never hoped can never despair."

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn
anything from history."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned."

"Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by
praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you
have nothing to do but amuse yourself."

"He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without
originality or moral courage."

"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."

Topic: Home
"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is to a cockatoo."

"How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms."

"I absolutely forbid any such outrage."

"I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it
is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for
the harder I work the more I live."

"I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the
mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of
Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen."

"I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human
form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

Topic: Travel
"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."

"I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

Topic: Earth
"I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth
as their lunatic asylum."

"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the
male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I
like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."

"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."

"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."

"I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the
adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure
and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see
me coming out strong."

"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes
it."

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

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

"I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe
from people."

"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."

Topic: Self-Improvement
"I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy
unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it."

"I want to be all used up when I die."

"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I
rejoice in life for its own sake."

Topic: Dress
"If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very
smart hat."

Topic: Economy
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."

"If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be
of learning from experience"

Topic: Experience
of learning from experience!"

of learning from experience."

"If parents would only realize how they bore their children!"

"If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent
must be altogether extraordinary."

"If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there
would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved."

"If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at
best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative littrateur, or a musical confectioner, or a
painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power."

Topic: Family
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I
will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we
exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

"If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves."

"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a
warning and not as an example."

"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

"I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -
ahead of myself as well as you."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what
you imagine and at last you create what you will."

"In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's
more dangerous to lose than to win."

"In heaven an angel is nobody in particular."

Topic: Danger
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."

"In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread
and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a
year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage."

"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another,
every soul of us on earth."

"It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of
feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is
the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."

"It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the
habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of
preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in
which they can kick and beat balls."

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

"It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people
do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not."

"It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other
Englishman hate or despise him."

"It is most unwise for people in love to marry."

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."

"It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion."

"It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right."

"I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely
looked constipated."

Topic: J ustice
"J ustice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake."

"Lack of money is the root of all evil."

"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the
protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives,
pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."

Topic: Liberty
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get
it."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious
when people laugh."

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for
the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto
future generations."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

"Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy
life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative
to excitement is irritability."

"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

"Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one,
every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice."

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and
a woman who can't sleep with the window open."

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

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

"Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability."

Topic: Experience
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."

"Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life
itself is the miracle of miracles."

"Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor,
generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness,
disgrace, meanness and ugliness."

"Most people do not pray; they only beg."

Topic: Education
"My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and
keep accounts inaccurately."

"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never
seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it
with the utmost levity."

"My reputation grows with every failure."

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world."

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

"Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the
long run."

"New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason,
then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths."

"No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without
a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it
says what he means."

Topic: Difficulty
"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever
loses his self-respect."

Topic: Question
"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."

"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

"Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty."

"Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and
abiding love."

"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with
them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology
of perdition."

"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in
the interest of the children."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because
you were born in it."

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look
for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached
to them."

Topic: Value
"People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and
unselfishness because they have no experience with them."

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."

"Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to
mankind is to bring up a family."

"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."

Topic: Power
"Power does not corrupt man; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt
power."

"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt
power."

"Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish
something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the
capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective
ones."

"Property is organized robbery."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."

"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad."

Topic: Progress
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt
the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

Topic: Revolution
"Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established
institutions as well as those who are too good for them."

Topic: Revolution
"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to
another shoulder."

"Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more."

"Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing."

"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."

"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."

"Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English"

"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask
why not?"

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a
second time."

"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."

"Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost
levity."

Topic: Taste
"Taste: a quality possessed by persons without originality or moral courage."

"The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by
men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to
face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom."

"The art of government is the organisation of idolatry."

"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

"The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."

"The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak
it."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than
a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that
a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."

"The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the
women who love me."

"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."

"The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life."

Topic: Home
"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life."

"The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high
mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without
understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by
degrading it."

"The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other
particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short,
behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul
is as good as another."

"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe
anyone else."

"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the
pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."

"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."

"The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about
all people and about all time."

"The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-
stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong."

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it."

"The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is."

"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew
every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and
expected them to fit me."

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to
you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

Topic: Happiness
"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether
yoiu are happy or not."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether
you are happy or not."

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them."

"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post."

"The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react."

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not
got it."

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have
it."

"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely
addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and
intolerable noise."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying
to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying
to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh
and blood."

"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy
or not. The cure for it is occupation."

Topic: Forgiveness
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

"The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children.
Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot
soar until the millstones are lifted."

"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."

"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of
speech."

"The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one
being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap being a force of
nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."

"The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really
inflexible point of honor."

"The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best
playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction."

Topic: Population
"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist."

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to
them: that's the essence of inhumanity."

"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to
them: that's the essense of inhumanity."

"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses."

"There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the
neurotic classes."

"There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man,
and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem."

Topic: Desire
"There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get
it."

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

Topic: Tragedy
"There are two tragedies in life: one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it."

"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."

"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it
explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay."

Topic: Hell
"To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer."

"To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to
withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly."

"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you
have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"Very few people can afford to be poor."

Topic: Virtue
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."

"Virtue is insufficient temptation."

"Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the
expense of human character."

"We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our
future."

"We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't
dress well and we've no manners."

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume
wealth without producing it."

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

"We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience."

"We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as
they are said to be."

Topic: Honesty
"We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty
is the best policy."

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor
car?"

"What is life but a seires of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never
lose a chance: it doesn't come every day."

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

"What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they
are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for
credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity."

Topic: Originality
"What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it."

"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of
reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the
contemporary real."

Topic: Teaching
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit
of the child."

"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."

"When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder
him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater."

"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his
duty."

"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."

Topic: Diligence
"When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I
did ten times more work."

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten
times more work."

"When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be
impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their
absence by dwelling on their vices."

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most
delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain
in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part."

Topic: God
"When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves."

"When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the
last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a
wife and child?"

Topic: Hypocrisy
"Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest
the door of course."

"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he
has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

"Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is
driving at one thing and you're driving at another."

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you
will eat, but you will not live."

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that
you will eat, but you will not live."

"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."

"You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural
stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due
respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for
gold."

Topic: Vision
"You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why
not?""

Topic: Imagination
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask,
'Why not?'"

"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why
not?""

"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say,
"Why not?""

Topic: Patriotism
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."

Topic: Youth
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."

"Youth is wasted on the young."

Topic: Youth
"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself
everything, is forgiven nothing."
Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
--Arthur Schopenhauer

"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a
part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted,
for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a
compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this
man's thoughts and aspirations."

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently
opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one,
so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a
much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than
inside a situation, and one leads to the other."

"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."

Topic: Change
"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Compassion is the basis of all morality."

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

"Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little
youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth."

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

"Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and
may therefore be demanded back the next hour."

"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world."

Topic: Honor
"Fame is something which must be won. Honour is something which must not be lost."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

"If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of
us would be able to endure it."

"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by
the first sight of a letter from him."

"In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head."

"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and
their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."

"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."

Topic: Idleness
"It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do."

"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

"It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is
these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like
taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a
stranger."

"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."

"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."

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

"J ust as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is
well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own
thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and
repeatedly thought over."

"J ust remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed."

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

"Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of
enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money."

"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and
it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption,
but is also a disruption of thought."

"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."

"Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own."

"Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life."

"Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the
higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of
redemption is postponed."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."

"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at
the same time."

"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things
present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers,
but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice."

"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."

"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."

"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always
done just the opposite."

Topic: Repetition
"There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if
you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air
of great solemnity."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when
it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more
unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."

"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first
see a letter from them."

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

"Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people."

"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is
true of fame."

"Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity."

"Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame
man who can see."

"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess
great talent it is hypocrisy."

Topic: Modesty
"With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who
possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are
the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in
the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of
the mind, Books are humanity in print."
Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

"As you know, I don't need to take any money from anybody."
--Arnold Schwarzenegger

"As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me
the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have
been received. I have been adopted by America."

"Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself
100% to your training, diet and mental approach."

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to
survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

"Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state."

"I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento."

"I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the
same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public
service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country."

"I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun."

"I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting government off your
back, lowering taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded
more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, "What party is he?" My friend said,
"He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican!""

"I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down
42nd Street."

"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things.
People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word
that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."

"I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my
body."

"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?"

"I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have
better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that
will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or
old."

"I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups."

"I walked down the aisle as Conan the Barbarian and walked back up again as Arnold the
Meek."

"If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget."

"If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can
achieve anything."

"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any
difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't
even speak English until you were in your twenties."

"It's simple, if it jiggles, it's fat."

"I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full
of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we
have to get back and bring California back to where it once was."

"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from
the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."

"Maria is the best reason to come home."

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."

"Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I
had $48 million."

"My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it."

"My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once scrawny
boy from Austria could grow up to become Governor of California and stand in Madison
Square Garden to speak on behalf of the President of the United States that is an
immigrant's dream. It is the American dream."

"My friend J ames Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator
and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period."

"My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I
became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a
slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession."

"One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called
their convention."

"People are always making a fuss over my $15-20-million salaries. Believe me, the
amount is meaningless once my wife, Maria, finds out about it. She's already spent half
of my salary from Terminator 7!"

"Start wide, expand further, and never look back."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you
go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special
interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for
special interests and we have to stop that."

"The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the
champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack,
having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens."

Topic: Sports
"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do
something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent."

"The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in
life can only build a strong character."

"The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that."

"There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and
more welcoming than the United States of America."

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the
spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

"We all have great inner power. The power is self-faith. There's really an attitude to
winning. You have to see yourself winning before you win. And you have to be hungry.
You have to want to conquer."

"We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!"

"We want to make sure children aren't left without any books. We want to make sure our
children have the books, that they have a place in the castle. We want to make sure that
their mothers have affordable day care. We want to make sure we give the older people
the care that they need."

"When I was 15-years-old, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared
at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch
arms to match the rest of me."

"You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as
long as what ends up on the screen is perfect."

"You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to
the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings,
practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play."
William Shakespeare Quotes

"[May] the worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul."
--William Shakespeare

"[Thou art] a disease that must be cut away."

"[Thou] mountain of mad flesh!"

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"A hit, a very palpable hit."

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!"

"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue
Of him that makes it."

"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that
makes it."

"A kind
Of excellent dumb discourse."

"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

"A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and
neither party loser."

"A plague o' both your houses!"

"A very ancient and fish-like smell."

"A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then
is heard no more."

"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."

"Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows
it till it burns clear."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety."

Topic: Literary
"Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies."

"Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"

Topic: Literary
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent
fancy..."

"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..."

Topic: Literary
"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,
His acts being seven ages."

Topic: Man
"All the world's a stage,And all the men and merely players.They have their exits and
their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts...."

"Although the last, not least."

"Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."

"An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told."

"And many strokes, though with a little axe,
Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak."

Topic: J ealousy
"And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."

"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."

"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."

"And summer's lease hath all too short a date."

"And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running
brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"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."

"And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the
harmony."

"April hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

"Art made tongue-tied by authority."

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport."

Topic: Literary
"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport."

"As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

"Assume a virtue, if you have it not."

"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."

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

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon them."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some
have greatness thrust upon them."

"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a
nunnery, go."

"Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar."

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the
house three days?"

"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery."

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

"Beware the ides of March."

"Blow winds blow and crack your cheeks."

Topic: Ingratitude
"Blow, blow thou winter wind,Thou art not so unkindAs man's ingratitude;Thy tooth is
not so keen,Because thou art not seen,Although thy breath be rude."

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

"Boldness be my friend."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"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."

Topic: Literary
"But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.
And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,
And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil."

"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."

"But when they seldom come, they wished for come."

"But will they come when you do call for them?"

"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me."

"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and J uliet is the sun."

"By that sin fell the angels."

"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!"

"Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me
the spirit."

"Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
recanting goodness, sorry ere 'Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs
none."

"Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their
judgment looked; and either may be wrong."

"Come not within the measure of my wrath."

"Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
The wild waves whist."

"Concerning God, free will and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that
vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted."

"Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."

Topic: Conversation
"Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free
without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood."

"Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not
gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."

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

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

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

Topic: Bravery
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once."

Topic: Cowardice
"Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once."

"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war."

"Cudgel thy brains no more about it."

"Cursed be he that moves my bones."

"Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am
weary; She I love is far away."

"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?"

"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."

"Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble"

"Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but
never doubt I love."

"Et tu, Brute!"

"Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is."

"Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."

"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."

"Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again."

"Exit, pursued by a bear."

"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-
worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-
broth boil and bubble."

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

"Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp'd an immortality."

"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."

"Farewell, fair cruelty."

"Fill all thy bones with aches."

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."

"For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth."

"For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men."

"For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come."

"For my part, it was Greek to me."

"For they are yet ear-kissing arguments."

"For 'tis the sport to have the engineer
Hoist with his own petard..."

"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."

"Frailty, thy name is woman!"

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones."

"Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent."

"From the still-vexed Bermoothes."

"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange."

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

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

"Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."

"Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and
bids it break."

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

"Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."

"God be prais'd, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

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

"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

Topic: Humanity
"God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man."

"Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be morrow."

Topic: Economy
"Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest."

"Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest."

"Having nothing, nothing can he lose."

Topic: Grace
"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."

"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."

"He hath eaten me out of house and home."

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

"He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."

"He makes a swan-like end, fading in music."

"He that dies pays all debts."

"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."

"He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,
Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all."

"He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer."

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

"He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."

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

"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, And very sea-mark of my utmost sail."

"Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English."

"Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you."

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

"Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."

"How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world!"

"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world."

"How long a time lies in one little word?"

"How many ages hence
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
In states unborn and accents yet unknown!"

"How now, wit! Whither wander you?"

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

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

"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!"

Topic: Ingratitude
"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it isTo have a thankless child! "

"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

"How use doth breed a habit in a man."

"I am not bound to please thee with my answer."

"I am not bound to please thee with my answers."

"I am not merry; but I do beguile
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise."

"I bear a charmed life."

"I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and
lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."

"I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."

"I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends."

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

Topic: Independence
"I do desire we may be better strangers. "

"I dote on his very absence."

"I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."

"I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood."

"I have
Immortal longings in me."

"I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you
make yourselves another."

"I have no other but a woman's reason:
I think him so, because I think him so."

"I have not slept one wink."

"I met a fool i' the forest,
A motley fool."

"I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

"I must be cruel, only to be kind:
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

"I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve."

"I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think
the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with
contemplation and devout desires."

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

"I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."

"I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air,
for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet."

"I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars."

"I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words."

"I was adored once too."

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

"I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."

"I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words."

"I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."

"I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip
Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the
Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie
Direct."

"I will praise any man that will praise me."

"I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at."

"I wish you well and so I take my leave,
I Pray you know me when we meet again."

"I would fain die a dry death."

"I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated
To closeness and the bettering of my mind."

"If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work."

"If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work."

"If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."

"If music be the food of love, play on."

"If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better
acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope,
upon familiarity will grow more contempt."

"If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."

"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer
men, the greater share of honor."

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not,
speak then unto me."

"If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."

"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do
we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"

"If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to go a little
berserk."

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."

"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."

"In a false quarrel there is no true valour."

Topic: Procrastination
"In delay there lies no plenty."

"In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."

"In time we hate that which we often fear."

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

"Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."

"It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance."

"It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child"

Topic: Children
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."

"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."

Topic: Fate And Destiny
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves."

"It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking."

Topic: Vow
"It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold."

"It provokes the desire but it take away the performance."

Topic: Language
"It was greek to me."

"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."

Topic: J esting, J okes
"J esters do oft prove prophets."

Topic: J ourney
"J ourneys end in lovers' meeting,Every wise man's son doth know."

"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom."

"Lady you berefit me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers."

"Lawless are they that make their wills their law."

"Lay on, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!""

"Leave her to heaven
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge,
To prick and sting her."

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights:
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."

"Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments: love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds."

"Let no such man be trusted."

"Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than
life."

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

Topic: Life
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets his hour upon the
stageAnd then is heard no more; it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and
fury,Signifying nothing."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their
end."

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their
end."

"Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie."

"Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

"Love is a spirit of all compact of fire."

"Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds."

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought is better"

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

"Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-
painting, sleep, and urine."

"Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything."

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are
maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

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

"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."

Topic: Vow
"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

"Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough."

"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."

"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."

Topic: Doubt
"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."

"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."

"My library
Was dukedom large enough."

"My library was dukedom large enough."

"My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is
sufficient."

Topic: Human Nature
"My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand."

"My pride fell with my fortunes."

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment."

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And
borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

"No, 'tis slander,
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie
All corners of the world."

"Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very
torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a
temperance that may give it smoothness."

"Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves."

"Nothing can come of nothing."

"Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."

Topic: Miracles
"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."

"Nothing will come of nothing."

"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"

"Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun."

"Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."

"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."

"O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom
for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! The should the
warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leashed-in"

"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this
world!"

"O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That
we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"

"O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible,
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?"

"O that a man might know the end of this day's business ere it come!"

"O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee
devil."

"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"

"O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are
you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the
performance so loathed?"

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on."

Topic: J ealousy
"O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;It is the green-eyed monster which doth mockThe meat
it feeds on."

"O, had I but followed the arts!"

"O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His
countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness."

"O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!"

Topic: Strength
"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

"O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant."

"O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven;
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't,
A brother's murder."

"O, woe is me,
To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

"Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to
tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings."

"Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an
interior survey of your good selves."

"Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that."

"Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done
much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew
nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked."

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our
English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and
humility; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the
tiger:"

"One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises
are our wages."

Topic: Life
"One man in his time plays many parts."

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners."

Topic: Doubt
"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt."

"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good that we oft may win, By fearing to
attempt"

Topic: Doubt
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to
attempt."

Topic: Doubt
"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt."

"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie."

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets
his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of
sound and fury, Signifying nothing."

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

"Pity is the virture of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."

"Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."

"Praising what is lost
Makes the remembrance dear."

"Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear."

"Pray you now, forget and forgive."

"Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who
remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?"

"Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!"

"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."

Topic: Love
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, / Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."

"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name..."

"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for
one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect."

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a
date."

"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more;Men were deceivers ever;One foot in sea, and one on
shore;To one thing constant never."

"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much."

Topic: Nature
"Simply the thing I am shall make me live."

"Since Cleopatra died,
I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods
Detest my baseness."

Topic: Sleep
"Sleep she as sound as careless infancy."

"Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."

"Small to greater matters must give way."

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

"So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."

"So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"

"So shines a good deed in a weary world."

"So wise so young, they say, do never live long."

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."

"Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words."

"Strong reasons make strong actions."

"Such seems your beauty still."

Topic: Word
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

"Summer's lease hath all too short a date."

Topic: Guilt
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."

"Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a
precious jewel in his head."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears
yet a precious jewel in its head."

"Sweet are the uses of adversity."

Topic: Mercy
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."

"'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."

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to
the soul what the water-bath is to the body."

"Talking isn't doing It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds."

"Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart."

"That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman."

Topic: Diligence
"That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence."

"The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us."

"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."

"The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life."

"The cat will mew, and dog will have his day."

Topic: Love
"The course of true love never did run smooth."

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

"The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape."

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

"The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it."

"The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones."

Topic: Fashion
"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man."

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."

"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance."

"The game is up."

"The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea."

"The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us."

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."

"The little foolery that wise men have makes a great show."

"The love of heaven makes one heavenly."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

Topic: Hope
"The miserable have no other medicineBut only hope."

"The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what
he is and steal out of your company."

"The object of art is to give life a shape."

"The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just an charitable war."

"The play's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."

Topic: Mercy
"The quality of mercy is not strain'd;It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the
place beneath. It is twice blest:It blesseth him that gives and him that takes."

"The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the
place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes."

"The rest is silence."

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."

"The sands are number'd that make up my life."

Topic: Innocence
"The silence often of pure innocencePersuades, when speaking fails. "

"The soul of this man is in his clothes."

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

"The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes."

"The trust I have is in mine innocence,
and therefore am I bold and resolute."

"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns."

"The valiant never taste of death but once."

"The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."

"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can
lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."

"The wheel is come full circle."

"The whirligig of time brings in his revenges."

"The will of man is by his reason swayed."

"The worst is not
So long as we can say, "This is the worst.""

"Their understanding
Begins to swell and the approaching tide
Will shortly fill the reasonable shores
That now lie foul and muddy."

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries."

"There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full
sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our
ventures."

"There is no darkness but ignorance."

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so"

"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things."

Topic: Gold
"There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murther in this loathsome
world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:"

"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."

"There's no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all
dissemblers."

"There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple:
If the ill spirit have so fair a house,
Good things will strive to dwell with 't."

"These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no
more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are."

Topic: Violence
"These violent delights have violent ends."

"They do not love that do not show their love."

"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

"They say miracles are past."

"They say, best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad."

"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."

"Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."

Topic: Self-Respect
"This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou
canst not then be false to any man."

"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou
canst not then be false to any man."

Topic: Self Respect
"This above all; to thine own self be true."

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet."

"This England never did, nor never shall,
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."

"This is the short and the long of it."

"This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd
numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death."

"Thou art all the comfort,
The Gods will diet me with."

"Thou art the Mars of malcontents."

"Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."

"Thou wilt be as valiant as the wrathful dove, or most magnanimous mouse."

"Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance."

"Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and
rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of
weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."

"Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."

"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."

"'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god."

"'Tis mad idolatryTo make the service greater than the god. "

"'Tis neither here nor there."

"'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."

Topic: Vow
"'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth;But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true."

"'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."

"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."

"To be or not to be: that is the question."

"To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'t is a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action."

"To business that we love, we rise betime
and go to't with delight."

Topic: Success
"To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first."

Topic: Literary
"To die, to sleep --
To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause; there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life."

"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."

"To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still."

"To their right praise and true perfection!"

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be
false to any man."

"To thine own self be true."

"Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."

"True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings;
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings."

"True is it that we have seen better days."

"Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning."

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"

"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."

"We are advertis'd by our loving friends."

"We burn daylight."

"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to
start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return
dissolved into their elements."

"We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind."

"We have seen better days."

"We have some salt of our youth in us."

Topic: Self-Knowledge
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"We know what we are, but know not what we may become"

"Weariness can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth finds the down pillow hard."

"What a deformed thief this fashion is."

"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form
and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension
how like a god!"

"What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form
and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension
how like a god."

"What is past is prologue."

"What seest thou else
In the dark backward and abysm of time?"

"What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief."

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

Topic: Name
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."

"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a
movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a
lover's apprehension."

"When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress."

"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better
than a beast."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions."

"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools."

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

"Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits;
That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats
alike showed mastership in floating."

"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual
ideas, there music is sublimely strong."

"Where the bee sucks, there suck I;
In a cowslip's bell I lie."

"While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head."

"Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your fading mansion
spend?"

"Why this is very midsummer madness."

"Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open."

Topic: Loss
"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

"With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio."

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."

"Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

"Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."

"You cram these words into mine ears against the stomach of my sense."

"Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters."

"Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole."

"Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you,
some relish of the saltness of time."

"Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot
and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."
Jonathan Swift Quotes

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but
saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday."
--J onathan Swift

"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
--J onathan Swift

"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
--J onathan Swift

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
--J onathan Swift

"Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know
their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which
the owner knows not of."
--J onathan Swift

"Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in
the same posture with creeping."
--J onathan Swift

"And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades
of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve
better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of
politicians put together."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Blush
"As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may
make a fool seem a man of sense."
--J onathan Swift

"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and
cold."
--J onathan Swift

"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
--J onathan Swift

"Books, the children of the brain."
--J onathan Swift

"But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I
could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a
poisoned rat in a hole."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Censure
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
--J onathan Swift

"Come, agree, the law's costly."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Complaint
"Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives."
--J onathan Swift

"Don't set your wit against a child."
--J onathan Swift

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition
of slavery."
--J onathan Swift

"Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever
makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Happiness
"Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived."
--J onathan Swift

"He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which
were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement
summers."
--J onathan Swift

"He was a bold man that first eat on oyster."
--J onathan Swift

"He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Sensuality
"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are
allured by their appetites to their destruction."
--J onathan Swift

"I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning."
--J onathan Swift

"I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed."
--J onathan Swift

"I row after health like a waterman..."
--J onathan Swift

"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
--J onathan Swift

"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of
youth, and judgment of age."
--J onathan Swift

"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Invention
"Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. "
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Sarcasm
"It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of
distinguished virtues."
--J onathan Swift

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should
ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
--J onathan Swift

"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows
not."
--J onathan Swift

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
--J onathan Swift

"I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one."
--J onathan Swift

"J ust get the right syllable in the proper place."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Law
"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets
break through."
--J onathan Swift

"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break
through."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Life
"May you live every day of your life."
--J onathan Swift

"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Modesty
"Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense."
--J onathan Swift

"Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting."
--J onathan Swift

"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Necessity
"Necessity is the mother of invention."
--J onathan Swift

"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new
information from age and experience."
--J onathan Swift

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
--J onathan Swift

"Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a
shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a
reputation down."
--J onathan Swift

"Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company,
you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest."
--J onathan Swift

"Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in
want."
--J onathan Swift

"Observation is an old man's memory."
--J onathan Swift

"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."
--J onathan Swift

"One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company
can reasonably wish had been left unsaid."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Passion
"Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time,
leave us the weaker ever after."
--J onathan Swift

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
--J onathan Swift

"Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at
variance."
--J onathan Swift

"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his
thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."
--J onathan Swift

"Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to."
--J onathan Swift

"Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken."
--J onathan Swift

"Proper words in proper places make the true definiton of style."
--J onathan Swift

"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but
their own."
--J onathan Swift

"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk."
--J onathan Swift

"So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the
wise."
--J onathan Swift

"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: History
"The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the
compass, gunpowder, and printing."
--J onathan Swift

"The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and
false opinions they contracted earlier."
--J onathan Swift

"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their
success to prudence or merit."
--J onathan Swift

"The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Want
"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off
our feet when we want shoes."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Slander
"The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds
have been pecking at."
--J onathan Swift

"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
--J onathan Swift

"There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy."
--J onathan Swift

"There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was
heads or tails."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Blind
"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
--J onathan Swift

"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none
but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."
--J onathan Swift

"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."
--J onathan Swift

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Vision
"Vision: the art of seeing things invisible."
--J onathan Swift

"We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Religion
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love on
another."
--J onathan Swift

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one
another."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Gossip
"What some invent, the rest enlarge."
--J onathan Swift

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."
--J onathan Swift

Topic: Genius
"When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces
are all in confederacy against him."
--J onathan Swift

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the
dunces are all in confederacy against him."
--J onathan Swift

"When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a
confederacy against him."
--J onathan Swift

"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and
profound is couched underneath."
--J onathan Swift

"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen
short of her purposes."
--J onathan Swift

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but
wind."
--J onathan Swift
Harry S. Truman Quotes

"A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants."
--Harry S. Truman

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
--Harry S. Truman

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one
who makes opportunities of his difficulties."
--Harry S. Truman

"A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's
been dead for 15 years."
--Harry S. Truman

"A President cannot always be popular."
--Harry S. Truman

"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be
on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."
--Harry S. Truman

"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected
without it."
--Harry S. Truman

"Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny."
--Harry S. Truman

"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it."
--Harry S. Truman

"Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it."
--Harry S. Truman

"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an
unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
--Harry S. Truman

"Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be
here."
--Harry S. Truman

"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."
--Harry S. Truman

"Being too good is apt to be uninteresting."
--Harry S. Truman

"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."
--Harry S. Truman

"Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and
social injustice."
--Harry S. Truman

"He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what
politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."
--Harry S. Truman

"He's one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of
both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
--Harry S. Truman

"How do you live a long life? "Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.""
--Harry S. Truman

"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be
settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."
--Harry S. Truman

"I don't want it torn down. I think it's the greatest monstrosity in America."
--Harry S. Truman

"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious
future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great
ideals of our civilization."
--Harry S. Truman

"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or
otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat
turkey whenever he pleases."
--Harry S. Truman

"I have read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that
you are an eight ulcer man on a four ulcer job Some day I hope to meet you. When that
happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes and perhaps a supporter
below."
--Harry S. Truman

"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Hell
"I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
--Harry S. Truman

"I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Criticism
"I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell."
--Harry S. Truman

"I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how
the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of
them ever got here."
--Harry S. Truman

"I was the only calm one in the house. You see I've been shot at by experts."
--Harry S. Truman

"I would rather have peace in the world than be President."
--Harry S. Truman

"If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano
player in a bawdy house."
--Harry S. Truman

"If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again."
--Harry S. Truman

"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Politics
"I'm proud that I'm a politician. A politician is a man who understands government, and it
takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or
15 years."
--Harry S. Truman

"In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man
to serve in that capacity."
--Harry S. Truman

"In my Sunday School class there was a beautiful little girl with golden curls. I was
smitten at once and still am."
--Harry S. Truman

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over
themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first."
--Harry S. Truman

"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."
--Harry S. Truman

"It is terrible-and I mean terrible-nuisance to be kin to the president of the United States."
--Harry S. Truman

"It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other
fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our
differences."
--Harry S. Truman

"It seems like there was always somebody for supper."
--Harry S. Truman

"It sure is hell to be president."
--Harry S. Truman

"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But
this time it won't work."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Congress
"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of
Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"
--Harry S. Truman

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership,
society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the
opportunity to change things for the better."
--Harry S. Truman

"Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past."
--Harry S. Truman

"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician.
And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference."
--Harry S. Truman

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United
States."
--Harry S. Truman

"Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of
both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides."
--Harry S. Truman

"Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50
nations. We set down on paper the only principles which will enable civilized human life
to continue to survive on this globe."
--Harry S. Truman

"Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at
the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand
in."
--Harry S. Truman

"That precedent should continue-not by a Constitutional amendment but by custom based
on the honor of the man in the office."
--Harry S. Truman

"The atom bomb was no "great decision." It was merely another powerful weapon in the
arsenal of righteousness."
--Harry S. Truman

"The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then
advise them to do it."
--Harry S. Truman

"The Buck Stops Here"
--Harry S. Truman

"The buck stops here!"
--Harry S. Truman

"The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined
thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point
in the right direction."
--Harry S. Truman

"The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it
will remain. They have a propaganda machine that is almost equal to Stalin's."
--Harry S. Truman

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."
--Harry S. Truman

"The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything."
--Harry S. Truman

"The reward of suffering is experience."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: United Nations
"The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for
all its members."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: President
"The White House is the finest prison in the world."
--Harry S. Truman

"Therefore to re-establish that custom, although by a quibble I could say I've only had
one term, I am not a candidate and will not accept the nomination for another term."
--Harry S. Truman

"This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come."
--Harry S. Truman

"To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I."
--Harry S. Truman

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

"We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God."
--Harry S. Truman

"We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man
is respected."
--Harry S. Truman

"We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Communication
"We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until
communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries."
--Harry S. Truman

"Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was
trying to be great."
--Harry S. Truman

"We're going to be buried out here. I like the idea because I may just want to get up some
day and stroll into my office. And I can hear you saying, "Harry-you oughtn't!""
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Vote
"When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."
--Harry S. Truman

"When even one American-who has done nothing wrong-is forced by fear to shut his
mind and close his mouth-then all Americans are in peril."
--Harry S. Truman

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
--Harry S. Truman

"Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me."
--Harry S. Truman

"Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend."
--Harry S. Truman

Topic: Government
"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship."
--Harry S. Truman

"Why, this fellow don't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday."
--Harry S. Truman

"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-
I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."
--Harry S. Truman

"You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe
in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly
foresee now."
--Harry S. Truman

"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came
from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an
even break."
--Harry S. Truman
Leo Tolstoy Quotes

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats
meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
--Leo Tolstoy

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own
way."
--Leo Tolstoy

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to
do what they do not want to do."
--Leo Tolstoy

"All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
--Leo Tolstoy

"And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love
for them that is in other people."
--Leo Tolstoy

"And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide
that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his
gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang
himself; he went on living."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Boredom: the desire for desires."
--Leo Tolstoy

"But the peasants - how do the peasants die?"
--Leo Tolstoy

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but
continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
--Leo Tolstoy

"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."
--Leo Tolstoy

Topic: History
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked
them."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man,
but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however
ingeniously it may be disguised."
--Leo Tolstoy

"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and
others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except
by getting off his back."
--Leo Tolstoy

"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."
--Leo Tolstoy

"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."
--Leo Tolstoy

"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men
would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most
intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
--Leo Tolstoy

"If you want to be happy, be."
--Leo Tolstoy

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
--Leo Tolstoy

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone.
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and
eternal source."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of
the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal."
--Leo Tolstoy

"One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall
not be broken."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in
it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by
encumbering it with remedies."
--Leo Tolstoy

"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than
according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new
form of life."
--Leo Tolstoy

"The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it
thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits."
--Leo Tolstoy

"The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
--Leo Tolstoy

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
--Leo Tolstoy

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
--Leo Tolstoy

"There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it
is the only time hat we have any power."
--Leo Tolstoy

"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the
same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
--Leo Tolstoy

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that
is not gold."
--Leo Tolstoy

"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience
within themselves."
--Leo Tolstoy

"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man,
has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
--Leo Tolstoy

"We lost because we told ourselves we lost."
--Leo Tolstoy

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
--Leo Tolstoy

"whatever happens to be in style."
--Leo Tolstoy

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
--Leo Tolstoy
J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Courage is found in unlikely places."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or
singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew
old and wary enough to detect its presence."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half
as well as you deserve."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"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."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"'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.'"
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier
world."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"It's a dangerous business going out your front door."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Little by little, one travels far."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?
Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own
safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

Topic: Goals
"Not all who wander are lost."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"One Ring to rule them all,
One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate."
--J . R. R. Tolkien

"The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the
generally small reach of their imagination."
--J . R. R. Tolkien
Mark Twain Quotes

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

Topic: Reading
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Conversation
"A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives
immortality to conversation."
--Mark Twain

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
--Mark Twain

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
--Mark Twain

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
--Mark Twain

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Knowledge
"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he
knows."
--Mark Twain

"A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Knowledge
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way."
--Mark Twain

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."
--Mark Twain

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read."
--Mark Twain

"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
--Mark Twain

"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to
modify his shape."
--Mark Twain

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often"
--Mark Twain

"Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it
before him."
--Mark Twain

"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
--Mark Twain

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
--Mark Twain

"All generalizations are false, including this one."
--Mark Twain

"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."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Death
"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."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Man
"All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me; he can't be
any worse."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Success
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure."
--Mark Twain

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
--Mark Twain

"All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure."
--Mark Twain

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

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Rights
"Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain

"Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain

"An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to
complete the thing and make it perfect."
--Mark Twain

"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."
--Mark Twain

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to
anything on which it is poured."
--Mark Twain

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Impossibility
"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today. "
--Mark Twain

"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest
enough."
--Mark Twain

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Dress
"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."
--Mark Twain

"Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Loneliness
"Be good and you will be lonely."
--Mark Twain

"Better a broken promise than none at all."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Literature
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a man -- the biography of the man himself
cannot be written."
--Mark Twain

"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man
himself cannot be written."
--Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to
pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
--Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
--Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
--Mark Twain

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Civilization
"Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
--Mark Twain

"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
--Mark Twain

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."
--Mark Twain

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
--Mark Twain

"Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it."
--Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
--Mark Twain

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."
--Mark Twain

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been
hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
--Mark Twain

"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found
that out."
--Mark Twain

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
--Mark Twain

"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."
--Mark Twain

"Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring
the habit of doing your duty without pain."
--Mark Twain

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
--Mark Twain

"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."
--Mark Twain

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

"Don't let schooling interfere with your education."
--Mark Twain

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have
ceased to live."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Illusion
"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have
ceased to live. "
--Mark Twain

"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have
ceased to live."
--Mark Twain

"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
--Mark Twain

"Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where
they know the fish."
--Mark Twain

"'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other
music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me."
--Mark Twain

"Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other
way you can manage it."
--Mark Twain

"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man
uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty
of making himself agreeable to himself."
--Mark Twain

"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course
is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your
conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your
country, let me label you as they may."
--Mark Twain

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Rest
"Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy
time will hang on your hands."
--Mark Twain

"Etiquette requires us to admire the human race."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Personality
"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
--Mark Twain

"Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
--Mark Twain

"Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
There is no humor in heaven."
--Mark Twain

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."
--Mark Twain

"Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
--Mark Twain

"Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such
respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Familiarity
"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children."
--Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."
--Mark Twain

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

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."
--Mark Twain

"First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards."
--Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Fortune
"Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is
in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her."
--Mark Twain

"From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and
foremost object but one - to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself."
--Mark Twain

"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of
youth. He could not even lie."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Facts
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
--Mark Twain

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
--Mark Twain

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it
thousands of times."
--Mark Twain

"Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
--Mark Twain

"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
--Mark Twain

"Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Golf
"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
--Mark Twain

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

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

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
--Mark Twain

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this it the ideal life."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Happiness
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
--Mark Twain

"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to
divide it with."
--Mark Twain

"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to
divide it with."
--Mark Twain

Topic: J oy
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to
divide it with."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Habit
"Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs
a step at a time."
--Mark Twain

"Happiness is a Swedish sunset; it is there for all, but most of us look the other way and
lose it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Custom
"Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is
merely custom."
--Mark Twain

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in
order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult
to obtain."
--Mark Twain

"He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
--Mark Twain

"He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Heaven
"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go
in."
--Mark Twain

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go
in."
--Mark Twain

"Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of
all the creatures ever made man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only
one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to
be pain."
--Mark Twain

Topic: History
"History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a
strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably."
--Mark Twain

"Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Honesty
"Honesty is the best policy--when there is money in it."
--Mark Twain

"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
--Mark Twain

"Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
--Mark Twain

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

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

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never
happened."
--Mark Twain

"I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle.
Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't."
--Mark Twain

"I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to
the human race or doesn't... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the
basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without
looking further."
--Mark Twain

"I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
--Mark Twain

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Praise
"I can live for two months on a good compliment."
--Mark Twain

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't
find anybody who can tell me what they want."
--Mark Twain

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward
the things which were sacred to other people."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Law
"I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit
and looking around for a defendant."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Soldier
"I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man
who invented retreating."
--Mark Twain

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
--Mark Twain

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

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Work
"I do not like work even when someone else does it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Prayer
"I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the
answer to prayer."
--Mark Twain

"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both
places."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Heaven
"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell--you see, I have friends in both
places."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Mind
"I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make
it up."
--Mark Twain

"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that
they have not said enough."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Compliment
"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I alwaysfeel that
they have not said enough."
--Mark Twain

"I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and
contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to
me."
--Mark Twain

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate
them than to travel with them."
--Mark Twain

"I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time."
--Mark Twain

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"
--Mark Twain

Topic: Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain

"I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."
--Mark Twain

"I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know
is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
--Mark Twain

"I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping."
--Mark Twain

"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to
make it up."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Education
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain

"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.'
They all left town immediately."
--Mark Twain

"I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint, where one is possible,
because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle
reception."
--Mark Twain

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

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

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Ignorance
"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so
much of it."
--Mark Twain

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

"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat
would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much."
--Mark Twain

"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
--Mark Twain

"If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there
are any commonplace people."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Compliment
"If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Weather
"If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes."
--Mark Twain

"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way."
--Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. That is the
difference between dog and man."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Gratitude
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the
principal difference between a dog and a man."
--Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the
principal difference between a dog and a man"
--Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything"
--Mark Twain

Topic: Truth
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Truth
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
--Mark Twain

"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but
it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
--Mark Twain

"In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he
was a boy and one when he was a man."
--Mark Twain

"In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In
Philadelphia, who were his parents?"
--Mark Twain

"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances,
profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."
--Mark Twain

"In India, "cold weather" is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through
the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass
door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Travel
"In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in Fench; I never did succeed in
making those idiots understand their own language."
--Mark Twain

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

"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten
at second hand, and without examination."
--Mark Twain

"In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities."
--Mark Twain

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

"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of
journalists and historians to correct that."
--Mark Twain

"In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours."
--Mark Twain

"India has 2,000,000 gods, and worships them all. In religion, other countries are
paupers; India is the only millionaire."
--Mark Twain

"It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I
do understand."
--Mark Twain

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that
just ain't so."
--Mark Twain

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

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal
class except Congress."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Manners
"It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would
help."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Youth
"It is better to be a young J une-bug than an old bird of paradise."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Honor
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve
them."
--Mark Twain

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve
them."
--Mark Twain

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

"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
--Mark Twain

"It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of
speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either."
--Mark Twain

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to
practice either of them."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Prudence
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably
precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to
practice either."
--Mark Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage
so rare."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Emotion
"It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Temptation
"It is easier to stay out than get out."
--Mark Twain

"It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his
prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the
Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time."
--Mark Twain

"It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to
his dull perceptions."
--Mark Twain

"It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse
races."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Opinion
"It is the difference of opinion that makes horse races."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Injury
"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to
slander you and the other to get the news to you."
--Mark Twain

"It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander
you, and the other to get the news to you."
--Mark Twain

"It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off
me during school term."
--Mark Twain

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Speech
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
--Mark Twain

"It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
--Mark Twain

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
--Mark Twain

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
--Mark Twain

"It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense."
--Mark Twain

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
--Mark Twain

"I've lived a long life and seen a lot of hard times...most of which never happened."
--Mark Twain

"I've never let my school interfere with my education."
--Mark Twain

"J ust the omission of J ane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a
library that hadn't a book in it."
--Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
--Mark Twain

"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you believe that you too can become great."
--Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
--Mark Twain

Topic: King
"Kings is mostly rapscallions."
--Mark Twain

"Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since
been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."
--Mark Twain

"Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an
openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."
--Mark Twain

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Superstition
"Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs
either."
--Mark Twain

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Flattery
"Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed."
--Mark Twain

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain

"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at
all.""
--Mark Twain

Topic: Life
"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain

"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly
of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head"
--Mark Twain

"Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and
its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Life
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and
gradually approach eighteen."
--Mark Twain

"Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
--Mark Twain

"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really
knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
--Mark Twain

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human soul."
--Mark Twain

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
--Mark Twain

"Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
--Mark Twain

"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Blush
"Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Creativity
"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
--Mark Twain

"Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself
envied."
--Mark Twain

"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
--Mark Twain

"Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Modesty
"Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died
when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born."
--Mark Twain

"Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker,
paralysis - no man is born with them."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Bible
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the
passages that bother me are those I do understand."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Truth
"Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most
economical in its use."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Books
"My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine--everybody drinks water."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Country
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its
officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is
the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to institutions are extraneous, they are
its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable,
cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death."
--Mark Twain

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

"Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
--Mark Twain

"Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name BZJ XXLLWCP is
pronounced J ackson."
--Mark Twain

"Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."
--Mark Twain

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
--Mark Twain

"Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
--Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Truth
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
--Mark Twain

"No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon."
--Mark Twain

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid
an asteroid."
--Mark Twain

"Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an
asteroid."
--Mark Twain

"Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with
the Friend."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Reform
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
--Mark Twain

"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The
others are J uly, J anuary, September, April, November, May, March, J une, December,
August, and February."
--Mark Twain

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

"Once you've put one of his [Henry J ames] books down, you simply can't pick it up
again."
--Mark Twain

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine
lives."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Soul
"One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it--they
also believed the world was flat."
--Mark Twain

"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
--Mark Twain

"Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is
the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth."
--Mark Twain

"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the
editorial "we.""
--Mark Twain

"Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the
planet."
--Mark Twain

"Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to
someone else."
--Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside."
--Mark Twain

"Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside."
--Mark Twain

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering
about."
--Mark Twain

"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels."
--Mark Twain

"Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons
attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it
will be shot. By Order of the Author"
--Mark Twain

Topic: Belief
"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
--Mark Twain

"Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Prosperity
"Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know."
--Mark Twain

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I
repeat myself."
--Mark Twain

"Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late."
--Mark Twain

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
--Mark Twain

"Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and
cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out
fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."
--Mark Twain

Topic: God
"Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million."
--Mark Twain

"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call
unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
--Mark Twain

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the
long run."
--Mark Twain

"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
--Mark Twain

"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very;" your editor will delete it
and the writing will be just as it should be."
--Mark Twain

"Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat."
--Mark Twain

"Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat."
--Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat
myself."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Congress
"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat
myself."
--Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I
repeat myself."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Moderation
"Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance."
--Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Cheerfulness
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
--Mark Twain

"The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical
practice changes."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Reform
"The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to
reform itself."
--Mark Twain

"The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco."
--Mark Twain

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference
between lightning and a lightning bug."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Difference
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference
between lightning and the lightning bug."
--Mark Twain

"The difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense"
--Mark Twain

"The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word."
--Mark Twain

Topic: J ustice
"The efficiency of our criminal jury system is only marred by the difficulty of finding
twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
--Mark Twain

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

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die
at any time."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Enjoyment
"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half
consists of the chance without the capacity."
--Mark Twain

"The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
--Mark Twain

"The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence
that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
--Mark Twain

"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
--Mark Twain

"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
--Mark Twain

"The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but
carrying a banner."
--Mark Twain

"The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the
highwayman's methods; it remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the
symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate."
--Mark Twain

"The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives."
--Mark Twain

"The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be
useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful."
--Mark Twain

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

Topic: Books
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read
them."
--Mark Twain

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

"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he
knows too little."
--Mark Twain

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry,
application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."
--Mark Twain

"The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head
to foot, and ended by saying such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut
down the doctor's bills like anything."
--Mark Twain

"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can
contain without bursting one's clothes."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Ignorance
"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can
contain without bursting one's clothes. "
--Mark Twain

Topic: Hell
"The only people I know who still believe in hell are the ones who had the proper kind of
upbringing."
--Mark Twain

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't
like, and do what you'd druther not."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Health
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't
like, and do what you'd rather not."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Diplomacy
"The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten."
--Mark Twain

"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody
will side with you when you are right."
--Mark Twain

"The Public is merely a multiplied "me.""
--Mark Twain

Topic: Criticism
"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."
--Mark Twain

"The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts
them."
--Mark Twain

"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views.
When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
--Mark Twain

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

"The report of my death was an exaggeration."
--Mark Twain

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
--Mark Twain

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed
pause."
--Mark Twain

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
--Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting start is breaking your
complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first
one."
--Mark Twain

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking
your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the
first one."
--Mark Twain

"The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Humanity
"The so-called human race."
--Mark Twain

"The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By
that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."
--Mark Twain

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed
right."
--Mark Twain

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it."
--Mark Twain

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."
--Mark Twain

"The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and
shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority
they don't dare to assert themselves."
--Mark Twain

"The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Insanity
"The way it is now, the asylums can hold all the sane people but if we tried to shut up the
insane we should run out of building materials."
--Mark Twain

"The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession."
--Mark Twain

"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
--Mark Twain

"There are lies, damned lies and statistics."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Humor
"There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that
he is less savage than the other savages."
--Mark Twain

"There are many humorous things in the world: among them the white man's notion that
he is less savage than the other savages."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Providence
"There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Vulgarity
"There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined."
--Mark Twain

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their
happiness to the unhappy."
--Mark Twain

"There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition;
there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Temptation
"There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."
--Mark Twain

"There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Humanity
"There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the
farce."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Speculation
"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it
and when he can."
--Mark Twain

"There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Human Nature
"There is a great deal of human nature in people."
--Mark Twain

"There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of
prosperity may you not meet a friend."
--Mark Twain

"There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it,
than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort."
--Mark Twain

"There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Optimism
"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."
--Mark Twain

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
--Mark Twain

"There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the
dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."
--Mark Twain

"Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not
a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it."
--Mark Twain

"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
--Mark Twain

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
--Mark Twain

"Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the
course of hours."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Teaching
"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble."
--Mark Twain

"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Smoking
"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did, I ought to know because I've done it a
thousand times."
--Mark Twain

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a
thousand times."
--Mark Twain

"To cease smoking is the easiset thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand
times."
--Mark Twain

"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
--Mark Twain

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but
cabbage with a college education."
--Mark Twain

"Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to
except for heaven and hell, and I have only a vague curiosity as concerns one of those."
--Mark Twain

"Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't
so."
--Mark Twain

"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Truth
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities;
Truth isn't."
--Mark Twain

"Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
--Mark Twain

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all
day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
--Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
--Mark Twain

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer"
--Mark Twain

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
--Mark Twain

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
--Mark Twain

"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
--Mark Twain

"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."
--Mark Twain

"We Americans are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the
earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world
has ever seen."
--Mark Twain

"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."
--Mark Twain

"We are all alike, on the inside."
--Mark Twain

"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess,
than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
--Mark Twain

"We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and
wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we invented, which was
human liberty."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Change
"We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and
blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Conformity
"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the
drove."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Music
"We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels
without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency."
--Mark Twain

"We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and
look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Religion
"We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and
discuss whether they was made or just happened."
--Mark Twain

"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency
is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know
anything and can't read."
--Mark Twain

"We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or
poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common
ground."
--Mark Twain

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know
how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."
--Mark Twain

"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -
and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then
they would be honest so much earlier."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Wrong
"We ought never to do wrong when people are looking."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Death
"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race:
he brought death into the world."
--Mark Twain

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop
there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on
a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit do"
--Mark Twain

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop
there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on
a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one
anymore."
--Mark Twain

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it
before."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Originality
"What a good thing Adam had--when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it
before."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Heaven
"What a man misses mostly in heaven is company."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Tax
"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes
only your skin."
--Mark Twain

"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast
with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know
that you are walking where none others have walked..."
--Mark Twain

"What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere
killing would be too light."
--Mark Twain

"What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Cruelty
"When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home
to mama."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Deceit
"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive
other people."
--Mark Twain

"When angry count four; when very angry, swear."
--Mark Twain

"When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
--Mark Twain

"When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know who have gone to a
better world, I am moved to lead a different life."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Wisdom
"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old
man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had
learned in seven years."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Experience
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have
the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the
old man had learned in seven years."
--Mark Twain

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have
the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd
learned in seven years."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Youth
"When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
--Mark Twain

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."
--Mark Twain

"When in doubt tell the truth."
--Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth."
--Mark Twain

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Insanity
"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. "
--Mark Twain

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands
explained."
--Mark Twain

"When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one."
--Mark Twain

"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're
getting old."
--Mark Twain

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see
of him until he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Majority
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Conformity
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
--Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect."
--Mark Twain

"Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance
should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief."
--Mark Twain

"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of
gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into
the world."
--Mark Twain

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

"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
--Mark Twain

"Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have
any relation."
--Mark Twain

"Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself."
--Mark Twain

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is
not obliged to do."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Work
"Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Smile
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
--Mark Twain

"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain

Topic: Imagination
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. "
--Mark Twain

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
--Mark Twain
William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

Topic: Flattery
"A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears."
--William Makepeace Thackeray

Topic: Cheerfulness
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

"Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out."

"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better
make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

"Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies."

Topic: Humor
"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."

"I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."

"If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business."

"If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and
meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become
interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!"

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to
love at all."

"It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England."

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

"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the
only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you
will succeed."

"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children."

"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

Topic: Selfishness
"Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish."

"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."

Topic: Novelty
"Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand."

"People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited."

"The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar
things new."

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up
a pen to write."

"'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel."

"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no
difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it - who can say this is not greatness?"

Topic: Greatness And Great Things
"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no
difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?"

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is
recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a
free-born Briton can do."
Margaret Thatcher Quotes

"A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of
us."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to
understanding the problems of running a country."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the
oxygen of publicity on which they depend."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is
the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product
of philosophy."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor,
generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one
of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well,
if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the
end good will triumph."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It
will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I don't mind how much my ministers talk - as long as they do what I say."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second
solution was a confederation of two states. That is out. A third solution was joint
authority. That is out-that is a derogation of sovereignty."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the
things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I
believe have won the election."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I like Mr Gorbachev, we can do business together."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me,
that's not their job."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I owe nothing to Women's Lib."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't
swim."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If you go into what I call a bubble boom, every bubble bursts."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any
time, and you would achieve nothing."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in
world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to
have a touch of iron about you."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If you want anything said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
--Margaret Thatcher

"If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look."
--Margaret Thatcher

"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a
woman."
--Margaret Thatcher

"It is only when you look now and see success that you say that it was good fortune. It
was not. We lost 250 of our best young men. I felt every one."
--Margaret Thatcher

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
--Margaret Thatcher

"It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the
opportunity to turn him into a friend."
--Margaret Thatcher

"It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have
people marching into other people's territory and staying there."
--Margaret Thatcher

"It's a funny old world."
--Margaret Thatcher

"It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very
modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election."
--Margaret Thatcher

"I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks
off and leaves it."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else
was about to play the Ace."
--Margaret Thatcher

Topic: Help
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions -- he had
money too."
--Margaret Thatcher

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had
money, too."
--Margaret Thatcher

"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the
top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100
percent."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
--Margaret Thatcher

"On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after
all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns."
--Margaret Thatcher

"One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve
balanced numbers."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct,
under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists'
morale or their cause while the hijack lasted."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the
traffic from both sides."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is not enough,
that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose."
--Margaret Thatcher

"The battle for women's rights has been largely won."
--Margaret Thatcher

Topic: History
"The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is
sadly denied to practicing politicians."
--Margaret Thatcher

"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as
Quislings, as traitors... I mean it."
--Margaret Thatcher

"There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty."
--Margaret Thatcher

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are
families."
--Margaret Thatcher

"This lady is not for turning."
--Margaret Thatcher

"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with
leeches."
--Margaret Thatcher

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values
and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."
--Margaret Thatcher

"To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside,
where it functions best."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a
footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of
time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past."
--Margaret Thatcher

"We didn't have to do the minuets of diplomacy. We got down to business."
--Margaret Thatcher

"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
--Margaret Thatcher

"What Britain needs is an iron lady."
--Margaret Thatcher

"What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing;
knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of
purpose."
--Margaret Thatcher

"Why do you climb philosophical hills? Because they are worth climbing. There are no
hills to go down unless you start from the top."
--Margaret Thatcher

Topic: J argon
"You and I come by road, or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure."
--Margaret Thatcher

"You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive."
--Margaret Thatcher

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."
--Margaret Thatcher
Leonardo Da Vinci Quotes

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to
do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to
investigate the reason."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his
intelligence; he is just using his memory."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your
work your judgment will be surer since to remain constantly at work will cause you to
lose power of judgment. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller,"
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your
work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears
smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is
more readily seen."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in
her power."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards,
for there you have been and there you will long to return."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder
and compass and never knows where he may cast."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must
apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should
have."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow
brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is
firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto
death."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that
which comes; so with present time."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Intellectual passion dries out sensuality."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes
frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation and in cold weather
becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap
the vigor of the mind."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back
and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"J ust as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what
works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is
the doing something else."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a
star does not change his mind."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Our life is made by the death of others."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were
not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse,
nature would lose the human species."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and
the tongue."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far
below the musician in that of invisible things."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Water is the driving force of all nature."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned
skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when
awake?"
--Leonardo Da Vinci

"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
--Leonardo Da Vinci
H. G. Wells Quotes

"A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted
international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a
private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not
stake their own."
--H. G. Wells

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."
--H. G. Wells

"Advertising is legalized lying."
--H. G. Wells

"Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise."
--H. G. Wells

"And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist,
"If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead
everywhere."
--H. G. Wells

"Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face."
--H. G. Wells

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."
--H. G. Wells

"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful
individuals since the beginning."
--H. G. Wells

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime
of the community."
--H. G. Wells

"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia."
--H. G. Wells

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."
--H. G. Wells

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human
race."
--H. G. Wells

"Fools make researches and wise men exploit them."
--H. G. Wells

"He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly."
--H. G. Wells

"Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth."
--H. G. Wells

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."
--H. G. Wells

Topic: History
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
--H. G. Wells

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."
--H. G. Wells

"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything
but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea."
--H. G. Wells

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."
--H. G. Wells

"If we don't end war, war will end us."
--H. G. Wells

"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
--H. G. Wells

"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century
intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt
to do it."
--H. G. Wells

"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards
on the table."
--H. G. Wells

"Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn
himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him."
--H. G. Wells

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war
becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."
--H. G. Wells

"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
--H. G. Wells

"Our true nationality is mankind."
--H. G. Wells

"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more
comfortable."
--H. G. Wells

"Security puts a premium on feebleness."
--H. G. Wells

"She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a
fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she
was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion."
--H. G. Wells

"She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it
will make up into a shape, while I write to cover a frame of ideas."
--H. G. Wells

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and
the ones they expect to have."
--H. G. Wells

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."
--H. G. Wells

"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow."
--H. G. Wells

"The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of J esus, is
certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human
thought."
--H. G. Wells

"The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social
collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of
the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call
it?"
--H. G. Wells

"The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and
what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we
have made of ourselves on the other."
--H. G. Wells

"The path of least resistance is the path of the loser."
--H. G. Wells

"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships."
--H. G. Wells

"The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes
nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by."
--H. G. Wells

"The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destruction
and entirely indecisive."
--H. G. Wells

"The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golfit's almost a law."
--H. G. Wells

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron
bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of
imperfection."
--H. G. Wells

"They realized that the chief danger in aerial warfare from an excitable and intelligent
public would be a clamour for local airships and aeroplanes to defend local interests."
--H. G. Wells

Topic: Honesty
"To be honest, one must be inconsistent."
--H. G. Wells

"We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the
fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university
organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries."
--H. G. Wells

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of
life is a miracle and mystery."
--H. G. Wells

"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
--H. G. Wells

"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable
man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not
justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
--H. G. Wells

"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something."
--H. G. Wells
Woodrow Wilson Quotes

"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
--Woodrow Wilson

"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when
in doubt."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Heredity
"A man's rootage is more important than his leafage."
--Woodrow Wilson

"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of
all of us."
--Woodrow Wilson

"America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal -
to discover and maintain liberty among men."
--Woodrow Wilson

"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to
whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness
the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship
God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
--Woodrow Wilson

"By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go
far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a
man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for
the purpose."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Hunger
"Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness, and all the ugly distempers that make
an ordered life impossible."
--Woodrow Wilson

"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by
instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Intelligence
"I not only use all of the brains I have, but all I can borrow."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Mind
"I not only use all the brains I have, but all that I can borrow."
--Woodrow Wilson

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Liberty
"I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased
to be in love with liberty."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Victory
"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some
day lose!"
--Woodrow Wilson

"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some
day lose."
--Woodrow Wilson

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home
and examine your conscience."
--Woodrow Wilson

"If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three
days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now."
--Woodrow Wilson

"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States,
they are going to own it."
--Woodrow Wilson

"If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing."
--Woodrow Wilson

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of
it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the
increase of it."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Vision
"No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high
enterprise."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Nation
"No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Hunger
"No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Study
"No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things
he does not know."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: J udgment
"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light
and not heat."
--Woodrow Wilson

"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light
and not heat."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Preaching
"One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Interest
"Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and
prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. "
--Woodrow Wilson

"Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society
along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Help
"Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life."
--Woodrow Wilson

"The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation."
--Woodrow Wilson

"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people."
--Woodrow Wilson

"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses
and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the
forms of democracy."
--Woodrow Wilson

"The history of liberty is a history of resistance."
--Woodrow Wilson

"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Youth
"The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are
the men past middle life."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Nation
"The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself."
--Woodrow Wilson

"The seed of revolution is repression."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Civilization
"The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially
unless it be redeemed spiritually."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Finance
"The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."
--Woodrow Wilson

"There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of
the United States."
--Woodrow Wilson

"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded
in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they
cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.""
--Woodrow Wilson

"There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the
greatest creed."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Force
"There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others
by force that it is right."
--Woodrow Wilson

"Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Unity
"We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the
end."
--Woodrow Wilson

Topic: Efficiency
"We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be
efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed
to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right
lines of thought."
--Woodrow Wilson

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to
live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are
here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
--Woodrow Wilson
Oprah Winfrey Quotes

"All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown."
--Oprah Winfrey

"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."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by."
--Oprah Winfrey

"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."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon
discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in
Mississippi."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know
you have for sure."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them.
J ust find a different way to stand."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
--Oprah Winfrey

"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."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe
together."
--Oprah Winfrey

"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."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the
gap to close it for us."
--Oprah Winfrey

"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."
--Oprah Winfrey

"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."
--Oprah Winfrey

"For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the
way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was
teachers and school."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating
myself as well as I treat others in every way."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I always knew I was destined for greatness."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict,
every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I believe that [everyone] is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's
secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better
lovers."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over
fear."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't
decide for you. Something is off-balance here.""
--Oprah Winfrey

"I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with
the intention to require more from yourself."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what
matters."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I do not believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself
as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to
make good."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it."
--Oprah Winfrey

"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."
--Oprah Winfrey

"If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without
stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race."
--Oprah Winfrey

"If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part
of who I am. It does not define me."
--Oprah Winfrey

"In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What
is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright."
--Oprah Winfrey

"It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new
adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all
about."
--Oprah Winfrey

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a
religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control."
--Oprah Winfrey

"I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your
light shine."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's blessings."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will
take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
--Oprah Winfrey

"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking
down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
--Oprah Winfrey

"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
--Oprah Winfrey

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at
this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment."
--Oprah Winfrey

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at
this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether
you did it or not."
--Oprah Winfrey

"The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there
if you're willing to work."
--Oprah Winfrey

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."
--Oprah Winfrey

"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even
the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning."
--Oprah Winfrey

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
--Oprah Winfrey

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended
to be."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to
greatness."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet
are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in
possiblity."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are
rewarded, or how much power you have."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life."
--Oprah Winfrey

"We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be."
--Oprah Winfrey

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
--Oprah Winfrey

"What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you."
--Oprah Winfrey

"What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power."
--Oprah Winfrey

"When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes."
--Oprah Winfrey

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength."
--Oprah Winfrey

"With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought,
choice by choice."
--Oprah Winfrey

"You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."
--Oprah Winfrey

"You are what you are by what you believe!"
--Oprah Winfrey

"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once."
--Oprah Winfrey

"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be
defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."
--Oprah Winfrey

Topic: Hate
"You cannot hate other people without hating your self."
--Oprah Winfrey
Booker T. Washington Quotes

"Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes
up his mind to do his level best each day."
--Booker T. Washington

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad
company."

"Character is power."

"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."

"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let
him know that you trust him."

"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him
know that you trust him."

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to
succeed."

"I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him."

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

Topic: Hate
"I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man."

"I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him."

Topic: Reward
"No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-
being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward."

Topic: Dignity
"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in
writing a poem."

"Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work."

"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the
ditch with him."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome."

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling
up."

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling
up."

"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful
life."

Topic: Brotherhood
"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them
for our brothers."

"You can`t hold a man down without staying down with him."

Topic: Oppression
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
George Washington Quotes

"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words,
are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
--George Washington

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to
licentiousness."
--George Washington

"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."
--George Washington

Topic: Reputation
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to
be alone than in bad company."
--George Washington

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis
better to be alone than in bad company."
--George Washington

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is
better be alone than in bad company."
--George Washington

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis
better to be alone than in bad company."
--George Washington

"Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but
your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved."
--George Washington

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you
give them your confidence."
--George Washington

Topic: Friends
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."
--George Washington

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."
--George Washington

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you
give them your confidence."
--George Washington

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success
to the weak, and esteem to all."
--George Washington

Topic: Dress
"Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine
birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the
judicious and sensible."
--George Washington

"Few men have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
--George Washington

"Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder."
--George Washington

Topic: Temptation
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
--George Washington

"Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
--George Washington

"Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."
--George Washington

Topic: Government
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence -- it is force."
--George Washington

Topic: Government
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant
and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
--George Washington

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a
dangerous servant and a fearful master."
--George Washington

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous
servant and a fearful master."
--George Washington

"Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
--George Washington

"How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence.
It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
--George Washington

"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the
most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
--George Washington

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most
enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
--George Washington

"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any
country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches
of a husbandman's cares."
--George Washington

"I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not
hereafter be drawn into precedent."
--George Washington

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep
to the slaughter."
--George Washington

Topic: Defense
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one
of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are
at all times ready for War."
--George Washington

Topic: Public
"In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude."
--George Washington

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
--George Washington

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."
--George Washington

"It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."
--George Washington

"It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every
Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of
his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
--George Washington

"It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty
upon the supposition he may abuse it."
--George Washington

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience"
--George Washington

"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience."
--George Washington

"Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
--George Washington

"Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my
first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it."
--George Washington

"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of
God."
--George Washington

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without
religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can
prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
--George Washington

"Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."
--George Washington

"Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in
proportion to your purse."
--George Washington

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
--George Washington

"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
--George Washington

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
--George Washington

"My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a
bit of mutton are always ready."
--George Washington

"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I
attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received
from her."
--George Washington

"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a
duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are
employed therein."
--George Washington

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with
all."
--George Washington

"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to
liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty."
--George Washington

Topic: Profanity
"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and
low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."
--George Washington

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian
religion."
--George Washington

"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or
slaves."
--George Washington

"The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate
violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes
extensive and terrible."
--George Washington

"The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference -
they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
--George Washington

"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
--George Washington

Topic: Defense
"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
--George Washington

"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his
country."
--George Washington

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of
adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
--George Washington

Topic: Friendship
"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks ofadversity
before it is entitled to the appellation."
--George Washington

"War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our
will."
--George Washington

"We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before; and it changed for
the better; so I trust it will again; If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and
proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times."
--George Washington

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the
purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
--George Washington

"When firearms go, all goes. We need them every hour."
--George Washington

"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
--George Washington
Walt Whitman Quotes

"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Nature
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
--Walt Whitman

"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."
--Walt Whitman

"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Music
"All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments."
--Walt Whitman

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a
hero."
--Walt Whitman

"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his
shroud."
--Walt Whitman

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
--Walt Whitman

"Baseball will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger
physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these
losses, and be a blessing to us."
--Walt Whitman

"Be curious, not judgmental."
--Walt Whitman

"Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself."
--Walt Whitman

"Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give
you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?"
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Censorship
"Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
--Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain
multitudes."
--Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
--Walt Whitman

"Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"
--Walt Whitman

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."
--Walt Whitman

"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
--Walt Whitman

"Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed."
--Walt Whitman

"Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
--Walt Whitman

"Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are
lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
--Walt Whitman

"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you,
and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced
themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
--Walt Whitman

"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
--Walt Whitman

"Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune."
--Walt Whitman

"Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely."
--Walt Whitman

"How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!"
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Reality
"I accept reality and dare not question it."
--Walt Whitman

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."
--Walt Whitman

"I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I
dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers."
--Walt Whitman

"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars."
--Walt Whitman

"I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the
first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
--Walt Whitman

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
--Walt Whitman

"I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me
as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease...
observing a spear of summer grass."
--Walt Whitman

"I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious."
--Walt Whitman

"I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones."
--Walt Whitman

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
--Walt Whitman

"I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it
is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?"
--Walt Whitman

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Democracy
"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly
grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has
been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
--Walt Whitman

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not
curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the
least."
--Walt Whitman

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
--Walt Whitman

"If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred."
--Walt Whitman

"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."
--Walt Whitman

"If you done it, it ain't bragging."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: God
"In the faces of men and women I see God."
--Walt Whitman

"J udging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in
jeopardy."
--Walt Whitman

"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front,
let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be
postponed."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Defeat
"Many a good man I have seen go under."
--Walt Whitman

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Quality
"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
--Walt Whitman

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat
and sleep with the earth."
--Walt Whitman

"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and
to eat and sleep with the earth."
--Walt Whitman

"O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is."
--Walt Whitman

"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me
better than I can express myself."
--Walt Whitman

"O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition,
conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent."
--Walt Whitman

"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror,
and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Class
"Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people."
--Walt Whitman

"Press close bare-bosomed night - press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south
winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night."
--Walt Whitman

"Produce great men, the rest follows."
--Walt Whitman

"Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul."
--Walt Whitman

"Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of
Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)"
--Walt Whitman

"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Simplicity
"Simplicity is the glory of expression."
--Walt Whitman

"Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it
says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"
--Walt Whitman

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is
simplicity."
--Walt Whitman

"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."
--Walt Whitman

"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
--Walt Whitman

"The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul."
--Walt Whitman

"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Earth
"The earth, that is sufficient,I do not want the constellations any nearer,I know they are
very well where they are,I know they suffice for those who belong to them."
--Walt Whitman

"The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor
in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its
newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."
--Walt Whitman

"The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it
is still the greatest city in the whole world."
--Walt Whitman

"The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give."
--Walt Whitman

"The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing."
--Walt Whitman

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man
sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Universe
"The universe is duly in order, everything in its place."
--Walt Whitman

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
--Walt Whitman

"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. "
--Walt Whitman

"The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Theory
"There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth."
--Walt Whitman

"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."
--Walt Whitman

"There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the
people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance."
--Walt Whitman

"There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that
humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Children
"There was a child went forth everyday,And the first object he looked upon and received
with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became,And that object became part of him
for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years..."
--Walt Whitman

"This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the
sibilant threat."
--Walt Whitman

"To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."
--Walt Whitman

Topic: Poetry
"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."
--Walt Whitman

"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."
--Walt Whitman

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a
miracle."
--Walt Whitman

"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."
--Walt Whitman

"To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most
picturesque and significant of all."
--Walt Whitman

"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race,
and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all."
--Walt Whitman

"We convince by our presence."
--Walt Whitman

"What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after
goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows,
beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!"
--Walt Whitman

"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."
--Walt Whitman

"When I give I give myself."
--Walt Whitman

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it
to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own
proof."
--Walt Whitman

"Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that
Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"
--Walt Whitman
Oscar Wilde Quotes

Topic: Heaven
". . . when bad Americans die, they go to America."
--Oscar Wilde

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Cynic
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
--Oscar Wilde

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
--Oscar Wilde

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Enemy
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
--Oscar Wilde

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
--Oscar Wilde

"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
--Oscar Wilde

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Sentiment
"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without
paying for it."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Martyr
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
--Oscar Wilde

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
--Oscar Wilde

"Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means."
--Oscar Wilde

"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
--Oscar Wilde

"All art is quite useless."
--Oscar Wilde

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Art
"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than
Art imitates Life."
--Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
--Oscar Wilde

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Forgiveness
"Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Failure
"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
--Oscar Wilde

"America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed
up."
--Oscar Wilde

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization
in between."
--Oscar Wilde

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
--Oscar Wilde

"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine
nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
--Oscar Wilde

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
--Oscar Wilde

"Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same
opinion."
--Oscar Wilde

"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
--Oscar Wilde

"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing."
--Oscar Wilde

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
--Oscar Wilde

"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly
satisfied."
--Oscar Wilde

"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."
--Oscar Wilde

"As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none
of his friends like him."
--Oscar Wilde

"At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials."
--Oscar Wilde

"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."
--Oscar Wilde

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity,
worship, love, but no friendship."
--Oscar Wilde

"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the
doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"
--Oscar Wilde

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
--Oscar Wilde

"Biography lends to death a new terror."
--Oscar Wilde

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...J ournalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Media
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, [journalism] keeps us in touch with the
ignorance of the community."
--Oscar Wilde

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the
ignorance of the community."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Bachelor
"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public
temptation."
--Oscar Wilde

"Charity creates a multitude of sins."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Children
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do
they forgive them."
--Oscar Wilde

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do
they forgive them."
--Oscar Wilde

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes
they forgive them."
--Oscar Wilde

"Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education.
Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be
less apt to destroy and be mischievous."
--Oscar Wilde

"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of
the firm. That is all."
--Oscar Wilde

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Imagination
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."
--Oscar Wilde

"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative"
--Oscar Wilde

"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
--Oscar Wilde

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Discontent
"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
--Oscar Wilde

"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are
terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
--Oscar Wilde

"Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp
on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor."
--Oscar Wilde

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Education
"Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
--Oscar Wilde

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
--Oscar Wilde

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
--Oscar Wilde

"Everything popular is wrong."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Experience
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Extravagance
"Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich."
--Oscar Wilde

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
--Oscar Wilde

"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Resolution
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no
account."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Taste
"Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life."
--Oscar Wilde

"Hatred is blind, as well as love."
--Oscar Wilde

"He hadn't a single redeeming vice."
--Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
--Oscar Wilde

"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not
realise."
--Oscar Wilde

"He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep
about."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Present
"He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in
which he lives."
--Oscar Wilde

"He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."
--Oscar Wilde

"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if
she were a perfectly normal human being."
--Oscar Wilde

"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
--Oscar Wilde

"How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in
the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
--Oscar Wilde

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
--Oscar Wilde

"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old
ones."
--Oscar Wilde

"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to
oneself."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Knowledge
"I am not young enough to know everything."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Faith
"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."
--Oscar Wilde

"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible."
--Oscar Wilde

"I can resist anything but temptation."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Temptation
"I can resist anything except temptation."
--Oscar Wilde

"I can resist everything except temptation."
--Oscar Wilde

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his
enemies."
--Oscar Wilde

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters,
and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his
enemies."
--Oscar Wilde

"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Ignorance
"I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance."
--Oscar Wilde

"I have nothing to declare except my genuis."
--Oscar Wilde

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
--Oscar Wilde

"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good
all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Hypocrisy
"I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and really being
good all the time. That would be hypocracy."
--Oscar Wilde

"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than
anything else in the world."
--Oscar Wilde

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
--Oscar Wilde

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read
in the train."
--Oscar Wilde

"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."
--Oscar Wilde

"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a
human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
--Oscar Wilde

"I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when
they love give everything."
--Oscar Wilde

"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
--Oscar Wilde

"I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of
it is simply a tragedy."
--Oscar Wilde

"I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means."
--Oscar Wilde

"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."
--Oscar Wilde

"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
--Oscar Wilde

"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead."
--Oscar Wilde

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma.
In the afternoon I put it back again."
--Oscar Wilde

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at
all."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Sympathy
"If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."
--Oscar Wilde

"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
--Oscar Wilde

"If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the
table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your
days."
--Oscar Wilde

"If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it
doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
--Oscar Wilde

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Imagination
"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense
of humor was provided to console him for what he is. "
--Oscar Wilde

"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: J ournalism
"In America the President reigns for four years, and J ournalism governs for ever and
ever."
--Oscar Wilde

"In America the President reigns for four years, and J ournalism governs forever and
ever."
--Oscar Wilde

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves
the full benefits of their inexperience."
--Oscar Wilde

"In married life three is company and two none."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It
must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Confession
"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
--Oscar Wilde

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you
can't help it."
--Oscar Wilde

"Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by
giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the
community."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: J ournalism
"J ournalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
--Oscar Wilde

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are
dead."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Laughter
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for
one."
--Oscar Wilde

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
--Oscar Wilde

"Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct
to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination."
--Oscar Wilde

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
--Oscar Wilde

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
--Oscar Wilde

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Belief
"Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Temper
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason."
--Oscar Wilde

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason."
--Oscar Wilde

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell
you the truth."
--Oscar Wilde

"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Men And Women
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Marriage
"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are
disappointed."
--Oscar Wilde

"Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the
soul in a thousand different ways."
--Oscar Wilde

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Moderation
"Moderation is a fatal thing: nothing succeeds like excess."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Morality
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."
--Oscar Wilde

"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
--Oscar Wilde

"Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace."
--Oscar Wilde

"Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each
day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
--Oscar Wilde

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a
mimicry, their passions a quotation."
--Oscar Wilde

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late
that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

"Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his."
--Oscar Wilde

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
--Oscar Wilde

"Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the
same thing nowadays."
--Oscar Wilde

"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my
obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
--Oscar Wilde

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an
artist."
--Oscar Wilde

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
--Oscar Wilde

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

"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Soul
"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the
soul."
--Oscar Wilde

"Nothing is so aggravating than calmness."
--Oscar Wilde

"Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of
us all."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Teaching
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
--Oscar Wilde

"Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of
harm."
--Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is
too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde

"Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out."
--Oscar Wilde

"Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been
hushed up."
--Oscar Wilde

"Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in
Paris."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Machine
"On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."
--Oscar Wilde

"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Kindness
"One can always be kind to people one cares nothing about."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Husband
"One can always recognize women who trust their husbands. They look so thoroughly
unhappy."
--Oscar Wilde

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a
good reputation."
--Oscar Wilde

"One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he
is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Fate And Destiny
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and
will be what they will be."
--Oscar Wilde

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details
are always vulgar."
--Oscar Wilde

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Love
"One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry."
--Oscar Wilde

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Woman
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell
one that would tell one anything."
--Oscar Wilde

"One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
--Oscar Wilde

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
--Oscar Wilde

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
--Oscar Wilde

"Only the shallow know themselves."
--Oscar Wilde

"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious
things that cannot be taken from you."
--Oscar Wilde

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true
progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."
--Oscar Wilde

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
--Oscar Wilde

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had
merely been detected."
--Oscar Wilde

"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: J ealousy
"Plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are. They are
always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands."
--Oscar Wilde

"Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Time
"Punctuality is the thief of time."
--Oscar Wilde

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
--Oscar Wilde

"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge
of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
--Oscar Wilde

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Scandal
"Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality."
--Oscar Wilde

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

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to
live."
--Oscar Wilde

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
--Oscar Wilde

"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a
sign of despair in a woman."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Happiness
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
--Oscar Wilde

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
--Oscar Wilde

"Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine do not equal ten
years of therapy."
--Oscar Wilde

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
--Oscar Wilde

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is
that it is not emotional."
--Oscar Wilde

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each
of us is here for."
--Oscar Wilde

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Children
"The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Life
"The book of life begins with a man and a woman in a garden, and ends with
Revelations."
--Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
--Oscar Wilde

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own
shame."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Attitude
"The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of
the uneatable."
--Oscar Wilde

"The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his domestic affairs."
--Oscar Wilde

"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
--Oscar Wilde

"The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation,
and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in
a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Life
"The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers
is not good enough for us."
--Oscar Wilde

"The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
--Oscar Wilde

"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
--Oscar Wilde

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know
everything."
--Oscar Wilde

"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary
for both parties."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Illusion
"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action. "
--Oscar Wilde

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."
--Oscar Wilde

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
--Oscar Wilde

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Temptation
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows
sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
--Oscar Wilde

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but
temptation."
--Oscar Wilde

"The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that
we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man
ought not to be. The future is what artists are."
--Oscar Wilde

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth
knowing. J ournalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their
demands."
--Oscar Wilde

"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Truth
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
--Oscar Wilde

"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal
too much for it."
--Oscar Wilde

"The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the
stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence
amongst its members."
--Oscar Wilde

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
--Oscar Wilde

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
--Oscar Wilde

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the
piano when played by a sister or near relation."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Hypocrisy
"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it."
--Oscar Wilde

"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life."
--Oscar Wilde

"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who
do the improbable."
--Oscar Wilde

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might
pick them up."
--Oscar Wilde

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know
absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is
getting it."
--Oscar Wilde

"There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, theother is to read
Pope."
--Oscar Wilde

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else
has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Hypocrisy
"There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has
the right to blame us."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: J ournalism
"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the
uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Simplicity
"There is no sin except stupidity."
--Oscar Wilde

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

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

"There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or
too cruel for that."
--Oscar Wilde

"There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no
married man knows anything about."
--Oscar Wilde

"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
--Oscar Wilde

"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked
about."
--Oscar Wilde

"These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art
criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not
shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'"
--Oscar Wilde

"Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest
birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
--Oscar Wilde

"This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
--Oscar Wilde

"Those whom the gods love grow young."
--Oscar Wilde

"To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of
sanity."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Idleness
"To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the
most intellectual. "
--Oscar Wilde

"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
--Oscar Wilde

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up
early, or be respectable."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Society
"To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or
shock people."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: History
"To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the
historian."
--Oscar Wilde

"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like
carelessness."
--Oscar Wilde

"To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks
like carelessness."
--Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
--Oscar Wilde

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
--Oscar Wilde

"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own
experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Friends
"True friends stab you in the front."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Vulgarity
"Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other
people."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Hope
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
--Oscar Wilde

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course,
language."
--Oscar Wilde

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
--Oscar Wilde

"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of
Lying."
--Oscar Wilde

"When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to
love her."
--Oscar Wilde

"When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man
marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk
theirs."
--Oscar Wilde

"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man
marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk
theirs."
--Oscar Wilde

"When good Americans die they go to Paris."
--Oscar Wilde

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I
am old I know that it is."
--Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
--Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."
--Oscar Wilde

"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
--Oscar Wilde

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Sorrow
"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
--Oscar Wilde

"Who, being loved, is poor?"
--Oscar Wilde

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
--Oscar Wilde

"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Love
"Women are made to be loved, not understood."
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Love
"Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive
them anything, even their gigantic intellects."
--Oscar Wilde

"Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us
everything, even our intellects."
--Oscar Wilde

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
--Oscar Wilde

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter
look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a
sword!"
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Literary
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The koward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"
--Oscar Wilde

Topic: Love
"Yet each man kills the thing he loves..."
--Oscar Wilde
William Wordsworth Quotes

"A day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."
--William Wordsworth

"A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to
blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to
reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor."

"A reasoning, self-sufficing thing, An intellectual all-in-all!"

"But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy
grave."

"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher."

"Faith is a passionate intuition."

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."

"Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

"For by superior energies; more strict affiance in each other; faith more firm in their
unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating,
inconsistent good."

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing
oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

Topic: Guilt
"From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts
proceed."

"Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more."

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."

"Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with
a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion
is a harmony and dance magnificent."

"Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of
ample power to chasten and subdue."

"Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the
growing boy."

"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free
down to its root, and in that freedom bold."

"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind
by day and were trouble to my dreams."

Topic: Music
"I listened, motionless and still;And, as I mounted up the hill,The music in my heart I
bore,Long after it was heard no more."

"I traveled among unknown men, in lands beyond the sea; nor England! did I know till
then what love I bore to thee."

"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who
doesn't know what he is doing."

"In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find."

Topic: Reverie
"In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind."

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us
learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the
future."

"Lost in a gloom of uninspired research."

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

"Neither evil tongues, rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where
no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall e'er prevail against us."

"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's
diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."

"Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped
out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look
into our Minds, into the Mind of Man."

Topic: Society
"One great society alone on earth: the noble living and the noble dead."

"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of
good, Than all the sages can."

"Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them."

"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high
thinking are no more."

"Rapine, avarice, expense,This is idolatry; and these we adore;Plain living and high
thinking are no more. "

"She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there
were none to praise And very few to love."

"She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years."

"She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam'd upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament."

"Small service is true service, while it lasts."

"That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and
love."

"That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the
weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened."

"That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight.
Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We
will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind."

Topic: Kindness
"The best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered acts,Of
kindness and of love."

Topic: Children
"The child is father of the man."

"The child is the father of the man."

"The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly."

"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent
stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does
not know this."

"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."

"The ocean is a mighty harmonist."

"The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions."

"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."

Topic: Literary
"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!"

"This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships,
towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and
glittering in the smokeless air."

"Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

"To begin, begin."

Topic: Plants
"To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

"To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for
tears."

"Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."

"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."

"When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and
droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude."

"Whether we be young or old,Our destiny, our being's heart and home,Is with infinitude,
and only there;With hope it is, hope that can never die,Effort and expectation, and
desire,And something evermore about to be."

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

Topic: Wisdom
"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see
into the life of things."
William Butler Yeats Quotes

"A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our
stitching and unstinting has been naught."
--William Butler Yeats

"A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love."

Topic: Opinion
"All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions."

"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick"

"And say my glory was I had such friends."

"Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought -
asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of
peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation."

"But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples
down the hill."

"Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the
silent ambassadors on national taste."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its
unfamiliar thought."

"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured
and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We
are happy when we are growing."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of
breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

"I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart."

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all
made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the
earth."

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad
man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."

"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them
in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no
gift to set a statesman right."

"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."

"I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so
beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an
opera."

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of
the opinion of the ancient J ewish book which says "there is no wisdom without leisure.""

"Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom,
time an endless song."

Topic: Life
"Life is a long preparation for something that never happens."

"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."

Topic: Poetry
"Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make
poetry."

Topic: Anger
"One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to
the end."

"Our stitching and unstitching has been naught."

"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the
best part of the mind."

"Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you
round."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own
heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it
take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark."

"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on
the deed alone."

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."

"The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God, the herdsman goads them on
behind,And I am broken by their passing feet."

Topic: Language
"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."

"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such
friends."

Topic: Friendship
"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends."

"This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled
to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air."

"Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

"To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must
labor to be beautiful."

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?"

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside
us."

"When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this
book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their
shadows deep."

"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as
reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

Topic: Love
"Wine comes in at the mouthAnd love comes in at the eye;That's all we shall know for
truthBefore we grow old and die."

"Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the
works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses."

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