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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. — Robert Frost
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. — General Douglas MacArthur
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. — Jessamyn West
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. — Thomas Szasz
A child's hand in yours — what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength. — Marjorie Holmes
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. — Howard Scott
A cult is a religion with no political power. — Tom Wolfe
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. — Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head. — Unknown
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. — Caskie Stinnett
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A dreamer lives for eternity. — Anonymous
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden. — Buddha
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston S. Churchill
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it. — Unknown
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. — Wilson Mizner
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. — RalphWaldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.... Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. — Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. — Adlai Stevenson
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. — Unknown
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. — Wilma Askinas
A friend might well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity. — Robert Hall
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. — Shakespeare
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. — John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. — Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. — John Milton
A good conscience is a continual feast. — Robert Burton
A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night. — Marilyn Vos Savant
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. — Wilson Mizner
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. — Lao-Tzu
A good rest is half the work. — Yugoslav Proverb
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. — Toledo Blade
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James
A healthy family is sacred territory. — Unknown
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. — H. L. Mencken
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. — Margaret Fuller
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest-- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. --Albert Einstein
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. — Unknown
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. — Robert Frost
A leader is someone who steps back from the entire system and tries to build a more collaborative, more innovative system that will work over the long term. — Robert Reich
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. — Jawaharlal Nehru
A library is an arsenal of liberty. — Unknown
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. — Alfred Alder
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. — Unknown
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. — Bob Edwards
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. — Willy Wonka, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. — Doug Larson
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. — Albert Schweitzer
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. — Knights of Pythagoras
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. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. — Spanish proverb
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. — Confucius
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. — Paul Valery
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. — Napoleon
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. — Segal's Law
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. — George Santayana
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. — Dean Acheson
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. — Edward de Bono
A moment's thinking is an hour in words. — Thomas Hood
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. — James Feibleman
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. — Charles Brower
A new vision of development is emerging. Development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition. — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. — Samuel Grafton
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. — Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby, Procrastinator's Success Kit
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. — George Moore
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. — Jerome Blattner
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. — Sir Winston Churchill
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. — Herm Albright
A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it. — Alistair Cooke
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. — Lord John Russell
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. — Francis Bacon
A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. — Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. — Richard Armour
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. — Lao Tze
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. — Unknown
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
A single fact can spoil a good argument. — Anonymous
A soft answer turneth away wrath. — Proverbs 15:1
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. — Georges Pompidou
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. — Richard Byrd
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A theory must be tempered with reality. — Jawaharlal Nehru
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. — Gustave Flaubert
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. — Chinese proverb
A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds. — Chinese proverb
A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. — Thomas Nashe
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. — Unknown
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Baltasar Gracian
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. — Balthasar Gracian
A wise man's question contains half the answer. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A witty saying proves nothing. — Voltaire
A word to the wise ain't necessary — it's the stupid ones that need the advice. — Bill Cosby
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? — Confucius, Analects
Ability is nothing without opportunity. — Napoleon I
Ability is of little account without opportunity. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. — La Rochefoucald
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. — De La Rochefoucauld.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. — Comte DeBussy-Rabutin
Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult. — Samuel Johnson
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. — Doug Larson
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. — John Lahr
Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. — Dietrich Bonhoffer
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. — Mahatma Gandhi
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. — Samuel Johnson
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. — Horace
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. — Victor Marie Hugo
Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. — Erica Jong
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. — C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. — Unknown
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. — Bernard Baruch
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — look. — Robert Fulghum
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. — Ashleigh Brilliant (Copyright Ashleigh Brilliant, Santa Barbara CA. All rights reserved.)
All a man can betray is his conscience. — Joseph Conrad
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
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. — George Bernard Shaw
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. — Bertrand Russell
All good things are wild, and free. — Henry David Thoreau
All government — indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act — is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke, Speech on the Conciliation of America
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. — Calvin Coolidge
All human power is a compound of time and patience. — Honore de Balzac
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them. — Holt's Law
All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. — Thomas Paine
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. — North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
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 paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. — Ruth Ross
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind. — Communist Manifesto
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. — Buddha
All the knowledge in the world is found within you. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work. — Thomas J. Watson
All things are possible to him that believeth. — Mark 9:23
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. — George Santiano
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei
All we have of freedom — all we use or know — This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. — Rudyard Kipling
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. — Lord Byron
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
Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. — P. J. O'Rourke
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. — Alexis de Tocqueville
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. — Unknown
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. — Sir Henry Wotton
An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. — Paul Valéry
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. — George Orwell
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. — Stephen R. Covey, Principle-centered Leadership
An idea is salvation by imagination. — Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. — Don Marquis
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. — Will Rogers
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. — Samuel Johnson
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is colorblind. — Albert Schweitzer
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. — Friedrich Engels
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. — Kahlil Gibran
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. — Socrates
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. — William Rose Benet
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. — John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (Jan. 20, 1961)
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. — Shakespeare
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. — Jerry Chin
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. — Elizabeth I
Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other person will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated. — B. C. Forbes
Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. — Robert M. Pirsig
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain — and most fools do. — Dale Carnegie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. — Thoreau
Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. — Leonard Bernstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. — E. F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-- and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction. --Ernst F. Schumacher
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. — H. L. Mencken
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. — J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. — W. Kelly Griffith
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. — James Klass
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. — David Broder
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. — Betty Bender
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. — Elias Schwartz
Are you to pay for all you have with all you are? — Edwin A. Robinson
Arms are instruments of ill omen.... When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish. There is no glory in victory, and to glorify it despite this is to exult in the killing of men.... When great numbers of people are killed, one should weep over them with sorrow. When victorious in war, one should observe mourning rites. — Lao-Tzu
Art can't hurt you. — Fred Babb
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. — Anonymous
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. — Auguste Rodin
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. — Frank Zappa
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
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. — Bhagavad Gita
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. — Diogenes
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. — Socrates
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need — tremendous self control. — Ashleigh Brilliant (Copyright Ashleigh Brilliant, Santa Barbara CA. All rights reserved.)
As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found — in himself. — Erich Frohm
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. — Clarence Darrow
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. — Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963)
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. — Zachary Scott
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. — William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. — Mary H. Waldrip
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. — Colin Powell
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. — Unknown
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. — George Jean Nathan
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. — Werner von Braun
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. — Billie Jean King
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. — George Washington
Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer. — Macy's Motto
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. — Nicholai Velimirovic
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. — W. Migner
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still. — Chinese Proverb
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. — Spinoza
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. — Hebrews 13:2
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. — Thomas Jefferson
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be what you would seem to be — or, if you'd like it put more simply — Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. — Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Become a fixer, not just a fixture. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. — I Ching
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. — Jim Beggs
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. — James B. Conant
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. — Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. — Margaret Thatcher
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. — Confucius, Analects
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. — Christina Georgina Rossetti
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. — Chinese Proverb
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. — Italian Proverb
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. — Adolph Monod
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. — Unknown
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. — Unknown
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. — Bokonon, Cat's Cradle
Beware the fury of a patient man. — John Dryden
Beware the man of one book. — St. Thomas Aquinas
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. — Frank Herbert, Dune
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck — but, most of all, endurance. — James Baldwin
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. — Thomas Hughes
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. — Unknown
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. — George Eliot
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. — Unknown
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. — Plato, The Republic
Brains first and then Hard Work. — Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Brevity is the soul of wit. — William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit. General: What does that make YOU? Bullwinkle: What else? An executive... — Jay Ward
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. — D. H. Lawrence
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts! — Anonymous
By doubting we come at truth. — Cicero
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell — and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. — Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. — Clare Boothe Luce
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. — Euripides
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. — Anatole France
Change is good, but dollars are better. — Anonymous
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. — Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. — J. C. Watts
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. — Clarence Darrow
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery. — Shelley
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher
Civility costs nothing and buys everything. — Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. — Will Durant
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities. — Anonymous
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. — Emil Nolde
Comedy is tragedy plus time. — Carol Burnett
Common sense is not so common. — Voltaire
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. — Phyllis McGinley
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. — Andy Rooney
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. — Unknown
Conform and be dull. — James Frank Dobie
Conscience is the chamber of justice. — Origen
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. — H. L. Mencken
Conservation is humanity caring for the future. — Nancy Newhall
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. — Bernard Berenson
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. — Alice Miller
Continual improvement is an unending journey. — Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
Continually strive to improve yourself. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Bronte
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. — Robert Half
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. — Wilson Mizner
Courage atrophies from lack of use. — Unknown
Courage conquers all things. — Ovid
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. — Eddie Rickenbacher
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. — Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is one step ahead of fear. — Coleman Young
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. — Clare Booth Luce
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. — Robert G. Ingersoll
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking. — Lloyd P. Provost & R. M. Sprout, Quality Progress (August 1996)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. — William Plomer
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. — George Bernard Shaw
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. — Samuel Johnson
Cycology — The science of propelling one's self through the environment to enhance well-being. — Unknown
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. — Lillian Hellman
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. — Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Cynics are made, not born. — Max
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. — Robert Anton Wilson
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. — Martha Graham
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Goethe
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. — Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others. — Unknown
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do. — George F. Burns
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. — Miguel de Cervantes
Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. — Jane Wagner
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. — Laurence Peter
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. — Henri Matisse
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. — William Ellery Channing
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. — Epictetus
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. — Seneca
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. — Tom Robbins
Discipline must come through liberty.... We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. — Maria Montessori
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. — Diogenes
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. — Unknown
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. — Anonymous
Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. — John Wesley
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. — The Buddha
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther. — Isaac Watts
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. — Anonymous
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession. — Isaac Watts
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. — Pythagoras
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. — Basho
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. — Buddha, The Dharmapada
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. — The Dhammapada
Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. — John Ruskin
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so. — Proverbs 3:27
Do what you can with what you have where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. — Theodore Roosevelt
Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now. — Barry Forbes
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. — Ralph Waldo Trine
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. — Robert Byrne
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) — Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. — Edgar W. Howe
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. — David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps. — David Lloyd George
Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps. — Lloyd George
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends. — Richard Bach
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. — Janis Joplin
Don't fear change, embrace it. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. — Louis E. Boone
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. — Kin Hubbard
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. — Richard L. Evans
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. — Unknown
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. — Mark Twain
Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase — that's what wild geese are for. — Anonymous
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. — Baltasar Gracian
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. — George Patton
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. — Ray Bradbury
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. — Howard Aiken
Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita. (The way to the stars is open.) — Sergei Koroljov
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? — Count Oxenstierna
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. — Voltaire
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. — Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine (Mar. 12, 1978)
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. — Nancy Kerrigan
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. — Peter Benchley
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. — Charles William Dement
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. — William Dement
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. — Frank W. Woolworth
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. — Carl Zwanzig
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. — Anais Nin
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. — Kenny Ausubel
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. — Horace Mann
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. — W. B. Yeats
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. — John Ruskin
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. — Karl Kraus
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. — Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. — Henry Peter Brougham
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Malcolm S. Forbes
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. — David Dunham
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. — L. A. Safian
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. — Frank Leahy
Eh! Je suis leur chef, il fallait bien les suivre. (Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.) — Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. — Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. — Bob Marley
Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the place to have the experience. — Joseph Campbell
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. — Valdemar W. Setzer
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. — Will Rogers
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. — Robert Pirsig
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. — Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision? — Marilyn Monroe
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. — Robert Orben
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. — Friedrich Nietzche
Every man I meet is in some way my superior. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man has his follies — and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. — Josh Billings
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. — Appius Claudius
Every nation ridicules other nations — and all are right. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground. — Unknown
Every path serves a purpose. — Gene Oliver
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. — Franz Kafka
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. — Will Rogers
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. — Goethe
Everybody's a self-made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. — Unknown
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. — Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. — La Rochefoucauld
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — George Lichtenberg
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. — Yiddish proverb
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay. — Millard Fuller
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. — Thomas Edison
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. — Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse (1891)
Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.) — Seneca, Epistuloe ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein
Everything you can imagine is real. — Picasso
Everything you do or say is public relations. — Unknown
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. — Stephen Wright
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. — Albert Schweitzer
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. — Samuel Hazo
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. — Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. — Unknown
Experience is not what happens to us, rather it is what we do with what happens to us. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. — Oscar Wilde
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. — Olivier
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. — F. P. Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! — Derwood Fincher
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. — Dan Stanford
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. — Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1928)
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco, Decouvertes (1969)
Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. — Frank Zappa
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. — Unknown
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. — George Santayana
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. — Louisa May Alcott
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. — P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. — Unknown
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. — Richard Byrd
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. — George Washington
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. — George Bernard Shaw
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. — Samuel Johnson
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. — Mark Twain
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. — Unknown
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. — Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Focus on remedies, not faults. — Jack Nicklaus
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. — Kin Hubbard
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. — Millard Fuller
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. — Fr. Alfred D'Souza
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. — Richard Feynman
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. — William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. — Bob Wells
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. — Henry Louis Mencken
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. — Charles de Gaulle
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. — H. L. Mencken (1928)
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. — David H. Lawrence
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been!” — John Greenleaf Whittier
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. — Rainer Maria Rilke
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. — Eric Ambler
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? — Dante Alighieri
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. — James 2:10
Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems. — Michael J. Tucker
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. — Peter Mere Latham
Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. — Karen Horney
Fortune favors the bold. — Virgil
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. — Rousseau
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — General Colin Powell
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know. — Cowper
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. — Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point
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. — Ghandi (1931)
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. — Albert Camus
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. — John G. Diefenbaker
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. — Bertrand Russell
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans, The Natural History of Nonsense (1946)
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. — Joseph Addison
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. — Eleanor Roosevelt
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. — Sigmund Freud
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage. From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought. From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. — Visions of Gregorian Chants
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. — Napoleon
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. — Herman Melville
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. — H. H. Williams
Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. — Edgar Lee Masters
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. — George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. — Denis Diderot
Genius is talent provided with ideals. — William Somerset Maugham
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. — T. S. Eliot
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. — Mark Twain
Getting caught is the mother of invention. — Robert Byrne
Give more than take. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. — Thoreau
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — J. M. Barrie
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: “This is my country.” — Benjamin Franklin, letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789)
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. — Voltaire
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! — Unknown
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. — Mark Twain
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. — Izaak Walton
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. — Rita Mae Brown
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. — Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. — H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. — William Saroyan
Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. — Lester R. Bittel, The Nine Master Keys of Management
Good questions outrank easy answers. — Paul A. Samuelson
Good taste is always an asset. — Rudy Bakalov
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. — Gail Godwin
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
Grace under Pressure. — Ernest Hemingway
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. — Francious de la Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. — Cicero
Gray hair is God's graffiti. — Bill Cosby
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. — George Jean Nathan
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. — Herodotus
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. — Queen Victoria in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium (April 4, 1848)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. — Albert Einstein
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. — Dryden
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined. — Patrick Henry
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. — T. S. Eliot
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. — Walter Kerr
Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. — George Sheehan
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. — Oscar Levant
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. — George William Curtis
Happy is he who can give himself up. — Naguib Mahfouz
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family! — Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. — Frederick W. Taylor
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. — Micron
Have a strong mind and a soft heart. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. — Bessie Stanley
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. — Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves. — A. P. Gouthey
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. — Mary Howitt
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. — H. H. Munro
“He means well” is useless unless he does well. — Plautus
He only profits from praise who values criticism. — Heinrich Heine
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
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 was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. — Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. — Chinese proverb
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity. — The Talmud
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. — Unknown
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success. — Albert Pike
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. — Baltasar Gracian
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. — Klopstock
He who has never failed somewhere... that man can not be great. — Herman Melville
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. — Terry Cohen
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. — Confucius
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. — William James
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. — Unknown
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. — M. C. Escher
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. — Redd Foxx
Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph on his surrender to Gen. Howard (October 5, 1877)
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something. --Thomas A. Edison
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1845)
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. — Mark Yost
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. — Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. — Napoleon
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. — Langston Hughes
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. — Ann Douglas
Homesickness is... absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time... You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find. — John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (1978)
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. — Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. — Ghandi
Honesty is the best image. — Tom Wilson, “Ziggy”
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. — Midori Koto
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. — Major General Sir William Napier, Peninsular War (1810)
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. — Vaclav Havel
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. — Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. — Thornton Wilder
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. — Shakespeare
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 you will have been all of these. — George Washington Carver
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. — Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
“How long does getting thin take?” Pooh asked anxiously. — A. A. Milne
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. — Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. — Marcus Aurelius
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. — Ted Morgan
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells
Human kind cannot bear much reality. — T. S. Eliot
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. — Dwight David Eisenhower
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
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. — Aristotle
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. — Chief Justice Earl Warren
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. — A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. — J. D. Salinger
I am a part of all that I have met. — John Milton
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
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 am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. — Abraham Lincoln
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. — Fritz Perls
I am not young enough to know everything. — Oscar Wilde
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. — Edmund Everett Hale
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. — Mahatma Gandhi
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. — Mark Twain
I am responsible only to God and history. — Francisco Franco
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. — Mark Twain
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. — Garrison Keillor
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty. — John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I can endure my own despair but not another's hope. — William Walsh, Song
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 say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. — G. C. Lichtenberg
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. — Joe Walsh
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. — Ursula K. LeGuin
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 disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. — Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. — Kathe Kollwitz
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. — Gloria Naylor
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. — General Curtis Le May
I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today. — Henry Ford
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. — Albert Schweitzer
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. — Abraham Lincoln
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. — Will Rogers
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. — Marshall McLuhan
I don't want any “yes-men” around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. — Samuel Goldwyn
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. — Javan
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. — William F. Claire
I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one. — Chinese proverb
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. — Ashleigh Brilliant (Copyright Ashleigh Brilliant, Santa Barbara CA. All rights reserved.)
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. — Nikos Kazantzakis
I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. — Albert Einstein (referring to America)
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. — Oliver W. Holmes
I gotta be me. — Sammy Davis, Jr.
I hate quotations. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. — John Locke
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. — Unknown
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. — J. B. S. Haldane
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!! — Anonymous
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal
I have found 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
I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content. — Epistle of Paul
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. — Kahlil Gibran
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. — Igor Stravinsky
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. — Werner von Braun
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. — Kahlil Gibran
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: “O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.” And God granted it. — Voltaire
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. — Galileo Galilei
I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a wounded squire pulling arrows out from his wound to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birth right but is defined by one's action. — Kevin Costner, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (1994)
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. — Thomas Jefferson
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston Churchill
I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished... And how else could we discover the stars? — Unknown
I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. — Confucius
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. — Confucius
I improve on misquotation. — Cary Grant
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 [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. — George Washington
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. — Ernest Hemingway
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 like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. — Willa Cather
I live for books. — Thomas Jefferson
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. — Douglas Adams
I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don't I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger. — Sovereign
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. — Harry S Truman
I never know how much of what I say is true. — Bette Midler
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. — Albert Einstein
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. — Pablo Picasso
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. — Frederick Douglass
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. — Cicero
I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. “'til now,” I told myself, “you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance.” — Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
...[I] put out my hand, and touched the face of God. — John Gillespie Magee, Jr., High Flight
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. — Wilson Mizner
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
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. — Ralph Nader
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. — John Burrough
I think; therefore I am. — Rene Descartes
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. — Adolph Hitler
I used to be Snow White — but I drifted. — Mae West
I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. — Marcus, Babylon 5
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets. — Fitzgerald
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. — D. H. Lawrence
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. — Aldous Huxley
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. — Richard Feynman
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, “I don't know.” — Mark Twain
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Isaac Newton
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. — Abraham Lincoln
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. — Tom Lehrer
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. — Bertrand Russell
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. — Jack London, Jack London's Tales of Adventure
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. — John Galsworthy
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny. — Unknown
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. — Eugene Ionesco
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? — Rabbi Hillel, 12th Century
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. — Forster
If I had to sum up in one word what makes a good manager, I'd say decisiveness. You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. — Lee Iacocca
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never. — Søren Kierkegaard
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. — Dorothy Law Nolte
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. — John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address (Jan. 20, 1961)
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. — Marcel Proust
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. — Thoreau
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand — Confucius
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. — Tom Lehrer
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist? — Unknown
If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way. — Gurdjieff
If a thing goes without saying — let it. — Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit & Humor For All Occasions
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. — Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. — Quentin Crisp
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. — Larry Leissner
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. — Gail Sheehy
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking. — Unknown
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane. — Anonymous
If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated. — Brenda Hammond
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — Anatole France
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? — Anonymous
If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever! — Anonymous
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. — Anonymous
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If man does his best what else is there? — George S. Patton
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
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. — Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. — Seneca (the Younger)
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. — Carl Jung
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. — Georges Guynemer
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. — Van Gogh
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. — Albert Einstein
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. — Robert South
If there be any truer message of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. — Robert South
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. — Frederick Douglass
If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system. — Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, Thinking About Quality
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. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. — Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. — Unknown
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. — Chinese Proverb
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. — Gail Sheehy
If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia. — Hans A. Bethe
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. — Seneca, Epistles
If we slide into one of those rare moments of military honesty, we realize that the technical demands of modern warfare are so complex a considerable percentage of our material is bound to malfunction even before it is deployed against a foe. We no longer waste manpower by carrying the flag into battle. Instead we need battalions of electronic engineers to keep the terrible machinery grinding. — Ernest K. Gann, The Black Watch
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. — Anais Nin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? — Vince Lombardi
If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. — Sun-Tzu, The Art of War
If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. — Unknown
If you believe everything you read, better not read. — Japanese proverb
If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. — Bruce Barton
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. — William Arthur Ward
If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you.... The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. — Rudyard Kipling, “If”
If you can read this, thank a teacher. — Anonymous teacher
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. — Marvin Gaye
If you can't convince them, confuse them. — Harry S Truman
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. — W. Edwards Deming
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. — Mother Teresa
If you can't return a favor, pass it on. — Louise Brown
If you choose not to decide — you still have made a choice! — Neil Peart
If you cry “Forward!” you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite? — Anton Chekhov
If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds. — The Koran
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. — Orison Swett Marden
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems. — Edward Hodnett
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. — Unknown
If you don't control your mind, someone else will. — John Allston
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. — Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide (1897)
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. — Ed Howe
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? — Unknown
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. — Chinese Proverb
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. — Malcolm Forbes
If you have a vision, do something with it. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. — Bernard M. Baruch
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. — Marcus Garvey
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. — Sun-Tzu
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say. — Unknown
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal. — Unknown
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. — Katherine Hepburn
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. — Katherine Hepburn
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 put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own. — Emerson
If you rest, you rust. — Helen Hayes
If you suffer, thank God! — it is a sure sign that you are alive. — Elbert Hubbard
If you talk the talk, you damn well better walk the walk. — Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. — Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. — Charles Gordon
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance! — Peter Drucker
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. — Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms. — Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business. — Jeanne Holm
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. — Rotarian
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. — Saint Augustine
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. — Benjamin Franklin
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. — Keith Richards
I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. — Lord Byron
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. — Robert Orben
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. — Stephen Leacock
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