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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry S. Truman
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it? ~ Albert Einstein
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ~ Bertrand Russell
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde
All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others. ~ Animal Farm by George Orwell
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. ~ Will Rogers
I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. ~ Paul Wolfowitz
The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. ~ Henry David Thoreau
History would be an excellent thing if only it were true. ~ Leo Tolstoy
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle
I can't die. It would ruin my image. ~ Jack La Lanne
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the plane, the plane will fly. ~ Donald Douglas
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. ~ Andrew Jackson
The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy. ~ Emo Phillips
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ~ Adlai Stevenson
I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him. ~ Galileo Galilei
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ~ Marilyn Monroe
It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy! ~ Help by George Harrison
There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ~ Hartley Shawcross
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. ~ Aesop
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley
What can be said at all can be said clearly. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ Emma by Jane Austen
He caught glimpses of everything, but saw nothing. ~ Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. ~ Clarence Darrow
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ~ Chester Bowles
Ars longa, vita brevis. ("Art is long, life is short.") ~ Horace
There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. ~ Jim Hightower
Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. ~ Jonathan Swift
Dare to be naïve. ~ Buckminster Fuller
What's another word for Thesaurus? ~ Steven Wright
It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. ~ Richard Ferris
Never burn a penny candle looking for a halfpenny. ~ Irish proverb
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ~ Niels Bohr
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ~ Woody Allen
Remember that time is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ~ Samuel Johnson
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We have a firm commitment to NATO; we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a part of Europe. ~ Dan Quayle
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long. ~ Boris Yeltsin
If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work. 'Hello, can't work today. Still queer.' ~ Robin Tyler
Outside of the killings, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. ~ Marion Barry
That man is an Euclidian point: position without substance. ~ Ernest Rutherford
The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. ~ Terry Pratchett
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. ~ Linus Torvalds
Sex is only dirty if it's done right. ~ Woody Allen
God is an Iron ~ Spider Robinson
The Enlightened take things Lightly. ~ Principia Discordia
24, A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'Thank You', that would suffice. ~ Meister Eckhart
Security is mostly a superstition... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ~ Helen Keller
For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~ Winston Churchill
I have never let my schooling get in the way of my education. ~ Mark Twain
What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ~ Emo Phillips
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ~ Bertrand Russell
That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The time is always right to do what is right ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ Albert Einstein
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. ~ Carl Sagan
7.Truth alone will endure; all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
9 Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. ~ Spider Robinson
Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them. ~ Aristotle
There may be love without jealousy, but there is none without fear. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another ~ Sir Thomas Browne
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~ Douglas Adams
All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
My years are not advancing as fast as you might think. ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. ~ Jim Morrison
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ Eric Hoffer
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ~ John F. Kennedy
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. ~ e. e. cummings
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. ~ Anonymous
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
Ethics and Aesthetics are one. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. ~ Rita Rudner
It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. ~ Ellen Degeneres to Justin Timberlake
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
Just because it's old doesn't mean you have to read it. ~ Jolene Sugarbaker, the Trailer Park Queen, as portrayed by actor Jayson Saffer.
We may afirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. ~ Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel
It is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true. ~ James Branch Cabell
When there is no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. ~ Dawn of the Dead (by George Romero).
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ John Milton
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. ~ J. D. Salinger
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~ André Gide
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ Helen Keller
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ~ Malcolm X
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~ Booker T. Washington
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~ Albert Einstein
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. ~ Thomas Paine
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ Aldous Huxley
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. ~ Aesop
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day ~ Alexander Woolcott
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. ~ Æschylus
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on. ~ Robert Frost
Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ C.S. Lewis
There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ Zhuang Zi
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~ John Vance Cheney
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. ~ Henry James
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ~ Alexander Pope
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~ B. F. Skinner
Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ G. K. Chesterton
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~ Molière
I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. ~ Anne Frank
In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ Douglas MacArthur
Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ Steve Allen
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ~ Anatole France
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it. ~ Muhammad Ali
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ~ Robert J. Hanlon
In nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read. ~ William Shakespeare in Antony and Cleopatra
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. ~ eden ahbez
That best portion of a good man's life, — His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~ William Wordsworth
In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad. ~ Freeman Dyson
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. ~ Louis Pasteur
Love me for love's sake, that evermore thou may'st love on, through love's eternity. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is love alone that gives worth to all things. ~ St. Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)
The road to wisdom? — Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. ~ Piet Hein
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow you gotta be willing to put up with the rain. ~ Dolly Parton
I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. ~ Bill Watterson
I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me. ~ Emo Philips
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ Steven Wright
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. ~ Maya Angelou
The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. ~ Cheryl James ("Salt" of the rap group "Salt 'N' Pepa")
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. ~ Stevie Wonder
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Do nothing, and everything is done. ~ Lao Zi; Variant: When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. ~ Euripides
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ~ David Hume
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. ~ Ronald Reagan
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Love loves to love love. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ G. K. Chesterton
I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for TV. ~ Kelly Ripa
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. ~ Niels Bohr
Every man should be capable of all ideas. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
It is circumstances which show what men are. ~ Epictetus
Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. ~ Lillian Smith
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read. ~ Karl Kraus
With great power comes great responsibility. ~ Stan Lee
You don't understand. I could'a had class. I could'a been a contender. ~ Marlon Brando as "Terry Malloy" in On the Waterfront
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ G. K. Chesterton
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ Elbert Hubbard
I'll tell you this — No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ Jim Morrison
Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, Lady, were no crime. ~ Andrew Marvell
I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when — but just saying it could even make it happen. ~ Kate Bush
Blue Moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own. ~ Lorenz Hart
Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by Carl Jung
We are defined by how we use our power. ~ Gerry Spence
Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. ~ Tertullian
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies. ~ Robinson Jeffers
The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ~ Dag Hammarskjöld
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. ~ Washington Irving
Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. ~ Romain Gary
Life itself is the proper binge. ~ Julia Child
Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
The best mind-altering drug is the truth. ~ Lily Tomlin
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ Peter Ustinov
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H. L. Mencken
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. ~ Friedrich Schiller
It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ~ Elie Wiesel
It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing. ~ Muhammad
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ~ William Cowper
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Know Thyself ~ Ancient proverb that was inscribed upon the temple of the Oracle of Delphi.
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ~ William Shakespeare in The Winter's Tale
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received. ~ Seneca
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows, nor judge all he sees. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Only tragedy allows the release of love and grief never normally seen. ~ Kate Bush
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan
He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. ~ William Drummond
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ Anaïs Nin
A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world. ~ Tony Benn
The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. ~ Andrew Dickson White
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ William Penn
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ Jonathan Swift
Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do. ~ Anonymous
Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed. ~ William Blake
When you get to a fork in the road, take it. ~ Yogi Berra
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ Mae West
Given the choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ~ "Blore's Razor" (Author unknown)
I don't get no respect! ~ Rodney Dangerfield
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. ~ Charles Dickens in Our Mutual Friend
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't. ~ Richard Bach
It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate. ~ Joseph Joubert
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. ~ Margaret Mead
Nothing endures but change. ~ Heraclitus
Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try. ~ "Yoda" in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. ~ George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four
It doesn't matter if we were down 3-0. You've just got to keep the faith. The game is not over until the last out. ~ David Ortiz
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. ~ Dorothy Thompson
I'm not against God. I'm against the misuse of God. ~ Marilyn Manson
It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ Malcolm Forbes
Merry meet, and merry part, and Blessed Be. ~ A pagan expression of blessing.
We’d all like t’vote fer th’best man, but he’s never a candidate. ~ Kin Hubbard
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US. ~ CATS of Zero Wing
America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. ~ George W. Bush
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made. ~ Jean Giraudoux
When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ~ Arthur Ponsonby
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. ~ Jimi Hendrix
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~ Henry David Thoreau
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ James Thurber
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Fame is something which must be won; honor is something which must not be lost. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel. ~ Terry Pratchett
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ~ George Washington
Find the good — and praise it. ~ Alex Haley
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ~ William James
Ooh, with a little luck — December will be magic again. ~ Kate Bush
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. ~ Emma Goldman
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon
Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ~ The Talmud
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ G. K. Chesterton
i who have died am alive again today, and this is the sun's birthday... ~ e. e. cummings
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight — always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? ~ J. M. Barrie
We are all in this together. ~ English proverb
I can not do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do. ~ Helen Keller
Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance. ~ Anthony de Mello
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen. ~ Æschylus
Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ Archimedes
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. ~ American proverb
Anything different is good. ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn. ~ H. G. Wells
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ~ Martin Buber
Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down. ~ Jimmy Durante
If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision. ~ Leó Szilárd
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~ Galileo Galilei
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~ Henry Adams
All in all is all we are. ~ Kurt Cobain
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ~ Hunter S. Thompson
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~ Michel de Montaigne
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. ~ Dr. Seuss
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it. ~ Knute Rockne
The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." ~ Grace Hopper
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. ~ Joseph Priestley
Beware the ides of March. ~ William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. ~ John Updike
Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ~ Ovid
Between individuals, as between nations, respect for the rights of others is peace. ~ Benito Juárez
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? ~ Marcel Marceau
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm
Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it. ~ Wilhelm Reich
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down. ~ Robert Frost
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. ~ James Callaghan
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ~ Otto von Bismarck
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. ~ Thomas Hobbes
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts. ~ Richard Feynman
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. ~ William Hazlitt
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ~ James Branch Cabell
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. ~ John Muir
Act only on that maxim which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law. ~ Immanuel Kant
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ "Prospero" in The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Everything seems an echo of something else. ~ Robert Penn Warren
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ~ Terry Pratchett
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
You know more than you think you do. ~ Benjamin Spock
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~ Horace Mann
Democracy is the destiny of humanity; freedom its indestructible arm. ~ Benito Juárez
If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ~ Thomas Pynchon
Life is a long lesson in humility. ~ J. M. Barrie
The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. ~ Bono
Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better. ~ Florence Nightingale
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. ~ Bertrand Russell
May the Force be with you. ~ Jedi saying; used in all Star Wars episodes.
The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ~ Bob Dylan
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness. ~ Julia Ward Howe
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ~ Alanis Morissette
I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. ~ W. Mark Felt
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. ~ Socrates
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind. ~ John Maynard Keynes
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
I have something to tell you today. Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life — for the past five years. ~ Steve Jobs
Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~ William Butler Yeats
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. ~ William McFee
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. ~ Paul McCartney
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ Lillian Hellman
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition. ~ Alan Turing
Conservative, n. A statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a Liberal, who wants to replace them with new ones. ~ Ambrose Bierce
The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. ~ André Malraux
Now you see, Lone Starr, that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb. ~ "Dark Helmet" in Spaceballs by Mel Brooks
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I have not yet begun to fight! ~ John Paul Jones
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Nelson Mandela
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
The Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. ~ Garrison Keillor
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ G. K. Chesterton
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. ~ Sri Aurobindo
Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. ~ Davy Crockett
Truth has such a face and such a mien as to be lov'd needs only to be seen. ~ John Dryden
I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject. ~ William Wallace
We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly
Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ Edith Sitwell
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give. ~ David O. McKay
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. ~ Leo Tolstoy
I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams — judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place. ~ Jenny Lewis
A planned life is a dead life. ~ Lauren Bacall
There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ Frances Farmer
Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~ William Faulkner
love is the every only god ~ e. e. cummings
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~ Oscar Wilde
We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. ~ Pierre Trudeau
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ~ Lewis Mumford
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration. ~ Thomas Alva Edison
Reality is always greater — much greater — than what we know, than whatever we can say about it. ~ Michael Crichton
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. ~ Horace Walpole
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? ~ Marie Antoinette
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. ~ Carl Sagan
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. ~ Neil Gaiman
From each as they choose, to each as they are chosen. ~ Robert Nozick
We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ Alan Moore in Watchmen
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is. ~ Nadine Gordimer
We must believe in free will — we have no choice. ~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. ~ Ba Jin
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ~ William Blake
Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. ~ Mandy Patinkin as "Iñigo Montoya" in The Princess Bride
All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. ~ Joseph Conrad
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse. ~ Walt Disney
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ Willa Cather
It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ James Thurber
I had some great things and I had some bad things. The best and the worst... In other words, I had a life. ~ Richard Pryor
It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ Steve Biko
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them. ~ Emily Brontë
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ~ George S. Patton
No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation. ~ Woodrow Wilson
If I am shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ Andrew Johnson
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in. ~ Gerald Durrell
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ~ Edmund Burke
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. ~ Lewis Carroll
Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic. ~ Grant Morrison
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. ~ James A. Michener
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. ~ Boris Pasternak
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear. ~ René Descartes
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss. ~ Rob Thomas
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. ~ Henry Adams
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ Michael Jordan
I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. ~ George Washington
Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. ~ Chester Nimitz
Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud. ~ Theodore Sturgeon
In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems. ~ Georg Cantor
Give thought to life and liberty. ~ Cyrano de Bergerac
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ Kate Sheppard
Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world. ~ Hugh Walpole
Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. ~ "V" in V for Vendetta
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ Henrik Ibsen
The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ~ Jean Cocteau
As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway. ~ Anne Hutchinson
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. ~ Mark Twain
Whether it is happy or unhappy, a man's life is the only treasure he can ever possess. ~ Giacomo Casanova
Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ Thomas Hobbes
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ Gautama Buddha
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed. ~ Tom Clancy
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It
Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ Marcus Aurelius
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~ Edward Gibbon
We are near waking when we dream that we dream. ~ Novalis
Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~ Pete Seeger
Once you label me you negate me. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise. ~ Karl Barth
I like quoting Einstein. Know why? Because nobody dares contradict you. ~ Studs Terkel
Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. ~ Jewel
Every failure is a step to success. ~ William Whewell
Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver. ~ Harlan Ellison
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. ~ Thomas Hardy
The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. ~ William McFee
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
We wanted to bring some love to the world. I thought we were good at doing that. Bringin' love to the world. ~ Brian Wilson
There is nothing better or more necessary than love. ~ John of the Cross
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ~ Jean Cocteau
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. ~ Frida Kahlo
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. ~ Desiderius Erasmus
If you build it, he will come. ~ "The Voice" in Field of Dreams
Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ Edgar Degas
Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ George Bernard Shaw
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night. ~ Hilaire Belloc
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. ~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ~ Milton Friedman
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. ~ James Baldwin
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ Conrad Aiken
We help the internet not suck. ~ Jimmy Wales
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! ~ Emiliano Zapata
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ~ Herbert Hoover
Make the world better. ~ Lucy Stone
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and vileness, and enjoy it to the full. ~ Leon Trotsky
I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance. ~ William Wallace
Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. ~ Martin Amis
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ~ John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir
We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~ Joyce Brothers
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. ~ Euripides
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other. ~ Elie Wiesel
A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny. ~ Buster Keaton
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature. ~ Niels Bohr
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ~ Oscar Wilde
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ Arthur Miller
There is surely a piece of divinity within us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ~ Thomas Browne
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. ~ Michael Crichton
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ Richard E. Byrd
The youth are not always right, but the society which ignores them and beats, is always wrong. ~ François Mitterrand
Art is a revolt against fate. ~ André Malraux
Me, I shall be an autocrat: that is my trade; and The Good God will forgive me: that is His. ~ Catherine the Great
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. ~ Bram Stoker
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ~ Louis Brandeis
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. ~ Voltaire
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ George Eliot
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~ Thornton Wilder
Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature. ~ Laurence Sterne
Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. ~ Bruce Lee
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ Woody Allen
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. ~ Thomas Carlyle
We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. ~ Werner Heisenberg
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. ~ John Milton in Areopagitica
I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner. ~ Louis Pasteur
The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends. ~ Gerald Ford
If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet. ~ Andrew Johnson
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. ~ George Marshall
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov
I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out. ~ Edmund White
Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ~ Art Buchwald
Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself. ~ José Martí
Well, it's Groundhog Day... again... ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
God needeth not the help of a material sword of steel to assist the sword of the Spirit in the affairs of conscience. ~ Roger Williams
I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can. ~ Babe Ruth
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. ~ Charles Dickens
Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. ~ J. M. Coetzee
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ~ Victor Hugo
I've always wanted to make the world a more rational place. I'm still working on it. ~ Penn Jillette
What is humility but truthfulness? There is no real difference. ~ Walter Hilton
I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. ~ Rudolf Rocker
History is a novel written by the people. ~ Alfred de Vigny
Accept the truth from whatever source it comes. ~ Maimonides
Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope
Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them. ~ Leo Rosten
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. ~ Thornton Wilder
History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. ~ Clarence Darrow
Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc)
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ~ Charlotte Brontë
The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. ~ Terry Pratchett
In a political struggle, never get personal — else the dagger digs too deep. ~ Jack Valenti
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. ~ Pete Seeger
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius
With all reverence, I would say, let God do His work, we will see to ours. Bring in the candles. ~ Abraham Davenport
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. ~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. ~ Thomas Mann
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ~ Saul Bellow
All that you know is at an end. ~ The "Silver Surfer" in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life. ~ Brian Wilson
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild. ~ KT Tunstall
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. ~ Ambrose Bierce
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. ~ Helen Keller
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. ~ Jean Cocteau
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ~ Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~ Sir Edmund Hillary
If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. ~ J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. ~ Anthony Kennedy
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~ Eric Hoffer
A heart, a heart that hurts, is a heart, a heart that works. ~ Juliana Hatfield‎
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure. ~ Karl Popper
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ Guy de Maupassant
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thy self. ~ Felix Adler
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ~ T. E. Lawrence
Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. ~ Samuel Richardson
Live, and be happy, and make others so. ~ Mary Shelley
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ Paul Bourget
You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ~ Madeleine L'Engle
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ~ Ken Kesey
In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. ~ Joyce Brothers
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~ Euripides
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ~ Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. ~ John Lennon
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world — and the most dangerous. ~ James Clavell
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out. ~ Oscar Wilde
Think for yourself and question authority. ~ Timothy Leary
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. ~ Sarah Bernhardt
I have dreams, and I have nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. ~ Jonas Salk
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. ~ Will Rogers
Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day. ~ Albert Camus
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. ~ C. S. Lewis
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. ~ Jacques Barzun
Where they burn books, they will also burn people. ~ Heinrich Heine
In such an ugly time the true protest is beauty. ~ Phil Ochs
The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. ~ Harry S. Truman
If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend. ~ Baltasar Gracián
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. ~ Edmund Burke
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. ~ Edward Coke
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player. ~ Alice Cooper
Love has no uttermost, as the stars have no number and the sea no rest. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus
Life is short, and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense. ~ John Leonard
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. ~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it. ~ Vannevar Bush
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~ Jack Kerouac
Music and silence... combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. ~ Marcel Marceau
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. ~ William Morris
All we are saying is give peace a chance. ~ John Lennon
I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. ~ Charlton Heston
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity. ~ Charles Baudelaire
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. ~ Charles Evans Hughes
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. ~ Herbert Spencer
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ~ Terry Pratchett
The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools. ~ Larry Niven
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. ~ Joseph Addison
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. ~ Novalis
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. ~ Horace Mann
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. ~ Sigmund Freud
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. ~ Friedrich Hayek
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~ J. M. Barrie
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. ~ Bertrand Russell
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering–pot and pruning–knife. ~ Margaret Fuller
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ John F. Kennedy
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. ~ Cornel West
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. ~ John Maynard Keynes
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. ~ Pierre Corneille
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. ~ Paul Gauguin
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Ben Jonson
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart. ~ Djuna Barnes
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi
For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt. ~ Lillian Hellman
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. ~ Alan Turing
All I do is done in love; all I suffer, I suffer in the sweetness of love. ~ John of the Cross
Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless. ~ Pearl S. Buck
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We're on a mission from God. ~ Elwood J. Blues, in The Blues Brothers
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. ~ Franz Kafka
I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way. ~ John Paul Jones
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity. ~ Nikola Tesla
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ Edgar Degas
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ Petrarch
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true. ~ Ernest Hemingway
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! ~ Vladimir Nabokov in Lolita
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. ~ Leon Trotsky
A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras. ~ Will Cuppy
Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. ~ Christopher Isherwood
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ~ Warren Buffett
The first casualty when war comes is truth. ~ Hiram Johnson
The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate. ~ François-René de Chateaubriand
A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. ~ Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ~ Nikita Khrushchev
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~ Cyril Connolly
If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ~ Stanisław Lem
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. ~ François de La Rochefoucauld
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ~ Samuel Johnson
When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. ~ Joyce Brothers
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ Thomas Huxley
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. ~ Paul Newman
It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love. ~ Miguel de Unamuno
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it. ~ Rumi
Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford
The quicker humanity advances, the more important it is to be the one who deals the first blow. ~ Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us. ~ Steven Erikson
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. ~ William O. Douglas
The essential ingredient of politics is timing. ~ Pierre Trudeau
To be nameless in worthy deeds exceeds an infamous history. ~ Thomas Browne
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget. ~ Sarah Bernhardt
I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. ~ Samir Geagea
After bread, education is the first need of the people. ~ Georges Danton
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ~ James Boswell
Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. ~ Wilhelm Reich
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. ~ Christopher Paolini
War is what happens when language fails. ~ Margaret Atwood
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. ~ Laurence Sterne
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ~ Bruce Lee
One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation. ~ Claude Lévi-Strauss
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ~ Joseph Conrad
A ship in port is safe; but that is not what ships are built for. Sail out to sea and do new things. ~ Grace Hopper
Klaatu barada nikto! ~ Patricia Neal as "Helen Benson" in The Day the Earth Stood Still
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~ Philip K. Dick
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. ~ Helen Keller
It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. ~ Romain Rolland
It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring! ~ Calvin in the last panel of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. ~ E. M. Forster
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ~ Khalil Gibran
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. ~ Zora Neale Hurston
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. ~ Gerry Spence
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history. ~ John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. ~ Edmund Burke
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. ~ Evelyn Beatrice Hall
This chance won’t come around again. ~ Michelle Obama
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation. ~ Robert Anton Wilson
One can acquire everything in solitude — except character. ~ Stendhal
The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. ~ Virginia Woolf
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. ~ Colette
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. ~ Abba Eban
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ~ Bertolt Brecht
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
All experience is an arch, to build upon. ~ Henry Brooks Adams
Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods. ~ W. H. Auden
The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand. ~ George A. Moore
I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old. ~ Michel de Montaigne
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. ~ Napoleon I of France
In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. ~ Paul Harvey
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind. ~ William Godwin
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~ Andrew Jackson
Candor is always a double-edged sword; it may heal or it may separate. ~ Wilhelm Stekel
Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it. ~ Émile Zola
It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. ~ William Hazlitt
I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson
The death of dogma is the birth of morality. ~ Immanuel Kant
I will either find a way, or make one. ~ Hannibal
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ John F. Kennedy
When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." ~ Mikhail Bakunin
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. ~ Sydney Smith
And so it has been to this day. ~ Robert Fulghum
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. ~ John Maynard Keynes
Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. ~ Pierre Corneille
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. ~ William McFee
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
Humor — it helps to make the vibe better — it loosens up the vibrations. ~ Brian Wilson
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ~ George Orwell
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope. ~ Helen Keller
What makes the desert beautiful ... is that somewhere it hides a well. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince
Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. ~ Franz Kafka
We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel. ~ Jean Cocteau
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. ~ William Blackstone
Choose only one master — Nature. ~ Rembrandt
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is... ~ Walter Cronkite
Houston: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ~ Neil Armstrong
The art of victory is learned in defeat. ~ Simón Bolívar
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. ~ Charles Fort
Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. ~ Garrison Keillor
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. ~ Claude Debussy
If you can't see God in All, You can't see God at All. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ Stanisław Lem
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ Sophia Loren
I must speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ~ Rufus Choate
There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. ~ Ferdinand Foch
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. ~ Denis Diderot
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. ~ Aleister Crowley
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. ~ Arthur Miller
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. ~ Timothy Leary
A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence. ~ Stephen Covey
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ~ Napoleon Hill
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. ~ Jonas Salk
No moral system can rest solely on authority. ~ Alfred Jules Ayer
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful. ~ Wilfred Owen
A man or woman is seldom happy unless he or she is sustaining him or herself and making a contribution to others. ~ Zig Ziglar
Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists. ~ David Petraeus
Charity keepeth us in Faith and Hope, and Hope leadeth us in Charity. And in the end all shall be Charity. ~ Julian of Norwich
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times. ~ Friedrich Schiller
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. ~ Erwin Rommel
My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.~ Benoît Mandelbrot
Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! ~ Alfonso X of Castile
Fight the enemy with the weapons he lacks. ~ Alexander Suvorov
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. ~ Mark Twain
He who wants to persuade should put his trust, not in the right argument, but in the right word. ~ Joseph Conrad
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy. ~ Thomas Carlyle
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. You learn the delivery of a part only before an audience. ~ Willa Cather
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ Horace
What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. ~ Gustave Flaubert
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ~ Walt Disney
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ Paul Klee
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ Charles de Lint
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ~ Louis Pasteur
The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. ~ George Marshall
The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. ~ J. D. Salinger
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to. ~ Khalil Gibran
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others. ~ Gerry Spence
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. ~ Robinson Jeffers
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. ~ Edmund Burke
I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~ Charles de Montesquieu
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. ~ Stendhal
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. ~ Edith Wharton
If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ Paul Newman
Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat... between the law of love and the law of hate. ~ José Martí
I'm not playing by their rules anymore! ~ Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day
Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice. ~ Simone Weil
If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. ~ Charles Lindbergh
Punishment is the last and least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. ~ John Ruskin
And he, who bears it not, has no friend there. ~ Aaron Hill ~
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. ~ Henry Adams
The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it. ~ Giordano Bruno
Let that mob be the upper ten thousand or lower. ~ James Russell Lowell ~
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ~ George A. Moore
When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things. ~ John Leonard
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~ Grace Hopper
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ~ Henrik Ibsen
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. ~ Marcel Marceau
To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. ~ Edmond Rostand
Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. ~ Colin Powell
You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. ~ Kofi Annan
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. ~ Peter Ustinov
One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere. ~ William the Silent
It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best. ~ Sun Tzu
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris West
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Those people were a kind of solution. ~ Constantine P. Cavafy
The god of war has gone over to the other side. ~ Adolf Hitler
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ~ Joseph Addison
If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ~ Horace Mann
With a grip that kills it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. ~ Richard Feynman
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build. ~ Julia Ward Howe
If I am not in the state of grace, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me. ~ Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc)
Art hurts. Art urges voyages — and it is easier to stay at home. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. ~ Harry Turtledove
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. ~ Ambrose Bierce
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction. ~ Helen Keller
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. ~ Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka
Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same. ~ E. B. White
Freedom is not an exchange — it is freedom. ~ André Malraux
There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. ~ Walter Benjamin
The righteous find their joys in yearning on its loveliness for ever. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
I should like to be famous and unknown. ~ Edgar Degas
And ever. ~ Stephen Vincent Benét
The three greatest fools of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote . . . and me! ~ Simón Bolívar
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. ~ Karl Popper
The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. ~ Jimmy Wales
In this creed there will be but one word — Liberty. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
No external power, no terrorist organization, can defeat us. But we can defeat ourselves by getting caught in a quagmire. ~ George Soros
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. ~ Alfred Hitchcock
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. ~ Bernard Baruch
A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory. ~ Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ~ Warren Buffett
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. ~ Eldridge Cleaver
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul. ~ Mary Renault
The entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce
Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. ~ Sherwood Anderson
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. ~ Agatha Christie
What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world. ~ Ken Kesey
To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications. ~ Léon Foucault
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful. ~ Leo Strauss
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. ~ William O. Douglas
Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important. ~ Stephen Covey
No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ~ Cesare Lombroso ~
He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. ~ Julian of Norwich ~
Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays. ~ Friedrich Schiller ~
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. ~ [[James A. Garfield ~
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ~ André Gide
So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side. ~ John Bunyan
When a great genius appears in the world the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~ Jonathan Swift
Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ~ Mary Martin
I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. ~ Edith Cavell
That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed. ~ Algernon Sydney
An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ~ Gustave Flaubert
The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination. ~ George Pólya
The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms. ~ Muriel Rukeyser
Those who have served the cause of the revolution have plowed the sea. ~ Simón Bolívar
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ William Ewart Gladstone
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ~ Romain Rolland
All we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next. ~ J. D. Salinger
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ~ Isaac Asimov
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity. ~ Konrad Adenauer
Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already. ~ Baltasar Gracián
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small. ~ Edmund Spenser
Are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~ Molière
I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself. ~ Robert E. Lee
The gods of the valley are not the gods of the hills, and you shall understand it. ~ Ethan Allen
For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~ Adlai Stevenson
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. ~ Henry Adams
The primordial Spirit branches out, overflows, struggles, fails, succeeds, trains itself. It is the Rose of the Winds. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream. ~ Anaïs Nin
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. ~ John Heyl Vincent
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. ~ Chester W. Nimitz
If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself. ~ José de San Martín
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. ~ Aristotle
Beware the March of Ideas? ~ Neil Gaiman
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true. ~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
When we dead awaken. ... We see that we have never lived. ~ Henrik Ibsen
I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow
I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. ~ Gustave Moreau
When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build. ~ Henry Kuttner
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. ~ François Rabelais
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ~ Leo Rosten
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
It is necessary that I climb very high because of my love for you, and upon the heights there is silence. ~ James Branch Cabell
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. ~ Anatole France
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. ~ Paolo Veronese
Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. ~ Sun Tzu
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. ~ Joseph Addison
Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word Liberty entire nations. ~ Novalis
While all brutal forces clash with themselves, all moral forces make mighty harmony together. ~ Henri Barbusse
To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. ~ Abraham Pais
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. ~ Alexander Pope
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ~ Sydney Smith
A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up. ~ Paul Gauguin
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
That government is best which makes itself unnecessary. ~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
The lunatics end up in charge of everything. Sane, normal people don't need power trips. ~ James P. Hogan
Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own. ~ John Wesley
The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route. ~ George Sand
You can only be young once but you can be immature forever. ~ Dave Barry
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. ~ Jean Cocteau
Men willingly believe what they wish. ~ Julius Caesar
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. ~ Nelson Mandela
Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. ~ Petrarch
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ Ernest Hemingway
Do not disturb my circles! ~ Archimedes
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles. ~ John Tyndall
Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentives. ~ Jimmy Wales
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through. ~ Samuel Richardson
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other. ~ Leon Trotsky
We live in a world we ourselves create. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ~ John Locke
At his best, things do not happen to the artist; he happens to them. ~ William Saroyan
If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. ~ C. J. Cherryh
It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. ~ Edith Sitwell
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle! ~ Peter Sellers
The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. ~ Charles Sanders Peirce
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them. ~ Agatha Christie
Work. Finish. Publish. ~ Michael Faraday
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ~ Horace Walpole
The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people. ~ Samuel Adams
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city. ~ Le Corbusier
In many matters children — not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition — judge far truer than adults. ~ Adolf Freiherr Knigge
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. ~ Daniel Boone
It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Feed your head! Feed your head! ~
Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! ~ Charity slogan for UNICEF
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. ~ Augustine of Hippo
We need not think alike to love alike. ~ Ferenc Dávid
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth. ~ Alan Moore
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. ~ James A. Garfield
For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself. ~ Benoît Mandelbrot
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ~ Eugène Ionesco
A sound heart is a safer guide than an ill-trained conscience. ~ Mark Twain
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us. ~ Ivan Illich
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. ~ Anthony Trollope
Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~ Gautama Buddha in The Dhammapada
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
Men are divided in opinion as to the facts. And even granting the facts, they explain them in different ways. ~ Edwin Abbott Abbott ~
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. ~ Charles de Lint
Let me tell you the secret that has lead me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. ~ Louis Pasteur
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. ~ George Marshall
Life is a gift horse in my opinion. ~ J. D. Salinger
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ~ Isaac Asimov
When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ~ Alexander Hamilton
The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust. ~ Albert Schweitzer
It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. ~ Federico Fellini
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ~ William Congreve