Statements:

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell


"Thought is born of failure."
L.L. Whyte


It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
William James




Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?
Erich Fromm

"We are all of us poets and storytellers, making literature of our lives..."
Kelly Cherry


The less you need others, the more they will be attracted to you.



Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.


I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage



"Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," he said.
They came, he pushed them...
and they flew.
Guillaume Appolinaire






"The consequences of shyness are deeply troubling. People for whom
shyness is an ongoing problem don't take advantage of social situations,
date less, are less expressive verbally and nonverbally, and show less
interest in other people..."
"The Encyclopedia of Mental Health", Henderson and Zimbardo


"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
"Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear"
from Frank Herbert's "DUNE"




Life only demands from you the strength you possess.
Only one feat is possible -- not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold





"...the thinking man is driven... to long desperately for some quiet place where he can reason undisturbed and take inventory."
Richard Byrd, Alone





We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
-- Winston Churchill


"...only the weak are sent on paths without perils."
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game



Of life the mingled wine and brine
I sit and sip pipslipsily.
Anonymous (quoted in an essay of Doug Hofstadter)



The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
Terry Pratchett



"...a woman could fool herself about her relationship with a man only as long as he was around. The moment he had left, she would drop all pretense, and no wonder; at that moment her heart would break and that awful, awful sickness begin: the agony, the hopeless yearning with every fiber of her body, every nerve, for his presence his touch; her every waking thought, her every dream would be centered on him in unbearable, self-inflicted torture."
Jan de Hartog, "The Peaceable Kingdom"





When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Honore de Balzac

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
-George Orwell

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
-Lao-Tzu

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
-Richard L. Evans

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

"Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life."
-Andrew Brown

"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."
-George Orwell

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
-Sydney Smith

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
-William Gibson

"Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it."
-Philip K. Dick

"The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action."
-Anon

"All generalizations are bad."
-R. H. Grenier

"To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where everyone else has looked, but to see what no one else has seen."
-Miguel De Unamuno

"98% of all statistics are made up."
-Anon

"When you don't know where you're going any road will take you there."
-Alice

"Those that have nothing to aim for, aim for nothing."
-Anon

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
-Bertrand Russell

"The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out."
-Chinese Proverb

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
-Chinese proverb

"The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
-James B. Cabell

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum" (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)"
-Ambrose Bierce

"The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
-Lily Tomlin

"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'"
-George Bernard Shaw

"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau

"If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought."
-Dennis Roch

"The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us."
-Quentin Reynolds

"Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom."
-Alan Paton

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-Ellen Parr

"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it."
-J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability."
-Flower A. Newhouse

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."
-Napoleon

"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
-H. L. Mencken

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
-Wilson Mizner

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."
-Joe Louis

"The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him."
-Claude Levi-Strauss

"In the long run we are all dead."
-John Maynard Keynes

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
-Robert F. Kennedy

"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one"
-Adolf Hitler

"Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope."
-Arnold Glasow

"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
-Errol Flynn

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

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

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
-Will Durant

"A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other."
-Stephan Crane

"Don't talk unless you can improve the silence."
-Laurence Coughlin

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
-Charles Caleb Colton

"To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target."
-Ashleigh Brilliant

"Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius."
-Henri-Frederic Amiel

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
-Lord Acton

"The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec."
-Marcus Dolengo

"Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame."
-MG Siriam

"Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?"
-Anon.

"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
-Jeff Pesis

"It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room temperature."
-Steven Wright

"How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on."
-Zall's Second Law

"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."
-Anon

"There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing."
-Anon

"Proofreading is more effective after publication."
-Barker

"There are lies, there and damned lies, and then there are statistics."
-Mark Twain

"There are two rules for success... 1) Never tell everything you know."
-Roger H. Lincoln

"There are only two kinds of people in the world: those who think there are only two kinds of people in the world and those who don't."
-John Barnes

"Winning isn't everything"
-Anon

"The person who said 'Winning isn't everything', never won anything"
-Anon


"Winning isn't everything"
-Anon













The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory...
A. A. Blasov

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
Aaron Levenstein

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
Adlai Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
Adlai Stevenson

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler

Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
Adolf Hitler

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler

Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
Adolf Hitler

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
Adolf Hitler

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop

I don't even know what street Canada is on.
Al Capone

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton

Who knows what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
Alan Paton

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Alan Watts

No, this trick wont work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
Albert Einstein

There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.
Albert Einstein

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

God does not play dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

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

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

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudun

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous Huxley - The Devils of Loudun

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alex Hamilton

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.
Alexander Haig

Such labored nothings in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearned, and make the learned smile.
Alexander Pope

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.
Alfred de Musset

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
Alfred Hitchcock

The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
Alfred Hitchcock

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
Alfred Jarry

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
Alfred North Whitehead

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
Alfred North Whitehead

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

Mad, adj.: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Andres S. Tannenbaum

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
Andrew A. Rooney

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Anonymous

If you think before you speak the other guy gets its joke in first.
Anonymous

Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last.
Anonymous

Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.
Anonymous

Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right.
Anonymous

There is one thing more exasperating than a spouse who can cook and won't, and that's a spouse who can't cook and will.
Anonymous

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
Anonymous

There is no remedy for sex but more sex.
Anonymous

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people?
Anonymous

Living in the past has one thing in its favor - it's cheaper.
Anonymous

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
Anonymous

With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best.
Anonymous

Nothing succeeds like -- failure.
Anonymous

Reality is good for you...in small doses.
Anonymous

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
Anonymous

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.
Anonymous

Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is.
Anonymous

With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke.
Anonymous

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Anonymous

The universe is laughing behind your back.
Anonymous

My way of joking is to tell the truth; it's the funniest joke in the world.
Anonymous

The thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble is sex.
Anonymous

Like most endeavors, life is seriously over-advertised and under-funded.
Anonymous

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Anonymous

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Anonymous

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Anonymous

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
Anonymous

Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!
Anonymous

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
Anonymous

Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Anonymous

People can travel faster than sound, yes, but not nearly so fast as rumor!
Anonymous

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research.
Anonymous

Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial, is trivially trivial.
Anonymous

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Anonymous

Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
Anonymous

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Anonymous

Pizza is a lot like sex. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good.
Anonymous

Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done.
Anonymous

If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.
Anonymous

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Anonymous

When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it.
Anonymous

Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything.
Anonymous

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.
Anonymous

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
Anonymous

Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
Anonymous

Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics.
Anonymous

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents.
Anonymous

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Anonymous

Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality.
Anonymous

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.
Anonymous

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.
Anonymous

Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject.
Anonymous

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.
Anonymous

Heroes have an infinite capacity for stupidity. Thus are legends born!
Anonymous

We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
Anonymous

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
Anonymous

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!
Anonymous

You can call her an outdoor girl if she has the bloom of youth on her cheeks and the cheeks of youth in her bloomers.
Anonymous

What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
Anonymous

The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Anonymous

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Anonymous

The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
Anonymous

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Anonymous

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Anonymous

Just because a dress is red satin doesn't mean it will come off easily.
Anonymous

Who dares, wins.
Anonymous

The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.
Anonymous

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Anonymous

We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.
Anonymous

What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.
Anonymous

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Anonymous

The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
Anonymous

Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.
Anonymous

Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.
Anonymous

What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
Anonymous

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anonymous

The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up.
Anonymous

In place of infinity we usually put some really big number, like 15.
Anonymous Computer Science professor

In any closet, you can find it, if it is too small, or out of style, or there is just one of it where there should be two. I am not sure what this is, but an `F' would only dignify it.
Anonymous English Professor

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif
Antoine Lavoisier

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia

I have found it. (Eureka I have found it.)
Archimedes

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
Arnold H. Glasow

Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness?
Artemus Ward

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell

I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is--I could be just as proud for half the money.
Arthur Godfrey

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.
Ashleigh Brilliant

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.
Ashleigh Brilliant

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.
Ashleigh Brilliant

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
Ashleigh Brilliant

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.
Ashleigh Brilliant

My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
Ashleigh Brilliant

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
Ashleigh Brilliant

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Athol Fugard

Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
Aubrey Eben

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Augusto Pinochet

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
Bart Simpson

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Ben Franklin

Love is a hole in the heart.
Ben Hecht

The paper burns, but the words fly away.
Ben Joseph Akiba

What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin Disraeli

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin

Nowhere to fall but off; Nowhere to stand but on.
Benjamin King

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Whorf

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.
Bern Williams

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russel

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.
Billy Bishop - W.W. I Ace

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
Billy Joel

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
Blaise Pascal

In time of war the first casualty is truth.
Boake Carter

The times they are a-changing.
Bob Dylan

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Boies Penrose

Luck is the residue of design.
Branch Rickey

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brandan Behan

In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.
Brian E. Moore

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.
Bronwyn Davies

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
Bruce Feirstein

Think, or be damned.
Bryan Penton

Genius is patience.
Buffon

If you wish to make an apple pie truly from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Carrie P. Snow

We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren't drinkin' aren't hittin'.
Casey Stengel

So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes

For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
Cervantes

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
Cesar Chavez

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Chamfort

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Chang-tzu

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it.
Charles Babbage

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.
Charles Brower

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
Charles Darwin

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
Charles Darwin

I only ask for information.
Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips....
Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.
Charles Dickens

I wants to make your flesh creep.
Charles Dickens

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Charles G. Dawes

Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
Charles H. Grosvenor

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
Charles II

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb

Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Schulz

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

Ful wys is he that can himselven knowe! (Very wise is he that can know himself.)
Chaucer

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese proverb

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert

Laws were made to be broken.
Christopher North

Isn't it strange? The same people who laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously.
Cincinnati Enquirer

No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
Clarence Darrow

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.
Clarie Sargent - Arizona senatorial candidate

The investigator should have a robust faith -- and yet not believe.
Claude Bernard - French physiologist (1813-78)

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Claude T. Bissell

When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Clifton Fadiman

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.
Clint Eastwood

Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Colette

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson

We are dancing on a volcano.
Comte De Salvandy

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

The cautious seldom err.
Confucius

Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
Confucius

If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money.
Construction Digest

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot - Blackfoot warior and orator

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Cyrano De Bergerac

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Cyril Parkinson

Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
D. J. Hicks

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
Danny Kaye

Small projects need much more help than great.
Dante

Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
David Fasold

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
David Hull

It's only words...unless they're true.
David Mamet

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.
David Pratt

Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose.
Denis Johnston - The Brazen Horn

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Dennis Roch

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Derek Bok

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus

Get your cut throat off my knife.
Diane Diprima - Nightmare Gallery

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
Doc Edgerton

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is used.
Dominique Bouhours - French grammarian

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Don Marquis

I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.
Don Mazankowski - Former Candian Minister of Finance

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
Donald Trump

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Doug Larson

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing pole.
Doug Larson

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!
Dr. Paul MacCready Jr.

When we are young, wandering the face of the Earth, wondering what our dreams might be worth, learning that we're only immortal; For a limited time.
Dreamline - Rush

It takes great cleverness to be able to conceal one's cleverness.
Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is difficult to those who have the will.
Dutch Poet's Society

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
E. M. Forster

There are two words for everything.
E. V. Lucas

I must plough my furrow alone.
Earl of Rosebery

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
Earl Wilson

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary....
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe - Eleonora

Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke

I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward Albee

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Edward Dahlberg

I come like Water, and like Wind I go.
Edward Fitzgerald

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
Edward Keating

It's a fact the whole world knows; That Pobbles are happier without their toes.
Edward Lear

They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.
Edward Noyes Westcott

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
Edward O. Wilson

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
Eilliam Feather

No one ever gets far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.
Elbert Hubbard

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert Hubbard

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
Elizabeth Barret Browning

Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barret Browning

Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

I see the whole design.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

My sun sets to raise again.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass!
Elizabeth Barret Browning

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Ellen Parr

If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.
Emerson Pugh

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini
Emile Wiechert

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Emiliano Zapata

I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
Emma Albani

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.
Emperor Sigismund

Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.
English Proverb

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm

I see music as the augmentation of a split second of time.
Erin Cleary

Television: a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
Ernie Kovacs

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.
Ernst Mach

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
Errol Flynn

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.
Escher

Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solv
Eugene Wigner

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

You are looking as fresh as paint.
F. E. Smedley

Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
F. M. Knowles

The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Felelon

I am the emperor, and I want dumplings.
Ferdinand I

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
Flower A. Newhouse

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live
Fortune

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon - Of Death

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon

You are no better than you should be.
Francis Beaumont

Never buy shoes early in the day when your feet are their smallest.
Francis Patiky Stein

I am responsible only to God and history.
Francisco Franco

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois - Duc de La Rouchefoucald

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
Francois Rabelais

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Frank Adams

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Frank Rizzo

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER
Frank Zappa

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
Franz Kafka

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen

The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
Fred Friendly

How goes the enemy?
Frederic Reynolds

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson - Infinite in All Directions

He who survives will see the outcome.
French Proverb

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
Fridtjof Hansen

Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Wherever I climb I am followed by a dog called "Ego".
Friedrich Nietzsche

One should dies proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I never apologize!
G. Bernard Shaw

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.
Gamel Abdel Nasser

Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Gary Wills

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
Gene Wolfe

In war there is no substitute for victory.
General Douglas MacArthur

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
General Omar Bradley

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
George Allen

I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience
George Bernard Shaw

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

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.
George Canning

I could prove God statistically.
George Gallup

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,...that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
George McGovern

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
George Meredith

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
George Smith Patton

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De Buffon

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Georges Clemenceau

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou

Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)
German Proverb

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioacchino Rossini

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Goethe

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Goethe

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Goethe

On all the peaks lies peace.
Goethe

More light!
Goethe

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Goethe

What have they done to you my poor child?
Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Goethe

If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
Goethe

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Gore Vidal

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Goya

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
Graham Greene

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them.
Gunnar Myrdal

In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
H. A. Kramers

'Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".
H. G. Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
H. H. Munro

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
H. L. F. von Helmholtz

Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.
H. L. Mencken

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken

Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman testifying in his own defense

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
H. R. Haldeman

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.
H. V. Prochnow

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
H. W. Longfellow

You would attain to the divine perfection....
H. W. Longfellow

Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
H. W. Longfellow

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah More

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
Harold Evans

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I's wicked - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow. I can't help it.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.
Harry S. Truman

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S. Truman

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Havelock Ellis

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Haythum R. Khalid

If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord.
Haythum R. Khalid

If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression.
Haythum R. Khalid

Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence.
Hebrew Proverb

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz

Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
Hegel

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.
Heinz Pagels - The Dreams of Reason

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Heisenberg

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.
Henny Youngman

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen

Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Henrik Tikkanen

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry B. Adams

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry B. Adams

I had rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David Thoreau

The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
Henry David Thoreau

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Life's to short for chess.
Henry James Byron

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry Kissinger

It takes less time to do a thing right than explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
Herbert Westren Turnbull

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Hermann Weyl

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. . . the other eight are unimportant.
Herny Miller

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
Herodotus

I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'
Hilaire Bellock

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

Winged words.
Homer

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Honor‚ de Balzac - The Physiology of Marriage, 1829

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.
Honor‚ de Balzac - The Physiology of Marriage, 1829

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace

Leave the rest to the gods.
Horace

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.
Horace

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Horace

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
Horace

I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
Horace

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.
Horace

You have played enough; you have eaten and drunk enough. Now it is time for you to depart.
Horace

Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.
Horace

Thank God, I have done my duty.
Horatio, Viscount Nelson

I think, therefore I am - I think.
Howard Schneider

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
Hugh Trevor-Roper - Men and Events

Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
Humphrey Davy

I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
Hunter S. Thompson

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
Idi Amin Dada

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.
Imamu Amiri Baraka

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.
Irish Proverb

The trick is to stop thinking it as 'your' money.
IRS auditor

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac Asimov

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but "That's funny...".
Isaac Asimov

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.
J. B. S. Haldane

Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are, and happy campers you will always be.
J. Danforth Quayle


If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
J. Danforth Quayle

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
J. Danforth Quayle

Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
J. Frank Dobie - A Texan in England, 1945

In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge.
J. G. C. Minchin

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
J. K. Galbraith

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
J. Krishnamurti

If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
J. W. Curran

Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon

There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.
Jacob Braude

Where would we be without salt?
James A. Beard

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin - Nobody Knows My Name

The words walked right out of my mouth.
James Brady

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage.
James Holt McGavran

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and co
James P. Hogan (Code of the Lifemaker)

Why yes - a bulletproof vest.
James Rodges - Murderer, on his final request before the firing squad

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James Watson

I'd probably be famous now if I wasn't such a good waitress.
Jane Siberry

If you wish to learn the highest truths, begin with the alphabet.
Japanese Proverb

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Japanese Proverb

Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
Japanese Proverb

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharial Nehru

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Bruyere

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I cannot afford to waste my time making money.
Jean Louis Agassiz

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Jean Rostand

When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome

Never floss with a stranger.
Joan River

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno

Lounjun roun en suffer'n.
Joel Chandler Harris

Humor is a universal language.
Joel Goodman

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
Joel Rosenberg - The Sleeping Dragon

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
Joel Rosenberg - The Silver Crown

We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
Joel Rosenberg - The Silver Crown

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives

When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming -- I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky."
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives

Slovotsky's Law Number Thirty-One: Get scared right away; avoid the rush.
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit."
Joel Rosenberg - The Warrior Lives

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change pla
Johann Becher

There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Procrastination is the thief of time.
John Dos Pasos

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy

I am? a mushroom, On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.
John Ford

We only part to meet again.
John Gay

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.
John H. Holmes

O holy simplicity!
John Huss

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John Keats

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
John Lennon

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
John Lilly

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

The sum of earthly bliss.
John Milton

Sober, steadfast, and demure.
John Milton

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir

I am a sociologist, God help me.
John O'Neill

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
John Peel

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin - The Stones of Venice, I

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
Jon Lithgow

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll - Outside the Dog Museum

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol

He was a bold man that first eat on oyster.
Jonathan Swift

Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
Jonathan Swift

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge Luis Borges

Learn and think imperially.
Joseph Chamberlian

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
Joseph Fischer

To teach is to learn twice.
Joseph Joubert

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh Billings

The temple of art is built in words.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier

You are one of the forces of nature.
Jules Michelet

The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
Jutice Earl Warren

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

Religion... is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
Karl Marx's last words to his housekeeper

If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of it, it would have been much better.
Karl Marx's Mother

Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Katherine Hepburn

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.
Katherine Whitehorn

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Kathy Norris

Language is a wonderful thing. It can be used to express thoughts, to conceal thoughts, but more often, to replace thinking.
Kelly Fordyce

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
Kimon Nicolaides

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard

When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money.
Kin Hubbard

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
Kin Hubbard

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz

It's not peace I want, not mere contentment. It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me.
Kugell

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
L. Rochefoucauld

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.
Lady Caroline Lamb

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence Peter

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion.
Lazarus Long

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.
Lefty Gomez

If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it.
Leo Rosten

What time is the next swan?
Leo Slezak

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti

Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
Leon Lederman

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo Da Vinci

It was the best butter.
Lewis Carroll

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.
Lewis Carroll

What is the use of a book", thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Lewis Carroll

Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
Lewis S. Feuer

I'd give to be a millionaire.
Lewis Timberlake

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Lily Tomlin

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
Lionel Tiger

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Lisa Hoffman

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Logan Pearsall Smith

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

Let these describe the indescribable.
Lord Byron

History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
Lord John Whorfin

I never could make out what those damn dots meant.
Lord Randolph Churchill

Literature is being taught as though it were only political medicine or political poison--a view that is not only illiberal but illiterate.
Louis Menand

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteur

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
Ludwig von Beethoven

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
M. Scott Peck

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day--and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Mae West

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Mae West

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
Mae West

Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it.
Mao Tse-Tung - Chinese political leader (1893-1976)

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Tse-tung - Chinese political leader (1893-1976)

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Zedong

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
Marcel Archard

The little things are most worthwhile - quiet word, a look, a smile.
Margaret Lindsey

This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
Margaret Lindsey

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher

True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Marilyn Monroe

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.
Mark Twain

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
Mark Twain

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

I don't give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one way.
Mark Twain

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain

People born to be hanged are safe in water.
Mark Twain's Mother

Like most intellectuals, he is immensely stupid.
Marquise de Merteuil

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir.
Martin Routh

It is well to lie fallow for a while.
Martin Tupper

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
Mathew Browne

They talk most who have the least to say.
Mathew Prior

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold

What price Glory?
Maxwell Anderson

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Mayor Marion Barry - Washington, DC

You don't fuck around with the infinite.
Mean Streets

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday

It's great to be young and insane.
Michael Keaton - Dream Team

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.
Michael Patton

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.
Michel de Montaigne

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.
Michelangelo

I am still learning.
Michelangelo

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
Miguel Cervantes

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.
Mike Adams

Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Mike Leonard

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Mikhail Gorbachev

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev - June 8, 1990

I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
Miles Davis

The nourishment is palatable.
Millard Fillmore

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Millicent Fenwick

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Mohammed Ali

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
Moliere

I live on good soup, not on fine words.
Moliere

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.
Montaigne

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
Montaigne

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walker

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

I don't mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Marriage is the result of the longing for the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.
Mrs. Patrick Campbell

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.
N. Machiavelli

What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napolean Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Nicholas Ling

The dreadful burden of having nothing to do.
Nicolas Boileau

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
Niels Bohr

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.
Nietzsche

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Nietzsche

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Nietzsche

This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever surpass itself."
Nietzsche

If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
Nietzsche

If you go to see the woman, do not forget the whip.
Nietzsche

Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Nietzsche

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Nietzsche

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
Nikita Khruschev

It is true that liberty is precious, so precious that it must be rationed.
Nikolai Lenin

There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
Niven's Law # 16

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash

It is not fit that you should sit here any longer!
Oliver Cromwell

The very pink of perfection.
Oliver Goldsmith

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain; With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain; Gives genius a better discerning.
Oliver Goldsmith

It's a damned long, boggy, dirty, dangerous way.
Oliver Goldsmith

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on...
Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat

To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Orben - Current Comedy

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
Oscar Wilde

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
Oscar Wilde

There is no such things as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
Othal Brand - member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane

To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

I do not seek, I find.
Pablo Picasso

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
Pascal

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Pascal

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick Blackett

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
Paul Beatty

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Paul Harvey

I am not an economist. I am an honest man!
Paul McCracken

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy

The trouble with out times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
Peter McArthur

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
Peter Sellers

Hold the fort, for I am coming.
Philip Bliss

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus

Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Polish proverb

Men are like wine, some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Pope John XXIII

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
Poul Anderson

Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus

The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
Quentin Reynolds

I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
R. Geis

We owe most of what we know to about one hundred men. We owe most of what we have suffered to another hundred or so.
R. W. Dickson

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julins Gordon

The very well and abyss of an encyclopaedia.
Rabelais

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
Rabindranath Tagore

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the silent church before the service begins, batter than any preaching.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hitch your wagon to a star.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
Ramsey Clark

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.
Randolph S. Bourne

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron - The Opium of the Intellectuals

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
Reggie Jackson

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.
Remy De Gourmant

I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes

Learning is finding out what you already know.
Richard Bach

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Richard Buckminster Fuller

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
Richard Feynman

You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil; we just see no point in bothering to spread good.
Richard M. Mathews

If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?
Richard M. Nixon

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint--no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided...
Richard M. Nixon

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Richard M. Nixon - While still young on Teapot Dome scandal

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon

When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal.
Richard M. Nixon

I would have made a good pope.
Richard M. Nixon

Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate president.
Richard M. Nixon

Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Richard M. Nixon

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
Richard Whately - Archbishop of Dublin

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Robert Burton

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost , get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
Robert Cringely - InfoWorld

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert F. Goheen

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom
Robert Frost

Great events yield all but imperceptible effects.
Robert Frost

Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
Robert G. Ingersoll

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
Robert Graves

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert Heinlein

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Hutchins

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Robert Keith Leavitt

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
Robert L. Stanfield

Slow and steady wins the race.
Robert Lloyd - The Hare and the Tortoise

Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
Robert Lynd

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.
Robert Novak

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
Robert R. Coveyou

Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
Ron Nesen

If it is too good to be true? it is probably a fraud.
Ron Weber

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Ronald Reagan

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Ronald Reagan

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.
Ronald Reagan

There are fairies at the bottom of our garden.
Rose Fyleman

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Rudyard Kipling

We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
Rudyard Kipling

You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Rudyard Kipling

I gloat! Hear me gloat!
Rudyard Kipling

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker

You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
Rwandan proverb

'The game is done! I've won, I've won!', Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
S. T. Coleridge

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Sam Levenson

The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Samuel Butler

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
Samuel Goldyn

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
Samuel Johnson

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson

Pretty witty Nell.
Samuel Pepys

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Seneca

Lets cut off our noses.
Shirley Brooks

Music is Love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

You know my methods, Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Keep right on to the end of the road.
Sir Harry Lauder

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
Sir Philip Sidney

It revolts me but I do it!
Sir W. S. Gilbert

Modified rapture!
Sir W. S. Gilbert

Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott

God runs electromagnetic by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Sir William Bragg

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg

Words divide us, actions unite us.
Slogan of the Tupamaros

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Sophia Loren

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
Spanish Proverb

Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Stanislaw I Leszczynski

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec

Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw J. Lec

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
Stephen Hawking

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
Stephen Leacock

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, eccentric individual with lots of extra-scientific interests. But it certainly doesn't help him a bit.
Stephen Toulmin

The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices. The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it. It does not automatically lead to
Steven S. Zumdahl

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss.
Susanne Kollrack

Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
Swami X

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
Swedenborg

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Swift

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney Harris

What you don't know would make a great book.
Sydney Smith

Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, and, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.
Sydney Smith

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T. S. Eliot

In my end is my beginning.
T. S. Eliot

Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden.
T. S. Eliot

Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah Bankhead

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead

Make voyages! Attempt them? there's nothing else.
Tennessee Williams

Fortune favors the brave.
Terence

With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt

Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Thomas Dewar

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison

There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Edison

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight...
Thomas Gray

You was a good man, and did good things.
Thomas Hardy

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley

It's more than a game. It's an institution.
Thomas Hughes

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

See the conquering hero comes!, Sound the trumpets, beat the drums!
Thomas Morell

Pushon - keep moving.
Thomas Morton

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
Thomas Shadwell

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
Thucydides

Plato had slaves...George Washington had slaves...So, do I feel intrinsically better than these two men? Of course I do! They're dead!
Todd Andrew Reid

The farther it gets from the bench it was worked on, the more real the real world becomes.
Todd Johnson

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

That we can comprehend the little we know already is mindboggling in itself.
Tom Gates

The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
Tom Naylor

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability
Vannevar Bush

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.
Victor Frankel

Nothing else in the world...not all the armies...is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all to prudent.
Vincent van Gogh

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame.
Virgil

Thus shall you go to the stars.
Virgil

Time passes irrevocably.
Virgil

Here I am who did the deed.
Virgil

I shudder at the word.
Virgil

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
Voltaire

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
Voltaire

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.
Voltaire

Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields

Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions!
W. J. Reichmann

We will hang you, never fear, most politely, most politely.
W. S. Gilbert

Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
Walter Bagehot - Biographical Studies

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun

I didn't think; I experimented.
Wilhelm Roentgen

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

What! All this for a song?
William Cecil - Lord Burleigh

The dogs did bark, the children screamed; Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out; Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
William Cowper

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies.
William F. Buckley

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
William G. McAdoo

The insatiate itch of scribbling.
William Gifford

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H. Borah

The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

Same old slippers, Same old rice; Same old glimpse of paradise.
William James

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
William Proxmire

Language is a virus from outer space.
William S. Burroughs

Nothing good ever ends.
William Saroyan

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth

What's in a name? That which we call a rose....
William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Why this is very midsummer madness.
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

They say miracles are past.
William Shakespeare - All's Well that Ends Well

How now, wit! Whither wander you?
William Shakespeare - As You Like It

This is the very coinage of your brain.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare - Twelfth Night

For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
William Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice

I came, I saw, I conquered.
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare - King Lear

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare - Julius Caesar

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare - Henry IV Part I

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.
William Shakespeare - King Lear

Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Here is my journey's end, here is my butt; And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
William Shakespeare - Othello

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare - Antony and Cleopatra

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
Wilson Mizner

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
Winston Bennett - University of Kentucky basketball forward

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyon
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen

I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woody Allen

The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Woody Allen

I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen

You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

We have deep depth.
Yogi Berra

It's not over until it's over.
Yogi Berra

We made too many wrong mistakes.
Yogi Berra

I know nothing about sex because I was always married.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor