A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. Douglas MacArthur
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. Jessamyn West
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. T Szasz
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston S. Churchill
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. R.W. Emerson
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson
A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view. Wilma Askinas
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities. Shakespeare
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner
A good rest is half the work. Yugoslav Proverb
A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. Toledo Blade
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. Mencken
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. Margaret Fuller
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Unknown
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tsu
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
A library is an arsenal of liberty. Unknown
A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous. Alfred Alder
A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Unknown
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Unknown
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. Bob Edwards
A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. Willy Wonka
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug Larson
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. George Santayana
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. Albert Schweitzer
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. Knights of Pythagoras
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. Spanish proverb
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake. Confucius
A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key. Paul Valery
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. Segal's Law
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. Mary Kay Ash
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. Edward de Bono
A moment's thinking is an hour in words. Thomas Hood
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. Samuel Grafton
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large. Alyce P. Cornyn Selby
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. George Moore
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. Jerome Blattner
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. John Russell
A prudent question is one half of wisdom. Francis Bacon
A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. Richard Armour
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. Lao Tze
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. Unknown
A single fact can spoil a good argument. Anonymous
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. Richard Byrd
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
A theory must be tempered with reality. Jawaharlal Nehru
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man. Gustave Flaubert
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. Chinese proverb
A wise man's question contains half the answer. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. Unknown
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. Balthasar Gracian
A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire
A word to the wise ain't necessary it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? Confucius
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. La Rochefoucald
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire. De La Rochefoucauld.
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. Comte DeBussy Rabutin
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug Larson
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. Dietrich Bonhoffer
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. Jawaharlal Nehru
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. Mahatma Gandhi
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. Samuel Johnson
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. Horace
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. Victor Marie Hugo
Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Jong
Affection is responsible for nine tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis
After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. Unknown
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. Samuel Butler
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
All good things are wild, and free. Henry David Thoreau
All human power is a compound of time and patience. Honore de Balzac
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power. Ashleigh Brilliant
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them. Holt's Law
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. North DeKalb Kiwanis Club Beacon
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. Aristotle
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only on the full use of our creative imagination. Ruth Ross
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Buddha
All the knowledge in the world is found within you. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
All things are possible to him that believeth. Mark 9:23
All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato. George Santiano
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei
All we have of freedom all we use or know This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago. Kipling
All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Lord Byron
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. Mark Twain
Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P. J. O'Rourke
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Alexis de Tocqueville
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. Henry Wotton
An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. Will Rogers
An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. Samuel Johnson
An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Unknown
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. Socrates
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know. William Rose Benet
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. Shakespeare
And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. John Dryden, Imitation of Horace
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Jerry Chin
Any effort that has self glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster. Robert M. Pirsig
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain and most fools do. Dale Carnegie
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Thoreau
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. H. L. Mencken
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. W. Kelly Griffith
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. James Klass
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. David Broder
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. Betty Bender
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it. Elias Schwartz
Are you to pay for all you have with all you are? Edwin A. Robinson
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. Anonymous
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. Auguste Rodin
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose. Bhagavad Gita
As a matter of self preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. Diogenes
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. Socrates
As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need tremendous self control. Ashleigh Brilliant
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. Clarence Darrow
As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do. Zachary Scott
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. William Shakespeare, Love's Labour Lost
Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. William Makepeace Thackeray
Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. Mary H. Waldrip
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. Colin Powell
Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. Unknown
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. Werner von Braun
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. Billie Jean King
Be everywhere, do everything, and never fail to astonish the customer. Macy's Motto
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you. Nicholai Velimirovic
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll need them on your way down. W. Migner
Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still. Chinese Proverb
Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Spinoza
Be polite to all, but intimate with few. Thomas Jefferson
Be sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Become a fixer, not just a fixture. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. From the I Ching
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. Jim Beggs
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James B. Conant
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad. Christina Georgina Rossetti
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. Proverb
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. Adolph Monod
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. Unknown
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Henry David Thoreau
Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. Unknown
Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden
Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck but, most of all, endurance. James Baldwin
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. Unknown
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact. George Eliot
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. Unknown
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. Plato
Brains first and then Hard Work. Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink blot, you know. Alan Watts
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts! Anonymous
By doubting we come at truth. Cicero
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Boothe Luce
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. Euripides
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. Anatole France
Change is good, but dollars are better. Anonymous
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. Bertrand Russell
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. Henry Ward Beecher
Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Lady Mary Wortley Montague
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. Will Durant
Civilization is a slow process of adopting the ideas of minorities. Anonymous
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties. Emil Nolde
Comedy is tragedy plus time. Carol Burnett
Common sense is not so common. Voltaire
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. Phyllis McGinley
Computers make ˇt easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. Andy Rooney
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. Unknown
Conform and be dull. James Frank Dobie
Conscience is the chamber of justice. Origen
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken
Conservation is humanity caring for the future. Nancy Newhall
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings. Alice Miller
Continual improvement is an unending journey. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford Mason, Thinking About Quality
Continually strive to improve yourself. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. Robert Half
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. Wilson Mizner
Courage atrophies from lack of use. Unknown
Courage conquers all things. Ovid
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. Eddie Rickenbacher
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon
Courage is one step ahead of fear. Coleman Young
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. Clare Booth Luce
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. Robert G. Ingersoll
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
Creative thinking should be viewed as an essential supplement to, though not a replacement for, critical thinking. Lloyd P. Provost
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. William Plomer
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. George Bernard Shaw
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. Samuel Johnson
Cycology The science of propelling one's self through the environment to enhance well being. Unknown
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. Robert Anton Wilson
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. Martha Graham
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Goethe
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others. Unknown
Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do. George F. Burns
Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it. Miguel de Cervantes
Delay is preferable to error. Thomas Jefferson
Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. Jane Wagner
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence Peter
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. William Ellery Channing
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Seneca
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Tom Robbins
Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. Diogenes
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. Albert Szent Gyorgyi
Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. Unknown
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. Anonymous
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. Anonymous
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. Basho
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee. The Dhammapada
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so. Proverbs 3:27
Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now. Barry Forbes
Do what you can with what you have where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Ralph Waldo Trine
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. Robert Byrne
Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. Edgar W. Howe
Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. Janis Joplin
Don't fear change, embrace it. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have. Louis E. Boone
Don't knock the weather; nine tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. Kin Hubbard
Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. Unknown
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark Twain
Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase that's what wild geese are for. Anonymous
Don't reinvent the wheel, just realign it. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. Baltasar Gracian
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George Patton
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self conscious, and anything self conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering. Pooh's Little Instruction Book
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. Howard Aiken
Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? Count Oxenstierna
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one. Voltaire
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. Unknown
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. Charles William Dement
Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives. William Dement
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. Frank W. Woolworth
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Carl Zwanzig
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. Kenny Ausubel
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. Malcolm S. Forbes
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity. Horace Mann
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. Karl Kraus
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. Baron Henry Peter Brougham
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. Henry Peter Brougham
Efficiency is intelligent laziness. David Dunham
Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. L. A. Safian
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy
Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Bob Marley
Ethics is not definable, is not implementable, because it is not conscious; it involves not only our thinking, but also our feeling. Valdemar W. Setzer
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. Robert Pirsig
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. Robert Orben
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. Friedrich Nietzche
Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he had got. Josh Billings
Every man I meet is in some way my superior. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Appius Claudius
Every nation ridicules other nations and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground. Unknown
Every path serves a purpose. Gene Oliver
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. Franz Kafka
Everybody's a self made man; but only the successful ones are ever willing to admit it. Author Unknown
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Goethe
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. Jean de La Fontaine
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. La Rochefoucauld
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. George Lichtenberg
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. Yiddish proverb
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay. Millard Fuller
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. Thomas Edison
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso
Everything you do or say is public relations. Unknown
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. Stephen Wright
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything. Samuel Hazo
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Unknown
Experience is not what happens to us, rather it is what we do with what happens to us. Anthony J. D'Angelo
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. Olivier
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. F. P. Jones
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse! Derwood Fincher
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. Dan Stanford
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Unknown
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. Longfellow
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. George Santayana
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott
Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. Unknown
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. Richard Byrd
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. George Washington
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Samuel Johnson
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. Unknown
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Ward Beecher
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Focus on remedies, not faults. Jack Nicklaus
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. Kin Hubbard
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. Millard Fuller
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. William Congreve, The Mourning Bride
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken
For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her. Charles de Gaulle
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. David H. Lawrence
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, It might have been! John Greenleaf Whittier
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. RM Rilke
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. Eric Ambler
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? Dante Alighieri
For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. James 2:10
Forget your enemies. It's your friends you frustrate that cause all the problems. Michael J. Tucker
Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use. Peter Mere Latham
Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Rousseau
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. Colin Powell
Freedom hath a thousand charms to show, That slaves however contented never know. Cowper
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. Albert Camus
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. John G. Riefenbaker
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. Bertrand Russell
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. Bergen Evans
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth. Sigmund Freud
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. Herman Melville
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. H. H. Williams
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison
Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. George Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. Denis Diderot
Genius is talent provided with ideals. William Somerset Maugham
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. T. S. Eliot
Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish. Mark Twain
Getting caught is the mother of invention. Robert Byrne
Give more than take. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. Thoreau
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! Unknown
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue. Izaak Walton
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken, Growing a Business
Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. H. Jackson Browne, P. S. I Love You
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. William Saroyan
Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true. Lester R. Bittel
Good questions outrank easy answers. Paul A. Samuelson
Good taste is always an asset. Rudy Bakalov
Good teaching is one fourth preparation and three fourths theater. Gail Godwin
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. George Washington
Grace under Pressure. Ernest Hemingway
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francious de la Rochefoucauld
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. Cicero
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. George Jean Nathan
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. Dryden
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them. T. S. Eliot
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them. Walter Kerr
Happiness is as a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. George Sheehan
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. Margaret Lee Runbeck
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. Oscar Levant
Happiness lies, first of all, in health. George William Curtis
Happy is he who can give himself up. Naguib Mahfouz
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family! Joachim Du Bellay
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. Micron
Have a strong mind and a soft heart. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. Bessie Stanley
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. Samuel Butler
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves. A. P. Gouthey
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. Mary Howitt
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. H. H. Munro
He means well is useless unless he does well. Plautus
He only profits from praise who values criticism. Heinrich Heine
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. Chinese proverb
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. Unknown
He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold. Baltasar Gracian
He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave. Klopstock
He who has never failed somewhere... that man can not be great. Herman Melville
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke. Terry Cohen
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. Confucius
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed. William James
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. Unknown
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. M. C. Escher
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Redd Foxx
Hell, there are no rules here we're trying to accomplish something. Thomas A. Edison
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small. Mark Yost
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Ann Douglas
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Ghandi
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. Midori Koto
Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor. William Napier
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. Alfred Bernhard
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is. Wilhelm von Humboldt
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. Shakespeare
How long does getting thin take? Pooh asked anxiously. A. A. Milne
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. Marcus Aurelius
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells
Human kind cannot bear much reality. T. S. Eliot
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. Aristotle
I'll publish right or wrong. Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Lord Byron
I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. Stephen Leacock
I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to loose. S. I. Hayakawa
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts. Bethania McKenstry
I'm out of the loop, and that's the way I like it. Anonymous
I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. Charlie Brown
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. Groucho Marx
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
I am a part of all that I have met. John Milton
I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. Abraham Lincoln
I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Edmund Everett Hale
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill. Mahatma Gandhi
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Mark Twain
I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me. Mark Twain
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. Garrison Keillor
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. Joe Walsh
I can endure my own despair but not another's hope. William Walsh
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Mark Twain
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. G. C. Lichtenberg
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. Eleanor Roosevelt
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown. Kathe Kollwitz
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. Gloria Naylor
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. Curtis Le May
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Abraham Lincoln
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan
I don't want any yes men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. Samuel Goldwyn
I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. Javan
I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. William F. Claire
I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one. Chinese proverb
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. Ashleigh Brilliant
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Unknown
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. J. B. S. Haldane
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!! Anonymous
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S Truman
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Kahlil Gibron
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. Igor Stravinsky
I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. Werner von Braun
I have learned, in whatever state I am ,therewith to be content. Epistle of Paul
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. Kahlil Gibran
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. Voltaire
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill
I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand. Confucius
I improve on misquotation. Cary Grant
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Abraham Lincoln
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. Douglas Adams
I must stand up in search of the truth, if I don't I only roll with the flow of the lie and make it stronger. Sovereign
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman
I never know how much of what I say is true. Bette Midler
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. Pablo Picasso
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass
I prefer tongue tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. Cicero
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner
I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. Ralph Nader
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burrough
I think; therefore I am. Rene Descartes
I used to be Snow White but I drifted. Mae West
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. Richard Feynman
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, I don't know. Mark Twain
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. Abraham Lincoln
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. Tom Lehrer
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. John Galsworthy
Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself. Dorothy Law Nolte
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. Marcel Proust
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Thoreau
If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand Confucius
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it. Tom Lehrer
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist? Unknown
If a thing goes without saying let it. Jacob Braude, Treasury of Wit & Humor For All Occasions
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow. Philip Crosby
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. Quentin Crisp
If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. Larry Leissner
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking. Unknown
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane. Anonymous
If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated. Brenda Hammond
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Forster
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? Anonymous
If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever! Anonymous
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done. Anonymous
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If man does his best what else is there? George S. Patton
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool. Carl Jung
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Georges Guynemer
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. Van Gogh
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
If there is no worker involvement, there is no quality system. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford Mason, Thinking About Quality
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it. Immanuel Hermass von Fichte
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. Unknown
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. Chinese Proverb
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Gail Sheehy
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. Seneca
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. Anais Nin
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? Vince Lombardi
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. Keith Richards
If you are near the enemy, make him believe you are far from him. If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
If you believe everything you read, better not read. proverb
If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
If you can't convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
If you can't return a favor, pass it on. Louise Brown
If you can do a half assed job of anything, you're a one eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm. Bruce Barton
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. William Arthur Ward
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. Marvin Gaye
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice! Neil Peart
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. Orison Swett Marden
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. Unknown
If you don't control your mind, someone else will. John Allston
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. Ed Howe
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? Unknown
If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through. Chinese Proverb
If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. Malcolm Forbes
If you have a vision, do something with it. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you have made a mistake, cut your losses as quickly as possible. Bernard M. Baruch
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. Marcus Garvey
If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say. Unknown
If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal. Unknown
If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. Katherine Hepburn
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katherine Hepburn
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man. Mark Twain
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own. Emerson
If you suffer, thank God! it is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard
If you talk the talk, you damn well better walk the walk. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. Charles Gordon
If you think education is expensive, Try Ignorance!!! Andy McIntyre
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business. Jeanne Holm
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today. Rotarian
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. Joseph Addison
If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing. Benjamin Franklin
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier
Immature love says, I love you because I need you. Mature love says, I need you because I love you. Erich Fromm
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. Unknown
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. J. W. Fulbright
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing. Antonio Porchia, Voces
In a mad world, only the mad are sane. Akiro Kurosawa
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer
In a true zero defects approach, there are no unimportant items. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed. Stanislaus J. Lec
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards. Gary Lee Phillips
In all things there are three choices: Yes, No & no choice, except in this I either choose the truth or I am deceit. Sovereign
In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take. Adlai E. Stevenson
In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak. James Russell Lowell
In general we are least aware of what our minds do best. Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Vince Lombardi
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts it is both! Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
In my day, we didn't have self esteem, we had self respect, and no more of it than we had earned. Jane Haddam
In order to preserve your self respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Robert Byrne
In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
In order to write about life, first you must live it! Ernest Hemingway
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. P. L. Berger
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Gandhi
In the end, everything is a gag. Charlie Chaplin
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. Louis D. Brandeis
In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving. Sheldon Kopp
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is. Gertrude Stein
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. Oscar Wilde
In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing. John Henry Cardinal Newman
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost
In time of war the first casualty is truth. Boake Carter
In war there is no substitute for victory. Douglas MacArthur
In wilderness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau
In wildness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau, Walking
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
In youth we learn; in age we understand. Ebner Eschenbach
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. Herman Wouk
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. Proverb
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Insanity a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Lang
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit. Nathaniel Emmons
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world. Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. Ed Howe
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
Intellectuals are the most intolerant of all people. Paul Duncun
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things. Woody Allen
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. Theodor W. Adorno
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called rain. Michael McClary
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? Kelvin Throop, III
Isn't it surprising how many things, if not said immediately, seem not worth saying ten minutes from now? Arnot L. Sheppard, Jr.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. Harry S Truman
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. French management saying
It's always useful to know where a friend and relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't. Rabbit, Pooh's Little Instruction Book
It's amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. Michael Arlen
It's better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard
It's easy to get lost in thought if it's not familiar territory to you. Unknown
It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane. M. Grundler
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas. Unknown
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith S. Marin
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. Unknown
It's kind of fun to do the impossible. Walt Disney
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. Addison Walker
It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts. Millard Fuller
It's so much more friendly with two. Piglet, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic, is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things. Theodore Roosevelt
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. Charles Kuralt
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens, Bleak House
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. Samuel Johnson
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. Harry S Truman
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. W. R. Inge
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. Whitney Young, Jr.
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Gandhi
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Mark Twain
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. James Thurber
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Proverb
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Samuel Johnson
It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. Mark Twain
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion. Mentat Prayer
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect. J Bigelow
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. G B Shaw
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life. Unknown
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago. Jim Bishop
It is easier to be critical than correct. Benjamin Disraeli
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. W Blake
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. Stewart's Law of Retroaction, Murphy's Law, Book Two
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. M. Grundler
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia
It is good for a man to eat thistles and to remember that he is an ass. E. S. Dallas
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. LeGuin
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! Nietzsche
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal. Piglet, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. T. S. Eliot
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch? Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Krishnamurti
It is no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. St. Francis of Assisi
It is not a question of how well each process works, the question is how well they all work together. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford Mason
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. Shakespeare
It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help. Epicurus
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. Russian proverb
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. Edmund Hillary
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. Confucius
It is only to the individual that a soul is given. Albert Einstein
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. Henry David Thoreau
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. Wilbur Wright
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Aristotle
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it. proverb
It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him. M. Thompson
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. Gandhi
It is the theory that decides what we can observe. Albert Einstein
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Gandhi
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems not people; to focus your energies on answers not excuses. William Arthur Ward
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final. Anonymous
It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes
It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. Charles Sorenson
It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe. Unknown
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper. Errol Flynn
It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. Edgar Guest
It may be that those who do most, dream most. Stephen Leacock
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug
It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong. Abraham Lincoln
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac Asimov
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. Unknown
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives. Clint Eastwood
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. Anonymous
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . . Mikhail Gorbachev
Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism. Hedrick Smith
Just because something is tradition doesn't make it right. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Just being honest is not enough. The essential ingredient is executive integrity. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. Eleanor Roosevelt
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground. Theodore Roosevelt
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. Helen Keller
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa
Kindness causes us to learn, and to forget, many things. Madame Swetchine
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go. James Baldwin
Know people for who they are rather than for what they are. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Baha'u'llah
Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Unknown
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge without know how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. Myron Tribus
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. George Washington
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta
Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. Flower A. Newhouse
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. Seneca
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band Aid remedies never last. Jack Nicklaus
Learn to obey before you command. Solon
Learning is finding out what you already know Richard Bach
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming
Let's just say I was testing the bounds of society. I was just curious. Jim Morrison
Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. Carl Sandburg
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. Roger Babson
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are no gains without pains. Adlai Stevenson
Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. The Land Before Time
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Rabindranath Tagore
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. Anonymous
Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. Unknown
Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way. Unknown
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. Paul Gauguin
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Life has no rehearsals, only performances. Unknown
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole
Life is a tragedy when seen in close up, but a comedy in long shot Charlie Chaplin
Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. Kathleen Norris
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. Unknown
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get. Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. Lillian Dickson
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. Lewis Grizzard
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it. Unknown
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. Tom Lehrer
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. Learned Hand
Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage it can be delightful. George Bernard Shaw
Life is short; live it up. Khrushchev
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. Unknown
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. Robert Burton
Listen and attend with the ear of your heart. Saint Benedict
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. K Menninger
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? Henry James
Live dangerously and you live right. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers
Live simply that others might simply live. Elizabeth Seaton
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasgow
Live to learn... forget... and learn again. Brian
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. Rainer Maria Rilke
Logic is like the sword those who appeal to it shall perish by it. Samuel Butler
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. Shakespeare
Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. Nora Roberts
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give which is everything Unknown
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Euripides, Orestes
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Otavio Paz
Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield. Unknown, epitaph for a loved one
Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. Unknown
Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. Antoine de Saint Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Josh Billings
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. John Ray
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. Delmore Schwartz
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.... Make big plans... aim high in hope and work. Daniel H. Burnham
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle
Man has responsibility, not power. Tuscarora proverb
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion. Unknown
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus
Management by objectives works if you first think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't. Peter F. Drucker
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. Peter Drucker
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folklore and superstition, and of cooperation for force. . . Peter F. Drucker
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four leaf clovers. Unknown
Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much. Robert Greenleaf
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. The Midrash
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. Helen Keller
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
May all who love the Lord, love you and those who don't love you, may the Lord give them a limp so you can see them coming. Irish Blessing
Maybe he's only a little bit crazy, like painters, or composers, or some of those men in Washington. Mr. Shellhammer
Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley
Mediocrity does not see higher than itself. But talent instantly recognizes the genius. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. Seymore Cray, on virtual memory
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. Maurice Baring
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. Abba Eban
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. Margaret Fuller
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war . . . Aristophanes
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. Alexander Hamilton
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Winston Churchill
Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars. George Catlett Marshall
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. James Russell Lowell
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative. Henry Kissinger
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. John Kenneth Galbraith
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. Lord Chesterfield
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. Will Smith
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. Woody Allen
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin
Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise bureaucrats. Alvin Toffler
Most of our so called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. James Harvey Robinson
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. Dale Carnegie
Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are. Mickey Manfield
Most people believe that if you go in and try to micromanage a forest, it is possible to destroy the very thing that makes it a unique and special place. That's just as true of the Net. G Raphael
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Robert Orben
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose. J. S. Habgood
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. Leonard Bernstein
My curiosity is my creativity on the way to discovery. Why on Quartz
My definition of a redundancy is an air bag in a politician's car. Larry Hagman
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected. Anna M. Uhlich
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. A Lincoln
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus. The Lockhorns
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. Gandhi
My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies. W. C. Fields
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. Errol Flynn
My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said. Anonymous
My work is a game, a very serious game. M. C. Escher
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. Mary Ellen Kelly
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them. Emerson
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. R. Buckminster Fuller
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. Abraham Lincoln
Necessity never made a good bargain. Benjamin Franklin
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. Plato
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. Anonymous
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. John M. Barrie
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Nick Diamos
Never complain. Never explain. Katherine Hepburn
Never cut what you can untie. Joseph Joubert
Never deprive someone of hope it may be all they have. Unknown
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has! Margaret Meade
Never give advice... A wise man won't need it A fool won't heed it. Unknown
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. Quentin Crisp
Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved. Barbara Johnson, The Joy Journal
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road. Dag Hammarskjold
Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life. John Paul Richter
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... Mark Twain
Never underestimate the power of the irate customer. Joel E. Ross
Ninety percent of everything is crap. Theodore Sturgeon
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
No day in which you learn something is a complete loss. David Eddings
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Robert Southey
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Aristotle
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. Ellen Glasgow
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. Plato, Laws
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. Thomas Fuller
No man is free who is not master of himself. Epictetus
No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself. Greville
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. Andrew Carnegie
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Abraham Lincoln
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. Minor White, Photographer
No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves. John Peter Zenger
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or get rich in business by being a conformist. J. Paul Getty
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. Franz Schubert
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. Sam Rayburn
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. Groucho Marx
No one worth possessing Can be quite possessed. Sara Teasdale
No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. Croesus of Lydia
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. H. G. Wells
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles Schulz
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... Isaac Asimov
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman
Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better. Anonymous
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. Unknown
None of us is as smart as all of us. Phil Condit
Not all those who wonder are lost. Unknown
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates
Not only are you what you think you are, more so; what you think, you are. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man. Saskya Pandita
Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the Corporate state or the Nation state? In our struggle for freedom we still find ourselves fighting the state. Jay Terpstra
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened. Gerald W. Johnston
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse. Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford Mason, Thinking About Quality
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Marie Curie
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about. Sam Ewing
Nothing is more useful than silence. Menander
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. Seneca
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. Ross MacDonald
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. Christopher Lasch
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. Walt Whitman
O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out. W. B. Yeats
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Hannah Moore
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks
Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something. Sue S. Taylor
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neil
Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! William Shakespeare
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. Lichty & Wagner
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Hubert Humphrey
OK, so you've got a Ph.D. Now, don't touch anything. Anonymous
Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses. Robert Burton
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow. Nietzsche
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. Unknown
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. Cervantes, The Impossible Dream
One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life. Etty Hilsum
One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can. Josh Billings
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission. Benjamin Disreali
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed. Friedrich Nietzsche
One only needs two tools in life: WD 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. G. Weilacher
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Michael Cibenko
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. B Russell
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree. Thomas Fuller
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Proverb
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world. Hans Margolius
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. Goethe
Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday. Anonymous
Only the mediocre are always at their best. Jean Giraudoux
Only the shallow know themselves. Oscar Wilde
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia
Only the winners decide what were war crimes. Gary Wills
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T. S. Eliot
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. Unknown
Oppression can only survive through silence. Carmen de Monteflores
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing. Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine
Our aspirations are our possibilities. Samuel Johnson
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. Stewart B. Johnson
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. H. Jackson Browne
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. George Eliot
Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. John Dykes
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. Nelson Mandela
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. Shakespeare
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin. Herman Hesse
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource. John F. Kennedy
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. Ruth Westheimer
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. Graham Greene
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. Omar Bradley
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. Niettzche
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. Unknown
Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. Janet Long
Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. Baruch Spinoza
People are more easily led than driven. David Harold Fink
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. Somerset Maugham
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Kierkegaard
People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did it. Howard W. Newton
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglas
People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. Anne Sullivan
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. H. Jackson Browne
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. Nietzsche
People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes. Wilbur N. Nesbit
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. Miyamoto Musashi
Performance is your reality. Forget everything else. Harold Geneen
Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. Unknown
Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time. Marabel Morgan
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol
Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you. Winnie the Pooh, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell
Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Unknown
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order. Barry Goldwater
Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. P. J. O'Rourke
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. Paul Valéry
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Brooks Adams
Popularity comes from allowing yourself to be bored by people while pretending to enjoy it. Karol Newlin
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. William Proxmire
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honore de Balzac
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams
Practice is the best of all instructors. Publilius Syrus
Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty. Unknown
Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it. Jess Lair
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. Hazlitt
Principles have no real force except when one is well fed. Mark Twain
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. Albert Einstein
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis
Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young
Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. Frederick Wilcox
Promise a lot and give even more. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect. proverb
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Evelyn Waugh
Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. Aristophanes
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. Byron J. Langenfeld
Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. John Locke
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. Nancy Astor
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. Confucius
Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. Lily Tomlin
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick
Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. Unknown
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own. John Mason Brown
Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others. Peter Farquharson
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think. Dale Carnegie
Remember that it is far better to follow well than to lead indifferently. John G. Vance
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard boiled egg. Unknown
Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. Cindy Lew
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. Unknown
Reputations are created every day and every minute. Christopher Ruel
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self respect leads to self discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. Clint Eastwood
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. J Addison
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Unknown
Rise above principal and do what's right. Joseph Heller
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. John Russell
Saving love doesn't bring any interest. Mae West
Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile! Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all the apathy of human beings. Helen Keller
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all. Keller
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth. Susan Taylor
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. Alfred Hitchcock
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. David Searls
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought. Matsuo Basho
Selecting the right person for the right job is the largest part of coaching. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Self respect permeates every aspect of your life. Joe Clark
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. C. J. Jung
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. Oscar Wilde
Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. Damien Hess
Set high standards and few limitations for yourself. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Woody Allen
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. Robert Fulghum
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham
Silence is argument carried out by other means. Ernesto Che Guevara
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G. B. Stern
Simply pushing harder within the old boundaries will not do. K Weick
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live. William Shakespeare
Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. Michel De Montaigne
Since when is public safety the root password to the Constitution? C. D. Tavares
Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear! Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. George Herbert
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... Longfellow
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. Euripides
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. Philip Crosby
Smile It's the second best thing you can do with your lips. Unknown
Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Baldwin
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains. Ralph Waldo Emerson
So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. William of Baskerville
Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant. Anonymous
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope
Sometimes I need what only you can provide your absence. Ashleigh Brilliant
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Unknown
Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest. Unknown
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. Geri Weitzman
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers. Mary Richards, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. Pooh's
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. proverb
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields
Step with care and great tact And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act Just never forget to be dexterous and deft And never mix up your right foot with your left. Dr. Suess
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. J. R. R. Tolkien
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Hannah Arendt
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman
Stupid people always think they are right. Wise people listen to advice. Proverbs 12:15
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. Bill Vaughn
Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. Unknown
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. Al Capp
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. An Wang
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. Herman Cain
Success is that old ABC ability, breaks, and courage. Charles Luckman
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. William Feather
Successful people are very lucky. Just ask any failure. M Levine
Successful people breed success. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. Whitney M. Young, Jr.
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu
Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man. Joseph Addison, Cato
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Unknown
Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading. Sarah Orne Jewett
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. Ouida
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life. Goethe
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much John Wayne
Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can. E. R. Bulwer Lytton
Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. Ben Johnson, Timber; or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. Friedrich Nietzsche
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. Calvin & Hobbes
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. Peter Marshall
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Putt's Law
Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage. Mike Trout
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. Max Frisch
Technology: No Place for Wimps! Scott Adams, Dilbert
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. Ann Landers
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. proverb
Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are. Miguel de Cervantes
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are. proverb
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. Herb Brody
Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. Anonymous
Tempt not a desperate man. Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! Calvin
That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... Charlie Brown
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves. Thomas Jefferson
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
That which is not just is not law. William Lloyd Garrison
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art. John A. Locke
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. Unknown
That you may retain your self respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. William J. H. Boetcker
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. Jane Wagner
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry Kissinger
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. Cousin Woodman
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change. A. N. Whitehead
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. Auguste Rodin
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. Unknown
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. J Sobran
The beginning is the most important part of the work. Plato
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. Helen Keller
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. Fred Dehner
The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. M. Grundler
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. Alan Saporta
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. Anonymous
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach, Illusions
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost
The 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
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L. Mencken
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. William James
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. John Philpot Curran
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. Daniel Boorstin
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a world. Mata Hari
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 Maynard Hutchins
The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. John Cheever
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman
The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness. John Maxwell
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. Henry L. Mencken
The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. Gerald Burrill
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Vince Lombardi
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits Anonymous
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain
The difficulty in life is the choice. George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. Homer
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. David Friedman
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. Flora Whittemore
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. John Locke
The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
The effect of one upright individual is incalculable. Oscar Arias
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch 22
The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is. Unknown
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Unknown The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them. Unknown
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. Confucius
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses. David Storey
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius Syrus
The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings. Shakespeare.
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion. Anonymous
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on. Walter J. Lippmann
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them. Lloyd George
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Justice Anthony Kennedy
The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed. Nelson Boswell
The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. Abbie Hoffman
The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. Sigmund Freud
The first mistake in public business is the going into it. Ben Franklin
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts. Paul Erlich
The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice. Sovereign
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within. Dave Winer
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who dare. Anonymous
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create. Leonard I. Sweet
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers. Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. Arnold Bennett
The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen. Bishop John Shelby Spong
The great discoveries are usually obvious. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. T. H. Huxley
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. Meryl Streep
The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. Marya Mannes
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. Art Spander
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. Epicures
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. Epicurus
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. William James
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world. Frederick Chiluba
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.... Unknown
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. Marilyn Ferguson
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. Robert G. Ingersoll
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. Aristotle, Rhetoric
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. Thomas Jefferson
The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them. John Seely Brown
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell
The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes. John Ruskin
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. Henry Ford
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love
The human brain is like a railroad freight car guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. Unknown
The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. Martin Luther
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Mark Twain
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. Alvin Toffler
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. Hubert H. Humphrey
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
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none. Philip Caldwell
The impossible is often the untried. Jim Goodwin
The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves. Albert Einstein
The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet. Lao Tzu
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengal
The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. Eric Hoffer
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. Elaine Agather
The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. Nick Nuessle, 1992
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass.
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. Thomas Kempis
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Conduct of Life
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing. Nancy Astor
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind. proverb
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles Schwab
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. Henri Frédéric Amiel
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. E. J. Phelps
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Anonymous
The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. Lloyd Jones
The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done. Francis William Bourdillon
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it. George Bernard Shaw
The more opinions you have, the less you see. Wim Wenders
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Arthur Koestler
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean Paul Sartre
The more you know, the less you need to show. Anonymous
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war. George Hyman Rickover
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. Albert Einstein
The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled. Robert Benchley
The most decisive actions of our life I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future are, more often than not, unconsidered. Andre Gide
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. Plato
The most important things in life aren't things. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. Henry Boye
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
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. Thich Nhat Hanh
The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better. Robert P. Vanderpoel
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. Mother Teresa
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e. e. cummings
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. P. J. O'Rourke
The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it. John Gilmore
The nicest thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives. Robert M. Hutchins
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. G. C. Patton
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. Unknown
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. J Ancis
The only one who can tell you you can't is you. And you don't have to listen. Nike advertisement
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. Foster's Law
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. Vidal Sassoon
The only real failure in life is one not learned from. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The only real training for leadership is leadership. Anthony Jay
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. Paul Fix
The only reward for love is the experience of loving. John LeCarre
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmond Burke
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind John Allston
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything and it works. William Strong
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future. Alfred North Whitehead
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky. Solomon Short
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L. P. Hartley
The past is but the past of a beginning. H. G. Wells
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Israel Zangwill
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. Chuang Tzu
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. Garth Henrichs
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. Lionel Trilling
The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all. Jawaharlal Nehru
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Anonymous
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Thomas Jefferson
The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. T Rubin
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. Henry Cate, VII
The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them. Albert Einstein
The process of creating new, democratic organs of government power is beginning, and, as never before, the greatest responsibility rests with the broadcast media. Eduard Sagalaev
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again. John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness. Havelock Ellis
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman like habits, supplies their demands. Oscar Wilde
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas. Judge John Kane, US District Court
The public is a ferocious beast one must either chain it up or flee from it. Voltaire
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. James Baldwin
The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. Ray Kroc, Founder, McDonald's
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. Vincent T. Lombardi
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon
The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and animal rights activist
The race is not [always] to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Ecclesiastes 9:11
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. Unknown
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. Bishop Creighton
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. Doris Day
The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. Unknown
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey
The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom. Justice William O. Douglas
The road to a friend's house is never long. Danish proverb
The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards. Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. Harold Taylor
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed. Edwin Whipple
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. Emerson
The secret of Happiness is Freedom, and the secret of Freedom, Courage. Thucydides
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. James Taylor
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
The secret to life is that there is no secret. Swampman on Quartz
The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth. Mohammed Ali
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein
The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention. Anonymous
The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world. Lao Tzu
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. Thomas Jefferson
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur. Vince Lombardi
The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. Rita Mae Brown
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Jonathan Swift
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. G Eliot
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. Bacon
The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. Roy L. Smith
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm
The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. Cole's axiom
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. Confucius
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold Toynbee
The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe. Old proverb
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. Maria Montessori
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. Henry Kissinger
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. Huey Long
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Unknown
The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for. Louis L'Amour
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. Paul Valery
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.
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands. Alexander Penney
The Universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Philpotts
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates
The weather cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm wind if it... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind. Heinrich Heine
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 whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein
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 whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. Unknown
The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute. John P. Grier
The will to do, the soul to dare. Sir Walter Scott
The wise learn many things from their enemies. Aristophanes
The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool. William McFee
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Hemingway
The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. Alexandra Stoddard
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Webster
The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood. Arthur Powell Davies
The worst prison would be a closed heart. Unknown
The worst tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. Wilson Mizner
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. James Bryce
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. Lou Reed, Magic and Loss
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough hew them how we will. William Shakespeare
There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. P. J. O'Rourke
There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving. Phylicia Rashad
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. Alfred Hitchcock
There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity. George Sarton
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare
There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. Brett Butler's unnamed friend
There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes. William Bennett
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan
There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. David W. Johnson
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. Anonymous
There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others. Jean de LaBruyere
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened. Unknown
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? Robert Francis Kennedy
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. Christopher Morley
There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one. Swahili proverb
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr.
There are two rules for success... 1) Never tell everything you know. Roger H. Lincoln
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. Henry Kissinger
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. Alexander Pope
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. Tennessee Williams
There is always an easy solution to every human problem neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. Graham Greene
There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing. Lord Chesterfield
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice. Montesquieu
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Francis Bacon
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness. Seneca
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. proverb
There is no substitute for victory. Douglas MacArthur
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. Schiller
There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others. Milton R. Sapirstein
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. Don Herold
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. James Branch Cabell
There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. John Ruskin
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Goethe
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Cicero
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting. Mark Twain
There is nothing so asinine that governments will not proclaim it as official doctrine. Nolan's Observation
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. A Adams
There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin I will die in the last ditch. William Of Orange
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. Paul Rudnick
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley
There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. William James
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. Norman Vincent Peale
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. Isaac Bashevis Singer
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. Gilbert Highet
These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the devil. Kara Vichko
They can because they think they can. Virgil
They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind. Rudyard Kipling
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. Carl W. Buechner
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. Tom Bodett
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. Art Linkletter
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. Henri Louis Bergson
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare
This is the true joy in life being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... George Bernard Shaw
This is the true nature of home it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt and division. John Ruskin
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize. Elizabeth Harrison
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Sir James Barrie
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. Edgar Allan Poe
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Aristotle
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future. Unknown
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Emerson
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. August Hare
Thoughts come through people, not from them. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered either by themselves or by others. Unknown
Threats don't work with the person who's got nothing to lose. M Ash
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. Henry James
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France
To be a well flavored man is the gift of fortune, but to write or read comes by nature. William Shakespeare
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought that is being educated. Edith Hamilton
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. Bertrand Russell
To be free it is not enough to beat the system, one must beat the system every day. Anonymous
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power. Tryon Edwards
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. Robert A. Heinlein
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up. Oscar Wilde
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Unknown
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill
To change and to change for the better are two different things. German proverb
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective. Liz Smith
To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy. Hippocrates
To do two things at once is to do neither. Publilius Syrus
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch
To find something you can enjoy is far better than finding something you can possess. Glenn Holm
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. Bernadette Devlin
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. Alan Paton
To govern is always to choose among disadvantages. Charles de Gaulle
To know when to be generous and when to be firm this is wisdom. Elbert Hubbard
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. Unknown
To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately. R L Ackoff
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell Holmes
To pull together is to avoid being pulled apart. Bob Allisat
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Albert Einstein
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed. Francios de La Rochefoucauld
To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? W. H. Auden
To secure peace is to prepare for war. Carl von Clausewitz
To see what is right and not to do it, is want of courage. Confucius
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. Charles William Stubbs
To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow. Erik Nupponen
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well mannered. Voltaire
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. Benjamin Franklin
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks. Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. Shakespeare
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. Pierre Corneille
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. . . get on your way. Dr. Seuss
Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but the capacity to prevent it. Anne O'Hare McCormick
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. Albert Camus
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy
Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right. Kurt Herbert Alder
Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be. Jimmy Johnson
Trouble is part of your life if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. Dinah Shore
True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. Unknown
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. Henrik Tikkanen
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. Old Muslim Proverb
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
Truth An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Bierce
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them. Madeleine L'Engle, An Acceptable Time
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. Mark Twain
Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. Harold Geneen
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time. Thomas Carlyle
Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. Adlai Stevenson, speech, October 3, 1952
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. Peter Drucker
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L. Mencken
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Schweitzer
Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down. Heraclitus of Ephesus
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. Ayn Rand
Usability is like oxygen you never notice it until it is missing... Unknown
Use missteps as stepping stones to deeper understanding and greater achievement. Susan Taylor
Use soft words and hard arguments. Unknown
Use the talents you possess for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. Unknown
Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. Unknown
Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. The Lion
Vacation used to be a luxury, however, in today's world, it has become a necessity. Unknown
Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically. Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. Sir John Vanbrugh, The Relapse
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. Nagarjuna
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. F. Scott Fitzgerald
War is based on deception. Sun Tzu
War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. Cardinal Richelieu
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies. Colton
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. Mickey Rivers
We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement. Ed Vargo, major league baseball umpire
We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility. Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. M. C. Escher
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. William Feather
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. Harold Nicolson
We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge. Unknown
We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey. Stephen Covey
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. Abraham Maslow
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. Anne Swetchine
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Alan Chadwick
We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend. Kurt Vonnegut
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. Luciano de Crescenzo
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse. Ani Difranco
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. Albert Einstein on atomic energy
We can have no 50 50 allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all. Teddy Roosevelt
We can never tell what is in store for us. Harry S Truman
We can spend our whole lives underachieving. Philip Crosby
We come and go just like ripples in a stream. John V. Politis
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. Athol Fugard
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. Susan Taylor
We don't work for each other, We work with each other. Stanley C. Gault
We feel free when we escape even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire. Eric Hoffer
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Longfellow
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. Isaac Bashevis Singer
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong. Bill Vaughn
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. Jean Toomer
We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Marder
We must become the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. G. H. Lewes
We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs. Harold Geneen
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all. William Reece Smith, Jr.
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. La Rochefoucauld
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. Albert Einstein
We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves. Prophet Joseph Smith
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. Maria Montessori
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. Jessamyn West
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop
We... anticipate what's to come, then ignore what's actually here. Stephan Rechtschaffen
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. Albert Einstein
Well timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Well, all I know is what I read in the papers. Will Rogers
What breaks in a moment may take years to mend. proverb
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more. Seneca
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Robert Fulghum
What does not kill me makes me stronger. Goethe
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. Unknown
What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire. Ovid
What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. Henry David Thoreau
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. Boris Pasternak
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Thoreau
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. Unknown
What more felicity can fall to creature, Than to enjoy delight with liberty. Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. Unknown
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it. Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine
What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. Roland Barthes, Esprit
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pine
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are. Edgar Z. Friedenberg
Whatever advice you give, be brief. Horace
Whatever the struggle continue the climb it may be only one step to the summit. Diane Westlake
Whatever thy hand findest to do, do it with all thy heart. Jesus Christ
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease. Nicholas Boileau
Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Goethe
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you want to do, do it know. There are only so many tomorrows. Michael Landon
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. John Wyndham
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth. George Bernard Shaw
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. Thomas Jefferson, Writings
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Dolly Parton
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking. Albert Einstein
When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary. Brock Tully
When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue. Merkin's Maxim
When it's all over, it's not who you were. . . it's whether you made a difference. Bob Dole
When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses. Anonymous
When one door closes another door opens; but we 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
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. Henry Miller
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. Edward Bulwer Lytton
When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tse
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos. Edith Hamilton
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African proverb
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty. Theodore Roosevelt
When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves. Dogen
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. Johann Goethe
When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live longer. Anthony J. D'Angelo,
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things, Joe Namath
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side. Francis Cardinal Spellman
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. proverb
Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. Mae West
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. Mark Twain
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
Where facts are few, experts are many. Donald R. Gannon
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? T. S. Eliot, The Rock
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. Thomas Browne
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur, 1822 1895
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency. James Webb
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong? Jane Austen
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier. Charles F. Kettering
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. Henry M. Robert
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense. Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked. Ovid
While it's important to win, it's imperative to compete. David Weinbaum
While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca
While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass. Lyndon Johnson
Who begins too much accomplishes little. German proverb
Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen
Why then the worlds mine oyster, Which I with sword shall open. Shakespeare
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. Ovid
Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson
Winning is nice if you don't lose your integrity in the process. Arnold Horshak
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. Nietzsche
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. Mark van Doren
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich von Schiller
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese proverb
Within the problem lies the solution Milton Katselas
Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. John Harold
Women prefer men who have something tender about them especially the legal kind. Kay Ingram
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Anonymous
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling
Words divide us, actions unite us. Slogan of the Tupamaros
Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. Unknown
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking. John Maynard Keynes
Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. Herbert Hoover
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman
Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream. Kahlil Gibian
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. Lou Holtz
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance. W. Somerset Maugham
You are only as wise as other's perceive you to be. M. Shawn Cole
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain
You can't have everything. Where would you put it? Steven Wright
You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search. Maxwell Maltz
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. Ziggy
You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. Stephen W. Comiskey
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. J Thurber
You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. Abraham Lincoln
You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. M. Scott Peck
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. Edward Keating
You do not lead by hitting people over the head that's assault, not leadership. Dwight D. Eisenhower
You don't have to be noisy to be effective. Philip Crosby
You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Ethel Barrymoore
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John, Lord Morley
You know you're getting old when it takes to much effort to procrastinate. Unknown
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills
You may delay, but time will not. Benjamin Franklin
You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others. Anthony J. D'Angelo
You only live once but if you work it right, once is enough. Joe E. Lewis
You only live once; but if you live it right, once is enough. Adam Marshall
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton
Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. Bertold Brecht