We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.^ Benjamin Franklin
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.^ Hobbes
Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]^ Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.^ John Dryden
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.^ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^ Thomas Jefferson
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.^ Pierre de Coubertin
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^ Oliver Goldsmith
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.^ Edward Abbey
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.^ Ben Johnson
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^ Thomas Campbell Clark
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^ Thomas Jefferson
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.^ Pierre de Coubertin
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.^ Jack Kinder
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^ Oliver Goldsmith
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.^ John OKeefe
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.^ Edward Abbey
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.^ Ben Johnson
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^ Thomas Campbell Clark
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.^ Alexandre Dumas Fils
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.^ Charlie Chaplin
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.^ Michael Bruce
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.^ Jim Fiebig
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.^ Jonathan Katz
Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.^ Daniel Deleanu
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.^ Briana Scurry
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.^ Francis Bacon
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.^ Henry Fielding
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.^ William Ross Wallace
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.^ Ben Jonson
No man ever yet became great by imitation.^ Dr Samuel Johnson
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?^ Robert Burton
Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.^ Source Unknown
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!^ Alexander Pope
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality^ Albert Einstein
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.^ Gerhard Kocher
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^ Henry St. John Bolingbroke
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.^ Bible
Tenderness is the repose of Passion^ Joseph Joubert
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.^ Confucius
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'^ George Bernard Shaw
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.^ Ouida
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^ Josh Billings
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.^ St Theresa of Jesus
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.^ Quentin Crisp
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.^ Colette Dowling
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.^ Henry David Thoreau
why wait for the weekend to have fun?^ Loesje
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.^ Corazon Aquino
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^ William Feather
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.^ Brendan Francis
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.^ Charles Simic
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.^ Abraham Cowley
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.^ Jawaharlal Nehru
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.^ Arthur OShaunessey
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. -Unknown.^ Unknown
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.^ Mark Twain
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^ Albert Einstein
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.^ Thomas A. Edison
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.^ Cicero
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^ Alexander Pope
Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time, That we no more our verse would scrawl, For Shakespeare he had said it all!^ Richard Watson Gilder
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.^ Edward Steichen
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.^ Charles de Lint
Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin For her feet? You lucky little kid, You perished, so you did, For my sweet.^ Frederick Locker-Lampson
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.^ Louis D. Brandeis
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.^ W. H. Auden
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.^ Alexander Crummell
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.^ Nancy Reagan
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn^ Chinese Proverbs
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever^ Lao Tzu
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work^ Richard Livingstone
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.^ Edmund Hillary
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.^ Unattributed Author
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.^ Mark Twain
Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six; They sound so woundy great, So wound'rous sweet, And they troul so merrily.^ Dean Henry Aldridge Aldrich
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.^ Edmund Burke
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.^ Benjamin Franklin
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.^ Hosea Ballou
Attitudes are more important than facts.^ Karl A. Menninger
O my prophetic soul! My uncle?^ William Shakespeare
Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.^ Swami Omkarananda
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.^ David Gibbs
Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.^ Led Zeppelin
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.^ William Cowper
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.^ John LeCarre
When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.^ Xeni Jardin
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence^ Samuel Johnson
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.^ Oscar Wilde
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.^ Groucho Marx
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.^ John Kenneth Galbraith
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.^ Julian Simon
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.^ Robert Lee Frost
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.^ Dennis Prager
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.^ John James Ingalls
Joy delights in Joy^ William Shakespeare
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.^ Tyron Edwards
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.^ Kin Hubbard
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^ Unknown
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?^ W. Clement Stone
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.^ Cartman South Park
How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!^ John Wilson 2 used pseudonym Christopher North
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.^ Tom Krause
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.^ Bible
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.^ Thomas Henry Huxley
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.^ Henry H Haskins
Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.^ Gao Xingjian
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.^ Thornton Wilder
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?^ Bible
If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't be surprised when a crack in the iceAppears under your feet.You slip out of your depth and out of your mindWith your fear flowing out behind youAs you claw the thin ice.^ Pink Floyd
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.^ Bible
I am not a Virginian but an American.^ Patrick Henry
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - William Hazlitt,^ William Hazlitt
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.^ Zadoc Rabinowitz
In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.^ William Shakespeare
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.^ Robert Louis Stevenson
Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one^ Albert Einstein
Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme^ Maxim Gorky
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.^ Frank Moore Colby
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.^ James Truslow Adams
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.^ Deng Xiaoping
Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.^ Samuel Butler 1
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.^ Alan Biole
Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.^ Senator John Kerry
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.^ Ronald Reagan
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity^ George Eliot
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.^ Douglas Adams
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.^ Joseph R. Krutch
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.^ Aristotle
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.^ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.^ William Shakespeare
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.^ Livy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.^ Oscar Wilde
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.^ Arthur Koestler
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.^ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.^ James Baldwin
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...^ Michael Stipe
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.^ Charles C. Noble
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.^ Chief Seattle
Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.^ Samuel Lover
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.^ Alexandre Dumas
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.^ Rita Mae Brown
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.^ Gotthold Lessing
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!^ Lord Alfred Tennyson
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^ James Bryce
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.^ William C. Bryant
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^ James Thurber
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.^ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^ Jean de La Fontaine
The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^ Kin Hubbard
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.^ Martin Luther King Jr.
There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.^ Thomas Jefferson
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.^ Aldous Huxley
Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!^ William Shakespeare
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.^ Unknown
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.^ Joe Paterno
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.^ George Soros
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.^ Austin OMalley
A hungry man is not a free man.^ Adlai E. Stevenson
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!^ Mark Twain
I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each other's dreams, we'll always be together.^ Hobbes
Whatever begins, also ends. [Lat., Quicquid coepit, et desinit.]^ Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.^ John Dryden
The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.^ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^ Thomas Jefferson
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.^ Pierre de Coubertin
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^ Oliver Goldsmith
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.^ Edward Abbey
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.^ Ben Johnson
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^ Thomas Campbell Clark
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^ Thomas Jefferson
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.^ Pierre de Coubertin
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.^ Jack Kinder
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^ Oliver Goldsmith
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good and the people are good, And we're all good fellows together.^ John OKeefe
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.^ Edward Abbey
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.^ Ben Johnson
I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^ Thomas Campbell Clark
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.^ Alexandre Dumas Fils
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.^ Charlie Chaplin
In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.^ Michael Bruce
If you can look back on your life with contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.^ Jim Fiebig
What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.^ Jonathan Katz
Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.^ Daniel Deleanu
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.^ Briana Scurry
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.^ Francis Bacon
When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.^ Henry Fielding
They say that man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O'er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.^ William Ross Wallace
Cut Men's throats with whisperings.^ Ben Jonson
No man ever yet became great by imitation.^ Dr Samuel Johnson
Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?^ Robert Burton
Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly. It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.^ Source Unknown
To what base ends, and by what abject ways, Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!^ Alexander Pope
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality^ Albert Einstein
Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.^ Gerhard Kocher
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^ Henry St. John Bolingbroke
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.^ Bible
Tenderness is the repose of Passion^ Joseph Joubert
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.^ Confucius
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'^ George Bernard Shaw
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.^ Ouida
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^ Josh Billings
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.^ St Theresa of Jesus
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.^ Quentin Crisp
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.^ Colette Dowling
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.^ Henry David Thoreau
why wait for the weekend to have fun?^ Loesje
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.^ Corazon Aquino
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^ William Feather
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.^ Brendan Francis
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.^ Charles Simic
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.^ Abraham Cowley
Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.^ Jawaharlal Nehru
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.^ Arthur OShaunessey
Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. -Unknown.^ Unknown
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.^ Mark Twain
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^ Albert Einstein
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.^ Thomas A. Edison
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.^ Cicero
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^ Alexander Pope
Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme, Have not we sworn it, many a time, That we no more our verse would scrawl, For Shakespeare he had said it all!^ Richard Watson Gilder
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.^ Edward Steichen
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.^ Charles de Lint
Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin For her feet? You lucky little kid, You perished, so you did, For my sweet.^ Frederick Locker-Lampson
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.^ Louis D. Brandeis
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.^ W. H. Auden
Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.^ Alexander Crummell
I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.^ Nancy Reagan
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn^ Chinese Proverbs
By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever^ Lao Tzu
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work^ Richard Livingstone
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.^ Edmund Hillary
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.^ Unattributed Author
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.^ Mark Twain
Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, One, two, three, four, five, six; They sound so woundy great, So wound'rous sweet, And they troul so merrily.^ Dean Henry Aldridge Aldrich
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.^ Edmund Burke
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.^ Benjamin Franklin
Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.^ Hosea Ballou
Attitudes are more important than facts.^ Karl A. Menninger
O my prophetic soul! My uncle?^ William Shakespeare
Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.^ Swami Omkarananda
There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.^ David Gibbs
Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.^ Led Zeppelin
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross
Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain, Of his unrivall'd pencil.^ William Cowper
Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.^ John LeCarre
When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.^ Xeni Jardin
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence^ Samuel Johnson
It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.^ Eleanor Roosevelt
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.^ Oscar Wilde
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.^ Groucho Marx
Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.^ John Kenneth Galbraith
The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.^ Julian Simon
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, A wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.^ Robert Lee Frost
One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.^ Dennis Prager
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.^ John James Ingalls
Joy delights in Joy^ William Shakespeare
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.^ Tyron Edwards
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.^ Kin Hubbard
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^ Unknown
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?^ W. Clement Stone
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.^ Cartman South Park
How bright the sunshine dances in its joy, O'er the still flow of this majestic river!^ John Wilson 2 used pseudonym Christopher North
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.^ Tom Krause
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.^ Bible
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.^ Thomas Henry Huxley
He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.^ Henry H Haskins
Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.^ Gao Xingjian
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.^ Thornton Wilder
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?^ Bible
If you should go skatingOn the thin ice of modern lifeDragging behind you the silent reproachOf a million tear-stained eyesDon't be surprised when a crack in the iceAppears under your feet.You slip out of your depth and out of your mindWith your fear flowing out behind youAs you claw the thin ice.^ Pink Floyd
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.^ Bible
I am not a Virginian but an American.^ Patrick Henry
One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. - William Hazlitt,^ William Hazlitt
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.^ Zadoc Rabinowitz
In poison there is physic; and these news, Having been well, that would have made me sick, Being sick, have in some measure made me well.^ William Shakespeare
That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.^ Robert Louis Stevenson
Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one^ Albert Einstein
Modern jazz: Variations on a non-existent theme^ Maxim Gorky
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.^ Frank Moore Colby
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.^ James Truslow Adams
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.^ Deng Xiaoping
Now, while the honour thou hast got Is spick and span new.^ Samuel Butler 1
No nation, no matter how enlightened, can endure criminal violence. If we cannot control it, we are admitting to the world and to ourselves that our laws are no more than a facade that crumbles when the winds of crisis rise.^ Alan Biole
Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.^ Senator John Kerry
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.^ Ronald Reagan
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity^ George Eliot
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.^ Douglas Adams
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.^ Joseph R. Krutch
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.^ Aristotle
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign.... Secondly, a just cause.... Thirdly ... a rightful intention.^ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.^ William Shakespeare
In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.^ Livy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.^ Oscar Wilde
When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which alone is to be considered as real, whereas the world of nature which we perceive is merely its cheap Woolworth copy, is a flight into delusion.^ Arthur Koestler
Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.^ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.^ James Baldwin
Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...^ Michael Stipe
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.^ Charles C. Noble
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.^ Chief Seattle
Her beads while she numbered, The baby still slumbered, And smile in her face, as she bended her knee; Oh! bless'd be that warning, My child, thy sleep adorning, For I know that the angels are whispering with thee.^ Samuel Lover
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.^ Alexandre Dumas
Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit.^ Rita Mae Brown
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.^ Gotthold Lessing
Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!^ Lord Alfred Tennyson
We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^ James Bryce
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.^ William C. Bryant
He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^ James Thurber
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.^ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^ George Eliot
There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.^ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!^ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^ Jean de La Fontaine
The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^ Kin Hubbard
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.^ Martin Luther King Jr.
There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.^ Thomas Jefferson
What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes -- ah, they have all the necessary leisure.^ Aldous Huxley
Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!^ William Shakespeare
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.^ Unknown
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.^ Joe Paterno
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.^ George Soros
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.^ Austin OMalley
A hungry man is not a free man.^ Adlai E. Stevenson
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!^ Mark Twain
