Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating. Goodman Ace Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God...anarchy and tyranny commence. John Adams How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? Cindy Adams We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry B. Adams A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. Joey Adams Success has made failures of many men. Cindy Adams A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions that your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. Joey Adams A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops. Henry Adams If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world. Joseph Addison An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Konrad Adenauer There is no point in our ancestors speaking to us unless we know how to listen. Mortimer J. Adler It is easier to fight for one's principles than live up to them. Alfred Adler Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. Felix Adler Far away there 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 If at first you don't succeed you're running about average. M.H. Alderson I have never been sure I am right, but I'm also sure nobody else has this thing called truth. Saul Alinsky In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. Roger Allen It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen Your whole life is a series of effects, having their cause in thought - in your own thought. All conduct is made and molded by thought; all deeds, good or bad, are thoughts made visible. James Allen A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year. Marty Allen Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority. Robert Altman When policy fails try thinking. American Business Maxim You mustn't enthrone ignorance just because there is so much of it. American Proverb Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. Sir Norman Angell The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Aniel Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Anon A sociologist is a scientist who blames crime on everything and everyone, except the person who commits it. Anon A sinner can reform, but stupidity is forever. Anon Virtue is learned at mother's knee, vice at other joints. Anon A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. Anon You never have read anything about the 'plans and objectives' of the Apostles. The title of the book is 'The Acts of the Apostles'. Anon Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. Anon A realist lets circumstances decide which end of the telescope to look through. Anon Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. Anon If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Anon Rebellion: A system devised to replace one form of tyranny with another. Anon Never try to make anyone like yourself. You know, and God knows, that one of you is enough. Anon There are two ways to get to the top of an oak tree - you can climb it or you can sit on an acorn. Anon Vanity is the result of a delusion that someone is paying attention. Anon Widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and relieved. Anon You cannot expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him. Anon If someone is violent toward those who seek freedom, that's bad. But if those who seek freedom use violence to achieve it, that's good. Michelangelo Antonioni The discontented child cries for toasted snow. Arab Proverb Judge a man by the reputation of his enemies. Arabian Proverb Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions. Robert Ardrey All human actions have one or more of these causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. Aristotle It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man. Lady Nancy Astor A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. W.H. Auden Lord give me chastity - but not yet. Saint Augustine Fit thyself into the environment that thou findest on earth, and love the men with whom they lot is cast. Marcus Aurelius A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, and elder man not at all' Francis Bacon Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. Francis Bacon Rebellions of the belly are the worst. Francis Bacon Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.Walter Bagehot They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. Philip James Bailey A teacher who is consistently fair, kindly and honest - whatever his religious convictions - does more moral good in a school than a year of religious assemblies. Balaam War would end if the dead could return. Stanley Baldwin Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. Honore de Balzac I am not young enough to know everything. Sir James M. Barrie Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. Sir James M. Barrie In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone,but sometimes it's a great relief. John Barrymore Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. Bernard Baruch Success is the ability to rise above principle. Gerald Barzan Ten ancient commandments lousing up the fun. Along came prosperity - and then there were none. Gerald Barzan You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected. Gerald Barzan Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.Jacques Barzun The trouble with life is that it usually takes a whole lifetime to learn how to live it. Dr. O.A. Battista It appears on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. Pierre Caron De Beaumarchais It is not necessary to believe things in order to reason about them. Pierre Caron De Beaumarchais To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. Clay P. Bedford The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbour is, and how to reach it without running on rocks and bars. Henry Ward Beecher Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray. Henry Ward Beecher The wisest men, in the bulk, are the men who have tilled the earth... Hilaire Belloc A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. Milton Berle The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. George Bernanos The meek shall inherit the earth; and...delight...in the peaceful abundance. Bible Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Bible Religion: A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. Ambrose Bierce Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Ambrose Bierce Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce Epitaph: A monumental inscription designed to remind the deceased of what he might have been if he had had the will and opportunity. Ambrose Bierce Future: That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. Ambrose Bierce Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. Ambrose Bierce Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. Ambrose Bierce Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Ambrose Bierce Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religion, and who believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it. Ambrose Bierce Resign: To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. Ambrose Bierce Revolution: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all two. Ambrose Bierce Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce. American Author Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face. Dr. L. Binder. American historian When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Prince Otto von Bismarck Learn to reason forward and backward on both sides of a question. Thomas Blandi A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking. Arthur Bloch Sow an act and you reap a habit. George D. Boardman The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are. Ludwig Boerne The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. Neils Bohr An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Niels Bohr. Danish physicist Motherhood is the biggest on-the-job training scheme in the world. Erma Bombeck Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down. James H. Boren Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? Peg Bracken The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts. General Omar Bradley The right to be let alone is the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued in civilized man. Justice Louis D. Brandeis We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Justice Louis D. Brandels Everything that science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Werner von Braun For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure despite the fact that each of us has a right and an obligation to rectify any other mistake we make in life. Dr. Joyce Brothers It may be laid down as an axiom that a man who does not live the life of the mob will not think its thought either. Lewis Browne Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning The great mind knows the power of gentleness, only tries force because persuasion fails. Robert Browning It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent. Jean de La Brupere Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift. Jean De La Bruyere There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean De La Bruyere An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. John Buchan A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. E.R. Bulwer-Lytton There are no warlike peoples - just warlike leaders. Ralph Bunche A woman is but an animal, and an animal not of the highest order. Edmund Burke A nation without the means of reform is without means of survival. Edmund Burke The march of the human mind is slow Edmund Burke Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action. Aaron Burr Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. Robert Burton War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few...The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit. General Smedley Butler There are the few who make things happen; the many more who watch things happen and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Nicholas Murray Butler Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. Samuel Butler Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler Brigands require your money or your life. Women require both. Samuel Butler An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray Butler. American educator Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen I don't understand why girls who wear wigs, false eyelashes, and falsies always complain that there are no REAL men anymore. Glen Campbell Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young. Henry S. Canby Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible. Eddie Cantor Every age is modern to those who are living in it. Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Thomas Carlyle Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time, and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. Thomas Carlyle The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. Thomas Carlyle I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am...People ought to be modester. Thomas Carlyle No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. Thomas Carlyle As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie We talk of the laws of war, as if war were not the destruction of all laws. Nicolas Sadi Carnot Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. Lewis Carroll Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. Lewis Carroll In time of war the first casualty is truth. Boake Carter Medicine in the hands of a fool is poison, just as poison becomes medicine in the hands of the wise. Giacomo Casanova I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Cato It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. Cato A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. M.de Cervantes The best sauce in the world is hunger. M.de Cervantes There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, 'The Haves' and the 'Have-Nots.' M.de Cervantes Humility is not a weak and timid quality, it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit. There is such a thing as an honest pride and self-respect. Edwin H. Chapin I am for people. I can't help it. Charles Chaplin Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world nor none. Stuart Chase In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence. Cesar Chavez The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage. Cher. American singer The passion of ambition is the same in a courtier, a soldier, or an ecclesiastic; but, from their different educations and habits, they will take very different methods to gratify it. Lord Chesterfield Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has every heard me laugh. Earl of Chesterfield He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Lord Chesterfield A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. G.K. Chesterton Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution. G.K. Chesterton All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. G.K. Chesterton The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes. G.K. Chesterton It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. G.K. Chesterton Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. G.K. Chesterton Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. G.K. Chesterton Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverend realism, says that they are all fools. G.K. Chesterton Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem. G.K. Chesterton Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf. G.K. Chesterton Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized. G.K. Chesterton Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. G.K. Chesterton New roads: new ruts. G.K. Chesterton Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. G.K. Chesterton The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. G.K. Chesterton The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. G.K. Chesterton There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. G.K. Chesterton I prefer old age to the alternative. Maurice Chevalier Bigamist: A man who marries a beautiful girl and a good cook. Chicago Herald Beat your child once a day. If you don't know why, he does. Chinese Proverb I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Chinese Proverb Dig a well before you are thirsty. Chinese Proverb He who does not know where he is heading will go farthest. Chinese Proverb Settle one difficulty and you keep hundreds away. Chinese Proverb In the future no one wins a war. It is true, there are degrees of loss, but no one wins. Brock Chisholm In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Sir Winston Churchill It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. Sir Winston Churchill 'Perfectionism is spelled 'Paralysis.' Sir Winston Churchill Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. Sir Winston Churchill Of Mr. Baldwin: It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right. Sir Winston Churchill Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong. Sir Winston Churchill The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Sir Winston Churchill We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. Cicero The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up earlier in life. Cicero Among the porcupines, rape is unknown. Gregory Clark I had rather be right than be President. Henry Clay Epitaph: A belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been permanently discontinued. Irvin S. Cobb As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid. Irvin S. Cobb Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far. Jean Cocteau Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant - inflation feeds on itself and quickly passes the little mark. Dian Cohen Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. Charles Caleb Colton If the cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. Charles Caleb Colton Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; anything but - live for it. Charles Caleb Colton When you have nothing to say, say nothing. Charles Caleb Colton Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful opiates for the conscience. James Bryant Conant Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. Confucius It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great. Confucius Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart. Confucius Study the past, if you would divine the future. Confucius The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they may not be made to understand it. Confucius To be able to practise five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue...gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. Confucius What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Confucius When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. Confucius Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. Cyril Connolly Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. Cyril Connolly The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad You have got to do something about it to make it count. Carl C. Conway Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge Satisfaction does not come from indulgence or satiety; it comes from achievement. Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge The beliefs for which men have been willing to suffer martyrdom came from religion. Calvin Coolidge Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Thomas Cooper A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier A good memory is needed after one has lied. Pierre Corneille The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille The best things in life must come by effort from within and not by gifts from the outside. Fred Corson Many of the same people who have no difficulty in finding extenuating circumstances to account for the violence of the hardhats, find it impossible to accept any explanations for the violence of the students. Norman Cousins It is nonsense to say there is not enough time to be fully informed...Time given to thought is the greatest timesaver of all. Norman Cousins People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. Norman Cousins The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble. Norman Cousins The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war. Norman Cousins Work is much more fun than fun. Sir Noel Coward God the first garden made, and the first city Cain. Abraham Cowley Life is an incurable disease. Abraham Cowley There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. Dr. George Crane A man said to the universe, 'Sir, I exist.' 'However,' replied the universe, 'the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.' Stephen Crane No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. Mandell Creighton Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin Crisp It is better to wear out than to rust out. Bishop Cumberland Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with our oppressors. Evelyn Cunningham The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. John Philpot Curran Civil Rights Movement: The struggle of the black race to show that, if given the chance, it can screw up as good as the white race. Frank Dane Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office. Frank Dane Females are not the only species who prostitute themselves for money; they are the only ones that are honest about it. Frank Dane If the real estate gang could, they'd raise the rents in the graveyards. Frank Dane Recollection: To remember in great detail something that never happened. Frank Dane Defeat never comes to a man until he admits it. Josephus Daniels Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child. Danish proverb In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. Georges Jacques Danton History repeats itself, that's one of the things that's wrong with history. Clarence Darrow A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin What is this life if, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare. William Henry Davies And of all plagues with which mankind are curst, / Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst. Daniel Defoe The good die early, and the bad die later. Daniel Defoe We work not only to produce but to give value to time. Eugene Delacroix If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Descartes In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. Charles Dickens Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. Charles Dickens No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens Everything that can be invented has been invented. Director of the US Patent Office 1899 It is well known what a middle man is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other. B. Disraeli The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. B. Disraeli What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. B. Disraeli There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. B. Disraeli A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. B. Disraeli Every woman should marry - and no man. Benjamin Disraeli To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. W. MacNeile Dixon It is difficult to be humble. Even if you aim at humility, there is no guarantee that when you have attained the state you will not be proud of the feat. Bonamy Dobree It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. Harold W. Dodds The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren Nobody, including the Supreme Court, knows what obscenity is. Norman Dorsen A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes. Dostoevsky If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things. Norman Douglas Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Working with people is difficult, but not impossible. Peter Drucker Don't put the fate of your business in the delusions of economists. Peter Drucker In all recorded history there has not been on economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do. Henry Drummond He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. Sir William Drummond Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden Even victors are by victory undone. J. Dryden But far too numerous was the herd of such,/ who think too little, and who talk too much. J. Dryden Social progress does not have to be bought at the price of individual freedom. John Foster Dulles The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. John Foster Dulles One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. Finley Peter Dunne In those days, the (Roman) government gave them bread and circuses. Today we give them bread and elections, but it is just a change in the style of a periodical amusement. Will Durant If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all. Will & Ariel Durant Nothing is clearer in history than the adoption by successful rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn in the forces they deposed. Will & Ariel Durant We...repeatedly enlarge our instrumentalities without improving our purpose. Will Durant Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. Sir Anthony Eden (1st Earl of Avon) Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas Alva Edison The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. Thomas A. Edison Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Thomas A. Edison There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labour of thinking. Thomas A. Edison Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under. Educational Proverb Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. Jonathan Edwards I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein Don't have any children. It makes divorce so much more complicated. Albert Einstein My political ideal is democracy. Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. Albert Einstein Science without religion is lame, religion with science is blind. Albert Einstein The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. Albert Einstein The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth. Albert Einstein No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein. When his theory was questioned Einstein replied only half in jest the facts are wrong I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George Eliot Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T.S. Eliot Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) I should like to know what is the proper function of women if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. George Eliot We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. George Eliot There are few among us who have not suffered from too early familiarity with the Bible and the conceptions of religion. Havelock Ellis What we call progress is the exchange on one nuisance for another. Havelock Ellis A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before. R.W. Emerson Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. R.W. Emerson Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as concealment. R.W. Emerson No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. R.W. Emerson Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. R.W. Emerson Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform, which dares not yet name itself, advances. R.W. Emerson If a man write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door. R.W. Emerson In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed. R.W. Emerson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. R.W. Emerson God screens men from premature ideas. R.W. Emerson Our best thoughts come from others. R.W. Emerson Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. R.W. Emerson The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. R.W. Emerson When it is dark enough you can see the stars. R.W. Emerson There is properly no history; only biography. R.W. Emerson Take notes on the spot, a note is worth a cart-load of recollections. R.W. Emerson To be great is to be misunderstood. R.W. Emerson In failing circumstances no man can be relied on to keep his integrity. R.W. Emerson We boil at different degrees. R.W. Emerson The end of the human race is that it will die of civilization. R.W. Emerson The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - 'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.' R.W. Emerson Weed - a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. R.W. Emerson Whilst he sits on the cushions of advantage, he goes to sleep. R.W. Emerson There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. R.W. Emerson They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting it again. R.W. Emerson Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters. Nathaniel Emmons There is perhaps nothing more conducive to success in any important and difficult undertaking than a firm, steady, unremitting spirit. Nathaniel Emmons No sooner said than done, so acts your man of worth. Ennius Keep neither a blunt knife nor an ill-disciplined looseness of tongue. Epictetus You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts you will be ruined, for ruin and recovery are both from within. Epictetus In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Erasmus. Prayer for a Pregnant Woman Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from. John Erskine We do not insist that the more saintly of two surgeons shall operate on us for appendicitis. John Erskine He talked with more claret than clarity. Susan Ertz The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother. Evan Esar Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. E. Esar It is the uncensored sense of humour...which is the ultimate therapy for man in society. E. Esar It is for the general good of all that the wicked should be punished. Euripides Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom. Bergen Evans Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning...and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. B. Evans When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man. Dame Edith Evans I gave my life for freedom - this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so. W.N. Ewer But if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. Exodus 21 He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21 The people came to realize that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the result of organized protected robbery. Frantz Fanon If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. William Feather The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift - is taxes. W. Feather Business exists to serve customers, and unless it does that it fails. W. Feather Important work is seldom done when one is feeling important. W. Feather Indifference and inaction must always pay a penalty. W. Feather Wealth flows from energy and ideas. W. Feather All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers...Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. Francois Fenelon Live, as it were, in trust. All that is in you, all that you are, is only loaned to you. Make use of it according to the will of Him who lends it, but never regard it for a moment as your own. Francois Fenelon Let justice be done, though the world perish. Ferdinand I A man who experiences no genuine satisfaction in life does not want peace...Men court war to escape meaninglessness and boredom, to be relieved of fear and frustration. Nels F.S. Ferre Men just don't seem to jump off the bridge for big reasons; they usually do so for little ones. W.H. Ferry I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. Joanna Field Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. W.C. Fields I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. William Claude Fields A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. Martin H. Fischer What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. John Fischer A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. Dorothy Canfield Fisher The most essential feature of man is his improvableness. John Fiske Marriage: It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. Zelda Fitzgerald. Wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. Henry Ford Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. E.M. Forster An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. Harry Emerson Fosdick Always take a job that is too big for you. H.E. Fosdick Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. H.E. Fosdick One of the greatest labour-saving inventions of today is tomorrow. Vincent T. Foss Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application. G. Fowler In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the ONLY sacred thing. Anatole France We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. Anatole France Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. Anatole France In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin No nation was ever ruined by trade. Benjamin Franklin There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him. Benjamin Franklin Remember that time is money. Benjamin Franklin If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it? Benjamin Franklin There never was a good war or a bad peace. Benjamin Franklin Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough. Benjamin Franklin Americans have mastered the art of being prosperous though broke. Billy Boy Franklin Be generous, good and just - when anything is to be gained by virtue. B.B. Franklin If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it. B.B. Franklin Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy. B.B. Franklin Republicans are men who made their money under the Democrats, and wish to see that nobody else is faced with the same dastardly sin on their consciences. B.B. Franklin To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell. Michael Frayn My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please. Frederick the Great All religions must be tolerated...for...every man must get to heaven his own way. Frederick the Great Mere survival is an affliction. What is of interest is life, and the direction of that life. Guy Fregault Man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness - they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. Sigmund Freud The great question...which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' Sigmund Freud No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. Sigmund Freud Put an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement. Egon Friedell Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes. Edgar Z. Friedenberg The first condition is the abolishment of the war threat...This must lead eventually to some form of economic, international co-operation, and planning, to forms of world government and to complete disarmament. Erich Fromm The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers. Erich Fromm There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm As we ascend the social ladder, viciousness wears a thicker mask. Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm The idea that egotism is the basis of the general welfare is the principle on which competitive society has been built. Erich Fromm There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies? Erich Fromm Accounting: Nobody was ever meant / To remember or invent / What he did with every cent. Robert Frost A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost A poet begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost All the fun's in how you say a thing. Robert Frost Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in. Robert Frost A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. Robert Frost The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert Frost Most of the change we think we see in life / Is due to truths being in and out of favour. Robert Frost The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert Frost The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humour. If it is with outer humour, it must be with inner seriousness. Robert Frost A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost. American Poet As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities. James Anthony Froude The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. James Anthony Froude When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Buckminster Fuller A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. Thomas Fuller Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone ELSE does the thinking. R. Buckminster Fuller He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows. Thomas Fuller Ninety-five percent of films are born of frustration, of self-despair, of poverty, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Sam Fuller Action is the proper Fruit of Knowledge. Thomas Fuller The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime. Thomas Fuller Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Thomas Fuller Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. Zsa Zsa Gabor I am a marvellous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house. Zsa Zsa Gabor It is impossible in a democratic society to think of a single measure for the improvement of social well-being which is not subject to subversion by ill-conceived minority or even majority pressures. J.K. Galbraith The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. J.K. Galbraith I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. Galileo Galilei What difference does it make to the dead...whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? Mohandas Gandhi What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells? Mohandas Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. Mohandas Gandhi Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. Mohandas Gandhi Violence is counter-productive and produces changes of a sort you don't want. It is a very dangerous instrument and can destroy those who wield it. John Gardner Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings. Ed Gardner When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. John Gardner The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder. John Garrett My country is the world. My countrymen are all mankind. William Lloyd Garrison Humour is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Romain Gary Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. Herbert Gasser Before being the master of others, you should be the master of yourself. Jose Ortega y Gasset What if Columbus had been told, Chris baby, don't go now. Wait until we've solved our No.1 Priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime; pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred - and Queen Isabella's own brand of internal security. W.I.E. Gates It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. Charles de Gaulle Those who in quarrels interpose/ Must often wipe a bloody nose. John Gay There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. Henry George A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. German Proverb The worst scoundrels make the best preachers. German Proverb I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money, producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers. J. Paul Getty If you can actually count your money then you are not really a rich man. Paul Getty Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. Edward Gibbon I was never less alone than while by myself. Edward Gibbon Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds. Kahlil Gibran Pro football is like nuclear warfare, There are no winners, only survivors. Frank Gifford Instead of the government taking over industry when the war broke out, industry took over the government. Claire Gillis Everyone, when there's a war in the air, learns to live with a new element; falsehood. Jean Giraudoux Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. George Givot Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. Arnold Glasow Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold Glasow Behind every successful man is a woman - with nothing to wear. L. Grant Glickman I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. Arthur Godfrey Hereditary wealth is in reality a premium paid to idleness. William Godwin Ambition and love are the wings of great actions. J.W. von Goethe When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place. J.W. von Goethe Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behavior is a mirror in which everyone displays his image. J.W. von Goethe If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts. J.W. von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. J.W. von Goethe I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time. Bill Gold I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman Silence gives consent. Oliver Goldsmith I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. Samuel Goldwyn It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. David Ormsby Gore When a woman gets married it's like jumping into a hole in the ice in the middle of winter: you do it once, and you remember it the rest of your days. Maxim Gorky. Russian writer Like trying to convince an eight-year-old that sexual intercourse is more fun than a chocolate ice cream cone. Howard Gossage Chastity is the most unnatural of the sexual perversions. Remy de Gourmont Civilized man's brain is a museum of contradictory truths. Remy de Gourmont Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no peace or security. A.P. Gouthey There is more required today to make a single man wise than formerly to make Seven Sages. Baltasar Gracian I have asked you for a moral and spiritual restoration in the land and give thanks that in Thy sovereignty Thou hast permitted Richard M. Nixon to lead us at this momentous hour of our history. Billy Graham There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword. Ulysses S. Grant When a man despairs, he does not write; he commits suicide. George Monro Grant I would suggest the taxation of all property equally whether church or corporation. Ulysses S. Grant If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions you are a gentleman of society. Greek Proverb The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse. Russell Green The real theatre of the sex war is the domestic hearth. Germaine Greer Men ought to be more conscious of their bodies as an object of delight, and women less so. Germaine Greer If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof. Pope Gregory 1 We have a phrase in English 'straight from the horse's mouth.' I never knew why the particular animal chosen was a horse, especially as most horses are generally not very communicative. Joseph Clark Grew Nature didn't make us perfect so she did the next best thing. She made us blind to our faults. Grit Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. Charles H. Grosvenor An Englishman is a man who lives on an island in the North Sea governed by Scotsmen. Philip Guedalla I felt as though my country was stirring deeply within me, like a great gently thing which didn't need anyone's death to survive. Jean Guehenno A fairly bright boy is more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. J.B.S. Haldane If there are two ways of doing something - the easy way and the best way, most people will select the easy way even though it's hardly ever effective. Robert Half There are some who start their retirement long before they stop working. Robert Half Why is it that when a store is going out of business, the store's personnel are always helpful and polite. Robert Half History is philosophy teaching by examples. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. Monty Hall Man's security comes from within himself, and the security of all men is founded upon the security of the individual. Manly Hall Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. Gail Hamilton The truth is so simple that it is regarded as pretentious banality. Dag Hammarskjold To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching is part of the integrity that alone justifies responsibility. Dag Hammarskjold You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute. Dag Hammarskjold Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils. Warren G. Harding Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sydney Harris Intelligence, I admit, is no safeguard if one is determined to leap into disbelief. Barbara Harrison Irreligious men are often better suited for godly missions. Hasidic Saying The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. Lady Hasluck. Wife of former Australian Governor-General A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of the field, just as under a pile of money. Nathaniel Hawthorne I don't want to be a doctor, and live by men's diseases; nor a minister to live by their sins; nor a lawyer to live by their quarrels. So I don't see there's anything left for me but to be an author. Nathaniel Hawthorne Capital punishment: The income tax. Jeff Hayes Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing are not to be trusted with the management of any great question. William Hazlitt Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. William Hazlitt Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. William Hazlitt Actors are the only honest hypocrites. William Hazlitt Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. William Hazlitt Life is the art of being well deceived. William Hazlitt Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. William Hazlitt Don't tell my mother I work in an advertising agency - she thinks I play the piano in a whore house. Head of French advertising agency You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war. William Randolph Hearst. Speaking to Frederic Remington What's not worth doing is not worth doing well. Don Hebb Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. Hebrew Proverb Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. Hebrew Proverb Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. Hegel Any projection that does not expect that we will be a racist and alienated society for a long while is simply unrealistic. Robert L. Heilbroner Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. Heinrich Heine They told me it would disrupt my life less if I got killed sooner. Joseph Heller If I had to give young writers advice, I'd say don't listen to writers talking about writing. Lillian Hellman Callous greed grows pious very fast. Lillian Hellman Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman Style is mighty pleasant for those who benefit from it, but maybe not always rewarding for those who make and live by its necessarily strict rules. Lillian Hellman Courage is grace under pressure. Ernest Hemingway But in modern war...you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened. Ernest Hemingway The circus is the only spectacle I know that, while you watch it, gives the quality of a truly happy dream. Ernest Hemingway Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit detector. Ernest Hemingway Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about the beautiful women. Katherine Hepburn Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. Katharine Hepburn By all means use sometimes to be alone. George Herbert Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. George Herbert Only the young die good. Oliver Herford Manuscript: Something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. Oliver Herford Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge. Abraham Joshua Heschel Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason. Abraham Joshua Heschel A dilatory man wrestles with losses. Hesiod Adults have already been taught to look at things only one way - the accepted way. Eight-year-olds are too uneducated to be that dumb. Karl Hess When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists. Hermann Hesse The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. Paul Heyne Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death. Gilbert Highet The only way women could have equal rights nowadays would be to surrender some. Burton Hillis There's a might big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good. Burton Hillis Science informs us that no two snowflakes are alike, but along about this time of year I tend to feel that when you've seen one you've seen them all. Burton Hillis. Writing in Better Homes & Gardens There is nothing women hate so much as to see men selfishly enjoying themselves without the solace of feminine society. Katharine Tynan Hinkson To do nothing is also a good remedy. Hippocrates The cinema is not a slice of life, it's a piece of cake. Alfred Hitchcock We stand for the maintenance of private property. Adolf Hitler The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. Adolf Hitler By this revolution the German way of life is definitely settled for the next thousand years. Adolf Hitler The Japanese are occupying all the islands, one after another. They will get hold of Australia, too. The White Race will disappear from those regions. Adolf Hitler The day of individual happiness has passed. Adolf Hitler The essential thing for the future is to have lots of children. Everybody should be persuaded that the family's life is assured only when it has upwards of four children - I should even say, four sons. Adolf Hitler The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolf Hitler Truth is with the victor - who, as you know, also controls the historians. Rolf Hochhuth We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for another. Eric Hoffer Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric Hoffer The sterile radical is basically...conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted. Eric Hoffer To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. Eric Hoffer The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right. Quentin Hogg A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise that you can hardly stand it. Then the child departs, leaving the house so silent that you think you are going mad. John Andrew Holmes The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. John H. Holmes Fresh air is good if you don't take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Oliver Wendell Holmes A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The longing for certainty and repose is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion and repose is not the destiny of man. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made! Oliver Wendell Holmes The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes Babies and infants show a style of life, and a desire and ability to learn, that in an adult we might well call genius. John Holt Absolute freedom of the press to discuss public questions is a foundation stone of American liberty. Herbert Hoover Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Bob Hope If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. Bob Hope No poems can live long or please that are written by water-drinkers. Horace Beggars, actors, buffoons, and all that breed. Horace Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. A.E. Housman There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one. Edgar Watson Howe Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. E.W. Howe I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. E.W. Howe Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. E.W. Howe At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world. E.W. Howe The way of the world is to praise dead saints and to persecute living ones. Nathaniel Howe Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. William Dean Howells Prosperity: That condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted; or both. Elbert Hubbard We work to become, not to acquire. Elbert Hubbard If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert Hubbard A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on the way out. L. Ron Hubbard An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. Kin Hubbard A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. Elbert Hubbard An optimist is always broke. Kin Hubbard Poet: A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard I'll say this for adversity; people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity. Kin Hubbard Life is just one damned thing after another. Kin Hubbard Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. Elbert Hubbard Saintship is the exclusive possession of those who have either worn out or never had the capacity to sin. Elbert Hubbard If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. Kin Hubbard The things that really made me miss my train were soft, silky, pleasant, pretty things of which I was not the least afraid. Elbert Hubbard It's no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be. Kin Hubbard To have a full stomach and a fixed income are no small things...however, one may set his ambition higher. Elbert Hubbard Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Kin Hubbard The rich man and his daughter are soon parted. Frank McKinney Hubbard There's some folks standing behind the President that ought to get around where he can watch 'em. Kin Hubbard I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind. Virginia Cary Hudson Humour is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Langston Hughes There are two kinds of directors in the theatre. Those who think that they are God and those who are certain of it. Rhetta Hughes England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. Victor Hugo Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. Victor Hugo Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo Advice is not disliked because it is advice; but because so few people know how to give it. Leigh Hunt The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. Fannie Hurst We do not know what education could do for us, because we have never tried it. Robert Maynard Hutchins The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Huxley Children are remarkable for their...intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are. Aldous Huxley To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Thomas Henry Huxley Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. Thomas Henry Huxley Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. Thomas Henry Huxley In practical life, the woman is judged by man's law, as if she were a man, not a woman. Henrik Ibsen A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time. George Iles I am afraid the clergyman's God is often the head of the clerical profession. Dean W.R. Inge To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. Dean W.R. Inge Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. Dean W.R. Inge Originality is undetected plagiarism. Dean W.R. Inge A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours. Dean William R. Inge. Dean of St. Paul's London The church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. Robert Green Ingersoll Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert G. Ingersoll Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially the legal kind. Kay Ingram It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think. Eugene Ionesco No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world. Washington Irving Of three things the devil makes a stew: lawyers' tongues, lovers' promises, and ungrateful children. Italian proverb It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson In the multitude of proverbs consists the greatest proof of their uselessness as guides to action, for by this means we get proverbs at cross purposes. Joseph Jacobs The nation that is richest in proverbs (Spain) is the one that has proved itself the least wise in action. Joseph Jacobs We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time. P.D. James So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way. William James The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James For a man to pretend to understand women is bad manners; for him really to understand them is bad morals. Henry James Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success is our national disease. William James It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods. William James Faith is one of the forces by which men live; and the total absence of it means collapse. William James The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. William James The more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, is indistinguishable from religious zeal. William James Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge. William James The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlast it. William James We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a hostile and inhumane world...often a deeply felt rage. Samuel S. Janus To teach is to learn Japanese Proverb If you understand everything, you must be misinformed. Japanese Proverb ...and another lot of young people will appear, and consider us completely outdated, and they will write ballads to express their loathing of us, and there is no reason why this should ever end. Alfred Jarry Those who own the country ought to govern it. John Jay Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. Sir James Jeans I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson My affections are first for my own country, and then, generally, for all mankind. Thomas Jefferson I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson When we get piled upon one another in large cities, we shall become as corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there. Thomas Jefferson The tyranny of legislators is at present, and will be for many years, our most formidable danger. The tyranny of the executive will arise in its turn, but at a more distant period. Thomas Jefferson ....this loathsome combination of Church and State. Thomas Jefferson For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion! Thomas Jefferson Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson The hole and the patch should be commensurate. Thomas Jefferson I think that the degree of probability with which racial genetic differences can be stated is not adequate as a basis for policies to deal with racial issues. Arthur Jensen Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Jerome K. Jerome It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope. Pope John XXIII If we become two people - the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other - then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come. Lyndon B. Johnson All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it to be evidently a great evil. Samuel Johnson We do pretty much whatever we want to. Why can't we live in good cities? Philip Johnson Patriotism: The last refuge of the scoundrel. Dr. Johnson Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures. Samuel Johnson I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances, as he advances through life he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. Samuel Johnson Patron: Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery. Dr. Johnson Read over your compositions and, when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. Samuel Johnson No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance. Samuel Johnson The vanity of being known to be entrusted with a secret, is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. Samuel Johnson Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach is the great art of life. Samuel Johnson Oats: A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Samuel Johnson What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. Samuel Johnson The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson Men seldom make passes at a girl who surpasses. Franklin P. Jones If you can't read the handwriting on the wall, your children are probably still pretty young. Franklin P. Jones Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it. Franklin P. Jones What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely. Franklin P. Jones Wearing shorts usually reveals nothing about a man so much as his indifference to public opinion. Franklin P. Jones Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. Erica Mann Jong He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Ben Jonson Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. Joseph Joubert Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer. James Joyce Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to everyone his due. Justinian In the fight between you and the world, back the world. Franz Kafka Anyone can direct a good picture if he's got a good script. Garson Kanin The Bible is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Immanuel Kant A woman who writes commits two sins: she increases the number of books and decreases the number of women. Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. Edward Keating If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all. John Keats Beauty is truth, truth beauty. John Keats Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer. John Keats. In letter of Benjamin Bailey I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats. In letter to J. A. Hessey All women should marry younger men. After all, men reach their sexual prime at 19 and women can reach it at 90. Penelope Keith Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness. Helen Keller Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend. Helen Keller If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? Thomas A. Kempis Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully. Thomas A. Kempis It is much safer to obey than to rule. Thomas A. Kempis Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done. Thomas A. Kempis Man proposes but God disposes. Thomas A. Kempis The truly passionate are little boys. Murray Kempton Teach me to live, that I may dread / The grave as little as my bed. Bishop Thomas Ken War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. John F. Kennedy I am proud of the revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought...the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but the hands of God. John F. Kennedy We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. John F. Kennedy Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated...They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck. Florence Kennedy We prefer world law in the age of self-determination - we reject world war in the age of mass extermination. John F. Kennedy Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy Is there such a thing as Shoppers Anonymous? John F. Kennedy. Commenting on wife Jacqueline I've had an exciting life. I married for love and got a little money along with it. Rose Kennedy. Mother of John F. Kennedy There are three sides to every story - yours, mine, and all that lie between. Jody Kern Tact: Ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his head. F.G. Kernan If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr. American writer Never build after you are five and forty; have five years income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. Henry Kett If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. C.F. Kettering You can be sincere and still be stupid. Charles F. Kettering It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a by-product of his wonderment, to create a new life on the earth. C.F. Kettering Learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world. C.F. Kettering There never has been any thirty-hour week for men who had anything to do. C.F. Kettering Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river. Nikita S. Khrushchev Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes. Nikita Khrushchev An enthusiast may bore others - but he has never a dull moment himself. John Kieran The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing take-over and eventually a fascist society. Martin Luther King Jr. Faith is believing that something will be; or is! Stephen King Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next. Billie Jean King. American tennis player Beauty is God's handwriting. Welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower. Charles Kingsley Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. Rudyard Kipling Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard Kipling He travels the fastest who travels alone. Rudyard Kipling I keep six honest serving-men / (They taught me all I knew); / Their names are What and Why and When / And How and Where and Who. Rudyard Kipling If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster / And treat those two impostors just the same. Rudyard Kipling If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch. Rudyard Kipling Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears. Rudyard Kipling The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace. Henry Kissinger Too bad ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life. Grenville Kleiser Baby: A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Father Ronald Knox. English author & translator We cannot unthink unless we are insane. Arthur Koestler Scientists are Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity. Arthur Koestler There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski The adherents of the status quo never had it so bad. There has always been a conflict between those who feel their values are eternal and those who feel they are relative. R. Kostelanetz Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. Ernie Kovacs Psychoanalysis is the disease it claims to cure. Karl Kraus Between twenty-five and thirty-five you're too young to do anything well; after thirty-five you're too old. Fritz Kreisler Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. Joseph Wood Krutch I don't know how people will feel towards me, but I will take to my grave my love for them, which has sustained me through life. Robert M. La Follette Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice. Charles Lamb Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. Charles Lamb A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. Ann Landers Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. Ann Landers. American journalist Levity is the soul of wit. Melville D. Landon. (Eli Perkins) Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. Walter Savage Landor He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination. Andrew Lang Two men look out through the same bars: / One sees the mud, and one the stars. Frederick Langbridge A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. Ring Lardner As a city, New York moves in the forefront of today's great trend of great cities toward neurosis. She is confused, self-pitying, helpless and dependent. John Lardner How can you write if you can't cry? Ring Lardner For a desperate disease, a desperate cure. Latin Proverb Property is robbery. Latin Proverb Polygamy: The greatest testimony to man's willingness to take chances. Joe Laurie Jr. Spain has her matadors. The United States has her Senators. Joe Laurie Jr. Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence. John Lavater Humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof...The essence of humour is human kindliness. Stephen Leacock Grand Old Man: That means on our continent (North America) anyone with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. Stephen Leacock. Canadian humorist and author People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Robert Keith Leavitt There's always room for improvement. It's the biggest room in the house. Louise Heath Leber At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche. Stanislaw J. Lec Not all women give most of their waking thoughts to the problem of pleasing men. Some are married. Emma Lee The mayor is perhaps the most important single social force for good or evil in America today. Richard Lee It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more frequently of her experience. Ninan de Lenclos The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. Hugh Leonard To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. Stanislaus J. Lescynski A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing A single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing A pun is the lowest form of humour - when you don't think of it first. Oscar Levant Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein Statistics - figures used as arguments. Leonard Louis Levinson When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. Sinclair Lewis It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, as long as you've got money. Joe. E. Lewis A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. G.C. Lichtenberg Ambition and suspicion always go together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg If you have done your best and failed, try doing your worst; you might see your error and succeed. Benjamin Lichtenberg The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly swatter. G.C. Lichtenberg Freedom of the press is useless when people do not understand what they read. Gerald F. Lieberman It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it's because a good one is hard to find. Gerald F. Lieberman Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A.J. Liebling I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Abraham Lincoln Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict, the man before the dollar. Abraham Lincoln Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men everywhere could be free. Abraham Lincoln What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. Abraham Lincoln In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free, - honourable alike in what we give and what we preserve. Abraham Lincoln Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. Abraham Lincoln The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried. Abraham Lincoln You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. Robert Lindner I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for youth. Judge Ben Lindsay Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions... are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. Walter Lippmann Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann I consider world government absolutely impossible to attain. Walter Lippmann There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. Mary Little Slow and steady wins the race. Robert Lloyd A little of what you fancy does you good. Marie Lloyd. From a song All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. John Locke I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. John Locke The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand. Cesare Lombroso Talk not of wasted affection. Affection never was wasted. H.W. Longfellow Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. H.W. Longfellow The male sex still constitutes in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. Lord Longford The elimination of war should be the major task of social education. Konrad Lorenz Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. Konrad Lorenz Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. George Horace Lorimer While doubt stands still, confidence can erect a skyscraper. George Lorimer A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fisherman. Emily Lotney Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime. Joe Louis Stone walls do not a prison make,/Nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. James Russell Lowell I know that a creed is the shell of a lie. Amy Lowell Children are God's apostles, day by day / Sent forth to preach love, and hope, and peace. James Russell Lowell Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon. Robert Lowell There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat. James Russell Lowell So long as a man enjoys prosperity, he cares not whether he is beloved. Marcus Annaeus Lucan ...Woman knows what Man has too long forgotten, that the ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family. Clare Boothe Luce Women should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children. Martin Luther Reason is the enemy of faith. Martin Luther Our Lord has written the promise of the Resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime. Martin Luther Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. Robert S. Lynd Cultural inbreeding is a dominant factor in the selection of teachers; for the most part, children are taught by teachers brought up in the same state. Robert S. & Helen M. Lynd Yesterday is a cancelled cheque; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely. Kay Lyons How much the wife is dearer than the bride. Lord Lyttelton Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power. Helen MacInness ...undergraduates...were always in revolt. They were never static. The only way they could form their minds was by opposing accepted opinion. Helen MacInness It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. Shirley MacLaine The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. Archibald MacLeish He is as good as his word - and his word is no good. Seumas MacManus As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines. Thomas Macaulay In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues. Thomas Macaulay Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. Thomas Macaulay The business of everybody is the business of nobody. Thomas Macaulay We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Thomas Macaulay Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk. George Macdonald There can be no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world. Melvin Maddocks Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other. Lester G. Maddox There is no policy like politeness, since a good manner often succeeds where the best tongue has failed. Elias Magoon Every nation has the government that it deserves. Joseph De Maistre. On Russia in 1811 You show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker. Malcolm X A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account. Andre Malraux The path that leads from moral standards to political activity is strewn with our dead selves. Andre Malraux Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. Herman Mankiewitz. Describing the emergent Hollywood War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann The ideal must be high; the purpose strong, worthy and true, or the life will be a failure. Orison Swett Marden A man must regard himself and his activity as important if he wants to get joy out of life. How, then, can he guard himself against pride and presumptuousness. By regarding everyone else as equally important. Hans Margolius I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments. John Marquand If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve. Don Marquis A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself. Don Marquis Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. Don Marquis An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him WHOSE. Don Marquis Every cloud has its silver lining, but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. Don Marquis An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience. Don Marquis Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis Once there were two brothers: one ran away to sea, the other was elected Vice-President - and nothing was ever heard from either of them again. Thomas Marshall Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. (Rude children belong strictly to their mothers.) Judith Martin In Hollywood if a guy's wife looks like a new woman - she probably is. Dean Martin From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx Religion is the opiate of the masses. Karl Marx The planner's problem is to find ways of creating, within the urban environment, the sense of belonging. Leo Marx I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. Groucho Marx Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. Groucho Marx The workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to gain. Workers of the world, unite. Karl Marx The mutual and universal dependence of individuals who remain indifferent to one another constitutes the social network that binds them together. Karl Marx Philosophers have attempted to interpret the world, when what matters is to change it. Karl Marx He that would govern others, first should be / The master of himself. Philip Massinger We cough to clear our throats / We sigh to clear our hearts. T.S. Matthews It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. Somerset Maugham Impropriety is the soul of wit. Somerset Maugham I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all...They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written. W. Somerset Maugham Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom. W. Somerset Maugham People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way. W. Somerset Maugham The degree of a nation's civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence. W. Somerset Maugham When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever. W. Somerset Maugham The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it. Guy De Maupassant Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. Andre Maurois Un-American is simply something that somebody else does not agree to. Maury Maverick I want to rule by love, not fear. Louis B. Mayer It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. William G. McAdoo A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Peter McArthur Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it. Anne O'Hare McCormick There must be a hell of a lot of people in the world like me - who want to die but haven't got the guts. Horace McCoy The trouble with being a breadwinner nowadays is that the Government is in for such a big slice. Mary McCoy A farm is a hunk of land on which, if you get up early enough mornings and work late enough nights, you'll make a fortune - if you strike oil on it. Fibber McGee. (Jim Jordan) Marriage was all a woman's idea, and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke it becomes us to be grateful. Phyllis McGinley. Canadian writer Winning is overemphasized. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. Al McGuire Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise. Mignon McLaughlin Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. Mignon McLaughlin If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious. Mignon McLaughlin I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. Mignon McLaughlin There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. Mignon McLaughlin To the mind of the modern girl, legs, like busts, are power points which she has been taught to tailor, but as parts of the success kit rather than erotically or sensuously. Marshall McLuhan I'd rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth. Steve McQueen Planned Economy: Where everything is included in the plans except economy. Carey McWilliams Xerox: A trademark for a photocopying device that can make rapid reproductions of human error, perfectly. Merle L. Meacham In the fight for survival, a tie or split decision simply will not do. Merle L. Meacham The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone. Margaret Mead There are probably few children in America who haven't been lied to magnificently about birth and sex. Margaret Mead We must have towns that accommodate different educational groups, different economic groups, different ethnic groups, towns where all can live in one place. Margaret Mead Undermine the entire structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free. Taylor Mead The wife in curlpapers is replaced by the wife who puts on lipstick before she wakens her husband. Margaret Mead Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. Margaret Mead. American anthropologist Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse. Golda Meir Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life. Viscount Melbourne Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich. Andrew Mellon I try all things; I achieve what I can. Herman Melville In adversity a man is saved by hope. Menander Prosperity: You know not how to live in clover. Menander He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. Mencius On children: Life is pleasant, but I have no yearning to clutter up the universe after it is over. H.L. Mencken I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. H.L. Mencken I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. H.L. Mencken The war on privilege will never end. Its next great campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged. Henry L. Mencken A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. H.L. Mencken Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. H.L. Mencken It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. H.L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone might be looking. H.L. Mencken When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. H.L. Mencken No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. H.L. Mencken Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. H.L. Mencken Democracy is also a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses. H.L. Mencken Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. H.L. Mencken Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. H.L. Mencken On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. H.L. Mencken Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H.L. Mencken The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. H.L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. H.L. Mencken Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H.L. Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. H.L. Mencken The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes. Aubrey Menen Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. Dr. William Menninger Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. Owen Meredith Earl of Lytton I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. George Meredith Kissing don't last; cookery do! George Meredith Speech is the small change of silence. George Meredith Ten years ago the moon was an inspiration to poets and an opportunity for lovers. Ten years from now it will be just another airport. Emmanuel G. Mesthene I'm a lousy writer; a helluva lot of people have got lousy taste. Grace Metalious. Author of Peyton Place What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion. Herman Melville If people knew how hard I have had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all. Michelangelo I begin to understand that the promises of the world are, for the most part, vain phantoms, and that to have faith in oneself and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Michelangelo Like challenging a school of piranhas to a game of water polo. Thomas H. Middleton Continental people have sex life; the English have hot-water bottles. George Mikes All good things which exist are the fruits of originality. John Stuart Mill Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. J.S. Mill The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplace, but which all experience refutes. J.S. Mill It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. J.S. Mill Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. J.S. Mill He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. J.S. Mill The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. J.S. Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. J.S. Mill Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. Olin Miller We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests. Henry Miller Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between man and his industry. Beauty is expression. When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful by the mere look she gives her child. Jean Francois Millet Love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. Kate Millett There is no such thing as homosexual or heterosexual...We're so uptight about sensuality that the only people we can stroke as expressions of affection are children and dogs. Kate Millett For every artist with something to say but the inability to say it well, there are two who could say something well if they had something to say. Paul C. Mills Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; / Do thou but thine. John Milton Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton Why should we call ourselves men, unless it be to succeed in everything, everywhere? Say of nothing 'This is beneath me,' nor feel that anything is beyond our powers. Nothing is impossible to the man who can will. Mirabeau A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. Mistinguett Being married is a value: it is bread and butter, but it may make one less able to provide the cake. Naomi Mitchison. British writer I wrote a short story because I wanted to see something of mine in print other than my fingers. Wilson Mizner Hollywood is a sewer - with service from the Ritz-Carlton. Wilson Mizner Poets are born, not paid. Addison Mizner Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. Wilson Mizner If you steal from one author it's plagiarism. If you steal from many, it's research. Wilson Mizner In the battle of existence, talent is the punch; tact is the clever footwork. Wilson Mizner Verily the best of women are those who are content with little. Mohammed That potential alone (to expand mind and spirit) urges man to continue his search - not to wait, as some insist, until he first set his own world completely in order. Mayo Mohs Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures. Moliere Having a daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head...or what. Princess Grace of Monaco I maintain what I have said: If Bonaparte remained an artillery Lieutenant, he would still be on the throne. Henri Monnier I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it. Marilyn Monroe A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. Marilyn Monroe Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives. Marilyn Monroe I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message...the drawing out, not the pumping in. Ashley Montagu Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. Mary Wortley Montagu Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said: 'Somebody else's.' Michel de Montaigne I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly or more wilfully obstinate. Michel de Montaigne We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. Michel de Montaigne My reason is not framed to bend or stoop; my knees are. Michel de Montaigne Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. Michel Eyquem Montaigne The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat. Michel de Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Michel de Montaigne. French writer Virtue has need of limits. Baron de Montesquieu Every man who possesses power is impelled to abuse it. Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu The man who marries always makes the woman a present because she needs marriage and he does not...Woman is made for man, man is made for life. Henri de Montherland If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working very hard, then that means he isn't very good. Helen Wills Moody After all there is but one race - humanity. George Moore Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism. George Moore The poor would never be able to live at all if it weren't for the poor. George Moore Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt. Marianne Moore. American Poet Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. Hannah More Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. Arthur Morgan Love in marriage is commitment. Commitment involves a woman's full surrender to her man. Marabel Morgan Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining the government. J. Pierpont Morgan You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. J. Pierpont Morgan My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. Christopher Morley There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Christopher Morley You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Viscount Morley In politics the choice is constantly between two evils. John Morley Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species. Desmond Morris Economy: Cutting down other people's wages. J.B. Morton Epigram: Any sentence spoken by anybody who is in the public eye at the moment. J.B. Morton Gesticulation: Any movement made by a foreigner. J.B. Morton Monogamy: An obsolete word meaning a fidelity complex. J.B. Morton Prodigy: A child who plays the piano when he ought to be in bed. J.B. Morton Robbery: Any price charged for any article abroad. J.B. Morton If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions. Arthur H. Motley I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. Robert Mueller Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. Malcolm Muggeridge A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. Lewis Mumford Space travel is an extravagant feat of technological exhibitionism. Lewis Mumford Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. Lewis Mumford The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. H.H. Munro. (Saki) To be persuasive, we must be believable, / To be believable, we must be credible, / To be credible, we must be truthful. Edward R. Murrow Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. Edward R. Murrow No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow. of Senator Joseph McCarthy First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity. Martin Myers When you win, nothing hurts. Joe Namath If you aren't going all the way, why go at all. Joe Namath The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with power that conquers all that oppose it. Napoleon Bonaparte A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage. Napoleon Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Napoleon Collective crimes incriminate no one. Napoleon The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. Napoleon If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. Napoleon All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. Napoleon If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work. Ogden Nash Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan What passes for women's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. George Jean Nathan History is a record of human progress - of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective. Jawaharlal Nehru I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth and ignorance. Jawaharlal Nehru I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time. Lord Nelson Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability. Flower A. Newhouse A high percentage of persons over sixty commit suicide. Newsweek Magazine Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Howard W. Newton The thoughtless are rarely wordless. Howard W. Newton If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. Sir Isaac Newton I wish that some one would give a course in how to live. It can't be taught in the colleges; that's perfectly obvious, for college professors don't know any better than the rest of us. A. Edward Newton No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible. Isaac Newton Only when a man is safely ensconced under six feet of earth with several tons of enlauding granite upon his chest, is he in a position to give advice with any certainty, and then he is silent. A. Edward Newton Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. Eric Nicol The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. Reinhold Niebuhr Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. Friedrich Nietzsche One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. F. Nietzsche He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. F. Nietzsche Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the superman - a rope over an abyss. F. Nietzsche The thought of suicide is a great consolation; with its help you can get through many a bad night. F. Nietzsche What thinking man is there who still requires the hypothesis of a God. F. Nietzsche We know very well that without rocks, waves would never come up so high. Roger Nimier The tragic lesson of guilty men walking free in this country has not been lost on the criminal community. Richard M. Nixon We are faced with a choice between the work ethic that built this nation's character - and the new welfare ethic that could cause the American character to weaken. Richard M. Nixon When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. Louis Nizer There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city. Kathleen Norris As to the Democrats or the Republicans, let a man choose which he will, he is sure to repent. Gregory Nunn He hungered for posterity, and he died from hunger. Gregory Nunn Since I moved to suburbia I found out the purpose of those railroad timetables. Without them there would be no way of knowing how late your train is. Gregory Nunn The right man, in the right place, at the right time - can steal millions. Gregory Nunn Permissiveness is simply removing the dust sheets from our follies. Edna O'Brien Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation, while we have uniformly lost by moderation. Daniel O'Connell No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman. Frank O'Connor It was not the apple on the tree, but the pair on the ground, I believe, that caused the trouble in the garden. M.D. O'Connor If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. O'Henry God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. Austin O'Malley When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. Sir Laurence Olivier. Now Lord Olivier Jackie is like a little bird that needs its freedom as well as its security, and she gets them both from me. Aristotle Onassis. Talking about Jackie Kennedy As long as men are free to ask what they must - free to say what they think - free to think what they will - freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. J. Robert Oppenheimer Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent. George Orwell In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Sir William Osler If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted; musicians denoted; cowboys deranged; models deposed; tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed? Virginia Ostman The man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato - the only good belonging to him is underground. Sir Thomas Overbury If you count the sunny and cloudy days through a year, you will find that sunshine predominates. Ovid When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. Tom Paine England has no permanent friends. She has only permanent interests. Lord Palmerston If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you! Dorothy Parker Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. Dorothy Parker The two most beautiful words in the English language are: 'Cheque enclosed.' Dorothy Parker Disappointment is often the salt of life. Theodore Parker Where's the man could ease the heart like a satin gown? Dorothy Parker All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking. C.H. Parkhurst Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Northcote Parkinson The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Ellen Parr We must have a political state powerful enough to deal with corporate wealth, but how are we going to keep that state with its augmenting power from being captured by the force we want it to control? Vernon Louis Parrington In the end, gravity wins Dolly Parton If I hadn't had them, I would have had some made. Dolly Parton. Talking about her bust Anything that is written to please the author is worthless. Blaise Pascal By thought I embrace the universal. Blaise Pascal Justice without force is powerless, Force without justice is tyrannical Blaise'Pascal Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists. Blaise Pascal Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavour to think well, that is the only morality. Blaise Pascal Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it. William Penn Patrick Never tell people 'how' to do things. Tell them 'what' to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. General George S. Patton The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. Cesare Pavese It's my ambition to open a home for the elderly...If people wanted sex they could charge it to the National Health. Cynthia Payne. An English madam Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system. Norman Vincent Peale We are all descendants of Adam and we are all products of racial miscegenation. Lester B. Pearson Believe nothing against another but on good authority; nor report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to conceal it. William Penn The main obligation is to amuse yourself. S.J. Perelman Answer violence with violence! Juan Peron The world belongs to the rascals, Heaven belongs to the good. Persian Proverb A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he's crossing the street. Laurence Peter An assassin is one who takes life easily. Laurence J. Peter Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it. Irene Peter Many live by their wits but few by their wit. Laurence J. Peter All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events. Laurence J. Peter Most hierarchies were established by men who now monopolize the upper levels, thus depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities to achieve incompetence. Laurence J. Peter If it were not for space, all matter would be jammed together in one lump and that lump wouldn't take up any room. Irene Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter The credibility gap is so wide that our suspicions are confirmed by any official denial. Laurence J. Peter Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurence Peter. Canadian writer I absolutely disagree with the theory that you can upgrade the poor by giving them better housing. Kevin P. Phillips Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. Wendell Phillips Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. Wendell Phillips The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpots To be vanquished and yet not surrender, that is victory. Josef Pilsudski Somebody must play the bad parts in this world, on and off the stage. A.W. Pinero Truth - what we think it is at any given moment of time. Luigi Pirandello It's lucky for the people who aim high that most people have no aim at all. Walter B. Pitkin If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never! William Pitt What we have gained by the war is, in one word, all that we should have lost without it. William Pitt Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt the Younger The Roman pontiff can and ought to reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization. Pope Pius IX Man is great only when he is kneeling. Pope Pius XII Christian teaching alone, in its majestic integrity, can give full meaning and compelling motive to the demand for human rights and liberties, because it alone gives worth and dignity to human personality. Pius XI A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Max Planck Courage is a kind of salvation. Plato Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction. Plato Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom; when the passions relax their hold...we are freed from the grasp not of one mad master only, but of many. Plato If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough. Platonicus In comparing various authors with one another, I have found that some of the gravest and lastest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgement. Pliny the Elder I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, 'Action;' and which was the second, he replied, 'Action;' and which was the third, he still answered, 'Action'. Plutarch These Macedonians are a rude and clownish people; they call a spade a spade. Plutarch You know what happens in the beehive? They kill those drones. Congressman William Poage Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. Henri Poincare Work is what you do so that some time you won't have to do it any more. Alfred Polgar An essayist is a lucky person who has found a way to discourse without being interrupted. Charles Poore Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms. Alexander Pope But Satan now is wiser than yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. Alexander Pope Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. Alexander Pope No crafty widow shall approach my bed: They are too wise for bachelors to wed. Alexander Pope Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Alexander Pope True wit is nature to advantage dress'd; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed. Alexander Pope The same ambition can destroy or save, / And make a patriot as it makes a knave. Alexander Pope Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women, gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one. Pope John XXIII To attack a man for talking nonsense is like finding your mortal enemy drowning in a swamp and jumping in after him with a knife. Karl Popper One of the soundest rules I try to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already. Sylvia Porter There is a remedy for everything; it is called death. Portuguese Proverb Boy wouldn't thirty million women like to be where I am now. Priscilla Presley. Lying on the beach between Tom Jones and Elvis The alienist is not a joke./He finds you cracked and leaves you broke. Keith Preston Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. J.B. Priestley Telling the truth is about as healthy as skidding round a corner at sixty. J.B. Priestley The only consolation that a democracy suggests...is that every member of the state has a chance of arriving at a share in the chief magistracy, and consequently of playing the tyrant in his turn. J.B. Priestley The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts, trained minds, sign on for research in biological warfare, and don't give their parents a moment's worry. J.B. Priestley Falling madly in love with someone is not necessarily the starting point to getting married. HRH Prince Charles British management doesn't seem to understand the importance of the human factor. HRH Prince Charles Similes are like songs of love: / They much describe; they nothing prove. Matthew Prior They talk most who have the least to say. Matthew Prior Property is theft. Proudhon Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Marcel Proust Masterpieces are no more than the shipwrecked flotsam of great minds. Marcel Proust Be happy while you're living, for your a long time dead. Scottish Proverb Actions speak louder than words. Proverb Advice is least heeded when most needed. Proverb An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig to a pig. Proverb Beauty is a good letter of introduction. Proverb Better to be proficient in one art than a smatterer in a hundred. Proverb Counsels in wine seldom prosper. Proverb Every eel hopes to become a whale. Proverb God gives the birds their food, but He does not throw it into their nests. Proverb He who would leap high must take a long run. Proverb It is easy when we are well to give good advice to the sick. Proverb It is not good enough to aim; you must hit. Proverb It is the beautiful bird which gets caged. Proverb Last year's actions are like last year's calendar. Proverb Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry. Proverb Take off your hat to your yesterdays; take off your coat for your tomorrows. Proverb The well-fed give better counsel than the hungry. Proverb The world is divided into men who accomplish things and those who get all the credit. Proverb There is no limit to the good a man can do if he doesn't care who gets the credit. Proverb What worth has beauty if it be not seen? Proverb When saving for old age, be sure to put away a few pleasant thoughts. Proverb Where ambition ends happiness begins. Proverb Who begins too much accomplishes little. Proverb With God you can go to the moon - without him you had better not walk out your front door. Proverb Yesterday's hits won't win today's ball game. Proverb You cannot climb a ladder by pushing others down. Proverb He that spareth his rod hateth his son: But he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Proverbs 13 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. Proverbs 15 He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life: / But he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction. Proverbs You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. Bonnie Prudden Wine that maketh glad the heart of man. Psalms 104 A neighbourhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. Puerto Rican worker They exchanged the quick, brilliant smile of women who dislike each other on sight. Marshall Pugh Ten years from now we'll wonder how we ever were satisfied to give no better service than we do today. George M. Pullman Curiously, the more effort one puts into any endeavor, the more likely one is to feel that one's efforts are inadequate. Dilettantes are usually satisfied. Patricia Pumphrey ...in the position of a virgin washed ashore on a Devil's Island of convicted rapists. Mario Puzo Rest satisfied with doing well and leave others to talk of you as they please. Pythagoras Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally find writing, obey it...and delete it before sending your manuscript to the press. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch The only thing on the level is mountain climbing. Eddie Quinn Religion: A great perhaps. Francois Rabelais Every one to his taste, as the woman said when she kissed her sow. Francois Rabelais The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps. Francois Rabelais I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. Gilda Radner His zeal was hollow; his sermons were like students' songs imperfectly recalled by a senile don. John Rae 'Tis a sharp remedy, but a sure one for all ills. Sir Walter Raleigh. on feeling the cutting edge of the axe with which he was to be beheaded Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but it's only the degree to which he thinks that determines the degree to which he'll rise. Ayn Rand Someday I would like to stand on the moon, look down through a quarter of a million miles of space and say, There certainly is a beautiful earth out tonight. Lieutenant Colonel William H. Rankin What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Burton Rascoe Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow. Dan Rather It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan Sexual drive is nothing but the motor memory of previously experienced pleasure. Wilhelm Reich I have come to the conclusion that a person should never accept any statement or even fact as being the absolute truth...No statement should be believed merely because it has been made by an authority. Hans Reichenbach If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth. Hans Reichenbach My father, a good man, told me, 'Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.' Erich Maria Remarque Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none Jules Renard I am not sincere, not even when I say I am not. Jules Renard Whenever I apply myself to writing, literature comes between us. Jules Renard If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. Jules Renard Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Jules Renard I consider that women who are authors, lawyers, and politicians are monsters. Pierre Auguste Renoir A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him. Jean Renoir Foreign relations are like human relations. They are endless. The solution of one problem usually leads to another. James Reston Americans have always been able to handle austerity and even adversity. Prosperity is what's doing us in. James Reston The more potent a man becomes in the bedroom, the more potent he is in business. Dr. David Reuben A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. Sir Joshua Reynolds There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labour of thinking. Sir Joshua Reynolds We are the first race in the world, and the more of the world we inherit the better it is for the human race. Cecil Rhodes What we lawyers want to do is to substitute courts for carnage, dockets for rockets, briefs for bombs, warrants for warheads, mandates for missiles. Charles Rhyne Oh, to be only half as wonderful as my child thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. Rebecca Richards No none would undergo a sex change for a reason as shallow as playing tennis. Dr. Renee Richards A transsexual loves women so much he wants to join them. Dr. Renee Richards. American doctor who changed sex Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it has only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent knees. Jean Paul Richter Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. Jean Paul Richter If adversity purifies men, why not nations? Jean Paul Richter Out of ten people who talk about us, nine say something bad, and often the one person who says something good says it badly. Comte de Rivarol The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. Comte de Rivarol How a minority,/Reaching majority,/Seizing authority,/Hates a minority. Leonard H. Robbins No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. Robespierre Friends: People who borrow books and set wet glasses on them. Edwin Arlington Robinson Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. James Harvey Robinson If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. Dennis Roch It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld However brilliant an action may be, it should not accounted great when it is not the result of great purpose. Duc de La Rochefoucauld We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. Duc de La Rochefoucauld It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. Duc de La Rochefoucauld Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. Duc de La Rochefoucauld Most people judge men only by success or failure. Duc de La Rochefoucauld One often passes from love to ambition, but one rarely returns from ambition to love. Duc de La Rochefoucauld The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdities of bad originals. Duc de La Rochefoucauld We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Duc de La Rochefoucauld Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. Duc de La Rochefoucauld Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem. Duc de La Rochefoucauld The only objection against the Bible is a bad life. Earl of Rochester The only question with wealth is what you do with it. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Our responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. John D. Rockefeller Jr. Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. Will Rogers Anybody can be a Republican when the stock market is up. But when stocks is selling for no more than they're worth, let me tell you, being a Republican is a sacrifice. Will Rogers There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. Will Rogers Never less alone than when alone. Samuel Rogers Prodigy: A child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up. Will Rogers The Republican Convention (1928) opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see his way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking. Will Rogers When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - that's Memoirs. Will Rogers I might have gone to West Point but I was too proud to speak to a congressman Will Rogers The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election year. Will Rogers People want JUST taxes more than they want LOWER taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth. Will Rogers Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. Will Rogers The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. Will Rogers What in the world happened to blue jeans? Do we really have to go to Paris to get a pair of blue denim pants designed - two legs, a fly and some belt loops? Andy Rooney For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government...costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Get action. Do things; be sane, don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. Theodore Roosevelt The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. Franklin D. Roosevelt A radical is a man with both feet planted firmly in the air. Franklin D. Roosevelt We must reform if we would conserve. Franklin D. Roosevelt Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity. Franklin D. Roosevelt The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice. Theodore Roosevelt Remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from migrants and revolutionists. Franklin D. Roosevelt. to the D.A.R. The conservative is the realist, taking over the side of all that is real, abiding, basic, fundamental. E. Merrill Root Youthquake: An eruption followed by a twitch, a tic and much sullen or ashen silence. Bernard Rosenberg Radical: A person whose left hand does know what his other left hand is doing. Bernard Rosenberg Foreign Aid - taxing poor people in rich countries for the benefit of rich people in poor countries. Bernard Rosenberg The Sexual Revolution: Conquest of the last frontier, involving the efficient management and manipulation of reproductive organs for the purpose of establishing the New Puritanism. Bernard Rosenberg Anyone who can read and who owns a dictionary can become an educated person. Hungry minds always become educated and sharpen their mental and emotional tools as they grow in life through experience. Dr. Galen Starr Ross Words are the best medium of exchange of thoughts and ideas between people. William Ross General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind. Rousseau The first of all laws is to respect the laws: the severity of penalties is only a vain resource, invented by little minds in order to substitute terror for that respect which they have no means of obtaining. Rousseau A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman - a married man needs only an excuse. Helen Rowland To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. Helen Rowland No man can understand why a woman should prefer a good reputation to a good time. Helen Rowland When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's mad. Helen Rowland A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women and yet has the art to remain a bachelor. Helen Rowland. American journalist Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. Edmund Ruffin While we are sleeping two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. Dean Rusk Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them. John Ruskin I believe the first test of a truly great man is humility. John Ruskin The saying that beauty is but skin deep is but a skin deep saying. John Ruskin Male domination has had some very unfortunate effects. It has made the most intimate of human relations, that of marriage, one of master and slave, instead of one between equal partners. Bertrand Russell Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to open her mouth. Bertrand Russell Rules of conduct, whatever they may be, are not sufficient to produce good results unless the ends sought are good. Bertrand Russell Men can live without air for a few minutes, without water for about two weeks, without food for about two months - and without a new thought for years on end. Kent Ruth A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. Francoise Sagan I would be very ashamed of my civilization if we did not try to find out if there is life in outer space. Carl Sagan Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. Mort Sahl You don't have to think too hard when you talk to a teacher. J.D. Salinger The more research I do the more I find everything is at random. Somebody goes off in this direction, somebody in that, and who knows what the end result is going to be. Harrison E. Salisbury Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly. Sallust To expect us to feel humble in the presence of astronomical dimensions merely because they are big, is a kind of cosmic snobbery...what is significant is mind. Sir Herbert Samuel Skepticism is a hedge against vulnerability. Charles Thomas Samuels Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. Carl Sandburg One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. Carl Sandburg As for intercourse, I'd say three times a day was about right. Margaret Sanger. Advice to youngsters Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. Antoine de Sanit-Exupery. French aviator and writer I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. George Santayana Children are on a different plane, they belong to a generation and way of feeling properly their own. George Santayana Skepticism, like chastity should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests. George Santayana Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana Revolutions are ambiguous things. Their success is generally proportionate to their power of adaptation and to be reabsorbed within them of what they rebelled against. George Santayana Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are only thoughts. George Santayana Science is nothing but developed perception, integrated intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated. George Santayana You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. William Saroyan Life begins on the other side of despair. Jean-Paul Sartre There are hardly two creatures of a more differing species than the same man, when pretending to a place and when in possession of it. Sir George Savile The universe is one of God's thoughts. Friedrich Schiller I am better than my reputation. Johann (Christoph) Friedrich von Schiller No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand. Friedrich Schiller Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. Johann Schiller The New Leftists believe in the omnipotence of the deed and the irrelevance of the goal. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Violence is fine against simple folk ten thousand miles away and shocking against injustice in our own land. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Rascals are always sociable. Arthur Schopenhauer Style is the physiognomy of the mind, and a safer index to character than the face. Arthur Schopenhauer Ignorance is degrading when found in company with riches. Arthur Schopenhauer The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice. Arthur Schopenhauer There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. Charles M. Schulz Chopin may now publish anything without putting his name to it...it is impossible to be for a moment uncertain as to its source. Robert Schumann Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals. Albert Schweitzer The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others. Albert Schweitzer There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed. Albert Schweitzer There's a time when you have to explain to your children why they're born, and it's a marvelous thing if you know the reason by then. Hazel Scott Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigour, but not a long polar frost of indifference. Sir Walter Scott Syllables govern the world. John Selden For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught. W.C. & R.J. Sellar & Yeatman A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. Seneca Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Seneca A multitude of books distracts the mind. Seneca I would rather be sick than idle. Seneca It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare to attempt them, but they are difficult because we do not dare to do so. Seneca Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. Seneca Life without the courage for death is slavery. Seneca Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. Seneca The ultimate evil is to leave the company of the living before you die. Seneca Brevity is the soul of wit. William Shakespeare I charge thee, fling away ambition: / By that sin fell the angels. William Shakespeare O, that estates, degrees, and offices/Were not deriv'd corruptly and that clear honour/Were purchased by the merit of the wearer. William Shakespeare How many ages hence/Shall this our lofty scene be acted o'er,/In states unborn and accents yet unknown! William Shakespeare If all the year were playing holidays,/To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care. William Shakespeare The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves. William Shakespeare My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. George Bernard Shaw All professions are conspiracies against the laity. George Bernard Shaw Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. George Bernard Shaw A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw Every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic concerning it. George Bernard Shaw Virtue is insufficient temptation. George Bernard Shaw First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. George Bernard Shaw In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. George Bernard Shaw If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. George Bernard Shaw Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue. George Bernard Shaw Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. George Bernard Shaw It is sometimes necessary to make people laugh, to prevent them from hanging you. George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. George Bernard Shaw Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw Science is always wrong - it never solves a problem without creating ten more. George Bernard Shaw No great writer uses his skill to conceal his meaning. George Bernard Shaw Somebody must get the incompetent lawyers and doctors. George Bernard Shaw He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. George Bernard Shaw There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society. George Bernard Shaw If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw The man who waits to make an entirely reasonable will dies intestate. George Bernard Shaw Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. George Bernard Shaw Style is effectiveness of assertion. George Bernard Shaw The more destructive war becomes the more fascinating we find it. George Bernard Shaw The most anxious man in a prison is the warden. George Bernard Shaw The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her. George Bernard Shaw What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married. George Bernard Shaw You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine. George Bernard Shaw When a person excels at something, he should do something else in which he is a novice because that brings him down to earth. George Bernard Shaw When two people are under the influence of the most violent,most insane,most delusive,and most transient of passions,they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited,abnormal,and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part George Bernard Shaw These (prostitutes) are the highest-paid professional women in America. Gail Sheehy Wealth is a power usurped by the few to compel the many to labour for their benefit. Percy Bysshe Shelley Every teenager believes that sex was invented sometime during his twelfth year, and he is dumbfounded to find out later that even his old man had heard of it some time earlier. Jean Shepherd There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Richard B. Sheridan Alas, reason is not effective against faith, or against searches for miracles by the desperate. Dr. Michael B. Shimkin A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. Edgar A. Shoaff The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole. Edgar A. Shoaff Deny it! Sign in the executive washroom of a major oil company A tendency to self-destruction seems to be inherent in the overdeveloped human brain. A.T.W. Simeons Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. Lee Simonson Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention. Cornelia Otis Skinner I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame. General Skobeleff The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people. Logan Pearsall Smith I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. Sydney Smith I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratio. Logan Pearsall Smith What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say? Logan Pearsall Smith All mirrors are magical mirrors; never can we see our faces in them. Logan Pearsall Smith A person must try to worry about things that aren't important so he won't worry too much about things that are. Jack Smith Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Sydney Smith Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment. Roy L. Smith It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people. Logan Pearsall Smith In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigour it will give your style. Sydney Smith To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. Logan Pearsall Smith It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. Sydney Smith The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. Roy L. Smith Democracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings. Jan C. Smuts The closest you can get to your youth is to start repeatin' your follies. Reg Smythe. (Andy Capp) What right have you to think? Haven't you been in the police force long enough to know that? J.C. Snaith The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish. Sam Snead Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope. C.P. Snow The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. Ralph W. Sockman If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. Socrates It is disgraceful not to be able to return a benefit as well as an injury. Socrates Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior. Socrates As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent. Socrates The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms. Socrates Give me beauty in the inward soul; for outward beauty I'm not likely to have. May I reckon the wise to be wealthy, and those who need the least to be most like the Gods. Socrates Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Socrates When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers...we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. Alexander Solzhenitsyn There are some elements of life, above all sexual pleasure, about which it isn't necessary to have a position. Susan Sontag Heaven never helps the man who will not act. Sophocles One learns by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. Sophocles In a just cause the weak will beat the strong. Sophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. Sophocles Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. Robert South He thinks things through very clearly before going off half-cocked. General Carl Spaatz He who has daughters is always a shepherd. Spanish Proverb The only chaste woman is the one who has not been asked. Spanish Proverb He who was first an acolyte, and afterwards an abbot or curate, knows what the boys do behind the alter. Spanish Proverb The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. Herbert Spencer Do not try to produce an ideal child; it would find no fitness in this world. Herbert Spencer The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Herbert Spencer Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies. Herbert Spencer Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. Herbert Spencer Rest: Death after life. Edmund Spenser Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious. Benedict De Spinoza If you want a thing well done, do it yourself. Charles Haddon Spurgeon Beware of no man more than of yourself, we carry our worst enemies within us. Charles Spurgeon Death is a thing of grandeur. It brings instantly into being a whole new network of relations between you and the ideas, the desires, the habits of the man now dead. Antoine de St-Exupery It would be much better if young women should stop being raped much earlier in the proceedings than some of them do. Mr. Justice Stabler Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. Madam de Stael No man can he held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night. Sally Stanford. American madam Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield) Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. Philip Dormer Stanhope (Earl of Chesterfield). In letter to his son I found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. Elizabeth Cady Stanton The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thoroughgoing disregard for it which we practice. Vilhjalmur Stefansson Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it. Lincoln Steffens The profession of book-writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. John Steinbeck A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual. Gloria Steinem A piano is a piano is a piano is a piano. Gertrude Steinway. (Jack Freedman) Nothing makes a man and wife feel closer, these days, than a joint tax return. Gil Stern Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai Stevenson The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. Adlai Stevenson Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. Robert Louis Stevenson A politician is a man who approaches every question with an open mouth. Adlai Stevenson There's something else I dislike just as much as creeping socialism, and that's galloping reaction. Adlai Stevenson An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. Adlai Stevenson The saints are the sinners who keep on going. Robert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. Robert Louis Stevenson Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. Robert Louis Stevenson The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. Max Stirner A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergere and looks at the audience. Mervyn Stockwood. Bishop of Southwark When women have a voice in national and international affairs, war will cease forever. Augusta Stowe-Gullen I like Paris. They don't talk so much of money, but more of sex. Vera Stravinsky We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy. William Graham Sumner Doctrines get inside of a man's own reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines. William Graham Sumner Success is a journey, not a destination. Ben Sweetland 'Tis happy for him that his father was born before him. Jonathan Swift Preface: (Tho' merely writ at first for filling/To raise the volume's price a shilling.) Jonathan Swift Promises and piecrust are made to be broken. Jonathan Swift The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his word. Jonathan Swift Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices: so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping. Jonathan Swift We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. Jonathan Swift If only for a brief moment all the people in the world were united. John Swigert There are certain natures to whom the work is nothing, the act of working, everything. Arthur Symons From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. Publilius Syrus Many receive advice; only the wise profit by it. Publilius Syrus A cock has influence on his own dunghill. Publilius Syrus He hurts the good who spares the bad. Publilius Syrus It is a bad plan that admits of no modification. Publilius Syrus Every child born in America can hope to grow up to enjoy tax loopholes. TRB. (Richard Strout) The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nominated by the Chase National Bank. Robert A. Taft Madame de Genlis, in order to avoid the scandal of coquetry, always yielded easily. Talleyrand. (Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord) Ambition destroys its possessor. The Talmud Why was man created on the sixth day? To teach that if he is ever swollen with pride, it can be said: A flea came ahead of thee in creation. The Talmud A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. The Talmud Grant me, indulgent Heaven! a rural seat / Rather contemptible than great. Nahum Tate If men recognize no law superior to their desires, then they must fight when their desires collide. R.H. Tawney Sex, treated properly, can be one of the most gorgeous things in the world. Elizabeth Taylor A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you. Bert Leston Taylor. American Writer Executions are so much a part of British history that it is almost impossible for many excellent people to think of the future without them. Viscount Templewood The greater a man is, the greater the courtesy. Lord Alfred Tennyson He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. Lord Alfred Tennyson The fiercest quarrels do not always argue the greatest offenses. Terence Nothing is said which has not been said before. Terence I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't: when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination. Terence. Roman poet Security is mortal's chiefest enemy. Ellen Terry I would rather make my name than inherit it. W.M. Thackeray I prefer the old miniskirt to the slit skirt...You don't have to be so 'alert'. Bob Thaves Perhaps the real reason why we have always been able to champion free speech in this country is that we know perfectly well that hardly anybody has got anything to say, and that no one will listen to anyone that has. Editorial The Daily Mail (England) Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you. The Old Farmer's Almanac If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation. The Old Farmer's Almanac It is true that I have never learned to sing, not even to play the lyre, but I know how to make a small and obscure city rich and great. Themistocles To be stylish is a matter of infinite subtlety, whereas to be fashionable requires only that you be a follower. Taki Theodoracopulos There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. St. Theresa We are none of us infallible - not even the youngest of us. W.H. Thompson An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. Francis Thompson We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not be mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. Henry David Thoreau If I repent anything it is very likely to be my good behaviour. Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. H.D. Thoreau It is not enough to be busy...the question is: what are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down and write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau We think the ancients were foolish who worshipped the sun. I would worship it forever if I had grace to do so. Henry David Thoreau I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. Henry David Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root. Henry David Thoreau Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau Colours fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. Edward Thorndike Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on. Thucydides Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. James Thurber As futile as a clock in an empty house. James Thurber Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness. James Thurber You can fool too many people too much of the time. James Thurber In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Paul Tillich The United States spends less proportionately on social welfare than almost any other industrial country. Time Magazine The League of Nations is a declaration of love without the promise of marriage. Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz A despot easily forgives his subjects for not loving him, provided they do not love each other. Alexis de Tocqueville No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. Alexis de Tocqueville Of all armies those which long for war most ardently are the democratic ones, but of all peoples those most deeply attached to peace are the democratic nations. Alexis de Tocqueville There are two kinds of politeness: One says, See how polite I am, the other, I would make you happy. Charles Tomlinson The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. Arnold Toynbee He slept the deep sleep of the unjust. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree Communism is based on the belief that man is so weak and inadequate that he is unable to govern himself, and therefore requires the rule of strong masters. Harry S. Truman 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 never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. Harry S. Truman When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss, and when he's in the Republican Party he's a leader. Harry S. Truman The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them. Harry S. Truman Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. Harry S. Truman Men and women must receive equal pay for equal work in production. Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole. Mao Tse-tung Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly. Mao Tse-tung War can only be abolished through war. Mao Tse-tung Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. Barbara Tuchman Make a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark Twain The human race is a race of cowards: and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner. Mark Twain Be virtuous and you will be eccentric. Mark Twain Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. Mark Twain Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain I never write 'metropolis' for seven cents because I can get the same price for 'city.' I never write 'policeman' because I can get the same money for 'cop.' Mark Twain Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain It is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. Mark Twain When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. Mark Twain The secret source of humour itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven. Mark Twain Golf is good walk spoiled. Mark Twain All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side. Mark Twain The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain Few of us can stand prosperity - another man's, I mean. Mark Twain Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out. Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. Mark Twain I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. Mark Twain In his private heart no man much respects himself. Mark Twain It is easier to stay out (of prison) than get out. Mark Twain It was the schoolboy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so. Mark Twain More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat. Mark Twain Man: A creature made at the end of a week's work when God was tired. Mark Twain Prosperity is the best protector of principle. Mark Twain Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know. Mark Twain The surest protection against temptation is cowardice. Mark Twain The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously. Mark Twain To a warden Utopia is an escape-proof jail. Mark Twain The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. Mark Twain Virtue has never been as respectable as money. Mark Twain What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. Mark Twain When some men discharge an obligation you can hear the report for miles around. Mark Twain Love is liking someone better than you like yourself. Frank Tyger Progress results from not being satisfied. Frank Tyger Your future depends on many things, but mostly you. Frank Tyger Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in giving creates love. Lao- Tzu The more we exploit nature, the more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival. Morris K. Udall The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't; whichever seems likelier to win an effect. John Updike If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money. John Updike Slowly he had come to see that children are not our creations but our guests. John Updike Humour is the sense of the Absurd which is despair refusing to take itself seriously. Arland Ussher It is youth that has discovered love as a weapon. Peter Ustinov By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. Peter Ustinov Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear, but very few can manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency The modern rule is that every woman must be her own chaperone. Amy Vanderbilt It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. Bill Vaughan If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice; if he leaves it empty, he gets actors. Bill Vaughan Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day. Bill Vaughan The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cooky on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. Bill Vaughan The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition. Marquis De Vauvenargues Emotion has taught mankind to reason. Marquis de Vauvenargues Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. Giuseppe Verdi I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely. E.V. Verrall The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized. Boris Vian Women would not be prostitutes if it were not for men. Baroness Vickers For they conquer who believe then can. Virgil The art of medicine consists of keeping the patient in a good mood while nature does the healing. Voltaire All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others. Voltaire The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination. Voltaire Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. Voltaire Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all, and others to persecute those who reason. Voltaire One of the superstitions of the human mind is to suppose that virginity could be a virtue. Voltaire Doubt is not a pleasant mental state but certainty is a ridiculous one. Voltaire One should always aim at being interesting rather than exact. Voltaire When it is a matter of money, all men are of the same religion. Voltaire Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. Voltaire Fear succeeds crime - it is its punishment. Voltaire The spirit of property doubles a man's strength. Voltaire What village priest would not like to be Pope. Voltaire This poem will never reach its destination. Voltaire, on Rousseau's 'Ode to Posterity' Every style that is not boring is a good one. Voltaire. (Francois Marie Arouet) Some people would like him (Albert Schweitzer) a lot better now, if only he had suffered more. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. Peter De Vries The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. Peter De Vries I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. Peter De Vries They made love as though they were an endangered species. Peter De Vries We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. Peter De Vries A hundred years ago Hester Prynn of the THE SCARLET LETTER was given an A for adultery. Today she would rate no better than a C-plus. Peter De Vries The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. Horace Walpole As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler. Izaak Walton That which is everybody's business is nobody's business. Izaak Walton He is without humility who sees it within himself. William A. Ward Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just,/And four times he who gets his fist in fust. Artemus Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. William Arthur Ward Failure...should challenge us to new heights of accomplishment, not pull us to new depths of despair. Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is temporary detour, not a dead-end street. William Arthur Ward Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating. Thomas J. Watson Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say. William W. Watt I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them. Isaac Watts Satan finds some mischief still/For idle hands to do. Isaac Watts I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby. Evelyn Waugh An egotist is not one who thinks so much of himself as so little of others. Herman L. Wayland Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. John Wayne There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me. John Wayne We are tomorrow's past. Mary Webb To contemplate suicide is surely the best exercise of the imagination. Phyllis Webb The chief action for a man of spirit is never to be out of action; the soul was never put in the body to stand still. John Webster To defy external forces, to rise above circumstances, is to proclaim the sovereignty of the human spirit. Chaim Weizmann Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. Raquel Welch I'm a late bloomer. My mind and my experience have caught up to my body. Raquel Welch Fashion is finding something you're comfortable in and wearing it into the ground. Tuesday Weld The law and the stage - both are a form of exhibition. Orson Welles A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him. Orson Welles It's the biggest trainset a boy ever had. Orson Welles. On Hollywood The next dreadful thing to a battle lost is a battle won. Arthur Wellesley. Duke of Wellington I launched the phrase 'The war to end war' - and that was not the least of my crimes. H.G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H.G. Wells No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. H.G. Wells There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice...It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. H.G. Wells A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humour, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. Jessamyn West A curved line is the loveliest distance between two points. Mae West Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs. Rebecca West Sex is an emotion in motion. Mae West Young man, you will soon have to appear before another, and perhaps a better, judge than I. Western Judge. On pronouncing the death sentence. It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. Richard Whately There appears to be irrefutable evidence that the mere fact of physical overcrowding induces violence. Harvey Wheeler I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. E.B. White I believe...that security declines as security machinery expands. E.B. White No writer long remains incognito. E.B. White I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. William Allen White The increasing tempo of urbanization and growth, is already depriving many Americans of the right to live in decent surroundings. White House message in 1965 No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing. E.B. White The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. E.B. White In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. Alfred North Whitehead We think in generalities, we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead Sex is important, but by no means the only important thing in life. Mary Whitehouse Whoever degrades another degrades me, and whatever is done or said at last returns to me. Walt Whitman Adam, poor man! Punished for nothing. Elie Wiesel Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside; they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah, there is the sting of life. Oscar Wilde A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Oscar Wilde Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. Oscar Wilde Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. Oscar Wilde There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. Oscar Wilde Ah, don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde A poet can survive anything but a misprint. Oscar Wilde Caricature is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. Oscar Wilde Anybody can be good in the country. Oscar Wilde The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it...I can resist everything but temptation. Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. Oscar Wilde Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. Oscar Wilde Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. Oscar Wilde When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. Oscar Wilde Cynic: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Oscar Wilde Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. Oscar Wilde Every prison that men build / Is built with bricks of shame, / And bound with bars lest Christ should see / How men their brothers maim. Oscar Wilde Friendship is more tragic than love. It lasts longer. Oscar Wilde Fashion: A form of ugliness so intolerable we have to change it every six months. Oscar Wilde Genius is born, not paid. Oscar Wilde Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Oscar Wilde Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Oscar Wilde In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshipped. Oscar Wilde The good end happily and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. Oscar Wilde Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. Oscar Wilde Political internationalism without economic internationalism is a house built upon sand. For no nation can reach its fullest development alone. Wendell L. Willkie A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. Wendell L. Willkie The real messages of hope in our generation are not those to be bounced from the moon, but those to be reflected from one human heart to another. Kenneth S. Wills The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. Woodrow Wilson Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him. Woodrow Wilson A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie. Earl Wilson Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head. Ethel Wilson My book has sold well but I get more for suppressing than for publishing and I will keep no one's name out for less than œ200. Harriette Wilson I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it. Woodrow Wilson There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. Edmund Wilson There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized common peace. Woodrow Wilson It is not the whip that makes men, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved. Woodrow Wilson We are citizens of the world; and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. Woodrow Wilson I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight. Woodrow Wilson Life does not consist of thinking, it consists in acting. Woodrow Wilson I feel the responsibility of the occasion. Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity. Woodrow Wilson No man can worship God or love his neighbour on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson The trouble with the Republican Party is that it has not had a new idea for thirty years. Woodrow Wilson Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. Walter Winchell Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. Walter Winchell A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. Michael Winner I do wear a size 13, and I want you to know that size is hard, but not impossible, to get in your mouth. W. Willard Wirtz. Secretary of Labour It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all. P.G. Wodehouse Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers, and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves. Laurie Jo Wojcik Men will often say that they have 'found themselves' when they have really been worn down into a groove by the brutal and compulsive force of circumstance. Thomas Wolfe A cult is a religion with no political power. Thomas Wolfe Freud found sex an outcast in the outhouse, and left it in the living room an honoured guest. W. Beran Wolfe Scientific and humanist approaches are not competitive but supportive, and both are ultimately necessary. Robert C. Wood All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening. Alexander Woollcott It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.