Famous Quotes

The 25 Most Notable Celebrity Quotes of the Past 25 Years

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"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."
— Princess Diana, in a 1995 BBC interview, on her marriage to Prince Charles. They divorced in 1996, and she died a year later. The third party, Camilla Parker Bowles, became Charles’ wife in 2005.

2"I’m tough. I’m ambitious. And I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, OK.”
— Madonna in People, July 27, 1992. It was a big year for her, with the movie A League of Their Own, her Sex book and her Erotica album.

3“Why can’t you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone.”
— Michael Jackson, defending his practice of letting boys share his bed in a Feb. 3, 2003, interview with BBC/Granada’s Martin Bashir. The interview led to molestation charges; Jackson was acquitted in June 2005.

4“I can only tell you that it has been an honor and a privilege to come into your homes all these years and entertain you ... I bid you a very heartfelt goodnight.”
— Johnny Carson, saying his final goodbye on The Tonight Show, May 22, 1992. The late-night legend died in January 2005.

5“Well, I can wear heels now.”
— Nicole Kidman to David Letterman on Aug. 2, 2001, after her split from Tom Cruise. Both have since remarried, he to actress Katie Holmes, and she to country singer Keith Urban.

6“In the end, you have to come clean and say, ‘I did something dishonorable, shabby and goatish.’.”
— Hugh Grant to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, July 10, 1995, explaining his June arrest for lewd behavior with a Los Angeles prostitute. Grant pleaded no contest. Girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley stuck by him, but they split five years later. They remain friends.

7“This town is a back-stabbing, scum-sucking, small-minded town, but thanks for the money.”
— Roseanne Barr, in an ad she took out in The Hollywood Reporter for the magazine’s 60th anniversary in October 1990, two years after her sitcom Roseanne launched. The show ran until ’97.

8“I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth.”
— Ellen DeGeneres in Time magazine, April 14, 1997, just before her Ellen sitcom character came out as gay, too.

9“This moment is so much bigger than me. This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll. It’s for the women that stand beside me ... And it’s for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.”
— Halle Berry, at the 2002 Oscars, in her best-actress acceptance for Monster’s Ball. She’s the first black woman to win the category.

10“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”
— Woody Allen in Time in 1992, about his relationship with Soon-Yi Previn, the daughter of former girlfriend Mia Farrow. Allen and Previn wed in ’97. The age gap: 35 years.

11“Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let’s get that straight. OK? We don’t do crack. We don’t do that. Crack is whack.”
— Whitney Houston in 2002 on ABC’s Primetime. Houston has since been through rehab several times, and last year split from husband Bobby Brown. She has been working on a new album.

12“Retire? I’m going to stay in show business until I’m the only one left.”
— George Burns, at his 90th birthday tribute, George Burns 90th Birthday Special, taped Jan. 11, 1986. He died 10 years later.

13“I’m too much of an erratic moody baby! I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”
— Kurt Cobain’s suicide note from April 5, 1994. The lead singer of Nirvana was 27.

14“Psychiatry is a pseudoscience. ... You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do. ... Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, you don’t even — you’re glib. You don’t even know what Ritalin is.”
— Tom Cruise to Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today, June 24, 2005, one of several uninhibited expressions from the actor that summer.

15“For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can’t part with you, which is why I won’t exclude you from this stage in my life.”
— Charlton Heston on Aug. 9, 2002, revealing he has Alzheimer’s. Heston has not made a TV or film appearance since 2003.

16“I’m in shock. And I’m so in love with my brother right now.”
— Angelina Jolie, thanking brother James Haven while accepting the supporting actress Oscar for 1999’s Girl, Interrupted. Since then she has become Brad Pitt’s companion and an upstanding citizen of the world.

17“I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime of the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable.”
— Justin Timberlake, in a statement after the 2004 Super Bowl spectacle with Janet Jackson. His career is booming, hers has faltered.

18“And if they want to hear that I’m dead, sorry, folks. I’m not. And I don’t plan on it.”
— Elizabeth Taylor on Larry King Live, May 30, 2006, responding to rumors she was dying. She turned 75 in February.

19“What are you looking at, sugar-___?”
— Mel Gibson, to female deputy last summer after being pulled over for speeding and drunken driving.

20“That’s hot.”
— Paris Hilton’s trademark, dating back at least to the first season of The Simple Life in 2003. She eventually had the expression copyrighted.

21The jury “was not my class of people. There was not a producer, a press agent, a director, an actor.”
— Zsa Zsa Gabor to People in October 1989, after a jury found her guilty of slapping a Beverly Hills cop.

22“I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.”
— Mariah Carey on MTV’s TRL in 2001, before entering rehab for exhaustion. Glitter bombed that fall, but in 2005 she put out a Grammy-winning hit album.

23“The virginity issue. There are so many emotions involved that I would like to be able to wait until I know I’m with the right person and I’m married.”
— Britney Spears in a 2002 interview with Britain’s Daily Star. She’s now 25, has married twice, split up twice (one annulment, one divorce) and has two kids.

24“These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids — $500 sneakers for what? And won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.”
— Bill Cosby, addressing a Washington, D.C., crowd in 2004.

25“You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. Everybody else you tell the truth to.”
— Jack Nicholson in the April 1994 issue of Vanity Fair. He’s now 70, and no doubt it’s still his motto.

Best Quotes Ever Written

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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul, a waking angel stirs. — James Allen, author, As a Man Thinketh

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach, author

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things. — Bruce Barton,advertising executive

Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. — cadet maxim, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

The universe is a big dream machine, churning out dreams and transforming them into reality, and our own dreams are inextricably woven into the overall scheme of things. — Deepak Chopra, bestselling author

I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he, alone among creatures, has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit, capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man; it can be one of the props to help him endure and prevail. — William Faulkner, Nobel prize-winning novelist

Facts and figures are forgotten. Stories are retold. — Jeffrey Gitomer, business author

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. — Sheila Graham, author

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. — Carl Jung, psychologist

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. —Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader

There is nothing more outstanding, more unusual than life. That makes life, any life, a miracle. So abundantly rare, it has got to be beautiful. — John Kremer, author

The fundamental job of a toddler is to rule the universe. — Lawrence Kutner, author

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. — Ann Landers, advice columnist

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. — Rainer Maria Rilke, poet

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery, poet and aviator

All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit on the ground, they spit on themselves. — Chief Seattle, Indian leader

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. —George Bernard, playwright

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it? — Jeanette Winterson

The only real possession you'll ever have is your character. — Tom Wolfe, journalist

Wisdom Quotes

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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius

War Quotes

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
Herbert V. Prochnow

All war is deception.
Sun Tzu

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
Francois Fenelon

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Colman McCarthy

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
Ulysses S. Grant

I have not yet begun to fight!
John Paul Jones

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George McGovern

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
Joan Baez

If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
Herodotus

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov

Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
Ernest Hemingway

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
Henry A. Kissinger

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
George Santayana

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Carl Sandburg

Sweat saves blood.
Erwin Rommel

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Euripides

The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
John F. Kennedy

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
George McGovern

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
Hiram Johnson

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton

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

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

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
Omar N. Bradley

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
Henry Ellis

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Albert Pike

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
John Stuart Mill

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman

War makes thieves and peace hangs them.
George Herbert

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

War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali

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

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
Benjamin Spock

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers

Time Quotes

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And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?
Tillie Olsen

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Ambrose Bierce

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
Doug Larson

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
Roger Babson

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Boucicault

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.
Tillie Olsen

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis

The present is a point just passed.
David Russell

The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley

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

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.
Henry Austin Dobson

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
Faith Baldwin

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David Thoreau

Time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Saint Augustine

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

You may delay, but time will not.
Benjamin Franklin

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
James M. Barrie

Technology Quotes

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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
William Gibson

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred North Whitehead

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
Al Boliska

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
William Gibson

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
William Gibson

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
Mitchell Kapor

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F. Kennedy

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
William Gibson

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
Bruce Sterling

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
John Perry Barlow

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

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

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
John Stuart Mill

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William Gibson

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Andy Grove

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.
Andy Grove

Men have become the tools of their tools.
Henry David Thoreau

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Linus Torvalds

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
John Perry Barlow

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Tim Berners-Lee

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
Jaron Lanier

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond

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

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor Adorno

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie P. Snow

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

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

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gates

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson

The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Bob Dole

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll

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

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John Perry Barlow

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
Linus Torvalds

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
Thomas Sowell

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
Dennis Gabor

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Scott McNealy

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
John Spencer

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. Kennedy

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

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
William Gibson

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence Clark Powell

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Perry Barlow

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold H. Glasow

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
Meg Whitman

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
William Gibson

You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
John Perry Barlow

Success Quotes

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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
David Brinkley

Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
Dale Carnegie

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck

Failure is success if we learn from it.
Malcolm Forbes

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Dale Carnegie

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.
J. Paul Getty

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan P. Smith

I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Jonathan Winters

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
George Burns

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
Juliana Hatfield

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
Harold MacMillan

Nothing recedes like success.
Walter Winchell

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
Elbert Hubbard

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.
Sloan Wilson

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Dale Carnegie

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get.
Kevin Spacey

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Al Bernstein

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
Charles Luckman

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
Ambrose Bierce

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
Arnold H. Glasow

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
William Feather

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

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
Ayn Rand

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulles

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
Theodore Roosevelt

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
Salvador Dali

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
Larry King

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher

Sports Quotes

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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William A. Ward

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
Michael Jordan

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice

Fans don't boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
Ben Hogan

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Frank Gifford

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Nick Faldo

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
Gary McCord

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Jack Nicklaus

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
Gary McCord

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
Nick Price

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

Horse racing is animated roulette.
Roger Kahn

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.
Ben Hogan

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby

I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul.
Phil Jackson

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Ben Hogan

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Mike Tyson

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn

I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
Joe Garagiola

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.
Ben Hogan

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.
Ben Hogan

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon

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

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson Lynd

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan

Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
Charles Barkley

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy Carter

Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Joe Garagiola

Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Juan Antonio Samaranch

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Joe Garagiola

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
Peter Ueberroth

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
Nick Price

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Greg LeMond

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Ben Hogan

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell

Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Vince Lombardi

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Roger Kahn

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
George Deukmejian

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a baseball player.
Bernie Lincicome

The integrity of the game is everything.
Peter Ueberroth

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Ben Hogan

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
Charley Lau

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Charles Spalding

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Charles Barkley

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Greg Norman

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
Bob Verdi

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson

Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.
Vince Lombardi

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
Greg LeMond

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra

Society Quotes

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
Timothy Leary

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
Paul Sweeney

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is not a fragrant world.
Raymond Chandler

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun

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

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
Charles Horton Cooley

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz

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

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Randolph Bourne

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Bill Vaughan

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm

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 J. Toynbee

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
John W. Gardner

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

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar N. Bradley

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
Barbara Jordan

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Peter Medawar

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Russell Baker

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
Charles Kuralt

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
Art Buchwald

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi

Science Quotes

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A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R. Murrow

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.
Adam Smith

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
Mary Kay Ash

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Jane Howard

Anybody who has been seriously engaged is scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'
Max Planck

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.
Linus Pauling

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go.
Tom Hanks

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
Martin Henry Fischer

He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.
George William Curtis

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
George Santayana

I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
James H. Boren

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Arthur C. Clarke

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.
Robert Quillen

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.
Hugh Walpole

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher von Braun

Leave the atom alone.
E. Y. Harburg

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry B. Adams

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
Howard Nemerov

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

People think of the inventor as a screwball, but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
Charles Kettering

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Sam Ervin

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
Arthur M. Schlesinger

Science does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
Jean Rostand

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
Erwin Chargaff

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
Wilhelm Reich

Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
James D. Watson

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
Ray Bradbury

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.
Ashley Montagu

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

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

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.
Alvin Toffler

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Gertrude Stein

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.
Albert Einstein

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
Mark Russell

There are no shortcuts in evolution.
Louis D. Brandeis

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.
Charles Pierce

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time.
John D. Barrow

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
Ray Bradbury

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
Carl Jung

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.
Alfred Hitchcock

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.
W. H. Auden

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

When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'
Dave Parnas

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.
Heinrich Heine

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Niels Bohr

Religion Quotes

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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C. S. Lewis

Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
Dennis Miller

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"
Annie Dillard

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
Paul Valery

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
Blaise Pascal

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. Lewis

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandhi

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Robert Green Ingersoll

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
Margaret Smith

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Kahlil Gibran

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams

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 or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
Helen Keller

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Bill Gates

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Paul Tournier

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick II

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda

Politics Quotes

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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T. S. Eliot

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
John Stuart Mill

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben

El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
Lady Bird Johnson

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John W. Gardner

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Edward Kennedy

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling

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

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry B. Adams

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan Quayle

I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
Dan Quayle

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan Quayle

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.
Dan Quayle

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Gary Hart

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
Dan Quayle

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
Dan Quayle

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater

I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan Quayle

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
Will Rogers

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Oliver Stone

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.
Dan Quayle

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
William Tecumseh Sherman

If the United Nations is a country unto itself, then the commodity it exports most is words.
Esther B. Fein

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Louis D. Brandeis

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
Noam Chomsky

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
Hyman Rickover

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
Edward Koch

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan Quayle

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!
Dan Quayle

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics nothing is contemptible.
Benjamin Disraeli

In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
Ronald Reagan

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
Sandra Day O'Connor

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
Sandra Day O'Connor

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
Joseph Stalin

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
George MacDonald

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
Dan Quayle

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
Dan Quayle

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
Thomas B. Macaulay

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
Dan Quayle

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry A. Kissinger

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Will Rogers

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Mark Twain

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Lewis Black

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Roger Nash Baldwin

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan Quayle

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Ross Perot

The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Dan Quayle

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
Neal Barnard

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P. J. O'Rourke

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore White

The future will be better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
P. J. O'Rourke

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Clare Boothe Luce

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.
Dan Quayle

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
Maureen Murphy

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
Fidel Castro

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
Fidel Castro

The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

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

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
Herbert Hoover

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping

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

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Gertrude Stein

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville

There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
Will Rogers

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Clare Boothe Luce

This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
Dan Quayle

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
Dan Quayle

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alexander Hamilton

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Bernard Baruch

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
Dan Quayle

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.
Frank Howard Clark

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
Dan Quayle

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart Udall

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
Martin L. Gross

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Dan Quayle

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle

Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle

What you guys want, I'm for.
Dan Quayle

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O'Rourke

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.
Dan Quayle

When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
Dan Quayle

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

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
John W. Gardner

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
Imelda Marcos

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
Dan Quayle

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
Robert Kennedy

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
Thomas P. O'Neill

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
Daniel Hannan

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

Poetry Quotes

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
Paul Valery

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie

A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde

Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot

God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Thomas Hardy

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
Horace

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Plutarch

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
John Keats

Poetry: the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Don Marquis

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
Robert Penn Warren

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
Richard Rosen

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
Jean Cocteau

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
Robert Graves

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John Ruskin

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Joseph Joubert

Peace Quotes

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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

A people free to choose will always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Benjamin Franklin

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau

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

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
John F. Kennedy

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide

It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.
David Borenstein

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt

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

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken

We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war.
John Andrew Holmes

You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro

Patriotism Quotes

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A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
George William Curtis

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
William Ralph Inge

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
Dale Carnegie

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Diogenes

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.
Bob Riley

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. Debs

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
Voltaire

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
Guy de Maupassant

Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
Calvin Coolidge

Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
George Jean Nathan

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Pablo Casals

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
Earl Warren

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
George Santayana

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
Clarence Darrow

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

Nature Quotes

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Lou Holtz

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
John Muir

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Russell Baker

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.
Thomas Browne

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Rose Kennedy

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir

Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
William Wordsworth

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
Joseph Conrad

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
John Lubbock

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
Gerard De Nerval

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Walt Whitman

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John Muir

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.
Sandra Day O'Connor

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Green Ingersoll

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!
John Muir

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Wendell Berry

I am two with nature.
Woody Allen

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
John Burroughs

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
George Washington Carver

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
John Muir

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
Hamlin Garland

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
e. e. cummings

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.
Alice Walker

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Robert Redford

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Aldo Leopold

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.
John Fowles

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
Charles Lindbergh

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
Ansel Adams

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
Cyril Connolly

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
Langston Hughes

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
Anton Chekhov

Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert Schweitzer

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
Saint Basil

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.
Steven Weinberg

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.
Hamlin Garland

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
Henry David Thoreau

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much.
Joan Collins

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"
Robin Williams

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
Doug Larson

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
John Ruskin

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
Henry David Thoreau

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Rabindranath Tagore

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
John Muir

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Jean Giraudoux

The groves were God's first temples.
William C. Bryant

The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
William Ellery Channing

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne

The poetry of the earth is never dead.
John Keats

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Henry Ellis

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo Galilei

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Orison Swett Marden

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
e. e. cummings

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
Marshall McLuhan

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
Annie Dillard

There is no forgiveness in nature.
Ugo Betti

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson Lynd

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
John Muir

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
Don DeLillo

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
Izaak Walton

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
George Santayana

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
Wendell Berry

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen Keller

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
Walter Scott

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
William Hazlitt

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
Hal Boyle

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
Vincent Van Gogh

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.
Hamlin Garland

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Robert Byrne

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.
Ansel Adams

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland

Music Quotes

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn

Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Richard M. Nixon

In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
Lao Tzu

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Plato

Music is a performance and needs the audience.
Michael Tippett

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato

Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
W. H. Auden

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
Frank Zappa

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier

When words leave off, music begins.
Heinrich Heine

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson

You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
Bryan Ferry

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Van Morrison

Movies Quotes

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A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
Alfred Hitchcock

A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard

Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
Roger Ebert

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack

Everybody's a filmmaker today.
John Milius

Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut

Film spectators are quiet vampires.
Jim Morrison

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
Bette Davis

I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
Jean-Luc Godard

I make movies I want to see.
Neil LaBute

I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Francis Ford Coppola

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
Oskar Werner

If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
Woody Allen

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.
Dario Argento

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.
Alfred Hitchcock

In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
Alfred Hitchcock

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
Andy Warhol

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.
Roger Ebert

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
Yahoo Serious

Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
Richard King

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.
Tim Burton

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Nicolas Roeg

Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Dennis Quaid

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
George Lucas

There's an electrical thing about movies.
Oliver Stone

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
Will Rogers

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood

We are the movies and the movies are us.
David Ansen

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin

Marriage Quotes

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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
James H. Boren

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Michel de Montaigne

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
Honore de Balzac

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.
Helen Rowland

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
W. Somerset Maugham

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Paul Sweeney

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
Grace Hansen

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
Sydney J. Harris

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
Isadora Duncan

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
H. L. Mencken

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
Alan King

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.
Marilyn Monroe

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
Jean Kerr

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Ambrose Bierce

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.
Henny Youngman

Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
James C. Dobson

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
Bette Davis

I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.
Lee Grant

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Michel de Montaigne

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.
Mignon McLaughlin

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
Alan King

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage.
Robert Anderson

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
Helen Rowland

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.
Helen Rowland

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost

Love is often the fruit of marriage.
Moliere

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
Beverley Nichols

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West

Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
George Jessel

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Billy Connolly

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
St. Jerome

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Irwin Corey

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
Alan King

Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.
Sophia Bush

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.
Michel de Montaigne

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
Robert Graves

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Ambrose Bierce

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Herbert Spencer

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

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

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
Doug Larson

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand

Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
Elbert Hubbard

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.
Paul Hornung

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Emma Goldman

One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Judith Viorst

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
Honore de Balzac

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Joseph Joubert

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
Groucho Marx

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

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
H. L. Mencken

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
A. P. Herbert

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
Peter De Vries

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
George Jessel

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
Henny Youngman

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.
Heinrich Heine

When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
Helen Rowland

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
Sacha Guitry

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place.
Helen Gahagan

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Benjamin Franklin

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Barbra Streisand

You do live longer with bran, but you spend the last fifteen years on the toilet.
Alan King

Love Quotes

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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Frank Howard Clark

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
George Jean Nathan

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Henri B. Stendhal

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews

All mankind love a lover.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
Rita Rudner

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?
Richard Bach

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.
Boethius

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

Fortune and love favor the brave.
Ovid

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

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

How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
Barbara Pym

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
Javan

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
J. D. Salinger

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
Boethius

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de Montaigne

If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
Erich Fromm

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
Erich Fromm

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.
Miguel de Unamuno

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.
Marcel Proust

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
David Grayson

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.
Javan

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
Voltaire

Love is a game that two can play and both win.
Eva Gabor

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
Euripides

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love is being stupid together.
Paul Valery

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love is love's reward.
John Dryden

Love is metaphysical gravity.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
Judith Viorst

Love is my religion - I could die for it.
John Keats

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.
Miguel de Unamuno

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
John Lennon

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Ben Hecht

Love is the poetry of the senses.
Honore de Balzac

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg

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

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
John Ciardi

Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
Erich Segal

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James A. Baldwin

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Love that is not madness is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John Donne

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Zelda Fitzgerald

Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
Boethius

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
David Byrne

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.
Tammy Wynette

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Tammy Wynette

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
Albert Ellis

The best proof of love is trust.
Joyce Brothers

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

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

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one terminal dignity - love.
Helen Hayes

These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

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

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Henry Drummond

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham

We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Jean de la Bruyere

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
Pearl Bailey

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.
Natalie Clifford Barney

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.
Boethius

Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne Dyer

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.
Werner Erhard

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond

Life Quotes

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert

Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller

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

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou

Life must be lived as play.
Plato

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
Mel Brooks

May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates

Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler

People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
Marcus Aurelius

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

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
Karen Horney

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
Robert Louis Stevenson

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver

We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Quentin Crisp

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus

Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius

Intelligence Quotes

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A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Napoleon Hill

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
Alan Alda

Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

Every true genius is bound to be naive.
Friedrich Schiller

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James Whistler

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.
Dolly Parton

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
Scott Adams

Intelligence is not a science.
Frank Carlucci

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Susan Sontag

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador Dali

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Ambrose Bierce

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh Billings

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Sigmund Freud

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Imagination Quotes

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.
Duane Michals

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
Ursula K. Le Guin

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Pablo Picasso

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
L. Frank Baum

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
Stephen Leacock

Some stories are true that never happened.
Elie Wiesel

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Theodor Geisel

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
Anatole France

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."; And then do it.
Duane Michals

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London

Humor Quotes

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A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward Beecher

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
Jessamyn West

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William A. Ward

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Sid Caesar

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Thomas W. Higginson

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Agnes Repplier

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Agnes Repplier

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.
Mark Twain

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
Irvin S. Cobb

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Christopher Morley

Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Victor Borge

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Leo Rosten

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank Howard Clark

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
Thomas W. Higginson

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
Larry Gelbart

The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.
Jacob August Riis

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Peter De Vries

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
Lin Yutang

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.
Thomas W. Higginson

When humor goes, there goes civilization.
Erma Bombeck

Wit is the lowest form of humor.
Alexander Pope

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby