Testoria's Quote Collection

Quote (#578)

2011-10-18T16:15:00.002+02:00

"I used to think that the brain was
the most wonderful organ in my body.
Then I realized who was telling me this."
- Emo Phillips

"When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide
Web.... Now even my cat has its own page."
- Bill Clinton

"Spare no expense to save money on this one."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"The problems that exist in the world
today cannot be solved by the level
of thinking that created them."
- Albert Einstein

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution,
and I don't know what can be done to fix it.
This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Latine loqui coactus sum
- I have this compulsion to speak Latin

Quote (#577)

2011-10-17T20:17:00.003+02:00

"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."
- Scott Adams

"We do what we must, and
call it by the best names."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who can make you
believe absurdities can
make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and
not a very high-class way to earn a
living. After all, Shirley Temple could
do it at the age of four."
- Katharine Hepburn

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except
there's no music, no choreography, and
the dancers hit each other."
- Jack Handey

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
- Oscar Wilde

Quote (#576)

2011-02-02T11:09:00.002+01:00

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do;
the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."
- Mary Wilson Little

"The mind is not a vessel to be
filled but a fire to be kindled."
- Plutarch

"A man's respect for law and order exists in
precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

"Government is too big and too important
to be left to the politicians."
- Chester Bowles

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
- Arnold Lobel

"Sure I'm for helping the elderly.
I'm going to be old myself some day."
- Lillian Carter

Quote (#575)

2011-02-01T13:45:00.002+01:00

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast."
- Lewis Carroll

"What you do speaks so loud that
I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For your information, I would
like to ask a question."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"At times I think and at times I am."
- Paul Valery

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
- Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch.2 : My Folks, p. 13

"Consistency requires you to be as
ignorant today as you were a year ago."
- Bernard Berenson

Quote (#574)

2011-01-26T11:10:00.007+01:00

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think
wrongly is better than not to think at all."
- Hypatia of Alexandria

"What do you take me for, an idiot?;"
General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970),
when a journalist asked him if he was happy

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
- Jane Austen (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice

"It is always easier to believe than to deny.
Our minds are naturally affirmative."
- John Burroughs

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

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not,
at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it
with every weapon of communal stupidity."
- Robertson Davies

Quote (#573)

2011-01-19T10:41:00.002+01:00

"We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler

"The right to swing my fist ends
where the other man’s nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the
world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."
- Heinrich Heine

"I respect faith, but doubt is
what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner

"Never ascribe to malice that which can
adequately be explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can’t it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Quote (#572)

2010-11-17T20:31:00.005+01:00

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."
- Benjamin Disraeli

The free-lance writer is a man who is
paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
- Robert Benchley

"I can't bring myself to say, 'Well,
I guess I'll be toddling along.' It
isn't that I can't toddle. It's just
that I can't guess I'll toddle."
- Robert Benchley

Tell us your phobias and we will
tell you what you are afraid of.
- Robert Benchley

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is
the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
- Robert Benchley

Why don't you get out of that wet
coat and into a dry martini?
- Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley - Quote (#571)

2010-11-17T20:19:00.001+01:00

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation
for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush,
we spend an enormous amount of time standing around
in line in front of windows, just waiting.
- Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting
down; that's where I shine.
- Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow
death, but then I'm in no hurry.
- Robert Benchley

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the
universe, let him go back to where he came from.
- Robert Benchley

In America there are two classes of
travel - first class, and with children.
- Robert Benchley

Most of the arguments to which I am a party
fall somewhat short of being impressive,
owing to the fact that neither I nor my
opponent knows what we are talking about.
- Robert Benchley

Robert Benchley - Quote (#570)

2010-11-17T20:15:00.002+01:00

An ardent supporter of the hometown
team should go to a game prepared to
take offense, no matter what happens.
- Robert Benchley

As for me, except for an occasional heart
attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
- Robert Benchley

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
- Robert Benchley

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children,
as they are already stretched and pulled to
such a length that the child cannot do much
harm one way or the other.
- Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people,
and people are such fools to begin
with that it's compounding a felony.
- Robert Benchley

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a
woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
- Robert Benchley

Quote (#569)

2010-11-09T14:13:00.000+01:00

Unless you remove the weeds,
a good crop will be ruined.
- General Sadao Araki

The sword is our steel Bible!
- General Sadao Araki

"The four building blocks of the universe
are fire, water, gravel and vinyl."
Dave Barry

Conquer yourself rather than the world.
- Descartes

You never really lose until you quit trying.
- Mike Ditka

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Quote (#568)

2010-10-29T10:58:00.009+02:00

"God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it."
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996), Contact

"The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice, I.iii

"Not only is there no God, but
try finding a plumber on Sunday."
- Woody Allen (1935-)

"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"All for one; one for all."
- Alexander Dumas (1824-1895)

"You laugh at me because I am different, but
I laugh at you because you are all the same."
- Unknown

Quote (#567)

2010-06-29T13:52:00.007+02:00

"Give me a museum and I’ll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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

"If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words,
'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult
to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death."
- Eddie Izzard

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

"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that
my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
- Joan Rivers

"If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell
him is ‘God is crying’. And if he asks why God is crying, another
cute thing to tell him is ‘Probably because of something you did’."
- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

Quote (#566)

2010-01-28T21:15:00.003+01:00

"Some editors are failed writers,
but so are most writers."
- T. S. Eliot

"I think Superman should go on the Larry King
show and announce that he would come back to
life if people in all 50 states wanted him to."
- Dave Barry

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy
family is unhappy in its own way."
- Leo Tolstoy

"I'm a born-again atheist."
- Gore Vidal

"Don’t be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978), to a visiting diplomat

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and
I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling

Quote (#565)

2010-01-24T21:15:00.000+01:00

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in
America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
- Clive James

"Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction
to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it."
- Alvin Toffler

"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness
is being free to do anything."
- Floyd Dell

"If I were two-faced, would
I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln

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

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
- H. L. Mencken

Mark Twain - Quote (#564)

2010-01-20T21:15:00.001+01:00

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring in nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

There is nothing so annoying as
to have two people go right on
talking when you're interrupting.
- Mark Twain

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most
precious possession, what there is of it."
- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side
of the majority, it is time to reform."
- Mark Twain

"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books
alone would make a fairly good library out
of a library that hadn't a book in it."
- Mark Twain

Mark Twain - Quote (#563)

2010-01-16T21:15:00.000+01:00

"Humor is a good thing. A saving thing."
- Mark Twain

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah
and his party did not miss the boat."
Mark Twain

"The human race has one really effective
weapon, and that is laughter."
- Mark Twain

"Climate is what we expect,
weather is what we get."
- Mark Twain

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without
knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a
boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the
thing difficult to obtain."
- Mark Twain

"Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Quote (#562)

2009-12-27T19:08:00.004+01:00

"The trouble with normal
is it always gets worse."
- Bruce Cockburn

"I sang in the choir for years, even though
my family belonged to another church."
- Paul Lynde

"The truth is that many people set
rules to keep from making decisions."
- Mike Krzyzewski

"Did you ever walk into a room and
forget why you walked in? I think
that's how dogs spend their lives."
- Sue Murphy

"The only sure thing about luck
is that it will change."
- Bret Harte

"The way to write American music is simple.
All you have to do is be an American and
then write any kind of music you wish."
- Virgil Thomson

Quote (#561)

2009-12-17T17:55:00.003+01:00

"2 is not equal to 3, not even
for large values of 2."
- Grabel's Law

"War is not nice."
- Barbara Bush

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his
own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
- Donald Foster

"Man forgives woman anything
save the wit to outwit him."
- Minna Thomas Antrim

"There is a coherent plan in the universe,
though I don't know what it's a plan for."
- Fred Hoyle

"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

Quote (#560)

2009-12-13T19:47:00.001+01:00

"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you, I
never answer letters and you don't like my tie."
- The Doctor, Doctor Who

"You cannot slander human nature; it
is worse than words can paint it."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Tradition is what you resort to
when you don't have the time or
the money to do it right."
- Kurt Herbert Alder

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

"If two men agree on everything, you may be
sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
- Lyndon B. Johnson

"There is an evil tendency underlying all
our technology - the tendency to do what
is reasonable even when it isn't any good."
- Robert Pirsig

Quote (#559)

2009-11-24T17:00:00.000+01:00

"The object of war is not to die for your country,
but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"It is better to be feared than
loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"When a man is wrapped up in himself
he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"I choose a block of marble and
chop off whatever I don’t need."
- Rodin

"Copy from one, it’s plagiarism;
copy from two, it’s research."
- Wilson Mizner

"University politics are vicious precisely
because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

Quote (#558)

2009-11-22T16:00:00.000+01:00

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservative."
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

"I like to play poker with politicians. They’re
easy to beat. Sometimes in poker it’s smarter to
lose with a winning hand so that you can win later
with a losing hand. Politicians can’t accept that."
- Havana (1990)

"The worst part about politics is that you're
always right and no one ever knows it."
- Unknown

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare,
terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo,
Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they
had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy
and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock."
- Orson Welles (1915-1985)

"Its not the size of the dog in the fight,
its the size of the fight in the dog."
- Mark Twain

"When the only tool you own is a hammer,
every problem begins to resemble a nail."
- Abraham Maslow

Quote (#557)

2009-11-20T15:00:00.000+01:00

"Become who you are."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people
together to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"We ought to be more focused on enemies without
than preoccupied with finding them within."
- Alan Wolfe

"A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal,
has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and
is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon

Quote (#556)

2009-11-15T16:30:00.000+01:00

"If one sticks too rigidly to
one's principles, one would
hardly see anybody."
- Agatha Christie

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do
not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean
that if you are happy you will be good."
- Bertrand Russell

"The smaller the mind the
greater the conceit."
- Aesop

"A person is never happy except at
the price of some ignorance."
- Anatole France

"I grew up with six brothers. That's
how I learned to dance - waiting
for the bathroom."
- Bob Hope

"If God had wanted us to vote, he
would have given us candidates."
- Jay Leno

Quote (#555)

2009-11-12T16:30:00.000+01:00

The only fool bigger than the person who knows
it all is the person who argues with him.
- Anonymous

"Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition
that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is
unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
- G. K. Chesterton

The truly educated man is that rare individual
who can separate reality from illusion.
- Anonymous

"I hate women because they
always know where things are."
- James Thurber

"An opinion should be the result of
thought, not a substitute for it."
- Jef Mallett

Quote (#554)

2009-11-09T16:30:00.002+01:00

The greatest hindrance to
freedom Is inert people.
- Anonymous

"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important
principle of life that the most likely way to reach a
goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at
some more ambitious goal beyond it."
- Arnold Toynbee

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are
too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
- Charles De Gaulle

The haves and have nots can often be
traced back to the dids and did nots.
- Anonymous

"Speech is conveniently located midway
between thought and action, where it
often substitutes for both."
- John Andrew Holmes

"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not
unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of
thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what
we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
- Richard Feynman

Quote (#553)

2009-11-06T16:30:00.000+01:00

Some people are like a callus; they always
show up when the work is finished.
- Anonymous

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot
live without and know we cannot live within."
- James A. Baldwin

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing
long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
- Andy Warhol

The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra.
- Anonymous

"That's the motivation
of an artist - to seek
attention of some kind."
- James Taylor

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

Quote (#552)

2009-11-05T16:30:00.000+01:00

Practice random beauty and
senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

"Setting a good example for children
takes all the fun out of middle age."
- William Feather

"I have just returned from Boston. It is the only
sane thing to do if you find yourself up there."
- Fred Allen

Short change your education now and you may
be short of change the rest of your life.
- Anonymous

"Love dies only when growth stops."
- Pearl S. Buck

"A good film is when the price of
the dinner, the theatre admission
and the babysitter were worth it."
- Alfred Hitchcock

Quote (#551)

2009-11-03T16:30:00.000+01:00

Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Anonymous

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

Education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of the nature.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Opportunity: A good chance that always
looks bigger going than coming.
- Anonymous

"We love but once, for once only are
we perfectly equipped for loving."
- Cyril Connolly

"Familiar acts are beautiful through love."
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Quote (#550)

2009-10-30T20:15:00.000+01:00

"The art of simplicity is
a puzzle of complexity."
- Douglas Horton

"One doesn't have a sense
of humor. It has you."
- Larry Gelbart

"Before a war military science seems a
real science, like astronomy; but after
a war it seems more like astrology."
- Rebecca West

"The world tolerates conceit from those who
are successful, but not from anybody else."
- John Blake

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world
by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock."
- Ben Hecht

"Friends may come and go,
but enemies accumulate."
- Thomas Jones

Quote (#549)

2009-10-30T20:00:00.008+01:00

"You know you're getting old when you stoop
to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else
you could do while you're down there."
- George Burns

"What I look forward to is continued
immaturity followed by death."
- Dave Barry

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's
the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"Youth is the gift of nature,
but age is a work of art."
- Stanislaw Lec

"It is good to be without vices, but it
is not good to be without temptations."
- Walter Bagehot

"A life of pleasure makes even the
strongest mind frivolous at last."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Quote (#548)

2009-10-30T15:15:00.000+01:00

"Who is more busy than he
who hath least to do?"
- John Clarke

"I'm just a person trapped
inside a woman's body."
- Elayne Boosler

"A facility for quotation covers
the absence of original thought."
- Dorothy L. Sayers

"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is
no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere
pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."
- Phillip Lopate

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be feasible."
- A Yale University management professor,
in response to student Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express)

"Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult
human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250"
- Harper's Index

Quote (#547)

2009-10-30T15:00:00.000+01:00

"Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept
an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding
that it can't be taken on its own merits."
- Dan Barker

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated
by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'."
- Michael McClary

"We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately,
we were married for four and a half years."
- Nick Faldo

"A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark,
"You should make a point of trying every experience once,
excepting incest and folk dancing.""
- Sir Arnold Bax

Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his
life is in some sense exemplary, that the
particular will turn out to be universal.
- Martin Amis

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on
your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The
eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
~ Bill Hicks

Quote (#546)

2009-10-29T17:00:00.007+01:00

"Good judgment comes from experience,
and experience comes from bad judgment."
- Barry LePatner

"First you're an unknown, then you write
one book and you move up to obscurity."
- Martin Myers

"An honest politician is one who,
when he is bought, will stay bought."
- Simon Cameron

"Sanity calms, but madness
is more interesting."
- John Russell

"Wagner's music is
better than it sounds."
- Edgar Wilson Nye

"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some
of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
- Tennessee Williams

Quote (#545)

2009-10-29T16:45:00.008+01:00

When two people love each other,
they don't look at each other,
they look in the same direction.
- Ginger Rogers 1911-1995

Lots of people know a good thing the
minute the other fellow sees it first.
- Job E. Hedges

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, a life
is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold
fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is
a berry field frozen with snow.
- Langston Hughes

"A baby is born with a need to be
loved - and never outgrows it."
- Frank Howard Clark

"Dreaming permits each and every
one of us to be quietly and safely
insane every night of our lives."
- William Dement

"Anyone who works is a fool. I
don't work - I merely inflict
myself upon the public."
- Robert Morley

Quote (#544)

2009-10-29T16:30:00.007+01:00

"A mighty pain to love it is, and
'tis a pain that pain to miss; but
of all the pains, the greatest pain
is to love, but love in vain."
- Abraham Crowley

"Love is not blind - It sees more
and not less, but because it sees
more it is willing to see less."
- Will Moss

"You call it madness,
but I call it love."
- Don Byas

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

Love is like war: easy
to begin, hard to end.
- Fortune Cookie

Love is the irresistible desire
to be desired irresistibly.
- Louis Ginsberg 1873-1953

Quote (#543)

2009-10-29T16:15:00.000+01:00

Patience and perseverance have a magical
effect before which difficulties
disappear and obstacles vanish.
- John Quincy Adams

A dog is a dog,
a bird is a bird,
and a cat is a person.
Mugsy Peabody

Wise is resolve, and
patient to perform.
- Homer

I leave before being left. I decide.
- Brigitte Bardot

It is man-like to punish
but God-like to forgive.
- Peter Von Winter

A man falls in love through his
eyes, a woman through her ears.
- Woodrow Wyatt

Quote (#542)

2009-10-29T16:00:00.000+01:00

It's not hard to make decisions
when you know what your values are.
- Roy Disney

"The entire fruit is already
present in the seed."
- Tertullian

"Love can be unselfish, in the
sense of being benevolent and
generous, without being selfless."
- Mortimer Adler

"We love even when our
love is not requited."
- Mortimer Adler

"The pleasures of love are always
in proportion to our fears."
- Stendhal

With what are your children living?
- Dorothy L. Nolte

Quote (#541)

2009-10-27T16:00:00.006+01:00

"All gardening is landscape painting."
- William Kent

"I prefer drawing to talking.
Drawing is faster, and leaves
less room for lies."
- Le Corbusier

"The greatest strength is gentleness."
- Iroquois Proverb

"The spring of love becomes
hidden and soon filled up."
- Max Muller

Attempt the impossible in
order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis

Your only treasures are those
which you carry in your heart.
- Demophilus

Quote (#540)

2009-10-27T15:55:00.001+01:00

"To sit alone with my conscience
will be judgment enough for me."
- Charles William Stubbs

"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided
that idea is not quite clear to him."
- Paul Eldridge

"There are two ways to pass a hurdle:
leaping over or plowing through... There
needs to be a monster truck option."
- Jeph Jacques

"Politics is made up
largely of irrelevancies."
- Dalton Camp

"Examinations are formidable even to the
best prepared, for the greatest fool may
ask more than the wisest man can answer."
- Charles Caleb Colton

"Nature's far too subtle
to repeat herself."
- Paul Muni

Quote (#539)

2009-10-27T15:45:00.000+01:00

"Hell is paved with good samaritans."
- William M. Holden

"Obviously crime pays, or
there'd be no crime."
- G. Gordon Liddy

"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material
shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive
bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes.""
- H. E. Martz

"Man has to suffer. When he has no
real afflictions, he invents some."
- Jose Marti

"Everybody lies, but it doesn't
matter because nobody listens."
- Nick Diamos

"It is time I stepped aside for a less
experienced and less able man."
- Scott Elledge

Quote (#538)

2009-10-25T23:11:00.005+01:00

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
- Georges Danton (1759-1794), to his executioner

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to
make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their
minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects,
teach them to think straight, if possible.
- Robert M. Hutchins

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

Knowledge is of two kinds - that which is absorbed
and that which is just heard. The one that is heard
does not give benefit unless it is absorbed.
- Islamic Saying

"A religion contradicting science and a science
contradicting religion are equally false."
- P. D. Ouspensky (1878-1947)

Quote (#537)

2009-10-24T00:45:00.002+02:00

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
- Derek Bok (1930-), Harvard University President

"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..."
- General John Sedgwick (1813-1864), last words

Life's an open book and an education
helps you write success stories.
- Joyce A. Myers

Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Ariel Durant

The ink of a scholar is more
sacred than the blood of a martyr.
- Islamic Saying

"Science has proof without any certainty.
Creationists have certainty without any proof."
- Ashley Montague (1905-1999)

Quote (#536)

2009-10-24T00:39:00.004+02:00

"Never forget that it is the spirit
with which you endow your work
that makes it useful or futile."
- Adelaide Hasse (1868-1953)

"It is impossible to defeat
an ignorant man in argument."
- William Gibbs McAdoo

"Heav’n hath no rage like love to hatred turn’d,
Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d."
- William Congreve (1670-1729)

"Man’s highest joy is in victory: to conquer one’s enemies;
to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to
make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to
embrace their wives and daughters."
- Genghis Khan

"Good teaching is one-forth preparation
and three-fourths theater."
- Gail Godwin

"Learning is what most adults will
do for a living in the 21st century."
- Perelman

Quote (#535)

2009-10-20T21:34:00.007+02:00

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
- Pierre Laplace (1749-1827),
to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God.

"If everything is under control,
you are going too slow."
- Mario Andretti

"We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- Harry Morris Warner (1881-1958),
co-founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927

"Be lions roaring through
the forests of knowledge."
- Bahá'í Scriptures

"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them
with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of
waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them
you will reach your destiny."
- Carl Schurz (1829-1906)

Quote (#534)

2009-10-20T21:22:00.010+02:00

Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion has no hold on
the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early
education be rather a sort of amusement; this will better
enable you to find out the natural bent of the child.
- Plato

Action is character
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Life is a moderately good play
with a badly written third act."
- Truman Capote

"I have opinions of my own -- strong
opinions -- but I don't always agree with them."
- George Bush

"Nobody believes the official spokesman...
but everybody trusts an unidentified source."
- Ron Nesen

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor
of the idea that life is serious."
- Brendan Gill

Quote (#533)

2009-10-19T17:37:00.010+02:00

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does
absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
- Harry Shearer

"All the world's a stage and most
of us are desperately unrehearsed."
- Sean O'Casey

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase;
if you pursue happiness you'll never find it."
- C. P. Snow

"I've wrestled with reality for 35
years, Doctor, and I'm happy to
state I finally won out over it."
- Mary Chase

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us
as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
- Epicurus

Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and
women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It
is, instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables
them to face those storms with hope and serenity.
- Sam Ervin

Quote (#532)

2009-10-19T17:29:00.008+02:00

We may have all come to this
country on different ships, but
we're in the same boat now.
- Dr. Tony Evans

"How can I lose to such an idiot?"
- Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935), Chessmaster

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that
you are facing a contradiction, check your premises.
You will find that one of them is wrong."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956), Chessmaster

"Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon
who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just
shout the loudest, but science hinges upon whether
its conclusions resemble what actually happens."
- Ian Stewart (1945-)

"A goodly number of scientists are not only
narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid."
- James D. Watson (1928-)

Quote (#531)

2009-10-19T17:24:00.008+02:00

"Men are like steel. when they lose
their temper, they lose their worth."
- Chuck Norris (1940-)

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit."
- Sir Frederick G. Banting

"I learn something every time
I go into the mountains."
- Michael Kennedy

"The sky lovingly smiles on
the earth and her children."
- Henry Morton Stanley

"Music happens to be an art form
that transcends language."
- Herbie Hancock

"That's the motivation of an artist - to
seek attention of some kind."
- James Taylor

Quote (#530)

2009-10-19T17:16:00.006+02:00

"NEW YORK, NY. A man was knocked down by a car and got up uninjured,
but lay back down in front of the car when a bystander told him to
feign injury in order to collect insurance money. The car rolled
forward and crushed him to death."
- Associated Press, 1977

"Sometimes when reading Goethe
I have the paralyzing suspicion
that he is trying to be funny."
- Guy Davenport (1927-)

"In order to keep a true perspective of
one’s importance, everyone should have
a dog that will worship him and a
cat that will ignore him."
- Dereke Bruce

"I would like to be able to admire a man’s
opinions as I would his dog - without being
expected to take it home with me."
- Frank A. Clark

"You can get anything you want at
Alice’s Restaurant (excepting Alice)."
- Arlo Guthrie (1947-)

"The difference between pornography
and erotica is lighting."
- Gloria Leonard

Quote (#529)

2009-10-18T14:11:00.008+02:00

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is."
- William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (1946-), August 17, 1998

"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters
bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all
they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because
you are good is like expecting the bull not to
charge because you are a vegetarian."
- Dennis Wholey (1937-)

"Why don’t you write books people can read?"
- Nora Joyce,
to her husband James (1882-1941)

They write about these kind of cases in the Private
Eye Handbook, Lady! Something about a ten foot pole...
- Andrew Dice Clay,
in "The Adventures of Ford Fairlane"

"Show me a sane man and
I will cure him for you."
- C. G. Jung
(1875-1961)

Quote (#528)

2009-10-18T13:44:00.010+02:00

"The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful
and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying
to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be
stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those
that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation
and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically
refused to believe in a god, to heaven."
- Nicholas Yee

"The percent likelihood of a society becoming physically violent
if it is physically affectionate towards its infants and tolerant
of premarital sexual behavior is 2 percent. The probability of
this relationship occurring by chance is 125,000 to one. I am
not aware of any other developmental variable that has such a
high degree of predictive validity."
- James W. Prescott, 1975

"When they took the Fourth Amendment,
I was silent because I don’t deal drugs.
When they took the Sixth Amendment,
I kept quiet because I know I’m innocent.
When they took the Second Amendment,
I said nothing because I don’t own a gun.
Now they’ve come for the First Amendment,
and I can’t say anything at all."
- Tim Freeman

In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the
bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered,
"I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions,
"but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."
- Talmud

"Democracy does not guarantee equality
of conditions - it only guarantees
equality of opportunity."
- Irving Kristol

"I don’t know anything about music.
In my line you don’t have to."
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

Quote (#527)

2009-10-18T13:26:00.006+02:00

"A man with a watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure."
- Segal's Law

"Don't worry about people stealing an
idea. If it's original, you will have
to ram it down their throats."
- Howard Aiken

"The worst moment for the atheist is when he
is really thankful and has nobody to thank."
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

"Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate, Our deepest fear is that
we are powerful beyond measure."
- Aung San Suu

"It was beautiful and simple,
as truly great swindles are."
- O. Henry

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer
god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other
possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
- Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)

Quote (#526)

2009-10-18T13:16:00.003+02:00

The test and the use of man's education is that
he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Jacques Martin Barzun

A sense of curiosity is Nature's
original school of education.
- Smiley Blanton

The highest purpose of intellectual culture is to give a
man perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
- Novalis

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been
in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope

Fly the pleasure that bites tomorrow.
- George Herbert

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- Bill Gates, 1981

Quote (#525)

2009-10-16T09:36:00.003+02:00

"317 is a prime, not because we think so, or
because our minds are shaped in one way rather
than another, but because it is so, because
mathematical reality is built that way."
- Godfrey Hardy (1877-1947)

"Spring is a true
reconstructionist."
- Henry Timrod

Our deeds determine us, as much
as we determine our deeds.
- George Elliot

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are
those in which there is much agreement, much
disputation, and yet more personal liking.
- George Eliot

Perseverance is not a long race; it is
many short races one after another!
- Walter Elliott

"Loved. You can't use it in the past tense.
Death does not stop that love at all."
- Ken Kesey

Quote (#524)

2009-10-14T17:13:00.010+02:00

"Reality is something you rise above."
- Liza Minnelli

"If you haven't found something strange during
the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
- John A. Wheeler

"If you look good and dress well,
you don't need a purpose in life."
- Robert Pante

"Hindsight is always twenty-twenty."
- Billy Wilder

"Everyone is born with genius, but most
people only keep it a few minutes."
- Edgard Varese

"Whoever ceases to be a student
has never been a student."
- George Iles

Quote (#523)

2009-10-14T10:25:00.013+02:00

"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

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

"Discretion is not the
better part of biography."
- Lytton Strachey

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

"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot
say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you
ought to go away and write a book about it."
- Lord Brabazon

"I don't even butter my bread.
I consider that cooking."
- Katherine Cebrian

Quote (#522)

2009-10-14T10:14:00.011+02:00

"Finance is the art of passing money from
hand to hand until it finally disappears."
- Robert W. Sarnoff

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

"There is nothing more demoralizing
than a small but adequate income."
- Edmund Wilson

"A superstition is a
premature explanation
that overstays its time."
- George Iles

"When a man says he approves of something
in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest
intention of putting it into practice."
- Otto von Bismarck

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women
submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
- William H. Borah

Quote (#521)

2009-10-14T10:05:00.014+02:00

"The test of courage comes when we are
in the minority. The test of tolerance
comes when we are in the majority."
- Ralph W. Sockman

"The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go
out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee."
- Tellis Frank

"I believe that every human has a finite number
of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of
mine running around doing exercises."
- Buzz Aldrin

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference
of bones from one graveyard to another. "
- J. Frank Dobie

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

"Art is a sense of magic."
- Stan Brakhage

Quote (#520)

2009-10-14T09:32:00.013+02:00

"Where there is love there is life."
- Mohandas Gandhi

"An empty canvas is a living wonder...
far lovelier than certain pictures."
- Wassily Kandinsky

"Music is the medicine of the mind."
- John A. Logan

"The most profound things
are inexpressible."
- Jenny Holzer

"Music washes away from the soul
the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach

"'Whom are you?' he asked, for he
had attended business college."
- George Ade

Quote (#519)

2009-10-01T23:07:00.009+02:00

"What some call health, if purchased
by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't
much better than tedious disease."
- George Dennison Prentice

"One man's folly is
another man's wife."
- Helen Rowland

Contrary to popular belief, English
women do not wear tweed nightgowns.
- Hermione Gingold

"It's a perfectly human instinct
to want to be near water."
- Stone Gossard

"One marked feature of the people, both
high and low, is a love for flowers."
- Robert Fortune

"It is easier to go down a hill than
up, but the view is from the top."
- Arnold Bennett

Quote (#518)

2009-10-01T22:56:00.015+02:00

"What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole,
its body brevity, and wit its soul."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

"The one function TV news performs very well
is that when there is no news we give it to
you with the same emphasis as if there were."
- David Brinkley

"Brought up to respect the conventions, love
had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did."
- Bette Davis

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask
why I have no monument than why I have one."
- Cato the Elder

"Golf and sex are about the only things
you can enjoy without being good at."
- Jimmy Demaret

Quote (#517)

2009-10-01T22:44:00.010+02:00

The true greatness of nations is in
those qualities which constitute
the greatness of the individual.
- Charles Sumner

Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into
a wonderful responsive sports car, gunning the
motor, taking off at high speed and then
discovering the brakes are out of order.
- Maggie Scarf

Between ourselves and our real natures we
interpose that wax figure of idealizations
and selections which we call our character.
- Walter Lippmann

When you betray somebody else
you also betray yourself.
- Richard Burgin

An error doesn’t become a mistake
until you refuse to correct it.
- O. A Battista

"There used to be a real me, but
I had it surgically removed."
- Peter Sellers

Quote (#516)

2009-09-30T20:30:00.016+02:00

"Make a difference about something
other than yourselves."
- Toni Morrison

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two
lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."
- Jean de la Bruyere

"If God lived on earth, people
would break his windows."
- Jewish Proverb

"Rationalism is the enemy of art, though
necessary as a basis for architecture."
- Arthur Erickson

"I bought a cactus. A week later it died.
And I got depressed, because I thought,
Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert."
- Demetri Martin

The three things most difficult are...to
keep a secret, to forget an injury, and
to make good use of leisure.
- Chilo

Quote (#515)

2009-09-30T20:20:00.011+02:00

"We must return to nature and nature's god."
- Luther Burbank

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don’t try.
- Ed Howe

Experience is what you get when
you don’t get what you want.
- Dan Stanford

Pride is tasteless, colorless and sizeless.
Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow.
- August B. Black

The best discipline, maybe the only
discipline that works, is self discipline.
- Walter Kiechel

"I drank the silence of God
from a spring in the woods."
- Georg Trakl

Quote (#514)

2009-09-30T20:09:00.013+02:00

"Hollywood is a place where they
place you under contract instead
of under observation."
- Walter Winchell

"Nothing is impossible for the man
who doesn't have to do it himself."
- A. H. Weiler

"Get all the fools on your side and
you can be elected to anything."
- Frank Dane

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to
start a thing. Action always generates inspiration.
Inspiration seldom generates action."
- Frank Tibolt

"Art, in itself, is an attempt
to bring order out of chaos."
- Stephen Sondheim

"Talent does what it can;
genius does what it must."
- Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Quote (#513)

2009-09-30T19:57:00.013+02:00

"It is a profitable thing, if
one is wise, to seem foolish."
- Aeschylus

"After two years in Washington, I often long
for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood."
- Fred Thompson

"A waist is a terrible thing to mind."
- Jane Caminos

"What is the difference between unethical and
ethical advertising? Unethical advertising
uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical
advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

"Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad:
whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive,
we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen."
- John le Carre

"I don't mind what Congress does,
as long as they don't do it in the
streets and frighten the horses."
- Victor Hugo

Quote (#512)

2009-09-30T19:48:00.012+02:00

"History never looks like history
when you are living through it."
- John W. Gardner

"America is a large, friendly dog in
a very small room. Every time it wags
its tail, it knocks over a chair."
- Arnold Toynbee

"Freedom is just Chaos,
with better lighting."
- Alan Dean Foster

"There are two ways to slide easily through life;
to believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking."
- Alfred Korzybski

"Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as
a young man who has just discovered an old
idea and thinks it is his own."
- Sidney J. Harris

"A little more moderation would be
good. Of course, my life hasn't
exactly been one of moderation."
- Donald Trump

Quote (#511)

2009-09-30T19:37:00.010+02:00

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it."
- Pierre Beaumarchais

"A timid person is frightened before
a danger, a coward during the time,
and a courageous person afterward."
- Jean Paul Richter

"On the other hand, if you want a good example of how
selective denial of service doesn't work as a method
of contraception, this would appear to have been it."
- Sam Nelson

"The world can only be grasped by
action, not by contemplation."
- Jacob Bronowski

"Women need a reason to have
sex. Men just need a place."
- Billy Crystal

"I know who I am. No one else knows who I am.
If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a
snake, I'd think, no, actually I'm a giraffe."
- Richard Gere

Quote (#510)

2009-09-30T11:06:00.008+02:00

"The problem with any unwritten law is that
you don't know where to go to erase it."
- Glaser and Way

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

"Those who can laugh without cause have
either found the true meaning of happiness
or have gone stark raving mad."
- Norm Papernick

"A fine quotation is a diamond on
the finger of a man of wit, and
a pebble in the hand of a fool."
- Joseph Roux

"The skill of writing is to
create a context in which
other people can think."
- Edwin Schlossberg

"I feel like a fugitive
from the law of averages."
- William H. Mauldin

Quote (#509)

2009-09-29T14:01:00.003+02:00

"And when man faces destiny, destiny
ends and man comes into his own."
- Andre Mairaux

"Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality. "
- Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for Death

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

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

"Memory is the personal
journalism of the soul."
- Richard Schickel

"I hate the outdoors. To me the
outdoors is where the car is."
- Will Durst

William Shakespeare - Quote (#508)

2009-09-29T13:56:00.004+02:00

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
- William Shakespeare

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land;
the great ones eat up the little ones."
- William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare

"We know what we are, but
know not what we may be."
- William Shakespeare

"The course of true love never did run smooth."
- William Shakespeare

"How my achievements mock me!"
- William Shakespeare

Quote (#507)

2009-09-29T13:33:00.006+02:00

"No matter what side of the argument you
are on, you always find people on your
side that you wish were on the other."
- Jascha Heifetz

"When two men in business always
agree, one of them is unnecessary."
- William Wrigley Jr

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

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced
that man never worshipped anything but himself."
- Sir Richard Francis Burton

"What I lack in youth I
make up for in immaturity."
- Marty Feinberg

"Every day above ground is a good day."
-Sara Pezzini, Witchblade

Quote (#506)

2009-09-29T12:53:00.011+02:00

"Fatherhood is pretending the present
you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
- Bill Cosby

"Only the educated are free."
- Epictetus

"Laughter is America's
most important export."
- Walt Disney

"We are not retreating - we are
advancing in another direction."
- Douglas MacArthur

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

"A guilty conscience needs to confess.
A work of art is a confession."
- Albert Camus

Quote (#505)

2009-09-29T12:39:00.013+02:00

Men are alike in their promises. It is
only in their deeds that they differ.
- Moliere

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

In every real man a child is
hidden that wants to play.
- Fredrich Nietzsche

"Flowers grow out
of dark moments."
- Corita Kent

"The sea hath fish for every man."
- William Camden

"Architecture is the will of an
epoch translated into space."
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Quote (#504)

2009-09-28T19:42:00.002+02:00

"An artist cannot fail;
it is a success to be one."
- Charles Horton Cooley

"Art distills sensations and
embodies it with enhanced meaning."
- Miguel de Unamuno

"Drawing is like making an
expressive gesture with the
advantage of permanence."
- Henri Matisse

"Love is based on imagination."
- Olivier Martinez

"My imagination can picture
no fairer happiness than to
continue living for art."
- Clara Schumann

"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and
it is easier to stay at home."
- Gwendolyn Brooks

Quote (#503)

2009-09-28T19:39:00.001+02:00

"We may give without loving, but
we cannot love without giving."
- Bernard Meltzer

"One does not fall in love; one grows
into love, and love grows in him."
- Karl A. Menninger

"A man is already halfway in love
with any woman who listens to him."
- Brendan Francis

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps
away the cobwebs of your heart."
- Mort Walker

"Time will pass and seasons
will come and go."
- Roy Bean

"Art will never be able
to exist without nature."
- Pierre Bonnard

Quote (#502)

2009-09-28T18:55:00.016+02:00

"All life is a manifestation of the
spirit, the manifestation of love."
- Morihei Ueshiba

"Pictures must not be too picturesque."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We live in a rainbow of chaos."
- Paul Cezanne

"Beauty in art is often nothing
but ugliness subdued."
- Jean Rostand

"Music is moonlight in the
gloomy night of life."
- Jean Paul

Write injuries in dust,
benefits in marble.
- Benjamin Franklin

Quote (#501)

2009-09-28T18:39:00.011+02:00

"The best defense against the atom bomb
is not to be there when it goes off."
- Anonymous

"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
- Francis Bacon

"Moral indignation is
jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
- Henrik Ibsen

Quote (#500)

2009-09-28T18:27:00.009+02:00

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. To dig for treasures shows not only impatience and greed, but lack of faith. Patience, patience, patience is what the sea teaches. Patience and faith. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach --- waiting for a gift from the sea.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Not what we give, but what we share; for the
gift without the giver is bare. Who gives of
himself and his alms feeds three --- himself,
his hungering neighbor and me.
- James Russell Lowell

"Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is
so honest that God can't help but smile on it."
- Josh Billings

"Marriage is a great institution, but
I'm not ready for an institution."
- Mae West

"Genuine poetry can communicate
before it is understood."
- T. S. Eliot

Quote (#499)

2009-09-28T18:17:00.010+02:00

Reason is the wise man's
guide, example the fool's.
- Voltaire

One man's way may be as
good as as another's, but
we all like our own best.
- Jane Austen

The wise man sees in the misfortunes
of others what he should avoid.
- Syrus

The only good is knowledge,
and the only evil ignorance.
- Diogenes

"A picture is worth a thousand words."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Quote (#498)

2009-09-28T16:52:00.011+02:00

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

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for
the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see
to it that its members are educated to personal initiative
and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the
changes in which they are caught and whose significance or
connections they do not perceive.
- John Dewey

As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela

It is far more impressive when others discover
your good qualities without your help.
- Judith S. Martin

"Love is the master key that
opens the gates of happiness."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's music in the sighting of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
There's earth is but an echo of the spheres.
- Byron

Quote (#497)

2009-09-27T14:37:00.018+02:00

"Art is magic delivered from
the lie of being truth."
- Theodor Adorno

"Advertising is the greatest
art form of the 20th century."
- Marshall McLuhan

"Where words fail, music speaks."
- H.C. Andersen

"Art enables us to find ourselves and
lose ourselves at the same time."
- Thomas Merton

"Anger is the feeling that makes your
mouth work faster than your mind."
- Evan Esar

"The trouble with America is that
there are far too many wide-open
spaces surrounded by teeth."
- Charles Luckman

Quote (#496)

2009-09-27T14:17:00.017+02:00

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any
plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it
as the most important subject which we as a people may be
engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate
education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
- Abraham Lincoln

The most exhausting thing
in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A democracy is more than a form of government;
it is primarily a mode of associated living,
of conjoint communicated experiences.
- John Dewey

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

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the
golden tree of life springs ever green."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote (#495)

2009-09-27T13:37:00.021+02:00

"Life is half spent before
we know what it is."
- George Herbert

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep
streets even as Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven played
music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets
so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to
say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"People who have no weaknesses are terrible;
there is no way of taking advantage of them."
- Anatole France

"I don't have a photograph, but you can have
my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks."
- Groucho Marx

Every subject at some phase of its development
should possess, what is for the individual
concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
- John Dewey

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure
an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
- John Dewey

Quote (#494)

2009-09-27T13:04:00.006+02:00

Angels fly because they
take themselves lightly.
- Jean Cocteau

When I pass, speak freely of
my shortcomings and my flaws.
Learn from them, for I'll
have no ego to injure.
- Aaron McGruder

If you think you can, you can. And
if you think you can't, you're right.
- Mary Kay Ash

"I hate television. I hate it
as much as I hate peanuts. But
I can't stop eating peanuts."
- Orson Welles

"Seeing a murder on television... can help work
off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"Human beings are the only creatures on earth
that allow their children to come back home."
- Bill Cosby

Quote (#493)

2009-09-26T23:16:00.011+02:00

"To avoid situations in which you might make
mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
- Peter McWilliams

"When a thing ceases to be a
subject of controversy, it ceases
to be a subject of interest."
- William Hazlitt

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all
agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood
each other, they would never agree."
- Charles Baudelaire

When a friend asks,
there is no tomorrow.
- George Herbert

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life itself is a quotation.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

Quote (#492)

2009-09-26T22:42:00.025+02:00

Tears are the silent
language of grief.
- Voltaire

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Isaac D Israeli (1766–1848)

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"It has always been the prerogative of children
and half-wits to point out that the emperor has
no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit,
and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Neil Gaiman

"To err is human; to
forgive, infrequent."
- Franklin P. Adams

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is
the product of reason and calculation."
- Charles Baudelaire

Quote (#491)

2009-09-26T21:15:00.010+02:00

If there is no wind, row.
- Latin Proverb

Friendship is born at that moment when
one person says to another: "What! You,
too? Thought I was the only one."
- C.S. Lewis

"Love has reasons which
reason cannot understand."
- Blaise Pascal

"The last time I saw him he
was walking down lover's
lane holding his own hand."
- Fred Allen

"I don't want life to imitate
art. I want life to be art."
- Ernst Fischer

"Every charitable act is a
stepping stone toward heaven."
- Henry Ward Beecher

Quotes (#490)

2009-09-25T19:36:00.013+02:00

"You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise."
- Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Darkness cannot drive out darkness,
only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate, only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, prepare to die."
- Klingon Proverb, Star Trek

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope
still lives and the dream shall never die.
- Ted Kennedy

"They say time is the fire in which we burn."
- Dr. Tolian Soran, Star Trek: Generations

"No heirloom of humankind captures
the past as do art and language."
- Theodore Bikel

Quotes (#489)

2009-09-25T18:57:00.009+02:00

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to
be understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"Love is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle

"There it was, hidden
in alphabetical order."
- Rita Holt

"Honor is not the exclusive property
of any political party."
- Herbert Hoover

"Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some
few to be chewed and digested."
- Francis Bacon

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs,
Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."
- Nicholas Culpeper

Quotes (#488)

2009-09-25T18:42:00.004+02:00

In the end, we will remember
not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The uncertainties of the present
always give way to the enchanted
possibilities of the future.
- Kirkland

A true friend is the most precious of
all possessions and the one we take
the least thought about acquiring.
- La Rochefoucauld

"Nobody has ever measured, not even
poets, how much the heart can hold."
- Zelda Fitzgerald

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness,
a tender look which becomes a habit."
- Peter Ustinov

"An empty canvas is full."
- Robert Rauschenberg

Quotes (#487)

2009-09-25T14:47:00.010+02:00

"Death and love are the two wings
that bear the good man to heaven."
- Michelangelo

"If you find someone you love in your
life, then hang on to that love."
- Princess Diana

"Entertainment is in art
like color in pictures."
- Martin Kippenberger

There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school -- we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but wee were to make the effort to be the best.
- Robert F. Kennedy, talking about his father, Joseph Kennedy

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't
have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make
your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart
full of grace, a soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quotes (#486)

2009-09-25T14:00:00.010+02:00

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes
the worst are your own fears.
- Rudyard Kipling

"Plans are only good intentions unless they
immediately degenerate into hard work."
- Peter Drucker

"I know a lot about cars. I can look
at a car's headlights and tell you
exactly which way it's coming."
- Mitch Hedberg

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

"What I wanted to do was to paint
sunlight on the side of a house."
- Edward Hopper

Quotes (#485)

2009-09-24T22:50:00.004+02:00

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

"No man is a failure
who is enjoying life."
- William Feather

Nothing great was ever
achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is at last sacred but
the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand,
nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one
when you discover that someone else believes in
you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

John F. Kennedy - Quotes (#484)

2009-09-24T22:45:00.002+02:00

Ask not what your country can do for you,
but what you can do for your country.
- John F. Kennedy

Let us think of education as the means of developing
our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a
private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated
into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
- John F. Kennedy

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
- John F. Kennedy

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education. The human
mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy

(Happiness is) ... the full use of
your powers along lines of excellence.
- John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof
is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy

Quotes (#483)

2009-09-24T22:33:00.007+02:00

"I became a feminist
as an alternative to
becoming a masochist."
- Sally Kempton

"The great enemy of clear language
is insincerity. When there is a gap
between one's real and one's declared
aims, one turns as it were instinctively
to long words and exhausted idioms, like
a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
- George Orwell

"Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed
as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute
an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black
cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what
she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true."
- Solomon Short

"A large income is the best recipe
for happiness I ever heard of."
- Jane Austen

"The incompetent with nothing to
do can still make a mess of it."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Faith is, at one and the same
time, absolutely necessary and
altogether impossible."
- Stanislaw Lem

Quotes (#482)

2009-09-24T22:25:00.006+02:00

I am only one; But still I am one. I cannot do
everything, but still I can do something; I will
not refuse to do the something I can do.
- Helen Keller

I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small
tasks as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller

Self pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to
it, we can never do anything wise in the world.
- Helen Keller

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

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

"To say nothing, especially
when speaking, is half the
art of diplomacy."
- Will Durant

Quotes (#481)

2009-09-24T22:15:00.005+02:00

"A poet who reads his verse in public
may have other nasty habits."
- Robert Heinlein

The most valuable of all talents is that
of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson

Greater love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his friends.
- Jesus Christ

There can be no friendship
without confidence, and no
confidence without integrity.
- Samuel Johnson

"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or
as they call it in Beverly Hills,
Dad's Third Wife Day."
- Jay Leno

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

Quotes (#480)

2009-09-22T09:47:00.006+02:00

"We learn from experience that men
never learn anything from experience."
- George Bernard Shaw

Great ideas have been lost because the people
who had them were afraid of being laughed at.
- Roosevelt Garner

Ah, yes, I wrote the "Purple Cow"
I’m sorry, now, I wrote it!
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I’ll kill you if you quote it.
- Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)

But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–61)

Each child is an adventure into a better life — an
opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–78)

"Children need models
rather than critics."
- Joseph Joubert

Quotes (#479)

2009-09-22T09:38:00.004+02:00

Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of
your liberties; write its precepts in your
hearts, and practice them in your lives.
- Ulysses S. Grant

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot
do everything, but I can do something.
And I will not let what I cannot do
interfere with what I can do.
- Edward Everett Hale

I have one request: may I never
use my reason against the truth.
- Hasidic prayer

Education would be so much more effective if its purpose
were to ensure that by the time they leave school every
boy and girl should know how much they don't know, and
be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
- Sir William Haley

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

"Every quotation contributes something to the
stability or enlargement of the language"
- Samuel Johnson (1709–84)