Quotes (#481)

"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 (#479)

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)

Quotes (#477)

Happy were men if they but understood
there is no safety but in doing good.
- John Fountain

Next in importance to freedom and justice
is popular education, without which neither
freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield

True friendship comes when silence
between two people is comfortable.
- David Tyson Gentry

I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work
the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

Clear your mind of can't.
- Samuel Johnson

"A lot of people are
afraid of heights. Not
me, I'm afraid of widths."
- Steven Wright

Quotes - Favorites

To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wild flower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake

"Nature is never finished."
- Robert Smithson

"Integrity without knowledge is weak
and useless, and knowledge without
integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
- Samuel Johnson

Remember that the solitary mortal
is certainly luxurious, probably
superstitious, and possibly mad.
- Samuel Johnson

The only good is knowledge and
the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey

Quotes

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the
prudence never to practice either of them."
- Mark Twain

"He played the king as if afraid
someone else would play the ace."
- John Mason Brown

I can't understand why a person will take
a year to write a novel when he can easily
buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen

A nation is a society united by delusions about its
ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
- William Ralph Inge

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor;
but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable,
more people would be content to be ignorant than would
take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson

We've heard that a million monkeys
at a million keyboards could produce
the complete works of Shakespeare;
now, thanks to the Internet, we
know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

Quotaria

"Almost all absurdity of conduct
arises from the imitation of those
whom we cannot resemble."
- Samuel Johnson

"Self-preservation is the
first law of nature."
- Samuel Butler

"The beginning is always today."
- Mary Wollstonecraft

"Charm is the quality in others that makes
us more satisfied with ourselves."
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

"Shadows cannot see themselves
in the mirror of the sun."
- Evita Peron

Quotaria

Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes

There will always be a part, and always a very large
part of every community, that have no care but for
themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches
little further than impatience of immediate pain,
and eagerness for the nearest good.
- Samuel Johnson

All progress is based upon a universal innate
desire on the part of every organism to live
beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

"To talk to a child, to fascinate him, is much more difficult
than to win an electoral victory. But it is also more rewarding."
- Colette, French author (1873-1954)

There are two kinds of light--the glow that
illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber

"Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts,
except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision."
- Blake Clark

Quotes

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

"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend."
- Emo Phillips

"Silence propagates itself, and the longer
talk has been suspended, the more difficult
it is to find anything to say."
- Samuel Johnson

Scully: "Should we arrest David Copperfield?"
Mulder: "Yes. But not for this."
- The X-Files

"In every walk with nature one
receives far more than he seeks."
- John Muir

"If your parents never had children,
chances are you won't either."
- Dick Cavett

Quotes

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at
the thirty-four-year-old level."
- Dana Carvey

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to
make the world signify, to render it visible.
We are not, however, in danger of lacking
meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged
with meaning and it is killing us.
- Jean Baudrillard

One of the characteristics of the dream is that
nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we
agree to live in it with strangers, completely
cut off from our habits and friends.
- Jean Cocteau

The amount of eccentricity in a society has
generally been proportional to the amount of
genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it
contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric
marks the chief danger of the time.
- John Stuart Mill

Your manuscript is both good and original,
but the part that is good is not original
and the part that is original is not good.
- Samuel Johnson

Kitty Pryde: "Impossible."
Logan: "If that's what you believe, girl, then it always will be."
Kitty Pryde: "Gimme a break! You're too tall -- an' too darn ugly --
to be Yoda."
- X-Men (Kitty Pryde and Wolverine 4)

Quotaria

"The earth is the very
quintessence of the
human condition."
- Hannah Arendt

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever
found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but
it must likewise be added, that he had not often a
friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
- Samuel Johnson

"Try to make at least one person happy every day, and then
in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred
and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your
contribution to the fund of general enjoyment."
- Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

"We are drawn to our television sets each April
the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident."
- Vincent Canby

We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers
to our true selves, to one another, and to the
spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from
an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
- R. D. Laing

Leadership is based on inspiration, not
domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.
- William Arthur Wood

Quotes

When we got into office, the thing that
surprised me the most was that things
were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy

"The trouble with facts is that
there are so many of them."
- Samuel McChord Crothers

"There is a great deal of difference between
an eager man who wants to read a book and the
tired man who wants a book to read."
- GK Chesterton

"When all you have is a flamethrower,
everything looks like a speed camera."
- Peter

"Where we have strong emotions,
we're liable to fool ourselves."
- Carl Sagan

The true measure of a man is how he treats
someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson