E. B. White

Showing quotations 1 to 6 of 6 total I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E. B. WhiteI would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B. White People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. E. B. WhiteThe time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. E. B. WhiteDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944 Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction

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Yogi Berra

A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Yogi Berra

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
Yogi Berra

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra

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

He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Yogi Berra

How can you think and hit at the same time?
Yogi Berra

I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Yogi Berra

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
Yogi Berra

I never said most of the things I said.
Yogi Berra

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
Yogi Berra

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra

I'm a lucky guy and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
Yogi Berra

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
Yogi Berra

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.
Yogi Berra

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra

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Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. Yogi Berra I didn't really say everything I said. Yogi Berra It ain't over 'til it's over. Yogi BerraNo one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. Yogi BerraThe future ain't what it used to be. Yogi Berra This is like deja vu all over again. Yogi BerraWhen you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi BerraWhen you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you. Yogi Berra, "When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It" -- Ch. 3If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. Yogi Berra, as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra, Berra's Law

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Audrey Hepburn

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey Hepburn

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
Audrey Hepburn

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey Hepburn

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
Audrey Hepburn

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
Audrey Hepburn

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
Audrey Hepburn

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.
Audrey Hepburn

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey Hepburn

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
Audrey Hepburn

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Audrey Hepburn

If I get married, I want to be very married.
Audrey Hepburn

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Audrey Hepburn

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Thomas A. Edison

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
Thomas A. Edison

Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison

I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Thomas A. Edison

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas A. Edison

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas A. Edison

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
Thomas A. Edison

I start where the last man left off.
Thomas A. Edison

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas A. Edison

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

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Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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H. L. Mencken

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The Literature Page A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. H. L. Mencken A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. H. L. MenckenA judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. H. L. Mencken A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. H. L. Mencken All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H. L. Mencken All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. H. L. MenckenAn idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H. L. Mencken Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. H. L. MenckenConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. H. L. MenckenConscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. MenckenCriticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. H. L. Mencken Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. H. L. MenckenFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. H. L. MenckenFor centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. H. L. Mencken For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. H. L. Mencken Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. MenckenI believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. H. L. Mencken I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. H. L. MenckenIn the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. H. L. MenckenInjustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H. L. MenckenIt is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. H. L. MenckenIt is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. H. L. MenckenIt is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. H. L. Mencken It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. H. L. MenckenIt 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. MenckenIt is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken

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Unknown

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Blore's Razor

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. Blore's Razor

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Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.
Elbert Hubbard

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
Elbert Hubbard

A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Elbert Hubbard

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.
Elbert Hubbard

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert Hubbard

Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
Elbert Hubbard

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.
Elbert Hubbard

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Elbert Hubbard

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Elbert Hubbard

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Elbert Hubbard

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

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Thucydides

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
Thucydides

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Thucydides

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Thucydides

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
Thucydides

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Thucydides

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Thucydides

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.
Thucydides

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
Thucydides

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
Thucydides

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

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Honore de Balzac

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
Honore De Balzac

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.
Honore de Balzac

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Honore de Balzac

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.
Honore De Balzac

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
Honore de Balzac

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac

A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Honore de Balzac

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore de Balzac

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac

A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
Honore de Balzac

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honore de Balzac

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
Honore de Balzac

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de Balzac

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
Honore de Balzac

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de Balzac

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore De Balzac

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David Broder

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. David Broder

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Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total All phone calls are obscene. Karen Elizabeth GordonEither I've been missing something or nothing has been going on. Karen Elizabeth Gordon

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Lana Turner

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Samuel Goldwyn

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
Samuel Goldwyn

A Hospital is no place to be sick.
Samuel Goldwyn

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.
Samuel Goldwyn

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn

Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn

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

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.
Samuel Goldwyn

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Samuel Goldwyn

Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
Samuel Goldwyn

God makes stars. I just produce them.
Samuel Goldwyn

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
Samuel Goldwyn

I can give you a definite perhaps.
Samuel Goldwyn

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
Samuel Goldwyn

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
Samuel Goldwyn

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Blaise Pascal

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Blaise Pascal

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise Pascal

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

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise Pascal

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.
Blaise Pascal

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
Blaise Pascal

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
Blaise Pascal

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
Blaise Pascal

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Blaise Pascal

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
Blaise Pascal

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Enrico Fermi

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi

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Doug Larson

Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. Doug LarsonAccomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. Doug LarsonFew things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. Doug LarsonHome computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Doug LarsonIf the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. Doug Larson Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug LarsonSpring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush. Doug Larson The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball. Doug Larson The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. Doug LarsonThe only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others. Doug LarsonThe surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. Doug Larson

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Alec Bourne

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. Alec Bourne

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Leo Tolstoy

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A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. Leo TolstoyEveryone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo TolstoyEverything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Leo TolstoyHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. Leo TolstoyIf one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living. Leo TolstoyIn the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. Leo TolstoyHappy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

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Robert McCloskey

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)

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Frank Moore Colby

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. Frank Moore Colby

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Thomas Moore

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Thomas Moore

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Thomas Moore

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
Thomas Moore

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore

The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
Thomas Moore

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore

Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore

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Frank Tibolt

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. Frank Tibolt

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Margaret Mead

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
Margaret Mead

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
Margaret Mead

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

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
Margaret Mead

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
Margaret Mead

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
Margaret Mead

Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
Margaret Mead

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.
Margaret Mead

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
Margaret Mead

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.
Margaret Mead

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
Margaret Mead

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Margaret Mead

I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
Margaret Mead

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
Margaret Mead

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
Margaret Mead

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Josh Billings

Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. Josh Billings About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh BillingsDon't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to. Josh BillingsFlattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. Josh BillingsIt is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those we intend to commit. Josh BillingsLaughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. Josh Billings One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. Josh Billings Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. Josh BillingsThe time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it. Josh Billings There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Josh Billings As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Josh Billings, 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865

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John D. Rockefeller

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller

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Joey Adams

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. Joey Adams

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Black Elk

A good nation I will make live.
Black Elk

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
Black Elk

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.
Black Elk

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
Black Elk

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
Black Elk

And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.
Black Elk

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
Black Elk

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
Black Elk

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Black Elk

I cured with the power that came through me.
Black Elk

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
Black Elk

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
Black Elk

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished.
Black Elk

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Black Elk

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
Black Elk

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.
Black Elk

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
Black Elk

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
Black Elk

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Herbert Rappaport

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some. Herbert Rappaport

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Norman Ford

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time. Norman Ford

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Leonard Louis Levinson

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total History is the short trudge from Adam to atom. Leonard Louis Levinson

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Timothy Leary

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

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George Steiner

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. George Steiner

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Casey Stengel

Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them. Casey Stengel

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John A. Wheeler

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. John A. Wheeler

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Henry Fielding

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
Henry Fielding

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
Henry Fielding

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
Henry Fielding

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding

All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry Fielding

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.
Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
Henry Fielding

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Henry Fielding

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding

Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding

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Don Juan Manuel

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. Don Juan Manuel

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Calvin Coolidge

Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Calvin CoolidgeI have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. Calvin CoolidgeIn a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. Calvin CoolidgeNever go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. Calvin CoolidgeNo man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin CoolidgeThere is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919The chief business of the American people is business. Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925 Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

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Carl Sandburg

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Carl Sandburg

A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.
Carl Sandburg

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
Carl Sandburg

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
Carl Sandburg

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Carl Sandburg

Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
Carl Sandburg

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
Carl Sandburg

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
Carl Sandburg

I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
Carl Sandburg

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
Carl Sandburg

I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.
Carl Sandburg

I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
Carl Sandburg

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg

I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Carl Sandburg

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
Carl Sandburg

I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.
Carl Sandburg

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.
Carl Sandburg

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Ed Gardner

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings. Ed Gardner

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Albert Ellis

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
Albert Ellis

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
Albert Ellis

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

Freud had a gene for inefficiency, and I think I have a gene for efficiency.
Albert Ellis

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
Albert Ellis

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
Albert Ellis

I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
Albert Ellis

I hope to die in the saddle seat.
Albert Ellis

I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Albert Ellis

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.
Albert Ellis

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis

I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and practiced it.
Albert Ellis

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven't got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.
Albert Ellis

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis

I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it-going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.
Albert Ellis

If I had been a member of the academic establishment, I could have done other experiments.
Albert Ellis

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Albert Ellis

In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.
Albert Ellis

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Albert Ellis

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Scott Adams

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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 16 of 16 total 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 Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there. Scott Adams Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. Scott Adams The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott AdamsYou can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. Scott Adams, The Dilbert FutureCreativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams, 'The Dilbert Principle' The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up. Scott Adams, Dilbert, 07-12-09 Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent. Scott Adams, Dilbert, 10-26-07'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses. Scott Adams, Dilbert, 11-05-09 Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. Scott Adams, Dogbert; Dilbert cartoonsThe best part about being my age is in knowing how my life worked out. Sure, there's a lot more living to go, but there isn't much doubt that I'll always be the 'Dilbert guy.' Unless I go on a crime spree, in which case I'll be 'that stabbin' Dilbert guy.' Scott Adams, The Benefits of Getting Old, Dilbert Blog, 08-22-06 Frankly, I?m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue. Scott Adams, The Dilbert BlogAsk a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays, 11-19-06 You haven?t achieved equality until you?re a legitimate target for humor. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Blog: Welcome to the Club, 11-20-06Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account. Scott Adams, The Dilbert FutureDance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching. Scott Adams, The Way of the Weasel

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Herbert Agar

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. Herbert Agar

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Stendhal

A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.
Stendhal

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.
Stendhal

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.
Stendhal

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
Stendhal

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
Stendhal

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.
Stendhal

Friendship has its illusions no less than love.
Stendhal

God's only excuse is that he does not exist.
Stendhal

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.
Stendhal

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.
Stendhal

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.
Stendhal

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
Stendhal

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Stendhal

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Stendhal

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
Stendhal

Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
Stendhal

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
Stendhal

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.
Stendhal

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal

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Mogens Jallberg

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. Mogens Jallberg

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Barry LePatner

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Barry LePatner

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Laurence J. Peter

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. Laurence J. Peter America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there. Laurence J. Peter An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. Laurence J. Peter Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Laurence J. Peter Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Laurence J. Peter Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. Laurence J. Peter Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Laurence J. PeterHumility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. Laurence J. PeterIf a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. PeterIf you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. Laurence J. PeterIn spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. Laurence J. PeterIt is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. Laurence J. PeterOriginality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurence J. PeterPsychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Laurence J. PeterReal, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going. Laurence J. PeterSpeak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. Laurence J. Peter The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it. Laurence J. Peter The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Laurence J. PeterThere is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. Laurence J. PeterEveryone rises to their level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter, "The Peter Principle" Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe. Laurence J. Peter, misquoting Sir Walter Scott Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), chapter 1

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Eric Sevareid

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks. Eric Sevareid

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David T. Wolf

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. David T. Wolf

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Alan Dean Foster

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"

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Bertrand Russell

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

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Paul Tillich

Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul TillichThe courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. Paul TillichThe first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich, O Magazine, February 2004 Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about it. Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

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Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. Dr. Martin Henry Fischer

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O. Henry

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. O. HenryLife is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry

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C. V. R. Thompson

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light. C. V. R. Thompson

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Paul Cezanne

A puny body weakens the soul.
Paul Cezanne

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.
Paul Cezanne

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all.
Paul Cezanne

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne

Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Paul Cezanne

For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
Paul Cezanne

Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Paul Cezanne

I allow no one to touch me.
Paul Cezanne

I am a pupil of Pissarro.
Paul Cezanne

I am more a friend of art than a producer of painting.
Paul Cezanne

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.
Paul Cezanne

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Paul Cezanne

I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping and I would still feel as though I knew nothing.
Paul Cezanne

I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
Paul Cezanne

I have sworn to die painting.
Paul Cezanne

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.
Paul Cezanne

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
Paul Cezanne

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Lester J. Pourciau

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. Lester J. Pourciau

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David Brinkley

Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total 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

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Heywood Broun

Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God. Heywood Broun Sports do not build character. They reveal it. Heywood Broun A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. Heywood Broun, ''Jam-Tomorrow' Progressives,' New Republic, December 15, 1937Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer Compassion is the basis of all morality. Arthur Schopenhauer Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur SchopenhauerEvery person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. Arthur SchopenhauerIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur SchopenhauerIf we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it. Arthur SchopenhauerNoise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is also a disruption of thought. Arthur SchopenhauerTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur SchopenhauerThe amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. Arthur SchopenhauerThe memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. Arthur Schopenhauer We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Arthur Schopenhauer

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Mark Twain

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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. Mark TwainAlways acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark TwainAn Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. Mark Twain Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough. Mark TwainBe careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark TwainCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Mark Twain Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. Mark TwainDon't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark TwainDon't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. Mark TwainEducation: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark TwainFacts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. Mark TwainFiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. Mark Twain Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. Mark Twain Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. Mark Twain Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. Mark Twain Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. Mark TwainI didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. Mark TwainI don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. Mark TwainI have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't. Mark TwainI have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark TwainI have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Mark Twain

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Ellen Goodman

Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government. Ellen GoodmanI have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another. Ellen GoodmanIn journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. Ellen GoodmanNormal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. Ellen GoodmanThe central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears. Ellen Goodman Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. Ellen GoodmanWe are told that people stay in love because of chemistry or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck... But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. Ellen GoodmanYou can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can?t teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman

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Frank Lloyd Wright

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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 great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd Wright

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Frank Lloyd Wright

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.
Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom is from within.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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