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Theodore Parker
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. Theodore ParkerThe books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. Theodore Parker
W. Somerset Maugham
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset MaughamIt was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. Somerset MaughamIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset MaughamPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset MaughamWe do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. W. Somerset Maugham When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. W. Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. W. Somerset Maugham Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W. Somerset MaughamIt was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up. W. Somerset MaughamIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset MaughamPeople ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset MaughamWe do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. W. Somerset Maugham When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. W. Somerset Maugham Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage", 1915Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:
Thomas Moore
Showing quotations 1 to 3 of 3 total By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. Thomas MooreThe ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas MooreTo the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. Thomas Moore
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As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. Franklin D. RooseveltBe sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. RooseveltHappiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. RooseveltI sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. Franklin D. Roosevelt If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. RooseveltIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. RooseveltThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin D. RooseveltThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin D. RooseveltWe cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. Franklin D. RooseveltYesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston ChurchillThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939 When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939 The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936 In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
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As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God. Franklin D. RooseveltBe sincere; be brief; be seated. Franklin D. RooseveltHappiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. RooseveltI sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. Franklin D. Roosevelt If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time. Franklin D. RooseveltIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Franklin D. RooseveltThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. Franklin D. RooseveltThe test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. Franklin D. RooseveltWe cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. Franklin D. RooseveltYesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a letter to Winston ChurchillThe only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939 When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939 Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939 The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936 In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Showing quotations 1 to 13 of 13 total An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall. Frank Lloyd Wright The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. Frank Lloyd Wright The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. Frank Lloyd Wright The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd WrightTurn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Frank Lloyd WrightTV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright Form follows function-that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. Frank Lloyd Wright, 1908The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright, New York Times, October 4, 1953Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
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Jeff Melvoin
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993 Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993 George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994 You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992 Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992 It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994 You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994 Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Lovers and Madmen, 1994
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 12 of 12 total Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993 Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is the tightly held conceit that we are all sexual gods. How can I believe in my own uniqueness when there's a cat out there exactly the same as me? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993 George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994 You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992 Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992 It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994 You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994 Talking perceptions, people. Do we really see each other for what we really are, or do we just see what we want to see, the image distorted by our own personal lenses? I lost someone today and the funny thing is, I don't even know who she was. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Lovers and Madmen, 1994
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Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend. Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05
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Showing quotations 1 to of total I don't hire anybody who's not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them. Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a WinnerIt's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a WinnerWhen you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it. Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a WinnerYou never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load. Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
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Comte de Buffon
Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. Comte de Buffon
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Showing quotations 1 to 8 of 8 total A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. Wilson MiznerA good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. Wilson Mizner Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down. Wilson MiznerGod help those who do not help themselves. Wilson MiznerI respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson MiznerThose who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. Wilson Mizner To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. Wilson Mizner
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Adam Cooper and Bill Collage
Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
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Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:George Orwell
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 14 of 14 total Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George OrwellIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George OrwellOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. George OrwellTo see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George OrwellIt was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell, "1984", first sentenceAll animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell, "Animal Farm" A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946The 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, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell, (attributed)If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable ? what then? George Orwell, 1984War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell, 1984The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 14 of 14 total Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George OrwellIn a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George OrwellOn the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. George OrwellTo see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. George OrwellIt was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. George Orwell, "1984", first sentenceAll animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell, "Animal Farm" A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect? George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946The 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, "Politics and the English Language", 1946 People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell, (attributed)If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable ? what then? George Orwell, 1984War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. George Orwell, 1984The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
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The Literature Page A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. UnknownA gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. UnknownA stitch in time would have confused Einstein. UnknownA wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . Unknown Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. UnknownAfter all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. UnknownAll power corrupts, but we need the electricity. UnknownAll programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. Unknown An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. UnknownAnarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea. UnknownAntonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of. UnknownAny sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. Unknown Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby. Unknown Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Unknown Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. UnknownCats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Unknown Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice. UnknownDon't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it. UnknownEat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. UnknownEvery big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. UnknownEveryone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. Unknown Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. Unknown Fools rush in where fools have been before. Unknown He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. UnknownHe's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch. UnknownI have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere. UnknownI'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.' UnknownIn a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. Unknown It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. UnknownMost people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. UnknownBrowse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:
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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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Bertrand Russell
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand RussellAll movements go too far. Bertrand RussellDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand RussellEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand RussellGovernment can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. Bertrand RussellI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. Bertrand Russell I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand RussellIn all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. Bertrand Russell It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. Bertrand RussellLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. Bertrand RussellMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. Bertrand Russell No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand RussellPassive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. Bertrand RussellScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell 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 RussellThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand RussellThe main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. Bertrand RussellThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand RussellThe people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand RussellAll movements go too far. Bertrand RussellDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand RussellEverything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand RussellGovernment can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. Bertrand RussellI think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. Bertrand Russell I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. Bertrand Russell If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand RussellIn all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying. Bertrand Russell It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. Bertrand Russell It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. Bertrand RussellLife is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. Bertrand Russell Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so. Bertrand RussellMathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. Bertrand Russell Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. Bertrand Russell No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. Bertrand Russell Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man. Bertrand RussellPassive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Bertrand Russell Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country. Bertrand RussellScience may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. Bertrand Russell So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. Bertrand Russell 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 RussellThe greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand RussellThe main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. Bertrand RussellThe most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Bertrand RussellThe people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others. Bertrand Russell The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:
Robert Frost
Showing quotations 1 to 18 of 18 total A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert FrostEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. Robert FrostIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert FrostLove is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost The best way out is always through. Robert FrostThe brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert FrostThe world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert FrostYou can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert FrostI never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost, 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost, (attributed) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black CottageTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost, 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost, (attributed) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black CottageTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle (1915 - 2001)
English astronomer, mathematician, & popularizer of science [more author details]
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Fred HoyleThere is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. Fred Hoyle
English astronomer, mathematician, & popularizer of science [more author details]
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Fred HoyleThere is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. Fred Hoyle
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 14 of 14 total 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 DaviesA truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson DaviesFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson DaviesHappiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. Robertson DaviesThe love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson DaviesThe people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. Robertson Davies The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960 He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business" To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks" A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone" I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
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The Literature Page Showing quotations 1 to 14 of 14 total 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 DaviesA truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson DaviesFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson DaviesHappiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. Robertson DaviesThe love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson DaviesThe people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. Robertson Davies The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960 He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business" To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks" A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone" I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out. Georg Christoph LichtenbergA person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. Georg Christoph LichtenbergHe who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. Georg Christoph LichtenbergI cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg Christoph LichtenbergJudge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg Christoph LichtenbergNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Georg Christoph LichtenbergNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThere are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. Georg Christoph LichtenbergTo do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhat a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhen a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? Georg Christoph LichtenbergWith most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Showing quotations 1 to 20 of 20 total A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out. Georg Christoph LichtenbergA person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. Georg Christoph LichtenbergHe who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. Georg Christoph LichtenbergI cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. Georg Christoph LichtenbergJudge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. Georg Christoph LichtenbergNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all. Georg Christoph LichtenbergNothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThe worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. Georg Christoph LichtenbergThere are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. Georg Christoph LichtenbergTo do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhat a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes! Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhen a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book? Georg Christoph LichtenbergWith most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Showing quotations 1 to 11 of 11 total A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. W. C. FieldsHorse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. FieldsI always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy. W. C. Fields I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. W. C. Fields I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. W. C. FieldsI've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. W. C. FieldsReminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. W. C. Fields Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. W. C. FieldsStart every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. FieldsLast week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. W. C. Fields, in Richard J. Anobile - "Godfrey Daniels"
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P. G. Wodehouse
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P. G. WodehouseThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. WodehouseIt is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyAt the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyBoyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P. G. WodehouseThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. WodehouseIt is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyAt the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyBoyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
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Jerome K. Jerome
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. JeromeIt is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. JeromeI like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. JeromeIt is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. JeromeI like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat", 1889
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Anne Campbell
Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
Anne Campbell
Elections are also about the future - the pledges that we are making for this country. For those who care about equality and fairness in the UK, and beyond, Labour really is the only choice.
Anne Campbell
Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.
Anne Campbell
I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer.
Anne Campbell
I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
Anne Campbell
I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to.
Anne Campbell
I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.
Anne Campbell
Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.
Anne Campbell
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
Anne Campbell
Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.
Anne Campbell
The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
Anne Campbell
There is still a lot of misinformation being spread about higher education funding arrangements under the new Act. The students page on my website sets out the main points in the Act.
Anne Campbell
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
Anne Campbell
With the club now in administration and concern about where the money for land sale has gone, I know there are huge commercial difficulties to be resolved, but I hope that football will once again become the most important issue.
Anne Campbell
You can plant a dream.
Anne Campbell
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Born: April 6, 1940
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Showing quotations 1 to 1 of 1 total The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
William Feather
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A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
Biography
Type: Author
Nationality: American
Born: August 25, 1889
Died: January 7, 1981
A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather
A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.
William Feather
An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.
William Feather
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
William Feather
Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
William Feather
Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.
William Feather
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible.
William Feather
Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
William Feather
Don't let ambition get so far ahead that it loses sight of the job at hand.
William Feather
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
William Feather
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
Few of us get anything without working for it.
William Feather
Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.
William Feather
He isn't a real boss until he has trained subordinates to shoulder most of his responsibilities.
William Feather
Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
William Feather
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
William Feather
If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.
William Feather
If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
William Feather
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Nationality: American
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Died: January 7, 1981
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English astronomer, mathematician, & popularizer of science [more author details]
Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Fred HoyleThere is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. Fred Hoyle
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Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. Fred HoyleThere is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. Fred Hoyle
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Showing quotations 1 to 2 of 2 total Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:Vince Lombardi
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi
Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Vince Lombardi
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Vince Lombardi
I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
Vince Lombardi
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
Vince Lombardi
Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent's pressure, and the temporary failures.
Vince Lombardi
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
Vince Lombardi
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Novalis
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A character is a completely fashioned will.
Novalis
Biography
Type: Poet
Nationality: German
Born: May 2, 1772
Died: March 25, 1801
A character is a completely fashioned will.
Novalis
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
Novalis
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
Novalis
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
Novalis
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
Novalis
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Novalis
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Novalis
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
Novalis
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Novalis
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
Novalis
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
Novalis
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
Novalis
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Novalis
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
Novalis
Where children are, there is the golden age.
Novalis
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Nationality: German
Born: May 2, 1772
Died: March 25, 1801
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If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P. G. WodehouseThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. WodehouseIt is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyAt the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyBoyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P. G. WodehouseThe fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. P. G. WodehouseIt is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyAt the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy MoneyBoyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
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Emily Dickinson
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A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson
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Type: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: December 10, 1830
Died: May 15, 1886
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
Emily Dickinson
A wounded deer leaps the highest.
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
Emily Dickinson
Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson
Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
Emily Dickinson
For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Forever is composed of nows.
Emily Dickinson
Fortune befriends the bold.
Emily Dickinson
He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
Emily Dickinson
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Emily Dickinson
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Died: May 15, 1886
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Lucille Ball
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball
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Born: August 6, 1911
Died: April 26, 1989
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Lucille Ball
How I Love Lucy was born? We decided that instead of divorce lawyers profiting from our mistakes, we'd profit from them.
Lucille Ball
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
Lucille Ball
I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball
I will never do another TV series. It couldn't top I Love Lucy, and I'd be foolish to try. In this business, you have to know when to get off.
Lucille Ball
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
Lucille Ball
I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
Lucille Ball
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
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Robert Byrne
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne
Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Robert Byrne
Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.
Robert Byrne
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne
Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.
Robert Byrne
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
Robert Byrne
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
Robert Byrne
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
Robert Byrne
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Robert Byrne
One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.
Robert Byrne
Partying is such sweet sorrow.
Robert Byrne
Prejudices save time.
Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
Robert Byrne
To err is human, to purr feline.
Robert Byrne
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."
Robert Byrne
Biography
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Samuel Johnson
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A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
Samuel Johnson
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson
A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
Samuel Johnson
A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.
Samuel Johnson
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson
Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
Samuel Johnson
Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel Johnson
Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Samuel Johnson
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson
All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
Samuel Johnson
Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Vivien Leigh
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Vivien Leigh
Biography
Type: Actress
Nationality: English
Born: November 5, 1913
Died: July 8, 1967
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Vivien Leigh
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Vivien Leigh
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
Vivien Leigh
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
Vivien Leigh
I adore dancing.
Vivien Leigh
I always know my lines.
Vivien Leigh
I am going to be a great actress.
Vivien Leigh
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Vivien Leigh
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
Vivien Leigh
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
Vivien Leigh
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Vivien Leigh
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
Vivien Leigh
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien Leigh
I'm not afraid to die.
Vivien Leigh
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Type: Actress
Nationality: English
Born: November 5, 1913
Died: July 8, 1967
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M. C. Escher
Showing quotations 1 to 4 of 4 total He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. M. C. EscherMy work is a game, a very serious game. M. C. Escher What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher, Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993) By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
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Kevin: Oh, I got it, you guys, how 'bout this. Michael, what if all the boys are on one side, all the girls are on the other. The boys are like, 'why I oughta', and the girls are like, 'let's go shopping!'.
Penn Jillette
Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving. Penn JilletteMy favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. Penn Jillette, in a Compuserve chat Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. Penn Jillette, Interview in WIRED magazine, 1993 Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. Penn Jillette, NPR interviewI don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up.' Penn Jillette, NPR interview
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Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total Browse our complete list of 3150 authors by last name:Robert Frost
Showing quotations 1 to 18 of 18 total A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert FrostEducation is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. Robert Frost Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Robert Frost I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise. Robert FrostIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert FrostLove is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. Robert Frost The best way out is always through. Robert FrostThe brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. Robert Frost The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. Robert FrostThe world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. Robert FrostYou can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider. Robert FrostI never dared to be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost, 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost, (attributed) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black CottageTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
For fear it would make me conservative when old. Robert Frost, 'Ten Mills,' A Further Range, 1936 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost, (attributed) The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost, The Black CottageTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Herbert George Wells
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: July 14, 1904
Died: July 24, 1991
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: July 14, 1904
Died: July 24, 1991
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Showing quotations 1 to 7 of 7 total One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. Walter Bagehot The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. Walter Bagehot The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. Walter BagehotThe habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. Walter BagehotThe reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. Walter Bagehot The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Walter BagehotIt is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863
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Vivien Leigh
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A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Vivien Leigh
Biography
Type: Actress
Nationality: English
Born: November 5, 1913
Died: July 8, 1967
A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.
Vivien Leigh
Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.
Vivien Leigh
Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh
Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.
Vivien Leigh
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien Leigh
Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.
Vivien Leigh
I adore dancing.
Vivien Leigh
I always know my lines.
Vivien Leigh
I am going to be a great actress.
Vivien Leigh
I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.
Vivien Leigh
I have just made out my will and given all the things I have and many that I haven't.
Vivien Leigh
I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick.
Vivien Leigh
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution.
Vivien Leigh
I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
Vivien Leigh
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
Vivien Leigh
I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.
Vivien Leigh
I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Vivien Leigh
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.
Vivien Leigh
I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity.
Vivien Leigh
I'm not afraid to die.
Vivien Leigh
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Biography
Type: Actress
Nationality: English
Born: November 5, 1913
Died: July 8, 1967
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Otto von Bismarck
Showing quotations 1 to 5 of 5 total A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. Otto von BismarckLaws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck 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 BismarckBeware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. Otto von Bismarck, Bismarck and the German Empire by Erich EyckPolitics is the art of the possible. Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
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Isaac Asimov
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Charles Caleb Colton
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Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
Charles Caleb Colton
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
Charles Caleb Colton
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
Charles Caleb Colton
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
Charles Caleb Colton
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Charles Caleb Colton
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
Charles Caleb Colton
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Anatole France
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: French
Born: April 16, 1844
Died: October 12, 1924
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Anatole France
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
Anatole France
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
Anatole France
If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
Anatole France
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Anatole France
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
Anatole France
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
Anatole France
It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Anatole France
It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
Anatole France
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Biography
Type: Novelist
Nationality: French
Born: April 16, 1844
Died: October 12, 1924
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