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““I simply can't bear fools” / “Apparently, your mother could””
“640K ought to be enough for anybody”
“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”
“A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere”
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble”
“A Collision at Sea Can Ruin Your Entire Day”
“A constitution should be short and obscure”
“A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self”
“A Day Without Laughter Is a Day Wasted”
“A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries or ejecting them from office”
“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine”
“A disordered desk is a sign of genius”
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality”
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity”
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them”
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words”
“A future startup with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials”
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject, short enough to create interest”
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on”
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason”
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad”
“A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything”
“A man who, beyond the age of 26, finds himself on a bus can count himself as a failure”
“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there”
“A moral system valid for all is basically immoral”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within”
“A patient is the most important person in our hospital. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it”
“A penny saved is a penny earned”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new”
“A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both”
“A picture is worth a thousand words”
“A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not”
“A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered”
“A Ship in Harbor Is Safe, But that Is Not What Ships Are Built For”
“A society gets all the criminals it deserves”
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education”
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water”
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water”
“A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself”
“Able was I ere I saw Elba”
“Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small”
“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”
“Adversity introduces a man to himself”
“After Nirvana, we still have to chop wood and carry water”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter”
“Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor”
“Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well”
“All disease begins in the gut”
“All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down”
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them”
“All they want to do is protest and riot. Maybe they should try doing their jobs instead”
“All things are subject to interpretation; whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much”
“Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't go to yours”
“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else”
“America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”
“America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great”
“America Is the Only Country That Went from Barbarism to Decadence Without Civilization In Between”
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves”
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom”
“Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all the alternatives”
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise”
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding”
“An Anecdote Is A Revealing Account of an Incident That Never Occurred in the Life of Some Famous Person”
“An army marches on its stomach”
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep”
“An Exclamation Point Is Like Laughing at Your Own Joke”
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind”
“An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”
“And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself”
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”
“And the Sea Will Grant Each Man New Hope, As Sleep Brings Dreams of Home”
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music”
“And yet it moves”
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it's stored than to anything on which it's poured”
“Any field that has the word science in its name is guaranteed thereby not to be a science”
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do”
“Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian”
“Any Time You See Anything Big and Working Well, You Want To Take It Over”
“Anyone who claims to understand quantum physics is lying or crazy”
“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist”
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung”
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones”
“Art is what you can get away with”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”
“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron”
“As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!”
“As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs”
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company”
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want”
“Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding”
“Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature”
“Be at War with Your Vices, at Peace with Your Neighbours, and Let Every New Year Find You a Better Person”
“Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle”
“Be moderate in everything, including moderation”
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world”
“Be the change you wish to see in the world”
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind”
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”
“Beam me up, Scotty”
“Beatles Rejection: We Don't Like Their Sound. Groups of Guitars Are On Their Way Out”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness”
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”
“Before Elvis there was nothing”
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes”
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves”
“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one piece of jewelry”
“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give”
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy”
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't”
“Believe in yourself and all that you are”
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense”
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without”
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor”
“Biggest damfool mistake I ever made”
“Blood, sweat and tears”
“Briefest Correspondence: Question Mark? Exclamation Mark!”
“Bubble bubble, toil and trouble”
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door”
“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across”
“But suppose the child inherited my beauty and your brains?”
“Buy land, they're not making it anymore”
“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher”
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”
“Called or uncalled, God will be present”
“Change happens at the speed of trust”
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay”
“Chaos ist die Ordnung des Genies”
“Charity begins at home”
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work”
“Children today are lazy and disrespectful, they no longer obey their parents and contradict their teachers”
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”
“Cleanliness is next to godliness”
“Collapsing any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or long-range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in exams by students. The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation”
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success”
“Comparison is the thief of joy”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world”
“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it”
“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
“Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential”
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear”
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important”
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others”
“Creative minds are rarely tidy”
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”
“Cunningham did more for integration in Alabama in 60 minutes than Martin Luther King Jr. did in 20 years”
“Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a..”
“Death begins in the colon”
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch”
“Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" until you can find a rock”
“Discretion is the better part of valour”
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”
“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment”
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking”
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are”
“Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are”
“Do you feel lucky, punk?”
“Do You Want Six or Eight Slices of Pizza?”
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing”
“Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great”
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened”
“Don't cut your flowers and water your weeds”
“Don't just do something, sit there”
“Don't just do something; stand there”
“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today”
“Don't Like to Write, But Like Having Written”
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time”
“Don't talk of peace and love when you have a dead animal on your plate”
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art”
“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully”
“Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you find that you have accomplished a purpose”
“Easy Writing's Vile Hard Reading”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”
“Education Is the Inculcation of the Incomprehensible Into the Ignorant by the Incompetent”
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”
“Education Is What Remains After You Have Forgotten Everything You Learned In School”
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit”
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth the writing”
“Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true”
“Elegance is refusal”
“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades”
“Elementary, my dear Watson”
“Empathy is the highest form of knowledge”
“England is a nation of shopkeepers”
“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things”
“Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end”
“Etymology is a science in which the vowels count for nothing, and the consonants for very little”
“Even a stopped clock is right twice a day”
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree”
“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there”
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”
“Every Ambitious Would-Be Empire Clarions It Abroad That She Is Conquering the World to Bring It Peace”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
“Every Dogma Has Its Day”
“Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack”
“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid”
“Everybody Talks About the Weather, But Nobody Does Anything About It”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits”
“Everything in the world is about sex, except sex. Sex is about power”
“Everything is connected to everything else”
“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality”
“Everything is OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end”
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler”
“Everything that can be invented has been invented”
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth”
“Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end”
“Everything you can imagine is real”
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn”
“Facts are the enemy of truth”
“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail”
“Failure is not an option”
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase”
“Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood”
“Famous for being famous”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same”
“Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world”
“Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity”
“Find the good and praise it”
“Find what you love and let it kill you”
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence”
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win”
“First, do no harm”
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”
“Fly, my pretties, fly!”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be”
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls”
“Foolish the doctor who despises knowledge acquired by the ancients”
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry”
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it”
“Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn”
“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one”
“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step”
“Genius is really only the power of making continuous efforts”
“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened”
“Gild the lily”
“Gilding the lily”
“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world”
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”
“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself”
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe”
“Give me six lines written by the most honest of men, and I will find something in them to hang him”
“Give them a whiff of grapeshot”
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever”
“Go ahead, make my day”
“Go for a business that any idiot can run, because sooner or later any idiot probably is going to be running it”
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography”
“God has no religion”
“God helps those who help themselves”
“God is where you let Him in”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled”
“Golf is the only sport where the ball doesn't move until you hit it”
“Good artists copy; great artists steal”
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment”
“Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people”
“Government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master”
“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master”
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”
“Greed is good”
“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves”
“Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder”
“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing”
“Happy girls are the prettiest”
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”
“Hate destroys the hater”
“Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet”
“He is suffering from delusions of adequacy”
“He who controls the weather controls the world”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
“He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how”
“He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself”
“He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, and knows he knows not, is simple; teach him. He who knows, and knows not he knows, is asleep; awaken him. He who knows, and knows he knows, is wise; follow him”
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison”
“He who says he can and he who says he can't are both usually right”
“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave”
“He's got such potential. I used to really look up to him”
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
“Hello, Clarice”
“Help is the sunny side of control”
“Here are Two Tickets for the Opening of My Play. Bring a Friend—If You Have One”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself. The Historians Repeat One Another”
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes”
“History is written by the victors”
“Hogamous, Higamous, Man is Polygamous, Higamous, Hogamous, Woman is Monagamous”
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned”
“Houston, we have a problem”
“How many people here tonight are telekinetic? Raise my hand”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?”
“Human beings hide their feelings, but a cat does not”
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less”
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it”
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened”
“I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds”
“I am not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it”
“I am not so much concerned with the return on capital as I am with the return of capital”
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. I must not fail to do the something that I can do”
“I am the state”
“I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep”
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles”
“I believe the market is going to fluctuate”
“I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me”
“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think”
“I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet”
“I cannot tell a lie... I did cut it with my hatchet”
“I desire to go to hell, and not to heaven. In the former place I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings, and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, hermits, and apostles”
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends”
“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better”
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act”
“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers”
“I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery”
“I don't want to believe, I want to know”
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream”
“I Fear the Day That Technology Will Surpass Our Human Interaction”
“I have forgotten the books I have read and the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped make me”
“I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men”
“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason”
“I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices with Great Satisfaction”
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education”
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius”
“I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition one redeeming feature”
“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex”
“I have ways of making money that you know nothing of”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”
“I Know Only Two Tunes: One of Them Is Yankee Doodle, and the Other Isn't”
“I know that I know nothing”
“I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it”
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ”
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
“I love those who can smile in trouble”
“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it”
“I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that”
“I never said most of the things I said”
“I never vote for anybody. I always vote against”
“I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years”
“I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies”
“I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”
“I think it would be a good idea”
“I Think that I Shall Never See a Billboard Lovely as a Tree”
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”
“I Understand It Brings You Luck, Whether You Believe in It or Not”
“I used to think that the brain was the most important organ in my body, but then I thought: look who's telling me that”
“I want to live my next life backwards: You start out dead and get that out of the way”
“I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I refuse to barter incentive for a dole. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia”
“I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them”
“I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it”
“I will send a barrel of this wonderful whiskey to every general in the army”
“I Wish I Was As Sure of Any One Thing As He is of Everything”
“I Would Challenge You To a Battle of Wits, But I See You Are Unarmed”
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom”
“I Would Rather Go To Bed With That Woman Stark Naked Than With Ulysses S. Grant in Full Military Regalia”
“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned”
“I Would Rather Have Two Girls at 21 Each Than One At 42”
“I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy”
“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck”
“I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it”
“I'm not young enough to know everything”
“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best”
“I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark”
“I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin”
“I've Had a Perfectly Wonderful Evening, But This Wasn't It”
“I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed”
“I've never been hired by a poor person”
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened”
“If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable”
“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”
“If food is so scarce, why hasn't Gandhi died yet?”
“If I Am To Speak Ten Minutes, I Need a Week for Preparation; If an Hour, I Am Ready Now”
“If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”
“If I were your wife I'd put poison in your tea! If I were your husband I'd drink it.”
“If it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change”
“If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known”
“If my critics saw me walking over the River Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim”
“If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it”
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them”
“If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them”
“If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?”
“If that plane leaves the ground and you're not on it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life”
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered”
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years left to live”
“If these kids can afford $8 cups of coffee, they can afford to pay their own student loans”
“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal”
“If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it”
“If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space”
“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got”
“If you are born poor it's not your mistake, but if you die poor it's your mistake”
“If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it”
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm”
“If you build it, they will come”
“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue”
“If you can dream it, you can do it”
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”
“If you can't explain something to a first-year student, then you haven't really understood it”
“If you can't measure it, you can't manage it”
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way”
“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed”
“If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything”
“If you fail to prepare, you are preparing to fail”
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas”
“If you have to ask the price, you can't afford it”
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them”
“If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you will most certainly be right”
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours”
“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours; if it doesn't, it never was”
“If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life”
“If you remember the '60s, you really weren't there”
“If you seek revenge, you should dig two graves, one for yourself”
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito”
“If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics”
“If you walk far enough you'll meet yourself”
“If you want a friend, get a dog”
“If you want to be happy, be”
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration”
“If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down”
“If you want to know what the Lord God thinks of money, just look at those to whom he gives it”
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you”
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
“If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly”
“If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate”
“If your house was burning and you could only take one thing with you, what would it be? I would take the fire”
“Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring”
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools”
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing”
“In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve”
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing”
“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit”
“In God we trust. All others must bring data”
“In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace”
“In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway”
“In the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer”
“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment”
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice there is”
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching”
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings”
“Is it true? Is it good? Is it useful?”
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so”
“It always seems impossible until it's done”
“It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop”
“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness”
“It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver”
“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end”
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible”
“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been”
“It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change”
“It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle”
“It is possible to live happily in the present moment. It is the only moment we have”
“It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it”
“It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained”
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning”
“It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe”
“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love”
“It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the egg”
“It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again”
“It Seems As If Anything I Like Is Either Illegal, Immoral, or Fattening”
“It Took Me Fifteen Years to Discover That I Had No Talent for Writing. Did You Quit?”
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child”
“It will fluctuate”
“It Will Take Them Ten Years to Prove Me Wrong”
“It's déjà vu all over again”
“It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting”
“It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time”
“It's Easy to Quit Smoking. I've Done It a Thousand Times”
“It's gotta be the shoes”
“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle”
“It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog”
“It's not the will to win but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see”
“It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“Just for today, I will try to live through this day only, and not tackle all my problems at once”
“Just Walk Beside Me and Be My Friend”
“Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream”
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you”
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow”
“Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer”
“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer”
“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much”
“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love”
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see”
“Know thyself”
“Know yourself and you will win all battles”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen”
“Last year over one million quarter-inch drills were sold, not because people wanted quarter-inch drills but because they wanted quarter-inch holes”
“Laughter is an instant vacation”
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever”
“Laws are Like Sausages. Better Not to See Them Being Made”
“Lead on, Macduff”
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way”
“Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival”
“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food”
“LeBron James is the GOAT in my eyes”
“Less is more”
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do”
“Let them eat cake”
“Let Us Hope Darwinism is Not True, But If It is, Let Us Pray It Does Not Become Widely Known”
“Life is a journey, not a destination”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality”
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
“Life Is Just One Damn Thing After Another”
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get”
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose”
“Life is not fair; get used to it”
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”
“Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else”
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated”
“Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably”
“Life Is Too Important To Be Taken Seriously”
“Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans”
“Life Isn't Fair, But Government Must Be”
“Life moves pretty fast”
“Like two bald men fighting over a comb”
“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever”
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere”
“Lose As If You Like It, and Win As If You Are Used to It”
“Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though”
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect, and greet each other”
“Love is a friendship set to music”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
“Luke, I am your father”
“Make each day your masterpiece”
“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived”
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”
“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices”
“Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences”
“Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe”
“May love be your guide in every moment of your life”
“Me Tarzan, you Jane”
“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened”
“Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest”
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much”
“Military Intelligence is a Contradiction in Terms or an Oxymoron”
“Millions of people who have never died before will be killed”
“Mirror, mirror on the wall”
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?”
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery”
“Money is the root of all evil”
“Most Conversations Are Simply Monologues Delivered in the Presence of a Witness”
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them”
“Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions”
“Most people are not seeking truth; they are searching for comfort in illusions”
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything”
“Music soothes the savage beast”
“Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them”
“My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions”
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me”
“My girlfriend always laughs during sex — no matter what she's reading”
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world”
“Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is”
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished”
“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power”
“Necessity is the mother of invention”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be”
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option”
“Never answer an anonymous letter”
“Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience”
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
“Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception”
“Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself”
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option”
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups”
“News Is What Somebody Does Not Want You To Print. All the Rest Is Advertising”
“Nice guys finish last”
“Ninety percent of this game is half-mental”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or get all the credit for doing it”
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance”
“No One Can Win at Roulette Unless He Steals Money from the Table While the Croupier Isn't Looking”
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible”
“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded”
“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little”
“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution”
“Normality is a well-paved street; it is good for walking, but no flowers will grow there”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love”
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts”
“Not one shred of evidence exists that life is serious”
“Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense”
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible”
“Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable”
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence”
“Now We’re Just Haggling Over the Price”
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane”
“Of all the means to ensure happiness, friendship is the most important”
“Often we are so busy with sawing that we forget to sharpen the saw”
“On s'engage et puis... on voit”
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen”
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results”
“One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic”
“One person can make a difference, and every person should try”
“Only One Who Attempts the Absurd Is Capable of Achieving the Impossible”
“Only the dead have seen the end of war”
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized”
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”
“Organizations don't get things done. Plans and programs don't get things done. Only people get things done”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us”
“Our deepest fears are like dragons guarding our deepest treasure”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet”
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain”
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without”
“People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; forgive them anyway”
“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
“People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole”
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day”
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf”
“People use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost — for support rather than illumination”
“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind”
“People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This the Sort of Thing They Like”
“People Who Say It Cannot Be Done Should Not Interrupt Those Who Are Doing It”
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
“Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws”
“Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it”
“Play it again, Sam”
“Poetry is music written for the human voice”
“Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed regularly, and for the same reason”
“Politics have no relation to morals”
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies”
“Prevention is better than cure”
“Pride comes before a fall”
“Pride goeth before a fall”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit”
“Quotation Is a Serviceable Substitute for Wit”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder”
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful”
“Remember, George, this is no time to go wobbly”
“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”
“Research Is to See What Everybody Else Has Seen and Think What Nobody Has Thought”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies”
“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these”
“Ringo isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles”
“Rule No. 1: Never lose money. Rule No. 2: Never forget rule No. 1”
“Say anything you want. Just spell my name right”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”
“Secret of the Universe: A Strong Smell of Turpentine Prevails Throughout”
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth”
“Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city”
“She can't take much more of this, Captain!”
“She is always kind to her inferiors. — But where does she find them?”
“Show me a good and gracious loser, and I'll show you a failure”
“Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser”
“Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot”
“Shut up and calculate!”
“Silence is a source of great strength”
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all”
“Skate to where the puck is going, not where it has been”
“Smart people learn from everything and everyone; average people from their experiences; stupid people already have all the answers”
“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling — it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go”
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple”
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that”
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet”
“Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”
“Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit”
“Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits”
“Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering”
“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory”
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known”
“Spare the rod and spoil the child”
“Spare the rod, spoil the child”
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it”
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can”
“Stay hungry, stay foolish”
“Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time”
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat”
“Stumbling is not falling”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”
“Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time”
“Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
“Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts”
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it”
“Successful people never worry about what others are doing”
“Survival of the fittest”
“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip”
“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must”
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see”
“Tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em; next, tell 'em; next, tell 'em what you told 'em”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn”
“Thank goodness we don't get as much government as we pay for”
“That which can be destroyed by the truth should be”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money”
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
“The best government is that which governs least”
“The best revenge is massive success”
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don't tell you what to see”
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”
“The best way to predict the future is to create it”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek”
“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken”
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise”
“The Climate Is What You Expect; The Weather Is What You Get”
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco”
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people”
“The Creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles”
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity”
“The customer is always right”
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!”
“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence”
“The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world. This is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people”
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
“The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons”
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not”
“The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work”
“The Difference Between Stupidity and Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits”
“The earth is degenerating, children no longer obey their parents, and the end of the world is evidently approaching”
“The ends justify the means”
“The essence of formulating strategy is relating a company to its environment”
“The evil was not in bread and circuses, per se, but in the willingness of the people to sell their rights as free men for full bellies and the excitement of the games which would serve to distract them from the other human hungers which bread and circuses can never appease”
“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan”
“The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form created and sustains us”
“The first draft of anything is garbage”
“The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization”
“The first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur that had been broken and then healed”
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing”
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”
“The future ain't what it used to be”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams”
“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today”
“The future starts today, not tomorrow”
“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion”
“The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact”
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge”
“The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be”
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another”
“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”
“The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults”
“The harder I practice, the luckier I get”
“The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics”
“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad”
“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality”
“The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will”
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself”
“The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes”
“The internet is just a passing fad”
“The John Birch Society is a good, patriotic society. I don't agree with what its founder said about me, but that does not detract from the fact that its membership is comprised of many fine Americans dedicated to the preservation of our libertarian Republic”
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“The lion shall lie down with the lamb”
“The main thing is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made”
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read”
“The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble”
“The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become”
“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water”
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled”
“The moment you know how your suffering came to be, you are already on the path of release from it”
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog”
“The more I practice, the luckier I get”
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government”
“The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it”
“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'”
“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”
“The musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra”
“The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well”
“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”
“The One Who Follows the Crowd Will Usually Go No Further Than the Crowd”
“The only bad question is an unasked one”
“The only constant in life is change”
“The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once”
“The only source of knowledge is experience”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference”
“The Palestinian struggle is not just a cry for justice. It's a blistering battle for the most fundamental human rights that every living soul on this planet should inherit by birthright”
“The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints”
“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live”
“The path to paradise begins in hell”
“The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness”
“The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty”
“The philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds”
“The place where your talent meets the world's needs is the job God has in mind for you”
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds”
“The Play Was a Great Success, But the Audience Was a Total Failure”
“The Plays of Shakespeare Were Not Written by Shakespeare but by Another Man of the Same Name”
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much”
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money”
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence”
“The Professor's Lecture Notes Go Straight to the Students' Lecture Notes”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”
“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”
“The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine”
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”
“The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It's the way I see football, the way I see life”
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government”
“The Telegraph is Like a Very, Very Long Cat (or Dog)”
“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people”
“The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears rather than with their minds”
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good”
“The true objective of war is peace”
“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable”
“The urge to destroy is also a creative urge”
“The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets”
“The whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain, and wiser people so full of doubts”
“The will to win is not worth much unless you have the will to prepare to win”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places”
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper”
“The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal”
“Then gentlemen, what are we fighting for?”
“There are hopes the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description”
“There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met”
“There are only four stories: the siege of a city, the return home, the quest, and the suicide of a god”
“There Are Only Three Great Cities in the U.S.: New York, San Francisco, and Washington. All the Rest Are Cleveland”
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games”
“There are only two plots in all of literature: (1) A person goes on a journey, (2) A stranger comes to town”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle”
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them”
“There Are Things Known, and Things Unknown, and In Between Are the Doors”
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics”
“There Are Three Rules for the Writing of a Novel”
“There are three sorts of people: the living, the dead, and those at sea”
“There are three types of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened”
“There Are Two Classes of People in the World; Those Who Divide People into Two Classes and Those Who Do Not”
“There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic”
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time”
“There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit”
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit”
“There Is No Right Way to Do the Wrong Thing”
“There is no sense in being precise when you don't know what you're talking about”
“There is no substitute for hard work”
“There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way”
“There is not a single citizen in South Africa who is not ready to stand by his Palestinian brothers in their legitimate fight against the Zionist racists”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self”
“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship”
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing”
“There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave”
“There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story”
“There Was a Young Lady Named Bright Whose Speed Was Far Faster Than Light”
“There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot”
“They're Cheering Us Both, You Because Nobody Understands You, and Me Because Everybody Understands Me”
“Things are more like they are now than they ever have been”
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle”
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out”
“This is no time to be making new enemies”
“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force”
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever”
“This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put”
“This is your life, not a dress rehearsal”
“This too shall pass”
“Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others”
“Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach”
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music”
“Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music”
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly”
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it”
“Those Who Love Deeply Never Grow Old”
“Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword”
“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”
“Though music be a universal language, it is spoken with all sorts of accents”
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared”
“Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves”
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth”
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind”
“Three Weeks to Prepare a Good Impromptu Speech”
“Time and tide wait for no man”
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana”
“Time heals all wounds”
“Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate, but for those who love, time is eternal”
“Time spent with cats is never wasted”
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time”
“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book”
“To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly”
“To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth”
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing”
“To be is to do. To do is to be. Do be do be do”
“To be popular is easy; to be right, when right is unpopular, is noble”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
“To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past”
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded”
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering”
“To love another person is to see the face of God”
“To me, there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think. And number three, you should have your emotions moved to tears”
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible”
“To thine own self be true”
“To understand everything is to forgive everything”
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society”
“Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles”
“Tomorrow is another day”
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like”
“Too much whiskey is barely enough”
“Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore”
“Travel and tell no one. Have a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things”
“True friends stab you in the front”
“True love is born from understanding”
“Trust no one in whom the desire to punish is strong”
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life”
“Truth is the enemy of the state”
“Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for”
“Truths and roses have thorns about them”
“Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe”
“Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything”
“Under pressure you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training”
“United we stand, divided we fall”
“Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others”
“Walking is man's best medicine”
“War does not determine who is right — only who is left”
“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn”
“Watch the costs and the profits take care of themselves”
“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny”
“Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink”
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving”
“We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love”
“We are all broken. That's how the light gets in”
“We are twice armed if we fight with faith”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world”
“We Can Complain Because Rose Bushes Have Thorns, or Rejoice Because Thorn Bushes Have Roses”
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light”
“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone”
“We cannot go back and start over, but we can begin now, and make a new ending”
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”
“We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are”
“We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”
“We Don't Know Who Discovered Water, But We Know It Wasn't a Fish”
“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are”
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one”
“We judge ourselves by our intentions and others by their behavior”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give”
“We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right”
“We need a revolution every 200 years”
“We only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always”
“We shall overcome”
“We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles”
“We're gonna need a bigger boat”
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life”
“Well-behaved women rarely make history”
“Well, every one for himself, and Providence for us all — as the elephant said when he danced among the chickens”
“What can be explained is not poetry”
“What gets measured gets managed”
“What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand”
“What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important”
“What is to give light must endure burning”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things”
“What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Anyway, I had a better year than he did”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality”
“What we do in life echoes in eternity”
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”
“What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet”
“Whatever is Not Nailed Down is Mine and Whatever I Can Pry Loose is Not Nailed Down”
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
“Whatever you are, be a good one”
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it”
“When 'I' is replaced with 'we,' illness becomes wellness”
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry”
“When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure”
“When everybody thinks alike, nobody will think at all”
“When God closes a door, He opens a window”
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”
“When I hear artists or authors making fun of business men, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks”
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be”
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew”
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life”
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years”
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do”
“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”
“When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens”
“When painters get together they talk about where you can buy the best turpentine”
“When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money”
“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser”
“When the End of the World Comes, I Want To Be in Cincinnati. It Is Always Ten Years Behind the Times”
“When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?”
“When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states”
“When the people fear the government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people there is liberty”
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic”
“When the rich rob the poor it’s called business. When the poor fight back it’s called violence”
“When the water reaches the upper deck, follow the rats”
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'”
“When Two Men in Business Always Agree, One of Them Is Unnecessary”
“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love”
“When you have mastered numbers, you will no longer be reading numbers”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on”
“When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't”
“Wherefore art thou, Romeo?”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right”
“Whiskey Is for Drinking; Water Is for Fighting Over”
“Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?”
“Who Is Buried in Grant's Tomb? Answer: Grant!”
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
“Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy”
“Why don't you come up and see me sometime?”
“Will you have sugar and cream in your nose?”
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water”
“Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing”
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something”
“With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!”
“With great power comes great responsibility”
“With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights”
“Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss”
“Without data, you're just another person with an opinion”
“Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open”
“Written Without Fear and Without Research”
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it”
“Yes, I Am Drunk, But You Are Ugly. Tomorrow I Will Be Sober, And You Will Still Be Ugly”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present”
“Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games”
“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream”
“You break it, you own it”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe”
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending”
“You can't just let nature run wild”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong”
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself”
“You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body”
“You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps”
“You Don't Have to Know Everything. You Just Have to Know Where to Find It”
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength”
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams”
“You look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence and energy. And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you”
“You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give”
“You may climb the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall”
“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension”
“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough”
“You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. True power is restraint”
“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety”
“You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules”
“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger”
“You will stand in line for my shoes but won't stand up for yourself”
“You wouldn't worry so much about what other people think of you if you realized how seldom they do”
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
“You're dead, Jim”
“You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child”
“You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it”
“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt”
“Your Liberty To Swing Your Fist Ends Just Where My Nose Begins”
“Youth is wasted on the young”
“A champion is someone who gets up when they can't”
“A child miseducated is a child lost”
“A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing”
“A penalty is a cowardly way to score”
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes”
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does”
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself”
“Age before beauty. Pearls before swine”
“All compounded things are subject to decay. Strive with diligence”
“All things are difficult before they are easy”
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut”
“An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid”
“Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you bread, then take bread”
“At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters”
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”
“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”
“By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it”
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
“Chance favors the prepared mind”
“Character is destiny”
“Common Sense Is Nothing More Than a Deposit of Prejudices Laid Down in the Mind Before Age Eighteen”
“Death is nature's way of saying, 'Your table is ready.'”
“Deeds, not words”
“Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time”
“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today”
“Don't find fault, find a remedy”
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form”
“Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do”
“Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love. The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love”
“Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches”
“Don't Tax You. Don't Tax Me. Tax That Fellow Behind the Tree”
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning”
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance”
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”
“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things”
“England and America are two countries separated by a common language”
“Eureka! I have found it!”
“Every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit”
“Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man”
“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes”
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run”
“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man”
“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth”
“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart”
“Everything negative — pressure, challenges — is all an opportunity for me to rise”
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way”
“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions”
“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week”
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose”
“Fortune favors the bold”
“Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good”
“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth”
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
“God does not play dice with the universe”
“God gave me my money”
“God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own”
“God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things”
“Gold Gets Dug Out of the Ground; Then We Melt It Down, Dig Another Hole, Bury It Again”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony”
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it”
“He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing”
“Hell, there are no rules here. We're trying to accomplish something”
“History is but a fable agreed upon”
“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul”
“I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big”
“I am a deeply superficial person”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was”
“I believe in a benevolent dictatorship - as long as I am the benevolent dictator”
“I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying”
“I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce”
“I do not seek. I find”
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book”
“I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals”
“I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”
“I Have the Simplest Tastes; I Am Always Satisfied with the Best”
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death”
“I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole”
“I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception”
“I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer”
“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger”
“I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse”
“I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy”
“I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music”
“I wonder what chairs think about all day: 'Oh, here comes another asshole.'”
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free”
“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light”
“I'd have been a .290 hitter without a Louisville Slugger”
“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that”
“If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised”
“If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all”
“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door”
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back”
“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's”
“If there is a God, he will have to beg my forgiveness”
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it”
“If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing”
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude”
“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude”
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need”
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced”
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun”
“If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline”
“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary”
“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity”
“Imagination rules the world”
“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous”
“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on”
“In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes”
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower”
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working”
“It ain't over till it's over”
“It Is the Best Play I Ever Slept Through”
“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age”
“It matters if you don't just give up”
“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal”
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible”
“It's not quite true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on”
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do”
“Keep Away from People Who Try to Belittle Your Ambitions”
“Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred”
“Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards”
“Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope”
“Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult”
“Life is suffering”
“Live each day as if it were your last”
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once”
“Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything”
“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”
“Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction”
“Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair”
“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has”
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
“No two persons ever read the same book”
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood”
“Once you choose hope, anything is possible”
“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night”
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”
“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success”
“Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance”
“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination”
“Religion is the opiate of the masses”
“Republicans buy sneakers, too”
“She Runs the Gamut of Human Emotion from A to B”
“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you”
“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago”
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier”
“Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, and sacrifice”
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable”
“Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful”
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet”
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at”
“The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes”
“The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything”
“The die is cast”
“The dry martini is the only American invention as perfect as a sonnet”
“The first draft of anything is shit”
“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy”
“The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'”
“The greatest joy is to conquer your enemies and drive them before you”
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
“The Hardest Thing in the World to Understand Is Income Taxes”
“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort”
“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top”
“The longer I live, the more I am inclined to the belief that this earth is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum”
“The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team”
“The mamba mentality is a constant quest to try to be better today than you were yesterday”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any”
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, we've always done it this way”
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy”
“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”
“The road to the Olympics, leads to no city, no country. It goes far beyond New York or Moscow, ancient Greece or Nazi Germany. The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us”
“The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet”
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short”
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it”
“The way to do is to be”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing”
“The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion”
“The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within”
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure”
“There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things”
“There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste”
“There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all”
“There's a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success”
“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up”
“This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor”
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful”
“Uncontrolled variation is the enemy of quality”
“Victory belongs to the most persevering”
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one”
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed”
“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others”
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us”
“Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself”
“What Is Written Without Effort Is In General Read Without Pleasure”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
“When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art”
“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place”
“Winning isn't a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing”
“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”
“You are all a lost generation”
“You Are Only Interested in Art and I Am Only Interested in Money”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
“You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think”
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
“You can't teach an old dogma new tricks”
“You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you”
“You don't understand our American humor”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it”
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
“Your margin is my opportunity”
“'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us”
“A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”
“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity”
“A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues”
“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand”
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing”
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right”
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone”
“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life”
“A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”
“A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth”
“A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself”
“A person's a person, no matter how small”
“A pessimist is one who sees a disaster in every opportunity. An optimist sees opportunity in every disaster”
“A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business”
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”
“A system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system”
“A teacher, a really good sensei, is never a giver of 'truth'; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that the student must discover for himself”
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”
“A true friend is, as it were, a second self”
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence”
“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart”
“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”
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate”
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative”
“All art is propaganda”
“All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
“All men by nature desire to know”
“All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike”
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream”
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players”
“All warfare is based on deception”
“All wars are planned by older men in council rooms apart”
“Always look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help”
“An artist's duty is to reflect the times”
“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way”
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you”
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing”
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”
“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black”
“any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature—it requires, in fact, the nature of a true Individualist—to sympathise with a friend's success”
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand”
“Art, Like Morality, Consists of Drawing the Line Somewhere”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death”
“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is”
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own”
“As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm”
“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”
“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity”
“Baseball always has been and always will be a game demanding team play. You can have the nine greatest individual ball players in the world, but if they don't play together the club won't be worth a dime”
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man”
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born”
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth”
“Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you”
“Be so good they can't ignore you”
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot”
“Be water, my friend”
“Be worthy love, and love will come”
“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them”
“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact”
“Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven”
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful”
“Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness”
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth”
“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools”
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”
“But the best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future”
“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation”
“Carpe diem”
“Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform”
“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for”
“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky”
“Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy”
“Confine yourself to the present”
“Conventionality is not morality”
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once”
“Crazy-busy is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us”
“Custom is a violent and treacherous schoolmistress”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that”
“Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good”
“Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them”
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude”
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard”
“Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly”
“Do not go gentle into that good night”
“Do not only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine”
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”
“Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along”
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway”
“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it”
“Don't give up. Don't ever give up.”
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed”
“Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines”
“Don't think. Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd”
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one”
“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
“Education is the passport to the future”
“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed”
“Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running. If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write”
“Every individual is an exception to the rule”
“Every joke is a tiny revolution”
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning”
“Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are”
“Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers”
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”
“Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time”
“Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are”
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way”
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait”
“Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy seasons bring, O Nature”
“Excuse my dust”
“Existence precedes essence”
“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
“Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases”
“Failure is an event, not a person”
“Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again”
“Fan Ch'ih asked about benevolence. The Master said, 'It is to love all men.'”
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat”
“Fashion is always a reflection of the times, but it is forgotten if it is foolish”
“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?”
“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them”
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”
“Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it”
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do”
“Follow your bliss”
“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled”
“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all”
“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery”
“For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs”
“For whom the bell tolls”
“For without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods”
“Forever is composed of nows”
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears”
“From so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”
“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration”
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble”
“Get over yourself! 'Cause it's not about you, man”
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break”
“God bless us, every one!”
“Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people”
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance”
“Grief is the price we pay for love”
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time”
“Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you”
“Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort”
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts”
“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning”
“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has”
“He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know”
“He that can have patience can have what he will”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life”
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened”
“He who learns but does not think, is lost”
“He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty”
“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”
“Hell is other people”
“History is more or less bunk”
“Hitch your wagon to a star”
“Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram”
“Hitting a baseball — I've said it a thousand times — is the single most difficult thing to do in sport”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom”
“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man”
“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords”
“Hope is the dream of a waking man”
“Hope is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul”
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast”
“Houston, we've had a problem”
“How Could I Feel Like a Hero When Only Five Men in My Platoon of 45 Survived?”
“How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly”
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world”
“I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it”
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual”
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”
“I am the greatest! I'm the greatest thing that ever lived”
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul”
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely”
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse”
“I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it”
“I came, I saw, I conquered”
“I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams”
“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks”
“I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine”
“I can't believe how fast 20 years went by... Mamba Out!”
“I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again”
“I cannot stand and sing the anthem. I cannot salute the flag. I know that I am a black man in a white world”
“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man”
“I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was man”
“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”
“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”
“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance”
“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success...Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything”
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves”
“I don't give advice; I give opinions”
“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space”
“I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member”
“I exist as I am, that is enough”
“I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts”
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way”
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear”
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed”
“I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it”
“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours”
“I never met a man I didn't like”
“I owe the public nothing”
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others”
“I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts”
“I really didn't say everything I said”
“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail”
“I think our society is run by insane people for insane objectives”
“I think, therefore I am”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am”
“I very frequently get the question: What's going to change in the next 10 years? I almost never get the question: What's not going to change in the next 10 years?”
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy”
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”
“I would always rather be happy than dignified”
“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder”
“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him”
“I'm for whatever gets you through the night”
“I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being”
“I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one that can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander! He's no Alexander. I'm the best ever. There's never been anybody as ruthless. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one that can match me. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!”
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed”
“Ich bin ein Berliner”
“If A is success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X, play is Y and Z is keeping your mouth shut”
“If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted”
“If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer, because it was he, because it was I”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties”
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain”
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
“If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it”
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress”
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place”
“If we don't end war, war will end us”
“If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how”
“If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
“If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing”
“If you invent a breakthrough in artificial intelligence so machines can learn, that is worth 10 Microsofts”
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles”
“If you let money pile up, it starts to stink. But if you spread it around then it can do a lot of good”
“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person”
“If You Want to Know What a Man's Like, Look at How He Treats His Inferiors”
“If you wish to be loved, love”
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe”
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things”
“If you've been in the game 30 minutes and you don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge”
“Imagine all the people living life in peace”
“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks”
“In His will is our peace”
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule”
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different”
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman”
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”
“In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon”
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex”
“In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were their rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves.'”
“In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail”
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope”
“In the woods, we return to reason and faith”
“in the zone”
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem”
“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares”
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”
“In wildness is the preservation of the world”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
“Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos”
“Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind”
“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance”
“It is hard to be brave when you're only a Very Small Animal”
“It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting”
“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well”
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better”
“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent”
“It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man”
“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll”
“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things”
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know”
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear”
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”
“It's a big club and you ain't in it”
“It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting process”
“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day”
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”
“Knowledge itself is power”
“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous”
“Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it”
“Let us cultivate our garden”
“Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us”
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”
“Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer”
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind”
“Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change”
“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies”
“Make war a mere contest of machines without men and without loss of life”
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art”
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens”
“Man is condemned to be free”
“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall”
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose”
“Men have become the tools of their tools”
“Money is gold, and nothing else”
“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread”
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all”
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply”
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
“Much learning does not teach understanding”
“My conscience won't let me go shoot my brother, or some darker people, or some poor hungry people in the mud, for big powerful America”
“Myths are public dreams; dreams are private myths”
“Nature to be commanded must be obeyed”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well”
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”
“Never say of anything, I have lost it; but, I have restored it”
“No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen”
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”
“No man is an island entire of itself”
“No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind”
“No matter what, people are going to like you or not like you. So be authentic, and let them like you or not for who you actually are”
“No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path”
“No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem”
“Not all those who wander are lost”
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”
“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door”
“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves”
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know”
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change”
“Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature”
“Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive”
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”
“Now is the winter of our discontent”
“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them”
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful”
“One dies twice, I see it plainly; to cease to love and be loved is an unbearable death; to cease to live is nothing”
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman”
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture”
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope”
“Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry”
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt”
“Our homes are our prisons; let us find freedom in their decoration”
“Our patience will achieve more than our force”
“Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls”
“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen”
“Patience is a conquering virtue”
“Patience, and shuffle the cards”
“People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as a joke”
“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage”
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not”
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything”
“Please accept our apologies. We were roaring drunk on petroleum”
“Please, sir, I want some more”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil”
“Price is what you pay, value is what you get”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind”
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy”
“Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket”
“Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process”
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear”
“Read my lips: no new taxes”
“Real artists ship”
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent”
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
“Riches and honours acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud”
“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing”
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated”
“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition”
“Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future”
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
“Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us”
“Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy”
“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech”
“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand”
“So it goes”
“Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it”
“Software is eating the world”
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different”
“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
“Strive manfully; custom is overcome by custom”
“Strong people always have strong weaknesses too”
“Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement”
“Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose”
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles overcome”
“Success ultimately rests on small things, lots of small things”
“Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts”
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what people fear most”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“That best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love”
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show”
“That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great”
“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest”
“That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched”
“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer”
“The best way out is always through”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted”
“The ceiling is the roof”
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat”
“The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain”
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning”
“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do”
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool”
“The first thing is character, before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it. A man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom”
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it — basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them”
“The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on”
“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom”
“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone”
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse”
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not”
“The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way”
“The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has”
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind”
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities”
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living”
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself”
“The man who dies rich dies disgraced”
“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life”
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”
“The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go”
“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help”
“The most violent element in society is ignorance”
“The mountains are calling and I must go”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for”
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help”
“The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind”
“The only beautiful eyes are those that look at us tenderly”
“The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs”
“The only land we ever asked for was enough land to bury our dead”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
“The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it”
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance”
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning”
“The pen is mightier than the sword”
“The perfect is the enemy of the good”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid”
“The power of imagination makes us infinite”
“The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine”
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change”
“The purpose of an organization is to enable common men to do uncommon things”
“The quality of mercy is not strained; it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: it blesseth him that gives and him that takes”
“The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance”
“The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it”
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself”
“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief”
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil”
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom”
“The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way”
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
“The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter”
“The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience”
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting”
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time”
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life”
“The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so”
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see”
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him”
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple”
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
“The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it”
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast”
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless”
“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity”
“There are four hundred thousand words in the English language, and there are seven you can't say on television”
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it”
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer”
“There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more”
“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse”
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved”
“There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart”
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy”
“There is no such thing as society”
“There is no wealth but life”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends”
“There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing”
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America”
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure”
“There is only one valid definition of a business purpose: to create a customer”
“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”
“There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm themselves at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke coming from the chimney”
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit”
“These are the times that try men's souls”
“These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare”
“They also serve who only stand and wait”
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself”
“They can because they think they can”
“They muddy the waters to make them look deep”
“They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies”
“Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that”
“Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not”
“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home”
“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive”
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations”
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it”
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
“Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do”
“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind”
“Time is Money”
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace”
“To be, or not to be, that is the question”
“To err is human, to forgive, divine”
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die”
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often”
“To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. The lady's not for turning”
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice”
“Trust, but verify”
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by”
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it”
“Very little is needed to make a happy life”
“Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage”
“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us”
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special”
“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit”
“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depths of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good”
“We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy”
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”
“We go to openings of envelopes”
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another”
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths”
“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery”
“We loved with a love that was more than love”
“We must reach out our hand in friendship both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy”
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets”
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started”
“We should not spoil what we have by desiring what we do not have, but remember that what we have too was the gift of fortune”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself”
“We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first — rock and roll or Christianity”
“Well-behaved women seldom make history”
“Well, nobody's perfect”
“What a man can be, he must be”
“What brings no benefit to the hive, brings none to the bee”
“What does not kill me makes me stronger”
“What is now proved was once only imagined”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us”
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others”
“When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind”
“When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm”
“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life”
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle”
“When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us”
“When the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right”
“When they go low, we go high”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe”
“when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it”
“When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them”
“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it”
“Where should one use perfume? Wherever one wants to be kissed”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds”
“Without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently”
“Without music, life would be a mistake”
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality”
“Work is love made visible”
“Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it”
“Yes we can”
“You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want”
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you”
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”
“You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere”
“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face”
“You just can't beat the person who never gives up”
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated”
“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you”
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one”
“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
“You're gonna need a bigger boat”
“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you”
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life”
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