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“A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song”
“A constitution should be short and obscure”
“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 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 government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing”
“A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client”
“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 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 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 woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself”
“Able was I ere I saw Elba”
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter”
“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”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much”
“Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all the alternatives”
“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep”
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest”
“And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself”
“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 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”
“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist”
“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung”
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life”
“As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!”
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company”
“Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding”
“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 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”
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy”
“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”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage”
“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”
“Blood, sweat and tears”
“Bubble bubble, toil and trouble”
“Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door”
“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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay”
“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work”
“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. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty”
“Courage is knowing what not to fear”
“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”
“Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a..”
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch”
“Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”
“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?”
“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened”
“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time”
“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”
“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel”
“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”
“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 the darkest night will end and the sun will rise”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
“Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack”
“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”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”
“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 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”
“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”
“Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy”
“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”
“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”
“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 minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”
“Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn”
“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 them a whiff of grapeshot”
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever”
“Go ahead, make my day”
“God has no religion”
“God helps those who help themselves”
“God is where you let Him in”
“Golf is a good walk spoiled”
“Good artists copy; great artists steal”
“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”
“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”
“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 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 opens a school door, closes a prison”
“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”
“Hello, Clarice”
“Help is the sunny side of control”
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes”
“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 were?”
“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 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 cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet”
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends”
“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 to be the richest man in the cemetery”
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream”
“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 not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work”
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand”
“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 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 sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies”
“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 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 have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned”
“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've never been hired by a poor person”
“If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable”
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”
“If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it”
“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 voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it”
“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got”
“If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it”
“If you build it, they will come”
“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 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 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 judge people, you have no time to love them”
“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 remember the '60s, you really weren't there”
“If you want a friend, get a dog”
“If you're going through hell, keep going”
“If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly”
“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 any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing”
“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 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”
“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”
“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 is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness”
“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 never too late to be what you might have been”
“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 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 isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe”
“It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose 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 not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog”
“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see”
“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers”
“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 friends close, and 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”
“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”
“Laughter is an instant vacation”
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever”
“Lead on, Macduff”
“Let them eat cake”
“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 like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get”
“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 what happens when you're busy making other plans”
“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”
“Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity”
“Luke, I am your father”
“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”
“May love be your guide in every moment of your life”
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much”
“Millions of people who have never died before will be killed”
“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 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 best friend is the one who brings out the best in me”
“My girlfriend always laughs during sex — no matter what she's reading”
“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”
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
“Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself”
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”
“Nice guys finish last”
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”
“No man is free who is not master of himself”
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“Of all the means to ensure happiness, friendship is the most important”
“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”
“One person can make a difference, and every person should try”
“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”
“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 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”
“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 will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”
“Play it again, Sam”
“Prevention is better than cure”
“Pride comes before a fall”
“Quality is not an act, it is a habit”
“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”
“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”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth”
“She can't take much more of this, Captain!”
“Silence is a source of great strength”
“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 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”
“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”
“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 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”
“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”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance”
“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 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 children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise”
“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 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 ends justify the means”
“The first draft of anything is garbage”
“The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”
“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 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 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 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 journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”
“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 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 musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra”
“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 only constant in life is change”
“The only source of knowledge is experience”
“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 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 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 price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence”
“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 real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations”
“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 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 whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain, and wiser people so full of doubts”
“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”
“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 sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games”
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them”
“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 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 substitute for hard work”
“There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way”
“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'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”
“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever”
“This is your life, not a dress rehearsal”
“Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach”
“Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music”
“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly”
“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”
“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”
“Time and tide wait for no man”
“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”
“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 is to do. To do is to be. Do be do be do”
“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 love another person is to see the face of God”
“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible”
“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”
“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”
“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, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for”
“Truths and roses have thorns about them”
“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”
“United we stand, divided we fall”
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others”
“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 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 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 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 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 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”
“What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand”
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality”
“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”
“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 a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry”
“When everybody thinks alike, nobody will think at all”
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny”
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew”
“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 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 the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser”
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic”
“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 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”
“Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right”
“With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!”
“With great power comes great responsibility”
“You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”
“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 don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body”
“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 may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension”
“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 never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules”
“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”
“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 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”
“All things are difficult before they are easy”
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas”
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
“Chance favors the prepared mind”
“Character is destiny”
“Deeds, not words”
“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”
“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”
“Energy and persistence conquer all things”
“England and America are two countries separated by a common language”
“Eureka! I have found it!”
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way”
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose”
“Fortune favors the bold”
“Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth”
“Give me liberty, or give me death!”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others”
“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”
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back”
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was”
“I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter”
“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death”
“I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger”
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free”
“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 there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it”
“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 obey all the rules, you miss all the fun”
“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”
“It's kind of fun to do the impossible”
“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do”
“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”
“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”
“Never was anything great achieved without danger”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”
“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 penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors”
“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance”
“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”
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet”
“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 great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy”
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle”
“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 way to do is to be”
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing”
“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up”
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful”
“Victory belongs to the most persevering”
“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”
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it”
“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art”
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”
“You are all a lost generation”
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”
“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water”
“You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you”
“'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 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 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 of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery”
“A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair”
“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”
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here”
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative”
“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”
“An artist's duty is to reflect the times”
“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”
“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”
“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death”
“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”
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man”
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none”
“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 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”
“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”
“But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream”
“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”
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky”
“Confine yourself to the present”
“Conventionality is not morality”
“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”
“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”
“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 man is guilty of all the good he did not do”
“Every moment is a fresh beginning”
“Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers”
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are”
“Existence precedes essence”
“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”
“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”
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do”
“For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all”
“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”
“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”
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction”
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble”
“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance”
“Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue”
“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort”
“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 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”
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly”
“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”
“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 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 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 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 declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man”
“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves”
“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 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 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 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 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'm for whatever gets you through the night”
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed”
“If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him”
“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 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 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 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 are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”
“If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person”
“If you wish to be loved, love”
“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”
“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 spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”
“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 unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
“Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos”
“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 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 only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”
“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll”
“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing”
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear”
“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”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving”
“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”
“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none”
“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies”
“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”
“Much learning does not teach understanding”
“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well”
“No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere”
“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 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”
“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 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”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls”
“Patience is a conquering virtue”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will”
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”
“Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind”
“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”
“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some”
“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?”
“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”
“Speak softly and carry a big stick”
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles overcome”
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“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's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched”
“The best way out is always through”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”
“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 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 greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself”
“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not”
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way”
“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 mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help”
“The mountains are calling and I must go”
“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 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 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 soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts”
“The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter”
“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 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 unexamined life is not worth living”
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong”
“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”
“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 is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse”
“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 nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends”
“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”
“These are the times that try men's souls”
“They can because they think they can”
“They muddy the waters to make them look deep”
“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”
“This world is but canvas to our imaginations”
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
“We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit”
“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 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 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 shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started”
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
“Well-behaved women seldom make history”
“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”
“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 I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better”
“When they go low, we go high”
“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”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
“Without music, life would be a mistake”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality”
“Yes we can”
“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 may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one”
“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
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