Famous Quotes |
| Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually. |
Jimi Hendrix |
| Individual commitment to a group
effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. |
Vince Lombardi |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. |
John Lennon, in Strawberry Fields Forever |
English singer & songwriter
(1940 - 1980) |
| In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at
heart. |
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank |
German Jewish diarist (1929 -
1945) |
| Perfection can be achieved by no
one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you. |
Mary Ross |
| Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science. |
Bernard Berenson |
US (Lithuanian-born) art critic
(1865 - 1959) |
| Statistically the probability of any
one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented
dazzlement of surprise. |
Lewis Thomas |
US author, biologist, physician
(1913 - 1993) |
| I know in my heart that man is good.
That what is right will always eventually triumph. And thereÆs purpose and worth to each and every life. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If
a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill
him. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| He who joyfully marches in rank and
file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would
suffice. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| There are no hopeless situations; There are only people who have grown
hopeless about them. |
Clare Boothe Luce |
| Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. |
Heywood Broun, Sitting on the World, 1924 |
US journalist (1888 - 1939) |
| A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. |
Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1978 |
US science fiction author (1907 -
1988) |
| A poem is no place for an idea. |
Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911 |
US journalist (1853 - 1937) |
| Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else? |
James Thurber |
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) |
| The secret to life is that there is no secret. |
"Swampman" on Quartz |
| Human Dignity has gleamed only now
and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement
of the majority. |
James Thurber |
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) |
| There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare
that obscures. |
James Thurber |
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) |
| The world only goes round by misunderstanding. |
Charles Baudelaire |
French poet (1821 - 1867) |
| We are weighed down, every moment,
by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this
nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let
us choose. |
Charles Baudelaire |
French poet (1821 - 1867) |
| Poetry and progress are like two
ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to
give place. |
Charles Baudelaire |
French poet (1821 - 1867) |
| I consider it useless and tedious to
represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy
to what is positively trivial. |
Charles Baudelaire |
French poet (1821 - 1867) |
| Engineers are all basically
high-functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff. |
Cory Doctorow, Eastern Standard Tribe, 2004 |
American science fiction
writer |
| True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. |
Socrates |
Greek philosopher in Athens (469
BC - 399 BC) |
| Happiness is as a butterfly which,
when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
US author (1804 - 1864) |
| I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up
and be a critic." |
Richard Pryor, Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004 |
US movie actor & comedian
(1940 - ) |
| Justice consists not in being
neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong. |
Theodore Roosevelt, 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial
CD-ROM) |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| The key is to commit crimes so
confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them. |
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03 |
| I dream of wayward gulls and all
landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone. |
William Claire |
American poet and essayist |
| It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen. |
George Orwell, "1984", first sentence |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather
a new wearer of clothes. |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. |
Socrates |
Greek philosopher in Athens (469
BC - 399 BC) |
| Peace has never come from dropping
bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner. |
Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004 |
| In politics you must always keep
running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like
wolves. |
R. A. Butler |
British (Indian-born) politician
(1902 - 1982) |
| Politics is largely a matter of heart. |
R. A. Butler |
British (Indian-born) politician
(1902 - 1982) |
| Science is the only true guide in life. |
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22.09.1924 |
| Freedom and indedendence form my character. |
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24.04.1921 |
| If a man does his best, what more is there to ask for? |
George S. Patton |
US general (1885 - 1945) |
| Everyone is having a harder time than it appears. |
Charles Grodin |
| The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.... |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should
do. |
Bob Dylan, "To Ramona" |
US singer & songwriter (1941
- ) |
| There are no dirty words, only dirty minds. |
Lenny Bruce |
(1923 - 1966) |
| An education was a bit like a
communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. |
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather |
| A marriage is always made up of two
people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. |
Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant |
| It could not be happening because
this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored. |
Terry Pratchett, Jingo |
| Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. |
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather |
| Unles we change direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed. |
Chinese Proverb |
| If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. |
Katharine Hepburn |
US actress (1907 - 2003) |
| Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| "Whoops" is a word that
should never be said by some professions - Pilots, Racing car drivers, and hair colourists come immediately to mind but Dentists
also have to be up in the top five. |
Richard Stubbs, Comedian, Book - " Still Life" |
| The future is no place to place your better days. |
Dave Matthews, "Cry Freedom" |
| Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| The only thing that comes to a sleeping man are dreams. |
Tupac Amaru Shakur |
| Well, the telling of jokes is an art
of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are
in some way truthful. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Interview, Mcsweeneys.net |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. |
Philip R. Zimmermann |
| Any fool can make a rule,<br>and any fool will mind it. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Nothing recedes like success. |
Walter Winchell, American Columnist and Broadcaster (1897-1972) |
US gossip columnist & broadcast journalist (1897 - 1972) |
| The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the
point is to change it. |
Karl Marx (1845), Theses on Feuerbach (Thesis XI) |
| One of the most difficult tasks
confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Language is the immediate actuality of
thought. Just as philosophers have given thought an independent existence, so
they were bound to make language into an independent realm. |
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, German Ideology, Chapter 3 |
| He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of
wisdom. |
J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf |
| WhatÆs the use of happiness? It canÆt buy you money. |
Henny Youngman |
US (English-born) comedian (1906 -
1998) |
| The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised. |
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Aragorn |
British scholar & fantasy novelist
(1892 - 1973) |
| Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.... |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| I love you. I used to pity your
sorrow. But now, were you sorrowless, without fear or any lack, still i would love you. |
J. R. R. Tolkien, Spoken by Faramir |
British scholar & fantasy novelist
(1892 - 1973) |
| If we are immortal it is a fact in
nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. |
Robert Ingersoll, ôWhat Must We Do To Be Saved?ö (1880) |
US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) |
| Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house. |
Sydney James |
| Speech is conveniently located
midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. |
John Andrew Holmes |
| Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? |
Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist |
| Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people
with the politics left out. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
British historian (1876 - 1962) |
| If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice! |
Neil Peart |
| DonÆt worry about a thing,<br> Æcause every little thing gonna be
all right. |
Bob Marley, "Three Little Birds" - song "Legend"- album |
| Do not let your fire go out, spark
by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in
your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but
never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it
is real, it is possible, it is yours. |
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over
truth? |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| Mental toughness is essential to success. |
Vince Lombardi |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| Strength, courage and power do not
exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and
understanding; you can be powerful and considerate. |
Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw-Hill) |
| Trying is the first step towards failure. |
Homer Simpson |
| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the
highest clouds. |
Joanne K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisinor of Azkaban, Dumbledore |
| There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. |
Shakespeare, Hamlet |
| The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those
who seek them. |
Ayn Rand, Anthem |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| The resounding echo of the mortal
coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death
toll. |
George Whelton |
| Give your hearts, but not into each
otherÆs keeping, <br> For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. |
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with
the devil. |
Kara Vichko |
| There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the
real jerks will live forever. |
Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004) |
| When you take a man as he is, you
make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| Immature love says, I love you
because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you. |
Winston Churchill |
| When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on. |
Winston Churchill |
| Every silver lining has a touch of grey. |
Jerry Garcia |
| Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. |
William Gibson |
US science fiction novelist in Canada
(1948 - ) |
| Happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven. |
Washington Irving, American writer and poet |
US essayist, historian, & novelist
(1783 - 1859) |
| Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living. |
Pablo Picasso |
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 -
1973) |
| For if you suffer your people to be
ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their
first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but
that you first make thieves and then punish them. |
Sir Thomas More, Utopia, Book 1 |
English author, courtier, humanist, & saint (1478 - 1535) |
| Love has nothing to do with what you
are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything. |
Katharine Hepburn |
US actress (1907 - 2003) |
| Hell has no benefits, only torture. |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
English poet (1608 - 1674) |
| Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman & historian
(1608 - 1661) |
| Intense love does not measure, it just gives. |
Mother Teresa |
Indian humanitarian & missionary
(1910 - 1997) |
| My feelings would never change,
but... now she was gone, and this thought meant more to me than the impending destruction of the world. |
Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos |
| Power is the great aphrodisiac. |
Henry Kissinger |
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar
(1923 - ) |
| I like my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| We can forgive a man for making a
useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it
intensely. All art is quite useless. |
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey - Preface |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and
everyone else. |
William Shakespeare, Venus & Adonis |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to
others. |
Anonymous |
| I felt that I had done my duty.
Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I
felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so
loudly as I would have at any other time. |
Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos |
| I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
US short story author, editor, & poet
(1809 - 1849) |
| About Superman and Batman: the
former is how America views itself, the latter, darker character is how the rest of the world views America. |
Michael Caine, www.aint-it-cool-news.com |
| A wise man is never to sure of what he knows to be true. |
James W. Gray |
| The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
French general & politician
(1769 - 1821) |
| History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of
aggression is cheap. |
Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984 |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward
semblance of virtue. |
Dinesh DÆSouza |
| When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred
and holy in the warfare. |
Woodrow Wilson |
28th president of US (1856 - 1924) |
| Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not
judge by appearances. |
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| At the beginning of a great national
change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will
join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. |
Galileo Galilei |
Italian astronomer & physicist
(1564 - 1642) |
| The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart. |
Robert Frost |
US poet (1874 - 1963) |
| I think most of us would be
horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. |
Bill Watterson |
US cartoonist (1958 - ) |
| If people become ecstatic the whole
society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to
war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful
will just laugh and say: This is nonsense! |
Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds |
| A man who is afraid of death will be
afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also
be prohibited. |
Osho, The art of Dying |
| Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see
them misunderstood. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. |
Dave Matthews, VH1 Special: Trey And Dave Go To Africa |
| Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be
saved by hope. |
Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL)
Register Star newspaper |
US Protestant theologian (1892 -
1971) |
| Necessity, who is the mother of invention. |
Plato, The Republic |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 153 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| Plato is boring. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse
to punish is powerful! |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also
to hate his friends. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| A thinker sees his own actions as
experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| God is dead. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 108 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| There is only one thing in the world
worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. |
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Morality is herd instinct in the individual. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 116 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the
world ugly and bad. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 130 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| The most perfidious way of harming a
cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| For believe me: the secret for
harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 283 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| We are always in our own company. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 166 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be
than a good dancer. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 381 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| What is good? All that heightens the
feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness?
The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 2 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with
reality at any point. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, section 16 |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| The perfect man uses his mind as a
mirror.<br>It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing.<br>It receives but does not keep. |
Chuang Tzu |
| People sleep peaceably in their beds
at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. |
George Orwell, (attributed) |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| I came to realize that life lived to
help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human. |
Ben Stein, E! Online, 12-20-03 |
| Dressing up is inevitably a
substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits." |
Paul Graham, September 2004 |
| I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me
put up with them at all. |
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Doctors are not servants of their
patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the
crucial importance of the services they offer. |
Ayn Rand |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. |
Woody Allen |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| God is not on the side of any
nation, yet we know He is on the side of justice. Our finest moments [as a nation] have come when we faithfully served the
cause of justice for our own citizens, and for the people of other lands. |
George W. Bush, Klein, J. (2004). The perils of a righteous president.
Time, May 17: 25. |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| You have brains in your head. You
have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. |
Dr. Seuss |
US author & illustrator (1904
- 1991) |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| If the whole human race lay in one
grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time." |
Dame Rebecca West |
| The way I see it if you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain. |
Dolly Parton |
| The kingdom of God or nothing. |
John Taylor, former president of the church of jesus christ of latter day
saints |
| The real giants have been poets, men
who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. |
Bill Bernbach |
| God is in the details. |
Mies van der Rohe |
| If I am not for myself, who will be
for me? <br> If I am not for others, what am I? <br> And if not
now, when? |
Rabbi Hillel |
Jewish scholar & theologian
(30 BC - 9 AD) |
| You have to be realistic about
terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish
fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to
make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time. |
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased |
US comedian and actor (1937 - ) |
| Thoughtfulness for others,
generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. |
Thomas Huxley |
| God put me on this earth to
accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. |
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes |
US cartoonist (1958 - ) |
| Tradition means giving votes to the
most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small
and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about. |
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy |
English author & mystery novelist
(1874 - 1936) |
| There is a greater darkness than the
one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and
principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of
flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can
never surrender. |
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) |
| No greater love hath a man than he
lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where
no one will ever know .. or see. |
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the
Inquisitor" |
| To be a good soldier, you must love
the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. |
Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet |
US-Confederate general (1807 -
1870) |
| Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the
light. |
Helen Keller, "The World at Her Fingertips" by Joan Dash |
US blind & deaf educator (1880
- 1968) |
| Our nation was born in genocide when
it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large
numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already
disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed
in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried
as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population.
Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed,
even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this
shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all
exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced
a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups
herded into impoverished reservations. |
John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x |
| My thinking had been opened up wide
in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black
manÆs struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth
and justice. ôIÆve had enough of someone elseÆs propaganda,ö I had written to
these friends. ôI am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no
matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and
as such IÆm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.ö The
American white manÆs press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldnÆt
deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it
is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that
brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if
non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to
the American black manÆs problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially
a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black
man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he
certainly wasnÆt demonstrating non-violence. |
malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x |
US black nationalist leader (1925
- 1965) |
| Every great improvement has come
after repeated failure. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are the posts on the
road to achievement. |
Charles F. Kettering, quoted in
Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 18, 2004, page A16, mkesterton@globeandmail.ca |
US electrical engineer & inventor
(1876 - 1958) |
| What importance can we attach to the
things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes
becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share
it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a
blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past
unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire
neither to lose his life nor to begin it over. |
Chateaubriand |
| ...in song the words tend to lose
their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to
disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on
the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately
balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language. |
Paul Valery |
French critic & poet (1871 -
1945) |
| The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. |
Brandon Lee |
| Life is something that everyone should try at least once. |
Henry J. Tillman |
| I was going to buy a copy of The
Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do? |
Ronnie Shakes |
| The key to being a good manager is
keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. |
Casey Stengal |
| The object of life is not to be on
the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. |
Marcus Aurelius |
| Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. |
Lucille Ball |
US television actress (1911 -
1989) |
| Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about
to begin. |
Jim Morrison |
| I am the lizard king. I can do anything. |
Jim Morrison |
| Alea Iacta est... (the dice is cast) |
Julius Ceasar, when crossing the
rubicon and thus starting civil war that effectively ended the Roman republic |
| truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit) |
seneca |
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
| Pain is nothing compared to what it
feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come. |
Dan Gable, University of Iowa wrestling coach |
| The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against
forgetting. |
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
Czechoslovakian novelist (1929
- ) |
| Mi taku oyasin. (We are all related.) |
Lakota belief |
| Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the
religious. |
Tor N°rretranders, Mµrk Verden (English title not known) |
| My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. |
Rodney Dangerfield |
US actor & comedian (1921 -
2004) |
| I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. |
Rodney Dangerfield |
US actor & comedian (1921 -
2004) |
| When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. |
Rodney Dangerfield |
US actor & comedian (1921 -
2004) |
| My wife is always trying to get rid
of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye
on it. |
Rodney Dangerfield |
US actor & comedian (1921 -
2004) |
| One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be
done. |
Marie Curie, Letter to her brother, 1894 |
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) |
| We must not forget that when radium
was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a
proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of
the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of
science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may
become like the radium a benefit for humanity. |
Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921 |
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) |
| I am among those who think that
science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural
phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. |
Marie Curie |
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) |
| Nothing in life is to be feared, it
is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. |
Marie Curie |
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) |
| There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of
establishing the truth. |
Marie Curie |
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) |
| You cannot hope to build a better
world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time
share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to
aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. |
Marie Curie |
French (Polish-born) chemist & physicist (1867 - 1934) |
| To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to
pretend. |
Jacques Derrida |
French (Algerian-born) philosopher
(1930 - 2004) |
| But psychoanalysis has taught that
the deadùa dead parent, for exampleùcan be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the
question of ghosts. |
Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994 |
French (Algerian-born) philosopher
(1930 - 2004) |
| No matter what side of the argument
you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. |
Jascha Heifetz |
Russian-American violinist (1901 -
1987) |
| The range of what we think and do is
limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to
change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. |
R. D. Laing |
| Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| We live in a moment of history where
change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. |
R. D. Laing |
| From the moment of birth, when the
stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called
love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents
before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its
potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful. |
R. D. Laing |
| It takes a village to raise an idiot. |
William Dukane |
| To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is
to have succeeded. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Justice will only exist where those
not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by
great feelings of love. |
Ernesto "Che" Guevara |
| The end of all education should surely be service to others. |
Cesar E. Chavez |
| To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts
and actions. |
Jose Antonio Burciaga |
| I have to say that the traditional
role is kind of a myth. I think the traditional Mexican woman is a fierce woman. |
Sandra Cisneros |
| All national institutions of
churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave
mankind, and monopolize power and profit. |
Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason" |
US patriot & political philosopher
(1737 - 1809) |
| Where, after all, do universal human
rights begin? In small places, close to home- so close and so smallthat they cannot be seen on any map of the world.
Yet they arethe world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in;
the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he
works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal
justice, equal opportunity, and equal dignity without discrimination. Unless
these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without
concerted citizen action to uphold them so close to home, we shall look in vain
for progress in the larger world. |
Eleanor Anna Roosevelt, Remarks at presentation of booklet on human
rights |
| Patriotism is not a short and
frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. |
Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr |
| People like us, who believe in
physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Blinding ignorance does mislead us.<br> O! Wretched mortals, open
your eyes! |
Leonardo Da Vinci |
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor
(1452 - 1519) |
| We might make mistakes but we will make other things too. |
Michael Joseph Savage |
| I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up. |
Dean Martin |
| A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth. |
Michael Bakunin, God and State |
| Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. |
Berthald Auerbach |
| I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. |
Joe Lewis |
| Wisdom comes with winters. |
Oscar Wildedmissions literature at Colby College. |
| Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to
have. |
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right |
| Comtemplate the mangled bodies of
your countrymen and then ask yourself, What should be the reward of such sacrifices... If ye love wealth better
than freedom, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of
freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down
and lick the hands that feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and
may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. |
Samuel Adams |
| You guys over there, pair up into groups of three. |
Yogi Berra |
US baseball player, coach, & manager
(1925 - ) |
| Most people my age are dead at the present time. |
Casey Stengel |
US baseball manager (1890 - 1975) |
| When words fail, music speaks. |
Hans Christian Anderson |
| Every attempt to employ mathematical
methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit
of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in
chemistry - an aberration, which is happily almost impossible - it would be a
rapid and widespread degeneration of that science. |
Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830) |
| If happiness truly consisted of
physical ease and freedom from care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I
think, an American cow. |
William Lyon Phelps |
| 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. 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 and comes up
short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and
shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy
cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and
who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never
be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat". |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| Sex is part of nature, I go with nature. |
Marylin Monroe |
| It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends
on not understanding it. |
Upton Sinclair |
US novelist & socialist politician
(1878 - 1968) |
| Many of us are more capable than some of us...<br> but none of us
is as capable as all of us!! |
Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic) |
| I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about
myself. Its exciting. |
Britney Spears |
American singer (1981 - ) |
| With love, you should go ahead and
take the risk of getting hurt... because love is an amazing feeling. |
Britney Spears |
American singer (1981 - ) |
| I am as vulnerable and fragile as it
is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare. |
Rachel Hunter |
New Zealand model (1968 - ) |
| You know criticism when you get into
this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it. |
Carmen Electra |
American actress (1972 - ) |
| Is there a rehab center for Coke drinkers? I drink six to eight cans a
day. |
Carmen Electra |
American actress (1972 - ) |
| I am happy being able to play roles
with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back. |
Lindsay Lohan |
American actress (1986 - ) |
| If I think more about death than
some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do. |
Angelina Jolie |
American actress (1975 - ) |
| Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,<br> None but ourselves
can free our minds. |
Bob Marley |
| My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. |
Hilary Duff |
American actress (1987 - ) |
| American can do better, and help is on the way. |
John Kerry, speech in 2004 |
US Democratic politician (1943
- ) |
| I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA. |
John Kerry |
US Democratic politician (1943
- ) |
| We must uphold the promise of
Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to
threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. |
John Kerry, Speech at Democratic Convention, May 31, 2002 |
US Democratic politician (1943
- ) |
| At every step of the way, George W.
Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans. |
John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004 |
US Democratic politician (1943
- ) |
| We must become the change we want to see. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as
president. |
John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004 |
US Democratic politician (1943
- ) |
| Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies,
justice will be done. |
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| We have learned that terrorist
attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid
attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We
are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet
him again on our own streets, in our own cities. |
George W. Bush, September 7, 2003 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| Every nation in every region now has
a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. |
George W. Bush, September 20, 2001 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| I believe that God has planted in
every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will
rise again. |
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| It is impossible that anything so
natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. |
Jonathan Swift |
Irish essayist, novelist, & satirist
(1667 - 1745) |
| I think a hero is an ordinary
individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. |
Christopher Reeve |
| We need not to be let alone. We need
to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important,
about something real? |
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1953 |
US science fiction author (1920
- ) |
| Nature is trying very hard to make
us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. |
R. Buckminster Fuller, Interview, April 30, 1978 |
US architect & engineer (1895
- 1983) |
| Of course, our failures are a
consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that
specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization
precludes comprehensive thinking. |
R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963 |
US architect & engineer (1895
- 1983) |
| Now there is one outstandingly
important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. |
R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, 1963 |
US architect & engineer (1895
- 1983) |
| Our deeds are like children that are
born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an
indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. |
George Eliot, Romola, 1863 |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
| There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not
find relief in music. |
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860 |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
| Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. |
Philip K. Dick, Valis |
US science fiction author (1928 -
1982) |
| Where there is no law, but every man
does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty. |
Henry M. Robert |
| Pathos, piety, courage, ù they
exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. |
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924 |
British novelist (1879 - 1970) |
| If I had to choose between betraying
my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. |
E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951 |
British novelist (1879 - 1970) |
| The world breaks everyone and
afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very
gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be
sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. |
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| In the defense of our nation, a
president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not
stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength
and purpose and the promise of swift punishment. |
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| American foreign policy must be more
than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into
generations of democratic peace. |
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| The case for trade is not just
monetary, but moral. Economic freedom creates habits of liberty. And habits of liberty create expectations of democracy. |
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| America has never been an empire. We
may be the only great power in history that had the chance, and refused û preferring greatness to power and
justice to glory. |
George W. Bush, speech, November 19, 1999 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| The peaceful transfer of authority
is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings. |
George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| America has never been united by
blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and
teach us what it means to be citizens. |
George W. Bush, Inaugural address, 2001 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| We know that dictators are quick to
choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments
support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst.
We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the
recruits for murderous ideologies. |
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| The desire for freedom resides in
every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over
time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. |
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| For too long, many nations,
including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common,
but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help
the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to
build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. |
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world. |
George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004 |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and
the best of you. |
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04 |
Anonymous author of
RealLivePreacher.com |
| Learning is not attained by chance.
It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. |
Abigail Adams |
US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 -
1818) |
| Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very
liable to be broken. |
Abigail Adams |
US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 -
1818) |
| Great necessities call out great virtues. |
Abigail Adams |
US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 -
1818) |
| We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond
with them. |
Abigail Adams |
US wife of John Adams 1764 (1744 -
1818) |
| Reputations are created every day and every minute. |
Christopher Ruel |
| I have often thought that if
photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much
time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there
would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can
produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. |
Ansel Adams |
US nature photographer (1902 -
1984) |
| Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. |
Arnold Toynbee |
English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) |
| Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a
harbor. |
Arnold Toynbee |
English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) |
| We have been God-like in our planned
breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of
ourselves. |
Arnold Toynbee |
English historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975) |
| My prerogative right now is to just
chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment. |
Britney Spears, on her web site, October 2004 |
American singer (1981 - ) |
| The spirit of resistance to
government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| It may be that the old astrologers
had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when
men control the destinies of stars. |
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970 |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. |
Ovid |
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD) |
| The inspirational value of the space
program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing
up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and
engineering by the romance of space. |
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970 |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| At the present rate of progress, it
is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the
next few hundred years. |
Arthur C. Clarke, 1983 |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| If we have learned one thing from
the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies
seem laughably conservative. |
Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951 |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| A hundred years ago, the electric
telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make
equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition
period will not be equally bloody. |
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970 |
English physicist & science fiction author (1917 -
) |
| All Faith is false, all Faith is
true:<br> Truth is the shattered mirror strown<br> In myriad
bits; while each believes<br> His little bit
the whole to own. |
Sir Richard Francis Burton |
British explorer & orientalist
(1821 - 1890) |
| The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman. |
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 11-11-04 |
| An onion can make people cry, but
there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| A bad wound may
heal, but a bad name will kill. |
Scottish Proverb |
| A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a
song. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes
your lips will not return. |
Jewish Proverb |
| A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A book holds a house of gold. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A book is a garden, an orchard, a
storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. |
Charles Baudelaire |
French poet (1821 - 1867) |
| A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A book tightly shut is but a block of paper. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A brave man dies
but once, a coward many times. |
Native American Proverb |
| A camel never sees its own
hump. |
African Proverb |
| A child is the root of the
heart. |
Maria de Jesus |
| A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity. |
Alfred North Whitehead |
English mathematician & philosopher
(1861 - 1947) |
| A clear conscience is a good pillow. |
American Proverb |
| A closed mind is a good thing to lose. |
Anonymous |
| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged
demo. |
James Klass |
| A closed mouth gathers no
feet. |
Anonymous |
| A cold needs the
cook as much as the doctor. |
Scottish Proverb |
| A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. |
Harold Fricklestein |
| A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. |
Anonymous |
| A contented mind is a continual feast. |
American Proverb |
| A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one. |
Anonymous |
| A crow is no whiter for being washed. |
French Proverb |
| A danger foreseen is half-avoided. |
Cheyenne Proverb |
| A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Not all those who wonder are lost. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| A different language is a different vision of life. |
Federico Fellini |
Italian movie director (1920 -
1993) |
| A diplomat must always think twice before he says nothing. |
Irish Proverb |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves
himself. |
Josh Billings |
US Humorist (1818 - 1885) |
| A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. |
Irish Proverb |
| A dollar saved is a quarter earned. |
Oscar Levant |
(1906 - 1972) |
| A
family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an
occasional animal, and the common cold. |
Ogden Nash |
US humorist & poet (1902 -
1971) |
| A fault confessed is half redressed. |
Polish Proverb |
| A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray. |
Hannah Whitall Smith |
| A filthy mouth will not utter decent language. |
Chinese Proverb |
| I was thrown out of college for
cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. |
Woody Allen |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| A fool and water will go the way they are diverted. |
African Proverb |
| A fool
judges people by the presents they give him. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A friend in power is a
friend lost. |
Henry Adams |
US author, autobiographer, & historian (1838 - 1918) |
| A friend is one
before whom I may think aloud. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. |
Anonymous |
| A
friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her
birthday. |
Erma Bombeck |
US author & humorist (1927 -
1996) |
| A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. |
Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu |
| A functioning police
state needs no police. |
William S. Burroughs |
US author (1914 - ) |
| A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man perfected without
trials. |
Chinese Proverb |
| A goal without a plan is just a wish. |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
French writer (1900 - 1944) |
| A good book has no ending. |
R. D. Cumming |
| A good conscience is a continual Christmas. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| A good
example is like a bell that calls many to church. |
Danish Proverb |
| A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up. |
Anonymous |
| A good friend
will fit you like ring to finger. |
Venezuelan Proverb |
| A
good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next
week. |
George S. Patton |
US general (1885 - 1945) |
| No matter how slow the film, Spirit
always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen. |
Minor White, Photographer |
| A good resolution is like an old horse, which is often saddled but rarely
ridden. |
Mexican Proverb |
| A good son makes a good husband. |
American Proverb |
| A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to
take it all away. |
Barry Goldwater |
US politician (1909 - ) |
| A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need
for illusion is deep. |
Saul Bellow |
US (Canadian-born) author (1915
- ) |
| A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a
happiness. |
Fontenelle |
| A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground. |
Anonymous |
| A
guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance. |
Yiddish Proverb |
| A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. |
Polish Proverb |
| A guilty conscience needs no accuser. |
Anonymous |
| To be matter of fact about the world
is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. |
Robert Heinlein |
US science fiction author (1907 -
1988) |
| A hair on the head is worth two on the brush. |
Irish Proverb |
| A half-truth is a whole lie. |
Yiddish Proverb |
| A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains. |
Dutch Proverb |
| A
harvest of peace is produced from a seed of contentment. |
American Proverb |
| A hedge between keeps friendship green. |
German Proverb |
| A
hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes
longer. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying. |
Alexandre Dumas |
French dramatist & novelist
(1802 - 1870) |
| Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.) |
Seneca, Epistuloe ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9 |
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
| A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity
freshen into smiles. |
Washington Irving |
US essayist, historian, & novelist
(1783 - 1859) |
| A kind word is like a spring
day. |
Russian Proverb |
| A lady is a woman who makes it easy for a man to be a gentleman. |
American Proverb |
| A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. |
Robert Frost |
US poet (1874 - 1963) |
| A lie runs until it is overtaken by the truth. |
Cuban Proverb |
| A lie travels farther than
the truth. |
Irish Proverb |
| A
lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on
earth. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| A light heart lives long. |
Irish Proverb |
| These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the
shelves. |
Gilbert Highet |
| A
little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely
fatal. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| A
love that can last forever takes but a second to come about. |
Cuban Proverb |
| A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis. |
Anonymous |
| A man is as old as he feels himself to be. |
English Proverb |
| A man is judged
by his deeds, not by his words. |
Russian Proverb |
| A man is known by the
company he avoids. |
Anonymous |
| A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen
far above him. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| A man of character in peace is a man of courage in war. |
Sir James Glover |
| A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in
eating. |
Arnold Bennett |
| A
man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself. |
Michel de Montaigne |
French essayist (1533 - 1592) |
| A man
paints with his brains and not with his hands. |
Michelangelo Buonarroti |
Italian architect, painter, & sculptor (1475 - 1564) |
| A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement. |
Anna Quindlen |
| A
man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of
paper. |
Charles Dickens |
English novelist (1812 - 1870) |
| There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. |
Paul Rudnick |
| A mother understands what a child does not say. |
Jewish Proverb |
| A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master,
and deserves one. |
Alexander Hamilton |
US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804) |
| A person
should want to live, if only out of curiosity. |
Yiddish Proverb |
| A
pessimist, confronted with two bad choices, chooses both. |
Jewish Proverb |
| A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. |
William Butler Yeats |
Irish dramatist & poet (1865 -
1939) |
| A
positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough
people to make it worth the effort. |
Herm Albright |
(1876 - 1944) |
| They have exiled me now from their
society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against
despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free
by any measure of freedom, truth and duty. |
Kahil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious |
| A pound of pluck is
worth a ton of luck. |
James A. Garfield |
US general & politician (1831
- 1881) |
| A pretty woman is a welcome guest. |
Lord Byron |
English poet & satirist (1788
- 1824) |
| A problem well stated is a problem half solved. |
Charles F. Kettering |
US electrical engineer & inventor
(1876 - 1958) |
| A
quarrel is like buttermilk, the more you stir it, the more sour it
grows. |
Bolivian Proverb |
| A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. |
Clive James |
| A
ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for. |
John A. Shedd |
| A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his
services. |
Daniel J. Boorstin |
US historian (1914 - ) |
| A silent mouth is sweet to
hear. |
Irish Proverb |
| But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. |
Alan Watts |
| A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
never get over. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. |
English Proverb |
| A
society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. |
Bertrand de Jouvenal |
| A
society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. |
Milton Friedman |
US economist (1912 - ) |
| A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. |
Bible, Proverbs 15:1 (KJV) |
| A stumble may prevent a fall. |
English Proverb |
| A tart temper never mellows with
age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. |
Washington Irving |
US essayist, historian, & novelist
(1783 - 1859) |
| A throw of the
dice will never abolish chance. |
Stephane Mallarme |
French Symbolist poet (1842 -
1898) |
| If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. |
Voltaire |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| A turkey never voted for an early Christmas. |
Irish Proverb |
| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in
students. |
John Ciardi |
US poet (1916 - 1986) |
| A vision without action is called a
daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare. |
Jim Sorensen |
| A
vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the
user. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| A
well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. |
Thomas Carlyle |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have. |
Italian Proverb |
| A wise
man will make more opportunities than he finds. |
Sir Francis Bacon |
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) |
| A word out of
season may mar a whole lifetime. |
Greek Proverb |
| Any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite
direction. |
E. F. Schumacher |
| A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for
other people. |
Thomas Mann |
German writer (1875 - 1955) |
| About
the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. |
Gloria Pitzer |
| Absence sharpens
love, presence strengthens it. |
English Proverb |
| Accidents
will occur in the best regulated families. |
Charles Dickens |
English novelist (1812 - 1870) |
| Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they
enkindle and melt the soul. |
Saint Teresa of Avila |
Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint
(1515 - 1582) |
| Acting is a form of deception, and
actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience. |
Leo Rosten |
US (Polish-born) author (1908
- ) |
| Action is eloquence. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Action is the foundational key to all success. |
Tony Robbins |
| Action
springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
British historian (1876 - 1962) |
| Adversity is the touchstone of friendship. |
French Proverb |
| Advice is least heeded
when most needed. |
American Proverb |
| Advice
is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper
it sinks into, the mind. |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
English critic & poet (1772 -
1834) |
| After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. |
Italian Proverb |
| All great change in America begins at the dinner table. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| All great things are simple, and
many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| All
I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest
in life. |
Thomas Mann |
German writer (1875 - 1955) |
| All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater
nonsense than others. |
Samuel Butler |
English composer, novelist, & satiric author (1835 - 1902) |
| All pleasures contain an element of sadness. |
Jonathan Eibeschutz |
| All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| All
warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used.
Offer the enemy bait to lure him. |
Sun-Tzu |
Chinese general & military strategist
(~400 BC) |
| All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. |
William Harvey |
English physician (1578 - 1657) |
| All would live long, but none would be old. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Always
bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any
one thing. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking. |
John Maynard Keynes |
English economist (1883 - 1946) |
| Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky. |
American Proverb |
| America will never run... And we
will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. |
George W. Bush |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| Among the attributes of God,
although they are all equal, mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice. |
Miguel De Cervantes |
Spanish adventurer, author, & poet
(1547 - 1616) |
| Amusement
is the happiness of those who cannot think. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick. |
William Butler Yeats |
Irish dramatist & poet (1865 -
1939) |
| An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his
disbelief. |
Franklin P. Jones |
| An honest man is the noblest work of God. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break
their fetters. |
Henry Clay |
US orator & politician (1777 -
1852) |
| And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made
enlargements too. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| And say my glory was I had such friends. |
William Butler Yeats |
Irish dramatist & poet (1865 -
1939) |
| Anger is a bad counselor. |
French Proverb |
| Anger
is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
British historian (1876 - 1962) |
| Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. |
Robert Ingersoll |
US agnostic, agnostic apologist, lawyer, & orator (1833 - 1899) |
| Anger is one of the
sinners of the soul. |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman & historian
(1608 - 1661) |
| Anger is the only thing to put off until tomorrow. |
Czech Proverb |
| Anger without power is folly. |
German Proverb |
| Art is a deliberate recreation of a
new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. |
Anonymous |
| Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism. |
Eric Gibson |
| Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes. |
Bible, Proverbs 26:4 (NIV) |
| Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist. |
Robert G. Allen |
| Any artist should be grateful for a
naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. |
Saul Bellow |
US (Canadian-born) author (1915
- ) |
| Any
fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to
grow. |
Edwin Teale |
| Any party which takes credit for the
rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. |
Dwight D. Morrow |
| Anybody
can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the
week. |
Alice Walker |
US novelist (1944 - ) |
| Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. |
Lily Langtry |
British actress (1853 - 1929) |
| Anyone
who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Anyone who truly
loves God travels securely. |
Saint Teresa of Avila |
Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint
(1515 - 1582) |
| I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. |
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh |
English juvenile author (1882 -
1956) |
| Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. |
William Rotsler |
| Anything
that can be done chemically can be done by other means. |
William S. Burroughs |
US author (1914 - ) |
| Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these
factors is moral influence. |
Sun-Tzu |
Chinese general & military strategist
(~400 BC) |
| Arguments
are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Arrogance is a kingdom
without a crown. |
American Proverb |
| Art is the illusion of
spontaneity. |
Japanese Proverb |
| As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. |
Bible, Proverbs 23:7 |
| As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will
of God. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived. |
German Proverb |
| All that is solid melts into air,
all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his
relations with his kind. |
Communist Manifesto |
| As he thinks in his heart, so he is. |
Jewish Proverb |
| As
scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. |
Josh Billings |
US Humorist (1818 - 1885) |
| As you teach, you learn. |
Jewish Proverb |
| Ask questions from your heart and you will be answered from the heart. |
Omaha Proverb |
| Assumptions are the termites of relationships. |
Henry Winkler |
US television actor (1945 - ) |
| At
20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| At
Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. |
Thomas Tusser |
| At high
tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish. |
Thai Proverb |
| At
twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is
to illustrate quotations from the poets. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get
out of. |
Anonymous |
| Bad is never good until worse happens. |
Danish Proverb |
| Bad news goes about in clogs, Good news in stockinged feet. |
Welsh Proverb |
| Baloney is the lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid
on so thin you love it. |
Fulton J. Sheen |
| Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Baseball is like church. Many
attend, few understand. |
Leo Durocher |
US baseball manager (1906 - 1991) |
| Be a friend
to thyself, and others will be so too. |
Thomas Fuller |
English clergyman & historian
(1608 - 1661) |
| No pressure, no diamonds. |
Mary Case |
| Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do
for others. |
Anonymous |
| Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. |
Saint Teresa of Avila |
Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint
(1515 - 1582) |
| Be
nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. |
Jimmy Durante |
US actor, comedian, pianist, & singer
(1893 - 1980) |
| Be not
ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. |
Confucius |
Chinese philosopher & reformer
(551 BC - 479 BC) |
| Be sincere; be brief; be
seated. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| Be slow in
choosing a friend, slower in changing. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive
greater. |
Thomas a Kempis |
German mystic & religious author
(1380 - 1471) |
| Be the
first to the field and the last to the couch. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Be true to
your work, your word, and your friend. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Be
wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. |
Lord Chesterfield |
(1694 - 1773) |
| Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people
are works of art. |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
US diplomat & reformer (1884 -
1962) |
| Beauty is the
purgation of superfluities. |
Michelangelo Buonarroti |
Italian architect, painter, & sculptor (1475 - 1564) |
| Bees
that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails. |
Scottish Proverb |
| Before all else, we seek, upon our common labor as a nation, the
blessings of Almighty God. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
US general & Republican politician
(1890 - 1969) |
| Before
anything else, preparation is the key to success. |
Alexander Graham Bell |
US (Scottish-born) inventor (1847
- 1922) |
| Beginning is easy -
Continuing is hard. |
Japanese Proverb |
| Better be quarrelling than lonesome. |
Irish Proverb |
| Better
be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. |
Aesop |
Greek slave & fable author
(620 BC - 560 BC) |
| Better
fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. |
Thomas Paine |
US patriot & political philosopher
(1737 - 1809) |
| Better no law than laws not enforced. |
Italian Proverb |
| Better the foot slip than the tongue. |
French Proverb |
| Between
two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will
out sell the other. |
Raymond Loewy |
| Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn. |
Lebanese Proverb |
| Beware of the
young doctor and the old barber. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Beware the flatterer: he feeds you with an empty spoon. |
Cosino DeGregrio |
| Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad
judgment. |
Rita Mae Brown |
US author and social activist |
| Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. |
James D. Watson |
US biochemist (1928 - ) |
| Blessed
is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. |
Hamilton Wright Mabi |
| Blind belief is dangerous. |
Kenyan Proverb |
| Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired. |
Venezuelan Proverb |
| Books
have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their
own content. |
Paul Valery |
French critic & poet (1871 -
1945) |
| Books may well be the only true magic. |
Alice Hoffman |
| Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for
conversation. |
Benjamin Disraeli |
British politician (1804 - 1881) |
| Boredom, after all,
is a form of criticism. |
William Phillips |
| Bravery never goes out of fashion. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
English novelist (1811 - 1863) |
| Break the leg of a bad habit. |
Puerto Rican Proverb |
| Comedy is tragedy plus time. |
Carol Burnett |
US actress & comedienne (1936
- ) |
| Brevity is the soul of lingerie. |
Dorothy Parker |
US author, humorist, poet, & wit
(1893 - 1967) |
| Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a
home. |
Irish Proverb |
| Build
up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. |
Knute Rockne |
US (Norwegian-born) football player & coach (1888 - 1931) |
| But a Constitution of Government
once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. |
John Adams |
US diplomat & politician (1735
- 1826) |
| By asking
for the impossible we obtain the possible. |
Italian Proverb |
| By learning to obey, you will know how to command. |
Italian Proverb |
| By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn. |
Latin Proverb |
| By perseverance the
snail reached the ark. |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
English preacher (1834 - 1892) |
| What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. |
Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition |
| Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about. |
Yiddish Proverb |
| Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
English poet (1809 - 1892) |
| Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. |
Henry James |
British (US -born) author (1843 -
1916) |
| Character
is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as
to think. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Character
is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think
of us. |
Horace Mann |
US educator (1796 - 1859) |
| Character is what you are in the dark. |
American Proverb |
| Character
may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small
ones. |
Phillips Brooks |
US Episcopal bishop (1835 - 1893) |
| Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have
never even heard of. |
Nigel |
| Cheese, wine,
and a friend must be old to be good. |
Cuban Proverb |
| Children
are like wet cement. Whatever falls on
them makes an impression. |
Haim Ginott |
| Children
are not things to be molded, but are people to be unfolded. |
Jess Lair |
| Children
need love, especially when they do not deserve it. |
Harold S. Hulbert |
| Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. |
John Adams |
US diplomat & politician (1735
- 1826) |
| Children
speak in the field what they hear in the house. |
Scottish Proverb |
| Choose
your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. |
Lord Chesterfield |
(1694 - 1773) |
| Clearly, a civilization that feels
guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself. |
Jean Francois Revel |
| What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? |
Ursula K. LeGuin |
| Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| Colleges
hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger. |
Arnold Palmer |
US golfer (1929 - ) |
| Concern should drive us into action and not into depression. |
Anonymous |
| Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Conscience
is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Conscience is the voice of the soul. |
Polish Proverb |
| Contentment is not the fulfillment
of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. |
Anonymous |
| The Depth of your Mythology is the Extent of your Effectiveness. |
John Maxwell |
| Control
thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. |
Epictetus |
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
| Conversation is food for the soul. |
Mexican Proverb |
| Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. |
George S. Patton |
US general (1885 - 1945) |
| Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. |
Raymond Lindquist |
| Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use. |
Ruth Gordon |
| Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which
ones to keep. |
Scott Adams |
US cartoonist (1957 - ) |
| Cultivate the habit of early rising.
It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision? |
Marilyn Monroe |
US actress (1926 - 1962) |
| Customs are more powerful than laws. |
The Talmud |
| Danger and delight grow on one stalk. |
English Proverb |
| Danger past, God forgotten. |
Scottish Proverb |
| Dare to be naive. |
R. Buckminster Fuller |
US architect & engineer (1895
- 1983) |
| Daylight follows a dark night. |
Maasai Proverb |
| Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. |
Socrates |
Greek philosopher in Athens (469
BC - 399 BC) |
| Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Democracy
becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put
something. |
Sue S. Taylor |
| Dig the well before you are thirsty. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Dignity
consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve
them. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| Diligence is the mother of good luck. |
American Proverb |
| Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. |
Zhou En Lai |
Chinese diplomat & Communist politician (1898 - 1976) |
| Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way. |
American Proverb |
| Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way. |
Isaac Goldberg |
| Diplomacy
without arms is like music without instruments. |
Frederick the Great |
king of Prussia 1740-1786 (1712 -
1786) |
| Diplomacy: lying in state. |
Oliver Hereford |
| Discretion
is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy. |
Spanish Proverb |
| Discretion is the better part of valor. |
Anonymous |
| Divide
and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832) |
| Do good, reap good; do evil, reap evil. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Do not always expect good to happen, but do not let evil take you by
surprise. |
Czech Proverb |
| Do
not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the
sunlight. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Polish writer (1909 - 1966) |
| Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds. |
Jewish Proverb |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook
beneath it. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| Do
not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another
time. |
Hebrew Proverb |
| Do not cut down
the tree that gives you shade. |
Persian Proverb |
| Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Do
not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a
trail. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Do
not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. |
Haitian Proverb |
| Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good. |
C. S. Lewis |
English essayist & juvenile novelist
(1898 - 1963) |
| Do not mind anything that anyone
tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. |
Henry James |
British (US -born) author (1843 -
1916) |
| Do not read beauty magazines. They
only make you feel ugly. |
Mary Schmich |
| Do not rejoice
over what has not yet happened. |
Egyptian Proverb |
| Do
not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they
sought. |
Matsuo Basho |
| Do not
spit in the well - you may be thirsty by and by. |
Russian Proverb |
| Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself. |
African Proverb |
| Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| Do you know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? |
Pope Julius III |
Italian pope 1550-1555 (1487 -
1555) |
| Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. |
Roger Caras |
| It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. |
Anonymous |
| There is no They, Only Us. |
Graffito |
| Dreams are wishes your heart makes. |
American Proverb |
| Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. |
Spanish Proverb |
| Drink
the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third. |
Knute Rockne |
US (Norwegian-born) football player & coach (1888 - 1931) |
| Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the
measure of thy desire. |
Arab Proverb |
| Each bird loves to hear
himself sing. |
Arapaho Proverb |
| Each body has its art... |
Gwendolyn Brooks |
US poet (1917 - ) |
| Here is the world, sound as a nut,
perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second
thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Each day provides its own
gifts. |
American Proverb |
| Each
generation will reap what the former generation has sown. |
Chinese Proverb |
| Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together. |
Polish Proverb |
| Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Eat
and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers. |
Greek Proverb |
| Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. |
Edward Everett |
US clergyman, educator, orator, & politician (1794 - 1865) |
| Education
is the best provision for the journey to old age. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| Education
has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is
worth reading. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
British historian (1876 - 1962) |
| Education: that which reveals to the
wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. |
Frank Leahy |
| Employ thy
time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Energy and persistence conquer all things. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Enlighten the people, generally, and
tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Entrepreneurs and their small
enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| Even the longest day has its end. |
Irish Proverb |
| Beware the man of one book. |
Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Italian saint & theologian
(1225 - 1274) |
| Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Every
civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. |
Henry Kissinger |
US (German-born) diplomat & scholar
(1923 - ) |
| Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be
alcohol, morphine or idealism. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| Every
normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black
flag, and begin to slit throats. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Every once in a
while, take the scenic route. |
H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
| Every
theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the
other sex what he lacks in himself. |
G. Stanley Hall |
US educator & experimental psychologist (1844 - 1924) |
| Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before. |
African Proverb |
| All that we are is the result of what we have thought. |
Buddha |
Indian philosopher & religious leader
(563 BC - 483 BC) |
| Everyone is the age of their
heart. |
Guatemalan Proverb |
| Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. |
Italian Proverb |
| Everyone
needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything
that we do in life. |
Julia T. Alvarez |
| Everything
comes to him who hustles while he waits. |
Thomas A. Edison |
US inventor (1847 - 1931) |
| Everything
is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. |
Publilius Syrus |
(~100 BC) |
| Everything
passes, everything breaks, everything wearies. |
French Proverb |
| Everything you can imagine
is real. |
Pablo Picasso |
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 -
1973) |
| Everywhere
I go I find a poet has been there before me. |
Sigmund Freud |
Austrian psychologist (1856 -
1939) |
| If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician
(1875 - 1965) |
| Express a mean opinion of yourself
occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth. |
Edgar Watson Howe |
US journalist (1853 - 1937) |
| Extensive traveling induces a
feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind. |
Paul Theroux |
US novelist (1941 - ) |
| Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit
of justice is no virtue. |
Barry Goldwater |
US politician (1909 - ) |
| Eyes that see do not grow old. |
Nicaraguan Proverb |
| Attacking is the only secret. Dare
and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
English novelist (1811 - 1863) |
| The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. |
Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan" |
English political philosopher
(1588 - 1679) |
| All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to
us. |
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring |
British scholar & fantasy novelist
(1892 - 1973) |
| The wise learn many things from their enemies. |
Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC |
Greek Athenian comic dramatist
(450 BC - 388 BC) |
| Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at
our own table. |
Herman Melville, Moby Dick |
US novelist & sailor (1819 -
1891) |
| Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins
commited in previous lives. |
James Joyce |
Irish author (1882 - 1941) |
| (i do not know what it is about you
that closes<br> and opens; only something in me understands<br> the voice of your eyes is deeper than all
roses) |
e. e. cummings |
| You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed. |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
French writer (1900 - 1944) |
| Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth. |
John F. Kennedy |
US Democratic politician (1917 -
1963) |
| In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance. |
Joseph Stalin |
Georgian Soviet politician (1879 -
1953) |
| Love, I find, is like singing.
Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. |
Zora Neale Hurston |
US novelist of Harlem Renaissance
(1901 - 1960) |
| Which is worse: Hell or nothing? |
Chuck Palahniuk |
US writer (1962 - ) |
| A well frog knows nothing of the
ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season. |
Chuang Tzu |
| Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... |
Longfellow |
| If The Way is made clear, it is no longer The Way. |
Chuang Tzu |
| I now begin the journey that will
lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead. |
Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994 |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| While we ourselves are the living
graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Music is the last true voice of the
human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people. |
Ben Harper |
| The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of
lies. |
Winston Spencer Churchill |
| Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly and they use too much
vermouth. |
Steve Allen |
| Art is the indespensible medium for the communication of a moral idea. |
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them. |
Sue Grafton |
US mystery novelist (1940 - ) |
| Sometimes I wonder if men and women
really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then. |
Katharine Hepburn |
US actress (1907 - 2003) |
| Men, in general, are but great children. |
Napoleon |
| Sigmund Freud once said, "What
do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions
like that. |
Bill Cosby |
US comedian & television actor
(1937 - ) |
| Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally
in dealing with men. |
Joseph Conrad |
English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist
(1857 - 1924) |
| An American Monkey after getting
drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. |
Charles Darwin |
English biologist (1809 - 1882) |
| When a young man complains that a
young lady has no heart, it is a pretty certain sign that she has his. |
George D. Prentice |
| This nation will never go back to
the false comforts of the world before 9<br>11. We are engaging the enemy as we must, in places like Iraq and
Afghanistan, so we will not have to face them here at home. |
Dick Cheney, KCI Expo Center, June 1 2004 |
| Integrity without knowledge is weak
and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. |
Samuel Johnson |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| Patience is the companion of wisdom. |
St. Augistine |
| it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. |
Martin Schulze |
| Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. |
Bill Clinton, 2004 democratic convention speech |
42nd president of the United States
(1946 - ) |
| I have seen the science I
worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. |
Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor) |
US aviator (1902 - 1974) |
| The oppressed are allowed once every
few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. |
Karl Marx |
German economist & Communist political philosopher (1818 - 1883) |
| Communications without intelligence
is noise; <br> Intelligence without communications is irrelevant. |
Gen Alfred Gray, USMC |
| Specialization is for insects. |
Robert Heinlein, The voice of Lazarus Long |
US science fiction author (1907 -
1988) |
| Dolendi modus, timendi non item.<br> (To suffering there is a
limit; to fearing, none.) |
Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles |
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 - 1626) |
| ...the great man is he who in the
midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay) |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Children today are tyrants. They
contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. |
Socrates |
Greek philosopher in Athens (469
BC - 399 BC) |
| Politics is the art of the possible.<br> (originally, "Die
Politik ist die Lehre von M÷glichen.") |
Otto von Bismarck |
German Prussian politician (1815 -
1898) |
| The important is not so much that
every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. |
John Lubbock |
| Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. |
William Butler Yeates |
| Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal
extravagance. |
David Pratt |
| A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. |
Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter
D. Glanze |
| A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you
watch. |
Hermione Gingold, from a press report, 1973 |
| I go into ecstasies every time I see
the naked figure of a woman, such as Venus, for example. It strikes me as so wonderful and exquisite that I have
difficulty in stopping the tears rolling down my cheeks. |
Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944 |
German Jewish diarist (1929 -
1945) |
| Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the
laugh on her side. |
Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814 |
English novelist (1775 - 1817) |
| Love is patient; love is kind; love
is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does
not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. |
Bible, Paul, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 |
| Being able to support oneself allows
one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage. |
Gloria Steinem |
US feminist (1934 - ) |
| I think and think for months and
years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. |
Albert Einstein, Sc |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it
should end there. |
Clare Booth Luce |
US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987) |
| Jesus was a bachelor and never lived
with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it. |
James Joyce |
Irish author (1882 - 1941) |
| Brevity is the soul of wit. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Truth fears no questions. |
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