Famous Quotes |
| I must be cruel, only to be kind. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Death ends a life, not a relationship. |
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom |
| If you tell a lie -- tell a big one. |
Joespeh Goebbels |
| "I meant," said Ipslore
bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living
worthwhile?"<br> Death thought about
it.<br> "Cats," he said eventually. "Cats are
nice." |
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery |
| The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one
carat. |
S. S. Biddle |
| The pug is living proof that God has a sense of humor. |
Margo Kaufman |
| As long as people are going to call
you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention. |
Gregory Macguire, Wicked |
| The way to get on with a cat is to
treat it as an equal--or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be. |
Elizabeth Peters |
| What will a child learn sooner than a song? |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an
embrace. |
George Santayna |
| The phrase "domestic cat" is an oxymoron. |
George Will |
| The golden rule of cats that governs
all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back. |
David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat |
| The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for
what you want. |
Joseph Wood Krutch, Twelve Seasons |
US author & critic (1893 -
1970) |
| Aunt Marion was right... Never marry a musician, and never answer the
door. |
Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz |
| Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know. |
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| Holding anger is a poison. It eats
you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved
blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. |
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven |
| We delight in the beauty of the
butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. |
Maya Angelou |
US author & poet (1928 - ) |
| The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die
decently, but to live manfully. |
Thomas Carlyle, Proflies in Courage by: John F. Kennedy |
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881) |
| Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas
miserias nobilitat.<br> (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.) |
Lucius Accius, Telephus |
(170 BC - 86 BC) |
| Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort,
and freedom. |
Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld |
US comedian & television actor
(1954 - ) |
| When you have a child, the world has a hostage. |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| To see a world in a grain of sand
and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. |
William Blake |
English engraver, illustrator, & poet
(1757 - 1827) |
| When it comes to sex, the most important six inches are the ones between
the ears. |
Dr. Ruth Westheimer |
| The "highest" states of
mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The AntiChrist |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| To save your world you asked this
man to die;<br> Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? |
W. H. Auden, Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier |
US (English-born) critic & poet
(1907 - 1973) |
| In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you. |
Jason Mraz |
| A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000
more. |
Jason Mraz |
| Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God. |
Jason Mraz |
| I aughta join a club and beat you over the head with it. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| Religiously strict people, who judge
themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general. |
Frederick Nietzsche |
| Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. |
James Thurber |
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) |
| When you control the ball, you control the score. |
Pele |
| God is either everything, or He is nothing. |
Bill Wilson, Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous |
| There are those who look at things
the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? |
Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign |
| Death solves all problems. No man, no problem. |
Josef Stalin |
| People who imagine themselves to be
self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. |
Richard Russo |
| Show me an objective worthy of war and I will go along with you. |
Otto Von Bismarck |
German Prussian politician (1815 -
1898) |
| All romantics meet the same fate
someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe. |
Joni Mitchell, song-The Last Time I Saw Richard |
| The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to
grow sharper. |
Eden Phillips |
| When the debate is over, slander becomes the tool of the loser. |
Socrates |
Greek philosopher in Athens (469
BC - 399 BC) |
| We slew the goliath of raciism,but, we now must contend with his
offspring. |
Rev. Jesse Jackson |
| God is not merely interestd in the
freedom of brown men, yellow men, red men and black men.He is interested in the freedom of the whole human race. |
Martin Luther King Jr. |
US black civil rights leader & clergyman (1929 - 1968) |
| This is as true in everyday life as
it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or
whether to act, and in acting, to live. |
General Omar Bradley |
| The trouble with having an open
mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. |
Terry Pratchett |
| For animals, the entire universe has
been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. |
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites |
| Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to
contemplate... |
Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay |
| The consensus seemed to be that if
really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the
citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking. |
Terry Pratchett, Eric |
| No one but a theorist believes his
theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself. |
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69 |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. |
Dennis Kucinich, 2004 speech to Democratic National Convention |
| I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music. |
J. S. Bach |
| Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin. |
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet |
| Chastity is the greatest form of perversion. |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| ...my dear boy, no woman is a
genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the
triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over
morals. |
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Summertime, and the living is easy. |
George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess |
| America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our
country. |
George W. Bush |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| We shall not cease from our
exploration<br> And at the end of all our exploring<br> Will be
to arrive where we started<br> And know the
place for the first time |
T. S. Eliot |
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 - 1965) |
| Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need. |
Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health |
| I trained for three years at drama school to be an actor - not a
celebrity. |
Orlando Bloom |
| There is nothing more unequal, than the equal treatment of unequal
people. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Friend, be not afraid of thy office, thou sendest me to God. |
Saint Thomas More, upon being executed |
| No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding. |
Plato, Laws |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| I cherish the Franco-German
cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct
that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and
Berlin. |
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President,
ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23
September 2003 |
| There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician
(1875 - 1965) |
| Everybody in this life has their
challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test. . . . Peace comes through hope. |
James E. Faust |
| I intend to live forever or die trying. |
Joseph Heller, Catch-22 |
US novelist (1923 - ) |
| If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. |
Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| Religion is something left over from
the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| In an information world where we all
have someday to say it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen. |
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2004 |
| If we could only share our hopes,
our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little
kinder and a lot more forgiving. |
Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002 |
| I have been like a child walking
along the shore line. Quickly discarding one sea shell for another of more outward beauty-- never to know the pearl within! |
Robert Anthony, The Man Who Would Never Be King |
| Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. |
Greek Proverb |
| I see young men, my townsmen, whose
misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily
acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture
and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field
they were called to labour in. |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| I have no life, just e-mail. |
Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip) |
| Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence.<br> Suffering is
not a punishment - it is a result. |
Robert G. Ingersoll |
| Art is anything you can get away with. |
Andy Warhol |
US artist (1928 - 1987) |
| I respect every soldier, from every
country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. |
George W. Bush, September 2, 2004, The Republican National Convention,
N.Y. |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| Brutality creates respect. |
Adolph Hitler |
| There are only two forces in the
world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. |
Napoleon Bonaparte |
French general & politician
(1769 - 1821) |
| In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an
eyelash. |
General Douglas MacArthur |
US WWII general & war hero
(1880 - 1964) |
| It is the province of knowledge to speak<br> And it is the
privilege of wisdom to listen. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. |
US jurist (1841 - 1935) |
| Once we have a war there is only one
thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war. |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| All is for the best in the best of all possible ways. |
Voltaire, Candide |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| In whatever one does, there must be
a relationship between the eye and the heart. With the eye that is closed, one looks within, with the eye that is
open, one looks without. |
Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth
the wait |
Teddy Carroll |
| Government is like a baby. An
alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. |
Ronald Reagan |
40th president of US (1911 - 2004) |
| The indefatigable pursuit of an
unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives
meaning to our life on this unavailing star. |
Logan Pearsall Smith |
(1865 - 1946) |
| One can search the brain with a
microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God. |
J. Gustav White |
| Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it
chooses to see less. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| The one bonus of not lifting the ban
on gays in the military is that the next time the government mandates a draft, we can all declare we are homosexual
instead of running off to Canada. |
Lorne Bloch |
| Soldiers who are not afraid of guns,
bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we
should be used as weapons. |
anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate |
| Why is it that, as a culture, we are
more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? |
Ernest Gaines |
| My own belief is that there is
hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
| If male homosexuals are called "gay," then female homosexuals
should be called "ecstatic." |
Shelly Roberts |
| Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run
out of it. |
George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings |
US comedian and actor (1937 - ) |
| My love for you, Lord, is not an
uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and
earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you. |
Saint Augustine, Confessions |
Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) |
| That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet. |
Emily Dickinson |
US poet (1830 - 1886) |
| The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it
destroys. |
Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress |
| If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| A fool cannot be protected from his
folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of
whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to
teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men
do all the time. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| A pessimist is correct oftener than
an optimist, but an optimist has more fun - and neither can stop the march of events. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| Remind me to write an article on the
compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses can be traced to the unhealthy habit of wallowing
in the troubles of five billion strangers. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| The United States has become a place
where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance. |
Robert A. Heinlein |
| There are laws for everything except the harm families do. |
Sue Grafton, "D" is for Deadbeat |
US mystery novelist (1940 - ) |
| Emotion is a rotten base for politics. |
Dick Francis |
| Physics is the science of all the
tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science
of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull? |
Dick Francis, Twice Shy |
| It is a truth universally
acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. |
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice |
English novelist (1775 - 1817) |
| The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give
up our power. |
Dennis Kucinich |
| The best and most beautiful things
cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart. |
Helen Keller |
US blind & deaf educator (1880
- 1968) |
| Being Irish, he had an abiding sense
of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. |
W. B. Yeats |
| No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. |
Stanislaw J. Lec |
Polish writer (1909 - 1966) |
| People only see what they are prepared to see. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the
image of God. |
Harry S. Truman |
| the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a
man while he lives. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician
(1875 - 1965) |
| Humans live best when each has his
place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. |
Frank Herbert, Dune |
US science fiction novelist (1920
- 1986) |
| There is one and only one social
responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it
stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free
competition without deception or fraud. |
Milton Friedman |
US economist (1912 - ) |
| Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after
another. |
Walter Elliot |
| You do not merely want to be
considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do. |
Jerry Garcia |
| A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child. |
Knights of Pythagoras |
| Nothing in the world will take away
persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded
genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. |
Calvin Coolidge |
30th president of US (1872 - 1933) |
| If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at second,
or even the third place. |
Cicero |
Roman author, orator, & politician
(106 BC - 43 BC) |
| They are able because they think they are able. |
Virgil |
Roman epic poet (70 BC - 19 BC) |
| [What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure. |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| If you have no confidence in
[yourself] you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started. |
Marcus Garvey |
| He who does not hope to win has already lost. |
Jose Joaquin de Olmedo |
| Most people never run far enough on
their first wind to find out theyÆve got a second. Give your dreams all youÆve got and youÆll be amazed at the energy
that comes out of you!! |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
| Act as if were impossible to fail. |
Dorothea Broude |
| Every man is the architect of his own fortune. |
Appius Claudius |
| The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for
themselves. |
Ray Kroc |
| The vision of a champion is someone
who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is looking. |
Annson Dorrance |
| Nothing endures but change. |
Heraclitus |
Greek philosopher (540 BC - 480
BC) |
| What you get by achieving your goals
is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. |
Zig Ziglar |
| As long as you are going to think anyway, think big. |
Donald Trump |
US real estate construction & development businessman (1946 -
) |
| The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than
you settled for. |
Maureen Dowd |
| I believe there is no source of
deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are
impossible. |
William James |
US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 - 1910) |
| If I could take all your words away
and give you but a sparse few, they would be: æI now know, I am absolute, I am complete, I am God, I am.Æ If there
were no other words but these, you would no longer be limited to this plane. |
Ramtha |
| That which the dream shows is the
shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not
know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing
things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. |
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus |
German (Swiss-born) alchemist & physician (1493 - 1541) |
| I was very strange back then. I
could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or
under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all
over the hallways. |
Tim Burton, Burton On Burton |
| I could have gone on flying through space forever. |
Yuri A. Gagarin |
| Musical training is a more potent
instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they
mightily fasten imparting grace. |
Plato |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| To err is human, to forgive divine. |
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| My second favorite household chore
is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. |
Erma Bombeck |
US author & humorist (1927 -
1996) |
| A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he
himself has spun. |
Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda |
| If people cannot write well, they
cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks
in style. |
Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead |
British dramatist & screenwriter
(1937 - ) |
| Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat:
coeli scrutantur plagas.<br> (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.) |
Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. |
Isodore Duncan |
| Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. |
James Cagney |
| If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you. |
Wendy Northcutt, Darwin Awards - literature |
| The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them
decide everything. |
Josef Stalin |
| From the persistence of noise comes
the insistence of rage.<br> From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.<br> From the
enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence. |
Visions of Gregorian Chants |
| Whenever we read the obscene
stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than
half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the
word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has
served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest
it as I detest everything that is cruel. |
Thomas Paine |
US patriot & political philosopher
(1737 - 1809) |
| Witness at all times. If necessary, use words. |
St. Francis of Assissi |
| Those who have long enjoyed such
privleges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| So long as there are men there will be wars. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for
their country. |
Bertrand Russell |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| War is delightful to those who have not experienced it. |
Erasmus |
| When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
32nd president of US (1882 - 1945) |
| I think; therefore I am. |
Rene Descartes |
French mathematician & philosopher
(1596 - 1650) |
| Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. |
William Shakespeare, Sonnet CXVI |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Men may seem detestable as joint
stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man,
in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing
creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run
to throw their costliest robes. |
Herman Melville, Moby Dick |
US novelist & sailor (1819 -
1891) |
| My best advice to anyone who wants
to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. |
Frank Zappa |
US musician, singer, & songwriter
(1940 - 1993) |
| Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. |
Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga |
| We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall hang
separately. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him!<br> (said after capture of
Saddam) |
George W. Bush, BBC/CNN |
43rd President of US (1946 - ) |
| Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. |
Chinese Proverb |
| The belief in the possibility of a
short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. |
Robert Lynd |
US sociologist (1892 - 1970) |
| To be feared is much safer then to be loved. |
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince |
Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) |
| Remember that the evil which is now
in the world will only get more powerful, and that it is not evil which conquers evil, but only love. |
The Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, Letter, 1917 |
| The belief in the possibility of a
short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions. |
Robert Lynd, Book-"The Pleasures of Ignorance" (1921) |
US sociologist (1892 - 1970) |
| I wasted time, now time doth waste me. |
William Shakespeare, Richard II |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed. |
Janis Joplin, Biography of Joplin by Myra Freidman |
US singer (1943 - 1970) |
| I have learned that the less I pay attention, the more often I am
pleasantly suprised. |
Raymond Justice |
| The belief that there are other life
forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty
years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no
evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. |
Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003 |
US author & screenwriter (1942
- ) |
| Historically, the claim of consensus
has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. |
Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003 |
US author & screenwriter (1942
- ) |
| If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? |
Art Hoppe |
| Beyond a critical point within a
finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within
the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. |
Frank Herbert, Dune |
US science fiction novelist (1920
- 1986) |
| What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? |
George Eliot |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
| There will always be one who loves, and one who lets himself be loved. |
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself. |
W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage |
| Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man. |
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot. |
| I exist as I am, that is enough. |
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself |
US poet (1819 - 1892) |
| How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an
enemy! |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a
scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance
to try him, dammit! |
Ted Turner, A speech to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN |
| As far as we can discern, the sole
purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| In the sixties, the world was normal
and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. |
C. S. Lewis |
English essayist & juvenile novelist
(1898 - 1963) |
| Perception is strong, sight is weak. |
Miyamoto Musashi, "A Book of Five Rings" |
| While I know that the beautiful, the
spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a
valid right to exist in contemporary art. |
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994;
American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his
collaboration with the |
| You have never done enough, so long
as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute |
Dag Hammarskjold |
Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961) |
| The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
respectable. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 -
) |
| When you choose the behaviour, you choose the consequences. |
Dr. Phillip McGraw |
| If rough be love with you, be rough with love. |
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. |
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi |
| Experience does not ever err. It is
only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments. |
Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks |
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor
(1452 - 1519) |
| Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs." |
Josef Stalin |
| Whatever else may divide us, Europe
is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. |
Leonid Brezhnev |
| Those who try to give us advice on
matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our
affairs. |
Konstantin Chernenko |
| A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart
of stone. |
Charles Darwin |
English biologist (1809 - 1882) |
| We can allow satellites, planets,
suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created
at once by special act. |
Charles Darwin |
English biologist (1809 - 1882) |
| The fact of evolution is the
backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a
science or faith? |
Charles Darwin |
English biologist (1809 - 1882) |
| One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name. |
Walter Scott |
| Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of
happiness. |
George Sand |
French author (1804 - 1876) |
| To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures. |
Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels |
French novelist (1844 - 1924) |
| No question is ever settled until it is settled right. |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| In a mad world, only the mad are sane. |
Akiro Kurosawa |
| All that we are is the result of
what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| lovers alone wear sunlight |
e.e. cummings |
| No matter how much cats fight there always seem to be plenty of Kittens. |
Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| Good seamanship is recovering from
an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea. |
unknown, US Navy Wisdom |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be
no creativity. |
Bruce Lee |
US martial arts expert & movie actor
(1940 - 1973) |
| Art requires imagination. It
requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your
art. |
Bruce Lee |
US martial arts expert & movie actor
(1940 - 1973) |
| For one human being instinctively
feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he
does not, the craving he feels is evidence. |
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice |
German writer (1875 - 1955) |
| All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. |
Walt Disney |
US cartoonist & movie producer
(1901 - 1966) |
| 1492. As children we were taught to
memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of
North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on
the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was
simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| ItÆs more easy to win a chess game
in five minutes than it is to talk about RussiaÆs problems in 15 minutes |
Garry Kasparov, Baltic Development Forum, Hamburg, September 13, 2004 |
| The beginning is the most important part of the work. |
Plato, The Republic |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| Here stand I. I can do no other. |
Martin Luther |
German religious reformer (1483 -
1546) |
| What kind of people do they think we are, do they think we will be bowed
by their tryanny? |
Winston Churchill, Speaking of the Japanese invasion of British colonies
in SE Asia |
| We live as we dream - alone. |
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness |
English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist
(1857 - 1924) |
| I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. |
Maya Angelou |
US author & poet (1928 - ) |
| Our future may lie beyond our
vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the
irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to
reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in
that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event,
it is the only way we can live. |
Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people |
US Democratic politician (1925 -
1968) |
| No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none,
therefore am no beast. |
William Shakespeare, Richard III |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| All true wealth is biological. |
Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory |
US science fiction author |
| You give but little when you give of
your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
Kahlil Gibran, The Prohpet, 1923 |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| Love is know the pain of too much tenderness. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| Bodily exercise, when compulsory,
does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. |
Plato, The Republic |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. |
John Milton, Paradise Lost |
English poet (1608 - 1674) |
| On this planet, there are people
with talents and people with flaws. The smart ones learn to use their talents, but the happy ones learn to accept their
flaws. |
Dick Solomon, 3rd Rock From the Sun |
| Dancing is a contact sport. Football is a hitting sport. |
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer) |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what
life is all about. |
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer) |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| Fatigue makes cowards of us all. |
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer) |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| The will to excel and the will to
win, they endure. They are more important than any events that occasion them. |
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer) |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. |
Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer) |
US football coach (1913 - 1970) |
| Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Necessity, who is the mother of invention. |
Plato, The Republic |
Greek author & philosopher in Athens
(427 BC - 347 BC) |
| Yea, though i walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely
goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever. |
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament |
| Any fool can tell the truth; it takes talent to lie well. |
Robert Ludlum, "The Tristan Betrayal" |
| The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men. |
Henry David Thoreau, book |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Everything terrible is something that needs our love. |
Rilke |
| One of the great mistakes that can
be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are
under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. |
Bill Cosby, Time Flies |
US comedian & television actor
(1937 - ) |
| Reality is only just a word. |
Harry Chapin |
| I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship. |
Louisa May Alcott |
US juvenile novelist (1832 - 1888) |
| Will it not be felt that Virtue,
however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice... |
Marquis de Sade, Justine |
| Time heals what reason cannot. |
Seneca |
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC - 65 AD) |
| Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no
hurt, but only more love. |
Mother Teresa |
Indian humanitarian & missionary
(1910 - 1997) |
| A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words
become superfluous. |
Ingrid Bergman |
| Always remember, you can never finish work, but work can finish you. |
Louis Keisler |
| I do not propose to write an ode to
dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Where I Lived, And What I Lived For |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Everybody loves to see justice done on somebody else. |
Bruce Cockburn |
| The man who goes alone can start
today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. |
Herman Melville, Moby Dick |
US novelist & sailor (1819 -
1891) |
| Our virtues and our failings are
inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. |
Nikola Tesla |
US (Serbian-born) electrical inventor
(1857 - 1943) |
| If Edison had a needle to find in a
haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object
of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little
theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. |
Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931 |
US (Serbian-born) electrical inventor
(1857 - 1943) |
| The scientists of today think deeply
instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. |
Nikola Tesla, Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934 |
US (Serbian-born) electrical inventor
(1857 - 1943) |
| You conquer every hardness with your
eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time. |
Michelangelo, Poem Fragment |
| You only give me what you have left over, and you want things from me
that I do not have. |
Michelangelo, Poem Fragment |
| The world is my lobster. |
Henry J. Tillman |
| If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing
the thinking. |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
36th president of US (1908 - 1973) |
| In wildness is the preservation of the world. |
Henry David Thoreau, Walking (1862) |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed. |
Oprah Winfrey |
US actress & television talk show host (1954 -
) |
| Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. |
Salvador Dali |
Spanish Catalan Surrealist painter
(1904 - 1989) |
| From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is
eternity. |
Edvard Munch |
| Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again. |
Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven |
| We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any
right. |
Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven |
| Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation. |
Richard Feynman |
US educator & physicist (1918
- 1988) |
| Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human
soul. |
Mark Twain, inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have
no power over me. |
Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend. |
Nicholas Venturella |
| Time is but a stream I go a-fishing
in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but
eternity remains. |
Henry David Thoreau, Walden |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| To do anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. |
Steve Prefontaine |
| There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain
climbing. All the rest are games. |
Earnest Hemingway |
| The fact that man knows right from
wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral
inferiority to any creature that cannot. |
Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906) |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government. |
Henry Ward Beecher |
US abolitionist & clergyman
(1813 - 1887) |
| Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true
meaning and operation. |
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22 |
US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804) |
| Liberty is to faction, what air is
to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential
to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the
annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to
fire its destructive agency. |
James Madison, Federalist 10 |
4th president of US (1751 - 1836) |
| There comes a time when a man must
spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. |
H. L. Mencken |
US editor (1880 - 1956) |
| Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. |
E.L. Doctorow |
| Your security does not lie in the
hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. |
Osama Bin Laden, BBC |
| In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Reverence for life brings us into a
spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician
(1875 - 1965) |
| Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| I am only one, but I am one. I can
not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do. |
Edward E. Hale |
| In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail. |
Vincent T. Lombardi |
| None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes
for himself. |
Muhammad |
| The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time
what I think right. |
Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobience |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people
get what they want. |
Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top |
| So as a prince is forced to know how
to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox
is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to
recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves. |
Niccollo Machavelli, The Prince. |
| Three passions, simple but
overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the
suffering of mankind. |
Bertrand Russell, Autobiography |
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) |
| I wanted to become the seeker, the
aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked
bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but
faith and a belief in astonishment. |
Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline" |
US novelist (1945 - ) |
| In order to deserve, we must pay our
dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek
enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts
and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and
love. |
Bryant McGill, Stanford Lectures on Poetry, 1990 |
| A good novel is an indivisible sum;
every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major
attributes: theme, plot, characterization. |
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93) |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| If men want to oppose war, it is *statism* that they must oppose. |
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal
p. 42 |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| An artist does not fake reality--he *stylizes* it. |
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The
Romantic Manifesto |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| In the long run you only hit what
you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning. |
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 |
US (Russian-born) novelist (1905 -
1982) |
| The First Amendment is often
inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate
speech. |
Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155 |
US jurist (1936 - ) |
| For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking
at the root. |
Henry Thoreau |
| Spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it
will gobble poison. |
Clive Lewis |
| No society can surely be flourishing
and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. |
Adam Smith |
| A person who can acquire no
property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond
what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him
by violence only, and not by any interest of his own. |
Adam Smith |
| The affluence of the rich excites
the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. |
Adam Smith |
| The man whose whole life is spent in
performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no
occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding
out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally
loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid
and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become. |
Adam Smith |
| The difference of natural talents in
different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish
men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many
occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The
difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and
a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature
as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for
the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much
alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any
remarkable difference... |
Adam Smith |
| Love is patient, love is kind. It
does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. |
Bible, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 |
| They that can give up essential
liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| Apathy isnÆt it. We can do something. So flower power didnÆt work. So
what. We start again. |
John Lennon |
English singer & songwriter
(1940 - 1980) |
| Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. |
Thomas Hobbes |
English political philosopher
(1588 - 1679) |
| All wealth is the product of labor. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| New opinions are always suspected,
and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| Our incomes are like our shoes; if
too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have
poisoned the fountain. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| Reading furnishes the mind only with
materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| The discipline of desire is the background of character. |
John Locke |
English empiricist philosopher
(1632 - 1704) |
| All generous minds have a horror of
what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. |
Thomas Hobbes |
English political philosopher
(1588 - 1679) |
| My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. |
James Dean |
| Being an actor is the loneliest
thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and thatÆs all you have. |
James Dean |
| I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is
discovery. |
James Dean |
| There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of
others. |
Niccolo Machiavelli |
Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) |
| The oldest and strongest emotion of
mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. |
H. P. Lovecraft |
US horror & supernatural author
(1890 - 1937) |
| The best accessory a girl can have is her best friend. |
Paris Hilton |
American actress (1981 - ) |
| While I know that the beautiful, the
spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a
valid right to exist in contemporary art. |
Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994 |
| He that would make his own liberty
secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will
reach to himself. |
Thomas Paine |
US patriot & political philosopher
(1737 - 1809) |
| The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. |
Bob Marley |
| Only a man who knows what it is like
to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win
when the match is even. |
Muhammad Ali |
US boxer (1942 - ) |
| Being powerful is a lot like being a
woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not. |
Margaret Thatcher |
British politician (1925 - ) |
| To announce that there must be no
criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. |
Theodore Roosevelt |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| On that day let us solemnly remember
the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our
heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of
promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in
vain. |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
US general & Republican politician
(1890 - 1969) |
| Some men are born posthumously. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| A tyrant must put on the appearance
of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they
consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move
against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. |
Aristotle, unknown |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| You will make all kinds of mistakes
but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her. |
Winston Churchill |
| It matters not how strait the
gate,<br> How charged with punishments the scroll,<br> I am the
master of my fate:<br> I am the captain of
my soul. |
William Ernest Henley, From the poem "Invictus" |
| Religion is an illusion, and it
derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. |
Sigmund Freud |
Austrian psychologist (1856 -
1939) |
| I would rather think of life as a
good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. |
Rabbi Harold Kushner |
| I am convinced that it is not the
fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we
might as well never have lived. |
Rabbi Harold Kushner |
| Everything that God created is
potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we
will have learned to nurture our souls. |
Rabbi Harold Kushner |
| Caring about others, running the
risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. |
Rabbi Harold Kushner |
| We are here to change the world with
small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. |
Rabbi Harold Kushner |
| The human language is like a cracked
kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars. |
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary |
French realist novelist (1821 -
1880) |
| Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
-- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. |
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken |
US poet (1874 - 1963) |
| America, meaning mostly the United
States, is not an easy concept to comprehend. It may be appropriate that it was discovered by a Genoese sailor, in
the service of the Spanish crown, looking for some place else and that, for
the next half-century, it was treated as a geological impediment to be gotten
through or around in order to reach some far more profitable other side. |
Vincent Canby, The New York Times, November 11, 1984 |
| There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows
what they are. |
Somerset Maugham, The New York
Times Book Review, September 30, 1984 |
| Jean Paul Sartre says in "No
Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it
heaven. Or at least earth. |
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980 |
US actor (1936 - ) |
| We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive. |
John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981 |
| Coming home from very lonely places,
all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-ight drive, we are the sole survivors
of a world no one else has ever seen. |
John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New
York Times, May 8, 1974 |
English suspense novelist (1931
- ) |
| Dreaming permits every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every
night of our lives. |
William Dement, Forbes Magazine, April 6, 1998 |
| Getting old is not for sissies. |
Bette Davis |
US movie actress (1908 - 1989) |
| What a beautiful morning. |
John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington |
| For men who had easily endured
hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a
source of grief. |
Sallust |
Roman historian & politician
(86 BC - 34 BC) |
| If i cannot smoke in heaven, then i shall not go. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| A learned man is an idler who kills
time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance. |
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903 |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| The unconscious self is the real
genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. |
Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903 |
| War is Peace<br> Freedom is Slavery<br> Ignorance is Strength |
George Orwell, Book "1984" |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Live to the point of tears. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of
power. |
John Steinbeck |
US novelist (1902 - 1968) |
| Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them. |
Edgar Allan Poe |
US short story author, editor, & poet
(1809 - 1849) |
| From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created
rather than learned. |
George Orwell, Essay: "The Prevention of Literature" (1946) |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Our life is frittered away by
detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and
lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! |
Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions. |
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction |
| If you fear change, leave it here. |
Unknown, Sign on a restaurant tip jar |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. |
Celine Dion |
| Democracy works. Against us. |
Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: Referring to the victory of George W. Bush
in the 2004 election. |
| In a way the CID man was pretty
lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the
world, boys on every side of the bomb line were laying down their lives for
what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least
of all the boys who were laying down their young lives. |
Joesph Heller, Catch-22 |
| In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead
to impotence. |
P. L. Berger |
| If people really want to go, and
really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I donÆt believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the
gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones
stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the
river. |
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women |
US juvenile novelist (1832 - 1888) |
| You know what I say to people when I
hear theyÆre writing an anti-war book?à I say, "why donÆt you write an anti-glacier book instead?"<br>
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were
as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-House 5 |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| The way we see the problem is the problem. |
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People |
| How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans. |
Woody Allen |
US movie actor, comedian, & director
(1935 - ) |
| The course of true love was never easy. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. |
Henry David Thoreau |
US Transcendentalist author (1817
- 1862) |
| It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. |
James Thurber |
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) |
| Security is a process, not a product. |
Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies -
Digital Security in a Networked World --
by Bruce Schneier - ISBN 0-471-25311-1 |
| I have been called the most powerful
woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the
threshold into a new century, there are still too many questions for which we
have no answers. |
Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell
Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC |
| Desire, even in its wildest
tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were. |
W. H. Auden |
US (English-born) critic & poet
(1907 - 1973) |
| The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. |
George Sand |
French author (1804 - 1876) |
| Stolen sweets are best. |
Colley Cibber |
English actor & dramatist
(1671 - 1757) |
| My dreams were all my own; I
accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free. |
Mary Shelley |
| It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. |
Leonardo da Vinci |
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor
(1452 - 1519) |
| Fools rush in and get the best seats. |
Alfred E. Neuman (probably William Gaines), MAD Magazine |
| Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any
Indian. |
Robert Orben |
| What then is the American, this new
man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you
will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose
grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a
french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different
nations. He is an American. |
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur,
Letters from an American Farmer III: What is an American? |
| Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine. |
Elvis Presley |
US rock singer (1935 - 1977) |
| Everyone has a right to his own course of action. |
Moliere |
French actor & comic dramatist
(1622 - 1673) |
| I have never examined the subject of
humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a
piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power
of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving
humor. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on
poorly written fiction. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. |
General Douglas MacArthur |
US WWII general & war hero
(1880 - 1964) |
| There is no path to peace. Peace is the path. |
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War" |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| We enjoy warmth because we have been
cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known
sadness. |
David Weatherford |
| Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of
separation. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| The absence of love is the most abject pain. |
Herr Lipp |
| When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| There is no despair so absolute as
that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have
suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. |
George Eliot |
English novelist (1819 - 1880) |
| A great many open minds should be closed for repairs. |
Toledo Blade |
| All cats are gray in the dark. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| The direct use of force is such a
poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. |
David Friedman |
| Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country. |
Steven Wright |
US comedian and actor (1955 - ) |
| The Creator gave man two ears and one mouth;there is a reason why He did
so. |
Thomas Barron |
| There is only one way to happiness
and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. |
Epictetus |
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
| People, even more than things, have
to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. |
Audrey Hepburn |
| We have weapons of mass destruction
we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass
destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. |
Dennis Kucinich |
| We are not without accomplishment. We have managed to distribute poverty
equally. |
Nguyen Co Thatch, Vietnamese foreign minister |
| If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime
rate. |
Marion Barry, Mayor of Washington, D.C. |
| Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless. |
Mother Theresa |
| Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand. |
Duffy Daugherty, football coach and sports analyst |
| Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one
word only: Super Bowl. |
Bill Peterson, football coach |
| You guys line up alphabetically by height. |
Bill Peterson, Florida State football coach |
| Most cars on our roads have only one occupant, usually the driver. |
Carol Malia, BBC Anchorwoman |
| Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget. |
Sy Parrish, One Hour Photo |
| The President can bomb anybody he likes. |
Richard Nixon, Nixon |
| Thinking evil is making evil. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| Everything in life is writable about
if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. |
Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath |
US novelist & poet (1932 -
1963) |
| Tomas did not realize at the time
that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. |
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being |
Czechoslovakian novelist (1929
- ) |
| When President Bush invaded Iraq
after 9<br>11 it was like Truman invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor. |
John Kerry, Debate |
US Democratic politician (1943
- ) |
| The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious
thought. |
Sir Thomas Beecham |
English conductor (1879 - 1961) |
| You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be
too late. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| He who learns must suffer. And even
in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes
wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. |
Aeschylus |
Greek tragic dramatist (525 BC -
456 BC) |
| If you cannot convince them, confuse them. |
Harry S Truman |
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) |
| I have found the best way to give
advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. |
Harry S Truman |
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) |
| A special Providence protects fools, drunkards, small children and the
United States of America. |
Otto von Bismarck |
German Prussian politician (1815 -
1898) |
| Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent. |
Isaac Asimov, Prelude to Foundation, said by Hari Seldon |
US science fiction novelist & scholar
(1920 - 1992) |
| I know of no way to judge the future but by the past. |
Patrick Henry |
US orator, patriot, & politician in American Revolution (1736 - 1799) |
| It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant perhaps the
one is as painful as the other. |
Francis Bacon |
| Laugh, and the world laughs with
you;<br> Weep, and you weep alone.<br> For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,<br> But has trouble enough
of its own. |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| The idea that no gentleman ever
swears is all wrong; he can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way. |
Mark Twain, Speech in NYC, Jan. 22, 1906 |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Swearing is like any other
music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and
discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious
and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression,
it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty... |
David Gridley, Indiantown |
| The dark today leads into light
tomorrow; <br> There is no endless joy, <br> ...and yet no
endless sorrow. |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| In this sad world of ours, sorrow
comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better...
And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| Men stumble over the truth from time
to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| Winter is come and gone,<br> But grief returns with the revolving
year. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais |
| Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like
the sun; it cannot be contained. |
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones |
| Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign. |
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty |
English economist & philosopher
(1806 - 1873) |
| All good is hard. All evil is easy.
Dying,losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay away from easy. |
Scott Alexander, film writer and director |
| So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it
remains. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| Death ends a life, not a relationship. |
Morrie Swartz, Tuesdays with Morrie (book) |
| Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of
death. |
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings |
| Freedom is the right to say two plus two make four. If granted, all else
follows. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| English is the easiest language to speak badly. |
George Bernhard Shaw |
| Life, at best, is completely unpredictable. |
Chrisopher Walken |
| Let them hate us, as long as they fear us. |
Caligula (Gaius Caesar) |
Roman emperor 037-041 (12 AD - 41
AD) |
| Is necessary to take such measures
that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force. |
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince |
Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) |
| We have not seen great things done
in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. |
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince |
Italian dramatist, historian, & philosopher (1469 - 1527) |
| And when it rains on your parade,
look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. |
Jerry Chin |
| The tragic mistake of so many in the
environmentalist movement is the belief that the rest of the world can afford to hold itself to our expensive green
standards. |
Jonathan Berry |
| Frustration is one of the greatest things in art; satisfaction is
nothing. |
Malcom Mclaren |
| What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning. |
Iggy Pop |
| The only devils in this world are
those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| What counts in making a happy
marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. |
Leo Tolstoy |
Russian mystic & novelist
(1828 - 1910) |
| Live simply that others may simply live. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. |
Mae West |
US movie actress (1892 - 1980) |
| Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it
holds the universe together. |
Carl Zwanzig |
| A cheerful look brings joy to the heart. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
English novelist (1811 - 1863) |
| A good laugh is sunshine in a house. |
William Makepeace Thackeray |
English novelist (1811 - 1863) |
| There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well. |
Francis Bacon |
| A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments. |
Francis Bacon |
| Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life. |
Ecclesiastes |
| Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. |
Federico Fellini, 8 1/2 |
Italian movie director (1920 -
1993) |
| Like President Reagan, President
Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism,
just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad,
defeated fascism and communism before. |
Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan Library and Museum, October 10, 2003 |
| It is the mark of an educated mind
to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only
an approximation is possible. |
Aristotle |
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC) |
| Only if we understand, will we care.
Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved. |
Jane Goodall |
| Roots creep under the ground to make
a firm foundation. Shoots seems new and small, but to reach the light they can break through brick walls. |
Jane Goodall |
| Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. |
Bible, Jesus in Matthew 5:9 |
| Miracles are like meatballs, because
nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear. |
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Hostile Hospital |
| If you are interested in stories
with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book. |
Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning |
| On the fields of friendly strife are
sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory. |
General Douglas MacArthur |
US WWII general & war hero
(1880 - 1964) |
| What is life? An illusion, a shadow,
a story,<br> And the greatest good is little enough:<br> for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. |
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream |
| Duty then is the sublimest word in
the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less. |
Robert E. Lee |
US-Confederate general (1807 -
1870) |
| There is no substitute for victory. |
General Douglas MacArthur |
US WWII general & war hero
(1880 - 1964) |
| We must not just be in the world and
above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose
yourself in it, and you are free. |
Henry Miller, in a letter to Lawrence Durrell |
US author (1891 - 1980) |
| Is yours an honest lament?...Most
are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere character -
always judge ourselves by stricter standards than we expect others to abide
by. It is a curse, I suppose, or a blessing, depending on how one views it...
Take it as a blessing, my friend, an inner calling that forces you to strive
to unattainable heights. |
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn |
| It is better, I think, to grab at
the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a
good view, and perhaps even a low-hanging apple for his efforts. |
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn |
| There is a wide world out there, my
friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the
journey tolerable. |
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn |
| Guilt resembles a sword with two
edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another
side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational
judgment. Guilt is always a self-imposed burden, but it is not always rightly
imposed. |
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn |
| The meekest of animals will fight
bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because
he puts less value on his own life. |
R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard |
| To any intelligent being, there is
no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will be better than the
past, that our offspring, and theirs after them, will be a bit closer to an
ideal society, whatever our perception of that might be... It is at those
times when we feel we are contributing to that ultimate end... we feel true
elation. |
R. A. Salvatore, Siege of Darkness |
| In real life, unlike in Shakespeare,
the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very
important respects, what they seem to be. |
Hubert H. Humphrey |
US politician (1911 - 1978) |
| Evil is relativeàYou canÆt hang a
sign on it. You canÆt touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your
indicting finger. |
Glen Cook, The Black Company |
| I guess each of us, at some time,
finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a
substitute for the broader opinion of the world. |
Glen Cook, Shadow Games |
| Mornings are wonderful! The only
drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day! |
Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues |
| To laugh is to live profoundly. |
Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting |
Czechoslovakian novelist (1929
- ) |
| We must never allow the future to be
weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their
smiles. |
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting |
Czechoslovakian novelist (1929
- ) |
| Those who are skilled in combat do
not become angered, those who are skilled at winning do not become afraid. Thus the wise win before they fight,
while the ignorant fight to win. |
Kongming (Zhuge Liang) |
| Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. |
M. Scott Peck |
| I am grateful for all my problems.
After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my
difficulties. |
J. C. Penny |
| Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. |
Babe Ruth |
US baseball player (1895 - 1948) |
| Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost. |
M. Scott Peck |
| Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| You can choose your behavior, the world chooses your consequences. |
Pia Melody |
| Deep experience is never peaceful. |
Henry James |
British (US -born) author (1843 -
1916) |
| Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. |
Albert Camus |
French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) |
| If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing. |
Zimbabwean Proverb |
| The world is governed more by
appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. |
Daniel Webster |
US diplomat, lawyer, orator, & politician (1782 - 1852) |
| The solving of almost every crime
mystery depends on something which seems, at the first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime. |
Elsa Barker |
| Believing where we cannot prove. |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. |
William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3 |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| I will love the light for it shows
me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. |
Og Mandino |
| People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you
did it. |
Howard W. Newton |
| Drugs are a bet with your mind. |
Jim Morrison, Biography |
| When you give up drinking, you have
to deal with that wonderful personality that started you drinking in the first place. |
Oscar Levant |
(1906 - 1972) |
| He who has nothing and wants
something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more. |
Eric Hoffer, True Believer or Theory of leisure class |
(1902 - 1983) |
| Why is it that we rejoice at a birth
and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| All say, "How hard it is that
we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| The more words you know, the more
clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. |
Wilfred Funk |
| It is the action of an uninstructed
person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly
instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. |
Epictetus, Enchiridion |
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
| If you tell a lie big enough and
keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can
shield the people from the political, economic and<br>or military
consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to
use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy
of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the
State. |
Joseph Goebbels |
| Next to selfishness the principal
cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. |
John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism |
| A life spent making mistakes is not
only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| There are three things that are
important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. |
Henry James |
British (US -born) author (1843 -
1916) |
| Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad
training. |
Anna Freud |
Austrian psychoanalyst & psychologist
(1895 - 1982) |
| You can do no great things, just small things with great love. |
Mother Teresa, Robin Williams |
Indian humanitarian & missionary
(1910 - 1997) |
| The question our century puts before
us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the
world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not
world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being. |
Paul Tillich, From a lecture |
US (German-born) Protestant theologian
(1886 - 1965) |
| Thou art a Man, God is no more.<br> Thy own humanity learn to
adore. |
William Blake |
English engraver, illustrator, & poet
(1757 - 1827) |
| The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood
of patriots and tyrants. |
Thomas Jefferson |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| As Mankind becomes more liberal,
they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally
entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America
among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. |
George Washington |
First president of US (1732 -
1799) |
| There was no telling what people
might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. |
Joseph Heller, Catch 22 |
US novelist (1923 - ) |
| It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never
to have dreamed at all. |
Alexander Pushkin |
| Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. |
George Orwell, 1984 |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood. |
George Orwell, 1984 |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| In general, the greater the
understanding, the greater the delusion: the more intelligent, the less sane. |
George Orwell, 1984 |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| One does not establish a
dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. |
George Orwell, 1984 |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| The object of persecution is
persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. |
George Orwell, 1984 |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is
unconsciousness. |
George Orwell, 1984 |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| If we deny love that is given to us,
if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. |
Unknown |
Quotations by unknown authors |
| That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and
most determined. |
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| What is love? As far as I can tell,
is is passion, admiration, and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you dont have to die to
go to heaven. |
William Wharton |
| Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found
difficult, and not tried. |
G. K. Chesterton |
English author & mystery novelist
(1874 - 1936) |
| Men are only as unfaithful as their options. |
Chris Rock |
| Every child deserves a home and love. Period. |
Dave Thomas |
| We look at adoption as a very sacred
exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child. |
Jamie Lee Curtis |
| A word to the wise is infuriating. |
Hunter S Thompson |
| The Edge... there is no honest way
to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. |
Hunter S Thompson |
| There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths
of an ether binge. |
Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| You can not gain peace by avoiding life. |
Virginia Woolf |
English novelist (1882 - 1941) |
| Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime. |
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show |
| All true wealth is biological. |
Lois McMasters Bujold, "Mirror Dance" |
| I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best. |
The Rock |
| You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was
made a man. |
Frederick Douglass |
US abolitionist (1817 - 1895) |
| The world is governed more by
appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. |
Webster |
| The stability of the whole is guaranteed by the instability of its parts. |
Karin Mei▀enburg, translator and author |
| Absence of proof is not proof of absence. |
Michael Crichton |
US author & screenwriter (1942
- ) |
| With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. |
Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind |
| If I were to try to read, much less
answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| Another flaw in the human character
is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| Between thought and expression lies a lifetime. |
Lou Reed |
| I am enough of an artist to draw
freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the
world. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| I guess I just prefer to see the
dark side of things. The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth. |
Janeane Garofalo |
| Spend and be spent. |
Theodore Roosevelt, sign posted at his grave site |
26th president of US (1858 - 1919) |
| Have love for everyone, no one is other than you. |
Ramakrishna |
| Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders. |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. |
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses (poem) |
English poet (1809 - 1892) |
| There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. |
Frank Herbert |
US science fiction novelist (1920
- 1986) |
| The grand essentials to happiness in
this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. |
Joseph Addison |
English essayist, poet, & politician
(1672 - 1719) |
| It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand
years as a sheep. |
Tibetan Proverb |
| A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. |
Woodrow Wyatt |
| The most beautiful thing we can
experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. |
Albert Einstein |
US (German-born) physicist (1879 -
1955) |
| If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy
anyway. |
Mother Teresa |
Indian humanitarian & missionary
(1910 - 1997) |
| The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. |
Ian Fleming |
| It is a lesson never learned: Matters of state and the heart that start
with a lie rarely end well. |
Maureen Dowd, New York Times, January 10, 2005 |
| Once a man has some money, peace begins to sound good to him. |
Clint Eastwood, Movie: "A Fistful of Dollars," 1964 |
US movie actor & director
(1930 - ) |
| If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Sometimes it is said that man cannot
be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found
angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. |
Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address |
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826) |
| Be not astonished at new ideas; for
it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. |
Spinoza |
| Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break
the record. |
Steve Knight |
| The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus
sacrificing his own greatness. |
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf |
German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945) |
| A pessimist is never disappointed. |
Jack Cleary |
| Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. |
Voltaire, Essay on Tolerance |
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 - 1778) |
| Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. |
Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On" |
| My doctor says that I have a
malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes. |
Douglas Adams, Ford Prefect in "Life, the Universe, and
Everything" |
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) |
| If you want to be happy for a year,
plant a garden; <br> if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. |
English proverb |
| The Tao that can be told is not the
eternal Tao.<br> The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. |
Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching |
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531
BC) |
| I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good
intentions. |
Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking |
| Seldom, very seldom, does complete
truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little
mistaken. |
Jane Austen, Emma |
English novelist (1775 - 1817) |
| Keep thy religion to thyself. |
George Carlin |
US comedian and actor (1937 - ) |
| With great power comes great responsibility. |
Stan Lee, Spider-Man comic |
| The ballot is stronger than the bullet. |
Abraham Lincoln |
16th president of US (1809 - 1865) |
| He attacked everything in life with
a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. |
Douglas Adams |
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) |
| See first, think later, then test.
But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that. |
Douglas Adams |
English humorist & science fiction novelist (1952 - 2001) |
| The perfect man of action, is the suicide. |
William Carlos Williams |
US poet (1883 - 1963) |
| Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather. |
Jordan, Robert |
| Honor and shame from no condition rise.<br> Act well your part:
there all the honor lies. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be
disappointed. |
Alexander Pope |
English poet & satirist (1688
- 1744) |
| Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it. |
Martha Singleterry |
| Speak of things public to the
public, but of things lofty and secret only to the loftiest and most private of your friends. Hay to the ox and sugar to the
parrot. |
Johannes Trithemius, 1488 |
| A state that dwarfs its men in order
that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no
great things can really be accomplished. |
John Stewart Mills |
| True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned. |
Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf |
German Nazi dictator, orator, & politician (1889 - 1945) |
| If you pick up a starving dog and
make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| Paranoia is just a kind of awareness, and awareness is just a form of
love. |
Charles Manson |
| I am certain there is too much certainty in the world. |
Michael Crichton, State of Fear |
US author & screenwriter (1942
- ) |
| The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. |
Steven Wright |
US comedian and actor (1955 - ) |
| Of all tyrannies democracy is the
most agonizing, the most inane, the absolute fall of everything great and elevated. |
S°ren Kierkegaard, Journal 1848 |
| Fixed ideas are like a cramp in the foot - the best remedy against it is
to tread on it. |
S°ren Kierkegaard, Journal, july 6., 1838 |
| Alas! While the speculative
honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and
simply a man, not a fantastic 3<br>8 of a paragraph. |
S°ren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift |
| The chief weapon of sea pirates,
however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they
were. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| During my three years in Vietnam, I
certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he
had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the
Supreme Sacrifice. |
Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus |
US novelist (1922 - ) |
| The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set
a limit to infinite error. |
Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo |
German Communist & dramatist
(1898 - 1956) |
| When in doubt, observe and ask
questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. |
George S. Patton |
US general (1885 - 1945) |
| You give little when you give of
your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
Kahlil Gibran |
Lebanese artist & poet in US
(1883 - 1931) |
| Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
US poet (1807 - 1882) |
| Maturity beings to grow when you can
sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. |
John MacNaughton |
| Truth is a pathless land. |
Krishnamurti |
| A man without justice is a beast,
and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man. |
Timothy Leary |
US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996) |
| Discovery consists in seeing what
everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. |
Albert Szent-Gyorgi |
| If you want to sacrifice the
admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. |
Katharine Hepburn |
US actress (1907 - 2003) |
| Acting is the most minor of gifts
and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. |
Katharine Hepburn |
US actress (1907 - 2003) |
| Enemies are so stimulating. |
Katharine Hepburn |
US actress (1907 - 2003) |
| The changes in the human condition
are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more
unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon
the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors. |
Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775 |
US (Scottish-born) lawyer & politician (1755 - 1804) |
| When the people find that they can
vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. Sell not liberty to purchase power. |
Benjamin Franklin |
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 - 1790) |
| We choose to go to the moon. We
choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard,
because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies
and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one
we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others,
too. |
John F. Kennedy |
US Democratic politician (1917 -
1963) |
| ...Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose
in Thee. |
Saint Augustine, The Confessions. Book 1. (The Harvard Classics. 1909û14,
p.1) |
Carthaginian author, saint, & church father (354 AD - 430 AD) |
| History is a cyclic poem written by Time upon the memories of man. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| The best historian is he who
combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. |
G. M. Trevelyan |
British historian (1876 - 1962) |
| My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came
back. |
Fred Allen |
US radio comedian (1894 - 1956) |
| The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right
sometimes. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| The greatest ideas are the simplest. |
William Golding, Lord of The Flies |
| Age is a question of mind over matter. If you donÆt mind, it doesnÆt
matter. |
Satchel Paige |
US baseball player (1906 - 1982) |
| Give death a better name or die trying. |
Timothy Leary |
US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996) |
| Passion is the source of our finest
moments, the joy of love, the clarity of hatred, and the ectasy of grief. |
Ty King, Written for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode Passion, voice
over by David Boreanaz |
| If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. |
Epictetus, Serendipity |
Roman (Greek-born) slave & Stoic philosopher (55 AD - 135 AD) |
| Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original
in your work. |
Gustave Flaubert |
French realist novelist (1821 -
1880) |
| Einstein said that God does not play
dice with the universe. He was right, but not in the way he meant. God doesnÆt play dice with the universe because
the universe doesnÆt need him. The craps table is set up and running. Whether
or not God put it there is besides the point. |
Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel) |
| Carbon atoms on a distant planet
rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into
amphibians and crawled onto dry landùand finally a cab appeared at the mouth
of the alley. |
Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel) |
| Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. |
Edna Woolman Chase |
| Success is never final. |
Sir Winston Churchill |
British politician (1874 - 1965) |
| That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not
only writing but thinking. |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra |
German philosopher (1844 - 1900) |
| If you hear a voice within you say
"you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. |
Vincent Van Gough |
| Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or
by others. |
Mark Twain |
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910) |
| A pessimist is one who makes
difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. |
Harry S Truman |
33rd president of US (1884 - 1972) |
| How many pessimists end up by
desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? |
Robert Mallet |
| The future belongs to those who dare. |
Anonymous |
| Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it. |
Douglas Gerald |
| Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! |
Constanze |
| The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music.
Bodies never lie. |
Agnes de Mille |
US choreographer & dancer
(1909 - 1993) |
| The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. |
Mata Hari |
Dutch dancer & spy in France
(1876 - 1917) |
| God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. |
J. M. Barry |
| So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. |
William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose |
| One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not. |
Hilary Clinton |
| Love has taught us that love does
not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
French writer (1900 - 1944) |
| A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel
through the human heart. |
Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies |
| The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common! |
Oscar Wilde |
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet
(1854 - 1900) |
| Men, it has been well said, think in
herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. |
Charles Mackay |
| Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in
Scotland supports the people. |
Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language |
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784) |
| One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape
to make them stop. |
G. Weilacher |
| Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get
even. |
Ann Landers |
US advice columnist (1918 - 2002) |
| In war, there are no unwounded solders. |
Jose Narosky |
| Jealousy - that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it
alive. |
Havelock Ellis |
English sexual psychologist (1859
- 1939) |
| Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common
hatred than common love. |
Dagobert D. Runes |
| Our humanity is trapped by moral
adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom
and power without conscience. |
General Omar Bradley |
| The possession of unlimited power
will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| He is rich who owns the day, and no
one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
US essayist & poet (1803 -
1882) |
| I am wealthy in my friends. |
William Shakespeare |
Greatest English dramatist & poet
(1564 - 1616) |
| I wish you all the good and charm
that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness. |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
German Romantic composer (1770 -
1827) |
