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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-Paul Valery
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
-Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-Paul Valery
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
-Paul Valery
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
-Paul Valery
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
-Paul Valery
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
-Alfred North Whitehead
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
-Alfred North Whitehead
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-Alfred North Whitehead
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
-Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
-Alfred North Whitehead-
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
-Alfred North Whitehead
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
-Henri-Fr�d�ric Amiel
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
-Joseph Addison
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
-Joseph Addison
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
-Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
-Joseph Addison
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
-Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earnd by virtue!
Who would not be that youth? What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country!
-Joseph Addison
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present I am rising to a mans work.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Absurdity, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Acquaintance, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of anothers resemblance to ourselves.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Brain an apparatus with which we think we think.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Cabbage A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a mans head.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.)
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary
Be brief, for no discourse can please when too long.
-Miguel de Cervantes
Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
-Miguel de Cervantes
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
-Miguel de Cervantes
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
-Miguel de Cervantes
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You see, but you do not observe.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
-Ayn Rand, Capitalism The Unknown Ideal, 166
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
-Ayn Rand
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
-Ayn Rand, Anthem, 146
It is not advisable, James, to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 157
The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.
-Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 157
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
-Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 164
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
-Saadi
O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.
-Saadi
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
-Saadi
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
-Saadi
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
-Saadi
A signature always reveals a mans character - and sometimes even his name.
-Evan Esar
America believes in education the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
-Evan Esar
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
-Evan Esar
You cant do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
-Evan Esar
Statistician A man who believes figues dont lie, but admits that under analysis some of them wont stand up either.
-Evan Esar
Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
-Evan Esar
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
-Richard Feynman
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-Richard Feynman
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
-Richard Feynman
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
-Richard Feynman
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
-Richard Feynman
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
-Richard Feynman
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But its only a hundred billion. Its less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
-Richard Feynman
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
-Richard Feynman
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when youre finished, youll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So lets look at the bird and see what its doing -- thats what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
-Richard Feynman
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...
-Madeleine LEngle
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we
would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept
vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-Madeleine LEngle
The great thing about getting older is that you dont lose all the
other ages youve been.
-Madeleine LEngle
Thats the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize
how obvious theyve been all along.
-Madeleine LEngle
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
-Soren Kierkegaard
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
-Soren Kierkegaard
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
-Friedrich Nietzsche
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
-Ovid
By faithful study of the nobler arts, our natures softened, and more gentle grows.
-Ovid
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
-Ovid
Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
-Ovid
I dont care what is written about me so long as it isnt true.
-Dorothy Parker
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
-Dorothy Parker
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldnt be a bit surprised.
-Dorothy Parker
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
-Dorothy Parker
A stupid mans report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
-Bertrand Russell
All movements go too far.
-Bertrand Russell
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldnt wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
-Bertrand Russell
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
-Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
-Bertrand Russell
All art is an imitation of nature.
-Seneca
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
-Seneca
As was his lanaguagae so was his life.
-Seneca
Be not to hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
-Seneca
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
-Seneca
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.
-Seneca
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
-Seneca
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
-James Thurber
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
-James Thurber
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
-James Thurber
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
-James Thurber
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
-James Thurber
All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
-Voltaire
Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
-Voltaire
Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
-Voltaire
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.
-Voltaire
Every man is guilty of all the good he didnt do.
-Voltaire
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
-Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
-Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-Oscar Wilde
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
-Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
-Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
-Oscar Wilde
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
-Malcolm X
Youre not to be so blind with patriotism that you cant face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
-Malcolm X
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
-Malcolm X
Sitting at the table doesnt make you a diner, unless you eat some of whats on that plate. Being here in America doesnt make you an American. Being born here in America doesnt make you an American.
-Malcolm X
Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.
-Edward Young
Procrastination is the thief of time.
-Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
-Edward Young
The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
-Zeno
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
-Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
-James M. Barrie
Life is a long lesson in humility.
-James M. Barrie
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-James M. Barrie
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
-Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
-Thomas Carlyle
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
-Thomas Carlyle
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
-Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-Thomas Carlyle
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
-Leonardo da Vinci
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
-Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
-Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dont be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dont waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-Andre Gide
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
-Andre Gide
One doesnt discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-Andre Gide
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
-Andre Gide
Always listen to experts. Theyll tell you what cant be done and why. Then do it.
-Robert Heinlein
Of course the game is rigged. Dont let that stop you - if you dont play, you cant win.
-Robert Heinlein
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
-Robert Heinlein
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
-Robert Heinlein
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
-Robert Heinlein
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
-Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
-Immanuel Kant
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
-Immanuel Kant
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-Thomas Jefferson
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
-Thomas Jefferson
Never spend your money before you have it.
-Thomas Jefferson
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
-Thomas Jefferson
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
-Thomas Jefferson
People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed.
If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
Lao-Tzu (fl. B.C. 600)
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
William Penn (1614-1718)
Think truly, and thy thoughts
Shall the worlds famine feed.
Speak truly, and each word of thine
Shall be a fruitful seed.
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed.
Horatius Bonar (1808-188)
Long have I loved what I behold.
The night that calms, the day that cheers;
The common growth of mother-earth
Suffices me.
Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The carnage and suffering which war entails are terrible to contemplate, and constitute an irresistible argument in favor of arbitration.
Lubbock (184-11)
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference.
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich,
so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Johnson (170-1784)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
-Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
-Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
-Aristotle
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
-Sir Francis Bacon
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
-Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scietia Potestas Est)
-Sir Francis Bacon
A fanatic is one who cant change his mind and wont change the subject.
-Sir Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
-Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.
-Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
-Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
-Euripides
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
-Euripides
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
-Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
-Benjamin Franklin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
-Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
-Benjamin Franklin
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
-Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.
-Homer
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
-Homer
It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.
-Homer
It is not possible to fight beyond your strength even if you strive.
-Homer
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
-Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
-Thomas Jefferson
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
-Thomas Jefferson
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
-Thomas Jefferson
Im a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
-Thomas Jefferson
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
-Thomas Jefferson
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
-Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 16
The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
-Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 16
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
-Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 16
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
-Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
-Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
-Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
-Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-Abraham Lincoln
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
W. Somerset Maugham
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
-W. Somerset Maugham
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Its a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-W. Somerset Maugham
In time a profession is like a marriage,
we cease to note anything but its inconveniences.
Balzac (17-1850)
Man becomes the master of difficult situations by refusing the assistance of weak men. He relies on his own strength of character.
I Ching (B.C. 1150?)
At any given moment, life is completely senseless.
But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself
as an organism existing in time, having a purpose,
trending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley (184-16)
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
Plutarch (46-10 A.D.)
Better than a thousand useless words
is one single word that gives peace.
Better than a thousand useless verses
is one single verse that gives peace.
Better than a hundred useless poems
is one single poem that gives peace.
The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 00)
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
Burke (17-177)
Amongst all things, knowledge, they say, is truly the best thing; from its not being liable ever to be stolen, from its not being purchasable, and from its being imperishable.
The Hitopadesa (600?-1100? A.D.)
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1-168)
The question of whether the universe has limits or is eternal can wait until some way is found to extinguish the fires of birth, old age, sickness and death; in the presence of lamentation, sorrow, suffering, and pain; one should first search for a way to solve these problems and then devote oneself to the practice of that way.
Buddha (B.C. 568-488)
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer (10-18)
Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton (c. B.C. 175)
Dont walk behind me, I may not lead. Dont walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
Slight is the merit of keeping silence on a matter; on the other hand serious is the guilt of talking on things whereon we should be silent.
Ovid (B.C. 4-18 A.D.)
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-Albert Pike
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-Roger Babson
Dont worry about people stealing an idea. If its original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
-Howard Aiken
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-Pablo Picasso
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
-Edward W. Howe
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey people. People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....
-C. S. Lewis
It is one thing to speak much, another well.
Sophocles
A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
-Kenneth A. Wells, Guide to Good Leadership
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
-Gore Vidal
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
-Forest Witcraft
I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.
-Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Never believe that a few caring people cant change the world. For, indeed, thats all who ever have.
-Margaret Mead
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Buddha
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesnt mean theyve gotten lost.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
-Henry Drummond
At last is Hector stretchd upon the plain,
Who feard no vengeance for Patroclus slain
Then, Prince! You should have feard, what now you feel;
Achilles absent was Achilles still
Yet a short space the great avenger stayed,
Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.
-Homer, The Iliad
Nothing but blackness above
And nothing that moves but the cars...
God, if you wish for our love,
Fling us a handful of stars!
-Louis Untermeyer, Caliban in the Coal Mines
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell; the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor!
-Virgil
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.
- Socrates
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