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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Henry
Adams
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty
years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? Cindy Adams
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that
correspond with them. Abigail Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking
up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. Henry B. Adams
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. Joey Adams
Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it
anyway. Joey Adams
A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops. Henry
Adams
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A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Joseph Addison
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to
become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
George Ade
It is easier to fight for one's principles than live up to them. Alfred Adler
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. Felix Adler
The paper burns, but the words fly away. Ben Joseph Akiba
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach
them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to
follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott
If at first you don't succeed you're running about average. M.H. Alderson
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Conte Vittorio Alfieri
The only thing I regret is that I'm not somebody else. Woody Allen
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have
any fun at all. Woody Allen
The structure of the joke is . . . the juxtaposition of the trivial and the
mundane . . . We have to reconcile the paradox of it all. The joke mirrors
that paradox. Woody Allen
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and
quoted. Fred Allen
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then
wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen
Success is like dealing with your kid or teaching your wife to drive.
Sooner or later you'll end up in the police station. Fred Allen
I commend you to the goddess of ambition. She teaches the great virtues
of labour, aggression and perseverance. John Peter Altgeld
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such
a thing as superhuman law, it is administered with subhuman efficiency.
Eric Ambler
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled
or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. Henri Frederic
Amiel
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which
if persisted in, must make peace impossible. Sir Norman Angell
The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Aniel
A synonym is the word you use when you can't spell the right one and
therefore can't find it in the dictionary. Anon
Many people quit looking for work when they find a job. Anon
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A sinner can reform, but stupidity is forever. Anon
You never have read anything about the "plans and objectives" of the
Apostles. The title of the book is "The Acts of the Apostles". Anon
Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same. Anon
College professors are people who get what's left over after the football
coach is paid off. Anon
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Anon
The girl who has half a mind to become an actress doesn't realize that
that's what it requires. Anon
The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough
voters to win the next election. Anon
What do you do with the problem solvers after the problem is solved?
Anon
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Science is a history of superseded theories. Anon
Wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it. Anon
What most people consider as virtue after the age of 40 is simply a loss of
energy. Anon
When a wife reminds a husband that they're not getting any younger, he
can assume that she is about to suggest something expensive. Anon
Wise men learn more from fools, than fools do from wise men. Anon
Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think. Anon
You cannot expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're
looking down on him. Anon
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. Jean
Anouilh
The only question left to be settled now is, are women persons? Susan B.
Anthony
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more
abundantly, they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in
hell. Saint Thomas Aquinas
A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the
learned. Arabian Proverb
You should have seen what a fine-looking man he was before he had all
those children. Arapesh tribesman
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Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.
Robert Ardrey
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing
them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice
of the heart. Pietro Aretino
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of
contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making
the best of the circumstances. Aristotle
I have learned only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy.
First, let her think she is having her own way. Second, let her have it.
Antony Armstrong-Jones. Lord Snowdon
Children grow up so fast. Before you know it, the little girl in the frilly,
feminine dress is a woman in blue jeans. Edward Asner
It isn't the common man at all who is important; it's the uncommon man.
Lady Nancy Astor
The only thing I like about rich people is their money. Lady Astor
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital
and labour. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting
each other's throat. Brooks Atkinson
Only those in the last stage of disease could believe that children are true
judges of character. W.H. Auden
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Those who do not complain are never pitied. Jane Austen
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and
then. Jane Austen
All things are admired either because they are new or because they are
great. Francis Bacon
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are
impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Francis
Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the
greatest innovator. Francis Bacon
He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question,
when a man should marry? "A young man not yet, and elder man not at
all". Francis Bacon
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are
commonly the most valuable. Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old
authors to read. Francis Bacon
What is it then to have or have not wife But single thraldom, or a double
strife? Francis Bacon
Women - one half the human race at least - care fifty times more for a
marriage than a ministry. Walter Bagehot
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it. Walter
Bagehot
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. Philip James Bailey
Punctuality is something that if you have it, there's often no one around to
share it with you. Hylda Baker
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was
when you came in. James Baldwin
A woman seen by all is a woman wished for; hence the terrible power of
actresses. Honore de Balzac
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Brigitte Bardot
I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to
concerts if people wanted new music all the time? Clive Barnes
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
Sir James M. Barrie
A woman can be anything that the man who loves her would have her to
be. Sir James M. Barrie
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. John
Barrymore
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so
little time. John Barrymore
In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes
it's a great relief. John Barrymore
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances. Bruce
Barton
The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right were
we are. Bruce Barton
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right
to be wrong in his facts. Bernard Baruch
You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool
enough to get elected. Gerald Barzan
Trickle, trickle, Trickle, trickle. Give me a buck And I'll give you a nickel.
Gerald Barzan
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques
Barzun
I knew her when she didn't know where her next husband was coming
from. Anne Baxter
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to
reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. Cecil Beaton. On the
miniskirt
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to
learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as
he lives. Clay P. Bedford
There are no women composers, never have been and possibly never will
be. Sir Thomas Beecham
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the
success of the voyage. Henry Ward Beecher
Whatever is only almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous
of errors, because being so near truth, it is the more likely to lead astray.
Henry Ward Beecher
Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only
sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it. Henry Ward Beecher
The wisest men, in the bulk, are the men who have tilled the earth . . .
Hilaire Belloc
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for
illusion is deep. Saul Bellow
A great many people have . . . asked how I manage to get so much work
done and still keep looking so dissipated. Robert Benchley
The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice. Robert Benchley
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that
upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other
author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. Robert Benchley
If we justify war it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which
they find themselves possessed. Ruth Benedict
Grant us brotherhood, not only for this day, but for all our years - a
brotherhood not of words, but of acts and deeds. Stephen Vincent Benet
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Perspective, I soon realized, was a fine commodity, but utterly useless
when I was in the thick of things. Ingrid Bengis
They are the most embarrassed people in this world, the English. Alan
Bennett
Taxes are going up so fast that government is likely to price itself right out
of the market. Dan Bennett
I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of
ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
A.C. Benson
If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so. Eric
Bentley
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a
success. Irving Berlin
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Bible
The thing that hath been; it is that which shall be; and that which is done is
that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Bible
(Ecclesiastes)
Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Ambrose Bierce
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Plan: To bother about the best method of accomplishing an accidental
result. Ambrose Bierce
Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. Ambrose Bierce
Prophecy: The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future
delivery. Ambrose Bierce
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Resign: To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. Ambrose
Bierce
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be
one of the very first victims of his shrewdness. Josh Billings
Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall
flat on your face. Dr. L. Binder. (American historian)
He who makes his law a curse, By his own law shall surely die. William
Blake
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. William Blake
A Robin Red breast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. William Blake
The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than
you are. Ludwig Boerne
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a
narrow field. Niels Bohr. Danish physicist
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No one who cannot halt at self-imposed boundaries could ever write.
Nicolas Boileau
What a man knows should find its expression in what he does; the value of
superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
Christian N. Bovee
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the
hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
A French woman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian
woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the English woman simply
breaks off relations - but they all will console themselves with another
man. Charles Boyer
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a
substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? Peg Bracken
The right to be let alone is the most comprehensive of rights and the right
most valued in civilized man. Justice Louis D. Brandeis
An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outerspace programme:
Your tax dollar will go farther. Wernher von Braun
Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
Fanny Brice
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Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only
for a few hours daily. Arthur Brisbane
For some reason, we see divorce as a signal of failure despite the fact that
each of us has a right and an obligation to rectify any other mistake we
make in life. Dr. Joyce Brothers
Why in the world are salaries higher for administrators when the basic
mission is teaching. Governor Jerry Brown
It may be laid down as an axiom that a man who does not live the life of
the mob will not think its thought either. Lewis Browne
The great mind knows the power of gentleness, only tries force because
persuasion fails. Robert Browning
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something. Robert
Browning
It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough
judgment to be silent. Jean de La Brupere
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a
day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying
those who are unmarried. Jean de la Bruyere
Liberality lies less in giving liberally than in the timeliness of the gift.
Jean De La Bruyere
There are only two ways of getting on in this world: by one's own
industry, or by the weakness of others. Jean de La Bruyere
The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their
remaining years unhappy. Jean De La Bruyere
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There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not
conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. Jean De La
Bruyere
There are some who speak one moment before they think. Jean De La
Bruyere
Nothing's too good for winners . . . but take defeat with dignity while
planning to come back. Paul Bryant
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Life would be tolerably agreeable if it were not for its amusements. E.R.
Bulwer-Lytton
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. E.R.
Bulwer-Lytton
Nothing can constitute good breeding which has not good nature for its
foundation. E.R. Bulwer-Lytton
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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better
than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us
strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Edmund Burke
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river: A moment white - then melts forever.
Robert Burns
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make
you regret your premature action. Aaron Burr
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore. Robert Burton
War, like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost
of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.
General Smedley Butler
Those that fly may fight again, Which we can never do that's slain. Hence
timely running's no mean part Of conduct, in the martial art. Samuel
Butler
A sense of humour keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will
keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are
worth committing. Samuel Butler
There are the few who make things happen; the many more who watch
things happen and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what
happens. Nicholas Murray Butler
Oaths are but words, and words are but wind. Samuel Butler
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every
organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler
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Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it.
Samuel Butler
The souls of women are so small, That some believe they've none at all.
Samuel Butler
Brigands require your money or your life. Women require both. Samuel
Butler
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas
Murray Butler. American educator
Father of Light, great God Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?
Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?
Lord Byron
Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil. Lord Byron
Shut up the world at large, let Bedlam out; And you will be perhaps
surprised to find All things pursue exactly the same route. Lord Byron
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than
he can chew. Herb Caen
There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a
kind of trick of mind and he is born with it. Morley Callaghan
An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. Simon
Cameron
I don't understand why girls who wear wigs, false eyelashes, and falsies
always complain that there are no REAL men anymore. Glen Campbell
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Marriage is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of
the chaise-longue. Mrs. Campbell. British actress
He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the
human condition is a fool. Albert Camus
Every man on the foundation of his own sufferings and joys, builds for all.
Albert Camus
There is only one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Albert
Camus
Those who write clearly have readers; those who write obscurely have
commentators. Albert Camus
But of all plagues, good Heaven, they wrath can send, Save me, oh, save
me, from the candid friend. George Canning
I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.
George Canning
Truth or tact? You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.
Eddie Cantor
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary
is like being turned loose in a bank. Eddie Cantor
Every age is modern to those who are living in it. Justice Benjamin N.
Cardozo
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for the one man who can
stand prosperity there are a hundred who will stand adversity. Thomas
Carlyle
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The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography
of great men. Thomas Carlyle
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether
irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what
they do. Andrew Carnegie
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have;
it depends solely upon what you think. Dale Carnegie
Man cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble
and the sculptor. Alexis Carrel
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. Lewis Carroll
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more
nor less. Lewis Carroll
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. Lewis
Carroll
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In time of war the first casualty is truth. Boake Carter
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live
than other things do. Willa Cather
The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears. Cato
Valour lies just half way between rashness and cowheartedness. M.de
Cervantes
Good actions ennoble us, and we are sons of our own deeds. M.de
Cervantes
Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art. M.de
Cervantes
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem not because they are known,
but because they are not known. Sebastian Chamfort
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seared with scars. E.H. Chapin
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I remain just one thing, and one only - and that is a clown. It places me on
a far higher plane than any politician. Charles Chaplin
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not
idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. Chekhov
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has every heard me laugh.
Earl of Chesterfield
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with
themselves. Lord Chesterfield
It is not to be imagined by how many different ways vanity defeats its own
purpose. Lord Chesterfield
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in
a closet. Lord Chesterfield
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are
apt to think themselves sober enough. Lord Chesterfield
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the
truth about its author. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you
leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you
leave it to a torrent of change. G.K. Chesterton
Why shouldn't we quarrel about a word? What is the good of words if they
aren't important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word
more than another if there isn't any difference between them? G.K.
Chesterton
There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great
man is the man who makes every man feel great. G.K. Chesterton
Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and
more reverend realism, says that they are all fools. G.K. Chesterton
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread.
Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better
than a whole loaf. G.K. Chesterton
Mr. Shaw is (I suspect) the only man on earth who has never written any
poetry. G.K. Chesterton
The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the
man who has lost everything except his reason. G.K. Chesterton
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. G.K. Chesterton
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The word "orthodoxy" not only no longer means being right; it practically
means being wrong. G.K. Chesterton
Only the brave deserve the fair, but only rich, fat, cowardly merchants can
afford them. Chinese Proverb
Settle one difficulty and you keep hundreds away. Chinese Proverb
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. Sir Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Sir Winston
Churchill
I said that the world must be made safe for at least fifty years. If it was
only for fifteen to twenty years then we should have betrayed our soldiers.
Sir Winston Churchill
Of the British: They are the only people who like to be told how bad
things are - who like to be told the worst. Sir Winston Churchill
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Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those
who could make a good peace would never have won the war. Sir Winston
Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and
hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. Sir Winston
Churchill
One had as good to be out of the world, as out of the fashion. Colley
Cibber
The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up
earlier in life. Cicero
The good of the people is the chief law. Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Marcus
Tullius Cicero
When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honourable to reach the
second or even the third rank. Cicero
Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in
books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn
from masters. St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the
human will as inert as the past two worldwide wars would indicate?
Gregory Clark
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'Tis better to have fought and lost, Than never to have fought at all. Arthur
Hugh Clough
The joy of the young is to disobey - but the trouble is, there are no longer
any orders. Jean Cocteau
Science is a flickering light in our darkness, it is but the only one we have
and woe to him who would put it out. Morris Cohen
A "New Thinker" when studied closely, is merely a man who does not
know what other people have thought. Frank Moore Colby
Often do the spirits of great events stride on before the events And in
today already walks tomorrow. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman as old as she looks. Mortimer
Collins
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest
fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they
mean the riches possessed by other men. Charles Caleb Colton
If the cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure
it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends. Charles Caleb
Colton
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; anything but - live
for it. Charles Caleb Colton
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery
of others . . . for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
Charles Caleb Colton
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should
take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would
of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted. Charles
Caleb Colton
Slogans are both exciting and comforting, but they are also powerful
opiates for the conscience. James Bryant Conant
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own
aristocracy based upon excellence of performance. J.B. Conant
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true
virtue. Confucius
It is not truth that makes man great, but man who makes truth great.
Confucius
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Have no friends not equal to yourself. Confucius
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that carry them far apart.
Confucius
The people may be made to follow a course of action, but they may not be
made to understand it. Confucius
The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full
of distress. Confucius
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than write for the public
and have no self. Cyril Connolly
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the
hands of clocks in railway stations. Cyril Connolly
I have always disliked myself at any given moment; the total of such
moments is my life. Cyril Connolly
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The ape-like virtues without which no one can enjoy a public school. Cyril
Connolly
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave. Cyril Connolly
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.
Cyril Connolly
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. Cyril Connolly
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are
quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest
and then becomes a host and then a master. Joseph Conrad
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph
Conrad
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,
but as far as it was possible for a man to go. Captain James Cook
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Thomas
Cooper
Do your duty and leave the rest to the Gods. Pierre Corneille
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille
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The best things in life must come by effort from within and not by gifts
from the outside. Fred Corson
The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of
this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.
Norman Cousins
The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to
be found through the control of force rather than the pursuit of force.
Norman Cousins
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet
Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for
every human being in the world? Norman Cousins
Never mind, dear, we're all made the same, though some more than others.
Sir Noel Coward
The Stately Homes of England How beautiful they stand, To prove the
upper classes Have still the upper hand. Sir Noel Coward
God made the country, and man made the town. William Cowper
Farce is the essential theatre. Farce refined becomes high comedy: farce
brutalized becomes tragedy. Sir Edward Gordon Craig
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
Dr. George Crane
The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever, unless you realize that it is
your move. Frank Crane
A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist." "However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." Stephen Crane
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin
Crisp
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate
association with our oppressors. Evelyn Cunningham
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal
vigilance. John Philpot Curran
Golf is like a love affair: if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do
take it seriously, it breaks your heart. Arnold Daly
Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching
smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office. Frank
Dane
Females are not the only species who prostitute themselves for money;
they are the only ones that are honest about it. Frank Dane
If the real estate gang could, they'd raise the rents in the graveyards. Frank
Dane
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Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a
fine pig and a bad child. Danish proverb
History repeats itself, that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Clarence Darrow
When I was a boy I was told that anyone could be President. I'm beginning
to believe it. Clarence Darrow
Man with all his noble qualities . . . still bears in his bodily frame the
indelible stamp of his lowly origin. Charles Robert Darwin
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value
of life. Charles Darwin
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in
your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Descartes
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing
a pamphlet. Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield)
It is well known what a middle man is: he is a man who bamboozles one
party and plunders the other. B. Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by
quotations. B. Disraeli
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A university should be a place of light, of liberty and of learning. B.
Disraeli
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. B. Disraeli
"My idea of an agreeable person," said Hugo Bohun, "is a person who
agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel
the beating of its heart. W. MacNeile Dixon
It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure. Each one of
us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. Harold W.
Dodds
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No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent,
a part of the main. John Donne
The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. Mark Van Doren
If you want to see what children can do, you must stop giving them things.
Norman Douglas
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful
record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside. 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
It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle
Don't put the fate of your business in the delusions of economists. Peter
Drucker
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to
worry about where the next meal would come from. Peter Drucker
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do
all he can do. Henry Drummond
He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who
dares not is a slave. Sir William Drummond
When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! J. Dryden
But far too numerous was the herd of such, who think too little, and who
talk too much. J. Dryden
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Virtue is its own reward. J. Dryden
Did wisely from expensive sins refrain, and never broke the sabbath, but
for gain. J. Dryden
Great wits are sure to madness allied and thin partitions do their bounds
divide. J. Dryden
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she
will try to live up to it. Lady Lucie Duff-Gordon
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the
finest human qualities. John Foster Dulles
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she will
prevent us from accomplishing. Alexandre Dumas
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money
the most, are the ones that never have it. Finley Peter Dunne
In those days, the (Roman) government gave them bread and circuses.
Today we give them bread and elections, but it is just a change in the style
of a periodical amusement. Will Durant
Religions are born and may die, but superstition is immortal. Only the
fortunate can take life without mythology. Will & Ariel Durant
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. Max
Eastman
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We are not at war with Egypt. We are in an armed conflict. Sir Anthony
Eden
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in
turmoil. Thomas A. Edison
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labour
of thinking. Thomas A. Edison
Well, it's hard for a mere man to believe that woman doesn't have equal
rights. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Virtue does not consist so much in abstaining from vice, as in not having
an affection for it. W.T. Eldridge
Poetry is not the assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully
real to us. T.S. Eliot
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. George
Eliot
Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to
brass tacks. Thomas Stearns Eliot
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. George Eliot
There are few among us who have not suffered from too early familiarity
with the Bible and the conceptions of religion. Havelock Ellis
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
R.W. Emerson
Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he
would not go. R.W. Emerson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. R.W. Emerson
Every great and commanding moment in the annals of the world is the
triumph of some enthusiasm. R.W. Emerson
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. There is no such thing as
concealment. R.W. Emerson
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. R.W. Emerson
Every reform is only a mask under cover of which a more terrible reform,
which dares not yet name itself, advances. R.W. Emerson
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. R.W. Emerson
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. R.W. Emerson
When it is dark enough you can see the stars. R.W. Emerson
Let a man know his worth, and keep things under his feet. R.W. Emerson
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The end of the human race is that it will die of civilization. R.W. Emerson
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.
R.W. Emerson
The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth
between us two forevermore." R.W. Emerson
Weed - a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. R.W. Emerson
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. R.W.
Emerson
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the
highest applause. R.W. Emerson
They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed
once who does not shrink from attempting it again. R.W. Emerson
He that would the daughter win, Must with the mother first begin. English
Proverb
You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts you will be
ruined, for ruin and recovery are both from within. Epictetus
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king. Desiderius Erasmus
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one
I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine
Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church
they're staying away from. John Erskine
We do not insist that the more saintly of two surgeons shall operate on us
for appendicitis. John Erskine
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his
wondering whether he is his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother. Evan
Esar
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. E.
Esar
All other woes a woman bears are minor But lose her husband! - might as
well be dead. Euripides
When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice
man. Dame Edith Evans
Words are one of our chief means of adjusting to all the situations of life.
The better control we have over words, the more successful our
adjustment is likely to be. B. Evans
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I gave my life for freedom - this I know: For those who bade me fight had
told me so. W.N. Ewer
The formula for Utopia on earth remains always the same: to make a
necessity of virtue. Clifton Fadiman
. . . the difference between town and country is mostly the view. Nan
Fairbrother
The people came to realize that wealth is not the fruit of labour but the
result of organized protected robbery. Frantz Fanon
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks
and transporting goods on our backs. William Feather
All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers . . . Each one owes
infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which
he was born. Francois Fenelon
Live, as it were, in trust. All that is in you, all that you are, is only loaned
to you. Make use of it according to the will of Him who lends it, but never
regard it for a moment as your own. Francois Fenelon
Men just don't seem to jump off the bridge for big reasons; they usually do
so for little ones. W.H. Ferry
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A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.
Eugene Field
Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad. W.C. Fields
Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took
all of it from them. Edward A. Filene
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. Martin H. Fischer
What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of
the creeping years. John Fischer
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of
the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. F.Scott Fitzgerald
Of himself and his wife: Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are
real or whether we are characters in one of my novels. F.Scott Fitzgerald
Marriage: It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves. Zelda
Fitzgerald. Wife of F.Scott Fitzgerald
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of
horses. John Florio
Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury. Jean De La
Fontaine
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile
achievement. Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only
real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability. Henry Ford
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
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Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which
ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. E.M. Forster
Always take a job that is too big for you. H.E. Fosdick
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another
that will be eternal. Anatole France
A woman must choose: with a man liked by women, she is not sure; with a
man disliked by women, she is not happy. Anatole France
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
'Tis a laudable Ambition, that aims at being better than his Neighbours.
Benjamin Franklin
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang
separately. Benjamin Franklin
Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin
Americans have mastered the art of being prosperous though broke. Billy
Boy Franklin
All a man needs to be elected President is the kind of profile that looks
good on a postage stamp. B.B. Franklin
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I have made it a rule, whenever I say something stupid, to immediately
attribute it to Samuel Johnson, the President of these United States - or the
Bible. B.B. Franklin
If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not
only get to believe it, they even swear by it. B.B. Franklin
Children are completely egotistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive
ruthlessly to satisfy them. Sigmund Freud
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls
in with our instinctual desires. Sigmund Freud
Man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness - they
are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. Sigmund Freud
The great question . . . which I have not been able to answer, despite my
thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman
want?" Sigmund Freud
The idea that egotism is the basis of the general welfare is the principle on
which competitive society has been built. Erich Fromm
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive
feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out
under the guise of virtue. Erich Fromm
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people
worry than work. Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out
of favour. Robert Frost
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing
to let them. Robert Frost
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. Robert
Frost
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the
originality it was mistaken for by its young converts. Robert Frost
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a
homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself.
If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humour. If it is with
outer humour, it must be with inner seriousness. Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask
for it back when it begins to rain. Robert Frost. American Poet
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. James
Anthony Froude
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A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife. Thomas Fuller
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he
cannot help. Thomas Fuller
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. Zsa Zsa Gabor
You never really know a man until you have divorced him. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although
it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. J.K.
Galbraith
I have a feeling that at any time about three million Americans can be had
for any militant reaction against law, decency, the Constitution, the
Supreme Court, compassion and the rule of reason. J.K. Galbraith
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I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
Galileo Galilei
What difference does it make to the dead . . . whether the mad destruction
is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or
democracy? Mohandas Gandhi
Golden shackles are far worse than iron ones. Mohandas Gandhi
Women marry because they don't want to work. Mary Garden. Opera
singer
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.
Herbert Gasser
Before being the master of others, you should be the master of yourself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
What if Columbus had been told, Chris baby, don't go now. Wait until
we've solved our No.1 Priorities - war and famine; poverty and crime;
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pollution and disease; illiteracy and racial hatred - and Queen Isabella's
own brand of internal security. W.I.E Gates
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better
state of society than that which now exists. Henry George
So urgent on the vulgar is the necessity of believing, that the fall of any
system of mythology will probably be succeeded by the introduction of
some other mode of superstition. Edward Gibbon
Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds. Kahlil Gibran
I always voted at my party's call, And never thought of thinking for myself
at all I thought so little, they rewarded me By making me the Ruler of the
Queen's Navee! W.S. Gilbert
In all the woes that curse our race, There is lady in the case. W.S. Gilbert
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough
to sign contracts. Hermione Gingold
Everyone, when there's a war in the air, learns to live with a new element;
falsehood. Jean Giraudoux
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills
desire. Jean Giraudoux
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Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on
fire. Arnold Glasow
And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before. J.W.
von Goethe
Ambition and love are the wings of great actions. J.W. von Goethe
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
J.W. von Goethe
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his
thoughts. J.W. von Goethe
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy
surface, but such qualities as would wear well. Oliver Goldsmith
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Atom bomb stockpiles are no guarantee of security. Until lust and greed
and murder are removed from the hearts of men, there is, there can be, no
peace or security. A.P. Gouthey
There is more required today to make a single man wise than formerly to
make Seven Sages. Baltasar Gracian
There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be
found to prevent the drawing of the sword. Ulysses S. Grant
If you steal something small you are a petty thief, but if you steal millions
you are a gentleman of society. Greek Proverb
The real theatre of the sex war is the domestic hearth. Germaine Greer
Nature didn't make us perfect so she did the next best thing. She made us
blind to our faults. Grit
I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered
it to be a street in Oxford. Philip Guedalla
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport,
and it is as unfair as only sport can be. Philip Guedalla
A fairly bright boy is more intelligent and far better company than the
average adult. J.B.S. Haldane
If there are two ways of doing something - the easy way and the best way,
most people will select the easy way even though it's hardly ever effective.
Robert Half
Why is it that when a store is going out of business, the store's personnel
are always helpful and polite. Robert Half
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History is philosophy teaching by examples. Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady
they neither of them care for. Lord Halifax
Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years. Monty Hall
Man's security comes from within himself, and the security of all men is
founded upon the security of the individual. Manly Hall
Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his
abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Gail Hamilton
To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching
is part of the integrity that alone justifies responsibility. Dag
Hammarskjold
You have not done enough, you have never done enough, so long as it is
still possible that you have something to contribute. Dag Hammarskjold
Next to the American corpse, the American bride is the hottest thing in
today's merchandising market. Kitty Hanson. American writer
More and more university students are convinced that work in American
society is morally empty, aesthetically ugly, and, under conditions of
automation, economically unnecessary. Michael Harrington
You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist, he is
preparing to do something he is secretly ashamed of doing. Sydney Harris
Irreligious men are often better suited for godly missions. Hasidic Saying
All that was new in them was false and what was true was old. Professor
Haughton. on Darwin's findings
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A man's soul may be buried and perish under a dungheap or in a furrow of
the field, just as under a pile of money. Nathaniel Hawthorne
Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing are not to be
trusted with the management of any great question. William Hazlitt
Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. William
Hazlitt
No style is good that is not fit to be spoken or read aloud with effect.
William Hazlitt
What's not worth doing is not worth doing well. Don Hebb
Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have
forsaken him. Hebrew Proverb
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. Hegel
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to
manhood. Heinrich Heine
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If I had to give young writers advice, I'd say don't listen to writers talking
about writing. Lillian Hellman
But in modern war . . . you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest
Hemingway
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really
happened. Ernest Hemingway
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a
crime. Ernest Hemingway
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful
women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know
about the beautiful women. Katherine Hepburn
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
Robert Herrick
Adults have already been taught to look at things only one way - the
accepted way. Eight-year-olds are too uneducated to be that dumb. Karl
Hess
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
Hermann Hesse
The gap in our economy is between what we have and what we think we
ought to have - and that is a moral problem, not an economic one. Paul
Heyne
Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten
and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.
Gilbert Highet
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There's a might big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
that sound good. Burton Hillis
The cinema is not a slice of life, it's a piece of cake. Alfred Hitchcock
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. Adolf Hitler
All who are not of good race in this world are chaff. Adolf Hitler
By this revolution the German way of life is definitely settled for the next
thousand years. Adolf Hitler
England and America will one day have a war with one another, which
will be waged with the greatest hatred imaginable. One of the two
countries will have to disappear. Adolf Hitler
The Japanese are occupying all the islands, one after another. They will
get hold of Australia, too. The White Race will disappear from those
regions. Adolf Hitler
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The essential thing for the future is to have lots of children. Everybody
should be persuaded that the family's life is assured only when it has
upwards of four children - I should even say, four sons. Adolf Hitler
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie
than to a small one. Adolf Hitler
Truth is with the victor - who, as you know, also controls the historians.
Rolf Hochhuth
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes
seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its
own talents. Eric Hoffer
Humility is not renunciation of pride but the substitution of one pride for
another. Eric Hoffer
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. Eric
Hoffer
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.
Quentin Hogg
A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much
noise that you can hardly stand it. Then the child departs, leaving the
house so silent that you think you are going mad. John Andrew Holmes
Fresh air is good if you don't take too much of it; most of the
achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Law, wherein, as in a magic mirror we see reflected not only our own
lives, but the lives of all men that have been! When I think of this majestic
theme my eyes dazzle. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The longing for certainty and repose is in every human mind. But certainty
is generally illusion and repose is not the destiny of man. Oliver Wendell
Holmes Sr.
How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have
made! Oliver Wendell Holmes
The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be
damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell
Holmes
Babies and infants show a style of life, and a desire and ability to learn,
that in an adult we might well call genius. John Holt
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert
Hoover
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't
need it. Bob Hope
What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be
left, let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the
wilderness yet. Gerard Manley Hopkins
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him
with the ability to write. A.E. Housman
I think I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. E.W.
Howe
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their
wrongs. E.W. Howe
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and to persecute living ones.
Nathaniel Howe
Prosperity: That condition which attracts the lively interest of lawyers, and
warrants your being sued for damages, or indicted; or both. Elbert
Hubbard
If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive. Elbert
Hubbard
A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares. Elbert
Hubbard
I'll say this for adversity; people seem to be able to stand it, and that's
more than I can say for prosperity. Kin Hubbard
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. Elbert
Hubbard
Saintship is the exclusive possession of those who have either worn out or
never had the capacity to sin. Elbert Hubbard
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the
money. Kin Hubbard
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made
her: Shakespeare and the Bible. Victor Hugo
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of
strangers. Victor Hugo
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing
themselves nothing. Leigh Hunt
We do not know what education could do for us, because we have never
tried it. Robert Maynard Hutchins
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a
man's foot long enough to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Huxley
Children are remarkable for their . . . intolerance of shams, the clarity and
ruthlessness of their vision. Aldous Huxley
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Aldous
Huxley
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really
are. Aldous Huxley
Several excuses are always less convincing than one. Aldous Huxley
In practical life, the woman is judged by man's law, as if she were a man,
not a woman. Henrik Ibsen
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A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a
common hatred of its neighbours. Dean William R. Inge. Dean of St.
Paul's London
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert G.
Ingersoll
Women prefer men who have something tender about them - especially
the legal kind. Kay Ingram
Everything that I know now I have known since the age of six or seven:
the age of reason. Eugene Ionesco
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what
they think. Eugene Ionesco
Of three things the devil makes a stew: lawyers' tongues, lovers' promises,
and ungrateful children. Italian proverb
The nation that is richest in proverbs (Spain) is the one that has proved
itself the least wise in action. Joseph Jacobs
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready
tomorrow to call it falsehood. William James
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one
sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time. P.D. James
So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community,
and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must
have its way. William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William
James
It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then
routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods. William James
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. William
James
Most comics make jokes to defend themselves against what they see as a
hostile and inhumane world . . . often a deeply felt rage. Samuel S. Janus
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of
tyranny over the mind of man. Thomas Jefferson
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of
it. Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one
will do. Thomas Jefferson
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, we shall become as
corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there.
Thomas Jefferson
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to
tolerate error so long as reason is free to combat it. Thomas Jefferson
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Jerome K. Jerome
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It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious
problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up
completely and remember that I am the Pope. Pope John XXIII
A cow is a very good animal in the field, but we turn her out of a garden.
Samuel Johnson
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show
it to be evidently a great evil. Samuel Johnson
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero
must drink brandy. Samuel Johnson
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has
read. Samuel Johnson
Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other
people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and having the same thing done to us.
Samuel Johnson
Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not
original, and the part that is original is not good. Samuel Johnson
A man in jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity and catch the good that is
within our reach is the great art of life. Samuel Johnson
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That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity
but a calm quiet interchange of sentiments. Samuel Johnson
What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they
don't want to discourage it completely. Franklin P. Jones
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we
didn't. Erica Mann Jong
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last
affection A high mind can put off. Ben Jonson
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity. Ben Jonson
They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their
works they may lard their own lean volumes. Jovious
Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatsoever is
grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human
sufferer. James Joyce
Justice is the constant and perpetual wish to render to everyone his due.
Justinian
Anyone can direct a good picture if he's got a good script. Garson Kanin
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better
one. Edward Keating
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not
come at all. John Keats
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats
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If you cannot mould yourself as you would wish, how can you expect
other people to be entirely to your liking? Thomas A. Kempis
Thou shalt ever joy at eventide if thou spend the day fruitfully. Thomas A.
Kempis
Verily, when the day of judgment comes, we shall not be asked what we
have read, but what we have done. Thomas A. Kempis
Sic transit gloria mundi - Oh, how swiftly the glory of the world passes
away! Thomas A. Kempis
Would to God that we might spend a single day really well! Thomas A.
Kempis
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Bishop
Thomas Ken
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the
history of the world - or to make it the last. John F. Kennedy
There are three sides to every story - yours, mine, and all that lie between.
Jody Kern
Tact: Ability to tell a man he's open-minded when he has a hole in his
head. F.G. Kernan
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long
time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't
always go with everything else in the house. Jean Kerr. American writer
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If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working
on it. C.F. Kettering
Learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the
world. C.F. Kettering
There never has been any thirty-hour week for men who had anything to
do. C.F. Kettering
It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. John
Maynard Keynes
Practical men . . . are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Johy
Maynard Keynes
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where
there is no river. Nikita S. Khrushchev
If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen
today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow,
but on the fourth day they will say, To hell with you! Nikita Khrushchev
For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the
sooner to sleep. Charles Kingsley
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead.
The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left
unredressed on earth. Charles Kingsley
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life,
when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be
enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley
The sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one. Rudyard
Kipling
For Allah created the English mad - the maddest of all mankind! Rudyard
Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Rudyard
Kipling
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Four things greater than all things are,- Women and Horses and Power and
War. Rudyard Kipling
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names
are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who. Rudyard
Kipling
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors
just the same. Rudyard Kipling
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor
lose the common touch. Rudyard Kipling
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever
woman to manage a fool. Rudyard Kipling
Too bad ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad
reputation. Henry Kissinger
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate
result of your life. Grenville Kleiser
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to
doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski
The adherents of the status quo never had it so bad. There has always been
a conflict between those who feel their values are eternal and those who
feel they are relative. R. Kostelanetz
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength. Charles Lamb
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing puzzles me
less, for I never think about them. Charles Lamb
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Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd. Walter Savage Landor
Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud, and one the
stars. Frederick Langbridge
By 1975 sexual feeling and marriage will have nothing to do with each
other. John Langdon-Davies. A Short History of the Future 1936
Crime will be considered a disease after 1985 and will cease to exist by
AD 2000. John Langdon-Davies. A Short History of the Future 1936
Grand Old Man: That means on our continent (North America) anyone
with snow-white hair who has kept out of jail till eighty. Stephen Leacock.
People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather
have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Robert Keith
Leavitt
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There's always room for improvement. It's the biggest room in the house.
Louise Heath Leber
At the beginning there was the Word - at the end just the Cliche. Stanislaw
J. Lec
Not all women give most of their waking thoughts to the problem of
pleasing men. Some are married. Emma Lee
It's easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz
The resistance of a woman is not always proof of her virtue but more
frequently of her experience. Ninan de Lenclos
. . . the fatal theory of the separation of Church and State. Pope Leo XIII
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they
conceal is vital. Aaron Levenstein
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, as long as you've got money. Joe.
E. Lewis
If you have done your best and failed, try doing your worst; you might see
your error and succeed. Benjamin Lichtenberg
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. A.J. Liebling
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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work,
and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -
anything but work. Abraham Lincoln
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the
path and less to preparing the path for youth. Judge Ben Lindsay
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. Walter Lippmann
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their
thoughts. John Locke
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition
with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. John
Locke
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any
other reason but because they are not already common. John Locke
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were
taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things
themselves. John Locke
A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long
thoughts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's
judgement of others. H.W. Longfellow
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with
great ambitions. H.W. Longfellow
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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to
open the way to the next better one. Konrad Lorenz
Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's
about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul
away. George Horace Lorimer
Everytime I give someone a title, I make a hundred people angry and one
person ungrateful. Louis XIV
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage. Richard Lovelace
The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come. James
Russell Lowell
By virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.
Robert Lynd
Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are
in power. Helen MacInness
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The business of everybody is the business of nobody. Thomas Macaulay
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the
realm. Thomas Babington Macaulay
The path that leads from moral standards to political activity is strewn
with our dead selves. Andre Malraux
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. Thomas Mann
The ideal must be high; the purpose strong, worthy and true, or the life
will be a failure. Orison Swett Marden
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering
it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one book and then be put in
a gas chamber. John Marquand
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand
Canyon and waiting for the echo. Don Marquis
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by
persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. Don
Marquis
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him
WHOSE. Don Marquis
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Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility.
I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. Frank
Lloyd Wright
The truth is more important than the facts. Frank Lloyd Wright
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. Frank Lloyd Wright
Too low they build who build beneath the stars. Edward Young
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