All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that
wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
It is better to know some of the questions than all of
the answers. — James Thurber (1894-1961)
Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are
usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to
be a platitude. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944)
Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus (1913-1960)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or
calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin
(1924-1987)
Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does. — Anne
Roe (1904-1991)
The people who think they are happy should rummage
through their dreams. — Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977)
Le sens commun n'est pas si commun. (Common sense is
not so common.) — François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. — Laurence
Sterne (1713-1768)
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror. —
Carlos Fuentes (1928- )
Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own
times. — Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
Children are God's spies. — Elizabeth Bowen
(1899-1973)
One is easily fooled by that which one loves. — Jean
Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673)
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while
Canadians are malevolently well-informed about the United States. — J.
Bartlet Brebner (1895-1957)
One of the few men who became great while remaining
good. — Karl Marx (1818-1883) on Abraham Lincoln
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting
of a fire. — William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps
it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he
hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Statesmen think they make history; but history makes
itself and drags the statesmen along. — Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence. — Robert Frost
(1874-1963)
The willing contemplation of vice is vice. — Arabic
proverb
My friends, there are no friends. — Coco Chanel
(1883-1971)
The human heart dares not stay away too long from that
which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are
released from making. — Lillian Smith, American writer and social critic
(1897-1966)
One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary
to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond
this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to
interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. — Bertrand Russell
(1872-1970)
There are some things one can only achieve by a
deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to
find the home one has lost. — Franz Kafka (1883-1924)
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or
obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution. — Ulysses S.
Grant (1822-1885)
It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how
easy it is to say "I don't know." — W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
History, n. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly
unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,
mostly fools. — Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), The Cynic's Word Book
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is
going to be no less than what one has been. — Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
The greatest right any nation can afford its people is
the right to be left alone. — Larry Flynt (1942- )
That government is best which governs the least, because
its people discipline themselves. — Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things
has none to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed,
without any other reason but because they are not already common. — John
Locke (1632-1704)
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be
adequately expressed in words. — Henri Bergson (1859-1941)
It is the characteristic of the most stringent
censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack. —
Voltaire
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by
honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not
voices, but weigh them.— Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
There are two kinds of people in one's life—people whom
one keeps waiting—and the people for whom one waits. — Samuel Nathaniel
Behrman (1893-1973)
How glorious it is—and also how painful—to be an
exception. — Alfred de Musset, French author (1810-1857)
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the
boot that kicks them. — Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love
creates its own objects: Is this not true of fear? — Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)
. . . We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of
traveling. — Margaret Lee Runbeck (1905-1956)
To oppose something is to maintain it. — Ursula K.
Le Guin (1929- )
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination
nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love—that is the soul
of genius. — Attributed to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a
million knows how to spend it. — Thoreau
Nothing recedes like success. — Walter Winchell
(1897-1972)
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to
repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. —
Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)
You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me
one man to remember me just once a year. — Damon Runyan (1884-1946)
When you are right, no one remembers; when you are wrong,
no one forgets. — Irish proverb
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is
man. — Carl Jung (1875-1961)
If you want to make enemies, try to change
something. — Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Our civilization is still in a middle stage, no longer
wholly guided by instinct, not yet wholly guided by reason. — Theodore
Dreiser (1871-1945)
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at
you. Smile, and it smiles, too. — Herbert Samuel (1870-1963)
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man
inhuman. — Marian Anderson (1902-1993)
Curses are like processions. They return to the place
from which they came. — Giovanni Ruffini (1807-1881)
People love to talk but hate to listen. — Alice Duer
Miller (1874-1942)
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw
at a man. — William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have
nothing. — Hindu proverb
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to
play. — Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Many people's tombstones should read, "Died at 30.
Buried at 60." — Nicholas Murray Butler, American educator
(1862-1947)
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow. — Ecclesiastes 1:18
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred, Lord
Tennyson (1809-1892)
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something
you remember. — Oscar Levant (1906-1972)
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. —
John Cage (1912-1992)
If men could foresee the future, they would still behave
as they do now. — Russian proverb
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything
wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's
dead. — Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
What experience and history teach is this: That people
and governments have never learned anything from history. — Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
El amor es fuego, pero con el no se cuece el puchero.
(Love is a furnace, but it will not cook the stew.) — Spanish proverb
In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes
to succeed. — Charles Louis de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
Think much, speak little, and write less. — Italian
proverb
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how
you take it. — Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
Ah, les bons vieux temps ou nous etions si malheureux!
(Ah, the good old times when we were so unhappy!) — French saying
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his
thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his
life. — Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence
masquerading as love. — R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
Prophecy is the wit of a fool. — Vladimir Nabokov
(1899-1977)
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in
action. — Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
What we really are matters more than what other people
think of us. — Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
When a friend speaks to me, whatever he says is
interesting. — Jean Renoir (1894-1979)
No man has a right in America to treat any other man
tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority. — Wendell
Willkie (1892-1944)
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to
himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to
which may be the true. — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), The
Scarlet Letter
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate
them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. —
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who
have grown helpless about them. — Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind.
Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian
Nestell Bovee
Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity. — Vera Brittain (1893-1970)
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of
them. — Livy, Roman historian (64 or 59 BC-17 AD)
In the republic of mediocrity, genius is
dangerous. — Robert S. Ingersoll (1833-1899)
The heaviest baggage for a traveler is an empty
purse. — German proverb
Christ's Beatitudes
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Matthew
5:1-12
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — General Omar N.
Bradley (1893-1981)
All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are
immovable, those that are movable, and those that move. — Arab proverb
He who is learned is not wise; he who is wise is not
learned. — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The price of justice is eternal publicity. — Arnold
Bennett (1867-1931)
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark
of a civilized man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about
them. — Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is
not to show a sordid, ungenerous spirit. — Demosthenes (384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
There is many a good man to be found under a shabby
hat. — Chinese proverb
The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.
Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. — D.H.
Lawrence (1885-1930)
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still
likes you. — Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered
ones. — St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious.
Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. — Chuang-Tzu (c
369-c 286 BC)
What you see is news, what you know is background, what
you feel is opinion. — Lester Markel, American editor (1894-1977)
Only the vanquished remember history. — Marshall
McLuhan (1911-1980)
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent
than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after
it. — George Orwell (1903-1950)
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your
time. — Willem de Kooning
He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a
fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. — William Drummond (1585-1649)
One today is worth two tomorrows. — Benjamin
Franklin (1706-1790)
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are
already three parts dead. — Bertrand Russell
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a
fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. — Robert G. Ingersoll
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. —
Albert Einstein (1889-1955)
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The
opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is
not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's
indifference. — Elie Wiesel (1928- )
I believe that man will not merely endure: he will
prevail. — William Faulkner (1897-1962)
There is nothing so powerful as the truth, and nothing so
strange. — Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
We fear something before we hate it. A child who fears
noises becomes a man who hates noise. — Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's
neighbor. — Eric Hoffer
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing
something else. — Sir James Barrie (1860-1937)
Men hate those to whom they have to lie. — Victor
Hugo (1802-1885)
There is no such thing as conversation. It is an
illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all. — Dame Rebecca
West (1892-1983)
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. — Henry
J. Kaiser (1882-1967)
Education is hanging around until you've caught
on. — Robert Frost
When you shut one eye, you do not hear everything. —
Swiss proverb
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing
in our own sunshine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its
ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours. — William Ralph Inge
(1860-1954)
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. — Italian
proverb
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar,
and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
The loved and the rich need no protection—they have many friends and few
enemies. — Wendell Phillips (1811-1884)
I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and
frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a
lifetime. — Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965)
After three days without reading, talk becomes
flavorless. — Chinese proverb
The wise man is astonished by anything. — André Gide
(1869-1951)
There are two statements about human beings that are
true: That all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two
facts all human wisdom is founded. — Mark Van Doren (1894-1972)
Ideas are one thing, and what happens is another. —
John Cage
Life is never so bad at its worst that it is impossible
to live; it is never so good at its best that it is easy to live. —
Gabriel Heatter (1890-1972)
The most exhausting thing in life . . . is being
insincere. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906- )
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they
fight you, then you win. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how
justified, is not a crime. — Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
There are no warlike peoples—just warlike leaders. —
Ralph Bunche (1904-1971)
This is the final test of a gentleman: His respect for
those who can be of no possible service to him. — William Lyon Phelps,
American educator (1865-1943)
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it,
but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. — Charles A.
Lindbergh (1902-1974)
The final lesson of history: 'Let's never go back there
again!' — Nietzsche
When you look into a mirror you do not see your
reflection—your reflection sees you. — Anonymous
Laziness is often mistaken for patience. — French
proverb
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified
praise. — Sir Noel Coward (1899-1973)
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will
escape a hundred days of sorrow. — Chinese proverb
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the
most fatal to true happiness. — Bertrand Russell
We have enough
religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. —
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we
could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. — Alexander Woollcott,
American author and critic (1887-1943)
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his
answers. — Voltaire
The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. —
Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848)
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