Nicolo Machiavelli
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Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Henry Mencken
Every government is a scoundrel.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Euripides
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Jack Handey
Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right, tell him it was a lucky guess. That way, he develops a good, lucky feeling.
Katherine Hepburn
If you're given a choice between money and sex appeal, take the money. As you get older, the money will become your sex appeal.
Clarence Darrow
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Elbert Hubbard
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.
Stephen Hawking
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
Alexandre Dumas
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
Thomas Paine
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
C.S. Lewis
When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all.
Siddhartha Buddha
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Erna Bombeck
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Oscar Wilde
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Plato
Friends have all things in common.
Robertson Davies
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon…
Mahatma Gandhi
An eye for an eye, and soon the whole world is blind.
Isaac Asimov
Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy…
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
George Carlin
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Ronald Reagan
One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory.
Thomas Edison
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Colley Cibber
Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
H.G. Wells
Our true nationality is mankind.
Ansel Adams
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Harry Truman
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
C.S. Lewis
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
Ronald Reagan
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Dorothy Parker
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Jesse Jackson
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
Tucker Carlson
I had to face the horrible truth: The antitobacco people are lying. Smoking really is cool. And I'm less cool for not doing it.
Thomas Edison
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
Thomas Jefferson
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
Homer Simpson
Look, all I'm saying is, if these big stars didn't want people going through their garbage and saying they're gay, then they shouldn't have tried to express themselves creatively.
George Washington
I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Woodrow Wilson
The history of liberty is a history of limitation of government power, not the increase of it.
Carl Jung
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there…
Christopher Morley
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell -- you see, I have friends in both places.
Chief Wiggum
She didn't reckon with the awesome power of the Chief of Police! Now where did I put my badge?...Hey, that duck's got it!
George W. Bush
America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.
Saint Augustine
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Frank Tyger
If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
Frank Tyger
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Emily Dickinson
We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Author Unknown
Of course the meek will inherit the earth, what, did you think they'd take it by force?
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Seth Green
There are two kinds of people in this world: Michael Jackson fans and losers.
Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Mark Twain
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Pablo Picasso
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Theodore Roosevelt
Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position.
Jason Mechalek
Pulses and impulses both come from the heart.
Steven Wright
I hate it when my leg falls sleep in the middle of the day, because that means it'll be up all night.
Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
C.S. Lewis
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to…
Robin Williams
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
Dwight Eisenhower
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Sydney Harris
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Bill Maher
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Vince Lombardi
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
Saint Augustine
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.
Harry Blackmun
The women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot...and suppose you were a member of Congress...but I repeat myself.
Author Unknown
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Albert Einstein
God does not play dice with the universe.
Bill Cosby
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Marcel Proust
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Baltasar Gracian
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.