Heywood Broun
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Ernest Hemingway
The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for.
Kurt Vonnegut
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Mahatma Gandhi
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty…
Al Gore
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend is one before whom you may think aloud.
Albert Einstein
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.…
Mark Twain
Providence protects children and idiots. I know because I have tested it.
Peter Wimsey
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Carl Jung
If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Leo Burke
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Carl Jung
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
Muhammad Ali
My toughest fight was with my first wife.
Mark Twain
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Al Capone
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Vegetius
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
Robert Benchley
Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Tacitus
A bad peace is even worse than war.
George W. Bush
Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'
John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
T.S. Eliot
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Adam Smith
If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered. buy valium…
Thomas Wolfe
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he…
Dorothy Parker
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Frank Tyger
Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they've done for me.
Steven Wright
Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Mark Twain
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Samuel Johnson
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
GK Chesterton
'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'
Friedrich D?rrenmatt
What once was thought can never be unthought.
John Adams
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Al Gore
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
Albert Einstein
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Steven Wright
Curiousity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Emily Dickinson
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
John Donne
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John F. Kennedy
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
Pablo Picasso
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
C.S. Lewis
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.
C.S. Lewis
Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth thrown in. Aim at Earth and you get neither.
Dwight Eisenhower
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long…
George Orwell
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Bernard Shaw
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
Marcel Proust
The mistakes made by doctors are innumerable. They err habitually on the side of optimism as to treatment, of pessimism as to the outcome.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.
Niels Bohr
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Nicole Hollander
Can you imagine a world without men? No crime and lots of happy fat women.
Bill Clinton
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.
George Patton
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Dave Barry
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Oscar Wilde
Life is one fool thing after another where as love is two fool things after each other.
Thomas Paine
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
C.S. Lewis
Love, while always forgiving of imperfections and mistakes, can never cease to will their removal.
Marcel Proust
If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Theodor Seuss Geisel
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Samuel Adams
The Constitution shall never be construed...to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
William F. Buckley
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Marilyn Monroe
I dont mind living in a mans world as long as I can be a woman in it.
Woody Allen
The good thing about being bisexual is that it doubles your chance of a date on a Saturday night.
Edgar Watson Howe
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Jack Handey
Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked…
Jack Handey
If you're in a boxing match, try not to let the other guy's glove touch your lips, because you don't know where that glove has been.
Jason Mechalek
Don't try to be a perfectionist. That's God's job.
Nachman of Bratslav
Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
Steve Martin
Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.
Jean Baudrillard
There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
W.J. Cameron
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.
John F. Kennedy
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
Elbert Hubbard
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
George W. Bush
By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well--a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress,…
Margaret Mead
I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Calvin Coolidge
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Victor Hugo
Wisdom is a sacred communion.