T.S. Eliot
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Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Henry Mencken
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one…
Tacitus
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Confucius
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
Daniel Webster
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
Henry Kissinger
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Stephen King
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Mark Twain
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Benjamin Franklin
You may delay, but time will not.
Author Unknown
There is no 'I' in 'team.'
Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
Dwight Eisenhower
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Ernest Hemingway
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Dennis Potter
Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.
Alexis de Tocqueville
In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of…
Frank Lloyd Wright
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
Ernest Hemingway
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with…
Bertrand Russell
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
Henry Kissinger
If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a…
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
T.S. Eliot
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
George W. Bush
One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need…
Siddhartha Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven…
Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Emily Dickinson
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Confucius
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Boy George
I like to say that I'm bisexual...when I want sex, I buy it.
Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of…
Roy L. Smith
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Henry Kissinger
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise.
Saul Bellow
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
George Washington
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Jim Horning
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
C.S. Lewis
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Ansel Adams
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Alexis de Tocqueville
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond…
Albert Camus
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Abraham Maslow
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Blaise Pascal
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Bertrand Russell
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
John Adams
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
Franklin Jones
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
George MacDonald
In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Doug Larson
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Bob Dylan
He not busy being born is busy dying.
John Donne
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Dave Barry
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put…
Charles Darwin
Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
GK Chesterton
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
Simeon Strunsky
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Erna Bombeck
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
Adolf Hitler
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
George Dennison Prentice
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
GK Chesterton
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
J.B.S. Haldane
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Colin Powell
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
Author Unknown
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.
Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Dave Barry
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.
Thomas Sowell
There are no solutions...there are only trade-offs.
Marcel Proust
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
Dwight Eisenhower
You do not lead by hitting people over the head ? that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight Eisenhower
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Stanley Kubrick
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Ernest Hemingway
Courage is grace under pressure.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Adolf Hitler
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Marcel Proust
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.