Awesome Quote

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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance." -- William Shakespeare "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." -- Unknown "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --George Burns "The best way to become boring is to say everything." --Voltaire "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." --Abraham Lincoln "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." --Alec Bourne "Only the educated are free." --Epictetus "Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned." --Heinrich Heine "All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first." --James Thurber "If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." --Robert Cringley "Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart." --Raynor Schein "If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing." --Sir James Barrie "Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." -- Adrienne Gusoff "The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not

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"Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance." --William Shakespeare

"The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." --Unknown

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --George Burns

"The best way to become boring is to say everything." --Voltaire

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." --Abraham Lincoln

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." --Alec Bourne

"Only the educated are free." --Epictetus

"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned." --Heinrich Heine

"All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first." --James Thurber

"If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." --Robert Cringley

"Tears are the rinse water of an unhappy heart." --Raynor Schein

"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing." --Sir James Barrie

"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." --Adrienne Gusoff

"The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax." --Thomas Robert Dewar

"Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world." --Peter York

"For in its innermost depths, youth is lonelier than old age." --Unknown

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand." --Unknown

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for." --Jasper Carrott

"Those who danced where thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." --Angela Monet

" Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind." --Robert Chambert

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." --Dr. Who

"Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt...Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves." --Robert Anton Wilson

"The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." --Woody Allen

"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have." --Ernest Haskins

"Seeing a murder on television...will help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some." --Alfred Hitchcock

"History doesn't repeat itself. Historians merely repeat each other." --Unknown

"Running away to get away...you're wearing out your shoes." --Sly and the Family Stone

"I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks." --Steve Martin

"Do something worth remembering." --Elvis Presley

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." --Will Rogers

"Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind." --Marston Bates

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper." --Jerry Seinfeld."

"After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done." --Unknown

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written." --Oscar Wilde

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"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success." --Christopher Lasch

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." --Martin Luther

"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected." --Oscar Wilde

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." --J. Danforth Quayle

"The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept." --Thucydides

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." --Frank Leahy

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --Abba Eban

"The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well." --John D. Rockefeller

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring which you have not; but remember that what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for." --Epicurus

"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." --William Pitt

"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth." --Thich Nhat Hanh

"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence." --Stokowski

"Yesterday is a canceled check. Tomorrow is a promissory note. Today is cash...Spend it wisely." --Unknown

"What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad." --Searamouche

"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." --Albert Einstein

"He who is calm disturbs neither himself nor others." --Epicurus

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it." --G.K. Chesterton

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"Should you desire great tranquillity, prepare to sweat white beads." --Hakuin

"The saddest moment in a person's life comes but once." --Unknown

"The most violent element in society is ignorance." --Emma Goldman

"It is not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the Bullring." --Spanish Proverb

"The true Black Belt is the white belt of a beginner, stained by the dried blood of and sweat of the owner." --Unknown

"The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom." --Pesach Seder

"There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy." --Unknown

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos." –Frankenstein

"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." --Paul Valery

"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." --Albert Einstein

"Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think." --Werner Heisenberg

"In any non-trivial axiomatic system, there are true theorems that cannot be proven." --Goedel

"Love is the fire of life; it either consumes or purifies." --Unknown

"Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them." --Herman Hesse

"Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears." --Jim Dietz, Rowing Coach, USCGA

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." --Albert Einstein

"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." --Denis Waitly

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be

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silent." --Victor Hugo

"When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything." --Shunryu Suzuki

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the 'up' button." --Sam Levenson

"Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you--not because they are nice, but because you are." --Unknown

"Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel." --Eugene Lam

"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead." --Unknown

"If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad." --Sheryl Crow

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence." --Unknown

"You cannot find yourself, only create yourself." --Anne B. Sekel

"We must accept the truth, even if ti changes our point of view." --Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." --Sonya Friedman

"It is only by not trusting that you turn someone into a liar." --Tao Le Ching

"The earth has music for those who listen." --William Shakespeare

"Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness." --Marabeth Madsen

"Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot." --Chinese Proverb

"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling throuhg the mind. If you don't take action, it cut's a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." --Unknown

"The successful people are the ones that can think up stuff for the rest of the world to keep busy at." --Don Marquis

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"If life was a sitcom, I'd be canceled in a week." --Jeremy Sheff

"To believe yourself to be brave is to be brave; it is the only essential thing." --Mark Twain

"He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself." –Seneca

"He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints." --Joan Brannon

"We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything." --Thomas Edison

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." --Pablo Picasso

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 AM that matter." --Marlene Dietrich

"We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love." --Freud

"Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing himself." --Leo Tolstoy

"What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns." --Alain

"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do." --John Stuart Mill

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need." --Epicurus

"Keep your face in the sunshine and you can never see the shadow." --Helen Keller

"The true value of a human being can be found in degrees to which he has attained liberation from the self." --Albert Einstein

"To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." --Unknown

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it." --Alistair Cook

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought." --Baslo

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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." --Aristotle

"If you tell the truth you don't have anything to remember." --Mark Twain

"No medicine cures what happiness cannot." --Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." --Helen Keller

"Close friends love you for who you are, not what they want you to be." --Ted Rall

"The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know." --Pascal

"Anything more than the truth would be too much." --Robert Frost

"To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work." --Sister Mary Lauretta

"There are no such things as strangers, only friends that we have not yet met." --Unknown

"Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments." --Rose Kennedy

"It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around." --Thoreau

"Loving is so short and forgetting so long." --Pable Neruda

"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun." --Picasso

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you." --Unknown

"There's nothing wrong with building dream castles as long as you don't try to move in." –Unknown

"If you tell the truth you don't have anything to remember." --Mark Twain

"What is to give light must endure burning." --Viktor Frankl

"I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it." --Unknown

"Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows deep." --Unknown

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"Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way." --Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"The face is the index to the mind." --Unknown

"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." --Albert Einstein

"Don't hold on to anything too tightly; sooner or later, you'll have to let go." --David Nestor

"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." --Edmund Burke

"You have so many relationships in this life, only one or two will last, you're going through all this pain and strife then you turn your back and they're gone so fast." --Hanson, MMMBop

"Don't waste your youth growing up." --Unknown

"'Freedom is just another word for 'nothing to lose'." --Janis Joplin

"Opportunities are seldom labeled." --John H. Shield

"We mock the things we are to be." --Unknown

"Perfection is a waste of time." --Kim De Coite

"When I was young, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not." --Mark Twain

"To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live." --Loren Klein

"Who gossips to you will gossip of you." --Turkish Proverb

"Wasting time won't make any difference to eternity." --Unknown

"The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't." --Ernest Rutherford

"If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes." --Leon Trotsky

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a

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different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." --Thoreau

"When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." --Pablo Picasso

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On." --Robert Frost

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you are saying." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way to become boring is to say everything." --Voltaire

"Engineering: 'How will this work?' Science:'Why will this work?' Management: 'When will this work?' Liberal Arts:'Do you want fries with that?'" --Unknown

"Eat, drink, and be merry. For tomorrow we die." --Dave Matthew's Band

"True strength is delicate." --Louise Nevelson

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." --Albert Einstein

"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." --Unknown

"The best seeing is forgetting the names of things." --Harvey Mudd

"If you love what you do, you'll never work another day in your life." --Unknown

"Deliberation is the function of many, action is the function of one." --Charles deGaulle

"The question is no longer between violence and non-violence; it is between non-violence and non-existence." --Martin Luther King Jr.

"We alternate between desire and regret." --Seneca

"The reality of the other lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say." --Kahlil Gibran

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"That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember." --Unknown

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it." --Mark Twain

"Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy." --Unknown

"You have to walk up each step to get to the top of the staircase." --Unknown

"The more you know, the less you understand." --Tao Le Ching

"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." --Oscar Wilde

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." --Doug Larson

"Life: nobody gets out alive." --J.Q. Pelegano

"Everybody laughs in the same language." --Unknown

"Knowing is not enough; We must Apply. Willing is not enough; We must Do." --Goethe

"The friend I trusted failed me. This was bad, but not as bad as though I had failed my friend." --Unknown

"It takes, on average, fifteen years to become an overnight success." --Unknown

"No one cares what you know until they know how much you care." --Micah

"It is no longer adequate to say that we will have revolution by any means necessary; you have to begin to define the means necessary." --Malcolm X

"We are what we repeatedly do." --Aristotle

"Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom." --Unknown

"Even though it's hard, it's easy." --Hesiod

"Wisest is he who knows he does not know." --Old Eastern Saying

"Somewhere, someone is practicing, and when you meet him in face to face competition, he will win." --Unknown

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"If you don't know, now you know." --Notorious B.I.G.

"One world at a time." --Thoreau

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." --Albert Einstein

"Half of the world's misery comes from ignorance. The other half comes form intelligence." –Baslo

"Boy, when you are dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you are dead? Nobody." --J.D. Salinger; The Catcher In The Rye

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." --Unknown

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; I'm not sure about the universe." --Albert Einstein

"I see no virtue where I smell no sweat." --Unknown

"Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end." --Unknown

"Some people have a large circle of friends, while others have only friends that they like." --unknown

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object." --unknown

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." --Winston Churchill

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it." --Bette Midler

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." --Henry Van Dyke

"When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in yourself than there was before." --Cliff Fadiman

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"You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best rights in the world." --Gilbert Chesterton

"Three o'clock is always too late of too early for anything you want to do." --Jean-Paul Sartre

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable." --Helen Keller

"We have confused the free with the free and easy." --Adlai Stevenson

"The government is best which governs least." --Thomas Jefferson

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." --George Eliot

"A good novel tells you the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells you the truth about its author." --Gilbert Chesterton

"Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use." --Charles Schultz

"Defeat in this world is no disgrace if you fought well and fought for the right thing." --Katherine Anne Porter

"If we know anything, it is that if virtues do not equal powers, the powers will be misused." --Alexander

"Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat." --Henry Emerson Fosdick

"Every solution of a problem is a new problem." --Goethe

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others." --Sonya Friedman

"Waste not fresh tears over old griefs." --Euripides

"What we play is life." --Louis Armstrong

"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." --Simeon Strunsky

"Television is a corporate vulgarity." --John Leonard

"Music is the universal language of mankind." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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"More is not always better." –Unknown

"To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times." --Mark Twain

"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." --Jeff Raskin

"Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted." --Thoreau

"An intellectual hate is the worst." --William Butler Yeats

"Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape." --Unknown

"Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another." --Ambrose Bierce

"Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." --J.D. Salinger; The Catcher In The Rye

"In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others." --Andre Maurois

"To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead." --Samuel Butler

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." --Edmund Burke

"When you know yourself, you know life." --Fiona Apple

"There is no finish to a war." --Ernest Hemingway

"For in its innermost depths, youth is lonelier than old age." --Unknown

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --A. Conan Doyle

"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do

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not know, about something you do not want to know." --Gilbert Chesterton

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest." --Tom Stoppard

"Every woman is wrong until she cries." --Unknown

"Everyone makes mistakes. It is what you do afterwards that counts." --Unknown

"Conquer yourself not the world." --Descartes

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." --Igor Stravinsky

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." --John Wooden

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." --Malcolm Forbes

"The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on." --Frank Zappa

"A day without laughter is a day wasted." --Charlie Chaplin

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not." --Andre Gide

"Some books make me wanna go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble." --Ashleigh Brilliant

"Life is moderately good play with a badly written third act." --Truman Capote

"All the best stories are but one story in reality--the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape." --A.C. Benson

"A dying man needs to dye, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless to resist." --Steward Alsop

"The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth." --Alfred Adler

"I suppose it is much more comfortable to be mad and not know it than to be sane and have one's doubts." --G.B. Burgin

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." --

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Danny Kaye

"The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were the not the wrong sort of people." --Jon Wynne-Tyson

"Computers make it easy to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." --Andy Rooney

"I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing." --Clifton Fadiman

"A woman wears her tears like jewelry." --Unknown

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." --Teddy Roosevelt

"To destroy is always the first step in any creation." --e.e. cummings

"School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency." --H.L. Mencken

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." --Berthold Auerbach

"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels." --Kathrine Hepburn

"No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power." --Charles Caleb Colton

"That is the truest sign of insanity--insane people are always sure they are fine. It is only the sane people that are willing to admit that they are crazy." --Nora Ephron

"Learning music by reading is like making love by mail." --Pavarotti

"Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." --Richard Nixon

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." --Samuel Paterson

"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerably amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and convince his employer that he is going at a good price." --Frederick W. Taylor

"You can know the rules and still do the wrong thing." --from the movie "Last Man

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"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe striving to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning." --Rich Cook

"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter." --Denis Diderot

"Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." --Rita Mae Brown

"It is not that I do not want to die, I just do not want to be there when it happens." --Woody Allen

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame." --Oscar Wilde

"Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated." --George Bernard Shaw

"I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can not stop eating peanuts." --Orson Welles

"Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." --Justice William Douglas

"A bad book is as much labour to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul." --Aldous Huxley

"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day." --Unknown

"The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another. It is the same damn thing over and over." --Edna St. Vincent Millay

"There is no worse robber than a bad book." --Unknown

"Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices." --Laurence Peter

"The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's

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no law against whacking them around a little." --Porterfield

"Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come." --W.I.E. Gates

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." --Joseph Stalin

"How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?" --from the movie E.T. the Extraterrestrial

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." --Dwight David Eisenhower

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is." --J.M. Barrie

"Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb." --Nadine Gordimer

"If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?" --Lily Tomlin

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." --Frank Lloyd Wright

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns." --G.H. Hardy

"Our sweetest songs are those that tell the saddest thoughts." --Percy Shelley

"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning." --Bertha Flowers

"Give it your best shot, have a good time and if it doesn't work at least you tried!" --Melanie C., Spice Girls

"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." --Leonardo DiCaprio

"Tears are the silent language of grief." --Unknown

"As for me, prizes mean nothing. My prize is my work." --Katherine Hepburn

"It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts." --Patrick Henry

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"A friend is a gift you give yourself." --Robert Stevenson

"The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it." --Unknown

"The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary." --Vidal Sassoon

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education." --Bertrand Russell

"All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market." --Maya Angelou's brother, Bailey

"There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true." --Niels Bohr

"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things." --Luciano Pavarotti

"Books had instant replay long before televised sports." --Bert Williams

"Wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart." --John Knowles; A Separate Peace

"I'm not running, and I'm not walking fast. I'm going where I need to be." --Johnny McEntyre

"Humor is but another weapon against the universe." --Mel Brooks

"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education." --Maya Angelou

"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story." --Lincoln Steffens

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run." --Mark Twain

"If you survive long enough, you're revered--rather like an old building." --Kathrine Hepburn

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"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." --Roosevelt

"Politics is the science of who gets what, when and why." --Sidney Hillman

"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry." --John Phillips Marquand

"There is always someone worse off than yourself." --Aesop

"To resist him that is set in authority is evil." --The Instruction of Ptahhotep

"Everybody lies." --from the movie Liar, Liar

"The Future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is." --Clive Staples Lewis

"Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes." --Euripides

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." --Mark Twain

"Hunger makes thief of any man." --Pearl S. Buck; The Good Earth

"How frequently the last time comes and we do not know." --John Waller

"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy." --F. Scott Fitzgerald

"We shall prevail." --King George VI

"You have to be honest with yourself. It's not that important with other people." --Unknown

"Get the best out of your body that you can get." --Pat Hall

"Nature is neutral. Man has wrested from nature the power to make the world a desert or to make the deserts bloom. There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls." --Adlai Stevenson

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." --Ernest Hemingway

"For himself doth a man work evil in working evils for another." --Hesiod

"Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger." --Stella Benson

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"Mankind has grown strong in external struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace." --Adolf Hitler

"The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations." --Will Durant

"I like to tackle my insecurities." --Fiona Apple

"One should be moderate in his jests." --Cicero

"Sometimes people fill their minds with the stupidest things to keep themselves from thinking about things that are really important." --from the show My So-Called Life

"Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it." --Ed Wynn

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present." --Fairfield Osborne

"The enemies of the Future are always the very nicest people." --Christopher Murley

"Appearances are deceptive." --Aesop

"Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn." --Sophocles

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance." --Aesop

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." --Galileo Galilei

"The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone." --Ernest Hemingway

"An American will tinker with anything he can put his hands on. But how rarely can he be persuaded to tinker with an abstract idea." --Leland Stowe

"The highest of distinctions is service to others." --King George VI

"I want to know not his earning power but his yearning power." --David McCord

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"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough." --Irwin Shaw

"As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end." --Adlai Stevenson

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there." --Mark Twain

"I wanna do a better album each time. And if I cannot do that, I will not record." --Celine Dion

"What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books." --Andre Sinyavsky

"Education is not received. It is achieved." --Unknown

"Blest be the tie that binds." --Fawcett

"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents." --Ezra Pound

"Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em." --Mary Webb

"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed." --Reinhold Nielbuhr

"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; and it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation." --Vannevar Bush

"Obscurity often brings safety." --Aesop

"Longer than deeds liveth the word." --Pindar

"If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye." --Hammurabi

"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such an one lives no life at all." --Alcaeus

"Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things." --Amelia Earhart Putnam

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"Yet after brick and steel and stone are gone, and flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on." --Anderson H. Scruggs

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." --Aldous Huxley