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Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

Helen Hayes

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Honore de Balzac

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Robert Louis Stevenson

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Aeschylus

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.

Bill Gates

I admire people who are, by nature, kind and fair to others.

Sidney Sheldon

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Jean Giraudoux

I'm also interested in the modern suggestion that you can have a combination of love and sex in a marriage - which no previous society has ever believed.

Alain de Botton

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Francis Bacon

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

John Dryden

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous.

Mencius

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Rose Kennedy

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Edward Abbey

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.

Walter Savage Landor

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Frederick Douglass

Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Marcus Garvey

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Napoleon Hill

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

John F. Kennedy

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Miriam Makeba

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

Douglas Dunn

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean de La Fontaine

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

John Locke

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Bob Dylan

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Billy Connolly

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

John D. Rockefeller

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Wayne Dyer

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

Jean de la Bruyere

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

George Eliot

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Oprah Winfrey

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Will Rogers

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Edmund Burke

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Ellen Key

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Robert Frost

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Francis of Assisi

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

Men must know their limitations.

Clint Eastwood

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Muhammad Iqbal

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

John Randolph

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

Charles Kettering

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Walt Whitman

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

William Wallace

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Confucius

Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.

John Gay

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

I love you like a fat kid loves cake.

50 Cents

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Simone Weil

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

George Jean Nathan

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

George Orwell

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

John D. Rockefeller

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Frank McCourt

You don't have to go looking for love when it's where you come from.

Werner Erhard

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

Will Rogers

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

Linus Torvalds

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

George Bernard Shaw

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Alan Perlis

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Khalil Gibran

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Douglas Horton

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Robert Frost

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A. R. Ammons

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Dalai Lama

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

H. L. Mencken

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Blaise Pascal

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Henry Ford

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Tadao Ando

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

Oriana Fallaci

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

Albert Ellis

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The employers generally gets the employees he deserves.

J. Paul Getty

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Thomas Aquinas

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Fred Allen

Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Albrecht Durer

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

Robert H. Schuller

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

Hedy Lamarr

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible.

Lewis Mumford

Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Adam Schiff

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Henry David Thoreau

It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Billy Idol

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

George Orwell

Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one.

Voltaire

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

Marcel Proust

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Robert A. Heinlein

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

Khalil Gibran

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Alexander Hamilton

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Marcus Aurelius

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

Elisabeth Rohm

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

H. G. Wells

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

William Blake

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

James Whistler

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

Chuck Palahniuk

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

Jerry Lewis

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

Laurence J. Peter

The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Lyn Nofziger

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Oscar Wilde

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Thomas Aquinas

Time brings all things to pass.

Aeschylus

Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

Dalai Lama

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Jean Giraudoux

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Albrecht Durer

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Paulo Coelho

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Viktor E. Frankl

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.

Brian Tracy

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Arnold H. Glasow

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Michel de Montaigne

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

Jean Paul

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Arnold H. Glasow

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth give him too much, the same.

Blaise Pascal

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

Adlai E. Stevenson

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

Peter Marshall

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Frederick Douglass

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

John Milton

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

E. M. Forster

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Marilyn Monroe

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

Loretta Lynn

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Lord Byron

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Benjamin Franklin

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

William Bartram

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Howard Nemerov

To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.

Henry Drummond

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

Charles de Gaulle

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

C. S. Lewis

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

George Patton

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

George Jean Nathan

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

Confucius

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

William James

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

Wallace Stevens

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Will Durant

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Fred Allen

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

Abraham Lincoln

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough

Success is the child of audacity.

Benjamin Disraeli

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Moliere

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

George Galloway

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

Bo Bennett

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Thomas Aquinas

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis

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