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Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

George Carlin

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

Bill Cosby

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Swami Vivekananda

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Donald Trump

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

Henry David Thoreau

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Hermann Hesse

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Thomas Paine

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Milton Friedman

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

James Madison

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.

Graham Greene

We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Margaret Atwood

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Carl Jung

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

Jules Verne

We have been long led away by ancient prejudices, and made large sacrifices to superstition.

Thomas Paine

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

Gina Barreca

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

Diogenes

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Abraham Lincoln

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Marcus Aurelius

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

Thomas A. Edison

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Carl Sagan

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.

Stanley Kubrick

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

Rollo May

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Tom Stoppard

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

John Ruskin

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

James A. Baldwin

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

Henry A. Kissinger

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Thomas S. Monson

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries no man can ignore all of them.

Aldo Leopold

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Edward de Bono

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Paul Cezanne

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Blaise Pascal

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Mahatma Gandhi

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Julius Caesar

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Heywood Broun

That man is idle who can do something better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Baruch Spinoza

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Alvin Toffler

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Jeanne Moreau

I warn you against believing that advertising is a science.

William Bernbach

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

John D. Rockefeller

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Leonardo da Vinci

I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

Will Rogers

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill

Bear patiently with a rival.

Ovid

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Malcolm Gladwell

The more wit the less courage.

Thomas Fuller

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

Mahatma Gandhi

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Judy Garland

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.

Robert Browning

Love means to commit yourself without guarantee.

Anne Campbell

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Elbert Hubbard

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Jawaharlal Nehru

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Groucho Marx

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.

Mitch Hedberg

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

Josh Billings

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Samuel Pepys

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Dante Alighieri

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Napoleon Hill

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Thomas Hardy

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I can take any truth just don't lie to me.

Barbra Streisand

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Dean Acheson

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

Mahatma Gandhi

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

We can only learn to love by loving.

Iris Murdoch

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Henri Matisse

In time we hate that which we often fear.

William Shakespeare

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Warren Buffett

History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Christopher Hitchens

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

Nelson Mandela

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

Star Jones

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

John Locke

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

H. P. Lovecraft

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

Publilius Syrus

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Virginia Woolf

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Orson Welles

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

John Barrymore

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

e. e. cummings

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Soren Kierkegaard

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

Al Roker

Youth is wasted on the young.

George Bernard Shaw

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

John Lennon

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.

Simone Signoret

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

Walt Disney

Love is love's reward.

John Dryden

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

P. J. O'Rourke

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work.

William Feather

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Francis Bacon

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

H. L. Mencken

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Robert Orben

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau

A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

Henry Miller

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

C. S. Lewis

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

My reputation grows with every failure.

George Bernard Shaw

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Eminem

Nature has always had more force than education.

Voltaire

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

H. L. Mencken

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

Horace Mann

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

Honore de Balzac

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Jimmy Carter

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Arnold Bennett

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

John Updike

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Bronte

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Marcus Aurelius

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

C. S. Lewis

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Jean Kerr

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Mahatma Gandhi

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Bertrand Russell

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

Red Skelton

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Clarence Darrow

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Herman Melville

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Henry David Thoreau

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Patriotism is a kind of religion it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Guy de Maupassant

For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

Walter Scott

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Alice Duer Miller

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Quintus Ennius

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Mike Royko

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Edward Hopper

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Orison Swett Marden

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

Thomas Huxley

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

George Eliot

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Hazlitt

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

Jesse James Garrett

Garden as though you will live forever.

William Kent

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

Mark Twain

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Blaise Pascal

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Lorraine Hansberry

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Mary Baker Eddy

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Napoleon Hill

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Joe Biden

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

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