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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Emily Post

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Aristotle

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas J. Watson

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Andre Breton

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

Ralph Marston

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

Choose your friends with caution plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

Thomas S. Monson

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

W. E. B. Du Bois

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Pope John Paul II

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Scott Weiland

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles Kettering

Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.

Kirk Cameron

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

William Shakespeare

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.

T. S. Eliot

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

H. L. Mencken

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Rumi

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Ambrose Bierce

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Epictetus

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

Mahatma Gandhi

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

George Eliot

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

George Washington

When a man want only destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sparky Anderson

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butler

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

Paul Harvey

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

David Hockney

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Robert Mapplethorpe

If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

John Dewey

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Huxley

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

Francis Quarles

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Scott Caan

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vince Lombardi

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

Eleanor Clift

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

Jerry Lewis

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Franz Kafka

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

Michael Jackson

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

Marshall McLuhan

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Aldous Huxley

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

Charles Horton Cooley

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

All men of action are dreamers.

James Huneker

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

James Joyce

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Steve Jobs

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Walt Whitman

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Maria Montessori

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.

Robert Mapplethorpe

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Calvin Coolidge

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Corrie Ten Boom

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

Robert E. Lee

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Robert Frost

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Carl Jung

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

James Madison

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

George Allen, Sr.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Harold MacMillan

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

William James

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Tecumseh

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

James Madison

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Raymond Chandler

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Walt Disney

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

Gertrude Stein

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Lou Holtz

Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.

Buddha

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Edna Ferber

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

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Sydney J. Harris

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Blaise Pascal

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Thomas Fuller

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

John F. Kennedy

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Gwyneth Paltrow

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Thomas Carlyle

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

Stephane Mallarme

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.

William Shakespeare

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Douglas William Jerrold

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

Walter Bagehot

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

Rumi

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Roger Babson

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Virginia Woolf

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Joseph Campbell

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

William Morris

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Michael Ignatieff

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Mike Tyson

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E. B. White

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Marcus Aurelius

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Arlo Guthrie

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

A. N. Wilson

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Henry David Thoreau

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Thomas Jefferson

If you can't take the heat get, out of the kitchen.

Harry Truman

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

Kathleen Turner

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

Herodotus

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Mary-Kate Olsen

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw

Science is but an image of the truth.

Francis Bacon

They do not love that do not show their love.

William Shakespeare

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

Francis of Assisi

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Jean de la Bruyere

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Teresa

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

Francis Bacon

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

Charlie Sheen

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

Otto von Bismarck

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Joseph Auslander

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

Theodor Adorno

I'm thankful for every moment.

Al Green

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne Dyer

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Dirk Benedict

Discipline: doing what you have to do, and doing it as well as you possibly can, and doing it that way all the time.

Bobby Knight

The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

Maria Montessori

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

Virginia Woolf

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Thornton Wilder

The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Andy Stern

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

Victor Hugo

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

Chief Joseph

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Thomas Jefferson

Computers are like Old Testament gods: lots of rules and no mercy.

Joseph Campbell

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

Sigmund Freud

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

George Eliot

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

Muriel Spark

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

War is a profane thing.

Norman Schwarzkopf

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Abdul Kalam

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

Ryunosuke Satoro

Opposition is true friendship.

William Blake

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Thomas Huxley

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.

Erich Segal

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Stephen Hawking

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

Sylvester Stallone

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

Aldo Leopold

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.

Denis Diderot

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Groucho Marx

The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it.

Ray Kroc

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

Maynard James Keenan

Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?

Richard Bach

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