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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Sallust

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

Edward Hopper

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

Tina Fey

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Joseph Addison

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

Don Marquis

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

William Arthur Ward

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Lord Byron

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Simone Weil

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Denis Diderot

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

George Carlin

The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Gustav Mahler

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Marcel Proust

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Leo Tolstoy

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylor

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Iris Murdoch

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Plato

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

George Bernard Shaw

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Mignon McLaughlin

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Arnold H. Glasow

Thrift is of great revenue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Gordie Howe

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Ovid

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Art Buchwald

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

e. e. cummings

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

Satchel Paige

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Martin Luther

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Brian Tracy

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Walter Gropius

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Thomas Carlyle

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

George Bernard Shaw

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Kurt Vonnegut

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Jose Marti

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Niccolo Machiavelli

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

H. L. Mencken

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Russell Baker

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

Cesare Pavese

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

William Hazlitt

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Henry David Thoreau

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Bolt

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

Gertrude Stein

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Sam Snead

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Rudyard Kipling

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

James Allen

Death is the bowel movement of the soul evacuating the body by intense pressure on the spiritual anus.

Malcom de Chazal

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Carl Sandburg

In business, words are words explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Harold S. Geneen

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Norman Vincent Peale

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vince Lombardi

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

Samuel Johnson

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Francis Picabia

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

Douglas MacArthur

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Stephen Hawking

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there's some kind of change.

Bob Dylan

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

Ruby Dee

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

Jim Rohn

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Christopher Morley

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Winston Churchill

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

Wayne Dyer

Management is doing things right leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Doris Lessing

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Albert Einstein

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

Caleb Carr

A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Simone Weil

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Will Durant

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Socrates

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Ambrose Bierce

I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Alan Kay

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

Thomas Jefferson

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

Judith Viorst

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Sivananda

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Walt Whitman

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Immanuel Kant

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

John Frusciante

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

Gertrude Stein

Never lose a holy curiousity.

Albert Einstein

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Baltasar Gracian

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

Samuel Butler

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Georgia O'Keeffe

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Robert M. Pirsig

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Oprah Winfrey

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

Power is dangerous unless you have humility.

Richard J. Daley

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

E. O. Wilson

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

William Blake

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

Liam Neeson

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.

Mason Cooley

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

Mason Cooley

Belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

George MacDonald

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Marcus Aurelius

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

Henry Miller

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Arthur C. Clarke

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

William Cowper

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.

Nicholas Sparks

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Carl Sandburg

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Chester W. Nimitz

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Nick Cave

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Virginia Woolf

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Walt Whitman

Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Zhuangzi

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Albert Camus

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Noam Chomsky

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Aldous Huxley

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Ferdinand Marcos

The most virtuous women have something within them, something that is never chaste.

Honore de Balzac

My life needs editing.

Mort Sahl

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Heinrich Heine

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Mitch Hedberg

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

Sai Baba

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Jim Rohn

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Albert Einstein

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Alexander McQueen

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Francis Bacon

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Ronald Reagan

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Albert Einstein

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

Work alone is noble.

Thomas Carlyle

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

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

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

Kid Rock

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

Mark Twain

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Albert Camus

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

H. L. Mencken

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Voltaire

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

William Gibson

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Elbert Hubbard

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.

Eric Hoffer

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison

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