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Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

Twyla Tharp

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

Horace Mann

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Albert Einstein

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

Virginia Woolf

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Joseph Campbell

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stendhal

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

Josh Billings

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

Joel Rosenberg

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Lillian Smith

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Erwin Chargaff

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

Mae West

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.

Debbie Harry

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Bodhidharma

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

Washington Irving

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Soichiro Honda

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

Ambrose Bierce

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

Bret Harte

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Henry David Thoreau

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore de Balzac

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

George Eliot

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

Evita Peron

Living well is the best revenge.

George Herbert

We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Golda Meir

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Dennis Gabor

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Walter Pater

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Simone de Beauvoir

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Thomas Huxley

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Calvin Coolidge

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C. S. Lewis

The eyes of the overly fearful stammer.

Malcom de Chazal

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

Alanis Morissette

Remember that lost time does not return.

Thomas Kempis

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Pietro Aretino

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

Don Marquis

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Harry S. Truman

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

Henry Rollins

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Stephen King

Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

Hal Boyle

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

Chuck Palahniuk

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

Rupert Brooke

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Francis Bacon

For truth is always strange stranger than fiction.

Lord Byron

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Salvador Dali

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Henry Ward Beecher

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

I know that my race must change.

Chief Joseph

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Mark Twain

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

Al Gore

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

Mark Twain

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Frank A. Clark

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Golda Meir

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.

Samuel Butler

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

Doug Larson

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

James Russell Lowell

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Chanakya

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

Wallis Simpson

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

St. Jerome

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Rashida Jones

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Nelson Mandela

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

Luther Burbank

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Henry David Thoreau

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Will Rogers

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

James Madison

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

David Hockney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Francis of Assisi

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Woody Allen

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

Henry A. Kissinger

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

David Grayson

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Oscar Wilde

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

William Hazlitt

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Josh Billings

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

Will Durant

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

Susan B. Anthony

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

John Frusciante

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Hippocrates

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

Mason Cooley

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

Paul Harvey

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Abu Bakr

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

Edgar Allan Poe

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their alter, and their belly their god.

Charles Buck

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

Paddy Ashdown

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.

John F. Kerry

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

Helen Hayes

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

John Steinbeck

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Robert Motherwell

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Victor Hugo

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

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

A woman in love is capable of anything. Exactly like a woman not in love.

Roberto Gervaso

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Albert Einstein

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

Cesare Pavese

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Kary Mullis

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Audrey Hepburn

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Charles Kettering

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

Sydney J. Harris

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Voltaire

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Edwin Louis Cole

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Epictetus

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Richard Whately

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Marquis de Sade

Never make predictions, especially about the future.

Casey Stengel

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor E. Frankl

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Blaise Pascal

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

Woody Allen

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'

Doug Coupland

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

James Madison

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

Alexander Pope

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

Charles Baudelaire

Anything that gets your heart racing is probably worth doing.

Hunter Thompson

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Plato

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Denis Waitley

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Golda Meir

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Dr. Seuss

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

Elbert Hubbard

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Carl Jung

Freedom is only good as a means, it is no end in itself.

Herman Melville

We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.

Lee Iacocca

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Gertrude Stein

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Isaac Asimov

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara de Angelis

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

John F. Kennedy

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

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Jim Rohn

The time I kill is killing me.

Mason Cooley

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Irving Babbitt

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Funny is an attitude.

Flip Wilson

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Albert Camus

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

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

Maureen Reagan

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Jean Cocteau

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

Isaac Asimov

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Albert Camus

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Dalai Lama

Writing is closer to thinking that to speaking.

Joseph Joubert

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Milton Friedman

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

John Keats

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

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

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Paul Strand

No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Laurence Sterne

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second.

William James

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