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A. Bronson Alcott  That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.  
A. J. Toynbee  As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility  [read rest of quote]
A. Poincelot  Good taste is the flower of good sense.  
A. Whitney Brown  That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.  
Abba Eban  He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?  
Abbe Guillaume Raynal  The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and e  [read rest of quote]
Abigail Adams  We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.  
Abraham Harold Maslow  Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought  [read rest of quote]
Abraham Lincoln  He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.  
Abraham Lincoln  If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.  
Abraham Lincoln  Whatever you are, be a good one.  
Abraham Lincoln  If you look for the bad in people, you will surely find it.  
Abraham Lincoln  Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.  
Abraham Lincoln  I will prepare and some day my chance will come.  
Abraham Lincoln  I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.  
Bertrand Russell  Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is   [read rest of quote]
California Civil Code  That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done.  
California Civil Code  Superfluity does not vitiate.  
Dante Alighieri  The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their  [read rest of quote]
David Darlington  In the mirror like relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective prope  [read rest of quote]
Epicurus  The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.  
F. Scott Fitzgerald  What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.  
Helen Keller  I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.  
Henry David Thoreau  Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wi  [read rest of quote]
Izaak Walton  Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.  
Kahlil Gibran  They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a  [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul  [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly gi  [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what   [read rest of quote]
Kahlil Gibran  Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re  [read rest of quote]
L. B. Walton  Genius might well be defined as the ability to makes a platitude sound as though it were an original  [read rest of quote]
L. P. Hartley  The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.  
L. Ron Hubbard  The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing.  
Lord Essex  Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.  
M. C. Escher  We adore chaos because we love to produce order.  
M. C. Escher  What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.  
M. C. Escher  By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observation  [read rest of quote]
M. C. Escher  Originality is merely an illusion.  
Margaret Millar  Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.  
Mark Twain  A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.  
Mark Twain  Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but   [read rest of quote]
N. W. Dougherty  The ideal engineer is a composite ... He is not a scientist, he is not a mathematician, he is not a   [read rest of quote]
Og Mandino  I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st  [read rest of quote]
Ogden Nash  The Pig, if I am not mistaken, supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big,  [read rest of quote]
Ogden Nash  A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.  
Ogden Nash  When there are monsters there are miracles.  
Oscar Wilde  A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.  
P. E. Morris  You are 87% water; the other 13% keeps you from drowning.  
P. G. Wodehouse  If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.  
P. L. Berger  In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.  
Pablo Picasso  Art is a lie that tells the truth.  
Peter Stack  My tears stuck in their little ducts, refusing to be jerked.  
Quentin Crisp  To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.  
Quentin Crisp  Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disast  [read rest of quote]
Quida  Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.  
Quintilian  Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.  
Quintilian  Nothing can be pleasing which is not also becoming.  
Quintilian  That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.  
Ralph Waldo Emerson  A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, sh  [read rest of quote]
Reinhold Niebuhr  God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I   [read rest of quote]
S. Weinstein  The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal.  
Samuel Johnson  Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.  
Seneca  If virtue precede us every step will be safe.  
Sir Francis Bacon  There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom  
Swedish Proverb  Fear less, hope more Whine less, breathe more Talk less, say more Hate less, love more And all g  [read rest of quote]
T. E. Lawrence  All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake i  [read rest of quote]
T. S Eliot  We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we star  [read rest of quote]
Theodore Roosevelt  Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.  
Thomas Guthrie  Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.  
Thomas Higginson  The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in th  [read rest of quote]
Tyron Edwards  Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superio  [read rest of quote]
Unknown  Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.  
Unknown  Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.  
V. S. Pritchett  The kingdoms of fantasy and mirth are long lasting and not of this world.  
Vulgate  Great is truth, and all powerful.  
W. Clement Stone  Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief, or ignorance.  
Wilfrid Sheed  One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom fro  [read rest of quote]
Woody Allen  More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopele  [read rest of quote]
Woody Allen  More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to utter hopelessness and d  [read rest of quote]