Quotes

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain

Sic transit gloria mundi
Thus passes away the glory of the world.

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
- 1 Corinthians 13:11

A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
- Carl Sandburg

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
- Adlai Stevenson

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
- Robert Frost

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
- Anonymous

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
- Groucho Marx

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
- Herbert Prochnow

A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
- Victor Hugo

A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time.
- Frank Vanderlip

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
- Anonymous

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
- Francoise Sagan

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
- Albert Einstein

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson

A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
- Anonymous

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Fr. Jerome Cummings

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.
- Wilson Mizner

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- G. K. Chesterton

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost

A kiss: To a young girl, faith; to a married woman, hope; to an old maid, charity.
- V. P. Skipper

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill

A life without cause is a life without effect.
- Barbarella

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.
- Eric Idle

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
- Charles Evans Hughes

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.
- Albert Einstein

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
- Robert Frost

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
- Albert Einstein

A political war is one in which everyone shoots from the lip.
- Raymond Moley

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
- Joseph Stalin

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
- Thomas Carruthers

A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.
- Richard Pratt

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
- Gloria Steinem

A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live that day.
- Emily Dickinson

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.
- Comte DeBussy-Rabutin

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
- Cato the Elder

All television is children's television.
- Richard P. Adler

All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Thomas Fuller

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
- Jacob Braude

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!
- Frank Lloyd Wright

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
- Robert A. Humphrey

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.
- Dwight Morrow

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein

A woman who aspires to be like a man lacks ambition.

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
- John Stuart Mill

Attention to health is lifes greatest hindrance.
- Plato

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
- Groucho Marx

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

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
- William Blake

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Anonymous

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
- Ambrose Bierce

Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
- Anonymous

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
- George Bernard Shaw

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.
- Jim Carrey

By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
- Socrates

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
- Robert G. Ingersoll

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- Clive James

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon

Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
- George E. Woodberry

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
- Peter Bechmann

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- Henry Louis Mencke

Democracy's the worst form of government except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
- Albert Szent-Gyorgi

Diplomacy is the art of saying Nice Doggie! till you can find a rock.
- Wynn Catlin

Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?
- Anonymous

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood.
- Epictetus

Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
- Golda Meir

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
- Robert Frost

Don't stop a parade to pick up a dime!
- Lorren 'Rus' Stiles, Sr.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
- Anonymous

Here we die, alone conquering the world.

We make war that we may live in peace
- Aristotle

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind
- John F. Kennedy

All that is required for evil to win, is for good men to do nothing

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F Kennedy

That government is best which governs least
- Henry David Thoreau

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? ... It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, as so much for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
- Henry David Thoreau

When you are committed to doing what is right, the power of righteousness will never betray you.
- John Africa

When I converse with the freest of my neighbors, I perceive that, whatever they may say about the magnitude and seriousness of the question . . . the long and the short of the matter is . . . they dread the consequences of disobedience to their property and families . . . If I deny the authority of the State when it presents it tax-bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard . . . Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength.
- Henry David Thoreau

Yours is not to question why. Yours is but to do and die.
- John Keats

Everyone questions me about my drinking but no one questions me about my thirst.

If you give an idiot enough rope, they will eventually hang themselves.

Those who value safety say freedom is worthless if you're not alive to enjoy it. Those who value freedom say life is worthless if you're not free to enjoy it.

A society that will trade a little order for a little freedom will lose both, and deserve neither.
- Thomas Jefferson

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior.
-Walt Whitman

The sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves.
- Thomas Jefferson

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
- George Pataki

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
- Benjamin Franklin

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.
- Ronald Reagan

The tree of liberty, from time to time, must be replenished with the blood of patriots.
- Thomas Jefferson

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort that it values more, it will lose that too.
- W. Somerset Maugham

The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it.
- Enrico Malatesta

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
- Thomas Paine

There is no “slippery slope” toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.
- Alan K. Simpson

Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
- Thomas Sowell, a black sociologist, author and columnist

Every great robbery that was ever perpetrated upon a people has been by virtue of an in-the-name-of law.
- Albert Parsons

The most dimwitted attempt at argument we’ve heard in this mortal world is the supposed retort to any advocate of freedom: “Do you mean to be free to starve?” We mean, do you think you can’t starve with your hands tied?
- Isabel Paterson

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

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry M. Goldwater

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say…that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.
- Etienne de la Boetie

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care; we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
- Anonymous, 1769

And now that the legislators and do gooders have futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems. And try liberty....
- Frederic Bastiat, 1850

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
- George Orwell

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to prepare for it.
- Patrick Henry

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Alexander Pope

The Master said: 'Yu! Shall I teach you the meaning of knowledge? When you know a thing to recognize that you know it; and when you do not, to know that you do not know - that is knowledge.
- Confucius

For all the sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these, “It might have been!”
- John Greenleaf Whittier

It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
- Bernard DeFoutenelle

Who controls the past controls the future, who controls the present controls the past.
- Joseph Stalin

Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
- Bertolt Brecht

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
- George Bernard Shaw

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebing

An armed society is a polite society.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion; you must set yourself on fire.

The vast majority die without realizing more than afraction of their powers. Born millionaires, they live and die in poverty.
- A.R. Orage

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

Life, it's like a box of chocolates: cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. You're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-crunching nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a...is an empty box...filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
- Cancer Man

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Barton

It's ironic that those that break the law, are the first to plead for its protection

If tears could build a stairway, and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.
- Gravestone

All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
- George Bernard Shaw

Government is the most dangerous institution known to man. Throughout history it has violated the rights of men more than any individual or group of individuals could do: it has killed people, enslaved them, sent them to forced labor and concentration camps, and regularly robbed and pillaged them of the fruits of their expended labor. Unlike individual criminals, government has the power to arrest and try; unlike individual criminals, it can surround and encompass a person totally, dominating every aspect of one's life, so that one has no recourse from it but to leave the country (and in totalitarian nations even that is prohibited). Government throughout history has a much sorrier record than any individual, even that of a ruthless mass murderer. The signs we see on bumper stickers are chillingly accurate: Beware: the Government is Armed and Dangerous.
- The Libertarian Alternative Editor: Tibor R Machan

...as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure. Thus it happens in affairs of state, for when the evils that arise have been forseen (which it is only given to a wise man to see), they can be quickly redresses, but when, through not having been foreseen, they have been permitted to grow in a way that every one can see them, there is no longer a remedy.
- Machiavelli

Join the army... die for a living!

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me —
and by then there was no one left to speak out for me.
— Pastor Martin Niemöller

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
- Reichmarshall Hermann Goering

These are the times that try men's souls.
- Thomas Paine

Children Learn What They Live
If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he learnes to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise, he learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world.
- Dorothy Law Nolte

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Thoreau

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
- Thoreau

My life has been the poem I have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
- Thoreau

The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others - as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders - serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without inteding it, as God. A very few - as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men - serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and are commonly treated as enemies by it.
- Thoreau

Let us wander where we will, the universe is built round about us, and we are central still.
- Thoreau

When I meet a government which says to me,"Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
- Thoreau

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which hears, however measured or far away.
- Thoreau

To love another... is, to stand in a true relation to him, so that we give the best to, and receive the best from, him.
- Thoreau

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
- Thoreau

"It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place."
- H. L. Mencken

"The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them."
- Orson Scott Card, Xenocide

"Tell me and I will forget,
Show me and I will remember,
Let me do it and I will understand."
- Confucius

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly."
-Albert Einstein

"To earn the enmity of evil people can speak very well of you."

"We're only young once, but with humor, we can be immature forever."
- Art Gliner

Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
- Dickens

"I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do. And what I should do,
by the grace of God, I will do."
Edward Everett Hale

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.
Watch your actions, they become your habits.
Watch your habits, they become your character.

"The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character."
- Emma Dunham Kelley

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!"
- Teddy Roosevelt

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

We need not worry so much about what man descends from-it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
- Mark Twain

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away for expedience, and by parts."
- Edmund Burke 1777

"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
- Samuel Adams

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense." - Buddha

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once."

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of
servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and
leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and
lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our
countrymen."
- Samuel Adams

The devil is just a man with a plan, but evil is a collaboration of men.

Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.
—Susan B. Anthony

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
—Gloria Steinem

Let me listen to me and not to them
- Gertrude Stern

Man forgives woman anything, save the wit to outwit him.
- Minna Antrim - Irish Writer

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses. Women for their strengths.
- Lois Wyse - American Advertising Executive

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
- Aldous Huxley

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle-victorious.
- Vince Lombardi

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
- Albert Einstein

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John F. Kennedy

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
- Robert J. Oppenheimer

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
- Charles William Stubbs

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Winston Churchill

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur

"A good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask-but a great friend does it without being asked at all."
from 'Rule of Four' by Caldwell & Thomason

Beneath this sod
A Poet lies; or that which once was he.
O lift one thought in prayer for S.T.C.
That he, who many a year with toil of breath,
Found Death in Life, may here find Life in Death.
- Epitaph of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"What you are, thunders so, that I cannot hear what you are saying."
- Emerson

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison."
- Mary Wollstonecraft

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.
- Etienne Gilson

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
- Edward Gibbon

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

Consider, friend, as you pass by,
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, you too shall be.
Prepare, therefore, to follow me.
- Tombstone epitaph

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.
- Edmund Burke

"It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of education have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe that it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry, especially if the food, handed out under such coercion, were to be selected accordingly."
- Albert Einstein

Wait long enough by the river, your enemy's corpse will come floating by.
- Sun Tzu