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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
                         - Lord Acton, Letter, 5 April 1887
$No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
                         - Henry B. Adams, "The Education of Henry
                              Adams", 1907
$One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
                         - Henry B. Adams, "The Education of Henry
                              Adams", 1907
$It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
                         - Alfred Adler, 1939
$Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us.
                         - Roy Adzak, quoted in "Contemporary Artists", 1977
$A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
                         - Aesop
$Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
                         - Aesop
$We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
                         - Aesop
$The paper burns, but the words fly away.
                         - Ben Joseph Akiba
$Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc.
And never lie down with a woman who's got more trouble than you.
                         - Nelson Algren, "What Every Young Man Should Know"
$Most of us spend the first 6 days of each week sowing wild oats,
then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
                         - Fred Allen
$Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.
                         - George Allen
$I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve it through not dying.
                         - Woody Allen
$The lion and the calf shall lie down together
but the calf won't get much sleep.
                         - Woody Allen
$If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a
large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
                         - Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
$The difference between sex and death is that with death
you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
                         - Woody Allen, quoted in "New York Tribune", 1975
$It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people.
The good ones slept better ... while the bad ones seemed
to enjoy the waking hours much more.
                         - Woody Allen, "Side Effects" 1981
$Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
                         - Muhammad Ali, in "Time", 1978
$Doing easily what others find difficult is talent;
doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
                         - Henri-Frédéric Amiel, "Journal", 1883
$In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the
sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
                         - Idi Amin Dada, 1976
$God has been replaced, as he has all over the West,
with respectability and air conditioning.
                         - Imamu Amiri Baraka, "Home", 1966
$Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity
of opportunity to be otherwise.
                         - Maya Angelou, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings",
                              1969
$Death is life's answer to the question 'Why?'
                         - Anonymous
$God is not dead. He is alive and working working on a less ambitious project.
                         - Anonymous, 1975
$In March July, October, May,
The Ides are on the fifteenth day,
The Nones the seventh: all other months besides
Have two days less for Nones and Ides.
                         - Anonymous
$Never argue with a fool - people might not know the difference.
                         - Anonymous
$Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.
                         - Anonymous
$The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion,
the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
                         - Anonymous
$Vote early and vote often.
                         - Anonymous, on US election banners, 1850's
$You're never alone with schizophrenia.
                         - Anonymous
$Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause
for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
                         - Susan B. Anthony
$Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
                         - Marcel Archard
$We make war that we may live in peace.
                         - Aristotle
$What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
                         - Aristotle
$Wit is cultured insolence.
                         - Aristotle
$That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
                         - Neil Armstrong
$What passes for optimism is most often the effect on an intellectual error.
                         - Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectuals",
                              1957
$We are still speaking the same language,
but neither of us is hearing the other.
                         - Hafez Assad, on Syrian relations with Egypt,
                              in "Time", 3 April 1989
$If Gary Hart had seen Fatal Attraction two years ago,
he'd probably be President.
                         - Bruce Babbitt, 1988 Presidential Campaign
$Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
                         - Francis Bacon, 1624
$Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
                         - Francis Bacon
$It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
                         - Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies", 1863
$Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
                         - James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name" 1961
$Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart;
for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
                         - James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name" 1961
$The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it,
but no one wants to go there now.
                         - James Baldwin, "Nobody Knows My Name", 1961
$It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason
that it is more difficult to be witty every day
than to say pretty things from time to time.
                         - Honoré de Balzac, "The Physiology of Marriage", 1829
$Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster
that devours everything: familiarity.
                         - Honoré de Balzac, "The Physiology of Marriage", 1829
$The duration of passion is proportionate
with the original resistance of the woman.
                         - Honoré de Balzac, "The Physiology of Marriage", 1829
$It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
                         - Tallulah Bankhead
$Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture
available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.
The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
                         - Clive Barnes, in "New York Times", 1969
$What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
                         - Simone de Beauvoir, "La Femme rompue", 1967
$Now comes the mystery.
                         - Henry Ward Beecher, last words, 8 March 1887
$Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done,
they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
                         - Brendan Behan
$The most important things to do in this world are to get something
to eat, somthing to drink and somebody to love you.
                         - Brendan Behan, in "Weekend", 1968
$Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
                         - Hector Berlioz, "Almanach des lettres françaises"
$So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
                         - Psalms 90:10
$The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
                         - Psalms 111:10
$Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
                         - Proverbs 16:18
$The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction.
                         - Proverbs 1:7
$The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
                         - Ecclesiastes 9:11
$No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate one and love the other,
or he will hold to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and riches.
                         - Matthew 6:24
$And which of you by being anxious can add a single cubit to his life's span?
                         - Matthew 6:27
$Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his friends.
                         - John 15:13
$Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Belladonna, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison.
A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Bore, n: a person who talks when you wish him to listen.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Conservative, n: a statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as
distinguished from a Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are,
not as they ought to be.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community
consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves,
making in all, two.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$Yankee, n:     In Europe, an American.
In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander.
In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)
                         - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" 1911
$The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
                         - Josh Billings, "The Kicker"
$People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
                         - Otto von Bismarck
$Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
                         - Otto von Bismarck
$The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start
thinking your work is terribly important.
                         - Milo Bloom
$An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes
which can be made, in a narrow field.
                         - Niels Bohr
$The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
                         - Niels Bohr
$If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
                         - Derek Bok, 1978
$The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.
                         - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
$Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.
If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.'
They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
                         - Clare Boothe Luce
$Censorship, like charity, should begin at home,
but unlike charity, it should end there.
                         - Clare Boothe Luce
$No good deed goes unpunished.
                         - Clare Boothe Luce
$When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
                         - James H. Boren
$Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
                         - Victor Borge
$Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand,
but we must build as if the sand were stone.
                         - Jorge Luis Borges, 1972
$We never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
                         - Jorge Luis Borges, "Borges On Writing", 1974
$It is possible to store the mind with a million facts
and still be entirely uneducated.
                         - Alec Bourne, "A Doctor's Creed"
$Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue
to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant
may prove to be our executioner.
                         - General Omar Bradley
$Grub first, then ethics.
                         - Bertolt Brecht
$I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
                         - Ashleigh Brilliant
$Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
                         - Ashleigh Brilliant
$To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first,
and call whatever you hit the target.
                         - Ashleigh Brilliant
$No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
                         - Jacob Bronowski, in "Encounter", 1971
$Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
                         - Sam Brown, in "Washington Post", 1977
$Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
                         - Matthew Browne, "Lilliput Levee"
$As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically
reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.
                         - Anita Bryant, 1977
$Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
                         - William F. Buckley
$Before you kill something make sure you have something better
to replace it with; something better than political opportunist
slamming hate horseshit in the public park.
                         - Charles Bukowski, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man", 1969
$We love your adherence to democratic principles.
                         - George Bush speaking to Ferdinand Marcos, June 1981
$The final lesson of Viet Nam is that no great nation
can long afford to be sundered by a memory.
                         - George Bush, 1989 Inaugural Address
$The caribou love [the Alaska oil pipeline].
They run up against it, and they have babies.
                         - George Bush, 1988
                              and again "New York Times", 3 April 1989
$It would be inappropriate for the President of the United States
to try to fine-tune for the people of Hungary how they ought to eat -
how the cow out to eat the cabbage, as we say in the United States.
                         - George Bush, quoted in "Philadelphia Inquirer",
                              13 July 1989
$An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
                         - Nicholas Murray Butler
$Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
                         - Samuel Butler
$The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
                         - Samuel Butler, "The Fair Haven", 1873
$Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense
to know how to lie well.
                         - Samuel Butler, "Notebooks" 1912
$Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven.
Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
                         - Samuel Butler, "Notebooks" 1912
$One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
                         - Robert Burton, 1651
$For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
                         - Lord Byron, "Don Juan", 1818
$The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
                         - James B. Cabell, "The Silver Stallion" 1926
$Men willingly believe what they wish.
                         - Julius Caesar
$What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story.
And the greatest good is little enough:
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
                         - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, "Life is a Dream"
$It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
                         - Arthur Calwell, 1968
$An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
                         - Simon Cameron
$Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
                         - Albert Camus, "The Rebel", 1951
$When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve
it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.
                         - Al Capone
$You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun
than you can with a kind word alone.
                         - Al Capone
$Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
                         - Al Capp, in "Esquire", 1970
$It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely
proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
                         - Alex Carey
$"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be,
and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
                         - Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
$In time of war the first casualty is truth.
                         - Boake Carter
$Because of the greatness of the Shah, Iran is an island of stability
in the Middle East.
                         - Jimmy Carter, 31 December 1977
$Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.
                         - Wynn Catlin
$As long as people will accept crap,
it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
                         - Dick Cavett, in "Playboy", 1971
$Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.
                         - Luis Cernuda, "Las Ruinas"
$A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
                         - Miguel de Cervantes
$I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women,
French to men, and German to my horse.
                         - Charles V, King of France
$In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.
                         - Cesar Chavez
$He who asks is a fool for five minutes,
but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
                         - Chinese proverb
$The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
                         - Chinese proverb
$I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly,
or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
                         - Chuang Tzu
$I like a man who grins when he fights.
                         - Winston Churchill
$I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
                         - Winston Churchil
$It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
                         - Winston Churchill
$Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
                         - Winston Churchill
$Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
                         - Winston Churchill
$The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
                         - Winston Churchill
$Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
                         - Winston Churchill, Speech, January 1952
$Preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger.
                         - Tom Clancy, "THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER", 1984
$Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
                         - Ramsey Clark
$It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God,
but to create him.
                         - Arthur C. Clarke
$Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
                         - Arthur C. Clarke
$Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                         - Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of the Future", 1962
$You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.
                         - Eldridge Cleaver, 1968
$The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
                         - Eldridge Cleaver, "Soul on Ice", 1968
$America is the only nation in history which miraculously
has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without
the usual interval of civilization.
                         - Georges Clemenceau, 1 December 1945
$War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
                         - Georges Clemenceau
$When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
                         - Charles Caleb Colton
$I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
                         - Confucius
$If we don't know life, how can we know death?
                         - Confucius
$Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
                         - Confucius
$Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
                         - Confucius
$What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
                         - Confucius
$When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them;
when we see persons of a contrary character,
we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
                         - Confucius
$Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.
                         - Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave" 1945
$Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime,
but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
                         - Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave" 1945
$Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite.
Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime
as to which is the main river.
                         - Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave" 1945
$Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones
who will be writing about you.
                         - Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
$Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
                         - Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
$The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
                         - Cyril Connolly, "Journal and Memoir" 1983
$You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
                         - Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim", 1900
$The horror! The horror!
                         - Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness", 1902
$I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and
invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people.
                         - Calvin Coolidge, Speech, 21 September 1928
$Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
                         - Laurence Coughlin
$A man feared that he might find an assassin;
Another that he might find a victim.
One was more wise than the other.
                         - Stephan Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines",
                              1895
$I stood upon a high place, and saw, below, many devils,
running, leaping, and carousing in sin.
One looked up, grinning, and said, "Comrade! Brother!"
                         - Stephan Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines",
                              1895
$I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
"Ah, God, take me from this place!"
A voice said, "It is no desert."
I cried, "Well, but---
"The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon."
A voice said, "It is no desert."
                         - Stephan Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines",
                              1895
$I was in the darkness;
I could not see my words
Nor the wishes of my heart.
Then suddenly there was a great light---
"Let me into the darkness again."
                         - Stephan Crane, "The Black Riders and Other Lines",
                             1895
$A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist." "However," replied the universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
                         - Stephan Crane, "War is Kind", 1899
$There is growing evidence that smoking has pharamacological ...
effects that are of real value to smokers.
                         - Joseph F. Cullman III (Pres. of Phillip Morris)
                              Annual Report to Stockholders, 1962
$There are no atheists in the foxholes.
                         - William Thomas Cummings, 1942
$Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days.
An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to
make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
                         - the 14th Dalai Lama, interview in "TIME",
                              11 April 1988
$The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time
of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
                         - Dante
$The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
and the second half by our children.
                         - Clarence Darrow
$There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.
                         - Clarence Darrow, Interview, April 1936
$When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it.
                         - Clarence Darrow
$The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is,
in fact, a return to the idealised past.
                         - Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
$There is no such thing as a nonracial society
in a multiracial country.
                         - F. W. de Klerk, President of South Africa,
                              quoted in _Time_, 11 September 1989
$There are a million ways to lose a work day,
but not even a single way to get one back.
                         - Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister, _Peopleware_, 1987
$People are always talking about tradition, but they forget we have
a tradition of a few hundred years of nonsense and stupidity, that
there is a tradition of idiocy, incompetence and crudity.
                         - Hugo Demartini, in "Contemporary Artists", 1977
$Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly
and safely insane every night of our lives.
                         - William Dement, in "Newsweek", 1959
$We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them
to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
                         - Phyllis Diller
$I never deny, I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
                         - Benjamin Disraeli
$There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
                         - Benjamin Disraeli
$Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.
                         - Benjamin Disraeli, "Coningsby" 1844
$The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones
from one graveyard to another.
                         - J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England", 1945
$Love built on beauty, soon as beauty dies.
                         - John Donne, "Elegy II, The Anagram"
$Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself,
but talent instantly recognizes genius.
                         - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Fear", 1914
$One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do
and always a clever thing to say.
                         - Will Durant, in "Reader's Digest", 1972
$Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
                         - Will Durant, in "National Enquirer", 1980
$A man's got to know his limitations.
                         - Clint Eastwood in "Magnum Force", 1973
$History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
                         - Abba Eban, 1970
$Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
                         - Thomas Alva Edison, "Life", 1932
$There is no substitute for hard work.
                         - Thomas Alva Edison, "Life", 1932
$To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
                         - Paul Ehrlich, in "The Farmers Almanac, 1978"
$Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
                         - Albert Einstein
$Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present,
but an equation is something for eternity.
                         - Albert Einstein
$God does not play dice.
                         - Albert Einstein
$God may be subtle. But He is not malicious.
                         - Albert Einstein
$I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war
fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people
of the earth will be killed.
                         - Albert Einstein
$I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
                         - Albert Einstein
$The important thing is not to stop questioning.
                         - Albert Einstein
$The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has
merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
                         - Albert Einstein
$The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
                         - Albert Einstein
$You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signls here, they
receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
                         - Albert Einstein
$Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
                         - Albert Einstein, "Cosmic Religion"
$The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
                          - Albert Einstein, "Life", 1950
$Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and
the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
                         - Albert Einstein, "Ideas and Opinions", 1954
$A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
                         - Dwight D. Eisenhower
$I think that people want peace so much that one of these days
government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
                         - Dwight D. Eisenhower
$In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
                         - Dwight D. Eisenhower
$We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
                         - Dwight D. Eisenhower
$What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
                         - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958
$This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
                         - T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men", 1925
$The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines
what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
                         - Havelock Ellis, "Little Essays of Love
                              and Virtue", 1922
$The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
                         - Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923
$The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago...
had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
                         - Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923
$What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
                         - Havelock Ellis, "The Dance of Life", 1923
$Always do what you are afraid to do.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson
$Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson
$What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson
$When it is dark enough you can see the stars.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson
$To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journal", 20 December 1822
$A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
$I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
$To be great is to be misunderstood.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Essays", 1841
$I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Journal", May 1849
$Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life", 1860
$Hitch your wagon to a star.
                         - Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Conduct of Life", 1860
$A wise man first determines what is within his control;
all else is then irrelevant.
                         - Epictetus
$We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
                         - Epictetus
$War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
                         - Desiderius Erasmus
$A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
                         - Paul Erdös
$A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way
that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
                         - Ludwig Erhard, in "The Observer", 1958
$There's a difference between beauty and charm.  A beautiful woman
is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
                         - John Erskine
$Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do
with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
                         - Susan Ertz
$Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
                         - Euripides
$The best of seers is he who guesses well.
                         - Euripides
$The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.
                         - Harold Evans, "Pictures on a Page", 1978
$Passions are fashions.
                         - Clifton Fadiman
$When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before.
You see more in you than there was before.
                         - Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play", 1957
$The only accident [at Three Mile Island] is that this thing leaked out.
You could have avoided this whole thing by not saying anything.
                         - Craig Faust (control-room operator at TMI), 1979,
                              quoted from "Loose Talk"
$If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks
and transporting goods on our backs.
                         - William Feather
$A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
                         - James Feibleman, "Understanding Philosophy", 1973
$The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
                         - Fanny Fern, "Willis Parton"
$Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
                         - David Ferrier
$The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
                         - Richard Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
$Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad.
                         - W. C. Fields
$I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
                         - W.C. Fields
$It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
                         - Errol Flynn
$Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
                         - Henry Ford
$The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor,
to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
                         - Anatole France
$I am responsible only to God and history.
                         - Francisco Franco
$I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
                         - Anne Frank
$Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
                         - Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
$In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
                         - Benjamin Franklin, 1789
$Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
                         - Sigmund Freud
$Clothe an idea in words and it loses its freedom of movement.
                         - Egon Friedell
$The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride.
Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.
                         - Fred Friendly, 1980
$The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
                         - Erich Fromm
$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 diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday
but never remembers her age.
                         - Robert Frost
$A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
                         - Robert Frost
$A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
                         - Robert Frost
$The world is full of willing people;
some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
                         - Robert Frost
$The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
                         - Robert Frost, "Stopping by Woods on a
                              Snowy Evening", 1923
$We compound our suffering by victimising each other.
                         - Athol Fugard, in "The Observer", 1971
$The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
                         - R. Buckminster Fuller
$The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
                         - R. Buckminster Fuller,
                              quoted in "Contemporary Architects", 1980
$It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree.
It's what you do with your life that counts.
                         - Millard Fuller, in "Time", 16 January 1989
$Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is
almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
                         - Zsa Zsa Gabor
$If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
                         - John Kenneth Galbraith
$Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
                         - John Kenneth Galbraith
$Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing
between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
                         - John Kenneth Galbraith
$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
$In economics, the majority is always wrong.
                         - John Kenneth Galbraith, in "Saturday Evening Post",
                              1968
$One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
                         - John Kenneth Galbraith, in "Time", 1961
$I could prove God statistically.
                         - George Gallup
$He who awaits much can expect little.
                         - Gabriel García Márquez,
                              "El Coronel no Tiene quien le Escriba"
$Si Dios no hubiera descansado el domingo
habría tenido tiempo de terminar el mundo.
(If God hadn't rested on Sunday,
He would have had time to finish the world.)
                         - Gabriel García Márquez,
                              "Los Funerales de Mamá Grande", 1974
$No creo en Dios, pero le tengo miedo.
(I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.)
                         - Gabriel García Márquez,
                              "El Amor en los Tiempos de Cólera", 1985
$The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
                         - Charles de Gaulle, 1967
$A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
                         - German Proverb
$If you can count your money you don't have a billion dollars.
                         - J. Paul Getty
$I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
                         - Kahlil Gibran
$Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
                         - André Gide
$In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over
and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
                         - André Gide
$The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
                         - Jean Giraudoux
$Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
                         - Arnold Glasow
$All things are only transitory.
                         - Goethe
$We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions,
nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
                         - Mikhail Gorbachev, UN address, 7 December 1988
$The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.
                         - Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom" 1647
$Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February hath twenty-eight alone,
And all the rest have thirty-one.
                         - Richard Grafton, 1562
$I think when a person has been found guilty of rape
he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.
                         - Billy Graham, 1974
$The illusion that times that were are better than those that are,
has probably pervaded all ages.
                         - Horace Greeley, "The American Conflict", 1864-1866
$If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
                         - Motto of the Green Berets
$Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.
                         - Graham Greene, 1981
$Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
                         - Charles H. Grosvenor
$It's round the world I've traveled; it's round the world I've roamed;
but I've yet to see an outlaw drive a family from its home.
                         - Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd"
$Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
                         - Alex Hamilton, "The Listener", 1978
$The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
                         - R. W. Hamming, "Numerical Methods for
                              Scientists and Engineers", 1973
$War will cease when men refuse to fight.
                         - Fridtjof Hansen
$Licker talks mighty loud w'en it gets loose fum de jug.
                         - Joel C. Harris, "Uncle Remus: Plantation Proverbs"
$Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has
just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
                         - Sydney Harris
$In times like these, it is helpful to remember
that there have always been times like these.
                         - Paul Harvey
$The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its desirability.
                         - John W. Hazard, "Changing Times" 1957
$Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
                         - William Hazlitt
$Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained
with the greatest violence.
                         - Hebrew Proverb
$Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity,
and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
                         - Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
$Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
But beautiful women don't need to know about men.
It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
                         - Katherine Hepburn
$Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived
and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
                         - Ernest Hemingway, quoted in "Sunday Times", 1966
$Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased
at the price of chains and slavery?
                         - Patrick Henry
$All is flux, nothing stays still.
                         - Heraclitus
$There is nothing permanent except change.
                         - Heraclitus
$Some actions have an end but no beginning; some begin but do not end.
It all depends upon where the observer is standing.
                         - Frank Herbert
$I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
                         - Frank Herbert, "Dune", 1965
$Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
                         - Herodotus
$If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of
fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.
                         - Herodotus
$There's nothing in the middle of the road
but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
                         - Jim Hightower, in "Time", 3 April 1989
$To do nothing is also a good remedy.
                         - Hippocrates
$Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
                         - Alfred Hitchcock, in "The Observer", 1960
$In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is
and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.
                         - Alfred Hitchcock, 1966
$The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
                         - Adolf Hitler
$What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
                         - Adolf Hitler
$Never tolerate the establishment of two continental powers in Europe.
                         - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
$Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
                         - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
$Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.
                         - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
$The great masses of the people ... will more easily
fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
                         - Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf", 1933
$You can discover what your enemy fears most
by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
                         - Eric Hoffer, in "The Faber Book of Aphorisms", 1964
$The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
                         - Abbie Hoffman
$Justice is incidental to law and order.
                         - J. Edgar Hoover
$Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero!
(Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!)
                         - Horace
$Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
(It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country.)
                         - Horace
$He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
                         - Horace
$Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
                         - Horace
$Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
                         - Elbert Hubbard
$Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
                         - Kin Hubbard
$When a fellow says it ain't the money but
the principle of the thing, it's the money.
                         - Kin Hubbard
$Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
                         - Kin Hubbard, "Abe Martin's Broadcast", 1930
$Habit is the nursery of errors.
                         - Victor Hugo
$We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
                         - Hubert H. Humphrey
$The right to be heard does not automatically
include the right to be taken seriously.
                         - Hubert H. Humphrey, 1965
$A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
                         - Fannie Hurst
$The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,
and undernourishment.
                         - Robert Hutchins, "Great Books" 1954
$Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
                         - Aldous Huxley
$The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet
is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is
to be proved right.
                         - Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World Revisited", 1956
$Experience is not what happens to you.
It is what you do with what happens to you.
                         - Aldous Huxley, in "Reader's Digest", 1956
$Technological progress has merely provided us with more
efficient means for going backwards.
                         - Aldous Huxley, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow",
                              1956
$A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
                         - Henrik Ibsen, "An Enemy of the People", 1882
$The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
                         - Henrik Ibsen, "An Enemy of the People", 1882
$There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.
                         - Ihara Saikaku
$Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them.
                         - Robert G. Ingersoll
$To think contrary to one's era is heroism.
But to speak against it is madness.
                         - Eugene Ionesco
$The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
                         - Reggie Jackson
$It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
                         - Clive James, in "The Observer", 1976
$A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
                         - William James
$The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
                         - William James
$El amor es un camino que de repente aparece y de tanto caminarlo se te pierde.
                         - Victor Jara, "El Amor es un Camino"
$In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
                         - Thomas Jefferson
$I think [a black] ... could scarcely be found capable of
tracing and comprehending the investigations of Euclid.
                         - Thomas Jefferson, "Notes on Virginia", 1787
$It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless,
of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
                         - Jerome K. Jerome
$To seek permission is to seek denial.
                         - Steve Jobs
$Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
                         - Pope John XXIII, 1978
$I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket.
                         - Lyndon B. Johnson
$If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River,
the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM.
                         - Lyndon B. Johnson
$No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist
or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
                         - Lyndon B. Johnson, 1960
$Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
                         - Samuel Johnson, 7 April 1775
$The heart has its prisons that intelligence cannot unlock.
                         - Marcel Jouhandeau, "De la grandeur"
$Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
                         - Pope Julius III
$An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
                         - John Junor
$In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
                         - Franz Kafka
$There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring:
impatience and laziness.
                         - Franz Kafka
$The more things change, the more they remain the same.
                         - Alphonse Karr, "Les Guêpes", January 1849
$You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.
                         - Edward Keating
$Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
                         - John Keats, Correspondence, 1819
$College isn't the place to go for ideas.
                         - Hellen Keller
$We have met the enemy and he is us.
                         - Walt Kelly in "POGO"
$If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
                         - Florynce Kennedy, 1976
$Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
                         - John F. Kennedy
$Washington is a ciy of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
                         - John F. Kennedy
$We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind
in the history of the world - or to make it the last.
                         - John F. Kennedy
$And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you;
ask what you can do for your country.
                         - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961
$If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,
it cannot save the few who are rich.
                         - John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961
$Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
will make violent revolution inevitable.
                         - John F. Kennedy, 12 March 1962
$Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
                         - Robert F. Kennedy
$Some men see things as they are and say why?
I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'
                         - Robert F. Kennedy, quoted in "Esquire", 1969
$Without feeling there's no reason to live.
                         - André Kertész, photographer, 1894-1985
$In the long run we are all dead.
                         - John Maynard Keynes, "The General Theory", 1936
$In a fight you don't stop to choose your cudgels.
                         - Nikita Khruschev
$Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build
bridge even when there are no rivers.
                         - Nikita Khruschev
$Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
                         - Sören Kierkegaard, "Life"
$Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
                         - Martin Luther King, Jr.
$It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me,
but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
                         - Martin Luther King, Jr.
$Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the
the philanthropist to over-look the circumstances of
economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
                         - Martin Luther King, Jr., "Strength to Love", 1963
$The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
                         - Martin Luther King, Jr., "Strength to Love", 1963
$He travels the fastest who travels alone.
                         - Rudyard Kipling
$Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
                         - Rudyard Kipling
$The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
                         - Henry Kissinger
$Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
                         - Ernie Kovacs
$Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
                         - Jonathan Kozol
$Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.
                         - Charles Lamb
$People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather
have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
                         - Robert Keith Leavitt
$It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.
                         - Robert E. Lee, December 1862
$To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
                         - Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea", 1975
$When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
                         - Stanislaw Lec
$It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
                         - Nikolai Lenin
$The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
                         - Claude Levi-Strauss, "Tristes Tropiques", 1955
$Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive,
but what they conceal is vital.
                         - Aaron Levenstein
$Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you.
Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
                         - Bernard Levin, in "Daily Mail", 1964
$A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat
without having his neighbor notice it.
                         - Trygve Lie
$He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
                         - Abraham Lincoln
$Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
                         - Abraham Lincoln
$Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
                         - Abraham Lincoln
$The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
                         - Abraham Lincoln
$Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong
impulse to see it tried on im personally.
                         - Abraham Lincoln
$You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
                         - Abraham Lincoln
$Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee,
and just as hard to sleep after.
                         - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
$Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
                         - Walter Lippmann
$I have always thought the actions of men the best
interpreters of their thoughts.
                         - John Locke
$Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.
                         - Vince Lombardi, 1965
$The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
                         - Cesare Lombroso, "The Man of Genius"
$Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
                         - Joe Louis, 1965
$In war there is no substitute for victory.
                         - General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, 19 April 1951
$There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
                         - General Douglas MacArthur, 1955
$Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más;
caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.
                         - Antonio Machado, "Proverbios y cantares, VI"
$It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
                         - Niccolo Machiavelli
$All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death
than the animals that know nothing.
                         - Maurice Maeterlinck
$The atom bomb is a paper tiger...
Terrible to look at but not so strong as it seems.
                         - Mao Zedong
$Politics power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
                         - Mao Zedong, "Quotations from Chairman Mao", 1966
$Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
                         - Mao Zedong, "Quotations from Chairman Mao", 1966
$an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience
                         - Donald R. Perry Marquis, "archy and mehitabel", 1927
$Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
                         - Groucho Marx
$Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
                         - Groucho Marx
$From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
                         - Karl Marx
$Religion ... is the opium of the masses.
                         - Karl Marx, "Critique of the Hegelian Philosophy
                              of Right", 1844
$Unrecognized faults lead to wasted efforts
                         - Joanot Martorell, "Tirant lo Blanc", 1490
$Impropriety is the soul of wit.
                         - Somerset Maugham
$Love is only the dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
                         - W. Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook" 1949
$I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
                         - William H. Mauldin, "Up Front" 1944
$Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
                         - Margaret Mead
$The people here [in Nicaragua] are amazingly friendly, when you
figure we're here to overthrow their government.
                         - Richard Melton, US Ambassador to Nicaragua
$A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence
and yet keep both ears to the ground.
                         - H. L. Mencken
$Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
                         - H. L. Mencken
$No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
                         - H. L. Mencken
$Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
                         - H. L. Mencken
$The American public knows what it wants,
and deserves to get it good and hard.
                         - H. L. Mencken
$There's always an easy solution to every human problem -
neat, plausible, and wrong.
                         - H. L. Mencken
$Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
                         - H. L. Mencken, "A Book of Prefaces", 1917
$Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life,
there is actually no truth to be discovered;
there is only error to be exposed.
                         - H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922
$The older I grow the more I distrust
the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
                         - H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices, Third Series", 1922
$Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
                         - H. L. Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy", 1949
$Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservatives.
                         - John Stuart Mill
$He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
                         - John Stuart Mill
$A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he gets to know something.
                         - Wilson Mizner
$Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
                         - Wilson Mizner
$I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
                         - Wilson Mizner
$Some of the greatest love affairs I've known
have involved one actor, unassisted.
                         - Wilson Mizner
$When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism;
but when you take it from many writers, it's research.
                         - Wilson Mizner
$I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.
                         - Marilyn Monroe
$Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in,
and those inside equally desperate to get out.
                         - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
$The value of life lies not in the length of days,
but in the use we make of them...
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not
on your tale of years, but on your will.
                         - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1580
$Obstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off the goal.
                         - Hannah More
$Only the sinner has the right to preach.
                         - Christopher Morley
$There is only one success, to be able to spend your life in your own way.
                         - Christopher Morley
$You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
                         - John Morley, "Rousseau", 1876
$Any party which takes credit for the rain
must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the draught.
                         - Dwight Morrow
$If the nation's economists were laid end to end,
they would point in all directions.
                         - Arthur H. Motley
$As a student I learned from wonderful teachers
and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
                         - Bill Moyers, interviews on "Fresh Air", 1991
$Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
                         - Edward R. Murrow
$Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
                         - Edward R. Murrow
$The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off,
have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the
greatest misery without almost noticing them.
                         - Gunnar Myrdal
$Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death
should not be an even greater one.
                         - Vladimir Nabokov, quoted in "Time", 1981
$The speed of exit of a civil servant is directly proportional
to the quality of his service.
                         - Ralph Nader, "The Spoiled System"
$Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
                         - V. S. Naipul, interview in "Time", 10 July 1989
$If you wish to be a success in the world,
promise everything, deliver nothing.
                         - Napoleon
$In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
                         - Napoleon
$Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
                         - Napoleon
$A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
                         - Napoleon, "Maxims" 1804-1815
$History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
                         - Napoleon, "Maxims" 1804-1815
$Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
                         - Napolean, quoted in "The Book of Insults", 1978
$Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.
                         - Ogden Nash
$Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
                         - George Jean Nathan
$Nobody believes the official spokesman ...
but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
                         - Ron Nesen, 1977
$Lack of will power has caused more failure than
lack of intelligence or ability.
                         - Flower A. Newhouse
$Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
                         - Howard W. Newton
$If I have seen far, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
                         - Sir Isaac Newton
$O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed,
courage to change what should be changed,
and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
                         - Reinhold Niebuhr, sermon, 1934
$Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
                         - Reinhold Niebuhr
$     They [Nazis] came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
     Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
     Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
     Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one left to speak up.
                         - Martin Niemöller
$In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
                         - Friedrich Nietzsche
$One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
                         - Friedrich Nietzsche
$What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
                         - Friedrich Nietzsche
$Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
                         - Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil",
                              1885 - 1886
$A ship is always referred to as "she"
because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
                         - Chester Nimitz, Speech, 13 February 1940
$I have nothing to hide.
                         - Richard Nixon
$I would have made a good pope.
                         - Richard Nixon
$Voters quickly forget what a man says.
                         - Richard Nixon
$Your President is no crook!
                         - Richard Nixon
$Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth -
to see it like it is, and tell it like it is -
to find the truth, to speak the truth, and live the truth.
                         - Richard Nixon. accepting the Presidential
                              Nomination, 1968
$When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
                         - Richard Nixon, in interview with David Frost,
                              19 May 1977
$Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be
an even greater one.
                         - Vladimir Nobokov
$Laws were made to be broken.
                         - Christopher North
$Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.
                         - Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Return of the Jedi"
$There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
                         - Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC,
                              Convention of the World Future Society, 1977
$The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist knows it.
                         - J. Robert Oppenheimer,
                              "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" 1951
$Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
                         - George Orwell
$Liberal - a power worshipper without power.
                         - George Orwell
$On the whole human beings want to be good,
but not too good and not quite all the time.
                         - George Orwell, collected essays
$All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
                         - George Orwell, "Animal Farm" 1945
$Big Brother Is Watching You
                         - George Orwell, "1984", 1948
$Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
                         - George Orwell, "1984", 1948
$At 50 everyone has the face he deserves.
                         - George Orwell, "Journals", 1949
$Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives,
but on balance life is suffering and only the very young
or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
                         - George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant", 1950
$It is convenient that there be gods,
and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
                         - Ovid, "Ars Amatoria"
$To be loved, be lovable.
                         - Ovid, "Ars Amatoria"
$The chief product of an automated society
is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
                         - Cyril Parkinson
$It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as
to fill the time available for its completion.
                         - C. Northcote Parkinson, in "The Economist", 1955
$The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
                         - Ellen Parr
$If all men knew what others say of them,
there would not be four friends in the world.
                         - Blaise Pascal, 1656
$Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
                         - Blaise Pascal, "Pensées", 1670
$Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor
of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will
rob him of all if he gives too much.
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$I have one great fear in my heart, that one day
when they [the whites of South Africa] have turned to loving,
they will find we [the blacks] are turned to hating.
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$Then what is it worth, this mining industry? And why should it
be kept alive, if it is only our poverty that keeps it alive? ...
Is it we that must be kept poor so that others may stay rich?
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? ...
Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand.
But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle,
is beyond all human wisdom.
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$Yet [white] men [of South Africa] were afraid,
with a fear that was deep, deep in the heart,
a fear so deep that they hid their kindness, ...
They were afraid because they were so few.
And fear could not be cast out, but by love.
                         - Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948
$To give up the task of reforming society is to
give up one's responsibility as a free man.
                         - Alan Paton, 1967
$Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often
discover what they lack.
                         - George S. Patton
$Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
                         - George S. Patton, "War As I Knew It", 1947
$Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained
control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
                         - Pat Paulsen
$Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
                         - Boies Penrose, 1931
$An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow
why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
                         - Laurence J. Peter
$Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
                         - Laurence Peter
$Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear
but forgetting where you heard it.
                         - Laurence Peter
$In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
                         - Laurence Peter, "The Peter Principle" 1969
$Democracy is a process by which the people are free
to choose the man who will get the blame.
                         - Laurence Peter, "Peter's Quotations", 1977
$Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear
but forgetting where you heard it.
                         - Laurence Peter, "Peter's Quotations", 1977
$A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.
                         - Gaius Petronius, "Satyricon"
$Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
                         - Wendell Phillips, Speech, 7 November 1860
$Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
                         - Augusto Pinochet
$The measure of man is what he does with power.
                         - Pittacus
$If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed,
there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
                         - P. J. Plauger
$I don't need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
                         - Plutarch
$Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
                         - Roman Polanski
$Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
                         - Polish proverb
$Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
                         - Alexander Pope
$If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
                         - Antonio Porchia, "Voces", 1968
$One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
                         - Antonio Porchia, "Voces", 1968
$They talk most who have the least to say.
                         - Matthew Prior
$A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
                         - Herbert Prochnow
$A good workman is known by his tools.
                         - Proverb
$Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret,
especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
                         - William Proxmire
$Maxim 914: Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
                         - Publilius Syrus
$Maxim 1070: I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
                         - Publilius Syrus
$Practice is the best of all instructors.
                         - Publilius Syrus
$If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
                         - J. Danforth Quayle
$There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.
In other words, a good offense wins.
                         - J. Danforth Quayle, on "Star Wars",
                              quoted in "Time", 19 September 1988
$Happy campers you have been, happy campers you are,
and happy campers you will always be.
                         - J. Danforth Quayle, on arrival in American Samoa,
                              quoted in "Time", 8 May 1989
$I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and
the only regret I have was that I didn't study
Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.
                         - J. Danforth Quayle, quoted in "Time", 8 May 1989
$What a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind.
How true it is.
                         - J. Danforth Quayle, addressing the United Negro
                              College Fund, quoted in "Time", 26 June 1989
$Mars is essentially in the same orbit [as the Earth]...
We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.
If there is water, there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.
                         - J. Danforth Quayle, interviewed on Cable Network
                              News, 11 August 1989
$Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.
                         - Raymond Queneau, "A Model History"
$I have been staying in Moscow for only 24 hours,
but already I feel almost at home.
                         - Hashemi Rafsanjani, in "New York Times",
                              22 June 1989
$A nuclear power plant is infinitely safer than eating,
because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
                         - Dixy Lee Ray, 1977, quoted from "Loose Talk"
$Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
                         - Ronald Reagan
$Growing and decaying vegetation in this land are responsible
for 93 percent of the oxides of nitrogen.
                         - Ronald Reagan
$If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
                         - Ronald Reagan
$Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
                         - Ronald Reagan
$Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity?
                         - Ronald Reagan
$Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite
at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
                         - Ronald Reagan, "Saturday Evening Post" 1965
$I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964
and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
                         - Ronald Reagan, 20 October 1965
$I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
                         - Ronald Reagan, 1968
$All the wastes in a year from a nuclear power plant
can be stored under a desk.
                         - Ronald Reagan, quoted in "Burlington Free Press",
                              15 February 1980
$History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the
people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government....
When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.
                         - Ronald Reagan, quoted in "Time", 14 April 1980
$Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released
by vegetation. So let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough
emissions standards for man-made sources.
                         - Ronald Reagan, quoted in "Sierra", 10 September 1980
$I have just signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever;
we begin bombing in 5 minutes.
                         - Ronald Reagan, weekly radio address, 11 August 1984
$Facts are stupid things.
                         - Ronald Reagan, 1988 Republican Convention
$The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
                         - Quentin Reynolds, in "Quote & Unquote", 1970
$The streets are safe in Philadelphia,
it's only the people who make them unsafe.
                         - Frank Rizzo
$We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it,
we'll send in a couple of policemen.
                         - Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia Bulletin, Oct 19, 1973
$One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability
to distinguish our needs from our greeds.
                         - Don Robinson, quoted in "Reader's Digest", 1963
$If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind,
give it more thought.
                         - Dennis Roch
$We always love those who admire us,
but we do not always love those whom we admire.
                         - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
$Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
                         - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
$Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches
beyond their own understanding.
                         - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665
$Old people like to give good advice,
as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
                         - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665
$Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done
as the fear of the consequences.
                         - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665
$The reason that lovers never weary each other
is because they are always talking about themselves.
                         - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" 1665
$Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are
for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing
would fall flat in a week.
                         - Will Rogers
$Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
                         - Will Rogers
$Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
                         - Will Rogers
$There is nothing as stupid as an educated man
if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
                         - Will Rogers
$There's no trick to being a humorist when you have
the whole government working for you.
                         - Will Rogers
$This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session
as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
                         - Will Rogers
$We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb
and clap as they go by.
                         - Will Rogers
$Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.
                         - Will Rogers, "The Illiterate Digest", 1924
$I never met a man I didn't like.
                         - Will Rogers, speech, June 1930
$Half our life is spent trying to find something to do
with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
                         - Will Rogers, "The Autobiography of Will Rogers", 1949
$The world is an enormous injustice.
                         - Jules Romains
$We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center
of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week,
but for some reason nobody's ever done it.
                         - Andy Rooney
$No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
                         - Eleanor Roosevelt, "This is My Story", 1937
$The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those
who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
                         - Franklin D. Roosevelt
$It is common sense to take a method and try it.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something.
                         - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, 22 May 1932
$The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
                         - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st Inaugural Address, 1933
$A technique is a trick that works.
                         - Gian-Carlo Rota
$One half of the children born die before their eighth year.
This is nature's law; why try to contradict it?
                         - Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Émile, ou de l'education",
                              1762
$People who know little are usually great talkers,
while men who know much say little.
                         - Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Émile, ou de l'education",
                              1762
$Never trust anyone over thirty.
                         - Jerry Rubin, 1966
$The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
                         - Bertrand Russell
$Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -
more than ruin, more even than death.
                         - Bertrand Russell, "Selected Papers"
$You can outdistance that which is running after you,
but not what is running inside you.
                         - Rwandan proverb
$A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
                         - Françoise Sagan
$Women and elephants never forget an injury.
                         - Saki, "Reginald", 1904
$A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
                         - Saki, "The Square Egg", 1924
$Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king
but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
                         - Sallust, "De bello Iugurthino"
$Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves,
spits on its hands and goes to work.
                         - Carl Sandburg, in "New York Times", 1959
$In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes
when you awake in the morning.
                         - Carl Sandburg, in "New York Post", 1960
$A man's feet should be planted in his country,
but his eyes should survey the world.
                         - George Santayana
$Skepticism, like chastity should not be relinquished too readily.
                         - George Santayana
$Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
                         - George Santayana
$When the rich make war it's the poor that die.
                         - Jean-Paul Sartre, "Le Diable et le bon Dieu", 1951
$Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make.
Tact means not noticing them.
                         - Arthur Schnitzler
$Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision
for the limits of the world.
                         - Arthur Schopenhauer, "Studies in Pessimism"
$There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
                         - Charles M. Schulz
$Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
                         - C. P. Scott, c.1900
$They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
                         - General John B. Sedgwick, last words, 1864
$They that govern the most make the least noise.
                         - John Seldon, 1689
$People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.
                         - Peter Sellers
$It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
                         - Seneca, "Epistles"
$There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
                         - Seneca, "On Tranquility of the Mind"
$Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
                         - Seneca, "Thyestes"
$Singing makes all the sad people happy because it is the voice of happiness.
                         - Joseph Shabalala
$A government that robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend upon the support of Paul.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior
to all others because you were born in it.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$We've already established what you are, ma'am.
Now we're just haggling over the price.
                         - George Bernard Shaw
$Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
                         - George Bernard Shaw, "The Rejected Statement"
$He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
                         - George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman", 1903
$Lack of money is the root of all evil.
                         - George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman", 1903
$Liars ought to have good memories.
                         - Algernon Sidney
$All reformers, however strict their social conscience,
live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
                         - Logan Pearsall Smith
$I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
                         - Socrates
$I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
                         - Socrates
$The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
                         - Socrates
$If God had meant there to be more than 2 factors of production,
He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimensional diagrams.
                         - Robert Solow
$Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
                         - Susan Sontag
$Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
                         - Spinoza, 1677
$If you want a thing well one, do it yourself.
                         - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
$A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
                         - Joseph Stalin
$The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
                         - Joseph Stalin
$Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
                         - Joseph Stalin, Speech, 19 April 1923
$Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.
                         - Joseph Stalin, 1935
$Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?
                         - John Steinbeck
$Time is the only critic without ambition.
                         - John Steinbeck, "Writers at Work', 1977
$There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a
vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.
                         - Gloria Steinem
$A humgry man is not a free man.
                         - Adlai Stevenson
$In America, any boy may become president and I suppose
that's just one of the risks he takes.
                         - Adlai Stevenson
$Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact
that sometimes he has to eat them.
                         - Adlai Stevenson
$The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
                         - Adlai Stevenson, 9 September 1952
$The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
                         - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque", 1881
$Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness.
Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.
                         - Sting (Gordon Summer), 1980
$If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying
to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
                         - I. F. Stone, 1967
$Ninety per cent of everything is crap.
                         - Theodore Sturgeon
$There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
                         - Swift
$Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and
thinking what no one else has thought.
                         - Albert Szent-Gyorgi
$And you may ask yourself  "Am I right? ... Am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself  "MY GOD! ... WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
                         - The Talking Heads
$The nice thing about standards is that there are
so many of them to choose from.
                         - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
$A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, will tell you.
                         - Bert Taylor, "The So-Called Human Race", 1922
$The hunger for love is much more difficult
to remove than the hunger for bread.
                         - Mother Teresa, quoted in "Time", 4 December 1989
$El infierno es el lugar donde no se ama.
(Hell is the place where love is not found.)
                         - Santa Teresa
$If you want anything said, ask a man.
If you want anything done, ask a woman.
                         - Margaret Thatcher
$You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
                         - Margaret Thatcher, 1976
$Under a government which imprisons any unjustly,
the true place for a just man is also a prison.
                         - Henry David Thoreau
$That government is best which governs least.
                         - Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience" 1849
$The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
                         - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
$If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
                         - Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854
$The savage in man is never quite eradicated.
                         - Henry David Thoreau, "Journal", 26 September 1859
$I think that maybe if women and children
were in charge we would get somewhere.
                         - James Thurber
$It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
                         - James Thurber
$You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
                         - James Thurber, "The Thurber Carnival", 1945
$The Law of Raspberry Jam - The wider any culture is spread,
the thinner it gets.
                         - Alvin Toffler, "The Culture Consumers", 1964
$The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
                         - Lily Tomlin
$The function of genius is not to give new answers,
but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
                         - Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Men and Events"
$The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained
by recourse to every form of violence.
                         - Leon Trotsky, "Terrorism and Communism", 1924
$If you can't convince them, confuse them.
                         - Harry S. Truman
$If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
                         - Harry S. Truman
$It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
                         - Harry S. Truman
$Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
                         - Harry S. Truman, "Memoirs, Vol. II", 1955
$A President cannot always be popular.
                         - Harry S. Truman, "Memoirs, Vol. II", 1955
$It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job;
it's a depression when you lose yours.
                         - Harry S. Truman, 1958
$Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
                         - Harry S. Truman, 1959
$A little more moderation would be good. Of course,
my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
                         - Donald Trump, in "Time", 16 January 1989
$I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking
anything, you might as well think big.
                         - Donald Trump, in "Time", 16 January 1989
$The more laws and order are made prominent,
the more thieves and robbers there will be.
                         - Lao Tsu
$Words divide us, action unites us.
                         - Slogan of the Tupamaros
$If I had any humility I would be perfect.
                         - Ted Turner
$Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
                         - Mark Twain
$The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
                         - Mark Twain
$The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
                         - Mark Twain
$When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished
at how much he had learned in seven years.
                         - Mark Twain
$Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority,
it is time to reform.
                         - Mark Twain
$Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
                         - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson", 1894
$Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy
you must have somebody to divide it with.
                         - Mark Twain, "Following the Equator", 1897
$Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
                         - Mark Twain, Correspondence, 1908
$Good politics are often inextricably intertwined.
                         - Morris Udall, "Too Funny to Be President", 1988
$Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender,
for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
                         - Morris Udall, quoted in "Sierra", May/June 1989
$To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
                         - Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life", 1913
$Nada muere, todo baja del río del tiempo al mar de la eternidad y allí queda.
                         - Miguel de Unamuno, "Ver con los Ojos y Otros
                              Relatos Novelescos"
$¿No es acaso todo esto un sueño de Dios o de quien sea,
que se desvanecerá en cuanto Él despierte,
y por eso le rezamos y elevamos a Él cánticos e himnos,
para adormecerle, para cunar su sueño?
                         - Miguel de Unamuno, "Niebla", 1914
$Nadie tiene más imaginación que la realidad.
                         - Miguel de Unamuno, "El Espejo de la Muerte", 1941
$The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate.
Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
                         - Bill Vaughan
$Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
(And perhaps at some later date it will be pleasant to remember these things.)
                         - Vergil
$Time is flying never to return.
                         - Vergil
$It is not enough to succed. Others must fail.
                         - Gore Vidal
$There's a lot to be said for being noveau riche,
and the Reagans mean to say it all.
                         - Gore Vidal, in "The Observer", 1981
$A witty saying proves nothing.
                         - Voltaire
$If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
                         - Voltaire, "Épîtres, XCVI"
$Man in the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...
and the only one that can be mass-produced with unskilled labor.
                         - Werner von Braun
$We are what we pretend to be.
                         - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
$One's company, two's a crowd and three's a party.
                         - Andy Warhol, in "Exposures", 1979
$The sports page records people's accomplishments;
The front page nothing but their failures.
                         - Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren
$My responsibility is to follow the Scriptures which call upon us
to occupy the land until Jesus returns.
                         - James Watt, in "The Washington Post", 24 May 1981
$If you worry about your customers,
you won't have to worry about money.
                         - Les Welch, in "Bicycle USA", March/April 1990
$I passionately hate the idea of being with it,
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
                         - Orson Welles, 1966
$I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
                         - Mae West
$Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
                         - Mae West
$When choosing between two evils, I always like to take
the one I've never tried before.
                         - Mae West, in "Klondike Annie" 1936
$Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
                         - Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass", 1855
$There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
                         - Dr. Who
$No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
                         - Oscar Wilde
$There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about,
and that is not being talked about.
                         - Oscar Wilde
$A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
                         - Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Grey", 1891
$Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them;
sometimes they forgive them.
                         - Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Grey", 1891
$There is no sin except stupidity.
                         - Oscar Wilde, "The Critic as Artist", 1891
$We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
                         - Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan", 1892
$Relations are simply a tedious pack of people,
who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live,
nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
                         - Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest", 1895
$Hindsight is always 20:20.
                         - Billy Wilder
$Voters do not decide issues. They decide *who* will decide issues.
                         - George F. Will, in "Newsweek", 1976
$Anyone can hate. It costs to love.
                         - John Williamson
$Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
                         - Gary Wills, in "New York Times", 1975
$Not-really-trying is just as much effort as trying-really-hard.
The only difference ... is that not-really-trying receives no reward.
                         - A. N. Wilson, "Incline Our Hearts", 1989
$If you think nobody cares if you're alive,
try missing a couple of car payments.
                         - Earl Wilson
$You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't
put a few nickels in the machine.
                         - Flip Wilson, 1971
$Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
                         - Jonathan Winters in "The Twilight Zone"
$The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
                         - Ludwig Wittgenstein
$Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses
possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting
the figure of man at twice its natural size.
                         - Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own", 1929
$TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
                         - Frank Lloyd Wright
$I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
                         - John Wycliffe
$Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
                         - William Butler Yeats
$He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
                         - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1968
$It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
                         - Emiliano Zapata
$Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
                         - Frank Zappa
$One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you
only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
                         - Frank Zappa, 1979
$Progress might be a circle, rather than a straight line.
                         - Eberhard Zeidler, in "Contemporary Architects",
                              1980
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