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Got Milk?
Dairy Farmers Association

Just Do It
Nike

Please, sir, I want some more.
Charles Dickens

Happiness is a warm puppy
Charles Schulz

All for one, one for all.
Alexandre Dumas

Four legs good, two legs bad.
George Orwell

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.
Punch

Me Tarzan, you Jane.
Johnny Weissmuller

Beulah, peel me a grape.
Mae West

There's a sucker born every minute.
Phineas T. Barnum

He more had pleased us, had he pleased us less.
Joseph Addison

Houston, Tranquility Base here.  The Eagle has landed.
Buzz Aldrin

Form follows function
Louis Henri Sullivan

Adam. Had 'em.
Anonymous

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.
Anonymous

There's no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

Let them eat cake.
Marie-Antoinette

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.
John F. Kennedy

I know why the caged bird sings!
Paul Lawrence Dunbar

It is quite a three-pipe problem.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Nice guys finish last.
Leo Durocher

Here's looking at you, kid.
Julius J. Epstein

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

My dear, I don't give a damn.
Margaret Mitchell

The King never dies.
Sir William Blackstone

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Anonymous

Carthage must be destroyed.
Cato the Elder

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.
Emile Coue

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
Noel Coward

A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Brooks Adams

They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Brooks Adams

It is no time for mirth and laughter, the cold, grey dawn of the morning after.
George Ade

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
Samuel Smiles

It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.
Tacitus

There is no stronger bond of friendship than a mutual enemy.
Frankfort Moore

I'm Charley's aunt from Brazil - where the nuts come from.
Brandon Thomas

It's cheerio my deario that pulls a lady through.
Don Marquis

"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice.
Lewis Carroll

Ettore's Law: The other line moves faster.
Barbara Ettore

I could prove God statistically.
George Gallup

Hollywood: where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.
Laurence Stallings

To betray, you must first belong.
Kim Philby

To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjecture.
Anatole France

Silence is one of the hardest things to refute.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

History is not what you thought.  It is what you can remember.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman

Great is Truth, and might above all things.
I Esdras 4:41 (Apocrypha)

All men naturally desire to know.
Auctoritates Aristotelis

God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Albert Einstein

See how love and murder will out.
William Congreve

After all, tomorrow is another day.
Margaret Mitchell

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
George Orwell

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W.C. Fields

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
Kris Kristofferson

Exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.
Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier)

To err is human but to really mess things up requires a computer.
Anonymous

Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Out, damned spot!
William Shakespeare

Like madness is the glory of this life.
William Shakespeare

As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
Irvin S. Cobb

Laughter: the most civilized music in the world.
Sir Peter Ustinov

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.
George Orwell

We have ... fought for our place in the sun and have won it.
Emperor Wilhelm II

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
Friedrich Klopstock

Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler

Brevity is the sister of talent.
Anton Chekhov

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.
Will and Ariel Durant

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson Mizner

Sure, winning isn't everything.  It's the only thing.
Henry 'Red' Sanders

A pretty girl is like a melody that haunts you night and day.
Irving Berlin

Many people are extremely happy, but are absolutely worthless to society.
Charles Gow

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

TV: chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Moliere

Stand not upon the order of your going.
William Shakespeare

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Samuel Johnson

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
Charles Lamb

The Answer to the Great Question Of Life, the Universe and Everything ... Forty-two.
Douglas Adams

There never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority.
Niccolo Machiavelli

In this best of possible worlds ... all is for the best.
Voltaire

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
Alexander Woollcott

I don't meet competition, I crush it.
Charles Revson

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
Oscar Wilde

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion which makes horse races.
Mark Twain

How haughtily he lifts his nose, to tell what every schoolboy knows.
Jonathan Swift

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Isaac Goldberg

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

The only time a woman wishes she were a year older is when she is expecting a baby.
Mary Marsh

Very sorry can't come.  Lie follows by post.
Lord Charles Beresford

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Ian Dury

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily.  That is what fiction means.
Oscar Wilde

That lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Charles E. Kettering

Crank: a man with a new idea until it succeeds.
Mark Twain

This is adding insult to injuries.
Edward Moore

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale

Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well.
William Shakespeare

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde, on Bernard Shaw

Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic Party; Franklin Roosevelt dumbfounded it.
Dewey Short

Advertising is legalized lying.
H.G. Wells

It is well that war is so terrible.  We should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

He is the very pineapple of politeness!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Genealogy:  Tracing yourself back to people better than you are.
John Garland Pollard

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley

We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
Will Rogers

Never give a sucker an even break.
W.C. Fields

I must be cruel only to be kind.
William Shakespeare

National Pride is a modern form of tribalism.
Robert Shnayerson

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
William Shakespeare

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare

Tiger Tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the night.
William Blake

You think that's noise - you ain't heard nuttin' yet!
Al Jolson

Our supreme governors, the mob.
Horace Walpole (4th Earl of Orford)

Cheese: Milk's leap toward immortality
Clifton Fadiman

Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is a candy.
Charles F. Abbott

All quiet along the Potomac.
General George B. McClellan

Lord give me chastity - but not yet.
Saint Augustine

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard

Get thee behind me, Satan.
Bible, Matthew 16:23

If the triangles were to make a God they would give him three sides.
Montesquieu

I should like to be known as a former President who minded his own business.
Calvin Coolidge

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
Lord Chesterfield

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. Wells

Why am I always the bridesmaid, never the blushing bride?
Fred W. Leigh

So dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.
Lyndon B. Johnson, on Gerald Ford

Probably no invention came more easily to man than when he thought up heaven.
G.C. Lichtenberg

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Dolores Ibarruri ('La Pasionaria')

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
Louise Beal

It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
Horace Walpole, on the East

You see, but you do not observe.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast.
William Congreve

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge

Trust one who has gone through it.
Virgil

We would all be idle if we could.
Samuel Johnson

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

A bore is a person who talks when you want him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce

My near'st and dearest enemy.
William Shakespeare

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker

I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Bill Nye

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author - and that he did not learn it better.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I, a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
A.E. Housman

People have one thing in common: they are all different.
Robert Zend

Not many sounds in life ... exceed in interest a knock at the door.
Charles Lamb

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur Schnitzler

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Alexander Pope

Truman's Law: If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

The world must be made safe for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

Ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Duke of Wellington, on our army

If possible honestly, if not, somehow, make money.
Horace

Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin

And I looked, and behold a pale horse:  and his name that sat on him was Death.
Bible, Revelation 6:8

To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
Wilson Mizner

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
Dion Voucicault

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Bert Lance

Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
Reverend Sydney Smith

One is not born a woman: one becomes one.
Simone de Beauvoir

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas Alva Edison

To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
Norman Douglas

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
James Gordon Bennett

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vine.
Bible, Song of Solomon 2:15

Only the little people pay taxes.
Leona Helmsley

Peace be unto you.
Bible, Luke 24:36

Let no one enter who does not know geometry.
Anonymous

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder.
Aontoine Boulay de la Meurthe

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.
Tom Hayden

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Dorothy Parker

In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.
Andy Warhol

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
John Major

The best government is that which governs least.
John L. O'Sullivan

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.
Fred Allen

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.
Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Some hold translations not unlike to be the wrong side of a Turkey tapestry.
James Howell

If you steal from one another it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
Wilson Mizner

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Simon Cameron

Every country has the government it deserves.
Josephe de Maistre

Et tu, Brute?
Julius Caesar

For what's a play without a woman in it.
Thomas Kyd

The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife.
David Ogilvy

The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
William Shakespeare

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore

My folks didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.
Will Rogers

Never contradict.  Never explain.  Never apologize.
Lord Fisher

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.
Jesus

We can't all do everything.
Virgil

Because it's there.
George Leigh Mallory

To my extreme mortification, I grow wiser every day.
George Gordon, Lord Byron

For great is truth, and shall prevail.
Thomas Brooks

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
Jane Austen

That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.
Elizabeth Gaskell

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry Vaughan

An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame - SMU football game and doesn't care who wins.
DWight D. Eisenhower

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.
A.A. Milne (Pooh)

I sing of arms and the man.
Virgil

History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

Something nasty in the woodshed
Stella Gibbons

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman

History will absolve me.
Fidel Castro

The poor you always have with you.
Jesus

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this, to know so much and to have control over nothing.
Herodotus

Hope raises no dust.
Paul Eluard

The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
Charles F. Kettering

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill

Do not take life to seriously.  You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

Let him who desires peace, prepare for war.
Vegetius

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
William Shakespeare

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Cicero

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus

All the news that's fit to print.
Adolph S. Ochs

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare

One picture is worth ten thousand words.
Fredrick R. Barnard

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

They dashed on towards that thin red line tipped with steel.
Sir William Howard Russell

There is nothing without a reason.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

There is moderation is everything.
Horace

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson

I never promised you a rose garden.
Hannah Green

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy.
Guy Fawkes

Chicago: a pompous Milwaukee.
Leonard Louis Levinson

Neither a borrower, nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare

An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery

Wooing, so tiring.
Nancy Mitford

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities.
Wendell Phillips

Failures are usually the most conceited of men.
D.H. Lawrence

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly.  It is simply indifferent.
John H. Holmes

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G.C. Lichtenberg

He'd be sharper than a serpent's tooth, if he wasn't as dull as ditch water.
Charles Dickens

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
Sir James Dewar

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Henry St. John, 1st. Viscount Bolingbroke

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Max Beerbohm

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Nicholas Murray Butler

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
Laurence J. Peter

Why don't you come up sometime, and see me?
Mae West

To write one's memoirs is to speak ill of everybody except oneself.
Marshal Petain

I shall be like that tree, I shall die at the top.
Jonathan Swift

The dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
Bible, Matthew 15:27

It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
James H. Boren

The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan

We're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.
Curtis E. LeMay

A lady of a 'certain age', which means certainly aged.
Lord Byron

In England there are sixty different religions, and only one sauce.
Francesco Caracciolo

Turn on, tune in and drop out.
Timothy Leary

Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.
Harold Macmillan

I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde

Poets that lasting marble seek must carve in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller

Every man at three years old is half his height.
Leonardo da Vinci

Kiss me Kate, we will be married o' Sunday.
William Shakespeare

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen

Medicine, the only profession that labours incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
James Bryce

By indirections find directions out.
William Shakespeare

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Horace

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Don't one of you fire until you see the white of their eyes.
Israel Putnam

I have not yet begun to fight.
John Paul Jones

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew.
Robert W. Service

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Aldous Huxley

Another nice mess you've gotten me into.
Stan Laurel

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve

An ethical man is a Christian holding four aces.
Mark Twain

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.
William Shakespeare

Roos' Law: If there's a harder way of doing something, someone will find it.
Ralph E. Roos

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
Stanislaw Lec

...One murder a villain, millions a hero.
Beilby Porteus

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast.
W.S. Gilbert

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Benjamin Franklin

Never despair.
Horace

The happy do not believe in miracles.
Johann W. von Goethe

A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

Eye of newt, and toe of frog.
William Shakespeare

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Georges Braque

The great tragedy of the classical languages is to have been born twins.
Geoffrey Madan

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher

All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott

Under the bludgeonings of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
W.E. Henley

Publish and be damned.
Duke of Wellington

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it is written on.
Sam Goldwyn

The history of art is the history of revivals.
Samuel Butler

God is on the side not of the big battalions, but of the best shots.
Voltaire

We are not amused.
Queen Victoria

Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
William Shakespeare

There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Eubie Blake

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.
Ring Lardner

Go litel bok, go, litel myn tragedye.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Emma Lazarus

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
Don Marquis

You will be damned if you do - and you will be damned if you don't.
Lorenzo Dow

Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.
Bible, Matthew 16:18

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
L. Frank Baum

Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
Horace Walpole (4th Earl of Orford)

Do not touch me.
Bible, John 20:17, Cf. 54:6

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
Andre Gide

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin

A broker is a man who takes your fortune and runs it into a shoestring.
Alexander Woollcott

O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
Duke of Wellington

'Tis not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
Algernon Sidney

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.
Woodrow Wilson

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
Sir Peter Ustinov

A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Don Herold

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
Daphne Du Maurier

History (is) a distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle

O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
William Shakespeare

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!  How I wonder what you're at!
Lewis Carroll

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.
Leo J. Burke

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

Curtsey while you're thinking what to say.  It saves time.
Lewis Carroll

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
Abraham Lincoln

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.
Bishop Mandell Creighton

I dreamed that I dwelt in marble halls with vassals and serfs at my side.
Alfred 'Poet' Bunn

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be oneself.
Montaigne

Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life.
Sir Philip Sidney

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.
wilson Mizner

The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
Joseph Conrad

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
Virginia Woolf

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
James McNeill Whistler

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

A medium Vodka dry Martini with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.
Ian Fleming

Natur never makes enny blunders.  When she makes a phool she means it.
Josh Billings

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful.
Pope Gregory I

When a dog bites a man, that is not news... But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
John B. Bogart

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote

A specialist is one who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.
Ambrose Bierce

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
John Ciardi

Poetry is trouble dunked in tears.
Gwyn Thomas

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
James Agate

Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.
Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Anonymous

His worst is better than any other person's best
William Hazlitt

To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare

When I was a child, I spake as a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things.
Bible, New Testament, I Corinthians 13:11

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Frank A. Clark

O death, where is thy sting?
Bible, I Corinthians 15:55

The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
Dan Cook

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it.
Cole Porter

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
Jane Carlyle

Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.
Philip Guedalla

History is past politics, and politics is present history.
E.A. Freeman

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.
Comte de Buffon

These poor half-kisses kill me quite.
Michael Drayton

Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other.
Mikhail Lermontov

Not to decide is to decide.
Harvey Cox

Repentance is the virtue of weak minds.
John Dryden

Art is born of humiliation.
W.H. Auden

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Thomas La Mance

How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Ed Gardner

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

Good-night, good-night! parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare

To know all things is not permitted.
Horace

I never knew a girl who was ruined by a bad book.
Jimmy Walker

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
William Ross Wallace

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.
Benjamin Disraeli

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise Pascal

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Coughlin's Law: Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
Laurence C. COughlin

The die is cast.
Julius Caesar

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Robert S. Lynd

All passes.  Art alone enduring stays to us.
Henry Austin Dobson

I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.
William Walsh

Slice him where you like, a hellhound is always a hellhound.
P.G. Wodehouse

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will and Ariel Durant

The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.
Will Rogers

Politics is war without bloodshed.
Mao Tse-tung

Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights.
Bob Marley

If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee.
Bible, Matthew 18:9

Cities are growing so fast their arteries are showing through their outskirts.
Clyde Moore

A plague o' both your houses!
William Shakespeare

Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Richard Nixon

Growing old isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier

In place of strife.
Ted Castle

Chumps always make the best husbands.
P.G. Wodehouse

Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Moliere

You know my methods.  Apply them.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

A venal city ripe to perish, if a buyer can be found.
Sallust

You should have a softer pillow than my heart.
Lord Byron

The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.
Wendell Willkie

A university does great things, but there is one thing it does not do; it does not intellectualize its neighborhood.
John Henry, Cardinal Newman

He gives the poor man twice as much good who gives quickly.
Publilius Syrus

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Mignon McLaughlin

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
Douglas Jerrold

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
Mario Puzo

Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the Gods.
Pierre Corneille

Love conquers all things: let us too give in to Love.
Virgil

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
Groucho Marx

Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday.
Mario Rocco

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

God is love, but get it in writing.
Gypsy Rose Lee

She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Cleveland: Two Hobokens back to back.
Joan Holman

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Baron de Montesquieu

Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan

A little rebellion now and again is a good thing.
Thomas Jefferson

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore de Balzac

A fool and his words are soon parted.
William Shenstone

Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry, Cardinal Newman

The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr

Repent ye:  for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Bible, Matthew 3:2

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
William Shakespeare

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
J.R. Platt

The true University of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle

The price of justice is eternal publicity.
Arnold Bennett

One man shall have one vote.
John Cartwright

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo

Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer

Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope

We was robbed!
Joe Jacobs

The Child if father of the Man.
William Wordsworth

Vanity, like murder, will out.
Hannah Cowley

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
John Seldon

A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, sweat and tears.
Winston Churchill

I wish my deadly foe no worse than want of friends and empty purse.
Nicholas Breton

Anatomy is destiny.
Sigmund Freud

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander Pope

There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus

Force is not a remedy
John Bright

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
John J. Plomp

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

Oh I am a cat that likes to gallop about doing good.
Stevie Smith

The multitude is always in the wrong.
Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon

There is always room at the top.
Daniel Webster

One of my chief regrets during my years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me.
John Barrymore

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
Christopher Morley

There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
Evelyn Waugh

Coolidge's Law: Anytime you don't want anything, you get it.
Calvin Coolidge

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
Bible, Matthew 11:30

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson

Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Cervantes

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

For of all sad words of tongue are pen, the saddest are these:  'It might have been!'
John Greenleaf Whittier

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

That money talks, I'll not deny; I heard it once; it said, "Goodbye."
Richard Armour

Americans:  People who laugh at ... African witch doctors and spend 100 million dollars on fake reducing systems.
Leonard Louis Levinson

If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Bible, Matthew 15:14

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
Chinese Proverb

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Public office is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Boies Penrose

I want to be alone.
Greta Garbo

You can't think and hit at the same time.
Yogi Berra

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
Dave Tyson Gentry

Physicians are like kings - they brook no contradiction.
John Webster

I came, I saw, I conquered.
Julius Caesar

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.
A. Edward Newton

All the unhappy marriages come from the husbands having brains.
P.G. Wodehouse

This above all: to thine ownself be true.
William Shakespeare

The half is greater than the whole.
Hesiod

Man is Creation's masterpiece; but who says so?
Elbert Hubbard

Every bullet has its billet.
William III (William of Orange)

Rules and models destroy genius and art.
William Hazlitt

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.
Richard Rowlin

Oh to be in L.A. when the polyethyl-vinyl trees are in bloom!
Herb Gold

There are no atheists in the foxhole.
William Thomas Cummings

The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August.
Lord Byron

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Admiral Collingwood

The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
Ashley Montagu

Shake was a dramatist of note; he lived by writing things to quote.
H.C. Bunner

It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be.
Frank McKinney ('Kin') Hubbard

Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year.
Ira U. Cobleigh

Gaul as a whole is divided into three parts.
Julius Caesar

The family that prays together stays together.
Al Scalpone

Know Thyself
Anonymous

Liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)

Caesar or nothing.
Cesare Borgia

Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
Mary Wollstonecraft, on women

I would rather men should ask why no statue has been erected in my honor, that why one has.
Marcus Porcius Cato

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.
Marchant

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
John Gardner

There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good.
Burton Hillis

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
William Blake

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.
Gerald Ford

A slap-up gal in a bang-up chariot.
Charles Dickens

Government of the busy by the bossy for the bully.
Arthur Seldon, on capitalism

I am one individual on a small planet in a little solar system in one of the galaxies.
Roberto Assagioli

When in doubt, win the trick.
Edmond Hoyle

So was hir joly whistle wel ywet.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.
Mignon McLaughlin

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B.F. Skinner

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.
Horace Greeley

Nobody with that awful wife and those ugly children could be anything but normal.
Gore Vidal

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennesse Williams

It's as large as life, and twice as natural!
Lewis Carroll

Gomez' Law: If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.
Lefty Gomez

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
Erasmus

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole (4th Earl of Orford)

Vacant heart and hand, and eye, - easy live and quiet die.
Sir Walter Scott

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for the coffin.
H.L. Hencken

The likerous mouth moste han a likerous tayl.
Geoffrey Chaucer

The apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare

He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am, Sir, a Brother of the Angle.
Izaak Walton

The greater the wealth, the thicker will be the dirt.
J.K. Galbraith

War is the trade of kings.
John Dryden

Man is a tool-making animal.
Benjamin Franklin

Get thee to a nunnery
William Shakespeare

If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's going to stop 'em.
Yogi Berra

It is not the houses.  It is the spaces between the houses.
James Fenton

To have begun is half the job...
Horace

A neurosis is a secret you don't know you're keeping.
Kenneth Tynan

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg

Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen

Tempt not a desperate man.
William Shakespeare

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Robert Marquis de Flers and Arman de Caillavet

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times.
A.J.P. Taylor

Ah! what is love! It is a pretty thing, as sweet unto a shepherd as a king.
Robert Greene

A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
Irvin S. Cobb

I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Oscar Wilde

Make haste slowly.
Emperor Augustus

Dream the impossible dream.
Joe Darion

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
Susan Sontag

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.
Sir Henry Wotton

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
Mary McCarthy

All these financiers, all the little gnomes in Zurich.
Harold Wilson

There are lots of good women who, when they get to heaven, will watch to see if the Lord goes out nights.
Ed Howe

Taxation without representation is tyranny.
James Otis

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Expenditure rises to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson

Birth is the beginning of death.
Thomas Fuller

Hollywood: A place where people from Iowa mistake each other for movie stars.
Fred Allen

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Horace Walpole

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

It's more than a game.  It's an institution.
Thomas Hughes

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant

I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education.
Wilson Wizner

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
Solon

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanore Roosevelt

We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
Ernest Rutherford

Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Alan Jay Lerner

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.
John Keats

It's worse than wicked, my dear, it's vulgar.
Punch

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
John Berry

I am just going outside and may be some time.
Captain Lawrence Oates

I hate victims who respect their executioners.
John Singer Sargent

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead
Chinese Proverb

It's been a hard day's night, and I've been working like a dog.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

There's a snake hidden in the grass.
Virgil

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.
Charlotte Whitton

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!
Montesquieu

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti

College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.
Bergen Evans

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
David Russell

A poem is like a painting.
Horace

He could boast that he inherited it brick and left it marble.
Emperor Augustus

The Scouts' motto is founded on my initials, it is:  BE PREPARED.
Lord Baden-Powell

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.
John Gunther

Bachelors' wives and old maids' children are always perfect.
Nicolas Chamfort

Well, I'm not a crook.
Richard Nixon

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.
Jane Austen

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke

One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
Moliere

Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli

Grief is a species of idleness.
Samuel Johnson

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
Ed Howe

Power is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger

What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.
Sophocles

Nothing in excess.
Anonymous

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
T.S. Eliot

Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.
Henry Austin Dobson

Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.
James Thurber

How odd of God to choose the Jews.
William Norman Ewer

By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson

Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.
Valentine Blacker

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
W.E. Henley

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are!
Ann Taylor and Jane Taylor

Behold the man.
Bible, John 19:5

I think, therefore I am.
Rene Descartes

No injustice is done to someone who wants that thing done.
Ulpian

Most educators would continue to lecture on navigation while the ship is going down.
James H. Boren

The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.
James Bryce

A sheep in sheep's clothing.
Sir Winston Churchill

Buy Old Masters.  They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook

Scotland, land of the omnipotent No.
Alan Bold

When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.
Anonymous

War will cease when men refuse to fight.
Anonymous

What if someone gave a war and nobody came?
Allen Ginsberg

I am a man of limited talents from a small town.  I don't seem to grasp that I am President.
Warren G. Harding

The rainbow comes and goes, and lovely is the rose.
William Wordsworth

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth.
Robert N. Coons

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton

God may pardon you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I

A first impulse was never a crime.
Pierre Corneille

How many things are there which I do not want.
Socrates

In her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci, on Nature

The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.
Duke of Wellington

The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial.
Tom Smothers

A library is thought in cold storage.
Lord Samuel

A poem should not mean, but be.
Archibald MacLeish

To ask the hard question is simple.
W.H. Auden

Let all things be done decently and in order.
Bible, I Corinthians 14:40

It is a good rule in life never to apologize.
P.G. Wodehouse

If you would be leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.
Woodrow Wilson

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teen-ager wondering about each other.
Laurence J. Peter

She ran the whole gamut of the emotions from A to B.
Dorothy Parker

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S. Eliot

I dislike arguments of any kind.  They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas.
George Moore

Win just one for the Gipper
George Gipp

I belong to no organized political party - I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alex Hamilton

Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
William Shakespeare

A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
John Dryden

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
Oscar Wilde

Imperialism is the monopoly state of capitalism.
Lenin (Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov)

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damned good word with which to carry and election.
Warren G. Harding

I do not rule Russia; ten thousand clerks do.
Nicholas I

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life.
William Shakespeare

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
A.E. Housman

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
Marshall Lumsden

Shoot, if you must, this old grey head, but spare your country's flag.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.
Thomas Wolfe

Man is Nature's sole mistake!
W.S. Gilbert

History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
Thomas Szasz

Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford

The most important fact about Spaceship Earth:  an instruction book didn't come with it.
Buckminster Fuller

I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie.  I did cut it with my hatchet.
George Washington

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.
Buddha

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens

We're more popular than Jesus now.
John Lennon

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Bob Dylan

Anger is a short madness
Horace

Please to remember the Fifth of November, Gunpowder Treason and Plot.
Anonymous

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H.G. Wells

It isn't that they can't see the solution.  It is that they can't see the problem.
G.K. Chesterton

But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying.
Virgil

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
G.K. Chesterton

Danger, the spur of all great minds.
George Chapman

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
Fred Allen

Time the devourer of everything.
Ovid

I don't want anyone to admire my pants in a museum.
Frederic Chopin

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.
Samuel Goldwyn

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.
Ethel Watts Mumford

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson

Fools out of favour grudge at knaves in place.
Daniel Defoe

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen

Laws were made to be broken.
Christopher North (John Wilson)

The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
Stanley J. Randall

How to live well on nothing a year.
William Makepeace Thackeray

All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil

If ignorance is bliss, there should be more happy people.
Victor Cousin

Talk of revolution is one way of avoiding reality.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai Stevenson

A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they are loaded or not.
Franklin P. Jones

Ethnocentrism is the technical name in which one's own group is the center of everything.
William Graham Sumner

I had rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay

This is the way to kill a wife with kindness.
William Shakespeare

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
Julius J. Epstein

"Sesquippledan," he would say. "Sesquippledan verboojuice."
H.G. Wells

It's always the good feel rotten.  Pleasure's for those who are bad.
Sergei Yesenin

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
Will Rogers

Things will work out.
Anonymous

A little thing is a dangerous thing.
Alexander Pope

Niagara Falls is only the second biggest disappointment of the standard honeymoon.
Oscar Wilde

Art like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G.K. Chesterton

Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
Mae West

You're going out a youngster but you've got to come back a star.
James Seymour and Rian James

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
Bert Leston Taylor

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure
Lord Byron

Little Lamb who made thee dost thou know who made thee.
William Blake

O!  Thereby hangs a tail.
William Shakespeare

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
James Howell

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Izaak Walton

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a pen far less brilliant than mine.
Max Beerbohm

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton

Lippmann's Law: Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A.E. Housman

The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
Lord Chesterfield

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Will Cuppy

Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins.
Sioux Proverb

The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates

When you get there, there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein, on Oakland

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

Even while they teach, men learn.
Seneca ('the Younger')

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse - and Thou.
Edward Fitzgerald

Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley

Democracy substitutes selection by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
John Wesley

How many things I can do without!
Socrates

Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own.
William Shakespeare

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
Bible, Hosea 8:7

Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped.
William Shakespeare

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

Expect nothing.  Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, tomorrow, just you wait and see.
Nat Burton

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.
William Shakespeare

Money will buy a pretty dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil

Coolidge's Second Law: A lost article invariably shows up after you replace it.
Calvin Coolidge

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
Aphra Behn

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Be Yourself is the worst advice you can give to some people.
Tom Masson

Thou deboshed fish thou
William Shakespeare

She who must be obeyed.
Rider Haggard

Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me.
William Jerome

Fortune assists the bold.
Virgil

I always seem to suffer from loss of faith on entering cities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
Leo Rosten

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
William Shakespeare

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas Jerrold

Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Aphra Behn

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli

The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
T.H. Huxley

Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.
Woodrow Wilson

My mistake was buying stock in the company.  Now I worry about the lousy work I'm turning out.
Marvin Townsend

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.
Count Leo Tolstoy

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.
Robert Frost

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
John Ciardi

A line is length without breadth.
Euclid

This animal is very bad; when attacked it defends itself.
Anonymous

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget.
Michel de Montaigne

It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in.
Lillian Hellman

Living is my job and my art.
Montaigne

I am convinced that He does not play dice.
Albert Einstein, on God

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman

Don't ever slam a door; you might want to go back.
Don Herold

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.
Lord Byron

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
George Bernard Shaw

Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
Angus Wilson

Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock

God and nature do nothing in vain.
Auctoritates Aristotelis

It is not the streets that exist.  It is the streets that no longer exist.
James Fenton

There were human beings aboard the Mayflower, not merely ancestors.
Stephen Vincent Benet

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong.
Bible, Ecclesiastes 9:11

The secret of being a bore ... is to tell everything.
Voltaire

San Diego didn't look like the kind of town where people get born.
Steve Ellman

Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.
Johnathan Swift

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

Either be wholly slaves, or wholly free.
John Dryden

The mama of dada
Clifton Fadiman, on Gertrude Stein

His doubts are better than most peoples certainties.
Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke

O Freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!
Daniel George

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe

For man proposes, but God disposes.
Thomas a Kempis

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Bible, Matthew 7:6

Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so.
John Donne

Home James, and don't spare the horses.
Fred Hillebrand

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
James Northcote

Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve

A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.
Frank McKinney Hubbard ('Kin Hubbard')

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Anonymous

It's not that I'm afraid to die.  I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Instant availability without continuous presence is probably the best role a mother can play.
Lotte Bailyn

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I could have had class, I could have been a contender.
Budd Schulberg

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our mouths.
Mark Twain

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Reverend Sydney Smith

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
Sir Karl Popper

The man we call a specialist today was formerly called a man with a one-track mind.
Endre Balogh

A place for everything and everything in its place.
Mrs. Beeton

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
James McNeill Whistler

I married my husband for life, not for lunch.
Anonymous

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.
John Constable

By night an atheist half believes a God.
Edward Young

What millions died - that Caesar might be great!
Thomas Campbell

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.
Queen Victoria

All marriages are happy.  It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.
Raymond Hull

A man in love is incomplete until he has married.  Then he's finished.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
Bible, Matthew 14:31

He writes his plays for the ages - the ages between five and twelve.
George Jean Nathan

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Remember that time is money.
Benjamin Franklin

Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble.
William Shakespeare

Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley

There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan

I am a Berliner.
John F. Kennedy

In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.
Fred Allen

A banker is a person who is willing to make a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show you don't need it.
Herbert V. Prochnow

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.
Jane Austen

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
Bible, Isaiah 22:13

Public opinion in this country is everything.
Abraham Lincoln

I love my country too much to be a nationalist.
Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Albert Camus

There can be no whitewash at the White House.
Richard Nixon

They now ring the bells, but they will soon wring their hands.
Sir Robert Walpole (1st Eart of Orford)

What is a rebel?  A man who says no.
Albert Camus

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
Francis Jeffrey

Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
Voltaire

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Colette

As is the mother, so is her daughter.
Bible, Ezekial 16:44

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E.B. White

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. Barnum

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
Peter Drucker

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Daniele Vare

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O'Malley

Like many in the Upper Class He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.
Hilaire Belloc

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
John Wooden

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

How to win friends and influence people.
Dale Carnegie

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward John Phelps

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time, in you?
William Shakespeare

Fat is a feminist issue.
Susie Orbach

Oaths are but words, and words but wind.
Samuel Butler

To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope

I am a man, I count nothing human foreign to me.
Terence

Women can't forgive failure.
Anton Chekhov

It is not what they built.  It is what they knocked down.
James Fenton

Seems, madam!  Nay, it is; I know not 'seems'.
William Shakespeare

Round up the usual suspects.
Julius J. Epstein

Happiness?  That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer

If we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
Voltaire

Habit is second nature.
Auctoritates Aristotelis

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.
Paul Simon

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends.
John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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

He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
Gore Vidal

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Jean de La Bruyere

Go West, young man, go West!
John L.B. Soule

I may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Arthur C. Clarke

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
Claude Bernard

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter.
Bible, Isaiah 53:7

Give me but one firm spot on which to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes

We each day dig our graves with our teeth.
Samuel Smiles

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.
T.H. Huxley

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
Charles Peguy

Too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
Artur Schnabel

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Bible, Matthew 10:16

Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would', like the poor cat i' the adage.
William Shakespeare

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz

But love's a malady without a cure.
John Dryden

Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick and wicked.
Jane Austen

Marriage isn't a word ... it's a sentence!
King Vidor

Manners maketh man.
William of Wykeham

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

So, bye, bye, Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy but the levy was dry.
Don McLean

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?
Dylan Thomas

Advice to persons about to marry: Don't.
Punch

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard Shaw

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.
Irving Berlin

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Joseph P. Kennedy

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

Who shall guard the guardians themselves?
Juvenal

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele

Freedom!  Equality!  Brotherhood!
Anonymous

No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus

Prejudice: A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
Ambrose Bierce

Life is a joke that's just begun.
W.S. Gilbert

O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Bible, Ezekial 37:4

Life is a horizontal fall.
John Cocteau

I accuse.
Emile Zola

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Percy Bysshe Shelley

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.
Captain Marryat

He will lie even when it is inconvenient: the sign of the true artist.
Gore Vidal

Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Lew Brown

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
H.G. Wells

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake

Those have most power to hurt us that we love.
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Mares eat oates and does eat oates and little lambs eat ivy.
Milton Drake

Ballads and babies. That's what happened to me.
Paul McCartney

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
Rebecca West

The bigger they are, the further they have to fall.
Robert Fitzsimmons

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if he knew the facts of the case.
Finley Peter Dunne (Mr. Dooley)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hell, I never vote for anybody.  I always vote against.
W.C. Fields

Double - no triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
Ronald Reagan

Mad, bad, and dangerous to know
Lady Caroline Lamb