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Anger Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve
Art For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Business Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
- Stanislaw Lem
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
- Isaac Asimov
Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
- Will Rogers
Computers Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney
Dreams Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.
- Roger Starr
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
- Baltasar Gracian
Education Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
- Edward Everett
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Equality In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
Experience We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
- Stephen King
Faith Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is reason grown courageous.
- Sherwood Eddy
Forgiveness I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
- Chaim Herzog
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
- Jessamyn West
Friendship A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake
Government Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
- Sydney J. Harris
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Robert Orben
History History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry B. Adams
The map is not the territory.
- Alfred Korzybski
Humor Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.
- Thomas W. Higginson
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
- Leo Rosten
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks
Imagination I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
- George S. Patton
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen B. Leacock
Intelligence Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
Life Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
- Warren Miller
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
- Erich Fromm
All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
- Rupert Brooke
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Erich Fromm
Marriage No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
- Beverley Nichols
Mortality Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
- Bill Maher
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler
Movies Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
- Martin Scorsese
I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.
- Bette Davis
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
- Billy Wilder
| Music Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
- Bryan Ferry
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
- Helmut Walcha
I don't believe in having bands for solo records.
- Mick Jagger
Nature The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
- Bertrand Russell
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
- George H. W. Bush
Old Age Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
- Aristotle
Old age is a shipwreck.
- Charles De Gaulle
I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!
- Leo Rosten
On Change Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James A. Baldwin
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
- Carl T. Rowan
Patriotism It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William R. Inge
Peace Poetry Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
- John Keats
No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.
- Horace
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
Politics Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- James William Fulbright
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Henry B. Adams
Religion If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Kahlil Gibran
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.
- Stephen Roberts
Science The dedicated physician is constantly striving for a balance between personal, human values, scientific realities and the inevitabilities of God's will.
- David Allman
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
- Wilhelm Reich
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Society In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
- Carl Sandburg
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sports The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
- Ben Hogan
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
- Ernie Banks
Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.
- Ben Hogan
Success What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Technology Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
- John Perry Barlow
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
- Alfred North Whitehead
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
- William Gibson
Time Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
- Dion Boucicault
You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
- James M. Barrie
War War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
- Thomas Mann
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
- Benjamin Spock
If we don't end war, war will end us.
- H. G. Wells
Words to the Wise The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean Paul
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William R. Inge
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- Walter Lippmann
Workplace As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
- Irvin S. Cobb
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
- George Sand
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
- Pablo Picasso
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