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A. A. Milne To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.... A. A. Milne If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundre... A. C. Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background... Adam Osborne People think computers will keep them from making mistakes... Alfred A. Montapert All lasting business is built on friendship.... Alice Roosevelt Longworth I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what'... Alice Walker Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it i... Alice Walker I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple ... Alvin Toffler The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and ... Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell re... Alvin Toffler To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in ... Anais Nin The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.... Anais Nin And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud wa... Anais Nin People living deeply have no fear of death.... Anais Nin If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry o... Anais Nin Dreams are necessary to life.... Anais Nin Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions s... Anais Nin I know why familles were created, with all their imperfect... Anne Lamott You can safely assume that you've created God in your own ... Annie Dillard There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to th... Annie Dillard Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go t... C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It... C. S. Lewis The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate... C. S. Lewis Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at ear... C. S. Lewis How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonge... C. S. Lewis It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be... C. S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has ri... George Eliot More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple huma... George Eliot What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.... George Eliot In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by... George Eliot Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to... George Eliot We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what m... George Eliot The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high de... George Eliot Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat inste... George Eliot People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout an... George Eliot That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to mak... George Eliot The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no his... George Eliot Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.... George Eliot I have the conviction that excessive literary production i... George Eliot That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last gla... George Eliot Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains fr... George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.... George Eliot All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at ... George Eliot Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of s... George Eliot What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult fo... George Eliot The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.... George Eliot All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation... George Eliot I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.... George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses ... George Eliot To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the onl... George Eliot There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; ... George Eliot In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience ... George Eliot It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we thi... George Eliot An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and th... Hans Christian Anderson Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freed... Helen Keller To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is mor... Helen Keller It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. B... Helen Keller Death is no more than passing from one room into another. ... Mark Twain Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong w... Mark Twain No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of ... Mark Twain What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he k... Mark Twain 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.... Mark Twain A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges him... Mark Twain Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certai... Mark Twain Don't let schooling interfere with your education.... Mark Twain Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but par... Mark Twain The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.... Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but th... Mark Twain Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated int... Mark Twain I never let schooling interfere with my education.... Mark Twain It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to h... Mark Twain The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversa... Mark Twain Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old sec... Mark Twain Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born ... Mark Twain When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you lo... Mark Twain It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand ... Mark Twain The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain... Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. Th... Mark Twain He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under i... Mark Twain I have been complimented many times and they always embarr... Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member o... Mark Twain Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy sou... Mark Twain The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that t... Mark Twain When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear a... Mark Twain Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.... Mark Twain What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax col... Mark Twain When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it h... Mark Twain Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.... Mark Twain Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in... Mark Twain Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.... Mark Twain By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I... Mark Twain In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weath... Mark Twain The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anyth... Mark Twain Prosperity is the best protector of principle.... Mark Twain Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government w... Mark Twain My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are w... Samuel Johnson A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his ai... Samuel Johnson The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.... Samuel Johnson Secure, whate'er he gives, he gives the best.... Samuel Johnson To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's sel... Samuel Johnson Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disa... Samuel Johnson A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.... Samuel Johnson Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle... Samuel Johnson When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for th... Samuel Johnson The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.... Samuel Johnson When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be ... Samuel Johnson Between falsehood and useless truth there is little differ... Samuel Johnson Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites ... Samuel Johnson Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.... Samuel Johnson Words are but the signs of ideas.... Samuel Johnson All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty a... Samuel Johnson What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundre... Samuel Johnson Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion betw... Samuel Johnson The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and... Samuel Johnson The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees,... Samuel Johnson Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.... Samuel Johnson From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally al... Samuel Johnson Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes.... Samuel Johnson Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can beco... Samuel Johnson Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that at... Samuel Johnson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowl... Samuel Johnson Great works are performed not by strength but by persevera... Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to de... Samuel Johnson Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections ... Samuel Johnson Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakin... Samuel Johnson To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to kee... Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting d... Samuel Johnson Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in on... Samuel Johnson It is more from carelessness about truth than from intenti... Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get ... Samuel Johnson The true art of memory is the art of attention.... Samuel Johnson When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not m... Samuel Johnson You never find people laboring to convince you that you ma... Augustine Birrell Libraries are not made, they grow.... Augustine Birrell Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print mak... Augustine Birrell Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in th... Augustine Birrell Is this true or only clever?... Augustine Birrell An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand boo... Augustine Birrell That great dust-heap called 'history'.... Berthold Auerbach Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.... Bruce Barton When you are through changing, you are through.... Bruce Barton Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change... Christopher Morley Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an a... Clarence Day Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experien... Clifford Stoll The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.... Clifford Stoll Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sit... Clifford Stoll Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybod... Clifford Stoll Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both ... David Lodge Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about h... Dorothy Canfield Fisher Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old ... Edward Abbey For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as... Elias Canetti All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams... Frederick Douglass I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I p... Frederick Douglass It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gent... F. Scott Fitzgerald The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to ho... George Eliot Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their... George Eliot The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubio... George Eliot Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions... George Eliot We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults... George Eliot She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit ... George Eliot He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear h... George Eliot There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which ... George Eliot Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrink... George Eliot I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made '... George Eliot Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul;... George Eliot The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You a... George Eliot We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing,... George Eliot Adventure is not outside man; it is within.... George Eliot Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is t... George Eliot I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about child... George Eliot The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and... George Eliot There are many victories worse than a defeat.... George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on... George Eliot Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.... George Eliot Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that whi... George Eliot Consequences are unpitying.... George Eliot We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves... George Eliot The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.... George Eliot Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.... George Eliot When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never ou... George Eliot But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each f... George Eliot What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?... George Eliot Excessive literary production is a social offense.... George Eliot Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affectio... George Eliot It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly c... George Eliot One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!... George Eliot Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to b... George Eliot Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prep... George Eliot The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or t... George Eliot No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.... George Eliot But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means in... George Eliot Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should h... George Eliot Breed is stronger than pasture.... George Eliot Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacc... George Eliot No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rathe... George Eliot Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he br... George Eliot Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten the... George Eliot When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent... George Eliot Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have... George Eliot The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the pu... George Eliot There is only one failure in life possible, and that is no... George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applau... George Eliot Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall ... George Eliot Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!... George Eliot Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can ... George Eliot Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which... George Eliot I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.... George Eliot Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christene... George Eliot Kisses honeyed by oblivion.... George Eliot A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the af... George Eliot Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which sa... George Eliot Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.... George Eliot The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing... George Eliot And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who want... George Eliot Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omni... George Eliot The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose... George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less diffic... George Eliot You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a... George Eliot The important work of moving the world forward does not wa... George Eliot I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. ... George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is boun... George Orwell Society has always seemed to demand a little more from hum... George William Curtis A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountain... George William Curtis He is so old that his blood type was discontinued.... Gertrude Stein There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. Th... Gertrude Stein A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint wi... Gertrude Stein The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentie... Gertrude Stein Everybody gets so much information all day long that they ... Gertrude Stein It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat... Helen Keller It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting t... Henry David Thoreau Be not simply good - be good for something.... Henry David Thoreau Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.... Henry David Thoreau Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and i... Henry David Thoreau There is no remedy for love but to love more.... Henry David Thoreau Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no trick... Henry David Thoreau Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.... Henry David Thoreau The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels... Henry David Thoreau If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compen... Henry David Thoreau None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.... Henry David Thoreau The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.... Henry David Thoreau I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more oppose... Henry David Thoreau A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hin... Henry David Thoreau As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!... Henry David Thoreau Only that day dawns to which we are awake.... Henry David Thoreau Things do not change; we change.... Henry David Thoreau We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothe... Henry David Thoreau It is an interesting question how far men would retain the... Henry David Thoreau What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditc... Henry David Thoreau Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as... Henry David Thoreau Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose an... Henry David Thoreau It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympath... Henry David Thoreau If you have built castles in the air, your work need not b... Henry David Thoreau Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for som... Henry David Thoreau It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.... Henry David Thoreau Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much li... Henry David Thoreau Goodness is the only investment that never fails.... Henry David Thoreau If the machine of government is of such a nature that it r... Henry David Thoreau Law never made men a whit more just.... Henry David Thoreau The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.... Henry David Thoreau The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange f... Henry David Thoreau Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not par... Henry David Thoreau Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to... Henry David Thoreau The bluebird carries the sky on his back.... Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing tha... Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shu... Henry David Thoreau I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,... Henry David Thoreau Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.... Henry David Thoreau As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will b... Henry David Thoreau Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affair... Henry David Thoreau What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable ... Henry David Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,... Henry David Thoreau Men have become the tools of their tools.... Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.... Henry David Thoreau If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each ... Henry David Thoreau I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepes... Henry David Thoreau A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can... Henry David Thoreau An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.... Henry David Thoreau How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stoo... Henry David Thoreau There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the ... Henry David Thoreau This world is but a canvas to our imagination.... Henry David Thoreau To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of a... Henry David Thoreau What is once well done is done forever.... Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows r... Henry David Thoreau All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile,... Henry David Thoreau I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable... Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to... Henry David Thoreau The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predic... Henry David Thoreau Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often im... Henry David Thoreau What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.... Henry David Thoreau When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I ... Henry David Thoreau We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by... Henry David Thoreau What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that y... Henry David Thoreau What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as... Henry David Thoreau A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I mus... Henry David Thoreau If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?... Henry David Thoreau I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the di... Henry David Thoreau Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friend... Henry David Thoreau We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, an... Henry David Thoreau As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so... Henry David Thoreau There is no value in life except what you choose to place ... Henry David Thoreau What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolera... Henry David Thoreau I never found a companion that was so companionable as sol... Henry David Thoreau It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another... Henry David Thoreau We shall see but a little way if we require to understand ... Henry David Thoreau Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.... Henry David Thoreau Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.... Henry David Thoreau If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is bec... Henry David Thoreau Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. Th... Henry David Thoreau It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so... Henry David Thoreau Dreams are the touchstones of our character.... Henry David Thoreau We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we su... Henry David Thoreau Men are born to succeed, not to fail.... Henry David Thoreau What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the... Henry David Thoreau Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for someth... Henry David Thoreau Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him wh... Henry David Thoreau If you give money, spend yourself with it.... Henry David Thoreau Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of... Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one... Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate thing... Henry David Thoreau Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the gra... Henry David Thoreau Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind... Henry David Thoreau Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursu... Henry David Thoreau Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.... Henry David Thoreau All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of s... Henry David Thoreau Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocen... Henry David Thoreau Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no ... Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the re... Henry David Thoreau Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor... Henry David Thoreau If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. ... Henry David Thoreau Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you... Henry David Thoreau Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, ... Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in... Henry David Thoreau It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rathe... Henry David Thoreau I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was s... Henry David Thoreau To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and... Henry David Thoreau Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and grave... Henry David Thoreau How does it become a man to behave towards the American go... Henry David Thoreau Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true ... Henry David Thoreau The savage in man is never quite eradicated.... Henry David Thoreau The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to... Henry David Thoreau Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit in... Henry David Thoreau The heart is forever inexperienced.... Henry David Thoreau A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life ... Henry David Thoreau In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is... Henry David Thoreau Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract ... Henry David Thoreau The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools,... Henry David Thoreau I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, ... Henry David Thoreau If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps i... Henry David Thoreau That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.... Henry David Thoreau Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the l... Henry David Thoreau Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be look... Henry David Thoreau What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny mat... Henry David Thoreau Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she onl... Henry David Thoreau Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that no... Henry David Thoreau The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?... Henry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life... Henry David Thoreau How could youths better learn to live than by at once tryi... Henry David Thoreau Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.... Henry David Thoreau I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go b... Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strain... Henry David Thoreau I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effec... Henry David Thoreau Being is the great explainer.... Henry David Thoreau Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an... Henry David Thoreau For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man?... Henry David Thoreau If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is tha... Henry David Thoreau It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question... Henry David Thoreau Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothe... Henry David Thoreau We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.... Henry David Thoreau To have done anything just for money is to have been truly... Henry David Thoreau There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness... Henry David Thoreau The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from obse... Henry David Thoreau As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is... Henry David Thoreau Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, ... Henry David Thoreau There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for... Henry David Thoreau I have never found a companion that was so companionable a... Henry David Thoreau Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.... Henry David Thoreau I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment,... Henry David Thoreau Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether cl... Henry David Thoreau The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.... Henry David Thoreau The language of friendship is not words but meanings.... Henry David Thoreau There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to on... Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up our prejudices.... Henry David Thoreau A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rar... Henry David Thoreau The perception of beauty is a moral test.... Henry David Thoreau In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore,... Henry David Thoreau If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my hous... Henry David Thoreau It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage... Henry David Thoreau If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams... Henry David Thoreau Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.... Henry David Thoreau If misery loves company, misery has company enough.... Henry David Thoreau The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only ... Henry David Thoreau To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit... Henry David Thoreau I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could n... Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify... Henry Miller The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like ... H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between educati... H. G. Wells Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imper... H. G. Wells If we don't end war, war will end us.... Iris Murdoch People from a planet without flowers would think we must b... James A. Baldwin Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it do... James A. Baldwin Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without a... James A. Baldwin I love America more than any other country in this world, ... James A. Baldwin People are trapped in history and history is trapped in th... James A. Baldwin Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing c... Jean Paul The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our l... Jean Paul Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.... Jean Paul Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around moun... Jessamyn West Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.... Jessamyn West The past is really almost as much a work of the imaginatio... Jessamyn West It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes... Jessamyn West A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than ... John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I wan... John Burroughs I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my se... John Burroughs Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermon... John Burroughs To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.... Joseph Campbell Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.... Katherine Mansfield I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and co... Knut Hamsun In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has... Kurt Vonnegut True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that yo... Larry Wall Doing linear scans over an associative array is like tryin... Larry Wall Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.... Leo Buscaglia I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I p... Leo Buscaglia Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.... Leo Buscaglia Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and ... Lewis Carroll It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.... L. Frank Baum Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to i... Lin Yutang This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to c... Louis L'Amour Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for... Marcel Proust Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are t... Marcel Proust Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an ... Marcel Proust Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose th... Marianne Williamson Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to ... Mark Twain There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.... Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled.... Mark Twain Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.... Mark Twain Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not ... Mark Twain A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can'... Mark Twain I can live for two months on a good compliment.... Mark Twain I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter sayi... Mark Twain It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a goo... Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of... Mark Twain The human race has one really effective weapon, and that i... Mark Twain Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.... Mark Twain The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer someb... Mark Twain I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar a... Mark Twain Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in ... Mark Twain Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.... Mark Twain Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The wo... Mark Twain Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind o... Mark Twain Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertake... Mark Twain Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.... Mark Twain It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size o... Mark Twain Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it... Mark Twain Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.... Mark Twain It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an a... Mark Twain Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is ... Mark Twain The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who... Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influ... Mark Twain Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either b... Mark Twain It is curious that physical courage should be so common in... Mark Twain A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he ca... Mark Twain It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls whi... Mark Twain Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a mi... Mark Twain The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid... Mark Twain A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth... Mark Twain One of the most striking differences between a cat and a l... Mark Twain Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the facult... Mark Twain Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah...... Mark Twain Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when G... Mark Twain A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.... Mark Twain Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.... Mark Twain I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as ... Mark Twain Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the b... Mark Twain Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.... Mark Twain Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.... Mark Twain I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to... Mark Twain Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. Y... Mark Twain Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.... Mark Twain It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in plac... Mark Twain Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears,... Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but ... Mark Twain All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success i... Mark Twain I've never let my school interfere with my education.... Mark Twain If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man... Mark Twain If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot ... Mark Twain It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. I... Mark Twain The first of April is the day we remember what we are the ... Mark Twain Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightnin... Mark Twain Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college educatio... Mark Twain Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the ... Mark Twain Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after ... Mark Twain A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole rig... Mark Twain Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be ab... Mark Twain Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ... Mark Twain When in doubt tell the truth.... Mark Twain We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.... Mark Twain It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there... Mark Twain Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.... Mark Twain Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the ... Mark Twain The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at t... Mark Twain Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize... Mark Twain There are several good protections against temptation, but... Mark Twain Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their uni... Mark Twain The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a processio... Mark Twain Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in wh... Mark Twain Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader w... Mark Twain To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with mor... Mark Twain Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or fr... Mark Twain Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value o... Mark Twain A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeed... Mark Twain Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play co... Mark Twain Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astoni... Mark Twain Necessity is the mother of taking chances.... Mark Twain Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it... Mark Twain I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you ... Mark Twain When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are again... Mark Twain Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonis... Mark Twain To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is ... Mark Twain It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people thin... Mark Twain Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.... Mark Twain Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you ple... Mark Twain Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction ... Mark Twain The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as e... Mark Twain When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.... Mark Twain To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and con... Mark Twain God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the Scho... Mark Twain Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.... Mark Twain There are times when one would like to hang the whole huma... Mark Twain Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you... Mark Twain Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I kno... Mark Twain I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.... Mark Twain There are lies, damned lies and statistics.... Mark Twain There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeak... Mark Twain What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarc... Mark Twain It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a dif... Mark Twain Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you ma... Mark Twain Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of ris... Mark Twain The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he... Mark Twain Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.... Mark Twain Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with ea... Mark Twain You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out... Mark Twain Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.... Mark Twain In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice... Mark Twain Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor i... Mark Twain It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fictio... Mark Twain The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat ... Mark Twain We are all alike, on the inside.... Mark Twain Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.... Mark Twain If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything... Mark Twain Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her ... Mark Twain Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a ... Mark Twain The man who does not read good books has no advantage over... Mark Twain Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.... Mark Twain George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest... Mark Twain All generalizations are false, including this one.... Mark Twain All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and... Mark Twain Better a broken promise than none at all.... Mark Twain Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessar... Mark Twain Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.... Mark Twain Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere e... Mark Twain He is now rising from affluence to poverty.... Mark Twain I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word o... Mark Twain I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.... Mark Twain I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and restin... Mark Twain I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. ... Mark Twain It is better to take what does not belong to you than to l... Mark Twain It is easier to stay out than get out.... Mark Twain It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been m... Mark Twain Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed ... Mark Twain Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was ti... Mark Twain My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think... Mark Twain Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an e... Mark Twain Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.... Mark Twain Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms... Mark Twain Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too la... Mark Twain The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only mar... Mark Twain The Public is merely a multiplied "me."... Mark Twain The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is... Mark Twain There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Co... Mark Twain Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief d... Mark Twain Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.... Mark Twain Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funer... Mark Twain Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, aft... Mark Twain Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself.... Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absenc... Mark Twain There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but... Mark Twain Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do a... Max Eastman The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciou... Max Eastman Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.... Mickey Spillane If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player ... Natalie Clifford Barney When you're in love you never really know whether your ela... Neal Barnard The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths ... Norman Ralph Augustine Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.... Og Mandino Do all things with love.... Rose Kennedy Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as fre... Salvatore Quasimodo Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believ... Samuel Johnson Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.... Samuel Johnson A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper ... Samuel Johnson Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by u... Samuel Johnson Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or... Samuel Johnson Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of bei... Samuel Johnson Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage w... Samuel Johnson Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.... Samuel Johnson The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can... Samuel Johnson One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mi... Samuel Johnson Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what ha... Samuel Johnson He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek ... Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to dis... Samuel Johnson Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you hav... Samuel Johnson It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider w... Samuel Johnson Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.... Samuel Johnson Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a ... Samuel Johnson Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.... Samuel Johnson Nature has given women so much power that the law has very... Samuel Johnson Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain charact... Samuel Johnson If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances th... Samuel Johnson What is easy is seldom excellent.... Samuel Johnson There are charms made only for distant admiration.... Samuel Johnson There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but,... Samuel Johnson No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighti... Samuel Johnson Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessio... Samuel Johnson A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows th... Samuel Johnson It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may... Samuel Johnson A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for wha... Samuel Johnson All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits bet... Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading i... Samuel Johnson I never desire to converse with a man who has written more... Samuel Johnson Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say i... Samuel Johnson He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit t... Samuel Johnson Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be c... Samuel Johnson Disease generally begins that equality which death complet... Samuel Johnson Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertak... Samuel Johnson We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappoi... Samuel Johnson The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately b... Samuel Johnson The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by realit... Samuel Johnson It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to... Samuel Johnson So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing... Samuel Johnson It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that ... Samuel Johnson I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of g... Samuel Johnson You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and... Samuel Johnson I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the n... Samuel Johnson A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of a... Samuel Johnson It is better to live rich than to die rich.... Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.... Samuel Johnson The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more ... Samuel Johnson We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know becau... Samuel Johnson What is written without effort is in general read without ... Samuel Johnson A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than... Samuel Johnson Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner i... Samuel Johnson We are long before we are convinced that happiness is neve... Samuel Johnson Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in us... Samuel Johnson Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes ther... Samuel Johnson Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Pov... Samuel Johnson He who praises everybody, praises nobody.... Samuel Johnson The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is g... Samuel Johnson It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, ... Samuel Johnson Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people no more... Samuel Johnson The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is dist... Samuel Johnson Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what bett... Samuel Johnson Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few w... Samuel Johnson Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a ma... Samuel Johnson You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to le... Samuel Johnson Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard ... Samuel Johnson Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in b... Samuel Johnson When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live... Samuel Johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but on... Samuel Johnson Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures s... Samuel Johnson A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people... Samuel Johnson Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who as... Samuel Johnson The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that... Samuel Johnson The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution ... Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few ... Samuel Johnson At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.... Samuel Johnson A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not ... Samuel Johnson There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; ... Samuel Johnson There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by w... Samuel Johnson He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will ... Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition... Samuel Johnson The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying ... Samuel Johnson Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree... Samuel Johnson Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat ... Samuel Johnson Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your... Samuel Johnson Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick o... Samuel Johnson Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are ... Samuel Johnson This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.... Samuel Johnson Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign you... Samuel Johnson The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only fro... Samuel Johnson Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in ... Samuel Johnson You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and ... Samuel Johnson I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.... Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act o... Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great r... Samuel Johnson Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment t... Samuel Johnson Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he wh... Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two ... Samuel Johnson Exercise is labor without weariness.... Samuel Johnson They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dan... Samuel Johnson I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not k... Samuel Johnson Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always... Samuel Johnson Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.... Samuel Johnson That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that ... Samuel Johnson Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wif... Samuel Johnson Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid ... Samuel Johnson He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything ... Samuel Johnson All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience ... Samuel Johnson Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and e... Samuel Johnson I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a... Samuel Johnson No money is better spent than what is laid out for domesti... Samuel Johnson Nothing is more hopeless than a scheme of merriment.... Samuel Johnson The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasur... Samuel Johnson Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothin... Samuel Johnson Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arm... Samuel Johnson Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation ... Samuel Johnson No man was ever great by imitation.... Samuel Johnson So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal,... Samuel Johnson I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less... Samuel Johnson Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man... Samuel Johnson By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to ... Samuel Johnson I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to... Samuel Johnson Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part th... Samuel Johnson Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that ... Samuel Johnson Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuri... Samuel Johnson Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.... Samuel Johnson To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the h... Samuel Johnson To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and... Samuel Johnson Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the ... Samuel Johnson He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never... Samuel Johnson Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over... Samuel Johnson Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its... Samuel Johnson No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity ... Samuel Johnson What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to ... Samuel Johnson The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with... Samuel Johnson It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace wit... Samuel Johnson Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we al... Samuel Johnson When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it con... Samuel Johnson Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.... Samuel Johnson Language is the dress of thought.... Samuel Johnson Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than no... Samuel Johnson Love is only one of many passions.... Samuel Johnson Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.... Samuel Johnson But if he does really think that there is no distinction b... Samuel Johnson He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think ... Samuel Johnson Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be en... Samuel Johnson We could not have had a better dinner had there been a Syn... Samuel Johnson No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.... Samuel Johnson The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enj... Samuel Johnson Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate ki... Samuel Johnson It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by af... Samuel Johnson You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the... Sarah Orne Jewett Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a n... Sara Teasdale Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid th... Sara Teasdale When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very cold... Sherwood Eddy Faith is reason grown courageous.... Stephen King The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to ... Stephen King You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn th... Stephen King I work until beer o'clock.... Terry Pratchett Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we ne... Tom Robbins We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of cr... Victor Hugo Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.... Victor Hugo When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There ... Victor Hugo He who opens a school door, closes a prison.... Victor Hugo Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it ... Victor Hugo Wisdom is a sacred communion.... Victor Hugo Life is the flower for which love is the honey.... Willa Cather Where there is great love, there are always wishes.... Willa Cather What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a mo... Willa Cather I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.... Willa Cather I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way th... William Davis The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh ... William Feather Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after o... William Feather A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't kee...

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