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Abraham Lincoln    said    "Always Bear in Mind That Your Own Resolution to Succeed is More Important Than Any One Thing."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "As President, I Have No Eyes but Constitutional Eyes; I Cannot See You" 16th United States President

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool Than to Speak out and Remove All Doubt."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Character is Like a Tree and Reputation Like It's Shadow. The Shadow is What We Think of It; the Tree is the Real Thing."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Force is All-conquering, but Its Victories Are Short-lived"

Abraham Lincoln    said    "I Am a Firm Believer in the People. If Given the Truth, They Can Be Depended Upon to Meet Any National Crises. The Great Point is to Bring Them the Real Facts."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "If I Were Two-faced, Would I Be Wearing This One?"

Abraham Lincoln    said    "If You Would Win a Man to Your Cause, First Convince Him That You Are His Sincere Friend."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "It Has Been My Experience That Folks Who Have No Vices Have Very Few Virtues."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "It is Difficult to Make a Man Miserable While He Feels Worthy of Himself and Claims Kindred to the Great God Who Made Him."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "It is Not Best to Swap Horses While Crossing the River" 16th United States President

Abraham Lincoln    said    "I Will Study and Get Ready, and Perhaps My Chance Will Come"

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Most Folks Are About As Happy As They Make up Their Minds to Be."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "My Father Taught Me to Work; He Did Not Teach Me to Love It"

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Nearly All Men Can Stand Adversity, but if You Want to Test a Man's Character, Give Him Power."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "No Man Has a Good Enough Memory to Make a Successful Liar."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "No Man is Good Enough to Govern Another Man Without That Other's Consent."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "People Who Like This Sort of Thing Will Find This the Sort of Thing They Like."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "The Probability That We May Fail in the Struggle Ought Not to Deter Us from the Support of a Cause We Believe to Be Just."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Quarrel Not at All. No Man Resolved to Make the Most of Himself Can Spare Time for Personal Contention."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Tact is the Ability to Describe Others As They See Themselves"

Abraham Lincoln    said    "That Some Should Be Rich, Shows That Others May Become Rich, And, Hence, is Just Encouragement to Industry and Enterprise."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Truth is Generally the Best Vindication Against Slander" 16th United States President

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Whatever You Are, Be a Good One."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "Whenever I Hear Anyone Arguing for Slavery, I Feel a Strong Impulse to See It Tried on Him Personally."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "When I Do Good, I Feel Good; when I Do Bad, I Feel Bad, and That is My Religion."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "When You Have Got an Elephant by the Hind Leg, and He is Trying to Run Away, It's Best to Let Him Run."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "You Cannot Escape the Responsibility of Tomorrow by Evading It Today."

Abraham Lincoln    said    "You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, and All of the People Some of the Time, but You Can Not Fool All of the People All of the Time" 16th United States President

Adam Smith    said    "No Society Can Surely Be Flourishing and Happy of Which the Far Greater Part of the Members Are Poor and Miserable" Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy

Adolf Hitler    said    "The Broad Masses of a Population Are More Amenable to the Appeal of Rhetoric Than to Any Other Force" Austrian born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party, Chancellor of Germany and Führer

Adolf Hitler    said    "Make the Lie Big, Make It Simple, Keep Saying It, and Eventually They Will Believe It" Austrian born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party, Chancellor of Germany and Führer

Adolf Hitler    said    "Success is the Sole Earthly Judge of Right and Wrong" Austrian born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party, Chancellor of Germany and Führer

Aeschylus    said    "Justice Inclines Her Scales So That Wisdom Comes at the Price of Suffering" Greek tragedian, c.526-456 BC

Agatha Christie    said    "An Archeologist is the Best Husband Any Woman Can Have; the Older She Gets, the More Interested He is in Her"

Albert Camus    said    "All Modern Revolutions Have Ended in a Reinforcement of the Power of the State" French writer and a Nobel laureate

Albert Camus    said    "Culture: They Cry of Men in Face of Their Destiny" French writer and Nobel laureate

Albert Camus    said    "Freedom is Nothing else but a Chance to Be Better" French writer and a Nobel laureate

Albert Camus    said    "A Free Press Can, of Course, Be Good or Bad, But, Most Certainly Without Freedom, the Press Will Never Be Anything but Bad" French writer and a Nobel laureate

Albert Camus    said    "Integrity Has No Need of Rules" French novelist, essayist and dramatist

Albert Camus    said    "A Man Without Ethics is a Wild Beast Loosed Upon This World" French writer and a Nobel laureate

Albert Camus    said    "The Need to Be Right is the Sign of a Vulgar Mind" French novelist, essayist and dramatist

Albert Camus    said    "A Taste for Truth at Any Cost is a Passion Which Spares Nothing" French writer and a Nobel laureate

Albert Einstein    said    "The Difference Between Stupidity and Genius is That Genius Has Its Limits."

Albert Einstein    said    "God Does Not Play Dice With the Universe" Paraphrased

Albert Einstein    said    "I Know Not With What Weapons World War III Will Be Fought, but World War IV Will Be Fought With Sticks and Stones."

Albert Einstein    said    "I Live in the Solitude Which is Painful in Youth, but Delicious in the Years of Maturity."

Albert Einstein    said    "Imagination is More Important Than Knowledge"

Albert Einstein    said    "It is a Miracle That Curiosity Survives Formal Education."

Albert Einstein    said    "The Most Incomprehensible Thing About the World is That It is at All Comprehensible" Quoted in "Speaking of Science" by Michael Fripp

Albert Einstein    said    "Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts and Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted" Scientist

Albert Einstein    said    "The Secret to Creativity is Knowing How to Hide Your Sources"

Albert Einstein    said    "Truth is What Stands the Test of Experience."

Albert Einstein    said    "Try Not to Become a Man of Success, but Rather Try to Become a Man of Value."

Albert Schweitzer    said    "Every Patient Carries Her or His Own Doctor Inside." Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher, and physician

Albert Schweitzer    said    "Man is a Clever Animal Who Behaves Like an Imbecile" Alsatian theologian, musician, philosopher and physician

Albert Szent-Györgyi    said    "Discovery Consists of Seeing What Everybody Has Seen and Thinking What Nobody Has Thought."

Al Capone    said    "Vote Early and Vote Often." American Gangster

Aldous Huxley    said    "Experience is Not What Happens to a Man; It is What a Man Does With What Happens to Him." 1894-1963

Aldous Huxley    said    "Facts Do Not Cease to Exist Because They Are Ignored" Proper Studies, 1927

Aldous Huxley    said    "Maybe This World is Another Planet’s Hell"

Aldous Huxley    said    "Morality is Always the Product of Terror; Its Chains and Strait-waistcoats Are Fashioned by Those Who Dare Not Trust Others..." British writer, philosopher and author."Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty"

Aldous Huxley    said    "What the Rest of Us See Only Under the Influence of Mescalin, the Artist is Congenitally Equipped to See All the Time." From "The Doors of Perception"

Aldous Huxley    said    "Ye Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Make You Mad" British writer, philosopher and author

Alex Levine    said    "Only Irish Coffee Provides in a Single Glass All Four Essential Food Groups: Alcohol, Caffeine, Sugar, and Fat"

Alfred Adler    said    "The Chief Danger in Life is That You May Take Too Many Precautions."

Alfred North Whitehead    said    "Everything of Importance Has Been Said Before by Somebody Who Did Not Discover It" British mathematician, logician and philosopher

Alfred North Whitehead    said    "Intelligence is Quickness to Apprehend As Distinct from Ability, Which is Capacity to Act Wisely on the Thing Apprehended" English mathematician who became a philosopher

Allen Ginsberg    said    "What if Someone Gave a War and Nobody Came?" American beat poet

Alvin Toffler    said    "Anyone Nit-picking Enough to Write a Letter of Correction to an Editor Doubtless Deserves the Error That Provoked It" American writer and futurist

Ambrose Bierce    said    "A Coward is One Who in a Perilous Emergency Thinks With His Legs" American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist

Ambrose Bierce    said    "Education: That Which Discloses the Wise and Disguises from the Foolish Their Lack of Understanding" American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist

Ambrose Bierce    said    "Egotist: a Person More Interested in Himself Than in Me" American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist

Ambrose Bierce    said    "Knowledge is the Small Part of Ignorance That We Arrange and Classify."

Ambrose Bierce    said    "Love: A Temporary Insanity Curable by Marriage" American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist

Amelia Earhart    said    "Courage is the Price That Life Exacts for Granting Peace. The Soul That Knows It Not, Knows No Release from Little Things; Knows Not the Livid Loneliness of Fear" American aviator

Amelia Earhart    said    "The Woman Who Can Create Her Own Job is the Woman Who Will Win Fame and Fortune" American aviator

Anais Nin    said    "How Wrong It is for a Woman to Expect the Man to Build the World She Wants, Rather Than to Create It Herself" French-American writer

Anais Nin    said    "Life Shrinks or Expands in Proportion to One's Courage."

Anatole France    said    "If a Million People Say a Foolish Thing, It is Still a Foolish Thing"

Anatole France    said    "People Who Have No Weaknesses Are Terrible; There is No Way of Taking Advantage of Them" French author, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921

Andre Malraux    said    "An Art Book is a Museum Without Walls" French historian, novelist and statesman

Andre Malraux    said    "Art is a Revolt Against Fate" 20th century French writer

Andre Malraux    said    "There is Always a Need for Intoxication: China Has Opium, Islam Has Hashish, the West Has Woman" French historian, novelist and statesman

Andre Malraux    said    "To Command is to Serve, Nothing More and Nothing Less" French historian, novelist and statesman

Andrew Carnegie    said    "The First One Gets the Oyster the Second Gets the Shell" Steel King of America

Andrew Carnegie    said    "The Man Who Dies Rich Dies Disgraced" Steel King of America

Andrew Jackson    said    "One Man With Courage Makes a Majority" American President

André Gide    said    "One Doesn’t Discover New Lands Without Consenting to Lose Sight of the Shore for a Very Long Time" French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947

Andy Warhol    said    "Being Good in Business is the Most Fascinating Kind of Art" American artist

Andy Warhol    said    "In the Future Everyone Will Be Famous for Fifteen Minutes" American artist and a central figure in the movement known as pop art

Aneurin Bevan    said    "Virtue is Its Own Punishment" Welsh Labour politician

Anne Morrow Lindbergh    said    "The Most Exhausting Thing in Life is Being Insincere" American aviator, author, and the spouse of fellow aviator Charles Lindbergh

Anthony Burgess    said    "The US Presidency is a Tudor Monarchy Plus Telephones" British novelist, critic and composer

Anthony McAuliffe    said    "Nuts!" American general; in reply to German demand to surrender at Bastogne, 1944

Anthony Robbins    said    "Focus on Where You Want to Go, Not on What You Fear" American self help author

Antoine De Saint-Exupery    said    "I Know but One Freedom and That is the Freedom of the Mind" French writer and aviator

Antoine De Saint-Exupery    said    "Perfection is Achieved, Not when There is Nothing More to Add, but when There is Nothing Left to Take Away" French writer and aviator

Antoine De Saint-Exupery    said    "You Become Responsible, Forever, for What You Have Tamed" From The Little Prince

Archibald Alexander Hodge    said    "It is Easier to Find a Score of Men Wise Enough to Discover the Truth Than to Find One Intrepid Enough, in the Face of Opposition, to Stand up for It" An American Presbyterian Leader

Aristotle    said    "Dignity Consists Not in Possessing Honors, but in the Consciousness That We Deserve Them" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "Education is the Best Provision for Old Age" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "A Friend is a Second Self" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "The Gods Too Are Fond of a Joke" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "Homer Has Taught All Other Poets the Art of Telling Lies Skillfully" Greek philosopher

Aristotle    said    "Intuition is the Source of Scientific Knowledge" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "It is the Mark of an Educated Mind to Be Able to Entertain a Thought Without Accepting It" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "It is Possible to Fail in Many Ways…while to Succeed is Possible Only in One Way" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "Liars when They Speak the Truth Are Not Believed" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "Man is by Nature a Political Animal"

Aristotle    said    "Misfortune Shows Those Who Are Not Really Friends" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "The Only Stable State is the One in Which All Men Are Equal Before the Law" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "A Person Who Cannot Live in Society, or Does Not Need to Because He is Self-sufficient, is Either a Beast or a God" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "We Are What We Repeatedly Do" Greek philosopher and thinker

Aristotle    said    "Wit is Educated Insolence" Greek philosopher

Arnold Schwarzenegger    said    "Everybody Pities the Weak; Jealousy You Have to Earn" American actor and politician

Arnold Toynbee    said    "Civilization is a Movement and Not a Condition, a Voyage and Not a Harbour" English historian

Arthur C. Clarke    said    "The Best Measure of a Man's Honesty Isn't His Income Tax Return. It's the Zero Adjust on His Bathroom Scale" British science fiction author, inventor and futurist

Arthur C. Clarke    said    "It Has Yet to Be Proven That Intelligence Has Any Survival Value"

Arthur Koestler    said    "The More Original the Discovery, the More Obvious It Seems Afterwards."

Arthur Miller    said    "Everybody Likes a Kidder, but Nobody Lends Him Money." American Playwright & Essayist

Arthur Schopenhauer    said    "All Truth Passes Through Three Stages. First, It is Ridiculed. Second, It is Violently Opposed. Third, It is Accepted As Being Self-evident" German philosopher

Art Rolnick    said    "We Make Money the Old Fashioned Way. We Print It" Former Chief Economist, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank

Ashleigh Brilliant    said    "The Best Thing About Having Dreams is That in Dreams No Reasons Are Necessary" Author

Ashleigh Brilliant    said    "I Either Want Less Corruption, or More Chance to Participate in It" English author and syndicated cartoonist, living in California

A. Toussenel    said    "The More One Gets to Know Men, the More One Values Dogs" French writer, 1803-85

August Strindberg    said    "I Dream, Therefore I Exist."

August Strindberg    said    "I Loathe People Who Keep Dogs. They're Cowards Who Don't Have the Guts to Bite People Themselves." Swedish writer

Augustus Caesar    said    "Make Haste Slowly"

Baltasar Gracián    said    "Sometimes It Proves the Highest Understanding to Act Like You Do Not Understand" Spanish Baroque prose writer

Barbara Bush    said    "Clinton Lied. A Man Might Forget Where He Parks or Where He Lives, but He Never Forgets Oral Sex, No Matter How Bad It Is" Former US First Lady

Barbara De Angelis    said    "You Never Lose by Loving, You Lose by Holding Back" Writer

Barbara Walters    said    "If It's a Woman, It’s Caustic; if It's a Man, It's Authoritative" American journalist, writer and media personality

Baron De Montesquieu    said    "A Really Intelligent Man Feels What Other Men Only Know" French social commentator and political thinker

Ben Affleck    said    "There’s Something Really Great and Romantic About Being Poor and Sleeping on Couches" Actor

Benazir Bhutto    said    "Democracy is Necessary to Peace and to Undermining the Forces of Terrorism" Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister

Benazir Bhutto    said    "You Can Imprison a Man, but Not an Idea. You Can Exile a Man, but Not an Idea. You Can Kill a Man, but Not an Idea" Pakistani opposition leader and former Prime Minister

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Colonies Do Not Cease to Be Colonies Because They Are Independent."

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Every Production of Genius Must Be the Production of Enthusiasm" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Great Services Are Not Canceled by One Act or by One Single Error"

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Ignorance Never Settles a Question" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "In a Progressive Country Change is Constant; ...change... is Inevitable."

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "It is Much Easier to Be Critical Than to Be Correct" English politician and author

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Justice is Truth in Action" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Never Apologize for Showing Feeling. When You Do So, You Apologize for Truth" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "No Success in Public Life Can Compensate for Failure in the Home" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "Nurture Your Mind With Great Thoughts; to Believe in the Heroic Makes Heroes" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "A Precedent Embalms a Principle" British politician

Benjamin Disraeli    said    "The World is Weary of Statesmen Who Democracy Has Degraded Into Politicians" British politician and author

Benjamin Franklin    said    "Any Fool Can Criticize, Condemn, and Complain – and Most Fools Do"

Benjamin Franklin    said    "At 20 Years of Age the Will Reigns, at 30 the Wit, at 40 the Judgment" US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician & printer

Benjamin Franklin    said    "Beware the Young Doctor and the Old Barber"

Benjamin Franklin    said    "A Countryman Between Two Lawyers is Like a Fish Between Two Cats" US author, diplomat, inventor physicist, politician & printer

Benjamin Franklin    said    "Either Write Something Worth Reading or Do Something Worth Writing" American statesman, scientist and philosopher

Benjamin Franklin    said    "If Your Head is Wax, Don’t Walk in the Sun"

Benjamin Franklin    said    "In This World Nothing Can Be Said to Be Certain, Except Death and Taxes" American statesman and scientist

Benjamin Franklin    said    "It is Hard for an Empty Bag to Stand Upright" US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician & printer

Benjamin Franklin    said    "Lost Time is Never Found Again" American statesman, scientist, inventor and philosopher

Benjamin Franklin    said    "A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned" US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician & printer

Benjamin Franklin    said    "Reading Makes a Full Man, Meditation a Profound Man, Discourse a Clear Man" American statesman, scientist and philosopher

Benjamin Harrison    said    "We Americans Have No Commission from God to Police the World" 23rd United States President

Benjamin Jowett    said    "To Teach a Man How He May Learn to Grow Independently, and for Himself, is Perhaps the Greatest Service That One Man Can Do to Another" British classical scholar, considered to be one of the greatest teachers of the 19th century

Berthold Auerbach    said    "Music Washes Away from the Soul the Dust of Everyday Life."

Bertrand Russell    said    "Many People Would Sooner Die Than Think. In Fact They Do" British philosopher, historian, logician and mathematician

Bertrand Russell    said    "Mathematics, Rightly Viewed, Posses Not Only Truth, but Supreme Beauty a Beauty Cold and Austere, Like That of Sculpture" English logician and philosopher

Bertrand Russell    said    "No One Gossips About Other People’s Secret Virtues" British philosopher, historian, logician and mathematician

Bertrand Russell    said    "One of the Symptoms of an Approaching Nervous Breakdown is the Belief That One's Work is Terribly Important" British philosopher, historian, logician and mathematician

Bertrand Russell    said    "This is One of Those Views Which Are So Absolutely Absurd That Only Very Learned Men Could Possibly Adopt Them" British philosopher, historian, logician and mathematician

Bill Bryson    said    "The Whole of the Global Economy is Based on Supplying the Cravings of Two Per Cent of the World's Population."

Bill Clinton    said    "I Experimented With Marijuana a Time or Two. And I Didn't Like It, and I Didn't Inhale" President of the US

Bill Gates    said    "Just in Terms of Allocation of Time Resources, Religion is Not Very Efficient. There's a Lot More I Could Be Doing on a Sunday Morning" American business magnate, philanthropist, chairman of Microsoft

Billie Holiday    said    "You Can Be up to Your Boobies in White Satin, With Gardenias in Your Hair and No Sugar Cane for Miles, but You Can Still Be Working on a Plantation" American Jazz Singer

Bill Maher    said    "Women Cannot Complain About Men Anymore Until They Start Getting Better Taste in Them" American comedian, actor, writer and producer

Bill Maulden    said    "I Feel Like a Fugitive from the Law of Averages" American cartoonist

Bill Vaughan    said    "Suburbia is Where the Developer Bulldozes out the Trees, then Names the Streets After Them" American columnist and author

Billy Crystal    said    "Women Need a Reason to Have Sex. Men Just Need a Place" American Emmy award-winning actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director

Blaise Pascal    said    "Man is Only a Reed, the Weakest in Nature; but He is a Thinking Reed" Pensées, 1670

Bobby Clarke    said    "I’ve Discovered That the Less I Say, the More Rumors I Start" Canadian professional ice hockey centre

Bob Dylan    said    "Colleges Are Like Old-age Homes, Except for the Fact That More People Die in Colleges" American singer-songwriter, musician and poet

Bob Dylan    said    "Democracy Don't Rule the World, You'd Better Get That in Your Head; This World is Ruled by Violence, But I Guess That's Better Left Unsaid" American singer, songwriter, author, musician and poet

Bob Dylan    said    "A Hero is Someone Who Understands the Responsibility That Comes With His Freedom" American singer, songwriter, author, musician and poet

Bob Dylan    said    "I Consider Myself a Poet First and a Musician Second. I Live Like a Poet and I'll Die Like a Poet" American singer, songwriter, author, musician and poet

Bob Merill    said    "People Who Need People Are the Luckiest People in the World" American songwriter, theatrical composer and lyricist and screenwriter

Bob Newhart    said    "Laughter Gives Us Distance. It Allows Us to Step Back from an Event, Deal With It and then Move On." American Actor/Comedian

Booker T. Washington    said    "You Can't Hold a Man Down Without Staying Down With Him" American educationist and emancipated slave

Boris Yeltsin    said    "Let's Not Talk About Communism. Communism Was Just an Idea, Just Pie in the Sky" 1st. President of the Russian Federation (1991-1999)

Boris Yeltsin    said    "A Man Must Live Like a Great Brilliant Flame and Burn As Brightly As He Can. In the End He Burns Out. But This is Far Better Than a Mean Little Flame" 1st President of the Russian Federation (1991-1999)

Boris Yeltsin    said    "We Don't Appreciate What We Have Until It's Gone. Freedom is Like That. It's Like Air. When You Have It, You Don't Notice It" 1st President of the Russian Federation (1991-1999)

Brendan Behan    said    "I Saw a Notice Which Said 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've Just Started."

Buddha    said    "Better Than a Thousand Hollow Words, is One Word That Brings Peace."

Buddha    said    "It is Better to Travel Well Than to Arrive."

Buddha    said    "Wakefulness is the Way to Life."

Buddha    said    "We Are What We Think."

Carl Jung    said    "Every Form of Addiction is Bad, No Matter Whether the Narcotic Be Alcohol or Morphine or Idealism" Swiss psychiatrist, and influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology

Carl Perkins    said    "If It Weren't for the Rocks in Its Bed, the Stream Would Have No Song."

Carl Reiner    said    "A Lot of People Like Snow. I Find It an Unnecessary Freezing of Water" American actor and film director

Carl Sagan    said    "It is Far Better to Grasp the Universe As It Really is Than to Persist in Delusion, However Satisfying and Reassuring" American astronomer, astrochemist, writer

Carl Sandburg    said    "Poetry is an Echo, Asking a Shadow to Dance" American poet

Cary Grant    said    "I Improve on Misquotation" British actor known for mostly American films

Charles Buxton    said    "To Make Pleasures Pleasant, Shorten Them"

Charles Pierre Baudelaire    said    "A Sweetheart is a Bottle of Wine, a Wife is a Wine Bottle" French poet, critic and acclaimed translator

Charlie Chaplin    said    "All I Need to Make a Comedy is a Park, a Policeman and a Pretty Girl" English Academy Award-winning comedic actor, director, composer and musician

Charlton Heston    said    "Political Correctness is Tyranny With Manners" American actor

Chico Marx    said    "I Wasn't Kissing Her, I Was Just Whispering in Her Mouth" On being discovered by his wife with a chorus girl

Chief Dan George    said    "Sometimes the Magic Works and Sometimes It Doesn't" Canadian native chief and actor; in Little Big Man

Chief Joseph    said    "The Earth and Myself Are of One Mind" Attributed

Chief Joseph    said    "Look Twice at a Two-faced Man" Chief of the Nez Perce

Christina Baldwin    said    "Journal Writing is a Voyage to the Interior"

Chuang-Tzu    said    "Great Wisdom is Generous; Petty Wisdom is Contentious. Great Speech is Impassioned, Small Speech is Cantankerous" Chinese Philosopher

Chuck Palahniuk    said    "The Best Way to Waste Your Life…is by Taking Notes. The Easiest Way to Avoid Living is to Just Watch. Look for the Details. Report. Don’t Participate." American freelance, journalist, satirist and novelist

Chuck Palahniuk    said    "People Have to Really Suffer Before They Can Risk Doing What They Love" American freelance, journalist, satirist and novelist

Chuck Palahniuk    said    "Your Birth is a Mistake You’ll Spend Your Whole Life Trying to Correct" American freelance, journalist, satirist and novelist

Chuck Palahniuk    said    "Your Heart is My Piñata" American freelance, journalist, satirist and novelist

Cicero    said    "There is Nothing So Absurd but Some Philosopher Has Said It" Roman orator and statesman; 106-43 BC

Clare Boothe Luce    said    "Censorship, Like Charity, Should Begin at Home, but Unlike Charity, It Should End There" American playwright, legislator, and diplomat

Clare Boothe Luce    said    "Lying Increases the Creative Faculties, Expands the Ego, and Lessens the Frictions of Social Contacts." American editor, playwright, social activist, congresswoman, journalist, and ambassador.

Clare Boothe Luce    said    "They Say That Women Talk Too Much. If You Have Worked in Congress You Know That the Filibuster Was Invented by Men" American playwright, legislator, and diplomat

Clark Kerr    said    "A University Anywhere Can Aim No Higher Than to Be As British As Possible for the Sake of the Undergraduates, As German As Possible for the Sake of the Public at Large..." First Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. "A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large, and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance"

Claude Debussy    said    "Art is the Most Beautiful of All Lies."

Claude Debussy    said    "Music is the Space Between the Notes."

Clemens Von Metternich    said    "Ten Million Ignorances Do Not Constitute One Knowledge" German-Austrian politician and statesman

Confucius    said    "The Cautious Seldom Err" The Analects

Confucius    said    "Forget Injuries, Never Forget Kindnesses."

Confucius    said    "Our Greatest Glory Consists of Not in Never Falling but Rising Every Time We Fall" Author

Confucius    said    "Real Knowledge is to Know the Extent of One's Ignorance" Chinese thinker and social philosopher

Confucius    said    "The Superior Man is Satisfied and Composed; the Mean Man is Always Full of Distress" The Analects

Confucius    said    "What the Superior Man Seeks is in Himself; What the Small Man Seeks is in Others."

Confucius    said    "When We See Men of a Contrary Character, We Should Turn Inwards and Examine Ourselves" Chinese philosopher

Cornelius Tacitus    said    "The More Corrupt the State, the More Numerous the Laws" Senator and historian of the Roman Empire

C. S. Lewis    said    "The Future is Something Which Everyone Reaches at the Rate of Sixty Minutes and Hour, Whatever He Does, Whoever He Is" Irish writer and scholar

Dalai Lama    said    "In the Practice of Tolerance, One’s Enemy is the Best Teacher" The spiritual leader of Tibetan people

Dalai Lama    said    "Our Prime Purpose in This Life is to Help Others. And if You Can’t Help Them, at Least Don’t Hurt Them" The spiritual leader of Tibetan people

Dame Rose Macaulay    said    "The Great and Recurrent Question About Abroad Is, is It Worthy Getting There?" English novelist

Damien Hirst    said    "I Sometimes Feel That I Have Nothing to Say and I Want to Communicate This" English artist and the most prominent of the group “Young British Artists”

Daniel W. Joselyn    said    "Rest is Not a Matter of Doing Absolutely Nothing. Rest is Repair."

Dave Barry    said    "Although Golf Was Originally Restricted to Wealthy, Overweight Protestants, Today It's Open to Anybody Who Owns Hideous Clothing" Bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist

Dave Barry    said    "Electricity is Actually Made up of Extremely Tiny Particles Called Electrons, That You Cannot See With the Naked Eye Unless You Have Been Drinking."

Dave Barry    said    "The Moving Cursor Writes, and Having Written, Links On" Bestselling American author and Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist

David Gerrold    said    "The Shortest Distance Between Two Puns is a Straight Line" American award-winning science fiction author

Dean Koontz    said    "... the Functions of Intellect Are Insufficient Without Courage, Love, Friendship, Compassion and Empathy" American novelist, short story writer and screen writer. "Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy"

Dean Martin    said    "If You Drink, Don't Drive. Don't Even Putt" American singer and actor

Dennis Miller    said    "I Rant, Therefore I Am" American stand-up comedian, political/sports commentator, and television/radio personality

Derek Bok    said    "If You Think Education is Expensive, Try Ignorance."

Desiderius Erasmus    said    "Nothing is As Peevish and Pedantic As Men’s Judgments of One Another" Dutch humanist and theologian

D. H. Lawrence    said    "I Can Never Decide Whether My Dreams Are the Result of My Thoughts, or My Thoughts the Result of My Dreams."

D. H. Lawrence    said    "I Like to Write when I Feel Spiteful: It’s Like Having a Good Sneeze" English novelist, poet, essayist

D. H. Lawrence    said    "I Shall Always Be a Priest of Love" British Author

D. H. Lawrence    said    "Life is Ours to Be Spent, Not to Be Saved" English novelist, poet, essayist

Diana Black    said    "Big Egos Are Big Shields for Lots of Empty Space"

Dick Cavett    said    "There's So Much Comedy on Television. Does That Cause Comedy in the Streets?" Mocking the TV-violence debate

Dion Boucicault    said    "Men Talk of Killing Time, While Time Quietly Kills Them" Irish actor and playwright

Don Adams    said    "I Like Getting Married, I Just Don’t Like Being Married" Comedian

Don Marquis    said    "And Idea Isn’t Responsible for the People Who Believe in It" American humorist, journalist and author

Doris Day    said    "The Really Frightening Thing About Middle Age is That You Know You'll Grow out of It" American Golden Globe and Grammy Award winning singer, actress, and animal welfare

Dorothy Parker    said    "Brevity is the Soul of Lingerie."

Dorothy Parker    said    "The Cure for Boredom is Curiosity. There is No Cure for Curiosity."

Dorothy Parker    said    "If You Want to Know What God Thinks About Money, Just Look at the People He Gave It To."

Dorothy Parker    said    "Men Seldom Makes Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses."

Doug Larson    said    "Instead of Giving a Politician the Keys to the City, It Might Be Better to Change the Locks" English racer

Doug Larson    said    "An Optimist Thinks This is the Best of All Worlds. A Pessimist Fears the Same May Be True" English racer

Douglas MacArthur    said    "A Better World Shall Emerge Based on Faith and Understanding" US WWII general & war hero

Douglas MacArthur    said    "A General is Just As Good or Just As Bad As the Troops Under His Command Make Him" US WWII general & war hero

Douglas MacArthur    said    "In War, There is No Substitute for Victory." US WWII general & war hero

Douglas MacArthur    said    "It is Fatal to Enter Any War Without the Will to Win It" US WWII general & war hero

Dan Rather    said    "Americans Will Put up With Anything Provided It Doesn't Block Traffic" American journalist and anchor

Dr. William C. Dement    said    "Dreaming Permits Each and Every One of Us to Be Quietly and Safely Every Night of Our Lives" American sleep researcher and founder of the Sleep Research Center

Dwight D. Eisenhower    said    "From Behind the Iron Curtain, There Are Signs That Tyranny is in Trouble and Reminders That Its Structure is As Brittle As Its Surface is Hard" 34th United States President, nicknamed Ike

Dwight D. Eisenhower    said    "A People That Values Its Privileges Above Its Principles Soon Loses Both" 34th President of the United States. Inaugural Address (January 20, 1953)

E. B. White    said    "I Get up Every Morning Determined to Both Change the World and Have One Hell of a Good Time. Sometimes This Makes Planning My Day Difficult" American Writer

Edgar Allan Poe    said    "All That We See or Seem is but a Dream Within a Dream" Poet

Edgar Allan Poe    said    "Poetry is the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty in Words" Poet

Edgar Allan Poe    said    "We Loved With a Love That Was More Than Love" Poet

Edgerton Y. Davis Jr    said    "A Drug is a Substance That, when Injected Into a Rat, Produces a Scientific Paper."

Edmund Burke    said    "Among a People Generally Corrupt Liberty Cannot Long Exists" Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator and political thinker

Edmund Burke    said    "Applaud Us when We Run, Console Us when We Fail, Cheer Us when We Recover" Irish orator, philosopher & politician

Edmund Burke    said    "Never Despair; but if You Do, Work on in Despair" Irish orator, philosopher & politician

Edmund Burke    said    "Our Patience Will Achieve More Than Our Force" Irish orator, philosopher & politician

Edmund Burke    said    "Tell Me What Are the Prevailing Sentiments That Occupy the Minds of Your Young Men, and I Will Tell You What is to Be the Character of the Next Generation" Anglo-Irish statesman, author orator, political theorist and philosopher

Edvard Munch    said    "You Should Not Paint the Chair but Only What Someone Has Felt About It" Expressionist painter of "The Scream"

Edward Albee    said    "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Play title, 1962

Edward Albee    said    "You Gotta Have a Swine to Show You Where the Truffles Are" American playwright known for works including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story

Edward Dahlberg    said    "What Most Men Desire is a Virgin Who is a Whore" American Author / Critic

Edward G. Ryan    said    "Blind Submission to the Administration of the Government is Not Devotion to the Country or the Constitution ..." Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice."Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government"

E. E. Cummings    said    "To Be Nobody but Yourself - in a World Which is Doing It's Best, Night and Day, to Make You Like Everybody else ..." American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. "To be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting"

Elbert Hubbard    said    "Character is the Result of Two Things: Mental Attitude and the Way We Spend Our Time" American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher

Elbert Hubbard    said    "If You Suffer, Thank God! It is a Sure Sign That You Are Alive" American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher

Elbert Hubbard    said    "I Would Rather Be Able to Appreciate Things I Can Not Have Than to Have Things I Am Not Able to Appreciate" American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher

Elbert Hubbard    said    "No Man Needs a Vacation So Much As the Man Who Has Just Had One" American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher

Eleanor Roosevelt    said    "Perhaps Nature is Our Best Assurance of Immortality" 1st Lady of the United States

El-Ghazali    said    "A Man Who is Being Delivered from the Danger of a Fierce Lion Does Not Object Whether This Service is Performed by an Unknown or an Illustrious Individual ..." "A man who is being delivered from the danger of a fierce lion does not object whether this service is performed by an unknown or an illustrious individual. Why therefore do people seek knowledge from celebrities?"

Elie Weisel    said    "The Opposite of Love is Not Hate; It's Indifference" Jewish writer, professor political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor

Elizabeth Drew    said    "Travel, Instead of Broadening the Mind, Often Merely Lengthens the Conversation" American political journalist and author

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross    said    "People Are Like Stained-glass Windows. They Sparkle and Shine when the Sun is Out, but when the Darkness Sets in ..." "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

Ellen Parr    said    "The Cure for Boredom is Curiosity. There is No Cure for Curiosity" English and speak teacher

Elvis Presley    said    "I Don't Know Anything About Music. In My Line You Don't Have To" Pop music icon

E. M. Forster    said    "The Two Entities Who Might Enlighten Us, the Baby and the Corpse, Cannot Do So."

Emily Dickinson    said    "Finite to Fail, but Infinite to Venture" American poet

Epictetus    said    "Freedom is the Right to Live As We Wish" Greek stoic philosopher

Epictetus    said    "It is Your Own Convictions Which Compels You, That Is, Choice Compels Choice" Greek philosopher

Epictetus    said    "We Have Two Ears and One Mouth So That We Can Listen Twice As Much As We Speak." C 55-135 AD

Epicurus    said    "Death is Nothing to Us, Since when We Are, Death Has Not Come, and when Death Has Come, We Are Not" 341-270 BC

Eric Hoffer    said    "There Are No Chaste Minds. Minds Copulate Wherever They Meet" American philosopher and author

Ernest Hemingway    said    "All Good Books Have One Thing in Common - They Are Truer Than if They Had Really Happened" American novelist, short-story writer and journalist

Ernest Hemingway    said    "Courage is Grace Under Pressure" American writer

Ernest Hemingway    said    "Never Confuse Motion With Action" American novelist, short-story writer and journalist

Ernest Hemingway    said    "Never Mistake Motion for Action"

Euripides    said    "The Best and Safest Thing is to Keep a Balance in Your Life, Acknowledge the Great Powers Around Us and in Us. If You Can Do That, and Live That Way, You Are Really a Wise Man." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "Circumstances Rule Men and Not Men Rule Circumstances." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "Do Not Consider Painful What is Good for You." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "Short is the Joy That Guilty Pleasure Brings." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "Talk Sense to a Fool and He Calls You Foolish." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "Waste Not Fresh Tears over Old Griefs." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "When a Good Man is Hurt, All Who Would Be Called Good Must Suffer With Him." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Euripides    said    "Your Very Silence Shows You Agree." Greek Tragic Dramatist

Eustache Deschamps    said    "Friends Are Relatives You Make for Yourself" French medieval poet

Evan Esar    said    "America Believes in Education: the Average Professor Earns More Money in a Year Than a Professional Athlete Earns in a Whole Week" American humorist who wrote Esar’s Comic Dictionary

Finley Peter Dunne    said    "The Past Always Looks Better Than It Was. It's Only Pleasant Because It Isn't Here" American author, writer and humorist

Flannery O’Connor    said    "Everywhere I Go I'm Asked if I Think the University Stifles Writers. My Opinion is That They Don't Stifle Enough of Them ..." American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher"

F. P. Jones    said    "Experience is That Marvelous Thing That Enables You to Recognize a Mistake when You Make It Again."

Frank Herbert    said    "The People I Distrust Most Are Those Who Want to Improve Our Lives but Have Only One Course of Action" American science fiction author

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "Happiness is Not the Mere Possession of Money; It Lies in the Joy of Achievement, in the Thrill of Creative Effort" US 32th. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "History Will Be Kind to Me for I Intend to Write It"

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "Human Kindness Has Never Weakened the Stamina or Softened the Fiber of a Free People" US 32th. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "I Do Not Believe in Communism Any More Than You Do, but There is Nothing Wrong With the Communists in This Country. Several of the Best Friends I Have Are Communists" 32th United States President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "In the Truest Sense, Freedom Cannot Be Bestowed; It Must Be Achieved" US 32th. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "It is Common Sense to Take a Method and Try It. If It Fails, Admit It Frankly and Try Another. But Above All, Try Something" US 32th President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "Men Are Not Prisoners of Fate, but Only Prisoners of Their Own Minds" US 32th. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "A Nation Does Not Have to Be Cruel to Be Tough" US 32th. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Fear Itself" US 32th. President

Franklin D. Roosevelt    said    "Repetition Does Not Transform a Lie Into a Truth." 32nd US President

Frank Lloyd Wright    said    "I'm All in Favor of Keeping Dangerous Weapons out of the Hands of Fools. Let's Start With Typewriters" American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher

Frank Lloyd Wright    said    "The Longer I Live the More Beautiful Life Becomes"

Frank Lloyd Wright    said    "Many Wealthy People Are Little More Than Janitors of Their Possessions" American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher

Frank Lloyd Wright    said    "The Modern City is a Place for Banking and Prostitution and Very Little Else" American architect

Frank Lloyd Wright    said    "Tip the World over on Its Side and Everything Loose Will Land in Los Angeles" American architect, interior designer, writer, educator, and philosopher

Frank Zappa    said    "Without Music to Decorate It, Time is Just a Bunch of Boring Production Deadlines or Dates by Which Bills Must Be Paid" American composer, guitarist, satirist and song writer

François De La Rochefoucauld    said    "The Height of Cleverness is to Be Able to Conceal It" French writer and Cardinal

François De La Rochefoucauld    said    "It is With True Love As It is With Ghosts; Everyone Talks About It but Few Have Seen It" French Classic writer

François De La Rochefoucauld    said    "The More One Loves a Mistress, the More One is Ready to Hate Her" French writer