All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and
divine.
Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure
to repent.
Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
Socrates
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a
bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Children nowadays are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food
and tyrannise their teachers.
Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you
shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
/2006 17:20:49Socrates
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a
kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver
all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Socrates
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend
them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
Socrates
I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he
employs it.
Socrates
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an
equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates
If thou continuest to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified
to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men.
Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Socrates
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not,
you'll become a philosopher.
Socrates
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be
right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any
man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good
for us.
Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
/2006 17:20:49The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.
Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
Aristotle
A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
Aristotle
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom
they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less
easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance,
nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle
All men by nature desire to know.
Aristotle
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
Aristotle
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
Aristotle
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the
right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the
right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's
power and is not easy.
Aristotle
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the
waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and
the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the
courage of his heart sustaineth him; and the steadiness of his mind
beareth him out.
Aristotle
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and
justice he is the worst.
Aristotle
Bad men are full of repentance.
Aristotle
/04/2006 21:04:30Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive
them of their arms.
Aristotle
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only
when your increased means permit.
Aristotle
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which
guarantees the others.
Aristotle
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any
respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they
claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the
rulers.
Aristotle
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different
means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of
government.
Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that
we deserve them.
Aristotle
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Aristotle
Education is the best provision for old age.
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is
possible for him to achieve.
Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Aristotle
Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
Aristotle
/04/2006 21:04:30Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is
sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Hope is a waking dream.
Aristotle
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
Aristotle
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers
his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded
what others do only from fear of the law.
Aristotle
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in
democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in
government to the utmost.
Aristotle
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's
way.
Aristotle
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because
there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle
In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than
she feels.
Aristotle
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.
The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and
aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble
deeds.
Aristotle
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor
drunken.
Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies
skillfully.
Aristotle
It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views
/04/2006 21:04:30we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial
views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us
the powers of thought.
Aristotle
It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas
make their appearance in the world.
Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
Aristotle
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
Aristotle
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their
form but with regard to their mode of life.
Aristotle
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by
doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing
brave acts.
Aristotle
Most people would rather give than get affection.
Aristotle
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more
certain they are their own.
Aristotle
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Aristotle
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the
eye.
Aristotle
/04/2006 21:04:30No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all
the other things in the world.
Aristotle
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
Aristotle
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of
reference.
Aristotle
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry
expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at
something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
Aristotle
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into
despotisms.
Aristotle
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable,
perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate
understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.
Aristotle
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with
cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually
any real thing.
Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but
their inward significance.
Aristotle
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-
seven for men.
Aristotle
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my
sake.
Aristotle
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the
dead.
Aristotle
/04/2006 21:04:30The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making
the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
The law is reason, free from passion.
Aristotle
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a
thousandfold.
Aristotle
The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor
against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their
reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
Aristotle
The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The
Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in
the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he
fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide.
Aristotle
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is
in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
Aristotle
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
Aristotle
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Aristotle
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Aristotle
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of
contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Aristotle
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since
there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in
great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain
conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
Aristotle
/04/2006 21:04:30The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle
There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
Aristotle
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than
fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more
certain that they are their own.
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who
produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then
they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as
though it were thy last.
Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true
that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but
to escape some ill.
Aristotle
To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling
in two bodies.''
Aristotle
Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious
attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity
and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit.
Aristotle
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing
temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in
figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Aristotle
We make war that we may live in peace.
Aristotle
/04/2006 21:04:30We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask
whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.
Aristotle
We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the
right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for
the right length of time.
Aristotle
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Aristotle
What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral
character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the
performance of virtuous actions.
Aristotle
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening
fruit.
Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other
goods.
Aristotle
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the
greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert Einstein
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main
problem.
Albert Einstein
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others
crazy?
Albert Einstein
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need
to be happy?
Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein
All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to
cease stirring within us.
Albert Einstein
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for
development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at
by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and
the link between them.
Albert Einstein
All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the
springs of man's actions.
Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.
Albert Einstein
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It
)04/04/2006 19:55:23takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction.
Albert Einstein
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not
giving the kiss the attention it deserves.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be
trusted in large ones either.
Albert Einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain,
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
Albert Einstein
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the
immediate claims of our instincts.
Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all
technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams
and equations.
Albert Einstein
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to
characterize our age.
Albert Einstein
Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of
sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the
human (or animal) mind.
Albert Einstein
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you
mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
Albert Einstein
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned
in school.
)04/04/2006 19:55:23Albert Einstein
Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything
that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own
hearts.
Albert Einstein
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are
even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein
Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked
the earth in flesh and blood.
Albert Einstein
God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates
empirically.
Albert Einstein
God does not play dice.
Albert Einstein
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre
minds.
Albert Einstein
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as
good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him
the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
)04/04/2006 19:55:23He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned
my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for
him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome
nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate
them!
Albert Einstein
How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are
wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.
Albert Einstein
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot
find it.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for
peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go
to war.
Albert Einstein
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for
everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
Albert Einstein
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his
creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to
be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind
it.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes
evil.
Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with
the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be
killed.
Albert Einstein
I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World
War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
Albert Einstein
)04/04/2006 19:55:23I have just got a new theory of eternity.
Albert Einstein
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.
Albert Einstein
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
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years
of maturity.
Albert Einstein
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the
conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
Albert Einstein
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Albert Einstein
I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is
play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert Einstein
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?
Albert Einstein
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and
small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all
the same.
Albert Einstein
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must
)04/04/2006 19:55:23above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein
Information is not knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
different results.
Albert Einstein
Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be
such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an
incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded
our humanity.
Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of
man.
Albert Einstein
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an
act of murder.
Albert Einstein
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
Albert Einstein
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative
expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein
It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert Einstein
It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the
human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and
before nature.
Albert Einstein
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that
engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
)04/04/2006 19:55:23Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -
perhaps it all will.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should
be.
Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important
thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein
Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.
Albert Einstein
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and
may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to
everyone.
Albert Einstein
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
Albert Einstein
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human
race.
Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
)04/04/2006 19:55:23Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
experiment can prove me wrong.
Albert Einstein
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that
created it.
Albert Einstein
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law
of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction
because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack
of order in nature.
Albert Einstein
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification
exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate
with it.
Albert Einstein
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of
the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Albert Einstein
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and
soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a
person.
Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by
understanding.
Albert Einstein
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees
results.
Albert Einstein
)04/04/2006 19:55:23Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our
age.
Albert Einstein
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
Albert Einstein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its
creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain
too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at
it.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with
their minds.
Albert Einstein
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more
mature.
Albert Einstein
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological
criminal.
Albert Einstein
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning
power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my
idea of God.
Albert Einstein
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been
successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we
suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert Einstein
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a
stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
)04/04/2006 19:55:23The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are.
Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk
of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing
positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of
empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of
hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein
The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who
refuse military service.
Albert Einstein
The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from
3)04/04/2006 19:55:23wonder.
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has
merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert Einstein
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an
ideal.
Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our
modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he
is able to receive.
Albert Einstein
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking.
Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who
are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but
because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There
is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order
lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein
They come into being not through demonstration but through
revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.
Albert Einstein
Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.
Albert Einstein
3)04/04/2006 19:55:23To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a
new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in
science.
Albert Einstein
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound,
forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel
libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Albert Einstein
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's
goodness and righteousness.
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of
value.
Albert Einstein
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not
sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
Albert Einstein
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
Albert Einstein
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we
created them.
Albert Einstein
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to
survive.
Albert Einstein
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course,
powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the
conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any
talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When
you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's
3)04/04/2006 19:55:23relativity.
Albert Einstein
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted
with important matters.
Albert Einstein
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for
other people.
Albert Einstein
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only
ever had one.
Albert Einstein
You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Albert Einstein
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Albert Einstein
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man
is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Buddha
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks
or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts
with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never
leaves him.
Buddha
All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes
and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in
relation to everything else.
Buddha
All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can
wrong-doing remain?
Buddha
Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals.
Buddha
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an
idea that exists only as an idea.
Buddha
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a
wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your
mind.
Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter
if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own
common sense.
Buddha
Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
Buddha
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Buddha
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the
mind on the present moment.
Buddha
04/2006 17:11:07Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who
envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than
thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Buddha
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal
rule.
Buddha
He is able who thinks he is able.
Buddha
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and
all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial
eye.
Buddha
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no
woes.
Buddha
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha
However many holy words you read,However many you speak,What
good will they do youIf you do not act on upon them?
Buddha
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do
believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Buddha
I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.
Buddha
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased
striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
Buddha
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create
distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.
Buddha
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil
ways.
Buddha
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the
04/2006 17:11:07victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by
demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
Buddha
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a
spiritual life.
Buddha
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from
good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To
walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of
wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least
we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get
sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter,
wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by
night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life
of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Buddha
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
Buddha
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Buddha
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the
past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment
wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
Buddha
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle
was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha
The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is
sifted through a sieve.
Buddha
The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an
alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no
reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
Buddha
04/2006 17:11:07There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not
going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt
separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and
breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a
sword that kills.
Buddha
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Buddha
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life
of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by
being shared.
Buddha
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring
peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a
man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all
wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
Buddha
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the
midst of abundance.
Buddha
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of
Unity are already two.
Buddha
Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.
Buddha
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are
shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy
follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
Buddha
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world.
Buddha
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of
this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's
the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this
flood?
Buddha
What we think, we become.
Buddha
04/2006 17:11:07Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will
hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
Buddha
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one
finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these
feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering -
an image of death.
Buddha
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Buddha
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is
more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and
that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as
anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your
love and affection.
Buddha
Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give
yourself to it.
Buddha
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely
uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the
brave.
Mohandas Gandhi
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mohandas Gandhi
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for
the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of
the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Mohandas Gandhi
A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds
good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
Mohandas Gandhi
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like
us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its
compromise in practice.
Mohandas Gandhi
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to
solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in
their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.
It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God
as witness.
Mohandas Gandhi
Action expresses priorities.
Mohandas Gandhi
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of
l (1 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18the human frame.
Mohandas Gandhi
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and
assimilation.
Mohandas Gandhi
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
Mohandas Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.
Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look
upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi
An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
Mohandas Gandhi
An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
Mohandas Gandhi
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more
so.
Mohandas Gandhi
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mohandas Gandhi
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change
at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages
and ages.
Mohandas Gandhi
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to
remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able
to remake ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts
but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi
Better far than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.
Mohandas Gandhi
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
l (2 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Mohandas Gandhi
But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mohandas Gandhi
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in
some form or other will always be needed.
Mohandas Gandhi
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and
leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mohandas Gandhi
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to
maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a
false position.
Mohandas Gandhi
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this.'
Mohandas Gandhi
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must
be unaffected by outside circumstances.
Mohandas Gandhi
Each one prays to God according to his own light.
Mohandas Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
Mohandas Gandhi
Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to
the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Mohandas Gandhi
Evil is, good or truth misplaced.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
Mohandas Gandhi
Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
Mohandas Gandhi
Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
Mohandas Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of
valour is want of religious faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
l (3 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then
you win.
Mohandas Gandhi
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would
a man not pay for living ?
Mohandas Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mohandas Gandhi
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of
no one race or religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mohandas Gandhi
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if
there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to
bless.
Mohandas Gandhi
God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so
to every one of us.
Mohandas Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are
in harmony.
Mohandas Gandhi
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mohandas Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mohandas Gandhi
Human society is a ceaseless growth, an unfoldment in terms of
spirituality.
Mohandas Gandhi
I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries
stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.
Mohandas Gandhi
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to
kill.
Mohandas Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mohandas Gandhi
I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
l (4 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
Mohandas Gandhi
I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight
compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react
upon one another.
Mohandas Gandhi
I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow
mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my
errors and to retrace my steps.
Mohandas Gandhi
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of
the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
Mohandas Gandhi
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil
inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mohandas Gandhi
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of
service and sacrifice.
Mohandas Gandhi
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task.
It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only
by God's grace.
Mohandas Gandhi
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so
unlike your Christ.
Mohandas Gandhi
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I
won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mohandas Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is
only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mohandas Gandhi
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in
conflict with morality.
Mohandas Gandhi
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means
getting along with people.
Mohandas Gandhi
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become
less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the
object of our lust.
Mohandas Gandhi
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not
based on brute force.
Mohandas Gandhi
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under
l (5 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18certain conditions is equally a duty.
Mohandas Gandhi
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mohandas Gandhi
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a
living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
Mohandas Gandhi
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a
real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
Mohandas Gandhi
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mohandas Gandhi
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mohandas Gandhi
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without
a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not
in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Mohandas Gandhi
Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the
horizon before one is the blackest.
Mohandas Gandhi
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
Mohandas Gandhi
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-
sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Mohandas Gandhi
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of
a true democratic spirit.
Mohandas Gandhi
Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be
sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mohandas Gandhi
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves
honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head
then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
l (6 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Mohandas Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put
on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in
proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
Mohandas Gandhi
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be
reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mohandas Gandhi
Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so
do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great
the latter may be.
Mohandas Gandhi
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a
punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds
something new to his life, something with which nothing can be
compared.
Mohandas Gandhi
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one
lust for martyrdom.
Mohandas Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mohandas Gandhi
Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never
revenges itself.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the
welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with
which nature has endowed her.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness
really lies in contentment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of
his brother, never by killing him.
l (7 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Mohandas Gandhi
Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mohandas Gandhi
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield
to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
Mohandas Gandhi
Manliness consists in making circumstances subserve to ourselves.
Mohandas Gandhi
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men,
who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.
Mohandas Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It
comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mohandas Gandhi
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mohandas Gandhi
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has
not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our
hearts.
Mohandas Gandhi
My life is my message.
Mohandas Gandhi
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-
violence is the means of realising Him.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that
you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Mohandas Gandhi
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with
good.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in
the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in
the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being.
Mohandas Gandhi
l (8 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Non-violence is the article of faith.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is
mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the
ingenuity of man.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
Mohandas Gandhi
Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an
appeal to the brain.
Mohandas Gandhi
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker
and no one else's.
Mohandas Gandhi
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and
has fear of God.
Mohandas Gandhi
Peace is its own reward.
Mohandas Gandhi
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and
applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mohandas Gandhi
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mohandas Gandhi
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command
results, we can only strive.
Mohandas Gandhi
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up
a sound education.
Mohandas Gandhi
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant
abandonment of one's own religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest
to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical
comparison.
Mohandas Gandhi
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full
victory.
Mohandas Gandhi
l (9 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mohandas Gandhi
Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical
relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
Mohandas Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an
indomitable will.
Mohandas Gandhi
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted
into an ineffable joy.
Mohandas Gandhi
Suffering has its well-defined limits. Suffering can be both wise and
unwise, and when the limit is reached, to prolong it would be not
unwise but the height of folly.
Mohandas Gandhi
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
Mohandas Gandhi
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mohandas Gandhi
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing
would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mohandas Gandhi
The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mohandas Gandhi
The good man is the friend of all living things.
Mohandas Gandhi
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are
treated.
Mohandas Gandhi
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the
still small voice of conscience.
Mohandas Gandhi
The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it
demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Mohandas Gandhi
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The
soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mohandas Gandhi
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he
does becomes tainted.
Mohandas Gandhi
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
l (10 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Mohandas Gandhi
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
Mohandas Gandhi
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mohandas Gandhi
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by
abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mohandas Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to
them except in the form of bread.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of
conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's
greed.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
Mohandas Gandhi
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any
faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mohandas Gandhi
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Mohandas Gandhi
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what
religion is.
Mohandas Gandhi
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the
same to us all.
Mohandas Gandhi
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mohandas Gandhi
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a
thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Mohandas Gandhi
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of
ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
l (11 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Mohandas Gandhi
Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mohandas Gandhi
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning
faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mohandas Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is
momentary.
Mohandas Gandhi
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the
world and to India herself.
Mohandas Gandhi
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die
up to a point.
Mohandas Gandhi
We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for
all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi
We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the
meeting of hearts?
Mohandas Gandhi
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought,
word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make
strong progress towards it.
Mohandas Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mohandas Gandhi
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good
idea.
Mohandas Gandhi
What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mohandas Gandhi
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most
important that you do it.
Mohandas Gandhi
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my
soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mohandas Gandhi
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes
irresistible.
Mohandas Gandhi
l (12 of 13)04/04/2006 21:52:18Where love is, there God is also.
Mohandas Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Mohandas Gandhi
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body,
but you will never imprison my mind.
Mohandas Gandhi
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to
stop reading them.
Mohandas Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mohandas Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few
drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas Gandhi
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the
subject.
Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing.
Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get
its pants on.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees
the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen
tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the
ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks
you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single
word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel
we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
Although present on the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the
events leading up to it.
Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
(1 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was
only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general,
the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in
slaughter.
Winston Churchill
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a
defeat.
Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best
of all.
Winston Churchill
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest
about.
Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is
the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it
takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same
function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy
state of things.
Winston Churchill
Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce
the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and
loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had
no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much.
Winston Churchill
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And
the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from
saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy
and the lash.
Winston Churchill
(2 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will
not put.
Winston Churchill
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of
military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important,
must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to
leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history
myself.
Winston Churchill
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up
with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has
descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results.
Winston Churchill
I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to
use his claws.
Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better
policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with
this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
(3 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
I am bored with it all.
Winston Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if
anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat
us as equals.
Winston Churchill
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or
politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to
writing and painting.
Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for
the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the
brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British
sentence-which is a noble thing.
Winston Churchill
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for
people who get drunk.
Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will
still be ugly.
Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed
to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once
have been rightly cast aside.
(4 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the
devil in the House of Commons.
Winston Churchill
If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd
let you!
Winston Churchill
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I
would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere
would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on
fire.
Winston Churchill
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of
material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and
helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we
have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever.
Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again.
Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the
law.
Winston Churchill
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must
confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take
my advice.
Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has
failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to
work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
(5 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by
a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of
destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime
minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an
honorary citizen of another.
Winston Churchill
It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can
see.
Winston Churchill
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in
doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the
lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill
It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in
doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he
will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this
world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-
(6 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of
Government except all those others that have been tried from time to
time.
Winston Churchill
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of
champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory:
magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
Winston Churchill
Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually
manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Winston Churchill
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my
wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars
and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all
meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston Churchill
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have
breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in
the room.
Winston Churchill
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to
so few.
Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
Winston Churchill
"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
Winston Churchill
(7 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a
searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of
President Roosevelt.
Winston Churchill
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the
fighting of elections.
Winston Churchill
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of
civilization.
Winston Churchill
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it
is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
Winston Churchill
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to
run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you
meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by
half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible
and wrong.
Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like
being taught.
Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you
learn the game.
Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at
times.
Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you
can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next
(8 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to
explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church
would suit me better.
Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the
gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot.
Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a
healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be
shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful
see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of
enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue
that counts.
Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have
only to persevere to save yourselves.
Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people
who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill
(9 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to
see.
Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's
aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the
Stone Age.
Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being
read.
Winston Churchill
The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."
Winston Churchill
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can
breathe without letting go.
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the
opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but
they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in
which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of
almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may
deride it, but in the end; there it is.
(10 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19Winston Churchill
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it
is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner
speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl
who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into
babies.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published
opinion.
Winston Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our
table.
Winston Churchill
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our
country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute,
adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill
They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought
served him right.
Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being
read.
Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those
who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To
destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
(11 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19Winston Churchill
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not
know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained
silent.
Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain,
hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If
you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Winston Churchill
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
Winston Churchill
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by
logic.
Winston Churchill
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on
the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the
fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender.
Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration
and survival.
Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
Winston Churchill
(12 of 13)04/04/2006 20:29:19When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack
the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I
come home.
Winston Churchill
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old
man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his
life, most of which had never happened.
Winston Churchill
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be
claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my
bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
Winston Churchill
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human
life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without
innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an
amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master,
and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be
reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to
the public.
Winston Churchill
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've
tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely
fatal.
Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of
fiction.
Oscar Wilde
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art
far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man
does. That's his.
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between.
Oscar Wilde
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds
exactly the same opinion.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often
convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter,
she is perfectly satisfied.
Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.
When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
Oscar Wilde
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any
enemies, but none of his friends like him.
Oscar Wilde
At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.
Oscar Wilde
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs
no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or
springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the
moon.
Oscar Wilde
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is
passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar Wilde
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in
touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them;
rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the
trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people
for the people.
Oscar Wilde
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you
that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength
and courage to yield to.
Oscar Wilde
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not
of the sitter.
Oscar Wilde
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
Everything popular is wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months.
Oscar Wilde
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis
for family life.
Oscar Wilde
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Oscar Wilde
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry
that they dare not realise.
Oscar Wilde
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is
nothing at all to weep about.
Oscar Wilde
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is
the thief of time.
Oscar Wilde
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on
treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far
more expensive.
Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is
never of any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their
good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be
too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often
convincing.
Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
Oscar Wilde
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked
and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48sensational to read in the train.
Oscar Wilde
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most
immediate way in which a human being can share with another the
sense of what it is to be a human being.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives.
But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated
his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore.
But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to
listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music
people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in
the world.
Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you
pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of
optimism.
Oscar Wilde
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar Wilde
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48forever and ever.
Oscar Wilde
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older
than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar Wilde
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so
dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Oscar Wilde
In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.
Oscar Wilde
In married life three is company and two none.
Oscar Wilde
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless
information.
Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either
charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at
San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the
attractions of the next world.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good
than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Oscar Wilde
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all
schools of art.
Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying
things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely
true.
Oscar Wilde
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our
perfection.
Oscar Wilde
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you
will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of
journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps
us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar Wilde
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the
best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is
not.
Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,
and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's
last romance.
Oscar Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we
personally dislike.
Oscar Wilde
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by
reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some
perfectly uninteresting event.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's
opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when
it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his.
Oscar Wilde
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
Oscar Wilde
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's
nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Oscar Wilde
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one
day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would
cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look
ugly.
Oscar Wilde
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so
calculating.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the
senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience
makes egotists of us all.
Oscar Wilde
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a
great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it
had always been hushed up.
Oscar Wilde
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an
open air cafe in Paris.
Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down
everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are
what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar Wilde
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never
marry.
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48Oscar Wilde
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Oscar Wilde
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be
judged.
Oscar Wilde
Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are
infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each
one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do
more.
Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Oscar Wilde
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would
say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
Oscar Wilde
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live
as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Oscar Wilde
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes.
That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde
Some of these people need ten years of therapy -ten sentences of mine
do not equal ten years of therapy.
Oscar Wilde
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world
its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is
unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar Wilde
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde
The General was essentially a man of peace, except of course in his
domestic affairs.
Oscar Wilde
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction
means.
Oscar Wilde
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Oscar Wilde
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the
world.
Oscar Wilde
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for
you.
Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the
young know everything.
Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception
absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any
use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist
everything but temptation.
Oscar Wilde
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with
the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not
have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what
artists are.
Oscar Wilde
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what
is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-
like habits, supplies their demands.
Oscar Wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is
charging a great deal too much for it.
Oscar Wilde
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the
basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete
absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more
annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily
married life.
Oscar Wilde
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible,
and those who do the improbable.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people
who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants,
and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
There is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well
written, or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds.
She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is
a thing no married man knows anything about.
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48Oscar Wilde
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is
not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of
nothing.
Oscar Wilde
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
Those whom the gods love grow young.
Oscar Wilde
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks
like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To
deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is
no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive
the old art of Lying.
Oscar Wilde
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except
continue to love her.
Oscar Wilde
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first
husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first
wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Oscar Wilde
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing
in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
Oscar Wilde
13)05/04/2006 13:32:48When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Oscar Wilde
Who, being loved, is poor?
Oscar Wilde
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Oscar Wilde
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his
retreat.
Oscar Wilde
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is
the difference between the sexes.
Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Oscar Wilde
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, by each let this be heard, some
do it with a bitter look, some with a flattering word. The coward does it
with a kiss, the brave man with a sword!
Oscar Wilde
A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy
A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite
of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all
human morality.
John F. Kennedy
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in
an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past
has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard
that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy
A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are
wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are
fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it
or not. We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability.
John F. Kennedy
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military
service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's
military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And
therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein
Berliner!"
John F. Kennedy
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be
finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration,
nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Art, that great undogmatized church.
John F. Kennedy
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or
present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F. Kennedy
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing
between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And
those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the
future.
John F. Kennedy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends.
Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies.
Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing
into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy
I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic
Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy
I am reading it more and enjoying it less.
John F. Kennedy
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life
is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced
than ours.
John F. Kennedy
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I
have enjoyed it.
John F. Kennedy
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get
more out of the New York Times.
John F. Kennedy
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was
Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if
men - brave men - will make it so.
John F. Kennedy
I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his
vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my
religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy
I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear
Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if
I'm going to pay for a landslide."
John F. Kennedy
I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it
- if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand.
John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a future in which our country will match its military
strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power
with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our
country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its
wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. Kennedy
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and
beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which
will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of
our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for
our future.
John F. Kennedy
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
John F. Kennedy
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human
knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the
possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy
I'm an idealist without illusions.
John F. Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United
States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for
the president's.
John F. Kennedy
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a
different wife and a different religion.
John F. Kennedy
If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the
world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be
an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.
John F. Kennedy
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been
granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I
do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John F. Kennedy
Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and
flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can
neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries
the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for
war.
John F. Kennedy
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard
education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy
It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on
the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger.
This tiger has other ideas.
John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its
terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts,
eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and
commerce.
John F. Kennedy
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend,
oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born
in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
John F. Kennedy
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but
the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us
accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
Let's not talk so much about vice. I'm against vice in all forms.
John F. Kennedy
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom
they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to
those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't
want them to become politicians in the process.
John F. Kennedy
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad
he'd go straight.
John F. Kennedy
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but
I never believed it till now.
John F. Kennedy
My God, in this job he's got the nerve of a burglar.
John F. Kennedy
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to
you in life.
John F. Kennedy
Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all
breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are
all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be a s big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is
beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in
education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.
John F. Kennedy
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy
body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
John F. Kennedy
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. Kennedy
Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I
can.
John F. Kennedy
Tell him, if he doesn't mind, we'll shake hands.
John F. Kennedy
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a
military solution.
John F. Kennedy
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
John F. Kennedy
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.
And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender,
or submission.
John F. Kennedy
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage
of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph
and tragedy.
John F. Kennedy
The freedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with
those who say, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable."
John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the
dissemination of truth.
John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate,
contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and
unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie: deliberate,
continued, and dishonest; but the myth: persistent, persuasive, and
unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of
challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people,
but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their
pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more
security.
John F. Kennedy
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths
are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always
paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of
surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
The pay is good and I can walk to work.
John F. Kennedy
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or
cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need
men who can dream of things that never were.
John F. Kennedy
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the
mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by
new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and
potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy
The three of us have been alone for such a long time. We welcome a
fourth person.
John F. Kennedy
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we
are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,
to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the
power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human
life.
John F. Kennedy
There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say
they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the
Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long
range risks of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some
men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and
some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or
personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
John F. Kennedy
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08John F. Kennedy
Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
John F. Kennedy
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past.
The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a
faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it
condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of
thought.
John F. Kennedy
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no
longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great
powers alone.
John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector
enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F. Kennedy
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,
foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation
that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open
market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
We are not against any man-or any nation-or any system-except as it is
hostile to freedom.
John F. Kennedy
We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it
is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy
We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity
is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the
history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the
of 9)05/04/2006 19:59:08age of mass extermination.
John F. Kennedy
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the
1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of
unfulfilled hopes and threats.
John F. Kennedy
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
John F. Kennedy
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his
limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry
reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power
corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find
that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two
characters. One represents danger and the other represents
opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way.
John F. Kennedy
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can
see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
Sun Tzu
All war is based on deception.
Sun Tzu
All war is deception.
Sun Tzu
All warfare is based on deception.
Sun Tzu
For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme
of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme
excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's
resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they
have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not
because they are disinclined to longevity.
Sun Tzu
If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results
of a hundred battles.
Sun Tzu
It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct
espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them
instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and
used.
Sun Tzu
Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer
the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those
of ordinary men is foreknowledge.
Sun Tzu
O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be
invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate
in our hands.
04/2006 10:54:06Sun Tzu
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate
than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given
to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those
relating to secret operations.
Sun Tzu
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun Tzu
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to
make its every move.
Sun Tzu
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without
strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without
fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do
good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
Sun Tzu
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple
before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few
calculations beforehand.
Sun Tzu
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of
defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
Sun Tzu
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which
enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
Sun Tzu
The supreme excellence is to subde the armies of your enemies without
even having to fight them.
Sun Tzu
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable
shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise
lay plans against you.
Sun Tzu
There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged
warfare.
Sun Tzu
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.
Sun Tzu
Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the
victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights
and afterwards looks for victory.
Sun Tzu
04/2006 10:54:06Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's
strategy.
Sun Tzu
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence;
supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without
fighting.
Sun Tzu
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not
the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign
that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can
be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint
of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with
circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
ml (1 of 6)05/04/2006 09:49:12Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even
we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but
most by calm and prudent forethought.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand
bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with
it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the
principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree
upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of
government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
ml (2 of 6)05/04/2006 09:49:12Napoleon Bonaparte
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician
loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an
undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might
occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what
I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and
preparation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would
be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede
cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver
nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid
theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable
must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
ml (3 of 6)05/04/2006 09:49:13Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their
virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the
legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by
incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able
to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to
maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow
anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use
made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are
silent.
ml (4 of 6)05/04/2006 09:49:13Napoleon Bonaparte
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more
severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one
who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love
and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it
contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the
second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to
one's means.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence;
and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who
disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the
communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It
is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the
long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
ml (5 of 6)05/04/2006 09:49:13There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who
steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if
possible with a long nose.
Napoleon Bonaparte
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by
reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the
enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all
your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a
fool.
William Shakespeare
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are
subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
William Shakespeare
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most
excellent fancy.
William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time
plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
William Shakespeare
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees,
books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in
everything.
William Shakespeare
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
William Shakespeare
Art made tongue-tied by authority.
William Shakespeare
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
tml (1 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with
words.
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
William Shakespeare
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has
been in the house three days?
William Shakespeare
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare
Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare
But when they seldom come, they wished for come.
William Shakespeare
But will they come when you do call for them?
William Shakespeare
By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children
with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
William Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of
death but once.
William Shakespeare
Cudgel thy brains no more about it.
William Shakespeare
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare
tml (2 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more
cakes and ale?
William Shakespeare
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare
Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare
Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little
ones.
William Shakespeare
For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare
Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare
He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.
William Shakespeare
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
William Shakespeare
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
tml (3 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56William Shakespeare
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.
William Shakespeare
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a
naughty world.
William Shakespeare
How long a time lies in one little word?
William Shakespeare
How now, wit! Whither wander you?
William Shakespeare
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal
but by degrees?
William Shakespeare
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare
I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a
hawk from a handsaw.
William Shakespeare
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare
I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare
I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study
the stars.
William Shakespeare
I was adored once too.
William Shakespeare
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare
I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare
tml (4 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had
been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to
live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow
and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you
poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
William Shakespeare
If you want to win anything - a race, your self, your life - you have to
go a little berserk.
William Shakespeare
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly
to heaven.
William Shakespeare
In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare
In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
William Shakespeare
It is a custom. More honored in the breach than the observance.
William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
It provokes the desire but it take away the performance.
William Shakespeare
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare
tml (5 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest
course.
William Shakespeare
Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more
precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy
man.
William Shakespeare
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his
hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an
idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes,
hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.
William Shakespeare
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they
want everything.
William Shakespeare
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May
when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
William Shakespeare
Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
tml (6 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56William Shakespeare
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving
virtue.
William Shakespeare
My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
William Shakespeare
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare
My library was dukedom large enough.
William Shakespeare
My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare
Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
William Shakespeare
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness,
comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all
the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let
us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare
O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of
invention.
William Shakespeare
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I
would not be mad!
William Shakespeare
O! What a noble mind is here o'erthrown.
tml (7 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56William Shakespeare
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by
fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That
struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is
a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
William Shakespeare
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and
refuse thy name.
William Shakespeare
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William Shakespeare
Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and
venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare
Sweet are the uses of adversity.
William Shakespeare
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will
find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
William Shakespeare
Talking isn't doing It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words
tml (8 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56are not deeds.
William Shakespeare
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William Shakespeare
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.
William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their
bones.
William Shakespeare
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare
The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare
The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord
of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him
show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
William Shakespeare
The object of art is to give life a shape.
William Shakespeare
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare
tml (9 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare
The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
William Shakespeare
There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
They say miracles are past.
William Shakespeare
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare
Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
William Shakespeare
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
William Shakespeare
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare
'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William Shakespeare
To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare
To fear the worst oft cures the worse.
William Shakespeare
To their right praise and true perfection!
William Shakespeare
tml (10 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou
canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Tones that sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them
down in notes.
William Shakespeare
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things
require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which
returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.
William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in
faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how
like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare
What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would
smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his
father, both cry.
William Shakespeare
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
William Shakespeare
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare
Why so large a cost, having so short a lease, does thou upon your
fading mansion spend?
William Shakespeare
Why this is very midsummer madness.
William Shakespeare
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal.
William Shakespeare
tml (11 of 12)05/04/2006 11:04:56Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare
Your 'if' is the only peace-maker; much virtue in 'if'.
William Shakespeare
