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Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities. - Napoleon Bonaparte
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. -Homer
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. -Arthur Guiterman
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. -Ashleigh Brilliant
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. -Bob Edwards
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. -Casey Stengel
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. -Edward Gibbon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. -Francis Bacon
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. -George Herbert
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower. -Glenn Ford
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. -Henry Ford
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. -Karl Marx
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them. -Samuel Johnson
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship. -Thomas Fuller, M.D.
No one knows what he can do until he tries. -Pubilius Syrus
There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability. -Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. -John Henry Newman
Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people. -La Rochefoucauld
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -Harry S Truman
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials. -Chinese Proverb
The best way out of a difficulty is through it. -Anonymous
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. -Bion
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. -Epicurus
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm. -Euripides
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.-Euripides
In misfortune, what friend remains a friend? -Euripides
A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity. -Frederick Ferre
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Greater dooms win greater destinies. -Heraclitus
When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him. -Hindu Proverb
The drowning man is not troubled by rain. -Persian Proverb
With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. -Pliny the Elder
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. -Publilius Syrus
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb. -Seneca
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. -Sophocles
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. -Sophocles
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. -William Cullen Bryant
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. -Bishop Horne
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -Horace
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. -Shakespeare
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. -Francis Bacon
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
And good in everything. -Shakespeare
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -Victor Hugo
Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. -Francis Bacon
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. -Seneca
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. -William Hazlitt
As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. -La Bruyere
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace
Adversity is the first path to truth. -Lord Byron
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -Victor Marie Hugo
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -Horace
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -Henry Ward Beecher
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. -Unknown
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. -Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. -Epictetus
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. -William Ellery Channing
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. -Herbert George Wells
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. -James Russell Lowell
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -Victor Marie Hugo
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -Walter Scott
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. -Matthew 6:34
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. -Aesop
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? -Quran
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. -Jean Cocteau
There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Louis L'Amour
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. -Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -Harold Wilson
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. -Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
Never swap horses crossing a stream. -American Proverb
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoi
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. -Arthur Schopenhauer
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. -Carl T. Rowan
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. -Lyman Lloyd Bryson
Things do not change, we do. -Henry David Thoreau
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles F. Kettering
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -Francis Bacon
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. -Robert F. Kennedy
There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow
In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. -Benjamin Disraeli
Weep not that the world changes-did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. -William Cullen Bryant
Everything flows; nothing remains. -Heraclitus
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
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoi
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -John Lilly
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -George Bernard Shaw
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -Abraham Lincoln
Everything changes, nothing remains without change. -Buddha
All is change; all yields its place and goes. -Euripides
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. -Jimmy Carter
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. -Southern California Oracle
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. -Badge
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. -Raymond Postgate
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather. -Oscar Wilde
Ducking for apples change one letter and it's the story of my life. -Dorothy Parker
Religions change; Beer and Wine remain. -Hervey Allen
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles F. Kettering
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survivee at all in the face of social change. -Laurence Joseph McGinley
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. -Lyman Lloyd Bryson
There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus
Weep not that the world changes did it keep a stable, changless state, it were indeed a cause to weep. -William Cullen Bryant
Things do not change, we do. -Henry David Thoreau
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. -Albert von Nagyrapolt Szent Gyorgyi
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. -Frank Vincent Zappa
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel.
-Frederic Harrison
Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer.
-Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. -Niccolo Machiavelli
A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit. -Niccolo Machievelli
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. -Niccolo Machiavelli
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. -Ursula Kroeber LeGuin
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. -Victor Marie Hugo
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -Max Planck
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, "Keep tomorrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -Confucius
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -Aldous Huxley
The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion. -Donald Allen Wollheim
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -Bernard Berenson
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Albert Einstein
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. -Ogden Nash
Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced..."the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunction: You Must Adjust. -Robert M. Lindner
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. -Mahatma Gandhi
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. -John Dewey
Everything that can be invented has been invented. -Charles H. Duell
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. -Julius Frontinus
To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. -Murray Bookchin
The more things change, the more they remain the same. -Alphonse Karr
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitides and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear. -Aung San Suu Kyi
The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions. -Jane Dunlop (Adelle Davis)
...Insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.
-Avram Noam Chomsky
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -Aldous Huxley
Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. -Lewis Mumford
In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty. -Dr. Robert W. Prehoda
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. -Henry Ford Sr.
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -Samuel Butler
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings. -John Frederick Herschel
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained. -Charles Robert Darwin
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. -Roman Congregation decision against Galileo
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. -Henry Miller
Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant. -Benjamin Disraeli
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -Confucius
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. -Christian Nestell Bovee
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. -Henry Ward Beecher
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. -Michel de Montaigne
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. -Elbert Hubbard
Joys divided are increased. -Josiah Gilbert Holland
He laughs best who laughs last. -English Proverb
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. -Raymond Hitchcock
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. -Chamfort
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. -Charlie Chaplin
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -James Matthew Barrie
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. -Ed Howe
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. -Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. -Wilson Mizner
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. -H. L. Mencken
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. -Peter Ustinov
We love a joke that hands us a pat on the back while it kicks the other fellow downstairs. -Edson
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. -Lamb
Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye. -George M. Cohan
Laughter is by definition healthy. -Lessing
He who laughs, lasts. -Poole
There is only one sort of love but there are a thousand of copies.
A heart that loves is always young.
Love is perfect, even when we are not.
Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
Love doesn't cause pain, people do.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Theresa
Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.
Love is what the heart needs.
Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. -John Ciardi
There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. -François de La Rochefoucauld
All mankind loves a lover. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -Voltaire
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. -Anonymous
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. -John Donne
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -Mahatma Gandhi
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. -Douglas Jerrold
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. -Samuel Osgood
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. -George Bernard Shaw
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -Henry Ward Beecher
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. -Thornton Wilder
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. -H. L. Mencken
Love gives itself; it is not bought. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Never have partners. -Hughes.
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain. -Unknown.
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein
The one who loves least controls the relationship. -Anonymous.
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake. -Proverb
The woman cries before he wedding, the man after. -Proverb
Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. -La Bruyere
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. -Henry Adams
Love is a great beautifier. -Louisa May Alcott
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -WH Auden
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. -Bible Song of Solomon 8:7
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whoso loves Believes the impossible. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. -Elizabeth Bowen
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. -Miguel de Cervantes
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. -Charles Caleb Colton
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. -Pierre Corneille
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. -Quentin Crisp
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. -Bette Davis
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. -Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. -Emily Dickinson
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. -Isak Dinesen
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. -Louise Erdrich
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. -Euripides
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -French proverb
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. -Erich Fromm
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. -Erich Fromm
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -Goncourt
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? -b
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. -Charles A. Lindbergh
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. -Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. -Jacques Maritain
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. -W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. -Thomas Moore
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. -George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. -PJ O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. -Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. -Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. -Alexander Pope
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. -Helen Rowland
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. -Bertrand Russell
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. -Bertrand Russell
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint Éxupéry
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. -William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. -William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. -William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth. -William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love. -William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. -Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. -Voltaire
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -Andy Warhol
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. -Oscar Wilde
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. -Marianne Williamson
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. -Woodrow Wyatt
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court. -William Shakespeare
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate who they are accustomed to look down upon. -John Stuart Mill
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. -Thomas Szasz
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. -William Somerset Maugham
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. -Bob Dylan
The nail that sticks out must be hammered down. -Chinese saying
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. -Robert Green Ingersoll
No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -John Donne
A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing 'what nobody does,' or of not doing 'what everybody does,' is...in peril of a commission de lunatico. -John Stuart Mill
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. -Charley Reese
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. -Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). -Walt Whitman
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. -Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber stamps. -Henry Louis Mencken
The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and selftranscendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art. -Lewis Mumford
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. -Paul Fussell
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant...I want to be Cary Grant. -Archibald Leech
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -Samuel Johnson
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Independent selfpeople (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be defined by their associations. -John Dewey
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students. -Edward Abbey
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. -Bertrand Russell
Surely every human being ought to attain to the dignity of the unit. Surely it is worth while to be one, and to feel that the census of the universe would be incomplete without counting you. Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and all depths; that there are no walls or fences, or prohibited places, or sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought; that your intellect owes no allegiance to any being, human or divine; that you hold all in fee, and upon no condition, and by no tenure, whatsoever; that in the world of mind you are relieved from all personal dictation, and from the ignorant tyranny of majorities. Surely it is worth something to feel that there are no priests, no popes, no parties, no governments, no kings, no gods, to whom your intellect can be compelled to pay a reluctant homage. Surely it is a joy to know that all the cruel ingenuity of bigotry can devise no prison, no dungeon, no cell in which for one instant to confine a thought; that ideas cannot be dislocated by racks, nor crushed in iron boots, nor burned with fire. Surely it is sublime to think that the brain is a castle, and that within its curious bastions and winding halls the soul, in spite of all worlds and all beings, is the supreme sovereign of itself. -Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no ache more deadly than the striving to be oneself. -Yevgeniy Vinokurov
We tend to see our own experiences as the normal process, so we are often amazed that anyone could have taken a different path. But when we do meet up, it's always fascinating to compare notes about the different ways to get there. -Daniel Gilly
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. -Jacques Bénigne Bossuel
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. -Theodore Parker
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. -H. L. Mencken
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin
The heart is forever making the head its fool. -François de La Rochefoucauld
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. -Jean Galoert de Campistron
Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beecher
There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron
If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they'd have a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. -Richard M. Nixon
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -George Bernard Shaw
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. -Alexander Pope
Government action and inaction both gravely impair business confidence. -Mark Epernay
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. -Tom Wicker
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. -Will Rogers
Governments, like physicians, must simultaneously be the masters and the servants of those whom they govern. -Harry V. Jaffa
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. -Frederick the Great
If the people are to be the governors, who then shall be the governed? -Cotton Mather
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. -Will Rogers
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. -George Will
In every hierarchy, whether it be government or business, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute its duties.
-Laurance J. Peter
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected ... to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class. -Carl Becker
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -Will Rogers
One does not have to keep bad governments in to keep Communists out. -John Kenneth Galbraith
The best way to publicize a governmental or political action is to attempt to hide it. -Mark B. Cohen
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. -Robert L. Heilbroner
The duty of the people is to tend to their affairs. The duty of government is to help them do it. This is the pasta of politics. The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta. -Italo Bombolini
The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.
-Sir Josiah Stamp
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. -Thomas Jefferson
The primary aim of all government regulation of economic life of the community should be, not to supplant the system of private economic enterprise, but to make it work. -Carl Becker
There are many inside dopes in politics and government. -Mark B. Cohen
They that govern most make the least noise. You see, when they row in a barge, they do that drudgery work, slash and puff, and sweat, but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and is scarce seen to stir. -Selden
To be free of bondage or restraint, to live under a government based on the consent of the citizens, these are basic among all freedoms ... and this is the reason why a democracy is from every possible humane point of view the best form of government ... What so many human beings in the modern world have failed to understand is that freedom is the greatest of all trusts. -Ashley Montague
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. -Benjamin Franklin
We have watched American democracy at close hand for many years and we believe few governments are institutionally so susceptible to dictatorship as this one. -Gerald Johnson
What shall we do to be saved? In politics, establish a constitutional cooperative society or world government. In economics, find working compromises between free enterprise and socialism. -Arnold Toynbee
Whatever happens in government could have happened differently and it usually would have been better if it had. -Prof. Charles Frankel
When the government talks about raising capital it means printing it. That's not very creative, but it's what we're going to do. -Peter Drucker
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. -Victor Cousin
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
-Otto von Bismarck
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. -Winston Churchill
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw
That government is best which governs least. -Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry S. Truman
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. -Daniel Webster
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way. -Omar N. Bradley
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
-Edmund Burke
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -Senator Soaper
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. -Ambrose Bierce
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. -Lord Acton
There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it. For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it. -John Adams
A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerilla it faces.
-Fulgencio Batista
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love: a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes. -Zechariah Chaffe, Jr.
He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
-Grover Cleveland
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
-Confucius
Every country has the government it merits. -Joseph de Maistre
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese. -Charles de Gaulle
Government should be concerned with antisocial conduct, not with utterances. -Justice William O. Douglas
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. -William Henry Harrison
Either the world will be governed according to the ideas of modern democracy and then the weight of any decision will result in favor of the numerically stronger races, or the world will be dominated in accordance with the laws of the natural order of force, and then it is the peoples of brutal will who will conquer. -Adolf Hitler
The tendency of all strong Governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation. -J. A. Hobson
We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. -Abraham Lincoln
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -Bertrand Russell
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. -Bertrand Russell
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. -George Bernard Shaw
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. -Anonymous
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon it won't work and you can't fire it. -George S. Patton, Jr.
I heartily accept the motto that government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted upon more rapidly and systematically. -Henry David Thoreau
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. -Hubert H. Humphrey
Taxpayers are people who don't have to take a civil service examination to work for the government. -Red O'Donnell
Governments tend not to solve problems, only rearrange them.
-Ronald Reagan
A government which promises everything must pay its bills with everybody's money. -Strom Thurmond
As government grows, freedom recedes. -Thomas Jefferson
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
-Wes Izzard
The Lord's Prayer has 56 words, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has 266, the Declaration of Independence has 300; but a government order on cabbage prices contained 26,911 words. -William Windnall
We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers. -Thomas Jefferson
(W)e have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. I believe it might be much simplified to the relief of those who maintain it.
-Thomas Jefferson
...a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. -Thomas Jefferson
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. -Donald O. Hebb
If the income tax is the price we have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers. -Groucho Marx
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. -Thomas Hobbes
Is the US ready for self-government? -Graffito
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
-Will Rogers
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
-Mark Twain
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! -M. Python
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry S Truman
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. -Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. -Milton Friedman
The only good government ... is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
-Joyce Carey
I wish the Government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. -Edith Siwell
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. -George Washington
We must develop a fair appreciation for the real strengths and limitations of government effort on behalf of children. Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will. -William J. Bennett
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
[T]he ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. -Felix Frankfurter
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program
-Milton Friedman
Governments never learn. Only people learn. -Milton Friedman
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -Pope Julius III
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. -George Bernard Shaw
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. -William H. Borah
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -James Madison
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. -Thomas Jefferson
...dissent, protest, pressures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards 'justice, freedom and democracy' within its domains. -Avram Noam Chomsky
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: Who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not obey shall not eat. -Leon Trotsky
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. -Alexander Hamilton
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified for having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people's anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble yes, gamble with a whole part of their life and their so called "vital interests." -Albert Camus
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The United States has a government, security organizations and allies. The Soviet Union, however, has a regime, secret police and satellites. Our leaders are consummate politicians; their are wily, cunning or worse. We give the world information and seek influence; they disseminate propaganda and disinformation while seeking expansion and domination. -Stephen Cohen
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. -John Kenneth Galbraith
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time. -Edward Abbey
If we do not halt this steady progress of building commissions and regulatory bodies and special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
...But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. -Plato
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority. -Niccolo Machiavelli
One must respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -Bertrand Russell
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex these are _not_ the affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots. -Gore Vidal
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -Barry Goldwater
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have. -Gerald Rudolph Ford
What all of this indicates is that despite the Constitution, despite the First Amendment and its guarantees of free speech, American citizens must fear to speak their minds, knowing that their speech, their writings, their attendance of meetings, their signing of petitions, and their support of even the most nonviolent of organizatio
Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities. - Napoleon Bonaparte
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. -Homer
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest. -Arthur Guiterman
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. -Ashleigh Brilliant
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. -Bob Edwards
Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. -Casey Stengel
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. -Edward Gibbon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. -Francis Bacon
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. -George Herbert
If they try to rush me, I always say, I've only got one other speed and it's slower. -Glenn Ford
It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history. -Henry Ford
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. -Karl Marx
When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them. -Samuel Johnson
'Tis skill not strength that governs a ship. -Thomas Fuller, M.D.
No one knows what he can do until he tries. -Pubilius Syrus
There is great ability in knowing how to conveal one's ability. -Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. -John Henry Newman
Ability is of little account without opportunity. -Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people. -La Rochefoucauld
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -Harry S Truman
A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials. -Chinese Proverb
The best way out of a difficulty is through it. -Anonymous
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. -Bion
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. -Epicurus
Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm. -Euripides
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.-Euripides
In misfortune, what friend remains a friend? -Euripides
A time of disarray is also a moment of opportunity. -Frederick Ferre
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Greater dooms win greater destinies. -Heraclitus
When an elephant is in trouble, even a frog will kick him. -Hindu Proverb
The drowning man is not troubled by rain. -Persian Proverb
With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man. -Pliny the Elder
Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. -Publilius Syrus
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb. -Seneca
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. -Sophocles
One's own escape from troubles makes one glad; but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief. -Sophocles
Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion. -William Cullen Bryant
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. -Bishop Horne
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -Horace
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. -Shakespeare
Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. -Francis Bacon
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
And good in everything. -Shakespeare
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -Victor Hugo
Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. -Francis Bacon
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. -Seneca
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. -William Hazlitt
As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity. -La Bruyere
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. -Horace
Adversity is the first path to truth. -Lord Byron
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -Victor Marie Hugo
Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. -Horace
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. -Henry Ward Beecher
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. -Unknown
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one. -Epictetus
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. -Epictetus
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. -William Ellery Channing
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. -Herbert George Wells
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. -James Russell Lowell
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted. Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. -Victor Marie Hugo
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character. -Walter Scott
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day. -Matthew 6:34
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. -Aesop
Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you? -Quran
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them. -Jean Cocteau
There will come a time when you think everything is finished. That will be the beginning. -Louis L'Amour
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving
When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. -Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. -Harold Wilson
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. -Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
Never swap horses crossing a stream. -American Proverb
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoi
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. -Arthur Schopenhauer
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. -Carl T. Rowan
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. -Lyman Lloyd Bryson
Things do not change, we do. -Henry David Thoreau
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles F. Kettering
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. -Francis Bacon
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. -Robert F. Kennedy
There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow
In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. -Benjamin Disraeli
Weep not that the world changes-did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep. -William Cullen Bryant
Everything flows; nothing remains. -Heraclitus
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
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoi
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -John Lilly
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. -George Bernard Shaw
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. -Abraham Lincoln
Everything changes, nothing remains without change. -Buddha
All is change; all yields its place and goes. -Euripides
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. -Jimmy Carter
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. -Southern California Oracle
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. -Badge
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. -Raymond Postgate
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather. -Oscar Wilde
Ducking for apples change one letter and it's the story of my life. -Dorothy Parker
Religions change; Beer and Wine remain. -Hervey Allen
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. -Ellen Glasgow
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. -Charles F. Kettering
The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether business will survivee at all in the face of social change. -Laurence Joseph McGinley
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. -Washington Irving
We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. -Lyman Lloyd Bryson
There is nothing permanent except change. -Heraclitus
Weep not that the world changes did it keep a stable, changless state, it were indeed a cause to weep. -William Cullen Bryant
Things do not change, we do. -Henry David Thoreau
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. -Albert von Nagyrapolt Szent Gyorgyi
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. -Frank Vincent Zappa
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel.
-Frederic Harrison
Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer.
-Alexander Hamilton
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things. -Niccolo Machiavelli
A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit. -Niccolo Machievelli
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. -Niccolo Machiavelli
All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self evident. -Arthur Schopenhauer
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. -Ursula Kroeber LeGuin
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. -Victor Marie Hugo
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. -Max Planck
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. And one of the games which it is most attached is called, "Keep tomorrow dark," and which is also named (by the rustics in Shropshire, I have no doubt) "Cheat the Prophet." The players listen very carefully and respectfully to all that the clever men have to say about what is to happen in the next generation. The players then wait until all the clever men are dead, and bury them nicely. Then they go and do something else. That is all. For a race of simple tastes, however, it is great fun.-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -Confucius
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -Aldous Huxley
The tendency to believe that things never change, the inertia of daily existence, is a staple of living. It has always been a delusion. -Donald Allen Wollheim
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. -Bernard Berenson
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -Oscar Wilde
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Albert Einstein
Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long. -Ogden Nash
Abroad in the world today is a monstrous falsehood, a consummate fabrication, to which all social agencies have loaned themselves and into which most men, women, and children have been seduced..."the Eleventh Commandment"; for such, indeed, has become the injunction: You Must Adjust. -Robert M. Lindner
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. -Mahatma Gandhi
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. -John Dewey
Everything that can be invented has been invented. -Charles H. Duell
Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. -Julius Frontinus
To speak of "limits to growth" under a capitalistic market economy is as meaningless as to speak of limits of warfare under a warrior society. The moral pieties, that are voiced today by many well meaning environmentalists, are as naive as the moral pieties of multinationals are manipulative. Capitalism can no more be "persuaded" to limit growth than a human being can be "persuaded" to stop breathing. Attempts to "green" capitalism, to make it "ecological", are doomed by the very nature of the system as a system of endless growth. -Murray Bookchin
The more things change, the more they remain the same. -Alphonse Karr
The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitides and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear. -Aung San Suu Kyi
The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions. -Jane Dunlop (Adelle Davis)
...Insidious is the cry for 'revolution,' at a time when not even the germs of new institutions exist, let alone the moral and political consciousness that could lead to a basic modification of social life. If there will be a 'revolution' in America today, it will no doubt be a move towards some variety of fascism. We must guard against the kind of revolutionary rhetoric that would have had Karl Marx burn down the British Museum because it was merely part of a repressive society. It would be criminal to overlook the serious flaws and inadequacies in our institutions, or to fail to utilize the substantial degree of freedom that most of us enjoy, within the framework of these flawed institutions, to modify them or even replace them by a better social order. One who pays some attention to history will not be surprised if those who cry most loudly that we must smash and destroy are later found among the administrators of some new system of repression.
-Avram Noam Chomsky
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -Aldous Huxley
Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -Max Frisch
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. -Lewis Mumford
In ecology, as in economics, TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) is intended to warn that every gain is won at some cost. Failure to recognize the 'no free lunch' law causes the buffalo hunter mentality syndrome the unthinking assumption that there will always be plenty because there always has been plenty. -Dr. Robert W. Prehoda
None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. -Henry Ford Sr.
All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -Samuel Butler
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come from on high and are contained in the sacred writings. -John Frederick Herschel
History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained. -Charles Robert Darwin
The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith. -Roman Congregation decision against Galileo
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. -Henry Miller
Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant. -Benjamin Disraeli
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -Confucius
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. -Christian Nestell Bovee
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. -Henry Ward Beecher
The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. -Michel de Montaigne
One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. -Elbert Hubbard
Joys divided are increased. -Josiah Gilbert Holland
He laughs best who laughs last. -English Proverb
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. -Raymond Hitchcock
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. -Chamfort
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. -Charlie Chaplin
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -James Matthew Barrie
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. -Ed Howe
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. -Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. -Wilson Mizner
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. -H. L. Mencken
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. -Peter Ustinov
We love a joke that hands us a pat on the back while it kicks the other fellow downstairs. -Edson
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. -Lamb
Always leave them laughing when you say goodbye. -George M. Cohan
Laughter is by definition healthy. -Lessing
He who laughs, lasts. -Poole
There is only one sort of love but there are a thousand of copies.
A heart that loves is always young.
Love is perfect, even when we are not.
Love is knowing that you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, and not knowing if they want to spend it with you.
Love doesn't cause pain, people do.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. -Mother Theresa
Love is very real, you will find it someday, but it has one enemy-and that's life.
Love is what the heart needs.
Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God's gift is divine.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. -John Ciardi
There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. -François de La Rochefoucauld
All mankind loves a lover. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. -Voltaire
If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving. -Anonymous
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. -John Donne
To love is to place our happiness in the happiness of another. -Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -Mahatma Gandhi
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -Gilbert K. Chesterton
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. -Douglas Jerrold
I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. -Samuel Osgood
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it. -George Bernard Shaw
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. -Henry Ward Beecher
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. -Thornton Wilder
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. -H. L. Mencken
Love gives itself; it is not bought. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Never have partners. -Hughes.
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain. -Unknown.
Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. -Albert Einstein
The one who loves least controls the relationship. -Anonymous.
The most dangerous food is a wedding cake. -Proverb
The woman cries before he wedding, the man after. -Proverb
Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's. -La Bruyere
You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength. -Henry Adams
Love is a great beautifier. -Louisa May Alcott
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -WH Auden
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. -Bible Song of Solomon 8:7
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Whoso loves Believes the impossible. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. -Elizabeth Bowen
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it. -Miguel de Cervantes
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship-never. -Charles Caleb Colton
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel. -Pierre Corneille
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. -Quentin Crisp
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. -Bette Davis
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. -Jean Pierre Claris De Florian
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. -Emily Dickinson
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. -Isak Dinesen
Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. -Louise Erdrich
Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them. -Euripides
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -French proverb
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. -Erich Fromm
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love. -Erich Fromm
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. -Goncourt
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? -b
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. -Erica Jong
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. -François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. -Charles A. Lindbergh
This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. -Thomas Mann
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. -Jacques Maritain
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. -W. Somerset Maugham
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. -Thomas Moore
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. -George Jean Nathan
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. -PJ O'Rourke
Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power. -Ovid
We conceal it from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it. -Blaise Pascal
Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. -Alexander Pope
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. -Helen Rowland
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. -Bertrand Russell
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. -Bertrand Russell
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint Éxupéry
Love is a spirit of all compact of fire. -William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet. -William Shakespeare
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -William Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. -William Shakespeare
The course of true love never did run smooth. -William Shakespeare
They do not love that do not show their love. -William Shakespeare
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -Madame De Staël
'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -Lord Tennyson
There is no remedy for love but to love more. -Henry David Thoreau
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love. -Leo Tolstoy
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. -Voltaire
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -Andy Warhol
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. -Oscar Wilde
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. -Marianne Williamson
A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. -Woodrow Wyatt
Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court. -William Shakespeare
There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations; they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate who they are accustomed to look down upon. -John Stuart Mill
The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. -Thomas Szasz
No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. -William Somerset Maugham
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. -Bob Dylan
The nail that sticks out must be hammered down. -Chinese saying
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions. -Robert Green Ingersoll
No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promitory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. -John Donne
A man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing 'what nobody does,' or of not doing 'what everybody does,' is...in peril of a commission de lunatico. -John Stuart Mill
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. -Charley Reese
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. -Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes). -Walt Whitman
My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so. -Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber stamps. -Henry Louis Mencken
The test of maturity, for nations as well as individuals, is not the increase of power, but in the increase of self, self, self direction, and selftranscendence. For in a mature society, man himself and not his machines or his organizations is the chief work of art. -Lewis Mumford
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. -Paul Fussell
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant...I want to be Cary Grant. -Archibald Leech
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -Samuel Johnson
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Independent selfpeople (would be) a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future [...] (where) people will be defined by their associations. -John Dewey
In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students. -Edward Abbey
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. -Bertrand Russell
Surely every human being ought to attain to the dignity of the unit. Surely it is worth while to be one, and to feel that the census of the universe would be incomplete without counting you. Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and all depths; that there are no walls or fences, or prohibited places, or sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought; that your intellect owes no allegiance to any being, human or divine; that you hold all in fee, and upon no condition, and by no tenure, whatsoever; that in the world of mind you are relieved from all personal dictation, and from the ignorant tyranny of majorities. Surely it is worth something to feel that there are no priests, no popes, no parties, no governments, no kings, no gods, to whom your intellect can be compelled to pay a reluctant homage. Surely it is a joy to know that all the cruel ingenuity of bigotry can devise no prison, no dungeon, no cell in which for one instant to confine a thought; that ideas cannot be dislocated by racks, nor crushed in iron boots, nor burned with fire. Surely it is sublime to think that the brain is a castle, and that within its curious bastions and winding halls the soul, in spite of all worlds and all beings, is the supreme sovereign of itself. -Robert Green Ingersoll
There is no ache more deadly than the striving to be oneself. -Yevgeniy Vinokurov
We tend to see our own experiences as the normal process, so we are often amazed that anyone could have taken a different path. But when we do meet up, it's always fascinating to compare notes about the different ways to get there. -Daniel Gilly
The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. -Jacques Bénigne Bossuel
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. -Theodore Parker
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. -H. L. Mencken
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin
The heart is forever making the head its fool. -François de La Rochefoucauld
The heart seldom feels what the mouth expresses. -Jean Galoert de Campistron
Two things are bad for the heart-running up stairs and running down people. -Bernard M. Baruch
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. -Henry Ward Beecher
There is no instinct like that of the heart. -Lord Byron
If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years, they'd have a shortage of sand. - Milton Friedman
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. -Richard M. Nixon
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -George Bernard Shaw
For forms of government let fools contest; Whate'er is best administer'd is best. -Alexander Pope
Government action and inaction both gravely impair business confidence. -Mark Epernay
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. -Tom Wicker
Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. -Will Rogers
Governments, like physicians, must simultaneously be the masters and the servants of those whom they govern. -Harry V. Jaffa
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. -Frederick the Great
If the people are to be the governors, who then shall be the governed? -Cotton Mather
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep. -Will Rogers
If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National. -George Will
In every hierarchy, whether it be government or business, each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to execute its duties.
-Laurance J. Peter
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected ... to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class. -Carl Becker
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -Will Rogers
One does not have to keep bad governments in to keep Communists out. -John Kenneth Galbraith
The best way to publicize a governmental or political action is to attempt to hide it. -Mark B. Cohen
The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. -Robert L. Heilbroner
The duty of the people is to tend to their affairs. The duty of government is to help them do it. This is the pasta of politics. The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta. -Italo Bombolini
The government [is] extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept ever in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases.
-Sir Josiah Stamp
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. -Thomas Jefferson
The primary aim of all government regulation of economic life of the community should be, not to supplant the system of private economic enterprise, but to make it work. -Carl Becker
There are many inside dopes in politics and government. -Mark B. Cohen
They that govern most make the least noise. You see, when they row in a barge, they do that drudgery work, slash and puff, and sweat, but he that governs sits quietly at the stern, and is scarce seen to stir. -Selden
To be free of bondage or restraint, to live under a government based on the consent of the citizens, these are basic among all freedoms ... and this is the reason why a democracy is from every possible humane point of view the best form of government ... What so many human beings in the modern world have failed to understand is that freedom is the greatest of all trusts. -Ashley Montague
We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. -Benjamin Franklin
We have watched American democracy at close hand for many years and we believe few governments are institutionally so susceptible to dictatorship as this one. -Gerald Johnson
What shall we do to be saved? In politics, establish a constitutional cooperative society or world government. In economics, find working compromises between free enterprise and socialism. -Arnold Toynbee
Whatever happens in government could have happened differently and it usually would have been better if it had. -Prof. Charles Frankel
When the government talks about raising capital it means printing it. That's not very creative, but it's what we're going to do. -Peter Drucker
You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception. -Victor Cousin
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.
-Otto von Bismarck
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. -Winston Churchill
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul. -George Bernard Shaw
That government is best which governs least. -Henry David Thoreau
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -Henry David Thoreau
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry S. Truman
The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. -Daniel Webster
If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be danger of our government running America in the wrong way. -Omar N. Bradley
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
-Edmund Burke
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -Senator Soaper
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. -Ambrose Bierce
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. -Lord Acton
There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it. For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it. -John Adams
A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerilla it faces.
-Fulgencio Batista
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love: a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes. -Zechariah Chaffe, Jr.
He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
-Grover Cleveland
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of.
-Confucius
Every country has the government it merits. -Joseph de Maistre
How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese. -Charles de Gaulle
Government should be concerned with antisocial conduct, not with utterances. -Justice William O. Douglas
I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. -William Henry Harrison
Either the world will be governed according to the ideas of modern democracy and then the weight of any decision will result in favor of the numerically stronger races, or the world will be dominated in accordance with the laws of the natural order of force, and then it is the peoples of brutal will who will conquer. -Adolf Hitler
The tendency of all strong Governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer disbelief in innovation. -J. A. Hobson
We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. -Abraham Lincoln
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. -Bertrand Russell
Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. -Bertrand Russell
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. -George Bernard Shaw
George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. -Anonymous
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon it won't work and you can't fire it. -George S. Patton, Jr.
I heartily accept the motto that government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted upon more rapidly and systematically. -Henry David Thoreau
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. -Hubert H. Humphrey
Taxpayers are people who don't have to take a civil service examination to work for the government. -Red O'Donnell
Governments tend not to solve problems, only rearrange them.
-Ronald Reagan
A government which promises everything must pay its bills with everybody's money. -Strom Thurmond
As government grows, freedom recedes. -Thomas Jefferson
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
-Wes Izzard
The Lord's Prayer has 56 words, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address has 266, the Declaration of Independence has 300; but a government order on cabbage prices contained 26,911 words. -William Windnall
We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers. -Thomas Jefferson
(W)e have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. I believe it might be much simplified to the relief of those who maintain it.
-Thomas Jefferson
...a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. -Thomas Jefferson
A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way. -Donald O. Hebb
If the income tax is the price we have to pay to keep the government on its feet, alimony is the price we have to pay for sweeping a woman off hers. -Groucho Marx
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right. -Thomas Hobbes
Is the US ready for self-government? -Graffito
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
-Will Rogers
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
-Mark Twain
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! -M. Python
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-Harry S Truman
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. -Will Rogers
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. -Milton Friedman
The only good government ... is a bad one in a hell of a fright.
-Joyce Carey
I wish the Government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. -Edith Siwell
The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. -George Washington
We must develop a fair appreciation for the real strengths and limitations of government effort on behalf of children. Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father or mother. Government has never raised a child, and it never will. -William J. Bennett
Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. -Dwight D. Eisenhower
[T]he ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it. -Felix Frankfurter
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program
-Milton Friedman
Governments never learn. Only people learn. -Milton Friedman
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -Pope Julius III
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. -George Bernard Shaw
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments. -William H. Borah
A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. -James Madison
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. -Thomas Jefferson
...dissent, protest, pressures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards 'justice, freedom and democracy' within its domains. -Avram Noam Chomsky
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: Who does not work does not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not obey shall not eat. -Leon Trotsky
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. -Alexander Hamilton
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified for having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people's anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble yes, gamble with a whole part of their life and their so called "vital interests." -Albert Camus
A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might."
-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The United States has a government, security organizations and allies. The Soviet Union, however, has a regime, secret police and satellites. Our leaders are consummate politicians; their are wily, cunning or worse. We give the world information and seek influence; they disseminate propaganda and disinformation while seeking expansion and domination. -Stephen Cohen
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. -John Kenneth Galbraith
In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time. -Edward Abbey
If we do not halt this steady progress of building commissions and regulatory bodies and special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more. -Franklin Delano Roosevelt
...But when he [the people's champion] has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. -Plato
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority. -Niccolo Machiavelli
One must respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -Bertrand Russell
Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex these are _not_ the affairs of the state. A government does not exist to control the citizens. When it does, it is a tyranny, and must be fought. The tree of liberty, Jefferson warned us, must be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots. -Gore Vidal
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. -Barry Goldwater
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take from you everything you have. -Gerald Rudolph Ford
What all of this indicates is that despite the Constitution, despite the First Amendment and its guarantees of free speech, American citizens must fear to speak their minds, knowing that their speech, their writings, their attendance of meetings, their signing of petitions, and their support of even the most nonviolent of organizatio